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  • GM Foods Cont.’d

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    I’d like to know why Americans aren’t more skeptical of these GM crops. Why we are so quick to accept studies, put out by the industry, that assure us they’re safe to eat? In the industrialized world our population is the fatest and sickest. Our life expectancy, in some demographics, is decreasing. Allergies are going…

  • UK Government Wants to Change Rules on GM Crops

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    To answer the author’s question, “who should we believe?” – people are right to be skeptical.  The industry itself has been the main source of information on the efficacy of  GMO products.  First they claimed it would provide higher yields.  That was proven to be untrue.  Now they’re selling it as an answer to global…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    SOUL AND THE OLD WOMAN What is the soul? Consciousness.  The more awareness, the deeper the soul, and when such essence overflows, you feel a sacredness around.  It’s so simple to tell one who puts on a robe and pretends to be a dervish from the real thing.  We know the taste of pure water.…

  • Face Of The Day

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    Originally posted on The Dish: An Iranian woman holds her purple scarf, the campaign color of moderate presidential candidate Hassan Rowhani, as she celebrates along Valiasr street after he was elected as president on June 15, 2013, in the capital Tehran. Rowhani, the cleric who won Iran’s presidential election, has pledged to engage more with…

  • Superhero essay competition: tell us your favorite superpower

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    For the many talented poets and writers that visit my blog, the Oxford University Press is holding an essay competition: Sharpen your claws… er, pencils… It’s the summer of the superhero here at Oxford University Press. We’re publishing two essay collections on the real powers superheroes hold — on our imagination and our understanding of…

  • Khawaja Mere Khawaja – A.R. Rahman

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    Allah-Rakha Rahman, born A. S. Dileep Kumar,  is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist. His works are notable for integrating Eastern classical music with electronic music sounds,world music genres and traditional orchestral arrangements. He has won two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, four National Film Awards, fifteen Filmfare Awards and thirteen Filmfare Awards South in addition to numerous other awards and nominations. His extensive body…

  • Fab Abs Found on Ancient Fossil Fish

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    Palaeontologists have discovered an ancient fossil fish that shows surprising signs of having abdominal muscles, previously thought to have only developed in land animals. Mapping the oldest fossilized vertebrate muscles ever seen — in Gogo fish thought to be 380 million years old — researchers worked out the position of the muscles and the orientation…

  • The Crocodile Dundee of Permaculture

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    You can watch the entire video series here.

  • Another State to Require Labeling of GMO Foods

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    Steve Mistler reports on the status of a new bill, requiring the labeling of GMO products, making its way through the Main State Legislature.  The emphasis at the end of the post  is mine.  The fact that the FDA would “assume” the products are safe until proven otherwise and that the industry can dictate the…

  • 50 Year Anniversary Of First Woman In Space

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    Victoria Loguinova-Yakovleva’s article in The China Post marks the 50 year anniversary of Valentina Terehkova’s historic flight: On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly into space…She remains the only woman ever to have made a solo space flight. In April 1962, officials narrowed down the candidates for the flight to…