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17 ways to get free books...Socrat, you will love this!

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:06:05 GMT

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You can never have too many books, so we are delighted to share with you some ways to get them for free. From children’s books to technical books, there are numerous resources that offer literature for free. Some of the following sites offer actual printed books, while others feature electronic books (aka “ebooks”). Please bear in mind that the list is alphabetized, not ordered by importance.

Childrens Books Online

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Einstein on Buddhism

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:35:10 GMT

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"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein

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Top 10 Rules of Punctuation

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:43:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I; HATE! it when people: misuse simple, punctuations?!?!?!

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10. Comma

Use commas to separate independent clauses in a sentence

The Oxford Comma

I love apples, pears, and oranges.

9. Period

There are stylistic differences here.

8. Question Mark

One thing to be careful of is to not include a question mark when it is not needed:

WRONG: I wonder how many people will come to the party?

7. Exclamation Mark

Two or three exclamation marks in a row is completely unnecessary.

6. Quote Marks

Punctuation with quotations

5. Colon

A colon should be used after a complete statement in order to introduce one or more directly related ideas

4. Semicolon

Use a semicolon to join related independent clauses in compound sentences.

3. Apostrophe

The apostrophe has three uses:

1) to form possessives of nouns
2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.

2. Parentheses

Parentheses are occasionally and sparingly used

1. Dash

Hyphen

Use a hyphen with the prefixes

You should also use a hyphen to avoid confusion in a sentence:

He had to re-sign the contract

Tags: punctuation, grammar, english, language, writing

What We Need.

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:24:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the hell with all the division.... we need healing....we need to reconnect.... get started today, now......with the next person you see.

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Tags: positivity, healing, improvement, self help, growth, change

The Cure For Homelessness?

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:21:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.coolest-gadgets.com

I’d never of thought you could build a multi-story house out of cardboard but that’s exactly what Col James of Stutchbury and Pape architects has done. It just goes to show what can be achieved when you think outside the box :).

The cardboard house will come in a kit (imagine what you can make with the packaging) and is made up of 100% recycled goods, the majority of which being cardboard. The leads to a very cheap and environmentally friendly house. I can see houses like this being really useful in times of dire need as a mean of emergency accommodation.

The house is obviously water proof (who wants to live in a soggy mulch), and cleverly stores water in bladders underneath the floor which gives the structure a bit of weight.

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The Carboard House is made of recycled carboard supplied by Visy Industries.

Environmental features

Uses 85% recycled materials

Recycling the house saves 12 cubic metres of landfill, 39 trees and 30 000 litres of water

Extremely low cost, transportable, and flexible,

Tags: housing, future, homeless, poverty, environment

If Artist X had Painted Celebrity X

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:04:43 GMT

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A soldier fond of his officers

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:50:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Gayism in the military.

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A British Army colonel was reviewing the troops in colonial India. One man he passed sported an enormous erection.

“Sergeant-Major!” the colonel shouted. “Give this man 30 days compassionate home leave.”

“Yessir,” the Sgt. Major replied.

A few months later the same thing occurred with the same man.

“Sergeant-Major! Give this man another 30 days compassionate home leave,” the Colonel barked.

A few months later, same guy, same problem.

The Colonel is angry. “Sergeant-Major! Haven’t we given this man two compassionate home leaves?”

“Yessir,” the Sgt. Major replies.

“Then what’s his problem, Sgt. Major?” the Colonel asks.

The Sgt. Major salutes and says, “Sir. It’s you he’s fond of.”

Tags: humor, jokes, military jokes, army jokes, soldier jokes

The Jews and the 'Genitals'

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:32:29 GMT

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schoolboy howlers

• BOOKS AND WORDS

John Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

Poetry is when every line starts with a capital letter and doesn't reach the right side of the page.

• GEOGRAPHY

In some rocks there are to be found the fossil footprints of fishes.

The principal exports of Sweden are hired girls.

• HISTORY

King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery.

Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offence.

The King wore a scarlet robe trimmed with vermin.

Louis XVI was gelatined to death.

• POLITICS

When Caesar was assassinated, he is reported to have said "Me too, Brutus!"

• SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

If you cross XY and XX chromosomes, you get XX (female), YY (male) and XY (undecided).

Clouds just keep circling the Earth around and around, and around. There is not much else to do.

• RELIGION

The Jews were a proud people, but always had trouble with unsympathetic Genitals.

• ANIMALS

To keep milk from turning sour: keep it in the cow.

Tags: funny, humor, humour, schools, idiots

is the World become a better place? plea: Global povetry is solvable !

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:47:10 GMT

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Global health & well being ... ) .. !!

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Fascinating editorial in this week’s issue of Nature arguing that “Many ‘developing’ countries are much more developed than some people think. Their rapid progress should inspire scientists and their institutions to do more to confront global poverty.”

How do we know this? There are mountains of dry demographic data out there but how to make sense of it all? A picture is worth a thousand words, and a moving picture may be worth a million. Enter Dr. Hans Rosling, a global-health researcher at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, who has developed an ingenious, intuitive, and compelling software for visualizing trends in world health and well-being.

Examples of what he’s done are posted at his website, Gapminder. There’s a lot of really cool stuff here but check out especially the animations in Gapminder World 2006, which show progress in alleviating poverty in any country in the world over the last half century.

Has the world become a better place in recent decades? Watch this

Tags: global povetry, dr. hans rosling, global health, research

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: brain research

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:58:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Potentially a contribution to understanding brain disorders. I very much like the scientists' scientific caveats, their 'mays' and 'appears to be"s. Correlation studies need to be contextualised in conceptual mapping.

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Everyone is familiar with the sinking feeling you get after deleting a computer file by mistake or leaving the house without your keys.

But such events also cause their own unique reactions in the brain.

US scientists writing in the Journal of Neuroscience found one area becomes more active after "costly" mistakes.

They say it may help explain obsessive compulsive disorder, where minor events appear to be enough to trigger an over-reaction in the same area.

An exaggerated perception of error is likely to be linked to the untoward anxiety about errors or failures

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Brain scans may be able to reveal which people are at genetic risk of developing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), researchers say.

These brain changes appear to run in families and may represent a genetic risk factor

"These brain changes appear to run in families and may represent a genetic risk factor for developing the condition.

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