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wrote a new post, Sustainable Tips for Dining Out February 4, 2018 @ 8:01 am
You know the drill. You’re going out on the town tonight. Dinner and a movie with friends or loved ones. The waitress automatically gives you a plastic straw for your drink. There’s so much food, you can’t finis […]
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posted an update February 1, 2018 @ 10:23 am
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Zachary Hayes replied
Beautiful!
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Zachary Hayes replied
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wrote a new post, The Internet May Be Killing Religion, Suggests Sociologist January 25, 2018 @ 7:31 pm
A new study published in the “Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion” claims that the internet is making more people become religiously unaffiliated.
Sociologist Paul McClure at Baylor […]
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Connie Cuellar replied
This is good news. It’s wonderful that the internet has the capacity to open minds to different possibilities.
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Connie Cuellar replied
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wrote a new post, NEW STUDY: Plants Respond to Danger January 25, 2018 @ 10:55 am
Plants may lack eyes and ears, but they can still see, hear, smell and respond to environmental cues and dangers, a new study reveals. They do this with the aid of hundreds of membrane proteins that sense microbes […]
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Perry Rod replied
I will never eat another plant again lol
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Perry Rod replied
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wrote a new post, The Future of Sustainable Cities January 19, 2018 @ 8:53 am
Cities across the globe are growing and mankind has to find ways of making life there more sustainable.
In 1950, fewer than one-third of the world’s people lived in cities. Today more than half do. By 2050, […]
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wrote a new post, “Cosmos” Returns to TV Spring 2019 January 13, 2018 @ 8:28 pm
The smash-hit TV science documentary “Cosmos” will once again tantalize the world’s imagination in the spring of 2019, FOX and National Geographic announced today. Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, the famed astrop […]
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wrote a new post, Salt “cocktails” are harming the water supply, 50-year study finds. January 10, 2018 @ 12:38 pm
Our water supplies are suffering from a severe salt “cocktail” hangover.
During winter months, it’s easy to reach for the rock salt to melt the ice and snow on walkways and driveways for safety sake. Acros […]
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wrote a new post, New Marker Can Detect Fatal Breast Cancer Up to One Year Earlier January 2, 2018 @ 2:02 pm
There’s new hope for those seeking early detection of breast cancer.
Researchers, led by University College London, UK, have discovered a new marker, which could help diagnose fatal breast cancer up to one y […]
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wrote a new post, Why do you believe THAT? December 31, 2017 @ 10:59 am
Let’s say you love apple pie, the Tigers are your favorite baseball team, blue is the end-all beat-all of colors, you absolutely love a certain politician but loathe another, and you’re fortunate enough to pra […]
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Andrew Brodis replied
I believe what I believe because of “Occam’s razor” and scientific observations.
Scientific observations yield data and that data, according to Occam, should be interpreted by the simplest explanation possible, until some reason exists to make it more complex.
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Andrew Brodis replied
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wrote a new post, Artificial Intelligence Discovers Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star December 15, 2017 @ 5:30 am
Artificial intelligence just discovered an eighth planet orbiting Kepler-90, a sun-like star some 2,545 light-years from Earth. Researchers found the planet in data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, NASA a […]
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wrote a new post, Major NASA Announcement Next Week December 8, 2017 @ 1:36 pm
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers using machine […]
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wrote a new post, CLIMATE CLASH: The Science Behind Knowing How Climate Change is Man Made December 8, 2017 @ 12:08 pm
In Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, mankind has finally made a name for itself. It’s what paleontologists call the Anthropocene Epoch – the Age of Humans.
It’s a relatively new term, used to describe the era o […]
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wrote a new post, Meaning in a Nutshell December 8, 2017 @ 12:02 pm
All these years, people have asked the wrong question.
As I drank my coffee this morning I had a caffeine induced epiphany.
What if we’ve had it backwards this whole time? If we reframe the question “ […]
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Annette Kitterman replied
I think you should drink more coffee! 💞
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Paul Harrison replied
Good message Connie, very well put.
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Annette Kitterman replied
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Researchers at the Sussex University’s Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science in England have created a virtual reality experience that mimics the visual hallucinations induced by LSD or Psilocybin.
The […]
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wrote a new post, Pantheism Short Documentary Wins Audience Award November 4, 2017 @ 9:00 am
A new documentary about the “Luminaries of Pantheism” mural in Venice Beach, California has won the “Audience Award” at the Marina Del Rey Film Festival. The annual festival screened over 150 films between October […]
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of Punta Gorda, Florida created the local Arts & Music group
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wrote a new post, Pew Study Shows Marked Increase in ‘Spiritual But Not Religious’ October 5, 2017 @ 4:55 pm
A recent Pew Research Center study showed that Americans are growing increasingly less religious, opting to identify as “Spiritual But Not Religious,” rather than maintaining a single religious ideology. In jus […]
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wrote a new post, Funerals for the Spiritual But Not Religious September 1, 2017 @ 5:10 pm
For hundreds of years, particularly in the West, funerals have been officiated by religious leaders – priests, ministers, rabbis – in pious ceremonies that focused on the passing of the individual. In the last 50 […]
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Ellis Keyes replied
Cook Keyes Land Inc. offers an ecologically sound burial option and a natural return to the earth — simple, affordable, and respectful of the human spirit.
Natural Burial lets everything return to the Earth at lowest cost. Plots are provided for a suggested one hundred dollar donation to Christine Cook Keyes Memorial Cemetery at Loves Branch. Through natural burial, you create a legacy of enduring stewardship and renewal. A place bounded by Appalachian Forest in Stewardship Forrest. A sustainable alternative to conventional cemeteries — a place of meadows and woodlands, of solace and natural beauty. Standard burial is the most environmentally friendly. All biodegradable, no embalming to desecrate the Temple of the Spirit or to harm the ecological environment, everything returns to nature and the lowest cost for ground Burial.The cost of burial:
Lots (gravesites)
Standard Lot (15-ft. x 15-ft.): $100.00
Burial Services Fee (including opening and closing the grave) must be arranged also and cost are minimal, my prepaid contract cost only $1,000.00 ( one thousand dollars) for labor, digging and biodegradable materials (Cardboard and wooden frame) You may buy a plot ahead of time, and it can make a lot of financial sense. Be sure your family and caregivers have copies of your deed.Preserving and restoring natural landscapes while providing people with old time traditional, commonsense burial.
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Ellis Keyes replied
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This past week, Mark Zuckerberg said warnings about artificial intelligence — such as those made recently by Elon Musk – were “pretty irresponsible.” In response, Musk tweeted that Zuckerberg’s “unders […]
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wrote a new post, Poll Names Dawkins’ “The Selfish Gene” as the Most Influential Science Book of All Time July 21, 2017 @ 8:00 am
A new public poll conducted by The Royal Society reflects the influence famed evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins has had on our modern zeitgeist. Asked to choose the most influential science book […]
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