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Shaking things up on Clipmarks.com

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:55:57 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Please read the entire post by clicking the source link before reacting.

Clip Source: clipmarks.wordpress.com

Unfortunately, we have recently become increasingly concerned that the site has become overly antagonistic and inappropriately controlled by a disproportionately loud group of users. In all honesty, we no longer feel that the processes of our site are producing a unique, high quality blend of content. Instead, the magical blending of diverse topics on the Clipmarks home page has seemed to dissolve into a battleground for extremely hostile politically oriented users who are overwhelming the rest of the site. Because of this we are working on making some fundamental changes to the way the Clipmarks site works. We will do our best to make changes that improve the site and will continue to iterate until we are comfortable that it is just right.

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Please, Let's Talk About Sex!

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:24:26 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "Let’s start there. Talk to your kids about sex tonight, with confidence and a straight face. “I’d prefer you waited to have sex. That said, whenever you choose to do it, make sure you use one of these condoms.” It works."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Sarah Palin has a pregnant teenager. And, she’s not alone. According to a report published in 2007, there are more than 400,000 other American girls in the same predicament.

If there is a shame here, it’s a national shame — a failure of our puritanical society to accept and deal with the facts. Teenagers have sex. How often and how safely depends on how much knowledge and support they have. Crossing our fingers that they won’t cross the line is not an intelligent strategy.

To wit, our ridiculous experiment in abstinence-only education seems to be winding down with a study finding that it didn’t work. States are opting out of it. Parents don’t like it either.

We need to take some bold steps beyond the borders of our moralizing and discomfort and create a sex education infrastructure that actually acknowledges reality and protects our children from unwanted pregnancies, or worse.

Father dies to save son:-(

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:00:05 GMT

clipped by: pcmkrfn

Clip Source: www.azcentral.com

Father dies saving son from crashing wood

A man died when he shoved his son out of the way from a cascade of particleboards at a wood shop Phoenix Friday morning.

About five workers were in Carlton Custom Wood Works moving the particleboards at about 8:30 a.m., said Capt. Courtney Jenkins, public information officer for the Phoenix Fire Department.

The 46-year-old father noticed boards shifting above his 19-year-old son. The boards began to fall. The father pushed the son out of the way, but the man's skull was crushed in the impact.

Jenkins estimated 12 to 15 boards weighing between 1,000 and 1,500 pounds fell on the man.

Jenkins said the son was sitting with his father's head in his lap when crews arrived, but the man died on the scene.

"Walking to the Moon" - A woman wakes from a coma

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:31:04 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "A woman wakes from a coma, its cause unknown.
She refuses to see her family; she does not say why.
Slowly, almost reluctantly, she becomes stronger.
Now she will walk.
Where? "

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ABC Radio National's All in the Mind recently broadcast a gripping programme on patients in the coma-like persistent vegetative state (PVS) and how new brain imaging techniques might be able to identify people who are conscious but unable to communicate with the outside world.

Clip Source: www.penguin.com.au

A woman wakes from a coma, its cause unknown.
She refuses to see her family; she does not say why.
Slowly, almost reluctantly, she becomes stronger.
Now she will walk.
Where?

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

A woman thought to be in a persistent vegetative state, unresponsive and unconscious to herself and the world, is asked to play a game of 'mental' tennis. Extraordinarily, brain scans reveal she can. In Australia, new ethical guidelines govern the care of people in this devastating situation. Besides new technologies and terminologies -- what prospects for those living frozen lives?

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Defending honor killings

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:19:18 GMT

clipped by: sillysam

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

A 17-year-old Pakistani girl forced to marry a 45-year-old when she was only nine was reportedly killed by her parents, according to the Weekend Australian.

The murder has intensified despair among human rights workers in Pakistan over a recent spate of "honor killings," in which two women and three teenage school girls were buried alive in Baluchistan Province because they wanted to marry the men of their choice.

Saira Nusrat Bibi was successfully fighting a legal battle to have her marriage annulled. As she left court in the Punjabi city of Sahiwal, she was surrounded by a group of men reportedly sent by her parents, and shot in front of police, The Australian reported.

The Baluchistan case was worsened by an attempt by a member of the country's national parliament, Senator Israr Ullah Zehri, to defend it, telling colleagues that "these are centuries-old traditions and I will continue to defend them,” The Australian reports.

2832 Old Versions of 193 programs

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:03:09 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: For those ,like me,who prefered some older versions of programs.Connections are tough though.You need to wait till late at night.

Clip Source: www.oldapps.com

Now Providing 2832 Old Versions of 193 programs

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Musim father burns Christian daughter alive

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:54:17 GMT

clipped by: Antara
clipper's remarks: what can you say?

Clip Source: www.worldnetdaily.com

Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive

Man slices out girl's tongue, ignites her after 'heated debate on religion'

A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian.

The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported.

Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an International Christian Concern report.

The father is employed by the muwateen, or Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The muwateen are police tasked by the government with enforcing religious purity. The man has been taken into custody, and his identity has not been released.

Tags: religion, islam, christianity, another dead girl

Rush - Here Again

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:12:40 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator
clipper's remarks: My God I love this whole album!
Someone Please Pop this. But make sure you listen to it first.

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Rush - Here Again

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Tags: rush, - here again, video, favs

New evidence of Global Warming

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:59:54 GMT

clipped by: papananook
clipper's remarks: For all the denialists--more fodder for your insanity

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (Sep. 2, 2008) — Researchers confirm that surface temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere were warmer over the last 10 years than any time during the last 1300 years, and, if the climate scientists include the somewhat controversial data derived from tree-ring records, the warming is anomalous for at least 1700 years.

"We looked at a much expanded database and our methods are more sophisticated than those used previously," says Mann. In today's (Sept. 2) online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers note, "Conclusions are less definitive for the Southern Hemisphere and globe, which we attribute to larger uncertainties arising from the sparser available proxy data in the Southern Hemisphere."

study shows that, with caveats, tree-ring data can be used, but that even without including that data, it is clear that the anomalous nature of recent warmth, which most scientists believe to be a result of human impacts on climate, is a reality.

Morning Sickness Means A Girl

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:59:21 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: I can personally vouch for this one! I should have been hospitalized as sick as I was with both my girly girls during the first trimester, instead my doc just got pissed that I was losing so much weight.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Old wives’ tales about predicting a baby’s sex — relying on clues like the way the woman carries and the fetal heart rate — are usually more fantasy than fact.

But the notion that morning sickness can sometimes indicate that a girl is on the way may be an exception. A number of large studies in various countries have examined the claim, and almost all have found it to be true, with caveats. Specifically, studies have found that it applies to women with morning sickness in the first trimester, and with symptoms so severe that it leads to hospitalization, a condition known as hyperemesis gravidarum.

Other studies in The Lancet and the journal Epidemiology, among others, have repeated the findings. It is thought that certain hormones produced by female fetuses may be the culprit.

Severe morning sickness may indicate a higher likelihood that the baby will be a girl.

24 of the most peculiar creatures known to mankind.

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:09:05 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: The names of the creatures could not be clipped.
Here they are:
Alpaca
Angora Rabbit
Axolotl
Aye Aye
Blobfish
Dumbo Octopus
Emperor Tamarin
Frill necked Lizard
Hagfish
Komondor Dog (2 pic)
Narwhal
Pink Fairy Armadillo
Proboscis Monkey
Pygmy Marmoset (2 pic)
Red Panda
Shoebill (2 pic)
Sloth
Star-nosed Mole
Sucker-footed Bat
Sun Bear
Tapir
ET Tarsier
White faced Saki monkey
Yeti Crab

With all these, who needs xeno-zoology

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Tags: animals, zoology

Some great camouflage pics

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:45:55 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: These are beautiful images, what is so catching for me is how it touches a wish to blend in, to go sometimes unnoticed...
a clipmarksless...

Clip Source: www.wonderfulworldofanimals.net

Some creatures have their own way to hide

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50 Billion Suns! -The Biggest Single Object in the Universe

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:17:51 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: Based on this self-regulating maximum rate, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Massachusetts, and the European Southern Observatory, Chile, have calculated an upper limit for these mega-mammoth masses. Fifty billion suns, that's 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 kg, otherwise known as "ridiculously stupidly big" and triple the size of the largest observed black hole, OJ 287.

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Scientists have determined the mass of the largest things that could possibly exist in our universe, and they don't appear in the Oprah studio audience.

New results have placed an upper limit on the current size of black holes - and at fifty billion suns it's pretty damn big. That's a hundred thousand tredagrams, and you'll never get the chance to use that word in relation to anything else.

While there's theoretically no upper limit on how big a black hole can be, there are hard limits on how big they could have become by now. The universe has only existed for a finite amount of time, and even the most voracious black hole can only suck in matter at a certain rate. The bigger the black hole, the bigger the gravitational field and the faster it can pull in matter - but that same huge gravitational gradient means that the same matter can release huge amounts of radiation as it falls, blasting other matter further away.

Tags: astronomy, cosmology

"Artwork inspired by the mysteries and marvels of science." wonderful images

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:36:09 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: "I am often very inspired by science - books on popular science and maths, documentaries, and of course rubbish sci fi films. Here is some of the artwork inspired by the mysteries and marvels of science." The wonderful image is an original drawing by the artist Masonic Boom, aka Kate St.Claire, as part of her series of "science"

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You have to imagine this announced in the tone of Thomas Dolby in "She Blinded Me With Science.

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"Impossibility" (The Science of Limits and the Limits of Science.)

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Richard Dawkin's theory of memetics.

"The trouble is that thought and culture are not the sort of thing that can have distinct units. They do not have a granular structure for the same reason that ocean currents do not have one - namely because they are not stuffs but patterns."

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I used to be terrified of the end of the universe when I was a kid, before I realised that it was going to happen 4 billion years in the future not, like, next week.

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Inspired by The Moon: The Biography.

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i love ferns! i love their fractal self symmetry, and the way the curl out of swirlies to be lovely fronds.

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I Can Lose Myself In The Moons Of Jupiter

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Inspired by the crazy electrical storm over Croydon last night. I swear to god, that lightening was magenta.

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Inspired by this thread on ILX.

www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brian_cox_on_cern_s_supercoll...

Maybe this guy should give Clipmarks a try!

Sat, 24 May 2008 15:36:17 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: I read this sentence and thought, "hmm, i know a place just like that."

Clip Source: www.webomatica.com

All I want to do is share crap with people, comment on stuff, and feel like part of a community, and maybe meet some new eccentrics - as fast and efficiently as possible.

Tags: web 2.0, clipmarks, friendfeed, social web