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Research Shows Prayer Alleviates Depression, Fertility Problems and Surgical Complications

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April 26, 2013

Fascinating. The Daily Mail reports: …The study, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, said : ‘Our work suggests that people with a moderate to high level of belief in a higher power do significantly better in short-term psychiatric treatment than those without, regardless of their religious affiliation. Belief was associated with not only improved psychological...
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Venus’ Mysterious South Polar Cyclone

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April 13, 2013


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Rebuttal: 7 “Big Government” Laws That Strengthened America

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April 5, 2013

Pierce Willans, a political science student at Seton Hall University, recently penned an article on PolicyMic that purports to demonstrate seven wonderful laws that “Big Government” has given us.  In this article, I would like to address each of these claims, in order to show that none of them actually improved the human condition more than if people had simply...
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Toxic America: Obesity, Depression and Domestication

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March 14, 2013


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Asteroid Facts: What An Asteroid Is and Isn’t

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February 9, 2013

Recently there has been talk of asteroids in the news again.  Asteroid 2012 DA14, a 130,000 metric ton chuck of rock, will pass within 17,200 miles of the Earth on February 15th.  This is a relatively close encounter for such a large chunk of rock, given the vastness of our solar system. But just what is an asteroid and...
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Quasar Group Undermines Big Bang Theory

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February 3, 2013

Science Daily says: Dr Clowes said: “While it is difficult to fathom the scale of this LQG, we can say quite definitely it is the largest structure ever seen in the entire universe. This is hugely exciting — not least because it runs counter to our current understanding of the scale of the universe. “runs...
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SAFIRE: A Real-World Test of the Electric Sun

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January 31, 2013

Engineer Monty Childs, director of the SAFIRE project, reviews the design of a laboratory experiment to test the Electric Sun hypothesis. How many anomalous features of the Sun can be replicated by a glow discharge in the laboratory? Now that the SAFIRE experiment has been assured of funding, it appears that 2013 could be...
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Rupert Sheldrake at EU 2013 – “Science Set Free”

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January 23, 2013

A fantastic lecture by Rupert Sheldrake at the recent Electric Universe conference. Playlist
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The Holographic Universe

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January 22, 2013

An interesting take on the nature of existence.  This follows both Alan Watts and Terrence McKenna’s take on the  nature of reality, as both have compared physical reality to a hologram. Playlist
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Fox News Creates Fabricated Test To Demonize Cannabis Use And Driving

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December 10, 2012

Fox News Denver recently did a story on the effects of driving high on cannabis.  In the process of doing the story, they had people drive a video game simulator to test the effects of impairment.  However, Fox rigged the driving simulator to force crashes so they could bias the story against cannabis users....
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