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50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do

Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades.
I believe perhaps the running of the two articles on the same theme below as natural companions might alert or illuminate the hard core believers of Mainstream Media propaganda and/or so-called official stories, to what is being done to them on a daily basis, and on why people believe what they do and how hard facts belying fundamental beliefs usually seem to reinforce them in the gullible and thoughtless. Dr. Cynthia Boaz deals with a common source, FOX News, and their application and employment of standard propaganda and “spin” techniques which we see every day… but which I am not sure yet that the general public in America, has probably become so familiar with because of its prolific and constant use, that they hardly or seldom notice. There is a monolith of falsehood out there, and FOX News is but one of its foundation blocks.

Propaganda, The News, and What People Believe and Why | Veterans Today

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/06/propaganda-the-news-and-what-people-believe-and-why/
http://www.praguepost.com/opinion/7874-indignez-vous.html Ninety-three years. I'm nearing the last stage. The end cannot be far off. How lucky I am to be able to draw on the foundation of my political life: the Resistance and the National Council of the Resistance's program from 66 years ago... I was in London, where I had joined de Gaulle in March 1941, when I learned that the council had put the finishing touches on its program and adopted it on March 15, 1944: a collection of principles and values for Free France that still provides the foundation of our country's modern democracy. We need these principles and values more than ever today.

The Prague Post - Opinion - Indignez-vous!

Fool's mate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fool%27s_mate leading to the position shown. (The pattern can have slight variations – White might play f2–f4 instead of f2–f3 or move the g- pawn before the f-pawn , and Black might play e7–e6 instead of e7–e5.) Fool's Mate received its name because it can only occur if White plays extraordinarily weakly (i.e., like a fool ). Even among rank beginners, the mate almost never occurs in practice.

Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies

http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/02-las.html Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies . (1542) The Indies were discovered in the year one thousand four hundred and ninety-two. In the following year a great many Spaniards went there with the intention of settling the land.

Key Ideas

http://www.pantheist.net/society/keys.html For more information about Pantheism, or questions about this website please contact Harold Wood at ups@pantheist.net Pantheism \Pan"the*ism\, n. [Pan- + theism.] Any doctrine, philosophy, or religious practice that holds universe [cosmos], taken or conceived of as the totality of forces and/or matter, is synonymous with the theological principle of God.
Clifford A. Pickover is a prolific author and futurist, having published more than 40 books , translated into over a dozen languages. Exploring topics ranging from computers and creativity to art, mathematics, parallel universes, Einstein, time travel, alien life, religion, dimethyltryptamine elves, and the nature of human genius, his most recent titles include Archimedes to Hawking ; A Beginner's Guide to Immortality ; The Möbius Strip ; Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves ; A Passion for Mathematics ; Calculus and Pizza ; The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience ; Surfing Through Hyperspace ; The Science of Aliens ; and Time: A Traveler's Guide . In addition, he has authored more than 200 articles on topics in science, art, and mathematics. Dr. Pickover received his Ph.D. from Yale University's Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, having graduated first in his class from Franklin and Marshall College.

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http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/ “Today, nothing is more important to the future and credibility of science than liberation from the gravity-driven universe of prior theory. A mistaken supposition has not only prevented intelligent and sincere investigators from seeing what would otherwise be obvious, it has bred indifference to possibilities that could have inspired the sciences for decades.” May 07, 2012 Uranus recently erupted with a new bright region in its lower latitudes. Could electrical effects be responsible? The planet Uranus revolves around the Sun at a mean orbital radius of 2,870,990,000 kilometers, 19 times as far as the Earth.

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Symmetry: from Galois to the discovery of the Monster and Moonshine

Symmetry The mathematical study of symmetry is called group theory . This is because the symmetry operations on an object, or the symmetries that preserve a particular pattern, form a group in the mathematical sense. One symmetry operation followed by another gives a third one in the same group, and this group embodies, in an abstract way, the symmetry of the object or pattern concerned.
When physicist John Smith spent the night in his garden with the score to Götterdämmerung , the final opera in Richard Wagner’s four-part, 15-hour epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen , he wasn’t interested in its account of the apocalyptic struggle of Norse gods for control of the world. Smith was concerned with a struggle of a different sort—one between the opera’s words and music that might elucidate the controversial German composer’s peculiar vision for the future of art. On Smith’s mind was an age-old difficulty all soprano singers face: They mispronounce lyrics when singing powerfully in the top half of their range.

The Wagnerian Method § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

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Because many cuts are made, the unbroken areas are small but distortion is minimised, in the same way as the more sides a geodesic dome has, the closer it is to a true sphere.

Unfolding the Earth