February 2012
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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We, the Web Kids →
Reality. The expectations of young people have been conditioned by their experiences of the Internet.
Feb 24th
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Feb 20th
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Robots will steal your job, but that’s OK: how to... →
“You are about to become obsolete. You think that you are special, unique, and that whatever it is that you are doing is impossible to replace. You are wrong.”
Feb 20th
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YOU’VE FELT IT YOUR ENTIRE LIFE
Feb 18th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 12th
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“CARL SAGAN’S REMARKS ABOUT JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES FALSE PROPHECIES A...”
– Alan Feuerbacher From: http://corior.blogspot.com/#alanf
Feb 11th
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“To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that...”
– Ernest Becke
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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Top five regrets of the dying →
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of the dying, and among the top ones is ‘I wish I hadn’t worked so hard’. What would your biggest regret be if this was your last day of life?
Feb 3rd
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Feb 2nd
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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It’s time to end the failed war on drugs →
Treating addicts as criminals has done absolutely nothing to address this crisis, writes Richard Branson.
Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Angry Nerds: Copyright Theft Is Bad, When It... →
Wrong is wrong, not just when it’s done to us and our friends.
Jan 29th
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Jan 26th
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Key Step in Evolution Replicated by Scientists →
One of the great puzzles in science has been the evolution of single-celled organisms into the incredibly wide variety of flora and fauna that we see today. How did Earth make the transition from an initially lifeless ball of rock to one populated only by single-celled organisms to a world teeming with more complex life?
Jan 26th
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Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“I’m not recommending anyone taking any drugs. I’m just suggesting we...”
–  former UK government drugs adviser Prof David Nutt http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16678322
Jan 24th
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A Point of View: The tyranny of unwelcome noise →
Honking horns. Household appliances that beep. Other people’s music. Should we turn down the volume, or get better at concentrating in a noisy world, asks historian Lisa Jardine.
Jan 23rd
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Jan 21st
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Why there's no such thing as sex addiction →
A much talked about new film tackles the very modern illness of sex addiction. But one leading psychologist has been attacked for suggesting that it isn’t an illness at all – it’s a weakness.
Jan 19th
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The Internal Clitoris  →
Consider this: In over five million years of human evolution, only one organ has come to exist for the sole purpose of providing pleasure – the clitoris. It is not required for reproduction. It doesn’t have a urethra running through it like the penis, and thus, does not urinate. Its sole function – its singular, wonderful purpose – is to make a woman feel good!!
Jan 19th
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Drug Expiration Dates - Do They Mean Anything?
With a splitting headache you reach into your medicine cabinet for some aspirin only to find the stamped expiration date on the bottle has passed - two years ago. So, do you take it or don’t you? If you decide to take the aspirin will it be a fatal mistake or will you simply continue to suffer from the headache? This is a dilemma many people face in some way or another. A column published...
Jan 18th
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Alcohol is more dangerous than crack!
ziyadmd: Alcohol is more dangerous than illegal drugs like heroin and crack cocaine, according to a new study. British experts evaluated substances including alcohol, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana, ranking them based on how destructive they are to the individual who takes them and to society as a whole. Researchers analyzed how addictive a drug is and how it harms the human body,...
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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Jan 14th
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DECLARING VICTORY
Whenever you start a project, you should have a plan for finishing it. One outcome is to declare victory, to find that moment when you have satisfied your objectives and reached a goal. The other outcome, which feels like a downer but is almost as good, is to declare failure, to realize that you’ve run out of useful string and it’s time to move on. I think the intentional act of...
Jan 14th
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Positive Reality
Jan 14th
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Marijuana Smoking Does Not Harm Lungs, Study Finds →
Reality. A large new government study has found that smoking marijuana on a regular basis, even over many years, does not impair lung function.
Jan 14th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 13th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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English Pronunciation
English Pronunciation From: http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/12/23/english-pronunciation/ If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Dearest creature in creation, Study English...
Jan 10th
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Jan 10th
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