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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
Did Mark Zuckerberg’s Inspiration for Facebook Come Before Harvard?
by Steffan Antonas … However we have heard very few stories about Zuckerberg and the inspiration behind Facebook during the period prior to February 4th, 2004, the day he launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room. In this post we tell that story. … You may be surprised to hear that while Harvard was fertile […]
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Nitai das 1980-2012
Nitai das, a young devotee who was manifesting a fresh vision of preaching in today’s society, was snatched from our midst a couple of days ago along with two of his companions in a car wreck. He was beloved by many including his guru, Radhanath Swami with whom he had traveled extensively. He was the […]
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Monday, January 30th, 2012
Sunflower Inspires New Space-saving CSP Layout
By James Montgomery, News Editor, Photovoltaics World New Hampshire, USA — Researchers at MIT and Germany’s RWTH Aachen U. have devised a new way to set up a concentrated solar power (CSP) project that both increases the system’s efficiency and reduces the land footprint — all thanks to inspiration from Mother Nature. January 17, 2012 […]
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Sunday, January 29th, 2012
Gosh Goes Skating With Tattooed Ladies
What do Madhava Gosh, Kat Von D’stroya, Velvet Assassin, Rudie Mental, GivEmhel Kel, and Dead Wreckoning all have in common? Answer: We were all skating at the Roller Derby last night. Since my hernia operation I am not supposed to do any lifting until Feb. 7th so a lot of stuff I would normally do […]
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
God Does Not Believe In Atheists
Filed under: Jokes
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Citrus Flavored Sodas Have Issues
Source The Dangers of the Additive Brominated Vegetable Oil in Drinks I can almost thank my lucky stars, that I’ve never been much of a soda drinker, in fact, I haven’t consumed any in years. First, I find them way too sickeningly sweet, for the regular types. I also never cared for the diet type […]
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Follow Your Bliss, Ditch the Dis
Image taken from a post on Living Next Door to Alice. (Find John Prine lyrics there.) ” Because Krsna’s feet is compared as lotus — “lotus feet,” we say — so where there is lotus, there is hamsa, swan. Swan, you’ll find. That is the difference between the crows and the swan. Crows gather in […]
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
“republic” by D.A. Powell
soon, industry and agriculture converged and the combustion engine sowed the dirtclod truck farms green with onion tops and chicory mowed the hay, fed the swine and mutton through belts and chutes cleared the blue oak and the chaparral chipping the wood for mulch back-filled the marshes replacing buckbean with dent corn removed […]
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Quest to Eliminate Kåñëa
The following is for devotees who use Vedabase, and will only be an abstraction for many of my readers. Today I got two different emails with quotes from the Vedabase. The following isn’t one of them just selected for sake of example: “Therefore to become wise after many, many births of struggling or cultivating knowledge, […]
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Friday, January 20th, 2012
Giving Up Identification With the False Ego
“False ego is the pure soul’s illusory identification with the subtle material mind and the gross material body. As a result of this illusory identification, the conditioned soul feels lamentation for things lost, jubilation over things gained, fear of things inauspicious, anger at the frustration of his desires, and greed for sense gratification. “And so, […]
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Facebook Group Dedicated to Oxen
Here is an active Facebook Group for oxen enthusiasts. Seems like a good place to discuss oxen. http://www.facebook.com/groups/AllThingsOxen/ Filed under: Cows and Environment
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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
Electric plants shift from coal to natural gas
By KEVIN BEGOS Associated Press PITTSBURGH – The huge, belching smokestacks of electric power plants have long symbolized air pollution woes. But a shift is under way: More and more electric plants around the nation are being fueled by natural gas, which is far cleaner than coal, the traditional fuel. The most optimistic projections describe […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2012
To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion
“In the Caitanya-caritamrta the pure devotee is called niskama, which means he has no desire for self-interest. Perfect peace belongs to him alone, not to them who strive for personal gain.” Bhagavad Gita 8.14 From the Harvard Business Review blog by Oliver Segovia Several years ago, a friend decided she wanted to follow her passion. […]
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
The Great Mystery
“The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the […]
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Friday, January 13th, 2012
5 Thoughts You’ll Have at the Time of Death.
From Elephant blog No point in avoiding the inevitable: let’s get on with it then, shall we? Five thoughts you won’t have: 1. “I wish I’d had more plastic surgery.” 2. “I’m so glad I watched every episode of Desperate Housewives: it has given me a deep sense of fulfillment and inner peace.” 3. “I […]