EDIT TO ADD:  Note to whoever added this pic:  "The love of money is the root of all evil."  If We remove the soil in which the root grows, it cannot flourish. This quote was made from inside the scarcity paradigm, and as such does not reflect the options and expectations of…

In Our past systems of governing, We pass "laws" - whether by consent of the "governed" (seldom) or by decree from a body of one to some number of Individuals who are making decisions.  (They aren't really Laws, for there are only three Laws.  If You look, You will see they are all statutes, codes, bills, declarations, constitutions, regulations, mandates, edicts, decrees, rules, and so on.  They are NOT Laws.)



So We operate under these decisions for Us as best We can.  We vote…

Is a mini ice age on the way? Scientists warn the Sun has 'gone to sleep' and say it could cause temperatures to plunge

• 2013 was due to be year of the 'solar maximum'
• Researchers say solar activity is at a fraction of what they expect
  
  
• Conditions 'very similar' a time in 1645 when a mini ice age hit  
  
  

By …

Fish testing at 124 times over radiation limit caught off Fukushima

Canadians experience jolting 'frost quakes' as temperatures plunge

Published time: January 06, 2014 13:36

As temperatures around Toronto and across Ontario drop to -20 Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit), residents are reporting frost quakes that are powerful enough to shake houses and rattle nerves.

Usually found in extreme polar regions, the recent outbreak of frost quakes, known to…

It was New Year's Eve, but that didn't stop observer Richard Kowalski from…

Quadrantids

The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the strongest meteor showers of the year, but observers can be disappointed if conditions are not just right. The point from where the Quadrantid meteors appear to radiate is located within the extinct constellation Quadrans Muralis. On modern star charts, this radiant is located where the constellations Hercules,…

What's wifi doing to us? Experiment finds that shrubs die when placed next to wireless routers

• Plants and people have been shown to absorb radio signals Wi-Fi emits 
  
  
• Scientists divided over whether this is enough to cause damage to tissue
  
  
• Some experts believe the negative effects observed in the latest study could be due to heat emitted by the…

Let Me take You down to the foundations of why We exchange to survive (economics). When We first began acquiring and creating things with Our meaningful energy expended, the product of that expenditure was valued (and represented that energy, with the meaning setting the value) because We did not have the time/energy to acquire and/or create all We might want. We bartered and traded and work exchanged to fill all the gaps.



Eventually, these modes of exchange became cumbersome, and…

The End of Entropy:

A Look at Our Entropic World and the Evidence Supporting How We Could Change This

 by Amaterasu Solar

Entropy…  That measure of disorder that increases as energy is dissipated into unusable forms effects many aspects of our present human condition.  It is easy to grasp the principle…

Hawaii’s Big Island bans biotech companies, GMO crops

Published time: November 21, 2013 02:26

The governing council for Hawaii (or Big) Island Tuesday banned biotech companies from operating on the island while barring growth of genetically modified organisms.

The Hawaii County Council approved Bill 113 by a vote of 6-3, which would mandate a possible 30 days in jail and up to a $1,000…

18 dead and hundreds homeless after Sardinia swept by cyclone

State of emergency declared on Mediterranean island hit by flash floods

Tue, Nov 19, 2013, 17:35

A cyclone killed 18 people and made hundreds homeless as extreme rainfall flooded eastern parts of the…

MARINE POLICY

Available online 6 November 2013

Distribution of endemic cetaceans in relation to hydrocarbon development and commercial shipping in a warming Arctic…

Tests 'show Yasser Arafat was poisoned with polonium', widow says

Swiss experts hand over forensic results to Palestinians after exhuming remains of PLO leader who died in 2004, but findings not publicly revealed

United Nations to Adopt Asteroid Defense Plan

Earth is not prepared for the threat of hazardous rocks from space, say astronauts who helped formulate the U.N. measures

By Clara Moskowitz

When a meteor exploded over…

Danish professor shock discovery: Native americans descended from Europe

Eske Willerslev sequencing of a genome of a boy who died 24,000 years ago, shows that a third of the Native Americans genetic material comes from Europeans.

Professor Willerslev from the Centre for Geogenetics at the University has once again managed to shock the other researchers, who now must…

Scientists trace 19 living relatives of Ötzi the Iceman whose 5,300-year-old body was found frozen in the Alps

• Austrian scientists tested the DNA of 3,700 male blood donors in Tyrol
• They matched a genetic mutation to the mummy found back in 1991
  
  

By STEVE NOLAN…

Scientists create never-before-seen form of matter

Sep 25, 2013

Harvard and MIT scientists are challenging the conventional wisdom about light, and they didn't need to go to a galaxy far, far away to do it.

Working with colleagues at the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, a group led by…

The Chinese city living in fear of giant killer hornets

Jonathan Kaiman visits Ankang municipality where swarms of highly venomous hornets have killed 41 people in three months

Friday 4 October 2013 10.43 BST

Chen pointed with a shaky hand at the small plot of cabbage, spring onions and corn where his friend, Yu Yihong,…

Alan Savory gives a popular and very misleading TED talk

by RALPH MAUGHAN on MARCH 18, 2013…