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Furry Epiphany
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Rocket is for real!
jup_reindeer treated me to a showing of "Guardians of the Galaxy" Tuesday night - and in 3-D, too ( Read more... ) -
The function of the brain explained more clearly than I've ever heard it explained before
A neuroanatomist has a stroke, experiences first-hand the phenomenological differences between the two hemispheres of the brain, and ascending back from near death, discovers the inner path to nirvana. By the end, I had tears streaming down my face. There are so many profound truths to be learned here...
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Shed
Today is garbage pickup day, and when I was out walking Shadow just now, I saw this black-tailed deer skull sitting on a pile of trash bags in front of a neighbor's house.
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40 maps that explain the Middle East
If you have any kind of interest at all in the goings-on in the Middle East - both present and historical - you should find this to be a very information-rich reference.
http://www.vox.com/a/maps-explain-the-middle-east
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Whatever happened to soul music?
2014 marks the 50th anniversary of my becoming a listener and fan of popular music. My mom got me a clock radio when I started 5th grade, and it really transformed my life. Even at that very young age, I had already become an insomniac, often lying awake until 3 or 4AM just tossing and turning, but after I got my own radio, I at least had something ( Read more... ) -
Martian sunset
On Urth, the sky appears blue, and sunsets are reddish.
On Mars, the sky appears reddish, and sunsets are blue.
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