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- The Mystery of a Great Asian Civilisation: The Lost City of Angkor Wat
- Tower Generates 600% More Electricity Than Traditional Wind Turbines
- Colorado Sells $19 Million in Weed in March: $1.9 Million Goes to Schools and Crime Down 10%
- The Pope With Two Faces
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Posted: 03 Jun 2014 09:30 PM PDT
Angkor Wat is a vast stone temple at the heart of an ancient stone city. But at the ends of its corridors and the centres of its hidden rooms lie surprising Buddhist shrines still active in a place abandoned for hundreds of years.
These Buddhist statues are imposters, hasty late additions to a religious building constructed to accommodate the myths and rituals of Hinduism. They are splendid still, some draped incongruously in new and garish orange robes, the polyester glowing harsh against the cool, old stone. They are alive, thriving on the centuries of mystical memory that make Angkor Wat one of the most fascinating and mysterious places on Earth.  Read Entire Article »  |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2014 08:30 PM PDT
The Sheerwind wind turbine promises to produce 6 times the electrical power than traditional wind turbines. This funny looking wind tower acts like a funnel, directing the wind from any angle, down through a tube to a ground based turbine generator. The funneling of the wind through a narrow passage effectively creates a “jet effect” increasing the velocity of the wind, while lowering the pressure.
This is called the Venturi Effect. This speeds up the wind turbine mounted inside the narrowest portion and generates electricity. As such it can capture and generate electricity at a much lower wind speed than current wind power technologies. The idea is so simple, so elegant, and promises to produce so much more energy at lower cost and more efficiently, that it might just be the answer to many problems with current wind turbine technology.  Read Entire Article »  |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2014 08:00 PM PDT
All the naysayers who were against marijuana legalization are eating crow about now. Colorado’s weed sales just keep trending up, and with the sales of legal weed, they are improving their schools and reducing overall crime rates.
Not counting medicinal weed sales, Colorado sold nearly $19 million in their recreational weed market in the month of March, and $1.9 million of that goes straight into government coffers and towards building schools. At this pace, according to PolicyMic, Colorado will make $30 million this year in pot taxes alone. What’s even more promising is that these numbers are still low estimates, as the recreational and medicinal marijuana markets (coinciding just fine, take note Washington) are likely to keep trending upward. Many say that a figure closer to $60 million in weed tax revenue is a more likely assumption. Medical marijuana is also not as heavily taxes as recreational marijuana, and hopefully it will stay that way.  Read Entire Article »  |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2014 07:00 PM PDT
Evil must run its course
“How true it is – he who lusts after what is not his due, not only does he not attain his desire, but he also loses what he has!” [1] Being a benign Divine Creator, Source of all that Is, is filled with pity for such as those in positions of control over others; such as have the self-accrued authority to rule others whom they, themselves asleep in the slumber of past ages, have put their adherents to the same sleep, drugging them with tenets of religion and, not its blessings, but its curses.  Read Entire Article »  |
