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- WOMEN, SEXISM & SOCIETY: From Sirens to Sluts, Angels to She-Devils...on May 9, 2013 in amandaknox criminal trials culture law murder woman sexism propaganda news crime tabloids media men women jodiarias journalism patriarchy stereotypes society politics“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl.” -Shirley Chisholm “SEX game gone wrong,” “sex game gone awry,” “sex-mad flatmate,” “sex-crazed killer.” That’s from...
- SOCIETY: Are We Becoming More Psychopathic? Yes..."Are you sure you wouldn't like to stay just a little while longer? Just for talk?" -Norman Bates, Psycho, 1960. "When you look around you at modern-day society, do you think, in general, that we're becoming more psychopathic?"Robert Hare, th...
- NIGHTMARES: CDC OFFICIAL STATEMENT: "NO ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE", But Yet, The Dead Still Walk The Earth... &nbs...
- PATTI SMITH: Privilege...Set Me Free....on Mar 27, 2012Patti Smith Privilege (Set Me Free) I see it all before me:the days of love and torment;the nights of rock-and-roll.I see it all before me.Sometimes my spirit's empty;don't have the will to go on.I wish someone would send meenergy.Give me something.G...
- On Physics: Religion, Science & Extra DimensionsIn her new book, Knocking on Heaven's Door, Harvard University theorist Lisa Randall explores how physics may transform our understanding of the fundamental nature of the world. She thinks an extra dimension may exist close to our familiar reality, h...
- BIOLOGY: Lynn Margulis & Symbiosis In Cell Evolutionon Dec 8, 2011 in biology obit gaiatheory cellevolution lynnmargulis livingorganisms science symbiosisEvolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.” -Lynn Margulis, What Is Life? Biologist Lynn Margulis died on November 22nd. She stood out f...
- A Global Consciousness Project: The Machine That Could Tell The Future"The past is but the past of a beginning." -H. G. Wells DEEP in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an end...
- Bertrand Russell: On God - "Knowledge, Kindliness & Courage"... EXCERPT – “Why I am not a Christian:” The Emotional Factor “As I said before, I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds. One is ofte...
- CONVERSATIONS: Samuel Johnson: Dying Easy & Supernatural Interposition...on Nov 10, 2011 in SamuelJohnson death supernatural JamesBoswell philosophy americanhistory history future literature dying”A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.” -Samuel Johnson A CONVERSATION: between Samuel Johnson & James Boswell, 1778: Boswell: We must be contented to acknowledge that death is a terrible thing. Johns...
- DISCOVERED: Bram Stoker's Private Diary“Despair has its own calms.” -Bram Stoker. “I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but th...
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