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Universities With the Best Free Online Courses

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:39:47 GMT

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Clip Source: education-portal.com

Universities With the Best Free Online Courses

Empire State Building struck by lightning

Fri, 18 May 2007 03:08:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Seriously. Photo taken during yesterday's storm.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Tags: new york, nyc, empire state, lightening, storm, weather

Thinking the way animals do

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:33:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Temple Grandin Ph.D. is an assistant professor of animal behaviour at Colorado State Uni. She suffers from a form of autism, and describes the way she thinks as thinking in pictures. This has helped her understand the way Animals think, with direct association, rather than a logical process.
A significant statement which can apply to most people, is the fact that originally as far as she was aware everybody thought the same way. Until she asked people and found this was not the case. She describes a radio station person who said she had no pictures, in her mind, but thought in terms of emotions or words.
I'm sure I can understand my dogs. They seem to think in a manner that is simple, and straightforward, it can just be a matter of associating cues with behavior, and remembering Pavlov.
I think in Pictures and sounds. There is music I can 'hear' in my mind that not only has the same 'quality' as the original, but there is a remarkable capacity to edit.
Perhaps something like Auti

Clip Source: www.grandin.com

Temple Grandin, Ph.D.
Department of Animal Science
Colorado State University

Temple Grandin is an assistant professor of animal science at Colorado State University. She is the author of the book Thinking in Pictures

Dr. Grandin has autism, and her experiences have helped her to understand animal behavior.

Unique insights from a person with a singular understanding

As a person with autism, it is easy for me to understand how animals think because my thinking processes are like an animal's

Scientists who study autism believe that the disorder is cause d by immature development of certain brain circuits, and over development of other brain circuits

My thoughts are in pictures, like videotapes

Associative Thinking

A horse trainer once said to me, "Animals don't think, they just make associations." I responded to that by saying, "If making associations is not thinking, then I would have to conclude that I do not think." People with autism and animals both think by making visual associations

Tags: animal, autism, thinking, words, pictures, sounds

Your life is Perfect.

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:26:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We often don't know if we want something until we get it, and then find it wasn't what we wanted. Through that discovery, we can start to believe we really wanted something else, and the chase continues, turning goals into hurdles. Often confusing improvement with change. Perhaps another angle could be learning what we need to, but also trying to improve what we can already do well, without neglecting the opportunities to learn from what we can consider to be failures. We can change situations, but changing who we are may not be possible, and if it is we don't have the foresight to make it a likely improvement.

Clip Source: www.mindpowernews.com

By Enoch Tan
Author of Reality Creation Secrets

People think that their life will only be perfect when they have achieved everything they want, when everything is completely going the way they want it to go.

They are looking at the perfect state of life as something that is in the future, that they don’t have it now but they need to move towards it.

The truth is even when they have reached that state, there will still be new desires that will arise to be achieved. It is an illusion to think that the perfect life is something in the future instead of being present with us.

If you think that the perfect state of your life can only be experienced when everything you desire is manifested, then you are separating yourself in time. Thinking in terms of linear time is what creates resistance towards our desires manifesting as perfectly as possible

There is really no separation between past, present and future because spirit contains it all as one reality

your perfect life

you can step into instantly

Tags: life, perfect, past, present, future

Founding Fathers Planned Religious Openness

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:57:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Jon Meacham commentary that founding fathers wanted no state religion; wanted freedom of religion. They refuted the "Old World" practice of state sponsored and dictated religion which caused so much bloodshed.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Thomas Jefferson said that his bill for religious liberty in Virginia was “meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mahometan, the Hindu, and infidel of every denomination.” When George Washington was inaugurated in New York in April 1789, Gershom Seixas, the hazan of Shearith Israel, was listed among the city’s clergymen (there were 14 in New York at the time) — a sign of acceptance and respect. The next year, Washington wrote the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, R.I., saying, “happily the government of the United States ... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. ... Everyone shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.”

Tags: religious freedom, constitution

20 world geography facts that might surprise you

Sun, 04 May 2008 03:19:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: by Roger Wade

Clip Source: www.bootsnall.com

Portland, Oregon, where it rarely snows, is about 130 miles further north than Toronto, and over 200 miles further north than Boston.

On France’s southern Mediterranean coast, Cannes, the sunny summer playground of the rich, which is sometimes incorrectly called ‘tropical’, is about 10 miles further north than Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Sydney, Australia

Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Cape Town, and Sydney are each thousands of miles apart and are known for having unusually pleasant year-round climates, and they are all almost identical distances from the Equator.

The 49th Parallel, which makes up the long and straight US/Canada border in the west, is about 120 miles north of Estcourt Station, Maine.

The entire country of England, with over 50 million residents, is a wee bit smaller than the state of Louisiana.

France is about 30% larger than the state of California.

About two-thirds of Africa is in the Northern Hemisphere.

Tags: world, geography, facts.

State of the planet, in graphics

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:31:45 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

State of the planet, in graphics

Globally human populations are growing, trade is increasing, and living standards are rising for many. But, according to the UN's latest Global Environment Outlook report, long-term problems including climate change, pollution, access to clean water, and the threat of mass extinctions are being met with "a remarkable lack of urgency".

Tags: state of the planet, graphics, bbc, global

Attentional adhesion forces us to look at beautiful people

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:06:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The eyes have it.

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Whether we are seeking a mate or sizing up a potential rival, good-looking people capture our attention nearly instantaneously and render us temporarily helpless to turn our eyes away from them, according to a new Florida State University study.

“It’s like magnetism at the level of visual attention,” said Jon Mane

In a series of three experiments, Maner and his colleagues found that the study participants, all heterosexual men and women, fixated on highly attractive people within the first half of a second of seeing them. Single folks ogled the opposite sex, of course, but those in committed relationships also checked people out, with one major difference: They were more interested in beautiful people of the same sex.

Modern technology has enhanced these pitfalls.

Maner said he was surprised that his studies showed little differences between the sexes when it came to fixating on eye-catching people.

Tags: attentional adhesion, visual attention, beauty, attraction, rivals, research, jon maner, florida state university

Things that Needed to be Said

Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:36:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.c4vct.com

Things that Needed to be Said

"I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms."

"And God said: 'Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers. So people don't blame everything on Satan.'"

"Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in."

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."

"Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master."

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."

Tags: humor, humour

This Is What A Police State Looks Like

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:52:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Dissent is patriotic.

Clip Source: www.lewrockwell.com

In Denver, we're so afraid of unarmed civilians, we send 2 cops for each protestor.

Clip Source: www.denverpost.com

Police in riot gear surround protesters on 15th Street near Civic Center park in downtown Denver on Monday night. This is not America. This is what a police state looks like. You re worried about Beijing? This is repression, one activist shouted. (Jason Halley, Special to The Denver Post)

You have got to be kidding me....

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:34:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: www.gulfnews.com

A Hindu priest in central India killed himself with the promise he would come back to life after two days, police said on Monday

Manoj Baghel poisoned himself in front of a small crowd on Saturday at a temple in Raigarh in Chhattisgarh state, police said

He was taken to hospital, and died soon after

Police have registered a case of suicide, but have been unable to take the 25-year-old's body for an autopsy because supporters have insisted on returning the body to the temple

Police expect the crowds will give up their vigil by Monday evening

Tags: india, religion, hindu, stupidity, suicide, poison, death

DNA explodes Greek myth about women

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:40:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

British researchers have unearthed evidence that proves Helen was much more than a chattel

Women in Ancient Greece were major power brokers in their own right, researchers have discovered, and often played key roles in running affairs of state. Until now it was thought they were treated little better than servants.

The discovery is part of an investigation by Manchester researchers into the founders of Mycenae, Europe's first great city-state and capital of King Agamemnon's domains.

'It was thought that in those days women were rated as little more than chattels in Ancient Greece,' said Professor Terry Brown, of the faculty of life sciences at Manchester University. 'Our work now suggests that notion is wrong.'

Mycenae is one of the most important and evocative archaeological sites in Europe. According to legend, Agamemnon led his armies from Mycenae to Troy to bring back Helen - the wife of his ally, Menelaus - who had run off with the Trojan prince Paris.

Tags: greek, dna, women

Bush: 'God told me'. ...BBC TV program

Fri, 23 May 2008 09:38:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Where's his god now? What a nut. Don't they lock up religious freaks like this in America? Surely a snake-oil salesmen have more credibility now. When will they ever learn? I'm embarrassed every time I hear him speak. What must it be like to have been a one time Bush-lover? God!

More from the BBC program...
Bush is quoted as telling the two, "I feel God's words coming to me: 'Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East.' And by God, I'm gonna do it."

Mr Abbas remembers how the US President told him he had a "moral and religious obligation" to act.
...BBC

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq

President 'revealed reasons for war in private meeting'

Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission to bring peace to the Middle East, security for Israel, and a state for the Palestinians

made the assertion during his first meeting with Palestinian leaders in June 2003, according to a BBC series which will be broadcast this month

Bush launched an impassioned attack yesterday in Washington on Islamic militants, likening their ideology to that of Communism, and accusing them of seeking to "enslave whole nations" and set up a radical Islamic empire "that spans from Spain to Indonesia"

programmeElusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs, which starts on Monday

President: "I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq,' and I did."

Tags: religion, bush, iraq, invasion

Dam funny

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:33:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Damn beavers.

Clip Source: www.spapo.com

This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, State of Michigan. This guy's response is hilarious, but read the State's letter before you get to the response letter.

Tags: funny

California becomes first state to ban trans fats

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:34:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Good move.

Clip Source: www.iht.com

SACRAMENTO: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California signed a bill banning trans fats in restaurant food, making California the first U.S. state to ban the use of the cooking oils linked to artery-clogging cholesterol.

The new law, modeled after a ban implemented in New York City, prohibits the use of partially hydrogenated oils, which contain trans fats, by the state's 87,000 restaurants beginning in 2010 and in all baked goods sold in the state starting in 2011.

Trans fats, found in processed and fried food, candies and cookies, are vegetable oils that are treated with hydrogen to extend the shelf life of products. The oils have been linked to LDL cholesterol that clogs the arteries. New York began a ban on trans fats in all restaurants in December 2006.

"Consuming trans fat is linked to coronary heart disease, and today we are taking a strong step toward creating a healthier future for California," Schwarzenegger said in a statement.

Tags: health, california

Clipmarks | State Clips

Universities With the Best Free Online Courses

Universities With the Best Free Online Courses

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2. Open University (open.ac.uk)

3. Carnegie Mellon University (cmu.edu)

4. Tufts University (tufts.edu)

5. Stanford (stanford.edu)

6. University of California, Berkeley (berkeley.edu)

7. Utah State University (usu.edu)

8. Kutztown University of Pennsylvania (kutztownsbdc.org)

9. University of Southern Queensland (usq.edu.au)

10. University of California, Irvine (uci.edu)

Empire State Building struck by lightning

Thinking the way animals do

Associative Thinking

Your life is Perfect.

Founding Fathers Planned Religious Openness

20 world geography facts that might surprise you

State of the planet, in graphics

Attentional adhesion forces us to look at beautiful people

Things that Needed to be Said

Things that Needed to be Said

This Is What A Police State Looks Like

You have got to be kidding me....

DNA explodes Greek myth about women

Bush: 'God told me'. ...BBC TV program

Bush: God told me to invade Iraq

Dam funny

California becomes first state to ban trans fats