The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
UPDATE: 12 Oct 10 Hungary Sludge Flood PHOTOS: First Satellite Images There have been plenty of photos from ground level, but NASA today released the first satellite images of the Hungary toxic sludge flood. NASA describes the photos as follows: On October 9, 2010, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite …
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Self organizing solar panels by jonl on September 18, 2010“Scientists at MIT have discovered molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a pattern that can turn light into electricity — essentially a self-creating solar panel. In a petri dish.” [Link] I was wondering if this discovery has a practical application. A commenter has the same question, …
Human Responsibilities and Rights in the Shari’ah: An Advanced Primer Dr. Robert D. Crane Ibn Qayyim wrote: “The Islamic law is all about wisdom and achieving people’s welfare in this life and the afterlife. It is all about justice, mercy, wisdom, and good. Thus any ruling that replaces justice with injustice, mercy with its opposite, …
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Today’s issue of Nature contains a paper with a rather unusual author list. Read past the standard collection of academics, and the final author credited is… an online gaming community. Scientists have turned to games for a variety of reasons, having studied virtual epidemics and tracked online communities and behavior, or simply used games to …
6 STAR Wake Up Call for All Educators August 19, 2010 Curtis J. Bonk UPDATE 21 Aug 2010 to add two graphics. I’ve seen educators struggle to herd their faculty cats, hire staff under industrial-era rules, and strive to accommodate students that know more than their professors about anything outside the “teach to test” topic. …
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Starts Weak, Ends Strong, Not the Whole Picture July 21, 2010 Bill McKibben EDIT of 2 August 2010: However great the mind or the man, we all make mistakes. Paul Hawkins made his with Monsanto, I’ve made mine. ClimateGate established with clarity the fraud associated with both the fabricated science and the intended “sub-prime mortgaging” …
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Recommended by a very broadly read and traveled person from the Southern Hemisphere. You do NOT have to log in. Takes over a minute to start, click further along on the bar to hurry the start, after first clicking on the Play triangle. This is a world-class film, exquisitely produced and thoughtfully scripted. This is …
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