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@ Y2K Checklist: http://sonic.net/~ric/checklist.htm
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# HONG KONG WANTS TO MODERNIZE ANCIENT CHINESE HEALING ARTS. Chinese herbal
remedies may be less effective than Western drugs, but why not try them?
Touted as milder: "There are a lot of chemicals in Western medicines, and
I'm worried about side effects," he says, sitting in a room full of jars
of dried leaves, roots & fruits, coils of dried snakes, lizards mounted
on bamboo sticks and several deer penises in mildewed glass cases.
http://www.healthcentral.com/news/newsfulltext.cfm?ID=20882
: What are your favorite ancient healing arts, herbs, dried animals? Do you
use dried deer penis salve or tincture? Where? How d'ya inject dried lizard?
# Feline Fatherhood Furore: http://helix.nature.com/nsu/991111/991111-8.html
# Big Biz In Baby Parts - Fetal tissue sellers cash in via legal loophole:
http://worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/19991112_xex_the_big_busi.shtml
# Shooting rampages caused by Ritalin? Hearings examine psychotropic
drugs' effect on kids: http://www.denverpost.com/news/leg/leg1110.htm
# Size Matters - Prenatal screening may soon make dwarfism obsolete. Is
this eugenics, or a cure? http://feedmag.com/deepread/dr261_master.html
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# Candidates coy on faith.(AP) Presidential hopefuls have long spent Sundays
canvassing churches to share their faith & shake hands with pious voters.
But when it comes to their own religion, the candidates are a bit more
circumspect; most want to talk about faith & morality without getting too
personal. "Candidates see this (election) as an opportunity to address
religious & spiritual & moral questions. As long as the economy keeps
doing well, this will stay on the public concern list." Reveal nothing:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562046586-bc0
@ Queen Jane Bible: http://www.queenjanesversion.com
# Catholic Church begins fingerprinting priests:
http://news.excite.com/news/u/991111/13/news-fingerprints
# Bible belted by divorce - South trails only Nevada in breakups:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/19991111/us/the_divorce_belt_1.html
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@ 21st CENTURY INVENTIONS: http://www.feedmag.com/invent/index.htm
@ Thinking Small - Molecular-scale manufacturing, the gray goo problem,
and how nanotechnology will change the world as we know it.
http://www.feedmag.com/invent/pesce.html?alert
# The Spy Who Financed Me - Why is the CIA turning its long history
of covert invention into a venture capital project?
http://www.feedmag.com/invent/boal.html?alert
# Xerox's Proving Ground - When the marketplace is king, can a
corporate research outfit like PARC remain a real innovator?
http://www.feedmag.com/invent/parc.html?alert
@ INTERFACE - Tomorrow's Desktop. What will computer screens look like
ten years from now? http://www.feedmag.com/invent/interface.html
@ Immaculate Contraptions - a sneak preview of the inventions that may
transform the next century. http://www.feedmag.com/invent/brief.html
: Can we have the foggiest notion of what anything will be like in 10, 20,
50, 100 years? Will time-traveling aliens tell us? Do we have to invent the
future the hard way, with blood/sweat/luck? Are you up to it? Are your lice?
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# Uri and Ira, together again. Uri Geller didn't want to make a scene in the
restaurant, so he grabbed my teaspoon and walked to the swinging doors in
the back of the room. "I'm going to bend a spoon." But this meeting wasn't
meant to uncover the secrets of Geller's spoon-bending abilities, but was
about Ira Einhorn, the fugitive hippie guru who killed girlfriend Holly
Maddux. "Ossining was like a brainstorming center," Geller said during
the interview. "He had a control over people," Geller said of his friend.
http://phillynews.com:80/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/URII12.htm
# Also - PSYCHIC TRICKERY?
http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/USID12.htm
# Einhorn's Internet words of wisdom:
http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/UBAR12.htm
# Ira interviewed in new Esquire:
http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/99/Nov/12/local/UIRA12.htm
: Would you rather bend a spoon or kill someone? Would you kill to be able
to bend spoons mentally? Does Geller kill with spoons? Are you in control?
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# Taking Einstein to the Mat - Peer into Black Holes to Test Relativity.
LIVINGSTON, La. (AP) Scientists gathering this week in the piney woods of
Louisiana aren't looking for a rare fern or an endangered species of bird.
They'll dedicate the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,
a $350 mln project to test Einstein's theory of relativity. The LIGWO and
a site 2,000 miles away in Hanford, Wash. will work in unison with lasers,
mirrors and high-tech meters to detect tiny shifts in the universe thought
to be caused by gravity waves predicted by Einstein in 1916. Look here:
http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/gravwave991111.html
# Einstein relatively late with E=MC^2. The math equation that ushered in
the atomic age was discovered by an unknown Italian dilettante two years
before Albert Einstein used it in developing the theory of relativity.
Plagiarize: http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/9911/12/text/world12.html
: Is everything relative? Are you related to yourself? Is plagiarism the
most sincere form of flattery? Do you exhibit gravity waves when you walk?
@ WRONG! Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the Nobel Prize winner who discovered that
dogs could be conditioned, was really trying to market dog saliva as an
appetite suppressant. http://news.excite.com/news/uw/991109/university-161
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PsychLinks:
# The Mozart Effect - not just Amadeus; Yanni does it too:
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19991106/themozarte.html
@ MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/errors/mitecs-please-subscribe.tcl?url=/MITECS/
@ The Unconscious Mind: http://www.newscientist.com/ns/980905/features.html
@ Living Links: http://www.cc.emory.edu/LIVING_LINKS/
@ Ethology Films: http://erl.ornithol.mpg.de/~fshuman/EngHomep/eindex.html
@ Implicit Association Test Web Site: http://depts.washington.edu/iat/
@ Psych Web! http://www.psywww.com/
@ Internet Animal Behavior: http://cricket.unl.edu/Internet.html
@ Psychiatry & Mental Health: http://www.scicentral.com/H-psychi.html
@ WWW Psychology Resources: http://wapsy.psy.uwa.edu.au/ptrspsy.htm
@ Net Cognitive/Psychological Sciences: http://matia.stanford.edu/cogsci/
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