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POPS"Seven New Wonders of the World" (full at source): Honey, we're shrinking the species Bigger is so 20th century. Ecologists say global warming will shrink species, as bigger creatures will have more problems losing heat. And conservationists say we need to plan now if we are going to save large species from extinction.
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POPSAmerican Tax Dollars at Work Read the comments at the source. The whole world is HORRIFIED, that the US continues it's unabashed support for Zionist Israel. ... and then America wonders why the world hates them. Duuuh! Wake up and smell the death, USA! Look at it! You paid for it.
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POPSDarwin is an ethical inspiration Freud's explanation in 1920 was that "humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realised that our earth was not the centre of the universe ... The second was when biological research robbed man of his peculiar privilege of having been specially created and relegated him to a descent from the animal world". One wonders how long it took for Copernicus to be treated with respect; one scholar of Darwin suggested it could be another couple of centuries before we can forgive the man. very interesting quotation of Freud; i do agree that both scholars represent 2 major revolutions in the very definition of what is a human.
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POPSBlinded By Love "Sure, it makes life less interesting and nuanced, and absolute conviction can lead to dangerous extremism, but I suspect it makes people happier. I'll never experience the joy of Hannity-level patriotism. I'm the type who always wonders if some other idea or place or system is better and I'm missing out. I still think conservatives love America for the same tribalistic reasons people love whatever groups they belong to. These are the people who are sure Christianity is the only right religion, that America is the best country, that the Republicans have the only good candidates, that gays have cooties."
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POPSHoney Bees On Cocaine Dance More, yet not out of control "Because cocaine causes honey bees to dance more – an altruistic behavior – the researchers believe their results support the idea that there is a reward system in the insect brain, something that has never before been shown. To determine whether the cocaine was merely causing the bees to move more or to dance at inappropriate times or places, the researchers conducted a second set of experiments. These tests showed that non-foraging honey bees don't dance, even when exposed to cocaine. They showed that foragers on cocaine do not move more than other bees (except when dancing), and that they do not dance at inappropriate times or in locations other than the dance floor." "And, most important, their dances are not distorted. "It's not like they're gyrating wildly on the dance floor out of control," Robinson said. "This is a patterned response."
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POPS Can smart people live longer in the war? studies say no .. Phil Batterham, an epidemiologist at Australian National University in Canberra, wonders what aspects of intelligence made soldiers more likely to die in the war. "One could hypothesise that the association between greater intelligence and higher war-related mortality might be driven by the more crystallised verbal abilities, leading to greater leadership roles," as opposed to other forms of intelligence, he says.
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POPSWe know where you live Actually, we are all already tagged. ID cards, license plates, IP number for each Internet device. Tattoo number on a wrist... O, no, this is for some of us. National database records. Now they already developing pills with chemically storing information inside our bodies. O, yes, ship under skin is for cattle, you are absolutely right, it's disgusting. You are rebel and don't want to go thru the gate? Go in that long line, please.
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POPSPlease vote for Tubbataha Reef Voting for nominees will continue through 31.12.08. A New7Wonders Panel of Experts will then select the 21 finalists, from which voters worldwide will elect the New 7 Wonders of Nature.
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POPSHate crimes
Parents across this country need to be pro-active in ferreting out, exposing, and challenging those public school educators who are increasingly bold in their willingness to use taxpayer-subsidized curricula to promote anti-Christian bigotry and discrimination. Don't assume this is a problem only in colleges and universities. Dawkins' God Delusion video has been shown even in high schools. The film and play versions of the wildly inaccurate, anti-Christian Inherit the Wind are routinely used in public schools. The blasphemous play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is taught in high schools. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, which is taught both in high schools and middle schools, depicts conservative Christians as, in the words of Kirkus Reviews, "humorless dupes or hypocrites." And the pro-gay, anti-Christian play The Laramie Project, based on the murder of Matthew Shepard, is routinely taught and performed at high schools around the country. One wonders how often the 2
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POPS Buttars takes aim at stores waging 'war on Christmas' Give me a break here. Do we really need our elected officials telling stores how to advertise? Isn't there more important issues to be dealt with? Not to mention there isn't really a, supposed, 'war on Christmas'. Business' target the highest number of people possible. That includes people of non-Christian faiths. So to target just them, during this time of year, would reduce their influx of money. Let's not forget that very important amendment to the constitution. That keeps the government from "make(ing) no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there of."
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POPSThe Multiverse "As for Linde, he is especially interested in the mystery of consciousness and has speculated that consciousness may be a fundamental component of the universe, much like space and time. He wonders whether the physical universe, its laws, and conscious observers might form an integrated whole. A complete description of reality, he says, could require all three of those components, which he posits emerged simultaneously. “Without someone observing the universe,” he says, “the universe is actually dead.”"
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POPS An Intimate Epic About Love And Loss That Is Pure Cinema
He's a baby that looks like a failing man in his 80's with poor eyesight, brittle bones and wrinkled flesh. His mother dies giving birth and his father (Jason Flemyng) abandons him, fittingly, at an old-age home. A maternal black woman, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), who runs the place, takes him in and raises him in the one environment where he can pass unnoticed. He truly fits in among African-Americans and people old and forgotten by time. As a somewhat younger old man, he meets Daisy as a small girl (Elle Fanning) visiting an ancient relative. Their friendship will last both of their lifetimes -- although ones moving in opposite directions -- and will evolve into romance and passionate love. Much keeps them apart though as Daisy pursues a career in ballet The job on a tug boat with its hard-drinking pilot (Jared Harris) takes him to Russia and an affair with a British spy's wife (Tilda Swinton) and then into naval action in World War II.
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