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  1. Tonington

    Favorite music videos?

    What say you? Love music? Any videos you like particularly, perhaps it's the music you like, or the art of film making? This is probably my all-time favorite Near the top of the list Perhaps the funniest video
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    Modern morality

    Western society, still largely Christian, I think has progressed quite well insofar as our morals are concerned. There are still the vestigal remains of darker days, but for the most part we have benefitted a great deal by the enlightenment movement. We have concepts like humanism which reject...
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    Good deed for the day

    About 10 minutes ago, I noticed an unusual amount of activity out my window. The birds were going nuts. Looking up into the trees a little higher, I saw the problem. A cat. Can't be a year old yet. There were three crows in the nearby tree taking turns tormenting the poor thing. So I went...
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    Nature publishes Mars global warming paper

    Dust storms turn up the heat on Mars 04/04/2007 5:01:03 PM Earth is not the only planet in the solar system showing the effects of global warming, according to a study published on Wednesday. A...
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    A new twist on Bible thumpers

    Minnesota jail guard suspended after allegedly thumping inmate with a Bible Published: Friday, April 13, 2007 | 11:26 AM ET MANKATO, Minn. (AP) - A jail guard has been suspended after allegedly thumping an inmate with a Bible. James Lee Sheppard, 56, has been charged with two gross...
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    No respect for bicycles...

    OK, so one of my pet peeves is the treatment of cyclists on the roads. The town I live in is small, I can get around just fine on a bicycle. Even if I lived in a city I would use my bicycle, in fact it might even be safer in some cities. Since I've moved here to go to school, I've been yelled...
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    Anyone notice the time change

    My options have me in the right time zone, and automatically detect time changes. But the time is ahead an hour. Maybe a problem with the work on the site today?
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    Urban agriculture, build it up!

    This isn't the first I've heard of this, but Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia has been working at this project for 6 years now. It's kinda like a biosphere project and he has received interest allready from countries like the Netherlands and Dubai. As population growth continues to explode...
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    The future of climate science...SHEEP!!

    I got a real kick out of reading this piece this morning. The Sheep-Albedo Feedback
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    GMO mosquitoes, resistant to malaria

    Researchers have developed a malaria resitant mosquitoe through genetic modifications that they hope one day could be released to outcompete natural populations which carry malaria. Recent estimates place the number of malaria deaths at 700,000 to 2.7 million, 75% of those being African...
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    Do you know your rights as a Canadian citizen?

    Frequently when these discussions start talking about rights of individuals, minority groups and majority groups, it seems to me there are an awful lot of people who don't understand what the Charter actually does for them, what our laws actually mean to them and what your rights actually are...
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    Novel solar insights, very cool

    Solar Energy Conversion Offers A Solution To Help Mitigate Global Warming Solar Energy Conversion Offers A Solution To Help Mitigate Global Warming Science Daily — Solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and provide increased energy efficiency, says a scientist at the...
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    Humans are a disease!

    This little rant was spawned by the End Times Scenario and a comment in the Kyoto is flawed threads. I'm going to be a little technical, but this is just my take on an old analogy. The analogy of humans as a virus has been around some time, I prefer to think of ourselves as some highly...
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    Jail time for Hockey Assaults?

    If you don't know what this is about, Chris Simon after being checked against the boards by Ryan Hollweg, got up and delivered a wood chop to the face of Hollweg. Hollweg appears to be allright despite the hellish slash he recieved to the head. I'm an avid sports fan myself, but I think that...