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People can teach themselves new skills in dreams
Post Date: 2011-12-26 01:06:03 by Tatarewicz
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The idea of the surreal Hollywood blockbuster Inception, where people travel through someone's dreams to 'plant' an idea in his head may not be so out-there after all. Researchers at Yale have found that 'lucid dreamers' - dreamers who have 'waking dreams' that they control - are able to learn new skills in their dreams. A team is now experimenting with the idea of 'training' people by telling them what to dream about. While the idea of 'walking through' someone's dreams, as in the hit movie Inception is fictional - and likely to remain so - dreams are good for more than just entertainment, say researchers While the idea of 'walking ...
I got my Christmas tree put up today
Post Date: 2011-12-25 16:20:15 by freepatriot32
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Four Pianists play La Campanella
Post Date: 2011-12-25 12:47:18 by farmfriend
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Getting a Swiss education through home schooling
Post Date: 2011-12-25 07:39:33 by Tatarewicz
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Being educated at an international school gives students huge advantages. Now students can be educated online by the International School of Berne, Switzerland from anywhere in the world. Expat families are unique. Expat students, (the infamous Third Culture Kids - TCKs) are certainly unique. But even after reading all the books that help us identify these expat characteristics - and most of it rings real and true for those of us who have ventured out for an exciting life abroad - we are still left with our belief that we are special and different. An expat experience is profoundly personal and unique no matter how homogenous we may be. We have to believe that we have an individual story ...
Norwegian motorist drove without licence for 36 years
Post Date: 2011-12-25 07:04:56 by Tatarewicz
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Police in western Norway were left scratching their heads when a 73-year-old man stopped at a random checkpoint admitted driving without a licence for the last 36 years. In fact, the driver’s confession was so unusual that police and judicial authorities struggled to find a precedent when deciding on an appropriate punishment for the undocumented driver from Sogn og Fjordane. Sogn district court eventually settled on a two-month suspended sentence and a 10,000-kroner (€1,700) fine, newspaper Bergens Tidende reports. Police said they had found the man's story almost impossible to believe and double-checked with the Norwegian Public Roads Administration before confirming ...
Chinese wines beat French at own game
Post Date: 2011-12-25 06:52:18 by Tatarewicz
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French wine growers had their finely trained noses put out of joint when they were trounced by a group of Chinese wines in a blind tasting. The event, which took place in Beijing, lined up five French wines against five from China. To guarantee fair play, the judges were made up of five French and five Chinese wine experts. Four wines from the north-western Ningxia region of China beat all the wines from Bordeaux, France’s most famous wine area. The first placed wine was a cabernet sauvignon from the Grace Vineyard Chairman’s reserve. It was left to a 2009 Lafite Saga from the Medoc area of Bordeaux to restore Gallic pride in fifth place. The event was reminiscent of a ...
I'm in from my appointed rounds and I'm drinking...
Post Date: 2011-12-24 22:16:29 by X-15
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Pennsylvania Dutch Egg Nog "Made with real dairy cream, rum, brandy, and blended whisky"
On-line classical Christmas music from WRR101 FM (Dallas)
Post Date: 2011-12-24 18:41:54 by X-15
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www.wrr101.com/listen/ Click on the blue button at the link. "The City of Dallas-owned radio station not only pioneered the local airwaves; WRR was the first licensed broadcast station in Texas and one of the nation's five inaugural stations. Licensed in August 1921, the station was originally housed in the Dallas Fire Department and touted as the latest in firefighter communications."
the come around every christmas eve... [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-12-24 18:15:53 by lead.and.lag
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...and wish everyone "merry christmas"... the old man in a santa suit, the old lady dressed normally, hesitant, faltering, determined last year they passed out candy canes that tasted funny, this year they didnt pass out anything, and they seemed tired... there's three floors, fifty or sixty roooms all spread out... and ex-hsopital, seems like miles of corridors. but in the thirty seconds they were at the door, it seemed they'd gone downhill.
Using baby foreskins to improve women's cosmetics
Post Date: 2011-12-24 06:32:09 by Tatarewicz
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A research organization is growing human skin in the hope of using it to trial cosmetics and medicines, reducing the need for animal testing. The synthetic skin is made using cells from infant foreskins. The idea of a "skin factory" may sound sinister, but that is exactly what scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart have created. Their so-called Hautfabrik grows tiny swatches of skin - not for skin grafts, but for testing consumer products. The renowned institute is presenting their ground-breaking invention as an affordable and sustainable alternative to animal testing, which many consider unnecessarily cruel. The skin factory is a machine measuring seven metres ...
Holiday Season Hypocrisy
Post Date: 2011-12-24 04:14:29 by Stephen Lendman
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Holiday Season Hypocrisy - by Stephen Lendman Most Christians celebrate Christmas on December 25. For Eastern Orthodox faith adherents, it's January 7. It commemorates Christ's birthday, even though it's widely acknowledged not to be that day. Many African Americans also celebrate Kwanzaa from December 26 - January 1 to reconnect to their cultural and historic heritage. In addition, Jews commemorate Hanukkah. The eight-day Festival of Lights observes the rededication of Jerusalem's Holy Temple at the time of second century BC the Maccabean Revolt. Beginning the day after Thanksgiving, the season also involves obsessive consumerism. Merriam Webster calls it "the ...
WHO POLICES POLITICAL CARTOONING?
Post Date: 2011-12-24 02:26:27 by Tatarewicz
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An Art Form in Crisis Ignores the Rot Within "Ted Rall, mop-headed antiestablishment political cartoonist, has abundant talent, a 1,400-drawing portfolio, seven years' experience, the acclaim of peers and the approval of newspaper editors who, every so often, print his work. What he lacks is someone who will hire him full-time." That's from The New York Times. In 1995. Editorial cartooning, a unique art form whose modern version originated in 18th century France and has become more pointed, sophisticated and effective in the United States than any other country, was in big trouble back then. Newspapers, the main employers of political cartoonists, were closing and ...
The Psychopathic Influence
Post Date: 2011-12-23 20:46:11 by christine
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Both the financial elite and their servants who maintain this system, appear to exhibit behavior that is consistent with symptoms associated with a medical disorder known as psychopathy.(*) Psychopaths, also called sociopaths, are categorized as those who exhibit superficial charm and intelligence, and are absent of delusions or nervousness. Their traits include: Unreliability Frequent lying Deceitful and manipulative behavior (either goal-oriented or for the delight of the act itself) Lack of remorse or shame Antisocial behavior Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience Incapacity for love Poverty of general emotions Loss of insight Unresponsiveness in personal relations A frequent ...
West Texas Cage Match!!
Post Date: 2011-12-23 20:02:58 by X-15
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Christmas in Austin
Post Date: 2011-12-23 13:48:13 by Lod
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Pigeons moving up intellectual pecking order
Post Date: 2011-12-23 04:38:29 by Tatarewicz
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By now, the intelligence of birds is well known. Alex the African gray parrot had great verbal skills. Scrub jays, which hide caches of seeds and other food, have remarkable memories. Pigeons, it turns out, are no slouches either. It was known that they could count. But all sorts of animals, including bees, can count. Pigeons have now shown that they can learn abstract rules about numbers, an ability which until now had been demonstrated only in primates. In the 1990s scientists trained rhesus monkeys to look at groups of items on a screen and rank them from the lowest number of items to the highest. Damian Scarf, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, tried ...
Cain Touched This
Post Date: 2011-12-21 23:30:07 by James Deffenbach
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Origin of Stonehenge rocks discovered
Post Date: 2011-12-21 06:28:48 by Tatarewicz
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The origin of some of Stonehenge's ancient stones have been discovered Researchers in the United Kingdom have finally solved a major piece of Stonehenge's enduring mystery: the place of origin for some of the ancient structure's most-famous rock formations. The National Museum Wales and Leicester University have identified the source as Craig Rhos-y-felin, located more than 100 miles from the Stonehenge site. But this discovery, of course, just opens on to another mystery--namely, just how and why an ancient culture carved and transported the giant stones over such a great distance. "Being able to provenance any archaeologically significant rock so precisely is ...
Outlaw calculators in schools until basic math learned - math prof
Post Date: 2011-12-21 01:17:22 by Tatarewicz
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1. CALCULATORS: I agree fully with Krista Markwart that calculators should not be used until basic skills are mastered. Students develop a very unhealthy dependency on calculators. I believe that this is one of the reasons why we see increased anxiety in students entering university. Many students feel that they cannot function without a calculator. They don’t trust their own ability. Calculators certainly do not promote understanding. It may be appropriate to use calculators for the experimental sciences such as physics, chemistry and biology but there is no need to use them in mathematics. I feel strongly that the schools should NOT allow the use of calculators in mathematics ...
Mmmmmmmmmm, sausage!
Post Date: 2011-12-20 14:59:24 by Esso
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US Government Terrorist ID Chart
Post Date: 2011-12-20 11:08:56 by christine
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Shoplifters' car robbed while stealing from grocery store
Post Date: 2011-12-20 06:28:28 by Tatarewicz
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Two accused shoplifters got a taste of their own medicine when they sought to clear out of the crime--and found that a passing malefactor had broken into their own car. Security personnel were in the process of questioning Korin Vanhouten, 47, and Eldon Alexander, 36, at an Ogden, Utah WinCo supermarket, accused of stealing makeup, energy bars and batteries. At the end of the interrogation, they left with a citation for attempted shoplifting. However, they soon stumbled on to the scene of a successful carlifting, with the awkward discovery that while they were in the WinCo, someone--or several someones--had broken into their car. And as it turned out, the ironies were just starting to ...
How Iranians hacked US spy drone
Post Date: 2011-12-19 02:32:13 by Tatarewicz
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More damage is being dished out to the US intelligence community as sources in Iran admit to hacking the CIA’s lost drone and bringing it down with not much more than computer navigating know-how. Engineers with the Iranian military are admitting to the Christian Science Monitor that the dramatic disappearance of a multi-million dollar stealth drone aircraft suffered by the United States two weeks ago was indeed a result of their own doing, claiming now that they managed to hijack the system inside the craft with ease and bring it to a safe landing without incident. The United States originally denied they lost a drone over Iran before changing their story and insisting that they ...
Ethnic Iranian US soldier confesses to spying for CIA
Post Date: 2011-12-19 01:18:50 by Tatarewicz
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CIA spy recently detained in the Islamic Republic has confessed to having been on a mission to infiltrate the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. In a televised confession, broadcast on the Iranian television on Sunday night, the operative, named Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, said he joined the US Army in 2001 and underwent decade-long intelligence training. He added that he was sent to the US-run Bagram Air Base in eastern Afghanistan and given access to classified intelligence before flying to Tehran. Hekmati of Iranian origin, who was born in the southwestern US state of Arizona, said he intended to win the confidence of the Iranian intelligence apparatus with the information he had been given by ...
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Post Date: 2011-12-19 00:28:18 by wudidiz
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