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Remembering JFK’s Assasination As A Death of Democracy
Site editor’s note: This post from DJ Pangburn originally appeared on death + taxes: The Kennedy assassination and the conspiracies surrounding it are imbued with such meaning for Americans because the...
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Self-Hatred vs. Self-Love: An Interview with Eric Walberg
Gilad Atzmon writes on Media With Conscience: Two weeks ago I published a review of Eric Walberg’s invaluable new book Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games. I was left with a few...
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Has Neuroscience Disproven Evil?
Via Modern Mythology: In “Is Myth Dead?” in The Immanence of Myth, I talked about some of the misconceptions that exist between what falls under the purview of science, and what belongs instead to...
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Should the State Seize Your Firearms if You’re On Meds?
Picture: RAMA (CC) The attorney for a New York State man claims his client’s firearms license was revoked after the state learned he was on an anti-anxiety medication. Is this a sign of future things...
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Police Kill Woman Fleeing Drug Warrants
I feel safer now, don’t you? Via Information Liberation: A police officer in the suburban Dallas community of Richardson, Texas, shot and killed a woman with outstanding drug arrest warrants as she...
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Joe Rogan on Pretentious Actors
Another creamy morsel from the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. The post Joe Rogan on Pretentious Actors appeared first on disinformation.
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Accepting Alternate Forms Of Intelligence In The Animal Kingdom
Our inability to perceive animal intelligence revealed the limits of our own. Via the Wall Street Journal, Frans de Waal writes: Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task....
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When Astronauts Weep
The Canadian Space Agency addresses what happens when astronauts cry in zero gravity. The post When Astronauts Weep appeared first on disinformation.
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The 1969 Science Fiction Novel Which Eerily Predicted Today
John Brunner’s Stand on Zanzibar, written more than forty years ago but set in an imagined year 2010 in which ever more power is concentrated in the hands of a few global corporations, is eerily...
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Sting Asked About President’s Drone Strikes
At a charity event in Sting’s honor, Luke Rudkowski asked Sting about this feelings on Obama’s drone strikes. Sting has told reporters in the past that he believes Obama was “sent from God” to fix the...
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Eight Cures That Did More Harm Than Good
Arallyn Primm writes at Mental Floss: No one likes to be sick or suffering. Humans have tried to fight against disease and affliction since we could first comprehend “Hey, I ate that root, and now I...
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London Throws Party Celebrating Death Of Margaret Thatcher
Reuters reports that only “hundreds” of people turned up for “the party of a lifetime” celebrating the death of reviled (and occasionally revered) former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher in London...
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Obama’s Drone Strikes Aren’t Killing Who You Think They Are
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Power Of CERN Collider To Be Doubled, May Reveal Extra Dimensions
Are we ready for a hint of the eleven-dimensional world? Via Reuters: “When this refit is completed,” CERN scientist Marc Goulette says, gesturing across the gigantic Large Hadron Collider (LHC), “we...
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Gitmo Prisoners Stage Violent Rebellion
The unrest at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (a/k/a Gitmo) that has seen brutal force feeding of hunger strikers exploded this weekend as detainees staged a rebellion armed with broomsticks and...
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So Ray Kurzweil Wants To Live Forever…
Ok, so Ray Kurzweil is a man of above average intelligence and achievement, even if he only just got his first job (Google, of course), but is a desire to live forever a wise choice or foolish hubris?...
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An Open Letter to TED
Ken Jordan, Publisher & Editorial Director, Evolver/Reality Sandwich, has written an open letter to TED’s Chris Anderson in an attempt to get the TED organization to stop squirming around for a...
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Christian Fundamentalism’s War on Higher Mathematics
I’ll be the first to admit that my math skills are rudimentary. I’d go so far as to say they’re borderline non-existent. To quote that famous plastic scholar Barbie, “Math is tough!” If you can do...
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60,000-Ton Underwater Pyramid Detected Beneath Sea Of Galilee
Deep sea diving teams will be dispatched to attempt to decode the meaning of the monolith, Live Science reports: A giant “monumental” stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of...
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Police Chief Eats Entire Marijuana Cake for Breakfast
There’s no end of delicious schadenfreude in this story: Cop eats entire cake for breakfast. What a pig! Then it turns out to be a marijuana edible. There’s nothing funny about dosing someone with...
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