February 2012
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A Real Education
nourish-mindbodysoul:
So the past few days I have been attending the Landmark Education Forum. I won’t go too much into details about what it is etc. Needless to say that it’s something I think everyone should experience.
However, I do want to share what I was able to take away from it, and the kind of profound moments I had over the weekend. One of the first things that really struck a cord...
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The myth of the eight-hour sleep.
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“In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month.
It took some time for their sleep to regulate but by the fourth week the subjects had settled into a very distinct sleeping pattern. They slept first for four hours, then woke for one or two hours ...
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GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate... →
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Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your...
– Jonathan Coulton, definitively. (via merlin)
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I wish I could hang up gifs in my room like...
stupid muggle world.
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If there is one abuse that offends our conscience in every way, it is the...
– Desmond Tutu (via abigailpearl
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo... →
arsvivendi:
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.” is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language, used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo. It...
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Breaking News: Medicinal Cannabis Laws Have No... →
weedporndaily:
The enactment of state laws allowing for the limited legal use of cannabis by qualified patients has little to no causal effect on broader marijuana use, according to data published online in the journal Annals of Epidemiology.
Investigators at McGill University in Montreal obtained state-level estimates of marijuana use from the 2002 through 2009 US National Survey on Drug Use...
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