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  • Why is it so common for earthlings to blame every unfortunate occurrence on the “Full Moon”? People tend to interpret information to confirm their beliefs. When life is hectic...

  • How Quantum Mechanics Can Assist In Our Lives

    10 days ago
  • How can we use the ideas being discovered by scientists in the field of quantum mechanics to assist us in our own lives? Quantum mechanics scientists have discovered that beams of light...

  • Either Love Like You Give A Sh#t Or Be Alone – Your Choice

    10 days ago

    • Love like you give a DAMN. Be open, genuine, and empathic, in other words, transparent, vulnerable, and honest. If you do not love like you give DAMN, then you wasting BOTH of your time...

    Featured Health News from Medical News Today



  • Plantar calluses are hard, thickened areas of skin on the feet. Here, learn what causes them, treatments and remedies, and how to stop plantar calluses from forming...

  • Medical News Today: Is a urinary tract infection contagious?

    7 hours ago
  • Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are not contagious, but the bacteria that cause them can travel between people. Learn more about these infections and how they develop here...

  • Medical News Today: What to do about chin pimples

    8 hours ago

    • People can develop pimples almost anywhere on the skin, including on the chin. Remedies include washing the face regularly and using topical ointments. Learn more here...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard, economist Marshall Steinbaum talks free college, human capital theory, educationism and why it’s time to disrupt the individualized...

  • Is *Progressive Charter School* an Oxymoron?

    a month ago
  • TweetRemember back in the early days of the charter school movement when charter proponents used to talk about 1,000 flowers blooming? Well, a funny thing happened to all of those...

  • Michigan’s School Choice Mess

    a month ago

    • TweetHave You Heard heads to Michigan to learn about a lesser-known part of the state’s free market education experiment: inter-district school choice. More than 100,000 Michigan...

      Chicago Boyz



  • My initial reaction upon reading of Juaquin Castro ‘outing’ local San Antonio donors to the Trump campaign was along the lines of “oh dear, that was so not a good idea!” Nothing...

  • A US sanctions bleg

    a day ago
  • The US maintains a list of individuals and organizations it sanctions under various programs here. Does anyone out there independently keep track of these individuals/groups and...

  • Under Pressure

    2 days ago

    • On summer nights, in the suburb where I lived in the late 1980ies, I often heard gunfire at night – a regular popping kind of noise, like pebbles dropping into a metal bucket. The every-day...

      Centinel2012



  • Re-Posted The Deplorable Climate Science Blog on August 5, 2019 by tonyheller This video is a must watch for anyone wanting to understand the climate crisis scam.  ...

  • On Claiming Belief In God: Discussion with Dennis Prager

    11 hours ago
  • Jordan B Peterson Published on Jun 9, 2019 I talked with Dennis Prager at the Prager Summit in May in Santa Barbara. It’s really a discussion about two previous talks, for a collection...

  • The Money-Class is Always the First to Respond

    11 hours ago

    • Armstrong Economics Blog/ECM Posted Aug 8, 2019 by Martin Armstrong QUESTION:  Dear Mr. Armstrong, reading your blog daily I am wondering how much and what exactly has to change...

      The BRAD BLOG



  • Well, today's BradCast features an epic righteous rant or two for your listening pleasure, as we begin with some grim news of the day but finish with a much brighter outlook for the near...

  • 'Green News Report' - August 8, 2019

    8 hours ago
  • IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: New United Nations report calls for overhauling farming techniques to solve climate change; Kentucky miners block coal train after mine company bankruptcy...

  • Judiciary Dem, Citing Impeachment Jurisdiction, Explains New Request for Kavanaugh Docs: 'BradCast' 8/7/2019

    a day ago

    • Hey! Remember Brett Kavanaugh? The Donald Trump SCOTUS appointee who demonstrably lied during his sworn U.S. Senate Confirmation hearings last year before Republicans voted to...

      bluebird of bitterness



  • In honor of the birthday of American poet Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), here is a choral setting by Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds of her poem “Only in Sleep.” Only in sleep...

  • Wednesday weirdness: Another genetic experiment gone awry

    2 days ago

  • Happy birthday, Alfred

    3 days ago

    • Alfred Tennyson was born in Lincolnshire on August 6, 1809. Although he knew from a young age that he wanted to be a poet, the path was never easy for him. Throughout much of his life he...

      Home



  • We offer here the opening paragraphs of Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui's (pictured) remarks on the anniversary of the atomic bombing of his city. Click at the end to read the full statement...

  • The promise of offshore wind

    a day ago
  • As Karl Grossman, Beyond Nuclear board member, writes this week in Counterpunch, offshore wind holds great promise for addressing carbon emissions. In the US, it has gotten off to...
  • ( Ah, yes, the promising chimera is as everlasting as the phoenix when it comes to hype. A little research into actual power delivery - and utility of same - would be a shocker to some people )

  • Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    a day ago

    • “Seventy-four years ago, everything here in Hiroshima was completely destroyed by the atomic bomb and so were the people living here.” These were the opening words of Hidehiko...

    BlackListed News



  • Something big is about to hit in the Jeffrey Epstein drama, which in recent days has quietly slipped to the last page in the local media. Moments ago, the Miami Herald whose reporting...

  • NSA Whistleblower Confirms "They Can Use Your Data Against You Any Time"

    a day ago
  • A bombshell interview with William Binney, an NSA Whistleblower, has just been released! Binney says that President Donald Trump is being framed and that we the people are subjected...

  • Critical U.S. Election Systems Have Been Left Exposed Online Despite Official Denials

    a day ago

    • For years, U.S. election officials and voting machine vendors have insisted that critical election systems are never connected to the internet and therefore can’t be hacked...

      Research Digest



  • By Emma Young. The findings suggest that "affect labelling" could help protect vulnerable teens from depression.

  • Episode 17: How To Make Running Less Painful And More Fun

    17 days ago
  • Presented by Christian Jarrett, this podcast episode looks into research to make running more enjoyable.

  • We’re seeking a writer to join our team!

    17 days ago

    • The British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, which keeps hundreds of thousands of people abreast of the latest exciting findings in…

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • It’s a curious thing when there is an idiom—structured roughly the same way and meaning essentially the same thing—that exists in a large number of languages. It’s even more...

  • Fresh Produce, Brought to You By Robots

    5 hours ago
  • In San Carlos, California, under LED lighting in a controlled, 8,000-square-foot environment, a team of autonomous robots is whirring night and day between rows of leafy greens...

  • 'The Motherland Calls' in Volgograd, Russia

    5 hours ago

    • "The Motherland Calls" is a towering statue that dominates the summit of Mamayev Kurgan, a hill that overlooks the city of Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad). The enormous artwork...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • This and that for your Thursday reading.- Joel Connelly reports on a new B.C. study showing the breadth and depth of the effects of a climate breakdown. Reuters examines the threat...

  • New column day

    12 hours ago
  • Here, on how a public drug manufacturer could both secure Canada's supply of needed medications in the face of threats from both corporate greed and U.S. policy threats. For further...

  • Wednesday Morning Links

    a day ago

    • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- George Monbiot writes that the fossil fuel companies most responsible for endangering our living environment are also polluting...
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