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  • How to Shoot an Anvil 200 Feet in the Air

    • 28 Nov 2011
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    • 27November11 Anvils Explosion World Records
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    Gay Wilkinson enjoys blowing anvils more than 100 feet in the air. So much so that is a world champion at the activity. See how he does it in this video.
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  • Compound of Five Tetrahedra

    • 28 Nov 2011
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    • 27November11 Polyhedra
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    This compound polyhedron is also a stellation of the regular icosahedron. It was first described by Edmund Hess in 1876.
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  • Seven Windows Above, Looking at the Earth Below...

    • 28 Nov 2011
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    • 27November11 Cupola Earth from Space ISS Installation Observation Viewport Window
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    The Cupola is an ESA-built observatory module of the International Space Station (ISS). Its seven windows are used to conduct experiments, dockings and observations of Earth. It was launched aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-130 on 8 February 2010 and attached to the Tranquility (Node 3) module. With the Cupola attached, ISS assembly reached 85 percent completeness. The Cupola is the largest window ever used in space.
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  • 34 Pictures That Defy Explanation

    • 28 Nov 2011
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    • 27November11 Bizarre Photographs
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  • My Life as a Turkey

    • 28 Nov 2011
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    • 27November11 Natural History Turkey Wildlife
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    “Had I known what was in store—the difficult nature of the study and the time I was about to invest—I would have been hard pressed to justify such an intense involvement. But, fortunately, I naively allowed myself to blunder into a two-year commitment that was at once exhausting, often overwhelming, enlightening, and one of the most inspiring and satisfying experiences of my life.”
    –Joe Hutto, Illumination in the Flatwoods

    Based on his true story, My Life as a Turkey chronicles Hutto’s remarkable and moving experience of raising a group of wild turkey hatchlings to adulthood. 

    via video.pbs.org

     

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  • Diving Bali

    • 28 Nov 2011
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    View the names of all the dive sites and names of all the tropical fish and other marine life by turning on closed captions with the CC button.
    via youtube.com

     

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  • The Gnosis Archive : Resources on Gnosticism and Gnostic Tradition

    • 28 Nov 2011
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    "This is the first mandala I constructed in the year 1916, wholly unconscious of what it meant." -- C. G. Jung This diagram -- titled Systema munditotius (The system of all worlds) -- is symbolically related to the creative, cosmogonic vision revealed in VII Sermones ad Mortuos, and was drawn about the same time. Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead --    

    From the Gospel according to St. Thomas:

    Jesus said: Whoever knows the All but fails to know himself lacks everything.

    Jesus said: If you bring forth that within yourselves, that which you have will save you. If you do not have that within yourselves, that which you do not have within you will kill you.

    Jesus said: Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not understand that he who made the inside is also he who made the outside?

    His disciples said to Him: When will the kingdom come? Jesus said: It will not come by expectation; they will not say: “See, here,” or “See, there.” But the kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth and men do not see it. 

    Jesus said: Whoever drinks from my mouth shall become as I am and I myself will become he, and the hidden things shall be revealed to him. I am the All, the All came forth from me, and the All attained to me. Cleave a piece of wood, I am there; lift up the stone and you will find me there.

    The Gnosis Archive via gnosis.org

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  • Quinoa - Mother Grain of the Incas

    • 28 Nov 2011
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    "This Mother Grain of the Incas has been grown in the Andes of South America for centuries. Quinoa is a small seed about the size of millet. It is very high in protein and is closer to the United Nation's FAO ideal balance for amino acids than any other common cereal grain. Quinoa is high in essential amino acids: lysine, methionine, and cystine, which are particularly important for vegetarian diets and in correcting deficiencies in legume diets. Quinoa is high in calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin E and some of the B vitamins. Colorado-grown Quinoa has a rich, delicate, nutty taste and can be substituted for nearly any grain in almost any recipe."

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