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Interior of St John’s Church, Edinburgh The Caledonian Mercury brings news of the thirteenth Edinburgh Festival of Spirituality and Peace that promises to unveil a “vibrant and engaging programme of culture and conversation”. At the launch, there will be music from harpist Mio Shapley; a blend of Balkan folk, Classical Arabic and Medieval Italian music from…

One More Thing to Wrap Your Brain Around

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In a shocking new study, seventy-six percent of the sticky, golden stuff sold as honey in the US isn’t actually honey, according to the FDA. Over three-fourths of honey recently tested in supermarkets contained zero traces of pollen, and is often diluted with high-fructose corn syrup. In fact, only a small handful of local or organic chains passed…

Organic Soil – good for the earth, good for the atmosphere

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Phil Robertson may be on the cusp of solving a long-standing mystery. Boosters of organic food often say the practice, which rejects synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, is a good method for curbing climate change because it stores more carbon in the soil. But aside from anecdotal observations, no one could really explain the dynamics behind…

World’s on planet earth we are just beginning to discover

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Joseph Russell / University of Delaware By Douglas Main LiveScience Beneath the seafloor lives a vast and diverse array of microbes, chomping on carbon that constantly rains down from above and is continually buried by a never-ending downpour of debris — some whale dung here, some dead plankton there. For the first time, a study…

Open for discussion: Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake from TEDxWhitechapel

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To view the video and the discussion, click on read more. I left this up because I believe what Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock have to say is so important!

Monsanto Wins Again

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a previous ruling that found organic growers had no reason to try to block Monsanto from suing them as the company had pledged it would not take them to court if biotech crops accidentally mix in with organics. Organic farmers and others have worried for…

Opportunity finds hint of life on Mars

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida – Reuters A Martian rock analyzed by NASA’s rover Opportunity contains clays formed in non-acidic water, an environment potentially suitable for the chemistry of ancient life to brew. The solar-powered Opportunity landed on Mars in January 2004 for what was expected to be a 90-day mission to look for signs there was…

A Poetry of Names

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Andrew Leonard’s June 10th column, in Salon, pays tribute to Ian M. Banks, the popular science fiction author who died of cancer on Sunday. Leonard takes, “a plunge into the poetry of Ian M. Banks’ Culture spaceships” by listing the names of “the awesome, meddlesome, cantankerous and benevolent spaceships” that populate Banks’ novels: Prosthetic Conscience…

Photo of the day

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Here’s a truly gorgeous image by astrophotographer Mick Hyde, a mosaic of NGC 7000 (the North American nebula) and the Pelican nebula (IC 5070). Read more here.

TransCanda Whistleblower Warns of Shoddy Practices

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