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  • The rise of Beijing experimental music scene

    Ona warm weeknight in early-June, a kid set aside his guitar, dropped tohis knees and began to moan -- pulling at strings and twirling knobs --before losing himself in the squalls of ringing feedback, shifts inmodulation and ambient noise that his band, Carpet of Let,concocted behind him. "I'm nervous and shy," the kid later said. "Ilike to make noise like a zombie." Zuo Wei, a mild-mannered 20-year-oldchemistry student at Tianjin Normal University, is one of the mostactive figures working to nurture a new offshoot of Beijing's musicscene, one that is embracing a more DIY, community-based ethic as theindependent music industry enters a new phase of commodification.


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  • Tank Girl - greatest anarchic Britain's post-modern comic strip + Tank Girl: Issue #1 of 4(1991) free + movie

    Tank Girl is a British comic created by Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin. Originally drawn by Jamie Hewlett, the strip is currently drawn by Rufus Dayglo, Ashley Wood, and Mike McMahon. The titular character Tank Girl drives a tank, which is also her home. She undertakes a series of missions for a nebulous organization before making a serious mistake and being declared an outlaw for her sexual inclinations and her substance abuse. The comic centers on her misadventures with her boyfriend, Booga, a mutant kangaroo. The comic's style was heavily influenced by punk visual art, and strips were frequently deeply disorganized, anarchic, absurdist, and psychedelic. The strip features various elements with origins in surrealist techniques, fanzines, collage, cut-up technique, stream of consciousness, and metafiction, with very little regard or interest for conventional plot or committed narrative.


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  • Cyborg Masochism, Homo-Fascism: Rereading Terminator 2

    Perhaps the most iconic cinematic image of manhood from the days of the presidency of George Bush 41 (1989-1993) is that of Arnold Schwarzenegger as the titular cyborg in the ad for the 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, sitting atop a motorcycle, wearing a black leather jacket, black T-shirt, and black sunglasses from whose left lens a red point of light glows, an enormous phallus of a gun held in his right hand and pointed aggressively upwards, the entire image darkly swathed in an ominous blue-black neon glow.


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  • Dirty HC Punk explosion - Bristol scene Rise up + Disorder 9 free CDs

    From The Cortinas to Lunatic Fringe and Disorder, Bristol had a huge Punk scene that has influenced, affected and stimulated a vast range of artists that operate in the city. Many of these artists produce music that wouldn’t necessarily suggest a Punk heritage but scratch beneath the surface of a lot of the major players in the Bristol milieu and you will find a fondness for the times of `spikey barnets’, limited musical ability, a `F*** You’ attitude and disrespect for the music industry and its poseur hierarchy.


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  • All about Suicide + interview + 8 Free Albums

    Imagine a two-man band that used a droning Farfisa organ with primitive drum machines with plodding rhythms that were accompanied by rockabilly howling from the bowels of hell. You might raise and eyebrow out of curiosity but ultimately decide to pass on listening to tunes by such a band. Now imagine this band during the 1970's in the context of groups of Yes and Genesis and how people might have reacted to this outlandish and abrasive sound. The band, of course, is Suicide.


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  • Video adaptation of *Joker* grafic novel by Brian Azzarello +interview + review + free grafic novel

    BrianAzzarello (born in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American comic book writer. Hecame to prominence with hardboiled crime series 100 Bullets, publishedby DC Comics' mature-audience imprint Vertigo. Azzarello has written forBatman  ("Broken City", art by Risso; "Batman/Deathblow: After theFire", art by Lee Bermejo, Tim Bradstreet, & Mick Gray) andSuperman  ("For Tomorrow", art by Jim Lee). Prior to rise to prominenceas a writer, he was best known as the line editor for Andrew Rev'sincarnation of Comico.


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  • Art and Mental Illness + Martín Ramírez gallery (all of his work was created inside a mental institution)

    Swedish researchers believe they have uncovered a possible explanation for the link between mental health and creativity. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet studied brain neurotransmitters and receptors and discovered the dopamine system in healthy, highly creative people is similar in some respects to that seen in people with schizophrenia. High creative skills have been shown to be somewhat more common in people who have mental illness in the family. Creativity is also linked to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.


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  • Jello Biafra on The Oprah Winfrey Show + Dead Kennedys Bay Area Music Awards incident + x DK free CDs

    This is a transcript of the segment of "The Oprah Winfrey Show" where Jello goes head-to-head with Tipper Gore. Also there is video of that Oprah show ..... GUESTS: JELLO BIAFRA, TIPPER GORE, RABBI ABRAHAM COOPER, JUAN WILLIAMS.ICE-T, NELSON GEORGE


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  • The Swans - THIS IS NOT A REUNION - Message From Gira + free discography download (20 CDs)

    Michael Gira's re-activated Swans will be undertaking their first U.S. performances in 13 years, celebrating the Fall release of the first new Swans album since Soundtracks For The Blind (1997). The album was recorded by Jason LeFarge at Seizure's Palace in Brooklyn and is currently be remixed by Gira with Bryce Goggin (Antony & The Johnsons, Akron/Family) at Trout Recordings.


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  • The San Francisco graffiti scene + SF graffiti gallery

    While walking the streets of San Francisco, it is easy to come across an intricate graffiti mural painted on the side of a building. Vivid colors blend together to make obscure fonts and shapes, all done with a can of spray paint and a lot of attention to detail. Even if you can't make out what it says you still know it is art. Perhaps more often around the city you see "a tag." A single color scribble on a storefront or the back of a MUNI bus. You probably think to yourself how ugly it is and feel bad for the person who has to wash it off. Steve Rotman, photographer and author of San Francisco Street Art and Bay Area Graffiti, says the latter is actually graffiti in the traditional sense.


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  • Mere Anarchy: Can A Society Without Government Be Better Run Than What We Have Now? + Agorism

    by J Neil Schulman ......................................... The title of this essay has two meanings. The first is the reference to the Yeats poem quoted under, The Second Coming. The second is a reference to C.S. Lewis’s immensely popular book of Christian apologetics, Mere Christianity, a phrase C.S. Lewis picked up from a Christian apologist writing three centuries earlier, Rev. Richard Baxter.


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  • Why is there stigma related to HIV and AIDS?

    HIV/AIDS-related stigma is not a straightforward phenomenon as attitudes towards the epidemic and those affected vary massively. Even within one country reactions to HIV/AIDS will vary between individuals and groups of people. Religion, gender, sexuality, age and levels of AIDS education can all affect how somebody feels about the disease. AIDS-related stigma is not static. It changes over time as infection levels, knowledge of the disease and treatment availability vary.


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  • The food and nuclear Magnetic resonance Spectroscopy + Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods

    By Adrian J.Charlton ............................ For many years, NMR spectroscopy was largely overlooked by the food industry. Maybe this was understandable. The instruments were expensive, the skills required to operate them could at best be described as specialist and there wasn't a broad understanding of the way in which thetechnology could be applied within the industry. I joined the Food Science Group at Fera (then the Central Science Laboratory) in 1999.NMRspectroscopy was mainly used for measuring isotopes to check the authenticity of wines and fruit juice, whilst an archaic bench top contraption was used for fat and water measurements.


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  • Archetypal Astrology and Transpersonal Psychology: The LSD Researchof Richard Tarnas and Stanislav Grof

    In the mid-1960’s, a young Czechoslovakian psychiatristworking at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague made someepoch-making discoveries concerning the fundamental structures of thehuman psyche. Working with a wide range of individuals involved insupervised LSD psychotherapy, Stanislav Grof and his clients encounteredexperiences that gradually and then irrevocably challenged the orthodoxFreudian model in which he and his colleagues were working. The contentof the sessions suggested a far deeper understanding of the humanpsyche and the cosmos itself than had been previously imagined.


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  • Starfish Prime - Exploding H-Bombs In Space + Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film

    Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will.


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  • Think Tank Research Project: The Orangutan Language Project

    Forty frequently used body language signals were identifiedby British researchers who spent nine months observing orangutans inthree European zoos. And the results have been compiled into the firstape dictionary  -  a guide on how our cousins chat to each other in thewild. It shows the apes have at least 25 signals or gestures for 'I wantto play', for example  -  ranging from a back roll and somersault, to ayank of their hair or a bite of the air.


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  • Afghanistan in 1950s and '60s when Kabul had rock 'n' roll, not rockets vs. horror of today

    BY MOHAMMAD QAYOUMI ............  On a recent trip to Afghanistan, British Defense Secretary Liam Fox drew fire for calling it "a broken 13th-century country." The most common objection was not that he was wrong, but that he was overly blunt. He's hardly the first Westerner to label Afghanistan as medieval. Former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince recently described the country as inhabited by "barbarians" with "a 1200 A.D. mentality." Many assume that's all Afghanistan has ever been -- an ungovernable land where chaos is carved into the hills. Given the images people see on TV and the headlines written about Afghanistan over the past three decades of war, many conclude the country never made it out of the Middle Ages.


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  • The woman power era is coming - The End of Men!?

    Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way— and its vast cultural consequences


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  • Mysterious Betelgeuse, a boiling and magnetic supergiant star

    An international research team, lead by French astrophysicists from the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Toulouse-Tarbes, has detected a magnetic field at the surface of the supergiant star Betelgeuse. This observational result, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, demonstrates that, in spite of the theoretical framework usually proposed to account for the magnetism of astrophysical bodies like the Earth or the Sun, the rotation of cosmic objects is not a necessary ingredient to trigger the efficient generation of a magnetic field.


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  • Faster Than Light - Was Einstein wrong?

    It's not just a good idea, it's the law: 186,287 miles per second. The fact that sound waves travel at a finite speed--roughly 330 meters per second--has been known since ancient times. It's obvious, really, when you stand back a ways and observe the falling of a tree or the clapping of a pair of hands, and the sound arrives noticeably later than the sight itself. The fact that light waves also travel at finite speed is much harder to notice, because that speed is almost a million times faster. But by the end of the Renaissance, astronomers--viewing events much more distant than a few hundred meters--had begun to suspect the truth.


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World's most sensitive neutrino experiment  begin

An intrepid subatomic particle has travelled through the bedrock of Japan and triggered a detector on the other side of the country, heralding a new attempt to probe the mystery of neutrino oscillations. The result could take us closer to answering one very big question – why is the universe full of matter?

In the "T2K" (Tokai-to-Kamioka) experiment, an intense beam of neutrinos is being generated in a particle accelerator near Tokai village north of Tokyo, and aimed at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector 300 kilometres away. Neutrinos interact only reluctantly with matter, but from time to time one of the trillions in the beam will be lucky enough to hit an atomic nucleus inside Super-Kamiokande, and so create a distinctive flash of light.

"It's thought that in the Big Bang that created the universe, matter andanti-matter were created in equal amounts, but it's clear thateverything we observe today is only consisting of matter, so thequestion is where has the anti-matter gone?"

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Does anyone still believe in 'global warming'? - The $10 Trillion Climate Fraud

Lost in the recent headlines was Al Gore's appearance in Denver at the annual meeting of the Council of Foundations, an association of the nation's philanthropic leaders. "Time's running out (on climate change)," Gore told them. "We have to get our act together. You have a unique role in getting our act together." Gore was right that foundations will play a key role in keeping the climate scam alive as evidence of outright climate fraud grows....

Gore was right that foundations will play a key role in keeping the climate scam alive as evidence of outright climate fraud grows, just as they were critical in the beginning when the Joyce Foundation in 2000 and 2001 provided the seed money to start the Chicago Climate Exchange. It started trading in 2003, and what it trades is, essentially, air. More specifically perhaps, hot air.

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Fantastic Mad Creatures By Robert Steven Connett - interview +gallery

Robert Steven Connett is a Los Angeles based artist who celebrates dreamsequences, as he describes, “I often think that dreams may be thegateway to another world.

Perhaps a parallel world just as important asthe waking world we call ‘reality?’ ” Robert is an introspective artistwho offers a sincere look into life’s circumstance while creating anequidistant world made up of micro organisms, fear and beauty. Robert isa tireless painter who offers, “My most recent paintings express myinterest in what I call the "UNDERWORLD".

I’m fascinated by the worlds that exist beyond our immediate field ofvision and have an abiding interest in the flora and fauna that occupythe space within these tiny worlds. The kind of things that one musthunt for in the grass, in the pools of water or with a microscope.”

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The World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface

A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neuralinterface or a brain–machine interface, is a direct communicationpathway between a brain and an external device.

BCIs are often aimed atassisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motorfunctions. Research on BCIs began in the 1970s at the University ofCalifornia Los Angeles (UCLA) under a grant from the National ScienceFoundation, followed by a contract from DARPA. The papers publishedafter this research also mark the first appearance of the expressionbrain–computer interface in scientific literature. The field of BCI has since blossomed spectacularly, mostly towardneuroprosthetics applications that aim at restoring damaged hearing,sight and movement. Thanks to the remarkable cortical plasticity of thebrain, signals from implanted prostheses can, after adaptation, behandled by the brain like natural sensor or effector channels. Followingyears of animal experimentation, the first neuroprosthetic devicesimplanted in humans appeared in the mid-nineties.

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Punk explosion against cenzorship in Indonesia + film -punk in loveindonesia

Long after the Punk movement petered out or became commercialized elsewhere, it took hold for the first time in Jakarta in the mid-1990s — at a time when the music's belligerence seemed to perfectly echo the hostility many young people felt toward the authoritarian regime of then President Suharto.

The youth were attracted to the freedom and rebellion that punk offered. Today power of the Internet widely spreading Punk to every region in Indonesia.

As molecules rotate and vibrate, they emit radio waves at specific frequencies. Each molecule has a unique pattern of such frequencies, called spectral lines, that constitutes a "fingerprint" identifying that molecule. Laboratory tests can determine the pattern of spectral lines that identifies a specific molecule.

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What Came 'Before' the Big Bang? Leading Physicist Presents aRadical Theory

String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt,Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the PrincetonCenter for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos welive in was actually created by the cyclical trillion-year collision oftwo universes (which they define as three-dimensional branes plus time)that were attracted toward each other by the leaking of gravity out ofone of the universes.

In their view of the universe the complexities ofan inflating universe after a Big Bang are replaced by a universe thatwas already large. flat, and uniform with dark energy as the effect ofthe other universe constantly leaking gravity into our own and drivingits acceleration. According to this theory, the Big Bang was not thebeginning of time but the bridge to a past filled with endlesslyrepeating cycles of evolution, each accompanied by the creation of newmatter and the formation of new galaxies, stars, and planets.

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German-Japanese flight to Moon and Mars in 1945-46

The moon has allways held a significant place for humanity both as asource for romantic inspiration for poets and the like to outstandingcuriosity for scientists.

Allthough, it is said to be a shadowy placesome say of Aliens others say of Top Secret Moon Bases that are supposedto belong to The Third Reich what do you think ? It is said that in theearly nineties that Nazies landed on the moon using some sort of giantflying saucer type object.

These Nazi flying Saucers were said to standabout 45 mtrs high, had 10 stories of crew quaters and had a diameter of60 mtrs. Well here is videos and texts that links that story ........

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Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet

The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese governmenthackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, theformer director of national intelligence.

McConnell’s not dangerousbecause he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because heknows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willingand able to use fear-mongering to manipulate the federal bureaucracy forhis own ends, while coming off like a straight shooter to those who arenot in the know.

When he was head of the country’s nationalintelligence, he scared President Bush with visions of e-doom, promptingthe president to sign a comprehensive secret order that unleashed tensof billions of dollars into the military’s black budget so they couldstart making firewalls and building malware into military equipment.

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All world secret underground bases build for space travelers

Belief in a subterranean world has been handed down as myth, tale, orrumor down the generations from all over the world. Some of thesestories date back to ancient times and tell tales of fantastic flora andfauna that can be found in the caverns of ancient races. Socrates spokeof huge hollows within the Earth which are inhabited by man, and vastcaverns which rivers flow.

The following material comes from people who know the Dulce(underground) base exists. They are people who worked in the labs;abductees taken to the base; people who assisted in the construction;intelligence personal (NSA,CIA,FBI ... ect.) and UFO / inner-earthresearchers. This information is meant for those who are seriouslyinterested in the dulce base. for your own protection be advised to “usecaution” while investigating this complex.Does a strange world existbeneath our feet? Strange legends have persisted for centuries about themysterious cavern world and the equally strange beings who inhabit it.

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Mysterious Radio Waves from Unknown Object in M82 Galaxy

There is something strange is lurking in the galactic neighborhood. Anunknown object in galaxy M82 12 million light-years away has startedsending out radio waves, and the emission does not look like anythingseen anywhere in the universe before except perhaps by Ford Prefect.

M82is starburst galaxy five times as bright as the Milky Way and onehundred times as bright as our galaxy's center. "We don't know what itis," says co-discoverer Tom Muxlow of Jodrell Bank Centre forAstrophysics near Macclesfield, UK. But its apparent sideways velocityis four times the speed of light. This "superluminal" motion occursusually in high-speed jets of material bursting out by black holes.

The new young supernova explosions that we were expecting to see in M82brighten at radio wavelengths over several weeks and then decay overseveral months, so that explanation seems unlikely.

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Follow Spirit*s Mars progress: ready to "taste" a rock named"Chocolate Hills"

The Opportunity rover on Mars, of course. The robotic geologist ispoised and ready to "taste" a rock named "Chocolate Hills.

"This rock hasa thick, dark-colored coating that is interesting to scientists becausemany of the rocks in the surrounding area have the same mysterious darkstuff. The coating could be remnants of a layer that was changed by theaction of water and weather or, it could be a layer of rock that meltedwhen a meteor (less than a foot across) impacted Mars,ejecting thisrock and others and creating the crater "Concepcion".

Knowing its origins will help themunderstand the history of Mars. Opportunity's mission is to figure outthe "ingredients" of this morsel by studying the chemicals in it.  And,just where did the name "Chocolate Hills" come from anyway? Opportunityis at the rim of "Concepcion" crater, which was named after one ofMagellan's ships.

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White Christmas: The Coldest Places in the Solar System

The shrinking ice cap around Earth’s North Pole may be hedging in onSanta’s territory, but there are plenty of other frigid territories inthe solar system where he could set up shop.

Here we tour of some of themost shiver-inducing spots in the solar system, where you might beassured a white Christmas.

Trenches dug by the lander’s robotic arm did indeed expose subsurfaceice, shedding more light on the history of water on the red planet. Inaddition to the slight snowfalls, Phoenix observed frost forming on theMartian surface around it as winter began to set in in the northernhemisphere – the lander is thought to have been covered in ice and frostsince NASA lost contact with it in November 2008.

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  • AquaDom - AQUARIUM ELEVATOR - Largest aquarium in the world

    The Radisson Blu Hotel, Berlin (Germany), which is situated on the River Spree, directly across from the Berlin Cathedral, appears from the exterior to be just another ordinary luxury hotel. Once you enter the hotel, nothing prepares you for the sight of the giant cylindrical Aquarium towering 25m (82 feet) smack in the center of the lobby.


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  • The world's tallest tent has opened to the public in Kazakhstan

    Designed by the British architects Foster & Partners,the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre in the capital Astana is 150m(490ft) high. It opens on the day the city celebrates 13 years as thecapital and President Nursultan Nazarbayev his 70th birthday. The centrehas a huge indoor leisure park, designed to be protected from theregion's harsh climate.


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  • Island of Ghosts: Hashima Island - Japan’s rotting metropolis

    Hashima, an island located in Nagasaki Bay, is better known as Warship Island (Gunkanshima). The island was inhabited until the end of the 19th century, when it was discovered that the ground below it held tons of coal. The island soon became a center of a major mining complex owned by Mitsubishi Corporation. As the complex expanded, rock brought out of the shafts was used to artificially expand the island. Seawalls created in this expansion turned Hashima into the monstrous looking Gunkanshima; its artificial appearance makes it looks more like a battleship than an island.


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  • Musician Plays Violin as Surgeons Operate on His Brain

    Roger Frisch of Plymouth, Minn., lay on the operating table with his hands clutching his violin to his chin. While surgeons operated on Frisch's brain, Frisch began to play the chords he's known for more than 30 years.  It seemed like a scene from a science fiction movie. But every note he played told the surgeons whether the electronic pulses they were sending to his brain worked to ease his body's tremors.


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  • Marijuana as Religious Sacrament - Marijuana Churches, Drugs, &Freedom of Religion

    Religious drug use has presented a conundrumfor the U.S. government as it attempts to fight the "War on Drugs" whileupholding the First Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteesfreedom of religion. Religious marijuana use is one aspect of thecontinuing debate over the spiritual use of drugs. Marijuana is smokedas a religious sacrament in a few churches in the United States.Churches that use cannabis in religious services point to the FirstAmendment of the Constitution for protection of religious freedom andtheir right to use pot for spiritual purposes.


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  • The Man in the Hole - a modern day hobbit lives underground in Joseph, Oregon

    By Lynette Chiang ......................... Daniel Price lives in a hole in the ground. I follow him on my bike to his dwelling of 11 years, off the main street, down a forested  track, in a little hamlet called Joseph, way out in the boonies of Eastern Oregon. 'Come and have a sweat lodge, around 9pm tonight, I built it myself.' I was riding with 1200 others in Cycle Oregon 2003 , the renowned 7-day bike ride for folks who like company and camping in a cheerful crowd. But the night wore on and the idea of shlepping about in the damp darkness trying to find the track to his house became less and less appealing. My head  hit my camping pillow and Daniel faded into yesterday.


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  • Marijuana's role in creating a new kind of cuisine

    The piece explains how marijuana is inspiring chefs and restaurants to create a new kind of cuisine, making its claim after interviewing "a handful of chefs [who] are unabashedly open about marijuana's role in their creative and recreational lives and its effect on their restaurants.


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  • How masturbation became known as a sin...

    To understand how this ‘masturbation is sinful’ idea came to be part of Christianity even up to today, you have to understand some history. So read on. This is fascinating and scary stuff. Around the time of Jesus some religious ideas, most likely originally from India, were arriving with traders and beginning to become popular in the countries around Israel, especially among the huge numbers of Greek-speaking people. The most important groups who adopted these ideas were the Stoic philosophers and a religious sect called the Gnostics.


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  • An Interview With Fr Gabriele Amorth - The Church's Leading Exorcist who said "Devil is in Vatican"

    Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron. He added that the assault on Pope Benedict XVI on Christmas Eve by a mentally unstable woman and the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed the Church in the US, Ireland, Germany and other countries, were proof that the Anti-Christ was waging a war against the Holy See."The Devil resides in the Vatican and you can see the consequences," said Father Amorth, 85, who has been the Holy See's chief exorcist for 25 years.


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  • Matematics find answer - Which will keep you drier, running in the rain or walking?

    If someone goes from his car to his front door in a rainstorm, will he get more wet, less wet, or equally wet if he runs (rather than walks)?  This is a very commonly asked question.  To develop a quantitative answer, let's first consider a spherical man, and assume he moves to his car in a straight horizontal path with velocity u.  The raindrops are falling at an angle such that its velocity is v_z in the downward direction, v_x in the horizontal direction (straight into the man's face), and v_y in the sideways horizontal direction (the man's left to right).  The intensity of the rain is such that each cubic foot of air contains G grams of water.


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