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6 July was 40000
Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:56:10 -0700 (PDT)
People who use MS Excel (most people who use spreadsheets) will know
that the serial number for 6 July 2009 is 40000. MS just chose to
start the world on 1 January 1900, which was given the serial number
1.
I am always amazed at how few are the days we live. The expected life
span of a male in some countries is ...
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the evolution of Afghanis and Koreans
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:31:25 -0700 (PDT)
Since the Russian fox experiment showed how few generations are needed
to achieve quite large evolutionary change, I was wondering about
countries that have, for the past few millennia, because of geographic
accident, been victims of multiple prolonged invasions. Both the
Koreans and Afghanis fit the bill. Over th ...
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Sowing dragon's teeth
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 23:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
There's an interesting obituary to Robert McNamara: "There may be a
limit beyond which many Americans and much of the world will not
permit the United States to go. The picture of the world's greatest
superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 non-combatants a week,
while trying to pound a tiny, backward natio ...
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Tempting those who think they are virtuous
Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:56:11 -0700 (PDT)
The nature of temptation
Why those who speak against vice so often fall for it.
By Drake Bennett | July 5, 2009
THERE ARE PLENTY of people who cheat on their spouses, plenty of
people who hire prostitutes. It?s hardly unheard of for an office to
be plagued by a boss sending sexually explicit emails to under ...
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Neo-colonialism
Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/land-grabbing-food-environment
Fears for the world's poor countries as the rich grab land to grow
food
? UN sounds warning after 30m hectares bought up
? G8 leaders to discuss 'neo-colonialism'
John Vidal, environment editor guardian.co.uk,
Friday 3 July 20 ...
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Re: The Ego Tunnel
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:42:03 -0700 (PDT)
On 2 July, 15:24, n...@webtv.net (Rec Room) wrote:
> Dave Smith wrote:
> >I think he's claiming that what we
> > actually experience is merely a model or
> > representation of the world, which
> > apparently is generated by our
> > embodied brains.
>
> In "The River Of Consciousness," Oliver Sacks described a ...
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Re: The Ego Tunnel
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:24:49 -0500
Dave Smith wrote:
>I think he's claiming that what we
> actually experience is merely a model or
> representation of the world, which
> apparently is generated by our
> embodied brains.
In "The River Of Consciousness," Oliver Sacks described a rare condition
in which some of his patients experienced vis ...
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The attack on Darwin continues
Thu, 2 Jul 2009 02:59:51 -0700 (PDT)
see
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32510 ...
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Ocean currents and earth's magnetic field - plausible?
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:41:11 -0700 (PDT)
From The Sunday Times June 14, 2009
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6493481.ece
Oceans charge up new theory of magnetism
A radical new idea may revolutionise our understanding of one of the
most vital forces on EarthJonathan Leake
Earth's magnetic field, long thought to be generated by ...
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Smell and empathy
Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:00:31 -0700 (PDT)
Induction of Empathy by the Smell of Anxiety
Alexander Prehn-Kristensen 1, Christian Wiesner 2, Til Ole Bergmann 3,
Stephan
Wolff 4, Olav Jansen 4, Hubertus Maximilian Mehdorn 5, Roman Ferstl 2,
Bettina
M. Pause 6
1 Center of Integrative Psychiatry, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany,
2 Department of Psycholog ...
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