Arkaim: Russia’s Ancient City & the Arctic Origin of Civilisation. By VICTORIA LEPAGE Vast shadowy forces are moving in Central Asia – or rather in the greater region we call Eurasia – which may change the face of our global society and civilisation forever. Even as the balance of geopolitical forces is shifting inexorably in favour of the Eurasian superpowers – principally Russia, China, the Central Asian states and India – a new spiritual wind is blowing out of Inner Asia and its many hidden mystical schools, promising to sweep the new entente into unprecedented heights of international power, politically and culturally.
The immensity of the coming turbulence occasioned by this shift from West to East is incalculable, the outer symptom of a global revolution of consciousness. Already the transformation of consciousness accompanying this hemispheric shift is creating both exaltation and unease in all people sensitive to evolutionary change. A Forgotten Race Arkaim: A Bronze Age Town in the Southern Urals The East and the West are fused here. Big Think | Blogs, Articles and Videos from the World's Top Thinkers and Leaders.
Podcasts of This and That. "Spreading Santorum" Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One. As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum loses two primary races to rival Mitt Romney, perhaps he can console himself with, ironically, another loss. Spreading Santorum, the page defining “santorum” as a by-product of anal sex, has finally dropped from the top results on Google. The related anti-Santorum blog, however, remains. And a page from Urban Dictionary keeps the definition alive, more explicit than before. Santorum: The Definition Page The page at SpreadingSantorum.com, created by columnist Dan Savage as a protest against Santorum’s views about homosexuality, has maintained its position in the top results on Google for years.
The page defines “santorum” as: The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex. To understand more of the history of the site, and how it ended up doing so well on Google (and Bing, Yahoo and Baidu), see my previous article, Should Rick Santorum’s “Google Problem” Be Fixed? Before The Change After The Change. This is our universe, can you comprehend it? [VIDEO] Airline Routes Are a Pretty Good Predictor of Twitter Connections - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology. A study finds that -- surprise! -- the Twitter world mirrors patterns in our offline world.
You know the maps that show the criss-crossing lines of global air routes? Well, if you could make a map of Twitter, with arched lines tracing the connections among the places that tweeters and their followers live, it would look quite similar -- and not just in that it would be a map of connections all around the world, but much more of a direct resemblance: Air routes are a pretty good predictor of relationships on Twitter. This is the conclusion of a new study from three Canadian researchers, who compared Twitter connections and airline routes. Though local connections make up a good bulk of Twitter ties (39 percent), the frequency of airline connections between two places is a good proxy for ties that go outside of one's hometown.
That it would be any other way makes little sense. Image: Imaginary air-route map from Airminded.org. Talk | Tag | Psychology. How to Get a Copy of Your FBI File (idea) The Freedom of Information Act is a powerful thing. If you've ever wanted to know just what those guvmint bastards have on you, anyway, here's your chance.
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Therefore, we have provided the best representation of the files contained within the Reading Room for your viewing purposes. Learn How to Pass (or Beat) a Polygraph Test | AntiPolygraph.org. New York City Homicides Map. Crime Map Beta. Futility Closet. The Black Hole. What do horses have to do with glue? 10 Most Bizarre Cargo Spills. Tons of Mackerel A truck full of fish overturned and dumped its load into Northern Ireland farmer, Gordon Flinn's, field in January 2012. The tons of mackerel were piled two feet deep in places.
The driver of the truck was taken to the hospital, but was not seriously injured and was able to return to the scene. The truck was removed and the road opened later that night, but the Flinns may have to put up with a fishy smell for some time. 2,184 cases of Beer Highway 401 in Mississaugua was closed on May 11, 2005 after an accident that spilled 2,184 cases of Grolsch beer. A woman driving a car swerved out of her lane and into the path of a Molson beer truck, causing the truck to roll over and the car to flip. NOTE: According to our reader Ken, the accident ocurred in the Netherlands. Below is the article translated by our lovely reader kh: An accident involving two freight trucks has ensured that the N36 between Mariënberg and Hardenberg had to be closed for several hours to all traffic. Shoes. UFO sightings reveal more strange metal boxes along coastal beaches. As of late afternoon Feb. 8, Bill Hanshumaker, a public marine specialist and (Ph.D) doctor of marine science at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in nearby Newport, told Huliq in an interview that, “I don’t know what they are.”
In turn, Doctor Hanshumaker said he’s advised “surf monitoring” about these strange metal boxes that suddenly appeared along local beaches Feb. 6, and now seem to be multiplying like Star Trek “Tribbles.” The photograph that accompanies this report – taken during the afternoon of Feb. 8 near Bray’s Point -- of yet another strange metal box stuck in the surf up is one of a possible group of a dozen or more that have been sited up and down West Coast beaches.
Meanwhile, the British government also photographed similar huge metal boxes on beaches in Sri Lanka in the late 1990’s and in early 2004 and 2005. UFO history filled with “mystery boxes” Science is slow in reacting to UFO related objects Bray’s Point monitored by the Hatfield Strange beach boxes cause a stir. Huge Lego Man Washes Up On Florida Beach. Nerd Paradise. Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine. Austrian Law Student Faces Down Facebook. Richard Allan, a former member of Parliament in Britain who is the European director of policy for Facebook, and another executive from Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, will meet with Max Schrems, a 24-year-old college student. Mr. Schrems, a law student at the University of Vienna and a user of Facebook since 2008, has led a vocal campaign in Europe against what he maintains are Facebook’s illegal practices of collecting and marketing users’ personal data, often without consent.
In less than a year, Mr. Schrems’s one-person operation has morphed into a Web site, Europe Versus Facebook, and a grass-roots movement that has persuaded 40,000 people to contact Facebook in Ireland, where its European headquarters are located, to demand a summary of all the personal data the U.S. company is holding on them. Mr. Last month, the author of a proposed European data protection law, which would update a 1995 statute to reflect the realities of the digital age, cited Mr. Mr. This Sentence Has Five Words.