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TIL: The sky is black and the sun is white

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Today I learned that the sky isn't blue and the sun isn't yellow. The sky is actually black and the sun is white. It's only because we have an atmosphere (which is made of gas molecules and dust) tha...

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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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You've Got a Friend In Me - LIVE Performance by 4-year-old Claire Ryann and Dad

youtube.com link posted by c_prompt in aww

This gave me shivers of happiness (yes, there's such a thing for those who are open to experience) over how beautiful they are together.

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Three days in Beijing with three of the world’s most famous dissidents

fusion.net link posted by digdug in politics

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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JFK, the press, and WikiLeaks

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

As we consider the ramifications of WikiLeak's courageous action to provide us truth about the Iraq war, it is useful to also consider how poorly the mainstream media has served us and the pursuit of...

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The irony of political agreement

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

It appears the "natives are getting restless." Liberals were "up in arms" (pun intended) because the organization Oath Keepers is preparing for violent revolt. They blasted Tea Partiers for purported...

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TIL a mouse pointer is always at an angle because low resolution displays (33 years ago) made it next to impossible to see it when it was vertical

ux.stackexchange.com link posted by c_prompt in todayilearned

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Tit-for-tat (pun intended)

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

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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Sum: how do you spend your life?

vimeo.com link posted by c_prompt in Note to Self

A short film based on Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, a book by neuroscientist David Eagleman. In the afterlife you relive all your experiences, but this time with the events reshuf...

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Objective truths and abortion

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

There's a new 5-day "morning-after" pill that's been tested for US approval (New 5-Day 'Morning-After' Pill Tested For U.S. Approval). Some people say the choice to abort is moral and use various...

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Most people don't vote

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

For those of you who refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils, take comfort in knowing that you're in the majority. Politicians are always claiming their wins indicate that "the people have spoken....

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Kiss your retirement goodbye

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

The government is coming for your retirement accounts, 401Ks, and pension plan. After all, they want to make sure you have enough for retirement of course... It's all about your safety and well-being...

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TIL what used to be considered healthy and happy is now considered dangerous

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Today I learned from "America's worst mom" that the earliest episodes of Sesame Street are "for adult viewing only" for fear they will give kids dangerous ideas (Sesame Street just couldn't bring its...

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Everything You Know About Fitness Is a Lie

mensjournal.com link posted by c_prompt in fitness

Gym machines are boring, CrossFit is sadistic, and dieting sucks. Luckily, none of them is essential to being truly fit. Through years of trial and error — and humiliation at the hands of some o...

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Laura Schulz: The surprisingly logical minds of babies (TED Talk). Do I admit too much when I tell you I had tears in my eyes as she finished her presentation?

ted.com link posted by c_prompt in science

How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of l...

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The disappeared: Chicago police detain Americans at abuse-laden 'black site'

theguardian.com link posted by c_prompt in politics

Exclusive: Secret interrogation facility in Chicago reveals creeping aspects of war on terror in US city as accounts describe shackling and brutality without basic rights. The Chicago police de...

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Good will among men

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

In her interview with Playboy, Ayn Rand stated "My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in h...

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Rand on the Middle East

lewrockwell.com link posted by digdug in objectivism

By Murray N. Rothbard First published in The Libertarian Forum, December 1971. The neo-Randian weekly newspaper Ergo has given us a detailed account of Miss Rand’s answers during a questi...

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Why is there something rather than nothing?

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

People study science and natural science (i.e., philosophy) to understand the nature of reality. Presumably, the more accurately we understand reality, the happier we will be. (Similarly, when we ope...

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TIL Einstein supported a one-world government and was a Socialist

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Today I learned Albert Einstein supported a one-world government and was a Socialist. Einstein's passionate commitment to the cause of global peace led him to support the creation of a single, u...

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My New Year's resolution is to become organized. How do I move image files to a new directory/folder?

editorial posted by peace_on_earth in FAQ

Admittedly, it's a bit confusing. Our development environment consists of an Apple II (a great box, BTW), a dusty IBM PC XT that's running MS-DOS (our pre-alpha test environment), and a box...

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How to secure your art

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Many artists are concerned about copying, especially in the online world. It's a significant problem in Second Life where copybots can copy an artist's/owner's content without their permission. This...

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Braincrave.com jazz event

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Come down to Nouvelle's today, bring your love or find your love there as DJ Derrick Stewart spins those seductive jazz tunes for lovers. Join Sienna and Taff for an afternoon of sweet love music and...

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Ron Paul didn't go far enough - unleash the retirement accounts

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Ron Paul just came out with a plan to cut $1 trillion from the US's federal budget and severely curtail entitlement programs. According to the "Plan to Restore America," it cuts $1 trillion in spendi...

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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 c_prompt 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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The ethics of the placebo effect

editorial posted by braincrave 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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Learned helplessness

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

FTA: "Why do good men do nothing in the face of evil, especially when evil aggressively invades their lives? ...Some people are paralyzed by fear; some by denial. But many others are immobilized by a...

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BuddhiMat Yoga

buddhimat.yoga link posted by buddhimat in buddhimatyoga

We sit at the crossroads between traditional yoga and a power practice.  While you'll see an improved booty, the focus is on the buddhi. Buddhi represents knowledge or wisdom so that we can st...

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When it comes to "I told ya' so," it's too late

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

In his famous statement "First they came," Pastor Martin Niemöller once blasted the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power as they purged group after group: THEY CAME...

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Not a happy father's day

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

On this Father's Day, perhaps it's proper to be reminded of all of the good fathers who are not allowed to see their children just because they got divorced. This occurs all across the world. Putting...

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Yo, the dumbphone application. Why do we celebrate ignorance?

editorial posted by c_prompt in technology

"Yo." "Yo." Talk about a bunch of yo-yos. This is what some savvy investors consider a $1 million idea. One person sending a one-syllable slang word to another. How many of you think that's bri...

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Cloning - playing God

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

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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Why Art Became Ugly

atlassociety.org link posted by c_prompt in art

Why has the art world of the twentieth-century adopted the ugly and the offensive? When has art in the twentieth century said anything encouraging about human relations, about mankind's potential...

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Get-out-of-jail-free cards for murderers

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

It appears that the US concept of "justice" is spilling over to Canada. Place knowingly innocent men and victims in jail for life and let murderers go free. Put aside for a moment how this story just...

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Aligning social policy and incentives

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Regardless or whether you agree or disagree with specific social programs, we can generally agree that government wastes much money as it tries to engineer social outcomes (50% by some estimates). Th...

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Leaking classified information

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. They destroyed the government's credibility in the Vietnam War by revealing that the US government had intentionally misled...

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The courage of convictions - rational people don't agree to disagree

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Politics. Morality. Religion. Relationships. Even science. These are examples of the many categories in which you will find disagreements. These debates occur just as much with intelligent people as...

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Better ideas - the Socratic method

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Socrates, the philosopher who claimed the contradiction "I know that I know nothing," provided us with a method to help us question what we think we know and to demonstrate otherwise: the Socratic me...

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Why You Should Never Say: ‘Beauty Lies in the Eye of the Beholder’

thebookoflife.org link posted by c_prompt in art

A society that can’t talk sensibly, publicly and perhaps at length, about beauty inadvertently condemns itself to ugliness.

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How to Contemporary Dance (So You Think You Can Dance)

youtube.com link posted by c_prompt in funny

Because I enjoy watching dance, a friend suggested I sample a few So You Think You Can Dance videos. Although I don't deny the talent of the performers, this pretty much explains much of what I saw...

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Which is better - absolutism or relativism?

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Putting aside for a moment the idea of quantum entanglement, as of now, we know that you cannot physically be both in Spain and America at the same time. This is an absolute. We know that you cannot...

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How to Lose Weight by Identifying Hidden Sugars in Your Diet

lewrockwell.com link posted by c_prompt in bodybuilding

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Letting life take its course

editorial posted by braincrave 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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Father and daughter do awesome Beatles "Revolution" cover. Parent-child bonding, done so right.

youtube.com link posted by c_prompt in FeelGood

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Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters

ted.com link posted by c_prompt in politics

Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see -- and write about -- the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In thi...

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Fasting triggers stem cell regeneration of damaged, old immune system

news.usc.edu link posted by c_prompt in health

In the first evidence of a natural intervention triggering stem cell-based regeneration of an organ or system, a study in the June 5 issue of the Cell Stem Cell shows that cycles of prolonged fasti...

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Cold sore virus 'treats skin cancer'

bbc.com link posted by c_prompt in cancer

A genetically engineered version of a virus that normally causes cold sores shows real promise for treating skin cancer, say researchers. The modified herpes virus is harmless to normal cells but...

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Ideology trumps truth

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Faced with a system that makes their practice unprofitable, doctors are getting out of the business of taking Medicare patients. After stupid laws that ignore economics have finished destroying the h...

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One.com is currently offering a free domain name with one year of free hosting - start your free blog/website now!

one.com link posted by c_prompt in efreebies

If you've been considering starting a blog, now's a great time to do it! Additionally, if you take advantage of valME's custom domain support, we'll do all the technical setup for you for free!

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• free domain names,
• free website,
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Kickball

editorial posted by glassJAw in glassJAw

Closed eyes waiting For new signs of light The window drinks in summer Bringing warmth to the sheets Murmurs ascend From down the stairs Light in step Feet descend to join them...

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What It’s Like To Have An Extremely High IQ?

johnsimonds.com link posted by c_prompt in Note to Self

“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”

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Nuclear No-Contest

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Before the 1950s, the future confronting the human race was bleak. With the global population increasing and becoming more dependent on energy-dense technologies to sustain its food supplies and risi...

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Running

editorial posted by glassJAw in glassJAw

tightened laces shoes perfectly fitting the form of his feet hood up protection from the harsh weather that awaits presses play the song that's been on repeat for days...

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Health care legislation

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

"We are on the precipice of an achievement that's eluded congresses and presidents for generations." - President Barack Obama, Dec. 15, on health care legislation. Precipice, 1. a headlong fall...

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I found a bug, but I’m not evil. Who should I tell?

editorial posted by c_prompt in FAQ

You’ve found a problem on our site. (blushes) Yeah, perhaps we’re not the most adept coders, to put it mildly. Thank you for not telling the world so someone who is evil can break our site and fr...

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• defects,
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Society and the meaning of individual actions

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Libertarians are often talking about freedom and liberty. Thomas Jefferson claimed in his magnum opus the Declaration of Independence that we all have a right to liberty. But freedom and liberty aren...

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Motorcycle Ownership Rule #1 - Do Not Let Your Drunk Barefoot Girlfriend Test Drive Your Bike

video.valme.io link posted by c_prompt in funny

h/t: https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/a0h53q/motorcycle_ownership_rule_1_do_not_let_your_drunk/

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Getting Started

editorial posted by c_prompt in Misty River Music Makers

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...

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Our Mother

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Our mother... the dawn of man Our mother Climb my eye upon her many breasts. Succulent are her up most tops. White mothers milk, Which gives us life, Pouring upon her belly...

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Abortion and rights

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

An embryo has no rights. Rights do not pertain to a potential, only to an actual being. A child cannot acquire any rights until it is born. The living take precedence over the not-yet-living (or the...

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15 Things That Introverts Would Never Tell You

higherperspective.com link posted by c_prompt in Note to Self

Very accurate. Take it from a self-proclaimed introvert.

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Stop being a bystander

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

The Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. displays the ominous words: "Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander." Although there are except...

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Before getting married, read the fine print

i.imgur.com link posted by peace_on_earth in AdviceAnimals

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For those of you who follow The Walking Dead... :)

editorial posted by Clarisse88 in AdviceAnimals

           

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TIL van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Today I learned that Vincent van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime, The Red Vineyard, for 400 Francs (about US$1,600). It is now considered to be one of the most valuable paintings in the w...

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Civil forfeiture - cops are legally permitted to take stuff away from anyone with near-total impunity. No crime required. Your chances to get it back are slim to none. Last Week Tonight's funny man John Oliver nails it

youtube.com link posted by c_prompt in politics

Did you know police can just take your stuff if they suspect it's involved in a crime? They can! It’s a shady process called “civil asset forfeiture,” and it would make for a wei...

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I'm offering free editing services. Do you have a blog but aren't the best writer? Want to enhance your dating profile? Need a review of your turnpaper before submitting to your professor? Write something and I'll suggest edits for you.

editorial posted by c_prompt in writing

Title says it all. A sample of my writing: https://valme.io/all/user/c_prompt/only/editorials. Just post what you've written into your own /journal community (for example, this is my journal commu...

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Romance and Love in Second Life

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Recently, I found myself talking to several friends about why they were in Second Life (SL) and whether or not they also get romantically involved with others in-world. The single largest factor I fo...

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No MILFs allowed

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Alright, here's one for you ladies. A few nights ago I learned what the term "cougar" meant, and I also learned there were some women who considered the word MILF an insult rather than a compliment....

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Good advice

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

What is the best advice you've ever received in life? DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Mar 11, 2010 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=135

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I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

FTV: "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work, or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth. Banks are g...

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United States falls to 46th in world press freedom rankings

nationmultimedia.com link posted by peace_on_earth in politics

"The whistleblower is the enemy."

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Meet the new [education] boss, same as the old boss

editorial posted by braincrave 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...

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Child exploitation

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

If we are to believe UNICEF, there are about 158 million children aged 5-14 engaged in child labor, "working in hazardous situations or conditions." Most people give this a scary name like "child ex...

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What friends are for

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Historically, friendship was based on shared values. Ayn Rand considered friendship as "the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the pe...

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US admits Afghan atrocities

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

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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Learning About the Most Important War in History

editorial posted by Andrew in Blog

                During history, one war has stood out among all of the awful wars, all of the genocides, all of the violence; that war is World War 2. Since I was little, I was interes...

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The essence of political definitions: what does it mean to be a liberal?

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Ayn Rand once wrote that "Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration." Perhaps that's one of the reasons politics always appear...

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Violent mother gets full custody

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

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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Why are laws binding on you

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

How can laws be legally binding on me if I haven't explicitly and voluntarily agreed to them? Why is it automatically assumed that I agree to them even though I didn't sign anything agreeing to them?...

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Customer service

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

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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Self Reflections in Art

editorial posted by Clarisse88 in Clarisse88

Art is a reflection of what we are. It is the essence of our own existence, the key that leads us to the world outside, and it returns to us a door leading inside ourselves. Creating art is to inve...

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Somalia - a case study in anarchy

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

People always claim that anarchy will never work. My response is typically "why is anarchy more radical than going into a $14 trillion debt, or starting wars that murder millions of people, or promot...

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[PROJECT] New Logo Concept for valME

editorial posted by operadevil in SuggestionBox

Hello valME funs! Don't you think it's time to change valME logo? I've think it's the right time to do this. If you like to concept logo press like  it to support it. We can't see the rainbow wit...

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• Logo,
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How Blogging Can Advance Your Career - A Personal Perspective

twintechs.com link posted by peace_on_earth in writing

if you’re not sharing your ideas, code, solutions to problems, and the like via a blog or other social content tools then you’re doing yourself a disservice. When I look back at how I...

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Call the Anti-Police: Ending the State's "Security" Monopoly

freedominourtime.blogspot.com link posted by digdug in libertarian

"How would things be different,” muses Dale Brown of the Detroit-based Threat Management Center, “if police officers were given financial rewards and commendations for resolving da...

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The O Team: Mental Babies With Razors

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

The brilliant opinionator and blogger Michelle Malkin yesterday started a collection point for cases of the O team saying to be sorry for having misspoken: read all about it in The Team Obama misspok...

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NY to ban salt at restaurants

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

The New York legislature is trying to pass a bill that would ban restaurants from using salt in food preparations. No, this is not an article from The Onion. No, I am not making this up. Chefs Cal...

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TIL tea parties were actually established after the Boston Tea Party

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Today I learned that tea parties were established in the 1830s. But if the Boston Tea Party was in 1773, why did they call it the Boston Tea Party? Answer - they didn't: the actually called it "The d...

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What makes a good atheist? What an atheist ought to stand for

infidels.org link posted by b_independent in atheism

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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The social contract defined and demolished in less than 5 minutes

editorial posted by braincrave 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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Basic economics at work

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Economics are very simple to understand. Granted, there are faux economists like Nobel-prize winner Paul Krugman who try to confuse people with false theories that last only until other people's mone...

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Sex - breakfast of champions

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Another good reason to create a profile on braincrave.com: FTA: "...healthier men, no matter their age, have better sex more frequently and desire it more often than healthier women - and a health...

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Killer Viruses - Should we make them?

editorial posted by Yield4Nothing in Infectious_Disease

We all have previously learned about the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, which killed between 20-40 million people worldwide in our history classes. Now with the advance of modern molecular biology techn...

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Learning how to work

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

FTA: "U.S. colleges and universities, like their counterparts in other Western countries, are doing a poor job of preparing graduates for today's workplace. The biggest weakness in the postsecondary-...

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Government-run supermarkets and education

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

There's an adage in economics that goes: people do not walk barefoot because there aren't any government shoe factories. In markets where competition exists (not to be confused with free markets), bu...

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Scary - facts don't change our minds

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

"Facts don't necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite." Before you read this article to determine where that conclusion came from, ponder that quote for a moment...

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Conformity and your lying eyes

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Mark Twain once said "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." What does it mean to think for ourselves? How often do we base our choices and actions...

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Listen to my music - the philosophy of The Trees

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Make everyone equal. It is a common battle cry across the centuries. Just look at the current class warfare that Obama is pushing because we are not all equal. (Or, as Orwell famously put it in Anima...

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Is Bitcoin the Key to Digital Copyright?

reason.com link posted by digdug in bitcoin

The technology behind Bitcoin may allow for controlled sharing and transfer of digital assets. tl/dr: Bitcoin is at root a decentralized public ledger, and what it allows for the first time i...

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valME.io - now with picture carousels and lightbox. Maximize your images and let them slide across the screen (subtitle: geeks are funny)

editorial posted by c_prompt [A] in GettingStarted

While working with a user who intends to take advantage of valME's latest functionality to setup your own website with a custom domain (don't forget - we'll help you convert your current website for...

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• funny,
• gifs,
• pictures,
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Jim Carrey on how his late father inspired him to follow his dreams... in 1 minute

youtube.com link posted by c_prompt in Note to Self

Funnyman, Jim Carrey, was on hand to give a moving commencement address to Maharishi University of Management's class of 2014 in which he revealed how his late father inspired him to follow his dream...

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Political methodologies

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Is there a proper methodology to discuss politics with? DISCUSS! Original posting by Braincrave Second Life staff on Dec 13, 2009 at http://www.braincrave.com/viewblog.php?id=54

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TIL how cats and dogs drink water

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

Today I learned how cats and dogs drink water. The water sticks to their tongues and the upward pull creates a water column from inertia (the liquid continues to move in the direction pulled). Then,...

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• animals,
• science

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Entering the Intelligence Labyrinth

original.antiwar.com link posted by c_prompt in politics

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• Edward Snowden

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Ayn Rand: The Wired Interview (1998)

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

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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Modern marriage - a 2-year commitment with an option to renew

editorial posted by braincrave in braincrave

There's a funny wedding tradition where the married couple eats the top layer of their wedding cake one year later. (How great to finally have the extra space in your freezer, right?) For about half...

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• relationships,
• politics

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