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Archive for December, 2006

Heart of the Earth

Researches have discovered that the Earth has a heartbeat. This just sounds neat! I wonder where exactly the heart is.
“In the early half of the 20th century, Serbian physicist Milutin Milankovitch first proposed that cyclical variations in the Earth-Sun geometry can alter the Earth’s climate and these changes can be discovered in the Earth’s geological [...]

December 29th, 2006
Topic: Environment, Fun Tags: , , , , , ,

The Best Christmas Gift: Fight Climate Change

Over at the BBC’s Green Room, there is a recent article by Menghestab Haile in which he argues that the best thing people can do for one another is essentially change the way we live. Climate change is destroying the way many poor people survive and the best gift we can give them is to [...]

December 28th, 2006
Topic: Direct Action, Environment Tags: , , , , ,

Farming With no Gas

A farmer in the states has successfully used an electric tractor for all his farming purposes. THe tractor was converted from a gas machine into an electric one that can run for 4 hours.
“If you are doing all electric, most people are very aware of the environment,” Wallace said. “Some just want to get off [...]

December 28th, 2006
Topic: Energy Tags: , , ,

The Lennon Files

An historian has finally received the remaining FBI documents on John Lennon, that were kept secret for decades.  Jon Wiener obtained 10 pages detailing the intense scrutiny Lennon received from the FBI. 
One report describes how two prominent British leftists tried to persuade Lennon to finance “a left-wing bookshop and reading room in London”, but Lennon [...]

December 27th, 2006
Topic: Freedom Tags: , , ,

Greetings From America!

As I ring in the holidays with my family down in southern California, the warmth of my sunny Christmas tan is not all that has given me warm fuzzies today. I learned that this is also the greatest season of giving to great global causes by many individuals like you and me! So Christmas is not just a season of capitalism [...]

December 25th, 2006
Topic: Body & Mind, Equality, Fun, Good Fact, Mind Space, Peace Tags: , , , , ,

Allow Me to Suggest the UnSuggester

UnSuggester is a great tool to find things that you hate! I love it!
Type in a book that you really enjoy and the unsuggester will let you know what book you will find torturous. For example, here are unSuggestions Brave new world : and, Brave new world revisited by Aldous Huxley, perfectly it unSuggests that [...]

December 22nd, 2006
Topic: Body & Mind, Fun, Mind Space Tags: , , ,