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| As October creeps upon us most modern society in the Northern Hemisphere is buckling down for an annual harvest celebration. Some may know this as being ?Thanksgiving?, others may call it ?Harvest Home?, some call it ?Samhain? and still others ?Harvest Festival?. Nearly every culture celebrates it in one form another and almost every culture has always done so. |
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| A dubious scientist has conducted an in-depth study of alternative therapies and deduced - to her surprise - that they are not merely mumbo jumbo.
Kathy Sykes said that she had previously been cautious about using alternative therapies. She explains, "I would rather put my faith in conventional medicine, which has been put through numerous trials and research, and proven to work through rigorous experiments." However, after spending months studying reflexology, meditation and hypnotherapy for a BBC documentary, she has had a change of heart. |
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by Chet Raymo
Scientific knowledge grows organically, like a tree.
Every piece of published research is like a new bud on a twig. The bud is connected to every other bud on the tree. Two buds may be very close together, on the same twig, or very far apart, so that to trace the connection one would have to follow twigs and branches all the way back to the trunk and out again along other branches and twigs. Ultimately, all scientific knowledge is one. It is the connectedness of science that give us confidence in its reliability. |
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Religion 2.0When I first heard about "Web 2.0" I thought that maybe the countries of the world were going to shut down the Internet and reboot into a newer more... |
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Fairy WorkYesterday I pulled the yellow flowers off the few dandelions in our grassy garden before they went to seed. Today, a few more yellow flowers. I'm always... |
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How Corporations, Robots and God Deal with Emotional ProblemsRemember in 2001 A Space Odyssey when Hal goes nuts? If you don't, just think back to the expression What are you doing, Dave? to conjure images a... |
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The People vs AristotleIn the case of the People versus Aristotle, Aristotle is charged with the Conspiracy to Destroy Human Rights. Okay. Opening statements, please. |
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8 Colors in Dreams and What They MeanDreams in colour are rarer in comparison to others. The question of colour in dreams has been proved of absorbing interest; and there has been much research... |
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Laughter May Be the Best MedicineHumor has always been an expression of the freedom of the human spirit; the ability to stand outside of life’s flow and view the whole scene—the... |
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Hospital Apologizes for Ghost NurseA Welsh hospital has issued an apology to a Cancer patient after a nurse claiming to be a medium told her that she had seen a ghost on the ward.
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Mode control - both auto. Descent engine command override off. Engine arm - off. 413 is in.Thirty-nine years ago this month, the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Earth's Moon imprinting in history what many consider one of the greatest achievements... |
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Come On Vestal Virgin, Light My FireGood thing modern man has advanced way beyond the primitive fire-worshiping ways of our ancestors. In the enlightened modern world we shun silly... |
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Copyright SchmopyrightI don’t believe in “owning” knowledge. Too many people and too many organizations have too many times used knowledge as power over others. We are all people... |
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Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes BenzRichard Bach wrote in his classical philosophical book Illusions, “Argue for your limitations and they are yours.” It’s sort of a reverse of the... |
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Psychic, Schmychic - Learn tarot yourself! And for free!Sick of sitting down at booths at the county fair and hearing some mumbo jumbo from a stranger about your life just because they know how to read those cards... |
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Grail QuestA recent inductee into the Danish Order of Freemasons and an accomplished editor, writer and translator, Thomas Munkholt is publishing his experiences with... |
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Polar Bears Like to PlayWhat happens when a pack of dogs encounter a polar bear in the wild? Images of a nasty Discovery-Channelesque battle scene may come to mind. Researcher... |
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