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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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| When 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 fantastic version of the Internet. I didn't realize until much later that it was an evolution of the web in general. It actually wasn't until I heard the term "Web 3.0" that I first realized what the hell Web 2.0 was all about. I'm catching up and now that I'm starting to grasp it, I'd like to know if there isn't something much bigger going on. Maybe this evolution of the Internet is a mirror of mankind's evolution. What if we could tap into our everyday lives, our spiritual lives, and our personal lives in the way that we are tapping into the World Wide Web? |
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| Yesterday 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 astonished that a dandelion can make a flower overnight. |
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| Remember 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 psychopathic machine going after someone. Or on the cinematic flip-side, what about darling little Pinocchio who yearned to be a real boy in spite of his wooden pre-disposition? These tales offer a philosophical question:
What is consciousness? |
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| Sunspots are not just interesting science experiments and footnotes to the anatomy of our star, but they could actually have a direct impact on the Earth's climate. According to some scientists, we are long overdo for a storm of sunspots. Usually these things happen in cycles and as it happens the sun has been far too quiet for the comfort of many. So much, in fact, that a hundred scientists all got together and had a conference about it. |
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| Pantheism is the belief that everything is divine, that God is not seperate but totaly indentified with the Cosmos. It is a doctrine that holds God exists not as a person or personality; but is manifested in the material cosmos, including man and every other natural object. It further refutes the potential of transcendence and super-natural possibilities. It views such beliefs as a result of the psychology of the observer and not any sort of absolute representation of nature and its interactions. It is the understanding that the Cosmos has two components, Physics and Psychology. |
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| I have a piece of paper that asserts I own a small condominium in a pleasant part of Denver Colorado. I own this because I paid through the nose. Well . . . truthfully, I borrowed money from a bank who paid through the nose and I am in the multi-decade process of paying that bank back. In any event, I, for all intents and purposes own the property (even though the bank really does). But why does a monetary exchange mean that someone owns this piece of land? Can’t someone else beat me up for it? Or can someone who lived their longer lay claim to it? |
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| How many times have you said, “She gave me a bad vibe.” Or, “I dunno, the place just had a good vibe.” |
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