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Table of contents. (With last update date) Cover Foreword (August 13, 2009) Part 1. Quantum theory and consciousness Preface to part 1 (April 12, 2000) Chapter 1. 1.1. 1.6. 1.7. Chapter 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 2.6. Chapter 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. Chapter 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. Chapter 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 5.6. 5.7. 5.8. 5.9. 5.10. 5.11. 5.12. 5.13. 5.14. 5.15. 5.16. Chapter 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6. 6.7. 6.8. 6.9. 6.10. 6.12. Part 2. Preface to part 2 (October 17, 2010) Chapter 7. 7.1. 7.2. 7.3. 7.4. 7.5. 7.6. 7.7. 7.9. 7.10. Chapter 8. 8.1. 8.2. Chapter 9. 9.1. 9.2. 9.3. 9.4. 9.6. Chapter 10. 10.1. 10.2. 10.3. 10.4. Chapter 11. 11.1. 11.2. 11.3. 11.4. 11.5. 11.6. 11.7.The victim/victimizer polar pair 11.8. 11.9. 11.10.

Chapter 12. 12.1. 12.2. 12.3. 12.5. 12.6. 12.7. Chapter 13. 13.1. 13.2. 13.3. 13.4. 13.5. 13.6. 13.7. 13.8. 13.9. 13.10. 13.11. 13.12. 13.13. Chapter 14. 14.1. 14.2. 14.3. 14.4. 14.5. 14.6. 14.7. 14.8. Chapter 15. Chapter 16. 16.3. 16.4. 16.5. Part 3. Chapter 17. 17.1. 17.2. Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age | Science. Scientists have identified the first humans to recolonise Britain after the last ice age. The country was taken over in a couple of years by individuals who practised cannibalism, they say - a discovery that revolutionises our understanding of the peopling of Britain and the manner in which men and women reached these shores.

Research has shown that tribes of hunter-gatherers moved into Britain from Spain and France with extraordinary rapidity when global warming brought an end to the ice age 14,700 years ago and settled in a cavern – known as Gough's Cave – in the Cheddar Gorge in what is now Somerset. From the bones they left behind, scientists have also discovered these people were using sophisticated butchering techniques to strip flesh from the bones of men, women and children. "These people were processing the flesh of humans with exactly the same expertise that they used to process the flesh of animals," said Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.

Send me something. Life hacks. Fruit MRIs - Pineapple, Bananas, Orange. The layman is most familiar with MRIs, or magnetic resonance imaging, as a tool used to scan the severity of a brain or bodily injury — or, in more severe circumstances, as a cancer test — but they’re regularly used for research purposes like psych studies, or simply messed around with by bored researchers. Redditor Junglistandy has alerted us to a series of beautiful, animated MRIs of fruits: A pineapple, an orange, and a cluster of bananas.

They have to be seen to be believed: Here’s an MRI of a pineapple: And an orange: And a bushel of bananas: (via Reddit) Top 10 Places You Don’t Want To Visit. Travel In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations – today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you don’t want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it is quite enough. Feel free to mention any other contenders for the list in the comments. Great Pacific Garbage Patch Pacific Ocean The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N. The Izu Islands are a group of volcanic islands stretching south and east from the Izu Peninsula of Honsh? The Door to Hell Turkmenistan Address: Derweze, Turkmenistan This has featured on listverse before, but it would be remiss of us to exclude it from this list.

Alnwick Poison Gardens England Address: Denwick Lane, Alnwick, NE66 1YU, England Mud Volcanoes of Azerbaijan. Foods to Improve Moods - Healthy Living Tips at WomansDay.com. While that tub of ice cream in the back of the freezer may be what you crave when you’re feeling blue, there is a long list of other (healthier!) Foods that can cure a grouchy morning or a stressed-out afternoon. We talked to the experts to get the scoop on what to eat to make you feel better no matter what your mood. Stressed: Eat Chocolate The scenario: It’s Friday at 6:30 p.m. You’re hungry, tired and late for your dinner date. Sluggish: Eat a Spinach Salad Can’t concentrate?

Cranky: Eat an Apple with Peanut Butter Did you snap at your kids…and the telemarketer on the phone? Anxious: Eat a Salmon Burger Worrying about your finances, your marriage, your kids? Angry: Sip Green Tea Maybe your neighbor’s dog barked all night long and kept you up or your coworker took credit for a project you worked on over the weekend. Sad: Eat Whole-Grain Cereal with Lowfat Milk Need a happiness boost? PMS: Eat an Egg-Salad Sandwich All photos by Shutterstock. Photo_1238263133.png (PNG Image, 1400x1000 pixels) - Scaled (50%) Herbs and Spices - Health Benefits of the Spices at WomansDay.com. Chances are you sprinkle cinnamon into your morning oatmeal or add a dash of oregano to pizza without giving the spices much thought. But did you know your favorite flavors can actually do your body good? According to Christina Suarez, master herbalist and owner of TheGoodHerbCo.com, while spices are only effective when eaten at least daily, each has its own specific health benefits.

Read on to find out which additives can burn fat, ease a sore throat or help you get to sleep, and how you can incorporate them into your daily diet. Cardamom Fruit of the Elettaria cardamomum plant in the ginger family. Health Powers: Eases belching, flatulence and indigestion; treats respiratory conditions like coughing, asthma and loss of voice; aids in the elimination of toxins through your skin. Daily Dose: Stir a few freshly ground pinches of cardamom pods into a shot of OJ or your morning fruit salad, or mix it with white or brown rice before you boil it. Photo by Shutterstock. Cayenne Cinnamon Cloves Nutmeg. Biography. Team of Dutch scientists want to create island the size of Hawaii from plastic bottles. A recycled island could be made using plastic bottles floating in the Pacific say scientist / WHIM Architecture Source: Supplied Solar and wave energy will be used to sustain the island and its 500,000 inhabitants / WHIM Architecture Source: Supplied Designers plan to model the island on the waterways of Venice, Italy / WHIM Architecture Source: Supplied Powered by renewable energy Completely self sufficient Could be home to 500,000 Join us over on Facebook | Twitter An island the size of Hawaii and made entirely from plastic bottles could one day become the hottest postcode on earth, and is part of an incredible environmental vision for a future settlement.

CGI images show how a team of Dutch scientists plan to take 44 million kilograms of plastic waste currently bobbing around in the Pacific Ocean and transform it into Recycled Island, reported The Daily Telegraph. Solar and wave energy will be used to sustain the island and its 500,000 inhabitants. Use Wood Glue to Clean and Restore Old LPs. @squishyalt: Wow, hostile much? Speaking of morons, did it occur to you that a guy who devises a method for cleaning LPs with wood glue is, I dunno, a MUSIC FAN? And perhaps he likes having a little quiet music on in the background while he's spending his evening teaching a lot of nice internet strangers and one ungrateful jerk (note: that's you) how to use his technique. Your overreaction was incredible even by the hyperbolic nature of the interwebs. Tone it down and be thankful that people are out there sharing their knowledge with you. I had no trouble whatsoever hearing AND understanding him, and the music in the background was kind of nice, went along with the whole, "I'm cleaning records" vibe.

Thanks, Wood Glue Guy! —Jason @Jason: Hey man, you seem a little hostile yourself. @Prairie Moon: I make a big distinction between hostility (if mine was hostile) in response to hostility versus hostility in response to some nice fellow trying to help others keep their LP's clean. Wow. Now just up a few steps. (They are on the left in the picture) Gets a little steeper here - so put your toes in the holes. A few more steps to go. Finally in sight, the Teahouse! Click here to Watch the Cliff Hanger PPS! Click here to Watch the Cliff Hanger PPS! Dhtml Menu Navigation by Vista-Buttons.com v5.7. Blind woman buys guide HORSE as strict Muslim parents consider dogs unclean. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 00:03 GMT, 14 November 2010 As a blind Muslim woman, Mona Ramouni has had to make do without a guide dog her whole life.

The 28-year-old's strictly religious parents would not allow a dog in the house, considering the animal unclean. But then Miss Ramouni stumbled across a website article about miniature guide horses in April 2008. 'It was something that I never thought about for myself,' she said. Leading the blind: Mona Ramouni has bought and trained a miniature horse, Cali, to be her guide The psychology student used three years of savings from her job at a Braille proofreading company to pay for a horse to be trained to act as her guide.

Refreshment break: Miss Ramouni treats Cali to some water Since welcoming three-year-old guide horse Cali into her Dearborn, Michigan, home last year, Miss Ramouni has seen her life turned around. Cali measures about 2ft 6in tall and has been taught to stand still indoors. 'Before Cali, I had given up. Rare Book Room.