Friday, April 26, 2019

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  • Zen is something which each and every one of us should experience at a given time in our life. Regardless of your religious beliefs, Zen Buddhism is rather interesting. Zen Buddhism...

  • April’s New & Full Moons Brings a Burst of Powerful Energies

    a month ago
  • The New Moon on the 5th of April is taking place in Aries, which is a fire sign and represents action. With the New Moon falling in Aries this would be a perfect time to start something new...

  • Great News, Europe Voted to Ban Single-Use Plastics

    a month ago

    • Environmental campaigners have been working towards restraints on throwaway plastics for a long time. The effort to end plastic pollution in our oceans was one of the key subjects...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • An interdisciplinary team of researchers has designed a patch that can limit damage after a heart attack. The patch was successfully tested in rats.

  • Medical News Today: Is drinking cold water bad for a person?

    10 hours ago
  • Drinking enough water is vital to health and good bodily functioning. However, some research suggests that the temperature of water when a person drinks it is also important. Here...

  • Medical News Today: How to recognize and treat an infected wound

    15 hours ago

    • Symptoms of an infected wound can include increasing pain, redness, and swelling in the affected area. A person may be able to treat minor wound infections at home. However, people...

      The Daily Sheeple



  • Federal authorities are charging a Massachusetts District Court judge and a trial court officer with obstruction of justice and other crimes, according to an indictment obtained...

  • Baltimore mayor’s home, office and other locations raided by FBI and IRS

    34 minutes ago
  • Federal authorities on Thursday executed search warrants at the home and several locations tied to Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh as part of an investigation into whether she improperly...

  • 10 kids shot by ‘BB or pellet gun’ outside Georgia school

    3 hours ago

    • Ten students at an Atlanta-area elementary school suffered non-life threatening injuries after being shot by a BB or pellet gun while on the playground. A statement from the DeKalb...

      Exceptional Delaware 2017


    • The ongoing saga with Odyssey Charter School continues!  As the AHEPA members of the Board continue to do whatever the heck they want, attention is being drawn to their stunts by more...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetDeep spending cuts and ballooning class sizes are coming to Ontario. Have You Heard talks to parents, students and teachers in Toronto about what controversial changes proposed...

  • Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment

    a month ago
  • TweetDid you hear the one about the Arizona state legislator who made a cool $14 million from selling his network of charter schools to a nonprofit that he set up, which then inked a lucrative...

  • Selective Outrage: Revisiting the Atlanta School Cheating Scandal

    a month ago

    • TweetIn March of 2013, thirty five Atlanta educators, all of them Black, were charged with racketeering and conspiracy for allegedly changing student answers on standardized tests...

      Din Merican: the Malaysian DJ Blogger



  • ttps://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2019/04/15/the-barr-cover-up-call-it-what-it-is#21396f1d3638April 18,2019 https://www.forbes.com/sites/victorlipman/2019/04/15/the-barr-cover-up-call-it-what-it-is#21396f1d3638Barr...

  • Razali’s resignation regrettable

    8 days ago
  • April 17, 2019 https://www.thesundaily.my/opinion/suhakam-chairman-razalis-resignation-regrettable-EJ795987 Razali’s resignation regrettable Letters / 17 Apr 2019...

  • Book Review: Participation without Democracy: Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia

    10 days ago

    • April 16, 2019 Book Review: Participation without Democracy: Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia Garry Rodan (Cornell University Press, New York, 2018)   by REVIEWER: Meredith...

      Chicago Boyz



  • UKIP + BREXIT Party = 50%. Labour + Tory = 8% Read the full post.

  • Saving (Restoring) Free-Range Childhood

    a day ago
  • Kerry McDonald:  The Value of a Self-Directed Summer for Kids. Autonomy and choice are central to a self-directed summer, in contrast to the control and regimentation that define...

  • The Great Othering

    a day ago

    • Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine This last week there was a mild kerfuffle in the world of those bloggers who love and often write...

      Centinel2012



  • Bill Whittle Published on Apr 23, 2019 SUBSCRIBED 125K Princeton Prof. Sean Willentz, in a New York Times op-ed, confesses he was wrong about the racist roots of the Electoral College...

  • Boston Marathon Bomber Ballot: Dem Candidates Back Voting from Death Row

    17 hours ago
  • Bill Whittle Published on Apr 24, 2019 SUBSCRIBED 125K Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris says she’s open to fellow candidate Bernie Sanders’ call to let the Boston...

  • Hire the Doper: Employers Relax Zero-Tolerance Drug Screening

    17 hours ago

    • Bill Whittle Published on Apr 24, 2019 SUBSCRIBED 125K As more states approve medical and recreational use of marijuana, employers relax their zero tolerance drug screening standards...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • We've got a lot of news and notes of concern --- both good and bad --- about the 2020 elections on today's BradCast. [Audio link posted below.] Among the many stories covered today...

  • 'Green News Report' - April 25, 2019

    16 hours ago
  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Mozambique, already facing a humanitarian crisis, braces it's second monster cyclone in one month; Loss of Arctic permafrost could cost the global economy...

  • Hypocritical 'Conservative' Justices on Stolen SCOTUS Appear Set to Allow Rigged 2020 Census: 'BradCast' 4/24/2019

    a day ago

    • On today's BradCast, Donald Trump's Administration is now barreling the nation towards one or more unprecedented Constitutional crises as he panics about the possibility of impeachment...

      bluebird of bitterness



  • Late one night a man walked into a dentist’s office. “Can I help you?” asked the dentist. “I keep thinking I’m a moth,” said the man. “You think you’re a moth?” said...

  • Wednesday weirdness

    2 days ago

  • Happy birthday, Sergei

    3 days ago

    • Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) composed this Prelude in C Major for piano and later transcribed it for harp. It’s played here by Alexander Boldachev.

      Home



  • As posted at Beyond Nuclear's SUBSIDIES website subsection: Testimony of Beyond Nuclear, Before the Ohio House of Representatives – Energy Generation Subcommittee, Committee...

  • US nukes aren't ready for climate change and the captured regulator is making sure of that

    6 days ago
  • After Bloomberg ran an indepth story on just how unprepared US nuclear power plants are for the ravages of climate change -- especially sea-level rise -- Common Dreams did a follow-up...

  • EDF wants to leave faulty Flamanville weldings in place

    7 days ago

    • As we watched the storied Notre-Dame Cathedral burn in Paris this week, one theory about the fire's cause was related to welding. The fire shocked France and the world. So should the...

    BlackListed News



  • When you think of jobs that are serving the greater good, cancer researchers often come out near the top given the potential to save millions of lives. However, not all of them have such...

  • Big Pharma Exec Perp Walked In Handcuffs After Surrendering On Opioid Trafficking Charges

    a day ago
  • The former CEO of the nation's sixth-largest pharmaceutical distributor was perp-walked in handcuffs on Tuesday after he was indicted on two counts of criminal conspiracy related...

  • US announces watering down of Iran IRGC sanctions

    a day ago

    • US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday published two notices in the Federal Register, watering down sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The notices clarified...

      Research Digest



  • By Bradley Busch. This research makes a valuable contribution given the mixed findings previously reported.

  • Could Your Immune System Be Making You Impulsive?

    a day ago
  • By Emma Young. The results could have exciting implications for treating substance abuse disorders and other conditions.

  • Why Do People With Depression Like Listening To Sad Music?

    2 days ago

    • By Christian Jarrett. The findings challenge the idea that depressed people are seeking to perpetuate their low mood.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • A contoured neon martini, sandwiched by the words "Package Goods," beckons travelers along Route 66 in Williams, Arizona. Below the glow, the Sultana Bar—situated in a town best...

  • The Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal

    11 hours ago
  • The Pashupatinath temple complex is part of UNESCO’s World Heritage Site. The temple’s age is not exactly certain, but legend indicates its existence to date back to 400 BC. The...

  • Michelangelo da Vinci in Villamarzana, Italy

    12 hours ago

    • An hour's drive southwest of Venice, around 1,200 people call the community of Villamarzana home. In 2000, Gigi Stecca made waves by opening up a restaurant just a few minutes from...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • This and that for your Thursday reading.- James Whittingham argues that the time for climate action measured in small household tweaks has long since passed. And Yanis Varoufakis...

  • Wednesday Morning Links

    2 days ago
  • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Tom Parkin writes about the need for workers to be at the centre of a Green New Deal for Canada:Those determined to reverse austerity...

  • Tuesday Night Cat Blogging

    2 days ago

    • Cozy cats.
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