Author: Daniela
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Pakistan’s Only Skier in Sochi
Cheering on Mohammad Karim, who taught himself to ski using wooden planks and today is the sole Pakistani competitor at the Games. A video profile of Karim is seen above.
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Is the Universe a Simulation?
It seems to me we have finally come around to proving mathematically what Hindus and Buddhists have been saying all along — this world is an illusion: …If Pythagoras had not lived, or if his work had been destroyed, someone else eventually would have discovered the same Pythagorean theorem. Moreover, this theorem means the…
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For Your Enjoyment
A little girl donates some coins to a street musician and gets the best surprise in return.
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Series
Watch the full-length episode at http://video.pbs.org/video/2365103337… (US Only) Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. discusses two of the earliest Africans to arrive in the Americas—men who journeyed to this continent a century before the first “20 And Odd” Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Juan Garrido, a black African conquistador explored present-day Florida in 1513. Twenty years…
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Study Shows One in Four Americans Don’t Know Earth Revolves Around Sun
I found this article in the Indian press. It is an embarrassing indictment of our educational system. Americans are enthusiastic about the promise of science but lack basic knowledge of it, with one in four unaware that the Earth revolves around the Sun, said a poll out today. The survey included more than 2,200 people…
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Russia Bans GMO’s
According to a recent article in The Voice of Russia. food safety experts in the nation have banned GMO’s as research shows they cause obesity and cancer. Russia is firm: no genetically modified organisms in food production, the head of Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture Nikolay Fyodorov stated at the All-Russian Meeting of Agrarians. GMO-foods controversies between scientists,…
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Food For Change – A History of the Cooperative Movement in America
http://vimeo.com/76558337 Food For Change is a feature-length documentary film focusing on food co-ops as a force for dynamic social and economic change in American culture. The movie tells the story of the cooperative movement in the U.S. through interviews, rare archival footage, and commentary by the filmmaker and social historians. This is the first film…
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Attacks of the “Killer Algorithms”
Reposted From The Medical Quack Blog: The 401k Plan, is one of the products that consumers buy that Americans don’t know the price and they don’t know the quality. Once again we return to the world of complexities and so how did it get that way? Models and software that execute algorithms and formulas that manage…
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Lorde’s Suppressed Grammy Award acceptance speech (Full Transcript) 26 January 2014
Originally posted on Snoopman News: Queen Bee Sting: Grammy audience told to read more Update: Lorde’s suppressed Grammy speech makes front-page news in New Zealand Lorde’s censored handwritten Grammy speech Full Transcript (with citations) of Lorde’s speech Lorde Censored: The Queen Bee’s Suppressed Grammy Speech http://wp.me/p3PDmH-7j See the Full Story: Royal Pencil in Print: Lorde’s suppressed…
The Village Market 