Petra: Lost City of Stone | American Museum of Natural History

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Venus in the Corner Pocket
The Controversial Theories of Immanuel Velikovsky :

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Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision

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The Immanuel Velikovsky Archive

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The Official Frank Zappa Website
How about some Frank Zappa Radio? (Choose your band-width). This world would be better off if he was still with us. And Lord have mercy on the republicrats if he were.

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A Commentary on "Beelzebub's Tales"
This book is without doubt one of the most extraordinary books ever published. Its title is no exaggeration, for the book not only touches on all and every conceivable subject, but it also is all and everything—that is, a collection of science fiction tales, an allegory, a satire, a philosophical treatise, a sociological essay, an introduction to psychology, a cryptogram and, for those who follow Gurdjieff's teachings, a bible. It is a highly unusual mixture of entertainment and esotericism, humor and seriousness, obscurity and clarity.

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Random Quotes

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The Rainer Maria Rilke Archive
Loneliness

Being apart and lonely is like rain.
It climbs toward evening from the ocean plains;
from flat places, rolling and remote, it climbs
to heaven, which is its old abode.
And only when leaving heaven drops upon the city.

It rains down on us in those twittering
hours when the streets turn their faces to the dawn,
and when two bodies who have found nothing,
dissapointed and depressed, roll over;
and when two people who despise each other
have to sleep together in one bed-

that is when loneliness receives the rivers...


Translated by Robert Bly

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Come to Dreamland Theater on Friday, November 7 or Saturday November 8 for another showing of my documentary on Sun Ra and his Arkestra (Cosmos Songs). Included will be the debut of a new as yet untitled short surrealistic film
Showtime TBA but probably 8:00pm.

"What do you do when you know that you know that you know that you're wrong?
You got to face the music, you got to listen to the cosmos song", (Sun Ra)

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Imagining Thought-Controlled Movement for Humans: "Striking progress in what can honestly be called thought-controlled robotics raises an obvious question: if monkeys can do it, why not humans? "

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Upper Peninsula of Michigan Photos, Pictures, Images-Presque Isle Marquette, Mi
There is a legend that the rocks of Presque Isle possess healing powers. My visit there two years ago did seem to have a regenerative effect. I am going back for more.

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CableAmerica: Lake Superior

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NPR : Gospel of Thomas Explored in 'Beyond Belief': "Theologian Elaine Pagels has written Beyond Belief, The Secret Gospel of Thomas. The text of the gospel, discovered in 1945 in Egypt, paints a different vision of Jesus than do the Gospels that made it into the official biblical canon. Pagels speaks with NPR's John Ydstie."

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Monkey's brain signals control 'third arm'

Monkeys can control a robot arm as naturally as their own limbs using only brain signals, a pioneering experiment has shown. The macaque monkeys could reach and grasp with the same precision as their own hand.

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The pain of wounded feelings is real to the mind
: "STICKS and stones can break your bones, but words can also hurt you. Scientists have shown that the pain of feeling personally insulted can seem as real to the mind as that of a physical injury"

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ScienceDaily News Release: Rejection Really Hurts, UCLA Psychologists Find Two key areas of the brain appear to respond to the pain of rejection in the same way as physical pain, a UCLA-led team of psychologists reports in the Oct. 10 issue of Science.

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New Scientific Journal Challenges Establishment
A new scientific journal that challenges the expensive heavyweights that have dominated the world of research hits the Internet on Monday.
The journal, called the Public Library of Science Biology, is backed by leading scientists such as Dr. Harold Varmus, former director of the National Institutes of Health and now chief executive officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
They want to speed up the pace at which research is published, and also make it accessible to even the poorest of graduate students.

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