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Is Gay the New Black? Voddie Baucham - Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis. After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90's (Plume): Marshall Kirk, Hunter Madsen: 9780452264984: Amazon.com: Books. Full Face Snorkeling Mask - H2O Ninja Mask Hawaii. Codeybot | Makeblock. Brixo. What's the most intelligent joke you know? : AskReddit. The world's geekiest jokes explained after Reddit challenge to find most intellectual gag. With the help of a particle ­physicist, chemical biologist and ancient historian, the Sunday People have translated 10 into plain English I say, I say, I say – what do a list of chemical symbols, a fish and an ancient Greek have in common?

They all feature among the geekiest gags sent to an ­internet site trying to track down the world’s “most intellectual joke”. The result is a comedy ­collection of belters for boffins. While the rest of us ­scratch our heads at the punchlines, ­scientists will snigger, historians hoot and ­philosophers fall about. But web-savvy joke fans are lapping it up as more than 16,000 people have logged on to the Reddit site for a chuckle. We don’t see why the Sunday People can’t join in the fun. With the help of a particle ­physicist, chemical biologist and ancient historian here are 10 of the best jokes… all translated into plain-speaking English. A photon checks into a hotel and the porter asks him if he has any luggage.

This is a good one to solve.

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The Gideons International. GTD for kids. ACMA and VoIP. Ukulele. Compact Fluorescent Lights. Martin Crawford's Forest Garden Permaculture Research Institute. Yesterday we were talking about the great need to transition our agriculture (and our culture for that matter) to be based in systems (or integrated) thinking, rather than the segregated, reductionist monoculture mind set we have today. There’s perhaps no better example of systems-based thinking in practice than a well developed biodiverse ‘forest garden’ (or what is called a food forest in many places). Along with our own Geoff Lawton, Martin Crawford of the UK’s Agroforestry Research Trust is one of the world’s best recognised practitioners of the art.

The following video gives us a peek at his work. Martin’s forest garden has an enormous diversity of plants. Most, but not all, are edible. Those that are not edible would be regarded as a waste of space to most farmers or gardeners, but these also serve valuable purposes and earn their keep in the garden — ultimately also being responsible for not only increased resiliency, and thus less labour input, but also increased productivity.