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Published on Tuesday, 12 August 2008 19:00 | | 
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From drugs, delinquency and delusion - Chris has turned his life around with his Buddhist practice
Published on Monday, 11 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an
exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After
just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than
The latest discovery, COROT-exo-4b is an exoplanet of about the same size as Jupiter. It takes 9.2 days to orbit its star, the second longest period for any transiting exoplanet ever found, more |
Published on Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:00 | |
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This is a car advertisement from the UK. When they finished filming the ad, the film editor noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist. They found out that a person had been killed a year earlier in that exact same spot...
The ad was never put on TV because of the unexplained ghostly phenomenon. Watch the front end of the car as it clears the trees in the middle of the screen and you'll see the white mist crossing in front of the car, then following it along the road. Is it a ghost, or is it simply mist? You decide.
WARNING: SERIOUSLY SCARY - DO NOT VIEW IF YOU HAVE A NERVOUS DISPOSITION!
And now for the winners of the Bulwer-Lytton contest. 'What's that?' you say. Go to Funny Stuff and find out!
Published on Saturday, 09 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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In case you missed the rip-roaring speech of the world’s most charismatic environmentalist at Live Earth, here's Bobby Kennedy again!
Published on Thursday, 07 August 2008 09:00 | | |
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In her quest to find a cure for skin cancer, Louise Ellis explored both conventional medicine and Chinese herbalism to overcome the illness
When warnings
first came out about skin cancer, I remember having a nervous feeling
as I mentally ticked all the boxes. Blonde hair. Tick. Fair skin with
freckles. Tick. Suffered from sunburn as a child. Tick.
Published on Tuesday, 05 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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'Anybody who was the least bit surprised by 9/11 was ignorant, naive or both.' A hard-hitting critique of US empire building by Johan Galtung
Picture: US military map of the world
1. Definitions and Hypotheses: An Overview
Definition: An empire is a transborder Center-Periphery system, in macro-space and in macro-time, with a culture legitimizing a structure of unequal exchange between center and periphery: economically, between exploiters and exploited, as inequity; militarily, between killers and victims, as enforcement; politically, between dominators and dominated, as repression; culturally, between alienators and alienated, as conditioning.
Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: 'The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing.' In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
Published on Monday, 04 August 2008 19:00 | | |
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PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA
scientists have concluded that at least one of the large lakes observed
on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, and have
positively identified the presence of ethane. This makes Titan the only
body in our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its
surface. Writes
Carolina Martinez more