Very important information right here people.
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The Wave
The Wave consists of 200 million year old sand dunes that have turned to rock. These large sandstone formations are located on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in Arizona. The spectacular ribbons of various colors, called Liesegang Bands, were formed by the movement and precipitation of oxidizing materials such as iron and manganese in ground water. The Wave is accessible only on foot via a three-mile hike and is highly regulated.
ZHENGZHOU, May 13 (Xinhua) — Archaeologists revealed Monday that the divination rituals used by ancient Chinese thousands of years ago may have featured some behind-the-scenes trickery.
During the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC — 1046 BC), emperors relied heavily on prophecy and divination to help them…
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest.
“This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on construction and permit drawings now and expects to break ground this summer.
The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild. Not only is this forest Seattle’s first large-scale permaculture project, but it’s also believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
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“Feminist theory has several purposes.
The first is to understand the power differential between men and women. […]
Secondly, the purpose is to understand women’s oppression—how it evolved, how it changes over time, how it’s related to other forms of oppression, and finally how to change our…
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Some interesting info: This is very reminiscent of the Baby X experiments, in which it was discovered that people reacted differently to a baby’s behavior depending on whether or not they believed the baby to be male or female. People were asked to watch a video of a baby reacting to a startling image (a Jack-in-the-box popping up), and describe the baby’s emotional state. When people believed the baby to be female, they described the baby as being scared and upset; when they thought the baby was male, they perceived the baby to be angry. This was very telling, as it showed that literally identical behavior could be construed differently based on the perceived gender of the subject.
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More girls have been killed in the last FIFTY years, precisely because they were girls, than men were killed in ALL the battles of the 20th century.
More girls are killed in this routine gendercide in any ONE decade, than people were slaughtered in ALL the genocides of the 20th century.
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Nicholas Kristof, Half the Sky
Read that AGAIN.
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The Real Velociraptors:
If you got your information about Velociraptors from Jurassic park, sadly, everything you know about them is wrong.
First off, they were small, roughly the size of a large turkey; 3 foot tall (90cm) and 6 foot long (1.8m) most of the length coming from the tail, not exactly the man eaters everybody thought they were.
Second, they did not look like a miniature T-Rex, they were covered in feathers, similar to birds. They also built nests similar to birds.
Thirdly, every piece of evidence suggests that they were solitary creatures, not pack hunters.
This is awesome! But I never understand how they discover this sort of stuff. Surely if they knew about Velociraptors from skeletons that were found they would have known what size they were? Anybody care to explain?
Roman Ondák - Spirit and Opportunity, 2004
Surface of Mars reconstructed in a gallery based on images published in newspapers and magazines.
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Buddha Park
Buddha Park, also known as Spirit City (Xieng Khuan), is a sculpture park located 25 km southeast of Vientiane, a small city that sits along the Mekong River in Laos. The park was started in 1958 by Luang Pu Bunleua Sulilat who was a priest-shaman. The park displays over 200 Buddhist and Hindu statues of deities, along with other beautifully carved strange figures. The main attraction is the giant reclining Buddha resting on the grass (first photo).
Bryan Christie - Women, 2012
The Smallest Art Ever
so this won the Guinness World Record for the ‘Smallest Film Ever Made’. I wonder what the competition was…
