You don’t have to be an environmental fundamentalist to be concerned about pumping ever-higher levels of pollutants into the air, water, and landfills. If we all consume and conserve wisely, we’ll be better off in the long run.
But do our puny efforts really have that much of an effect on global climate change? There were [...]

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Mind is (a lot of) what the brain does. So when your mind gets blown by some spiritual far-out experience, what exactly is going on in that old brain of yours? Larry Mantle interviews Barbara Bradley Hagerty for a segment of KPCC’s Air Talk:
More than half of all Americans believe that they have had [...]

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The world of traditional martial arts is rife with talk of mystical energies, spiritual powers and esoteric forces.
This video from Tony Blauer on the CrossFit site gives a nice demonstration that physics and biomechanics are all that you need to be an effective fighter.

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Firstly, forgive any etiquette breaches or proto-ludditism.  This is the first ever blog I’ve tried to post on.
Two dear friends had a cat with some issues. This should have been obvious to anyone, as the dear little thing often ignored them. So what? you might think. They were concerned that pussy was “acting out” by [...]

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There’s a post on Slashdot about Spaceport America (with links in the story). It remains to be seen if this will be a viable commercial venture or just another pie-in-the-sky scheme, but as someone who loves the idea of getting off this damn planet, I’m hopeful this will join Russian space tourism and the Ansari [...]

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In his post on Boing Boing titled “Evolution, religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality”, Cory links to a video from Dr. Robert Sapolsky:
Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky, one of the most interesting anthropologists I’ve heard lecture, gives us 90 minutes on the evolutionary basis for literal religious belief, “metamagical thinking,” schizotypal personality and so on, explaining how [...]

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This is the kind of thing that might go some way towards Jim Carrey discrediting himself as a credible source of information in the vaccination debate. A pair of articles about Carrey’s recent spiritual awakening:
From The Live Feed:
“I woke up and suddenly got it,” Carrey says. “I understood suddenly how my thoughts were just [...]

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New Scientist has an opinion piece by a British chiropractor claiming to rebutt some of the recent attacks on chiropractic in the UK.  Its clearly labelled as an opinion piece, but NS should be ashamed of publishing it without commentary anyways.  I’ll summarise, shall I?
1) We’re not those old school chiropractics nutjobs; we do _different_ [...]

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Bruce Sterling on Beyond the Beyond posts a press release from Anonymous about an upcoming campaign against alleged abuses in the management structure of the Church of Scientology. From the release:
Worldwide - In this month of June 2009, Anonymous launches OPERATION CRUISE CONTROL, also christened as Sea Arrrgh II, an international event which brings attention [...]

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Ernest Cline, the writer of Fanboys, made this nifty little video a couple of years back:

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