April 2010
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Robyn - None of Dem (Feat Royksopp)
Memory Capacity of the Human Brain?
“………The brain’s exact storage capacity for memories is difficult to calculate. First, we do not know how to measure the size of a memory.
Second, certain memories involve more details and thus take up more space; other memories are forgotten and thus free up space.
Additionally, some information is just not worth remembering in the first place…….”
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Many Smokers Suffer from Depression
“……..Among the survey’s other findings: Adults aged 20 and over with depression were more likely to be cigarette smokers than those without depression.
Women with depression had smoking rates similar to men with depression, while women without depression smoked less than men.
The percentage of adults who were smokers increased as depression severity increased. Among adult...
Envisioning a Sustainable Future
March 16, 2010
“…….It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world,” Jacque Fresco said to a sold out crowd of over 800 in New York City’s Upper West Side.
Though he may not need to convince these people, many his ardent followers, it will indeed take a restructuring of the mind for those unfamiliar with Fresco’s work to realistically accept...
Watch“………Unearthed documents show that the drug company Bayer sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine — Factor VIII concentrate, intended for hemophiliacs — to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, although they knew that it was tainted with AIDS.
Bayer knew about the fact that the drug was tainted and...
Regina Spektor - One more time with Feeling
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
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Watch“The things you own, end up owning you”
Tyler Durden
The Hadron Collider worked, and didn't bring the...
“………Scientists working on the European machine have smashed beams of protons together at energies that are 3.5 times higher than previously achieved.
Tuesday’s milestone marks the beginning of work that could lead to the discovery of fundamental new physics.
There was cheering and applause in the LHC control room as the first collisions were confirmed.
These...
