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4 days ago by A Z Lynch

If you think the Internet came out of Silicon Valley, that NASA planned the first satellite to orbit Earth, or that IBM created the modern computer—think again. Each one of these breakthroughs was conceived at RAND, a shadowy think tank in Santa Monica, California.LINKVia: Mental Floss

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4 days ago by A Z Lynch

Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history -- significantly longer lifespans. The discovery, featured on the cover of the July 2009 print issue of The FASEB Journal, shows that proper protein folding over t ...

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5 days ago by A Z Lynch

Chimpanzees share 98.4 per cent of our DNA, but the differences between us and them are still profound, as a new book argues.Taylor agrees that chimpanzees "show many fundamentally human skills – to a degree that they have the ability to do maths, think abstractly, demonstrate altruism, make tools a ...

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6 days ago by mesmertron

One of my all time favorite books as a FREE PDF. Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea’s Illuminatus Trilogy is a monster of a single book. It’s sometimes inscrutable, other times amazing and often mimicked in form. R.A.Wilson wrote another of my favorites in Prometheus Rising. I have to credit this boo ...

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10 days ago by A Z Lynch

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carrying a little extra weight may actually be good for you, according to a Canadian study that showed a few pounds appear to protect people from an early death.Researchers found that while underweight and extremely obese people die earlier than people of a normal weight, people ...

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11 days ago by A Z Lynch

Once depicted as brutal, grunting, slouching sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had brains as large as ours and their own distinct culture. They buried their dead, tended their sick and co-existed with our own ancestors in Europe for thousands of years before becoming extinct just as mod ...

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12 days ago by A Z Lynch

Great white sharks do not aimlessly wander the ocean waiting to stumble upon their next meal.Instead, the biggest sharks identify a location from which to strike, and then search the surrounding killing zone for their next victim. That suggests that the sharks use a premeditated hunting strategy aki ...

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13 days ago by A Z Lynch

Some dinosaurs were the largest creatures ever to walk on land, including the classic long-necked, whip-tailed Diplodicus, but a new study suggests it and its many extinct brethren weighed as little as half as much as previously thought. A new equation for calculating dinosaur mass based on skeleton ...

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15 days ago by Alex D.

Robert Anton Wilson is my favorite author. He was one of those people who was blessed with perspective. To sum him up in one post would be unfair. So consider this an introduction. I plan on touching on some of his transformational thought-gems from time to time. RAW is probably most well known for ...

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18 days ago by A Z Lynch

If you have a purpose in life — lofty or not — you’ll live longer, a new study shows.It doesn’t seem to matter much what the purpose is, or whether the purpose involves a goal that’s ambitious or modest.LINKVia: Health News

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