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Morality and the trolley problem
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Remember that the socialist/collectivist mantra is that the NEEDS of the many outweigh the RIGHTS of the few? As I think we've established that socialists/collectivists have no problem with stealing,...
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DNA collection
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Will wonders never cease? California now has mandatory DNA collection from anyone arrested for a felony, whether or not they are ever charged or convicted. Instead of being limited to serious, violen...
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Paying politicians to NOT work
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Thomas Jefferson wrote "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." It seems that politicians are always working ag...
Violent mother gets full custody
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FTA: "A MOTHER found by the Family Court to be violent, untruthful, lacking moral values and responsible for the psychological and emotional abuse of her children has been given custody of them. The...
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Putting kids to work
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The economy is in dire straits. Many adults can't find jobs. The government is lying about employment figures. So why would some politician try to repeal an existing law that would bring more people...
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Top 5 Things for Young Fencers
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When I started my favorite sport, fencing, I learned there are a lot of difficulties starting as a young kid. My fencing club, Redstar, had older kids, so it was very hard to make friends. It made...
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Simple Science Fitness. Burn Fat. Build Muscle. Be Healthy.
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Learn how to burn fat and build muscle naturally, backed up by science. The one-stop resource for nutrition and exercise information.
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A recent, partially Army-funded study conscripted Facebook users as unwitting participants during a weeklong experiment in direct emotional manipulation. Stop acting so surprised. It's Facebook after all.
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A recent, partially Army-funded study conscripted Facebook users as unwitting participants during a weeklong experiment in direct emotional manipulation. The study set out to discover if the emotio...
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A Force Unto Itself - A Military Leviathan Has Emerged as America’s 51st and Most Powerful State
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In recent times, one of the strangest aspects of war, American-style, has been the inability of the most powerful military on the planet to extricate itself from any of the conflicts it's initiated...
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Living your dreams
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As I get closer to formally launching the real-life dating website braincrave.com, I've spent a lot of time reading about how to advertise. Not having any real experience, I first turned to the maste...
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How do I get to be a default community?
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It’s sometimes lonely to join a social network. It isn’t that you haven’t any friends (well, maybe you don’t) but, rather, you haven’t yet joined any particular communit...
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What If We Admitted to Children That Sex Is Primarily About Pleasure?
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So the morning of sex ed, I found myself wondering whether they were going to mention pleasure. Or would it be all about disease and pregnancy, all gloom and doom? ...How funny that we can't bring our...
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I'm not a scientist nor engineer nor mathematician. But I wish I was. It's so romantic.
editorial posted by in science
I've just watched a physics video that made me discover something important about myself. Had I better teachers growing up, I'd be a scientist now instead of a business technologist. I'...
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Starving Artists - Making Money from your Creativity
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There are different forms of intelligence. Creativity and artistic abilities are excellent indicators of intelligence. But earning a living as an artist is difficult, especially given today's economi...
Image of A young girl's life gets turned upside-down. This could be your daughter. Children are victims of conflicts around the world. Stop supporting war actively or through ignorance. Yes, you.
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Google Votes: A Liquid Democracy Experiment on a Corporate Social Network [PDF]
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Abstract This paper introduces Google Votes, an experiment in liquid democracy built on Google's internal corporate Google social network. Liquid democracy decision-making systems can scale to cov...
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US admits Afghan atrocities
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The US government and NATO forces are a bunch of murderers. Like Dick Cheney, who goes on national television to rub in our faces that he authorized and sanctioned torture of innocent people knowing...
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Top 4 life lessons I learned from fencing
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Flags at the Arnold, in Columbus, Ohio (I love seeing flags, even more so at fencing tournaments! In the London Olympics of 2012, I started to watch fencing. I liked watching it, so my mom signed...
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Breaking the laws of physics - will philosophy become more important?
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Just when you thought you understood how the world works, the tachyons come to shake things up. For those who haven't heard by now, the masterminds at CERN who brought you the LHC rap have made wh...
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The Great Thanksgiving Hoax
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Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all ver...
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The reluctant anarchist
editorial posted by in braincrave
Tthe last election in which I voted was for Ross Perot for president in 1992. About 11 years later, I officially became an anarchist. In fact, even 8 years ago, I was arguing with an anarchist that,...
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Unemployed? Work for free
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It's the typical Catch-22. You can't get hired for a job because you have limited experience, and you can't get experience until you get a job. It appears there are many young people who are having ...
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RIP - the comments graveyard
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Welcome to the comments graveyard, where you will find all flagged comments removed from all communities (via modqueue). Well, except for the ones that were so egregious that our user agreement preven...
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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
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The proof is now in the open: government is infiltrating websites to "deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive." Someone owes an apology to conspiracy "theorists."
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Stop feeding the homeless
editorial posted by in braincrave
Ron Paul has a sign in his office that says "Don't steal. The government hates competition." Did you know that applies to feeding the homeless as well? "Why" indeed. What do you think? FTA: "The N...
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I spy, and you cannot hide
editorial posted by in braincrave
Former NSA employee Thomas Drake has a wife and 5 sons, one of whom has significant health problems. But, understanding the risks to him and his family, he couldn't remain silent and be complicit in...
The lesser of two evils is still wrong
editorial posted by in braincrave
I was recently having a conversation with a friend who was getting on my case because I don't vote in political elections. She likes Ron Paul but ultimately decided to vote for Obama because she knew...
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What’s a project?
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We don’t mean to be rude, but what are you even doing on this site if you don’t know the definition of project? Oh, sorry. You’re trying to understand what the project checkbox is for when s...
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Free guacamole & chips from Chipotle; play the game!
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Thanks to a friend, play a silly Spot the Difference game online from Chipotle and earn a free guacamole & chips! No winning required. Equivalent to "hey, everyone gets a trophy today!" but.....fr...
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The age of nanotechnology
editorial posted by in braincrave
Throughout history, machines, tools, devices, etc. have become smaller. But not until recently have we been able to see down to the lowest level - to that of the nano. With electron microscopes, nano...
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Crimes Against the Future - The World After Me: Eternal 'Wartime' in America
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I agonize over this every single day but the way Tom Engelhardt puts it is pure eloquence: I think as well about the nearly 10% of Iraqi children, 1.5 million of them in a country gripped by c...
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Does the G-spot exist
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Ladies, there's a new study out where scientists are saying that the G-spot may not exist G-spot 'may not exist', say scientists DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on...
Politicians hate middle-class
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I won't repeat the statistics, as there are too many. Bring a strong stomach when you read these. Politicians are not your friends. Unless you are in the top 1%, government is hurting you and your ch...
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Signs
editorial posted by in braincrave
The spoken word isn't everything. I saw this video and really enjoyed it. All sorts of words popped into my head as I watched (e.g., loneliness, flirting, fun, risk-taking, anxiety, patien...
Nullify this
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FTA: "Whether or not you are philosophically inclined toward libertarianism or anarchy, it's hard not to agree that voting for politicians has been an unmitigated disaster if you measure success by l...
Apparently, Burning NH4Cr2O7 With HgSCN Opens A Portal To Hell.
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Of all the chemical reactions we've covered within the past few months, the one filmed below probaby takes the prize for coolest looking and possibly scariest. After the pile of reactants is lit, it b...
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Creative Commons licensing template
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If you support Creative Commons copyright licensing, you can use this as a footer: <style> .footer { margin: 0; text-align: left; color: #686868; font-style: italic; font-size: 85%;...
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Ayn Rand: The Wired Interview (1998)
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I'm a month late on this, for the spotlight of public attention, but I have an Ayn Rand story, too. 11 years ago I blind-pitched Wired magazine an ill-defined article on Rand. In response, they asked...
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There's Hope America: Anchor Walks Off Live TV, Refuses To Report On Kardashians
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Is the distracted citizenry beginning to wake up? We can only hope so. Giving hope to Americans everywhere, after covering the usual local news, Orlando-area news anchor John Brown was transitioning i...
Wishing you were someone else
editorial posted by in braincrave
So I'm at this place listening to 80s music and I read a profile that has this quote: "to wish you were someone else is to waste the beautiful person that you are." A contradiction in SL? DISCUSS!...
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I’m mischievous and intend to take advantage of you in some way of my own device.
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Thanks for letting us know in advance. (rolls eyes) If we catch you breaking any part of our user agreement, or doing anything that suggests deceit, fraud, or harm to anyone, we’ll remove yo...
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Three days in Beijing with three of the world’s most famous dissidents
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As a result of their activism, Ai Weiwei, Jacob Appelbaum, and Laura Poitras have become three of the most justifiably paranoid people in the world. Long live Tor.
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Meet the new [education] boss, same as the old boss
editorial posted by in braincrave
Talk about a circlejerk... The federal government tells poorly performing schools that, if they fire their principals, they will get additional money. So what do these schools do? They fire the princ...
Tit-for-tat (pun intended)
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FTA: "For men, offering a lady a drink is such a reflex that, certainly for the first round, we scarcely give it a second thought. The problem is the second round, and the third, and so on. Some wome...
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Uhm, did you notice that there's an /alpha in your URL? What's that for?
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Uhm, did you know that we're currently only testing the system right now? You're going to see problems. Sometimes you're going to go to a page and get kicked out because w...
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Letting life take its course
editorial posted by in braincrave
Although cutting edge research gives me reason for hope, pancreatic cancer is the fourth most deadly cancer known and THE most horrible and personal disease to me. Two years ago, I lost my mother to...
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Sex, politics, religion, and IQ
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Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ Ha! Let the flame wars begin. DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Feb 27, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com...
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TIL hot water freezes faster than cold water (and be careful with reigning paradigms)
editorial posted by in braincrave
Today I learned hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water. Although there isn't one, conclusive scientific explanation for the phenomenon, one of the theories for why this occurs is that hot...
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The morality of animal testing
editorial posted by in braincrave
In the movie Extreme Measures, a brilliant doctor attempts experimental surgeries on live patients (who eventually die), trying to find a way to help spinal cord victims walk again. I think most agre...
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Save someone's life
editorial posted by in braincrave
Generally, people refrain from taking action, assuming that someone else will do it. For example, take medical emergencies. Have you ever seen someone collapse because of a heart attack, expecting so...
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What makes a good atheist? What an atheist ought to stand for
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According to the Bible, dying is the beginning of eternity where heaven or hell await. According to an atheist, death is the end of all experiences and nothing exists beyond the universe. There is...
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Excessive grades are discriminatory - let's redistribute them
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Do you really need a 4.0 grade point average? There's a proposal on the table that we should consider. For far too long, there have been many underachieving students. We're not going to get into t...
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Cloning - playing God
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In 1996, Dolly the sheep made headlines around the world as the first mammal to be successfully cloned. As a result of the experiment, President Clinton ordered research into the legal and ethical is...
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Customer service
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Shakespeare was right… "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." When one AT&T customer wrote to the CEO twice in two weeks recently, the company's "executive response team" contacte...
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The social contract defined and demolished in less than 5 minutes
editorial posted by in braincrave
By definition, a contract has to be an agreement. It's intellectually dishonest to call something a contract without an agreement. To paraphrase Lysander Spooner, a contract made hundreds of years ag...
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Socialism: Force or Fantasy? Socialism Is an Endlessly Moving Target
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Have you ever tried to nail Jell-O to the wall? It’s easier than getting a socialist to stand pat on what socialism is, which makes socialism an endlessly moving target. Socialists are so intell...
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The meaning of life
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Probably the most important question for most philosophers is what's the meaning of life. Although individuals have their own values that provide meaning to each, we don't yet have a verifiable princ...
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Become a Sponsor
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Your Contributions Help! We love sharing the gift of great music with people of our community. And though we sell tickets at our bi-annual show, we also have a lot expenses. If you love Misty...
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Getting Started
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The Next Step So you're interested in joining! Visit a Rehearsal Guests are always welcome at our rehearsals. Rehearsals are Monday nights from 7:00-9:30 pm. Location: Montessori A...
A gentle introduction to the lightning network
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We describe the lightning network in non-technical terms. We omit some details, but try to convey the general idea of how it works.
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An open letter to Bryan Johnson: philosophy - not technology - is the core operating system to improve if you want to change the world
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Bryan Johnson is an entrepreneur extraordinaire. To put it mildly, he's brilliant and an inspiration in so many ways. I recently read his Rewrite the OS, Change the World: A challenge worthy of the g...
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TIL: Birds and bees aren't only pollinators
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Today I learned that my parents mislead me when they taught me about the "birds and the bees" - there are over 200,000 species of animals that act as pollinators, and even the wind acts as a pollinat...
Hay BP! Easy oil removal
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By now, I'm assuming that most all of you have heard of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which is destroying marine life. (It started as a result of an oil rig explosion on April 20, 20...
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The next big alternative fuel - salt water?
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In 2007, John Kanzius accidentally found a way to release and burn hydrogen from salt water with 13.56 MHz radio waves. Many people initially thought it was a hoax. Penn State professor Rustum Roy ve...
Testimonials
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What they're saying  Listen to what a few chorus members from around the country have to say about being in an organization like ours: “I enjoy the fun and fellowship of the ladies, and the...
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TIL Plato didn't believe in Platonic love and supported erotica
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Today I learned that Platonic love isn't what we thought it was. In fact, Plato didn't even believe in it, was pro-sex, thought erotica was a spiritual force that helps us find our true selves, and e...
Bringing dead people to life
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How to reboot your corpse FTA: THE GIST: * The idea is to freeze legally dead people in liquid nitrogen in the hope of regenerating them at some future date. * Nanorobots that can repair the...
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15 adorable relationship tips from kids
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What do most people do on a date?
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Leadership Theory - Empathy and the Benefits of Failures, Crises, and Traumas
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I was speaking with someone the other day (let's call her Jane), learning more about her life experiences. When getting to know potential friends, I have minimal interest in their family, frien...
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How to understand people - look at their actions
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Praxeology is a general theory of human action or, more specifically, purposeful behavior. Unlike unconscious behavior such as breathing or reflexes, we act in conscious, chosen ways to achieve vario...
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TIL you can run a diesel engine car on used vegetable oil
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Today I learned that you can run a diesel engine car on waste vegetable oil (e.g., oil that's been used to cook). It is less harmful to the environment, less toxic to people and animals, and runs abo...
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Mock burglaries
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Talk about creating an atmosphere of fear... FTA: "It was meant to be an imaginative way of hammering home the message that some householders are making life too easy for burglars. But police were un...
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TIL there are 100+ octillion moves in chess
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Today I learned that there are 169,518,829,100,544,000,000,000,000,000 (approximately 1.70 x 10^29) ways to play the first ten moves in chess. (I also learned that there are "400 different possible ...
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Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
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Learn about music theory with this easy-to-understand online book which includes topics like pitch, rhythm, scales, intervals, and harmonics. Sections address music theory fundamentals, diatonic harmo...
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Yes, You Can Catch Insanity: Reviving the debate about the immune system and mental illness.
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One day in March 2010, Isak McCune started clearing his throat with a forceful, violent sound. The New Hampshire toddler was 3, with a Beatles mop of blonde hair and a cuddly, loving personality. H...
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What's right with Hermione
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14-year-old Naomi Horn says the heroine of JK Rowling's Harry Potter series remains a depressingly rare example of a fictional female respected for her education and intelligence. In Hermione&rsqu...
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Traveling with style in airport lounges
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Me at Istanbul Airport Right Before Attacks When I have been in my travels, I have loved flights. I judge the flight on its food, movies, and airport lounges. Lounges are places to rest before your fl...
What is it going to take to get the planet back on course?
editorial posted by in braincrave
The problem really is crime, isn't it? It doesn't matter whether it's legal crime, as committed by government agents, or whether it's crimes committed by communal garden scumbags. Before we can enjoy...
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Trader Joe’s shrugged
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The successful efforts of a community activist group to scuttle a planned Trader Joe’s development in an economically distressed neighborhood of Northeast Portland, Ore., illustrates the depths...
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TIL about Pale Moon - a faster version of Firefox for Windows
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Today I learned about Pale Moon - an optimized version of Firefox that is much faster than Firefox and optimized specifically for Windows. Not only is it much faster than Firefox (perhaps even by...
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WinSun China builds world's first 3D printed villa and tallest 3D printed apartment building
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On March 29, 2014, ten 3D printed houses, each measuring 200 square meters, appeared in Shanghai, China. The buildings were created entirely out of concrete using a gigantic 3D printer, and each cost...
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The examples adults set for children
editorial posted by in braincrave
Why are so many children familiar with the adage "do as I say, not as I do?" The answer should be obvious - because we, as adults, often do things that we don't want our children doing. Let's face it...
Travel
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first steps we walk light along the trail backs heavy with burdens stories to tell time passes unassuming gestures accumulate fantasy beckons but remains elusive unending labor...
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Dealing with pain during the holidays
editorial posted by in braincrave
The holidays are often difficult, and can be downright depressing, especially for those who have pain from a loss, a traumatic experience, or just plain loneliness (e.g., not having a date for holida...
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At least 80% of all audio calls are recorded and stored in the US by the NSA
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The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US, says whistleblower William Binney, one of the highest-l...
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Boost mobile shuffle
editorial posted by in braincrave
Congrats to Saints fans. As someone from Chicago, personally, I miss the 1985 Bears... but this is just so wrong in so many ways I don't know where to being: http://www.unwronged.com/#/video...
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Our Most Dangerous Pandemic
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Every act of communication - or non-communication - is a choice of influence. The essayist is confronted with a peculiar difficulty: he will have time to consider how he wants to influence others - w...
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Making Shakespeare Accessible
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The one thing I hate about the summer is the homework. This year, we had to go to a play for extra credit written by some guy named William Shakespeare (I know, harsh, right?). He is supposed to be a...
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Open carry laws
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Unloaded open carry is legal in California. http://www.californiaopencarry.org/faq.html DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Feb 14, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com...
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From cries to contentedness
editorial posted by in c_prompt
As I’m walking on my treadmill while working to the sounds of life passing by my open window, I hear the distant cry in frustration of a neighbor’s daughter (as all parents learn to differenti...
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The seven blunders of the world that lead to violence
editorial posted by in braincrave
When it comes to non-violent, ideological leaders, Mahatma Gandhi has got to be toward the very top of the list. His resistance to British tyranny through mass civil disobedience is famous. Needless...
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Welcome back to failing school
editorial posted by in braincrave
Albert Shanker, the president of the United Federation of Teachers for 20 years, and then the president of the American Federation of Teachers for another 23 years once said: "When school children st...
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No victim, no crime: medical marijuana
editorial posted by in braincrave
Though I personally prefer Henry David Thoreau ("That government is best which governs not at all"), in honor of Martin Luther King, an advocate of non-violent civil disobedience... Here's a moral...
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Press Releases
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Our 1st Place Finish! Area 4 Contest and Convention June 14, 2014
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How to Tell a Funny Joke
editorial posted by in braincrave
Bring something funny to the discussion. FTA: "Some people are good at telling jokes, but have no idea how the jokes come out of their mouths. These people are naturally funny. But if you are not one...
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The ethics of the placebo effect
editorial posted by in braincrave
A placebo is a sham or simulated medical intervention by a doctor in which some patients experience actual improvements in their conditions. Although it doesn't work on everyone, these effects in pat...
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Our Performances
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About Our Performances We have a diverse repertoire fitting many occasions, and we're ready to entertain audiences big and small. Our chorus can tailor a performance to meet your needs. Perform...
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Do we track you?
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Short answer – yes. We use the terrific open source package Piwik Analytics, which places tracking code on each page, as well as tracking some of the buttons you click. Additionally, some of t...
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Is the rocky marriage over?
editorial posted by in braincrave
Is it time for those who don't want to physically force their will upon others to part with those who prefer otherwise? If people attempt to secede and are physically prevented from doing so, would t...
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I want it, but can't afford it
editorial posted by in braincrave
In Mel Brooks's very funny History of the World Part I, King Louis XVI is told by his advisor that the people are revolting. The king replies "You said it. They stink on ice." As the UK government...