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@ New 'Dykes to Watch Out For' cartoon:
http://www.washblade.com/forum/cartoons/dykes/990917a.htm
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# Magnets bring zero gravity down to Earth. NEW YORK (Reuters) Free-floating
frogs are 'pioneers' in research that may someday let us float effortless-
ly in space - right here on Earth. "In our experiments, we levitated prac-
tically everything at hand, from pieces of cheese and pizza to living
creatures including frogs and a mouse." Using forces of "diamagnetism:"
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19990917/hl/mag4_1.html
: D'ya prefer real or virtual antigravity? D'ya like to float? Is it fun? Do
you float often? Are you floating at this moment? Do you fall much? Where??
# If a big-time scientific or scholarly journal publishes a new
theory, it's probably wrong. In fact, it's almost certainly wrong:
http://www.slate.com/Economics/99-09-15/Economics.asp
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# GAY BIRDS PARENT TOGETHER AT ZOO. Zoo keepers involved in an ambitious
breeding program for endangered Griffin vultures are getting a helping
hand from a vulture couple that, ironically, doesn't breed. Keepers noted
that Dashik and Yahuda, two male vultures at Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, had
built a nest together and were mating. So they decided to give the couple
an artificial egg to see what would happen. Dashik and Yahuda are good
parents: http://cnn.com/NATURE/9909/18/gay.vulture.parents/index.html
: Do gender roles control parenting? Does gender preference determine value?
Were your parents better or worse than two gay vultures? Are you a good egg?
# Gender stereotypes: it turns out that we don't impose them on
our children after all. They impose them on us:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990904/newsstory2.html
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@ PROTECT US! When, on his way home from work, a Chesapeake TV-shop owner
encountered an occupied "flying saucer," little did he expect that this
classic "UFO abduction" would fuel a controversy now reaching its peak
with the prospect of a lawsuit against Virginia Gov. James Gilmore for
his failure to acknowledge and to repel this invasion of our air space
and private space. http://caus.org/mc091899.htm
: Have you ever sued a govt for failing to protect you from UFOs? Did you
win? Have UFOs ever harmed you? Are UFOs worse than lawyers? Which ones?
# When a scientist fakes his data, peers ought to catch him out. But what
of the supposed link between electromagnetic fields and cancer?
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/OPINION/t000076909.html
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# Totally MAD. (AP) Next time you suspect someone of being an off-planet
alien, ask them to identify the most famous saying of Alfred E. Neuman,
and if they don't respond "What - me worry?" call the cops.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19990906/tc/compubug_mad_1.html
: If you're not MAD-savvy, are you an ET or just culturally illiterate? Are
you an ET? With what cultures aren't you conversant? Can you fake humanity?
@ Want to become a leading French intellectual, jetting to conferences
where American academics worship at you feet? Just follow these simple
instructions: http://www.linguafranca.com/9909/inside.html
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# PERSONAL CONTACT EXPERIENCEs (PCEs) - Unseen Forces. I had an experience
last night. I was asleep (sleeping on my back) and I got a "sensation."
I've had these before (probably dozens of times by now). I feel like some
force pulls me. Usually it feels like something is attacking me and I am
usually pulled up into the air feet first. But this time it pulled me up
forward but then quickly down - like my body was pivoted at the point of
my waist. http://caus.org/pc091899.htm
: Have you ever been pulled by unseen forces? Were you awake? Did the forces
ever release you? Are you still in their grasp? Are you awake now? Why not?
@ Carl Sagan combined integrity, generosity, and a polemical style that
advanced his quiet dissection of the follies and fancies of our times:
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0999issue/0999reviews1.html
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@ TOPOLOGICAL GEOMETRODYNAMICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS. The basic assumption
of T(opological) G(eometro)D(ynamics) is that physical spacetimes are
representable as surfaces of a certain 8-dimensional space M4+ x CP2,
where M4+ is the future light cone of Minkowski space and CP2 is complex
projective space of two complex dimensions. In the following the basic
ideas of a TGD inspired theory of consciousness are described shortly.
http://www.teleport.com/~rhett/quantum-d/posts/matti_6-25-96.html
: Is your consciousness a quantum effect? Is "free will" a quantum state? Do
you make quantum jumps between states of consciousness? Is time subjective?
@ The story of 17th-century science: the cerebral,little-travelled Newton;
Flamsteed, who would not publish; Halley, who drank, smoked, and swore:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/09/12/stibooboo01016.html?999
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# UFO GEOMETRY 101 - UFO Resource Center Buzzed by a Triangular UFO. We saw
a spectacular event that took place near the UFO Resource Center, over the
little town known as Auburn and Kent, WA. A triangular UFO caused quite a
stir with the military. A power failure to a diesel generator pumping the
town's drinking water also occurred. http://caus.org/ft091899.htm
: Have you ever stirred the military? Is it fun? Do triangular UFOs usually
fly around your head? Does your equipment fail then? Do you have back-ups??
# The Japanese were always quick to adapt. In the ruins of Nagasaki, locals
joined the US military in sponsoring a Miss Atomic Bomb beauty contest:
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/99/08/29/stibooboo01012.html?999
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@ Outpatient Management of Depression: A Guide:
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11976.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11977.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11978.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11979.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11980.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11981.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11982.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11983.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11984.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11985.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11986.rhtml
http://psychiatry.medscape.com/11987.rhtml
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