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News Briefs 27-02-2012

Posted by Greg at 11:57, 27 Feb 2012

Together we will live forever…

Debunking doomsday.
Enter the Bxx for a haunting experience.
We are the aliens.
Exactly how far have we sent our radio broadcasts into the galaxy?
Nomad planets roam our galaxy.
Professor Brian Cox says "everything is connected", but he's wrong. What a nobber.
Are we all machine and no ghost?
An out-of-body experience could just be a beat away in Virginia.
Stone Age pebble holds mysterious meaning.
In the Yucatan jungle, a sprawling Maya city lies protected by jaguars, monkeys and trees.
Raindrops help to calm winds.
Strange skies: seven wonders of the atmosphere.
Quantum entanglement takes off.
Those who trust their feelings can predict future events more accurately.
Paranormal activity.
The return of Spring-Heeled Jack?
Getting skeptics to think skeptically about their skepticism.
The darker side of (some) scientists.
The neuroscience of magic, by Teller.
The 2011 Japanese tsunami: then and now in pictures.

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A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Posted by Perceval on 27 Feb 2012 at about 15:00.

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we need to remove the focus from aspiring towards ridding ourselves of the irrational, and instead move the focus towards understanding how this irrationality operates

There's been a welcome shift lately towards skeptics acknowledging their shadow.

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Together we will live forever

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Posted by red pill junkie on 27 Feb 2012 at about 17:47.

Last Saturday I was with little money, so I bought me a bottle of cheap (but good) red wine, and decided to spend the evening watching a movie from my DVD collection.

Guess what movie I watched ;)

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from the Splinter-2008-film-Dept.

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Posted by Inannawhimsey on 27 Feb 2012 at about 21:46.

Don't tell me, you went to the Compossible Library, where every book (even those that never were)/movie/DVD/holocube/whichever is, and took out the film that the following is based on

http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/akorn...

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Wha...

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Posted by red pill junkie on 27 Feb 2012 at about 22:24.

A beautiful synchronistic story, ruined >_<

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from the Chemtrails-for-Visnu-Dept.

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Posted by Inannawhimsey on 27 Feb 2012 at about 22:31.

alas, forgive my intrusion into your synchronistic riff

i blame these

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21...

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Dotted like a Dalmatian

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Posted by red pill junkie on 27 Feb 2012 at about 23:11.

It's all right, bro ;)

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Movies.......

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Posted by Gwedd on 28 Feb 2012 at about 12:53.

This weekend I'm introducing my youngest daughter to "Bladerunner". She hasn't seen it yet, and it's my favorite movie. She's 13 and it's about time I broke her from her anime shell/existence into some more interesting SciFi, especially ones that pose such interesting questions.

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Anime/Shell existence

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Posted by red pill junkie on 28 Feb 2012 at about 17:33.

Maybe your daughter should teach YOU a thing or two about Neon Genesis Evangelion ;)

And let's not forget Akira!

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Anime

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Posted by Gwedd on 28 Feb 2012 at about 21:31.

I've seen both, and some others.

Her problem is she's been steadfast in ONLY watching anime, so I've put the law down that she begins watching other medium(s) with me, or she won't be watching anything as I'll password-lock her laptop.

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Ah.

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Posted by red pill junkie on 28 Feb 2012 at about 21:37.

You are graduate of the same Parenting Academy my own dad went to, I gather :P

But you're right in encouraging her to expand her horizons. I'm sure she'll love Bladerunner; you'll have a wonderful chance to show her the influences of many Animes she's watched :)

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Heh.......

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Posted by Gwedd on 29 Feb 2012 at about 06:16.

I run my house as a benevolent dictatorship. :)

As a single parent, and a home schooler to boot, it makes things a bit easier. However, I actually have very few rules, but the ones I do have are ironclad. She's 13 going on 31, so sometimes it's like herding cats around here, but it's also nice to be able to have a good relationship with her as she grows up.

V/R

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