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Once again the state of Montana, along with Yellowstone National Park, are killing bison migrating out of Yellowstone National Park. The slaughter of Yellowstone’s bison is represented as a disease contamination program, but it is really a sham. If disease control were the issue, we wouldn’t be killing bison. The more you know about the brucellosis-bison issue, the angrier you get.

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[Via Weird Science Facts] Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.

Sound travels through water 3 times faster than through air.

A square piece of dry paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times.

Air becomes liquid at about minus 190 degrees Celsius.

Of course, this is just the latest brainchild of the monster agency from another planet known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  From remote control aviation to the human-machine interface, this entity continuously seeks more and more efficient means of retaining some control over what is left of a soldier's autonomy.  This is the purpose of technology, of course, at least according to the technocracy; corner the market on decision making in the field, be that field economic or military or, as in the case of fascist states, both.

[Via Weird Facts] (AP) A Swedish university has received 3.8 million kronor $590,000) in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.

About 20 cows will participate in the project run by the Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, about 40 miles north of Stockholm, officials said Monday.

LSD is one of the best-studied medicines in the world. Previous studies revealed that LSD was generally safe for therapeutic use. Before it was declared illegal in 1966, many therapists hailed the drug a miraculous tool for psychotherapy.

In his book, Bully for Brontosaurus, scientific historian Stephen Jay Gould devotes a chapter to presenting Peter Kropotkin's views on biological evolution. Kropotkin is best known as a Russian revolutionary anarchist who believed in cooperative, rather than hierarchical and competitive, human relationships, and in devolving the power of the central state to local communities. It is less well known that his political views were based on a sophisticated view of evolution.

Basis for a Cooperative Economy in Russia
By Ronald Logan

The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.

'We have broken speed of light'

Snip: "The reason we do not feel these additional spatial dimensions in our everyday life (if they exist) is because they are very different from the three dimensions we are familiar with. It turns out that it is possible that our world is ‘pinned’ to a 3-dimensional sheet (a so-called ‘brane’) that is located in a higher dimensional space, To illustrate this, imagine an ant crawling on a sheet of paper in your hand. For the ant, the ‘universe’ is pretty much two-dimensional, as it cannot leave the surface of the paper."

Snip: "As with all anomalous entities, the very act of observing the particles disturbs them. Observer and observed, subject and object, cannot finally be distinguished. Particles whose existence is predicted obligingly turn up. If we didn't know better, we might almost say that they had been imagined into existence. The so-called New Physicists smelled a rat long ago. They began to compare the whole enterprise to oriental religion or to suspect that its reality is primarily metaphorical, not literal and factual."

There is no gravity in space

Blame
the term "zero-gravity" for this common misconception. Gravity is
everywhere, even in space. Astronauts look weightless because they are
in continuous freefall towards the Earth, staying aloft because of their ...

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Snip: "Bohm suggests that the whole universe can be thought of as a kind of giant, flowing hologram, or holomovement, in which a total order is contained, in some implicit sense, in each region of space and time. The explicate order is a projection from higher dimensional levels of reality, and the apparent stability and solidity of the objects and entities composing it are generated and sustained by a ceaseless process of enfoldment and unfoldment, for subatomic particles are constantly dissolving into the implicate order and then recrystallizing."  

Snip: "...the setting and goals and patterns of behavior, which are imposed mechanically or externally, and without understanding, produces a rigid structure in consciousness that blocks the free play of thought and the free movement of awareness and attention that are necessary for creativity to act."

I thought I'd highlight the awesome publication entitled Secrecy News. Kept track of here are the latest developments in intelligence and defense activities, from the newest budget adjustments to papers issued by shadowy groups like the JASON Group. I consider it a vital tool for keeping up on the ball. Here are some great snips you might have missed, were it not for Steve Aftergood, from the past three months:

JOINT CHIEFS ISSUE DOCTRINE ON "HOMELAND DEFENSE"

Wikipedia: "The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.' Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to 'unwitting subjects in social situations.'"

The scientific method offers a body of social and experimental
techniques which, given certain preconditions — a free press for the
circulation of information, a large number of people predisposed to see
the world as a mechanism subject to general regularities which humans
can observe, describe and model through repeatable experiments and/or
observations — acts highly virulently, spreading quickly through an
educated population as journals circulate and blogs proliferate. By
demonstrating its success at making predictions, science as a practice

Jeff Maurone nailed it when he talked about most people's only understanding of memetics and memes coming from pop culture books: "I really enjoy sociology books. I know they're bad for me, but I keep buying them: Barbara Ehrenreich, Louis Menand, Malcolm Gladwell.