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10 Things Self-Loving People Do Differently

10 Things Self-Loving People Do Differently

VIA “the-open-mind.com” by Marc & Angel Hack Life The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. You can be the most amazing human being in the world and everyone sees rays of light, love and genius when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of […]

Here’s What ‘American Sniper’ Says About America

Here’s What ‘American Sniper’ Says About America

VIA “indiewire.com” by Negin Farsad What does Clint Eastwood’s war drama tell us about our relationship with guns? It isn’t a pretty picture. Clint Eastwood’s latest film “American Sniper” says a lot about America – there are hints of home-of-the-brave, sprinklings of let’s-show-‘em-how-its-done, and a generous helping of America-fuck-yeah! It is, after all a movie […]

Theory Finds That Individuals Who Have Asperger’s Syndrome Don’t Lack Empathy – In Fact If Anything They Empathize Too Much

Theory Finds That Individuals Who Have Asperger’s Syndrome Don’t Lack Empathy – In Fact If Anything They Empathize Too Much

VIA “the-open-mind.com” by Jade Small “People with Asperger’s syndrome, a high functioning form of autism, are often stereotyped as distant loners or robotic geeks. But what if what looks like coldness to the outside world is a response to being overwhelmed by emotion – an excess of empathy, not a lack of it? This idea […]

The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX & SolarCity Takes on Big Oil

VIA “thespiritscience.net” by Kirsten “Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.”-Ted In the near future […]

Bill Gates Invents Machine That Turns Feces Into Drinking Water and Energy!

VIA “vice.com”, by Peter Lawrence Kane By now, you’ve probably seen the video of Bill Gates drinking a Kerr jar full of water derived from human poo. The machine that cranked out the butt-juice, terrifyingly called the Omniprocessor (or OP), uses human waste to generate potable water and electricity that can be sold back to […]

Raif Badawi: Saudi Arabia publicly flogged liberal blogger and activist accused of ‘insulting Islam’

Raif Badawi: Saudi Arabia publicly flogged liberal blogger and activist accused of ‘insulting Islam’

VIA “independent.co.uk” by Heather Saul Saudi Arabia has been condemned for publicly flogging liberal blogger and activist Raif Badawi, who was accused of insulting Islam. Amnesty International confirmed to The Independent that Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes, received the first round of 50 in a public flogging after Friday prayers, which it says […]

Satiric Magazine to Print 1 Million Copies in Defiance After Attack

Satiric Magazine to Print 1 Million Copies in Defiance After Attack

VIA “Bloomberg.com”, by Angeline Benoit and Helene Fouquet   Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — Gunmen opened fire on the offices of French satirical cartoon magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday. Bloomberg’s Brendan Greeley looks at what Charlie Hebdo is and why it was the target of France’s worst terrorist attack in decades. (Source: Bloomberg) Charlie Hebdo plans […]

‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous says it will avenge Charlie Hebdo attacks by shutting down jihadist websites

‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous says it will avenge Charlie Hebdo attacks by shutting down jihadist websites

VIA “telegraph.co.uk” by Keely Lockhart Hacker group Anonymous have released a video and a statement via Twitter condemning the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, in which 12 people, including eight journalists, were murdered. The video description says that it is “a message for al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists”, and was uploaded to the group’s […]

Climate Change’s Instructive Past

Climate Change’s Instructive Past

VIA Washington Post, opinions section, by George F. Will We know, because they often say so, that those who think catastrophic global warming is probable and perhaps imminent are exemplary empiricists. They say those who disagree with them are “climate change deniers” disrespectful of science. Actually, however, something about which everyone can agree is that […]