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Poetry – A Source of Life
Oct 19th
Facebook | Poetry – A Source of Life. “Poetry – A Source of Life ” is about sharing great classic poetry, discovering new writers and how to make a living by being a writer online.
Flow – An Evolutionary Cofee Break Game
Oct 18th
flOw is a neat little game for Playstation and PC in which you play an organically evolving organism, floating around in the deep-sea, out to devour little plankton-like pieces while a Brian-Eno like ambient backround music sets the tone. The critics say there’s not much of a point to the game, that it’s more like a lava-lamp than a goal-oriented videogame, but that may just be the beauty of it. And of course, the fact that you can play it online for free here. / image via enlabs.net
Scientists Give Flies False Memories
Oct 17th
“ScienceDaily (Oct. 16, 2009) — By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.” Read Article on ScienceDaily: “Scientists Give Flies False Memories.”
Sexuality and Holiness: An Interview with Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Oct 17th
YouTube – SEXUALITY & HOLINESS: Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.
From: The Rebbe Looks Back & The Rebbe Looks Forward, a three part interview of Reb Zalman by Alter Shoresh Barry Barkan
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BBC NEWS | Balloon boy father denies TV fake
Oct 16th
BBC NEWS | Americas | Balloon boy father denies TV fake.
“The father of a boy thought to have been carried away by a helium balloon before being found at home has denied that the incident was a media stunt.
Richard Heene said he was “appalled” at suggestions the disappearance of his son Falcon, six, may have been staged.
Speaking live on CNN, Falcon had said he heard his family searching for him but stayed quiet because his parents “said that we did this for a show”.
Richard Heene and his wife previously appeared on reality TV show Wife Swap.
TV network ABC described them as a “storm-chasing, science-obsessed family”. “
BBC NEWS | Americas | Balloon boy father denies TV fake. image: public domain via library of congress
2013: Or, What to Do When the Apocalypse Doesn’t Arrive – by Gary Lachman
Oct 16th
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“The belief in a coming end of the world as we know it may seem understandable to people living in the first decade of the twenty-first century, but a look at history shows that it has been part of Western psychology from the beginning.”
2013: Or, What to Do When the Apocalypse Doesn’t Arrive – by Gary Lachman.
Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus
Oct 15th
The Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings.
The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents — linked by over 22 million references — form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext.New visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.
Climate change causing havoc to coffee and tea farmers, says Cafédirect | Business | The Guardian
Oct 10th
“Climate change is already wreaking havoc on the livelihoods of small-scale tea and coffee farmers in some of the world’s poorest countries, according to a three-year research project by Fairtrade drinks producer Cafédirect.
Research across four countries – Kenya, Mexico, Peru and Nicaragua – carried out with the state-funded German Technical Corporation, showed that growers are already being forced uphill to higher altitudes, at a rate of three to four metres a year on average, as temperatures rise. “A huge number of growers are now experiencing increased instances of pestilence and disease from rises in temperature. They are also facing prolonged drought and changing weather patterns,” said Cafédirect chief executive, Anne MacCaig.”
Climate change causing havoc to coffee and tea farmers, says Cafédirect | Business | The Guardian.
