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Published on Monday, 15 December 2008 19:00 | | 
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This is Greg Braden, who has some well articulated ideas about what makes things tick. The videos are worth a watch and although the science is a little thin, he does get the concepts across very well.
For people who do real science and need more information about some of the concepts that Greg mentions but doesn't go into or credit the originators, you might want to visit the links below.
For Greg's story CLICK HERE.
Published on Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:00 | |
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And now watch Undoing a Woman From the Outside In...
Published on Friday, 12 December 2008 19:00 | |
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It’s that time of year
again! Diane Southam looks at the pros and cons of Christmas – and how
to survive it
Published on Thursday, 11 December 2008 19:00 | | |
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Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest massive star forming regions close to the Milky Way. Enormous stars in 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, are producing intense radiation and searing winds of multimillion-degree gas that carve out gigantic bubbles in the surrounding cooler gas and dust.
Other massive stars have raced through their evolution and exploded catastrophically as supernovae, expanding these bubbles into X-ray- brightened superbubbles. They leave behind pulsars as beacons of their former lives and expanding supernova remnants that trigger the collapse of giant clouds of dust and gas to form new generations of stars.
Published on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:00 | | |
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More than 400 universities and colleges worldwide now offer
undergraduate or graduate degrees in peace studies, as well as individual courses and
certificates. Dana Macucci investigates
Los Alamos, New Mexico:The Bradbury Science Museum in this drab high-desert town studded with old army barracks houses life-size replicas of Little Boy and Fat Man, chilling reminders of the human capacity for unspeakable violence. The cutely named atomic bombs, which were invented here, were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945.
Less than 100 miles away, or 160 kilometers, in Montezuma, New Mexico, lies United World College of the American West (UWC-USA), a two-year pre-university residential school offering an international baccalaureate diploma, with a special emphasis on peace studies and conflict resolution.
Published on Wednesday, 10 December 2008 08:06 | | |
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A medical trial of the Alexander Technique, published in the British Medical Journal, has concluded that the exercise method is highly effective in reducing back pain.
For years, F Matthias
Alexander struggled to get his technique recognised by the medical
establishment, despite remarkable results with his own patients. Yet
this year, a study established the effectiveness of the individualised
lessons, designed to develop lifelong skills for self care, and release
muscle tension and spinal decompression. The trial found the Alexander
Technique to be more powerful in treating long term back pain, than
massage or GP prescribed exercise.
Published on Friday, 05 December 2008 19:00 | |
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AGONY
The day after I was made redundant last July, I was on the tube when I suddenly felt dreadful. I was convinced I was having a heart attack.
After tests my doctor told me my heart was fine and that it was probably just a panic attack. Since then it’s happened to me again on the tube, in the supermarket and once at a football match. I’ve always been an outgoing person - now I’m scared of going out.