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POPSMy stroke of Insight "How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career." Jill Bolte Taylor (TED talk video at source)
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POPSThe Real Victims For some, it's as simple as a game of Risk with the goodies on one side and the baddies on the other. As elsewhere in many regions of the world it is tiny pawn peoples whose voices are forgotten as their lives are crushed between imperial pincers.
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POPSChanging Images of Man I haven't read this yet myself, so I have absolutely no idea what it's about, but it sounded interesting, so I clipped it. Good enough reason, I reckon! ;)
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POPS800,000 Americans Busted Annually for Pot
They argue the drug war “is doing far more harm than marijuana itself ever will,” because * it diverts hundreds of thousands of police agents from serious crimes “to the pursuit of harmless tokers”; * it costs taxpayers at minimum $10 billion a year to catch, prosecute, and incarcerate marijuana users and sellers; * it enables government to snatch the cars, money, computers and other properties of people caught up in drug raids even if they have had no charges filed against them; and * it allows “police agents at all levels to trample our Bill of Rights in their eagerness to nab pot consumers.” The drug war has also unleashed a torrent of racism in the form of unjust sentencing, which confines crack-cocaine users who are mostly black to prison for longer terms than powder snorters, who are mostly white. Hightower and Frazer say authorities have perverted the infamous “Patriot Act” of 2001 for use in non-terrorism cases, allowing “sneak-and-peak” search warra
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POPSWho Killed the Electric car? (whole movie!) I just watched this film and I was outraged. It's so horrible to know that this fully electric car technology has been around for the last 10 years and instead of making it better and law - they quashed it. It's unbelievable to me. Please download and watch this film. Burn it and give it to friends. It's a torrent file - I recomend Azureus as a free torrent program - http://azureus.sourceforge.net/download.php - install this program - then go to this page - http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/863054/Who_Killed_The_Electric_Car_FS_DVD_SCREENER_LIMITED_XViD_PUKKA#torrent where you'll find the movie - click download - and select open with the azureus program. It will download a pack of 48 "r" files - click on pukka-elec.rar to uncompress them all into one AVI file. I also recommend the vlc player - http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
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POPSAmerica a Rude Nation? Debating Public Decency Experts point to a variety of reasons for the apparent fall in civil standards: 1) The recession has placed many under heavy stress 2) The rise of the internet has fostered confrontational and provocative communications in which people get used to saying things they may never once have dared to utter face-to-face. These may be conditions that allow rudeness to rear its ugly head, but they are not excuses for it. Rudeness is rooted in lack of civility. If you don’t respect other people’s ideas, opinions, equality as compared to yourself, or simply their right to exist, it will be easy for you to resort to rudeness towards that person and you will be considered uncivil. We have been losing our civility for a long time now and I believe it is due to a lack of respect for others and ourselves.
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