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    you can already tell this experientially in your own life.

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    http://nautil.us/blog/dear-iphoneit-...d-now-its-over

    The author parts ways with her iPhone, but links several good articles on how the mind extends itself into the environment, and vice-versa.

    Anyone who has used a pair of pliers knows how easily the brain extends the limits of the body. I found very interesting the idea that hearing spoken language creates the language of our inner monologues.

    What are the inner languages of people who are deaf from birth?
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    wikipedia articles count, right?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona

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    Since the time when the flooding of the Nile made workers so productive they could build pyramids in their spare time:

    https://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/

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    Father Ted to return as musical, co-creator says

    The musical will see Ted move from the fictional Craggy Island to his new role as Pope in the Vatican.

    Linehan, who also created Channel 4 sitcom the IT Crowd and co-created sitcom Black Books, said the musical was about "the least qualified man in the world becoming Pope".

    He said: "I didn't want to do anything like this until the right idea came along, and when Trump won and Corbyn won [the Labour leadership] I kind of thought, 'Maybe Ted has a chance'.

    "I thought it wouldn't be too much of a stretch. Obviously we're pulling some shenanigans to get him into that position but I think the shenanigans are entertaining enough that people won't mind."

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    http://www.addisonindependent.com/20...ersial-speaker

    http://nomadcapitalist.com/2015/01/0...ist-countries/


    http://www.addisonindependent.com/20...ersial-speaker

    "Middlebury College professor injured by protesters as she escorted controversial speaker" (Posted on March 6, 2017) [By Addison Independent]

    Middlebury College Professor Allison Stanger was injured by protesters Thursday evening as she was escorting a controversial speaker from campus. She was treated at Porter Hospital and released.

    Charles Murray, a political scientist who has been criticized for his views on race and intelligence, was invited to speak on campus by a student group. He was greeted late Thursday afternoon outside McCullough Student Center by hundreds of protesters, and inside Wilson Hall, students turned their backs to him and booed when he got up to speak.

    College officials led Murray to another location and a closed circuit broadcast showed him being interviewed by Stanger, the Russell J. Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics.

    As Stanger, Murray and a college administrator left McCullough following the event, they were “physically and violently confronted by a group of protesters,” according to college spokesman Bill Burger.

    Burger said the protesters were masked.

    “It is our belief that some of them were nonstudents. They were not from our community. I would call them ‘outside agitators.’ But I also believe that it’s possible that some of them were students,” he said.

    Burger said college public safety officers managed to get Stanger and Murray into the administrator’s car.

    “The protesters then violently set upon the car, rocking it, pounding on it, jumping on and trying to prevent it from leaving campus,” he said. “At one point a large traffic sign was thrown in front of the car. Public Safety officers were able, finally, to clear the way to allow the vehicle to leave campus.

    “During this confrontation outside McCullough, one of the demonstrators pulled Prof. Stanger’s hair and twisted her neck,” Burger continued. “She was attended to at Porter Hospital later and (on Friday) is wearing a neck brace.”

    Burger described the attacks as “scary, violent mob action” and praised campus safety officers for their part in protecting Murray and Stanger.

    Sgt. Mike Christopher of the town of Middlebury Police Department said local officers were on campus but hadn’t heard about the attack.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ashlesha View Post
    I wish they would repeat this research in other cultures. and in past ones.

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    Quote Originally Posted by silke View Post
    might be linked to Icke's theory regarding Saturn and the moon matrix. could be that caterpillars are less/not influenced by the frequencies and therefore they can metamorphose.

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    hinge-employs-new-algorithm-to-find-your-most-compatible-match-for-you

    Unlikely to fall on dual/semi-dual this way, like it's probably based on same interests, so same club very often encountered i guess.
    LTR still doomed.

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    http://www.newscientist.com/article/...domestication/

    Monkeys starting to domesticate wolves?

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    This can't be correct.

    1. It doesn't give types to the philosophies/ers

    2. Monty Python isn't singing about their drunkenness

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    Quote Originally Posted by ashlesha View Post
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/...domestication/

    Monkeys starting to domesticate wolves?
    God, you've already done this once, can't you find something else to do?

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    Quote Originally Posted by coeruleum View Post
    God, you've already done this once, can't you find something else to do?
    Lol did I link the same article twice? Oops

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    Quote Originally Posted by ashlesha View Post
    Yeah, I picture God as looking like Zeus but more stereotypically Jewish when he's not described as a burning bush or a storm or something else non-human. I have no idea how anyone imagines God as looking like this even if they're in an acoustic guitar cult and the pastor is substituting God for I/me all the time. That just tends to make me imagine the pastor as Michelangelo Painting God.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ashlesha View Post
    Lol did I link the same article twice? Oops
    By "God" I actually mean the Lord God.

    There's either a new God, or the old God decided he wants to copy Steve Jobs and start replacing humans like iPhones by having monkeys and wolves evolve into people and dogs repeatedly. We're going to have the Human 2, Human 3, Human Shuffle, Human Nano, Human Touch, Human 4, Human 5S (The Supermen,) Human 5C (the inferior, colored version, thanks Steve Jobs for creating our racist future under our probably new God,) Human 6, Human XS (because Nano wasn't new enough) and we're just going to get replaced every couple of years in God time (creation took seven "days" so let's do the math) because the old ones will all wear out at the same time as expected and start getting cancer and heart disease once our doctors patch all the bugs and block the viruses.
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    Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time – an endeavor as dangerous as landing on the moon


    That's arguably more remote than the moon — radio waves sent back-and-forth during the Apollo missions took just 2.5 to 2.7 seconds to transmit.

    But this location isn't in space; it's at the bottom of the sea.

    In December, explorer and investor Victor Vescovo, along with scientist Alan Jamieson from Newcastle University, are embarking on a groundbreaking mission more than 6.5 miles under the waves. The two are heading out in a new $48 million dollar submarine to better map the bottom the world's five oceans.

    They're calling the mission, which will be the first time people travel to the bottom of each of the world's seas, "Five Deeps."

    "Our depth of ignorance about the oceans is quite dramatic," Vescovo said as he introduced the mission to an audience in New York. "Four of the oceans have never even had a human being go to their bottom. In fact, we don't even know with great certainty where the bottom of the four are."

    First up on the five-dive trip will be the Puerto Rican trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean. It's a spot no human has ever explored, and it's so deep that any communications from the submarine will take seven seconds to travel back up.

    Jamieson's research often sends cameras and sample boxes to the sea floor, but that's not the same as going there.

    "The geomorphology of these trenches is really like nothing you can see on land," he said. "This is where the planet is pushing the sea floor back into the Earth's mantle."

    In the Puerto Rican Trench, more than 5 miles under the surface of the water, the pressure is immense: over 800 times what it is at sea level.

    To better handle that high-pressure environment, the hull of the Triton 36000 submarine that Vescovo and Jamieson will travel in will morph and change shape on their three-hour journey to the Atlantic Ocean's floor.

    "The acrylic moves a quarter of an inch deeper towards Victor, as he gets down to those depths," Triton engineer John Ramsey explained. "The whole thing is shifting and changing shape."

    The submarine will probably scare off most of the animals that live in the pitch-black part of the ocean more than 3,280 feet below the surface. But the vessel should be much better at mapping the ocean floor than satellites, thanks to its 3-D sonar system. The sub might collect some critters that don't scare easily in biological sample boxes and sediment cores that the team will pick up.

    "Then we can start to look at what it is that's driving these ecosystems," Jamieson said. "By looking at a warm trench versus a cold trench, shallow trenches versus big ones, you start to knock out the variables and see the commonalities."

    After the Puerto Rican dive, the vessel will spend the next seven months, until August 2019, zig-zagging its way to the four other deepest places in the planet's oceans, including one spot that we think is the deepest of them all.

    While hundreds of people have ventured into space, and a dozen have landed on the moon, only three have touched down on the deepest known place on the sea floor, the Challenger Deep.

    That's a spot at the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, almost 7 miles underwater — a location farther down from sea level than Mount Everest is up.

    Film director James Cameron went there in 2012, and explorers Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh did it more than 50 years earlier in 1960. But that's it.

    Jamieson said the deepest 45% of the ocean has been essentially ignored by explorers. The South Sandwich Trench in the Southern Ocean hasn't even been named yet, so the Five Deeps crew is looking forward to claiming naming rights there.

    It's possible, however, that the Challenger Deep isn't really the deepest place in the ocean after all.

    Jamieson said much of today's sea floor mapping is based off of very "dodgy" information. And a lot of data is inferred from satellite pictures.

    "The deeper you go, the more your error is," he said. "I've certainly been to places in the Indian Ocean, just the last year, the depth was over 1,000 meters shallower than it was supposed to be."

    Jamieson and Vescovo think it's possible that they'll discover a place deeper than the Challenger Deep.

    "The Tonga Trench, off the Island of Tonga, is less than 100 meters shallower," Vescovo said. "If we go to the Tonga Trench, and we find a canyon, rest assured I'm going to be diving to that canyon to get that depth... to hopefully find a new discovery of the deepest ocean in the world."

    The trickiest dives on the mission will also be the coldest.

    The team plans to travel to the 18,600-foot-deep Molloy Deep in the Arctic for its final mission in August. The area is not nearly as deep as the other trenches they'll explore, but it's another place where no human's ever been.

    With climate change warming up the ice that normally sits atop the water, the seas are a bit rougher too, so the crew expects that Arctic dive to be their toughest challenge of all.

    When you're 5 to 7 miles underwater, anything that goes wrong could prove deadly. The engineers who've designed this submarine admit that it's going to a lung-crushing depth.

    "There's very little chance of getting rescued when you're down 11 kilometers (6.8 miles)," Ramsey said, quickly adding, "well, there's no chance."

    For that reason, the vessel doesn't move very fast on these missions, typically no quicker than about 3.5 mph. And it's got some other safety features designed to keep it from getting stuck below.

    "We've made anything that the sub could potentially get entangled in ejectable," Ramsey said, explaining that the thrusters, batteries, and manipulator arm of the submarine can all be released and fall off the machine. "What you're left with, once everything's been ejected, is quite a different-looking vehicle."

    Vescovo, who's a pilot and former Navy reserve intelligence officer, says safety is also the reason he asked that the submarine be made of titanium, even though it means he only has three palm-sized porthole-style windows to peek through.

    "I trust titanium, not glass," he said.

    Vescovo added that he's relieved to know the oxygen tanks inside will still be accessible, even if the electronics fail. "We have multiple avenues of getting that oxygen out of the bottles to keep us alive," he said.

    The team's first dive, which should last less than six hours, will take place during the first week in December.


    Also super interesting (James Cameron - among a few others, manned and unmanned descents - have already dived to the depths of the Challenger Deep, so although it's not the first time humans have touched the deepest corners of the Pacific Ocean, it will [presumably] be the first time they've touched the deepest corners of the other 4 oceans - Atlantic, Indian, Southern, Arctic - and there is a slim possibility that the Challenger Deep could be even deeper than we think it is)
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