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The most important thing, maybe not to Nasa, but certainly its' astronauts, is the availability of water in space. To solve this problem, Nasa engineers...
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“A nation which makes great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”-...
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"For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.”-...
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"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."-Albert Einst...
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"The human being may be no more real than is a cinematograph film. When the projected light is switched off all that remains is a blank screen. That...
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"You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it."- Cal...
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I find the strangest things sometimes. Apparently National Geographic did a special a while back on the world's first head transplant. It was performed...
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Hans Rosling, a professor of international health at Karolinska Institutet, the medical university in Stockholm, Sweden, has found a fascinating way...
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Politics is the art of obtaining money from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each from the other.- Oscar Amerin...
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Current electrical power generation plants currently use nuclear energy to create copious amounts of steam that in turn motivate turbines to generate...
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"A militant kind of aggressive religiosity, sometimes called "fundamentalism" has grown up in every single one of the major world traditions as a rebellion...
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"Now is the time for change; and the most beautiful thing about the present...is that it lasts FOREVER. FOREVER CHAN...
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The French have launched their own version of Google called Quaero. You just type in the subject you’re interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it...
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"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."- Albert Einst...
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Beyond the iris captures allAll with whom light shares its powerPower concentrated in form of flowerFlower arranged like atoms of oursOur selves left...
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It seems like yesterday that the U.S. government decided to provision its' citizens with a nation-wide tax refund. Literally, the Federal Reserve printed...
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"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden....
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Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.- Bud...
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The Four Noble Truths are: The world is full of suffering and stress.The cause of this suffering and stress is desires of physical instincts. If...
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My eyes pry deep disguise none but in sleepSo the next time you look in mine be sure to speakFor the last moments wake may bring the truth you seekThis...
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The answer is always part of the question.Not to be is not always void, as not to see is not always wasteful!Sounds and rhythms keep all in...
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It is interesting reading about the advances and enhancements that have been made to this thing we call life. Only in the past century have we truly...
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Ataraxia (Ἀταραξία) is a Greek term used by Pyrrho and Epicurus for a limpid state, characterized by freedom from worry or any other preoccupation.For...
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"Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1 ) What I did was wrong. 2 ) I’m sorry that I hurt you. 3 ) How do I make it better? It’s...
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"I gave way to delight, as mystics have for centuries when they peeked through the curtains and discovered that this world- so manifestly real was actually...
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It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons,...
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Let us live in joy, free of hatred, among the spiteful; among the spiteful let us live without hatred.- Bud...
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"Telling someone they can't where socks with sandals is like giving someone a spoon and telling them they can't eat rice with i...
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"School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?"- Billy Joe Armstr...
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"You don't need something more to get something more."- Murray Gell-Mann, world renown Nobel Prize winning physic...
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"I think there is so much more in existence besides matter, energy, and time. Nineteenth-century physics had those in an orderly arrangement, but it...
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First cars that run on water, then temperature sensitive color morphing materials, now fuel-free energy generation using just magnets. A wonderful bunch...
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"States have been storing blood samples from newborns since blood screening for genetic defects and diseases began in the 1960s. The samples can help...
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One thing comes into mind when reading this article: if a two year old gets a hold of one of these, they just might stop asking their parents, "...and...
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I was lost in loveThen drowned to swimI've since built a boatNow I'm floating the brimYou can't replace the love lost and retracedDisplace misery with...
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Clifford Stoll is a brilliantly eccentric scientist. His enthusiasm and broad range of knowledge enables him to think on levels most have difficulty...
An excerpt from George Carlin on RIGHTS

I just recently saw George Carlin's new HBO special: It's Bad For Ya.It seems age only seems to help Georgie. At 70 he continues to drill the truth...
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I recently came across a blog post by Simon Quellen Field, whom found a wonderful gem of news, nearly a year ago, regarding research done at Wake Forest...
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"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."- Volta...
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"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."-Oscar Wi...
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"Mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind."- Albert Einst...
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"The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits....
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There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious. 'All Else is Bondage; Non-Volitional Living'- Wei Wu ...
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"The Art of Peace does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms,...
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Holding back the lustTurned face with distrustFollowing a path in mindBringing life to the dustWhen the time is rightChoose the path to keep your passion...
Cai Guo-Qiang: A Cultural Revolutionary

Image courtesy of CaiGuoQuiang.comI recently saw an exhibition at NY's Guggenheim featuring the collective works of an artist by the name of Cai Guo-Qiang....
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"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."- Charles Ketter...
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"Having found no self that is not other,The seeker must find that there is no other that is not self,So that in the absence of both other and self,There...
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With genius devotionSurrealists in motionHearts' eyes intertwineReveal imaginationAs time unravels its' lifeMatter fuses and foldsSpiraling rears to...
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The ideas in this animation come from the first chapter of a popular new book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension." The movie succinctly covers the new concepts...
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! - Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawab...
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"If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look...
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Politics A little boy asks his father what politics is. His father tries to explain. "Well, son," he says, "I go out into the world every day and make...
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"Remember: What you focus on expands. So think positively."- Words of the wi...
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David Bolinsky, an animator for the medical industries, has begun a relatively large project, in collaboration with Harvard, to put together a visual...
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Can you see a sound?Can you hear light?Can you unite your senses?Can you turn inward?What we are all seeking is clarity. Forget about religious rationalizations....
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"One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of...
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Snakes of colorSpirals deployWrapped in timeCloaked for ployPlant sewn crystalsWater and vineRed serum slumberHeavenly rewindUnfurled fumesGaseous and...
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A brilliant composer, Jonathan Clark, is putting together a modern opera with a genomics theme. It seems very ambitious, and worth a gander.http://genome.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD021032.htmlIn...
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Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology;...
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/02/03/obrien.robot.car....
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"Rinsing away dreams is a way of saying that we must not only dispel the illusions and anxieties of our sleeping moments but those of our waking ones...
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"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."- Fulton J. Sh...
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.- Wernher von Br...
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Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer inwaht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is tahtthe frist...
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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."- Oliver Wendell HolmesPowered by ScribeFi...
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"There is no time, there is no space. What was, is, and ever shall be. You are you, playing chess with yourself... You are the referee. Morals are...
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"Time will tell the truth, but too much will cover it u...
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The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.- Thomas Edi...
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"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration...
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“’Gratitude’ is a euphemism for resentment…The Japanese have five different ways to say ‘thank you’—and every one of them translates literally as resentment,...
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"Where there's a vice, there's a dream for a healthier alternativ...
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"A painting, like all art, is nothing more than a transgression of ideas; as is every form and every communication. This is best expressed through time...
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"Better to die and sleep than never wake and sleepThen linger on and dare to live when your soul's life is gone"-Jedi Mind Tri...
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People search for a world of peaceWhat they find is a world with peace in mindNever ending cycles repeating sorrowful kindsRevolving around time, held...