You tend to be an intuitive thinker, and you have found that if you have a strong intuitive feeling about an answer you go with it, and it is usually correct. " New neuroscience study shows that going with your...
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Tsvi Bisk is an American-Israeli futurist, social researcher and strategy planning consultant. He is the Director of the Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking (www.futurist-thinking.co.il). He is co-author of...
Head of a waxwork of Adolf Hitler's has been restored and it will be reinstalled at the Germany's Madame Tussauds . "A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its...
"The fabled crown of the Shah kings, studded with priceless gems and easily identifiable by the long bird of paradise feather rising from the apex, is missing, as well as the royal sceptre.The crown was last worn in public by Gyanendra, the last king of Nepal, on June 4, 2001...
An interesting snack for thought: with all types of media and culture now widely accessible on the web, can subcultures stay underground anymore? Or are indie kids all too willing to be in the Facebook spotlight,...
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Why is it that black is the color of mourning in the West, but white is customary in Asian cultures?Somber clothes at times of grief go back at least as far as the Old Testament. Rudolph Zehnpfund ("Mourning...
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If you were to choose an image to represent your family and turn it into an emblem, what would you choose, plant, abstract symbol, creature? Japan is said to count some 20.000 of these family crests and our friends at PingMag explore those graced with animals in 'Joyous...
"Austrian prosecutors are investigating young soldiers seen exchanging Hitler salutes in a video that appeared on the Internet, Defense Minister Norbert Darabos said on Tuesday.
In a statement, Darabos said suspects had been tracked down and were being questioned over the...
In yet another example of the rise of neo-Nazi, far-right sentiment on the post-WW2 world, the Austrian Army is investigating a video released on YouTube showing uniformed Austrian troops using the roman empirical...
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"A small group of far-right Hungarians formed a uniformed "guard" unit on Saturday amid calls by Jewish and Roma groups for it be banned, saying the body sported Nazi-era symbols.
Cheered by 1,000 people in front of the presidential palace, 56 men in uniforms with red and...
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"Wild Horse Herd Wins Reprieve
by: The Associated PressHundreds of wild horses and burros slated for roundup at a national wildlife refuge along the Nevada-Oregon line will continue to roam free, at least for...
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"Blues & Blacks: Wired Up But Melting Down"Blues and blacks: symbols of inspiration for writing, creating,
dreaming. I probably dream in blue, and most certainly think in blue.
Sometimes yellow enters in the distance; it softly blends with the soft
blue haze and quietly...
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From the AP:
"It was a 3-foot-by-10-foot section of timeworn brick wall, its predictable rows abruptly interrupted by three distinct, deliberate-looking triangular shapes ... Painstakingly preserved from a...
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The Great Ape Trust in Iowa, which is home to eight bonobo apes, is about to get two Trumpeter Swans in a nearby pond. This on its own is not a huge deal, but the fact that the apes get to name the swans...
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I particularly like how Konami spins the subliminal message as a "glitch". Gambling is already a long-term losing proposition (the house always wins), but this breed of machine sendmetenbucks makes it worse."A gambling operator in Ontario, Canada, has shut down 87 Konami...
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