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I am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale or reality of this vast connectivity. What’s uncertain is, what is it? Is this global web of computers, […]
The Latin term “fiat” roughly translates to “there shall be”. When we refer to fiat money, we are referring to money that exists because the government declares it into existence. It is not based on production or earnings, and not backed by any commodity. It is solely based on trusting the government. Fiat money is […]
Link: Animal Friendship Between Different Species
TV’s “Evening Magazine” takes a 2008 look at hippies in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, in the Summer of Love, 1967.
Link: Hippies Overrun Vancouver, 1967
Prof Stephen Hawking has come up with a new idea to explain why the Big Bang of creation led to the vast cosmos that we can see today.
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The new theory believes original estimates of Big Bang expansion are wrong
Astronomers can deduce that the early universe expanded at a mind-boggling rate because regions separated […]
You’ll be exposed to around 6,000 marketing messages today, according to researchers. You’re looking at a few right now. Glance away from your computer and you’ll see another one–a label on a bottle, a logo on a t-shirt, a billboard outside the window.
But as pervasive as it is now, marketers are working hard behind […]
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Long dismissed as a product of overactive imaginations or a sign of mental illness, synesthesia has grudgingly come to be accepted by scientists in recent years as an actual phenomenon with a real neurological basis. Some researchers now believe it may yield valuable clues to how the brain is organized and how perception works.
“The study […]
One of Alfred Hitchcock’s most enduring bits of cinematic comedy is the auction scene in the espionage thriller North by Northwest. Cary Grant plays Roger Thornhill, a businessman who has been mistaken for a CIA agent by the ruthless Phillip Vandamm. At a critical juncture, Thornhill is cornered by his enemies inside a Chicago auction […]