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Quantum Mechanics is Strange. Fuckyoujohnmccain.jpg (JPEG Image, 600x611 pixels) - Scaled (89%) Nobody Died When Clinton Lied. The Girl who Silenced the U.N. for Five Minutes. This is an incredible video of a Canadian girl who spoke to the United Nations and left them completely silent and speechless for five minutes.

The Girl who Silenced the U.N. for Five Minutes

Her name is Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and her speech was given at a U.N. assembly in Brazil when she was twelve years old. She had raised all the money to travel to the delegation, five thousand miles from her home, herself. Speaking about the hole in the ozone layer, pollution, the devastation of the forests and extinction of so many species, Severn charges that we adults have no idea how to fix these things, in fact can’t fix them, and that we must change our ways. “If you don’t know how to fix it, stop breaking it,” she pleads.

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The Big Bang Was an Explosion OF Space, Not IN Space « : EveryJoe - Sports and Entertainment News. This is my fourth post for Just Science Week.

The Big Bang Was an Explosion OF Space, Not IN Space « : EveryJoe - Sports and Entertainment News

I think the thing that trips up most people when they think about the Big Bang, is thinking about it in terms of an explosion, like a supernova or a nuclear bomb. This leads to some typical inaccurate assumptions. Since the Big Bang, the universe has expanded from a central point.The universe must be expanding into something, what? There was a time BEFORE the Big Bang. What Will the LHC Find? The Standard Model and String Theory.