Endangered Species Day: Protecting Biodiversity

▲ ▲ ▲ Endangered Species Day: Friday, May 17, 2013 Celebrate Endangered Species Day! Endangered Species Day is an opportunity for people young and old to learn about the importance of protecting endangered species and everyday actions that people can … Continue reading

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Tom Campbell: Consciousness Is The Computer, Reality Is Information

▲ ▲ ▲ Are humans “Virtual Reality Rovers” that have evolved in this Universe? Consciousness Is The Computer, Reality Is Information Tom Campbell expands on his Theory of Everything (My Big TOE) and how we humans interface with this reality, … Continue reading

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Earth Hour Is March 23: Switch Off Your Lights

▲ ▲ ▲ Indonesian actress Pevita Pearce will sleep without air conditioning for one month AND plant 100 trees IF 10,000 of her Instagram and Twitter followers share their action for the planet using the hash-tag #dukungAKSIpevita ! ‘Ini Aksiku! … Continue reading

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BigDog Robot Tosses Cinder Blocks 17 Feet!

▲ ▲ ▲ BigDog Robot Prepare for the new world of robots all around you and being a familiar part of your environment. BigDog now has manipulative strength and can toss cinder blocks with its “mouth” upwards of 17 feet. … Continue reading

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Vernal Equinox on Wednesday, March 20

▲ ▲ ▲ Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 7:02 a.m. EDT (11:02 a.m. UTC) will mark the vernal equinox, the exact time when the sun shines directly on the equator and the length of day and night is nearly equal. The … Continue reading

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Hummingbirds Begin Spring Migration!

▲ ▲ ▲ Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) Hummingbirds Begin North America Spring Migration! Those miniature marvels of nature, the hummingbirds, have already begun landing on the Gulf Coast from Texas to Florida! The hummers have wintered in Central American and … Continue reading

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Last of the Curlews: A Lost Bird’s Life

▲ ▲ ▲ Eskimo Curlew, Courlis esquimau (Numenius borealis) March, 1962 on Galveston Island, Texas Photo by: Don Bleitz, Copyright held by Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, CA The Eskimo Curlew is a “modern extinction” along with the Passenger Pigeon, … Continue reading

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Monkey Controls Robot With Thoughts, Then Enters Virtual Reality

▲ ▲ ▲ The profound accomplishment of robotic thought control by a monkey was years ago. Aurora the monkey controlled a robotic arm with her thoughts. This was the first time a “brain intention was liberated from the physical domain … Continue reading

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The Universe Reveals a Celestial Valentine

❤ ❤ ❤ Cosmic Valentine Courtesy of the Spitzer Space Telescope The Universe reveals a celestial Valentine for Valentine’s Day, courtesy of NASA and the Spitzer Space Telescope. Generations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from NASA’s … Continue reading

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Ray Kurzweil Joins Google to Create a Mind

▲ ▲ ▲ Ray Kurzweil has joined Google as Director of Engineering to improve artificial intelligence – or transbiological intelligence as Kurzweil terms it. Known for his latest book, How to Create a Mind, Kurzweil has literally teamed with Google … Continue reading

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Russell Means: Remembering the Names of the Clouds

# # # If You Have Forgotten the Names of the Clouds, You Have Lost Your Way Russell Means, the American Indian activist, philosopher, and human rights activist, died October 22, 2012. His last public video on his YouTube channel … Continue reading

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