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Monthly Archives: April 2017
via Climate change as genocide, by Michael T Klare (Le Monde diplomatique – English edition, April 2017)
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via The Founding Father of Neuroscience on Solitude, the Importance of Science in a Nation’s Greatness, and the Ideal Social Environment for Intellectual Achievement – Brain Pickings
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via Evidence of a ‘higher’ state of consciousness? Impact of psychedelics on neural signal diversity measured — ScienceDaily
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Righty-Tighty
via We Are Witnessing the First Global Alliance of Far-Right Parties Since the 1930s | Alternet
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Killing flu viruses with help from a frog
Frog mucus is loaded with molecules that kill bacteria and viruses, and researchers are beginning to investigate it as a potential source for new anti-microbial drugs. One of these “host defense peptides,” courtesy of a colorful tennis-ball-sized frog species (Hydrophylax … Continue reading
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Tchau tchau floresta
via In seven minutes, Brazil committee approves selloff of 510 thousand hectares of protected Amazon forest – Nearly 2.2 million protected hectares at risk
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Edible CRISPR Could Replace Antibiotics
Researchers are developing a probiotic to make disease-causing bacteria self-destruct. Source: Edible CRISPR Could Replace Antibiotics
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I will gladly pay you Tuesday for an Agar-Agar pudding today.
via Artist Sets Futuristic Dinner Party In World Reshaped By Rising Seas : The Salt : NPR
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Part 7 of a series. Read them all. Take notes.
via Dredd Blog: When You Are Governed By Psychopaths – 7
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Here Come The Warm Jets
Cretaceous climate warming led to a significant methane release from the seafloor, indicating potential for similar destabilization of gas hydrates under modern global warming. A field campaign on the remote Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian High Arctic, discovered an astounding number … Continue reading
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Ghost Funeral in Liverpool
This is an unusually well written ghost account from Liverpool. It does not appear to come up in any of Tom Slemen’s work on Liverpool (though Beach waits to be contradicted!). This appeared in the Liverpool Post in 1891. Note … Continue reading
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via Psychedelic drug ayahuasca improves hard-to-treat depression | New Scientist
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Happy Friday from me and Puddles
via Folsom Prison Blues/Pinball Wizard Mashup – Johnny Cash – The Who – Puddles Pity Party – YouTube
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Resurrecting the unholy trinity
When George W. Bush and Dick Cheney launched their forever wars — under the banner of a “Global War on Terror” — they unleashed an unholy trinity of tactics. Torture, rendition, and indefinite detention became the order of the day. … Continue reading
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via Indigenous people can manage their forests better than anyone else | Grist
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via Chinese Government Wants to Decide the Dalai Lama’s Next Reincarnation | Ancient Origins
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via Why Americans Vote ‘Against Their Interest’: Partisanship – The New York Times
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via Is the Hard Problem of Consciousness Connected to the Hard Problem in Physics?
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via Why Foucault’s work on power is more important than ever | Aeon Essays
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via Depressed about climate change? There’s a 9-step program for that. | Grist
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via Parts of the Arctic Ocean are Turning Into the Atlantic | Climate Central
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Welcome to the Kali Yuga?
“As the Kaliyuga progresses towards the final conflagration and the life expectancy of man decreases to fifty years, the Doctrine of Shakyamuni will be subject to degeneration, and these conditions will prevail, portending ruin: Householders fill the monasteries and there … Continue reading
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