a multitude of differences and that I should adopt a totally open minded approach towards every one of the multitude of perspectives of those differences, both individually and collectively, I can only concur with Sharon Peters' conclusion that ...
"Tara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out,
boots-always-laced-up indomitable"; and that "Her new book,
Educated published by Random House, is a heartbreaking,
heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the
limitations of birth and environment into a better life."
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more severe.
Prof Ed Hawkins, the report’s co-author and professor of climate science at the University of Reading, said: “We’re already experiencing climate change, including more frequent and more extreme weather events.
“The consequences will continue to get worse for every bit of warming, and for many of these consequences, there’s no going back.”
The findings came ahead of the Cop26 climate conference, to be hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November, and mark the strongest warning yet from one of the most respected global bodies of scientists about the fate the world faces.…
e development of handedness derives from a mixture of genes, environment, and cultural pressure to conform to right-handedness."
LiveScience reported on a study that came out last year suggesting a more evolutionary reason for handedness, particularly why left-handed people are less common than right-handed people. LiveScience reported on findings, published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface and conducted by study researcher Daniel M. Abrams and graduate student Mark J. Panaggio:
"The more social the animal -- where cooperation is highly valued -- the more the general population will trend toward one side," says Abrams, an assistant professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.
"The most important factor for an efficient society is a high degree of cooperation. In humans, this has resulted in a right-handed majority."
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GCE 'A' Levels in Maths Pure and Maths Applied as well as Physics and ART • and I well remember his explanation of the IDEA of a MEMEX, which would take the form of an electronically computerised version of a rolodex device; and so [IT] was that having considered the idea of joining a BOAC pilot training programme, it transpired that I was invited to be one of the first cadets, straight from Grammar School, to be trained as Ministry of Aviation Air Traffic Controllers • and so [IT] was that I began my training, by way of learning the concept of systems analysis on an IBM 64K Mainframe Computer, that then transmogrified into a familiarisation with Digital Equipment Corporation PD11s and my subsequent IDEA of utilising the AFTN for the purpose of an enhanced radar-handover capability, between Air Traffic Control Centres, during my secondment to Eurocontrol, and subsequent return to the CAA at West Drayton.
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ple’s minds was the unprecedented business presence at COP26, and the corresponding influence that big companies have had on the conversation on the ground. For Jules Kortenhorst, a veteran COP-goer and head of the influential non-profit consultancy RMI, businesses’ interest in climate action is much welcomed — but also a trend to be handled with care.
Simon Mundy, Gillian Tett and Kristen Talman - The Financial Times
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ELSE's RIGHTS are MY RESPONSIBILITY"
The LIGHT, the GOOD, and JUSTICE will triumph; it is just a question of TIME. The religions should be purified. Each contains a particle of the Teaching of the Masters of Light, but obscured by the incessant supply of human deviation. ALL the believers will have to unite and to put themselves in agreement with one principal, that of placing LOVE as the base of ALL belief, whatever it may be. LOVE and FRATERNITY that is the common base!
ONLY those that possess LOVE in them will remain.
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speaking more openly about the prospects for near-term extinction. We need to stop the momentum of this civilization, but it is difficult to imagine how that can happen without cataclysm. If we were to return home, to the community of life, where are the elders who could help us rediscover our proper role in the cosmic order? I suspect that we must seek to establish, more consciously, interspecies communication.
Indigenous cultures rooted in entheogenic shamanism understand that many plants (not just psychedelic ones) have a form of sentience, intelligence, or wisdom that can be contacted through ritual practices like Dietas. Where does such a “plant-mind” or “plant-soul” exist? I understand the physical plant to be the visible expression of a supersensible being, an astral entity. By working with the plant’s physical being, you can contact the hidden being that lies in the invisible, astral dimension, and access its teaching.
Daniel Pinchbeck
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s most modern tanks as both sides dig in for the long haul. The U.S. has been reluctant to fulfill the request - citing fuel consumption, training and maintenance - and supplying powerful direct offensive weapons in the conflict appeared to be a red line... until now. Meet the M1 Abrams: Looking to break a diplomatic logjam with Germany, the Biden administration is set to provide several dozen of its main battle tanks to Ukraine in a major policy reversal. Berlin had said it would only send their domestically made Leopard 2 tanks if the U.S. sent the Abrams first, while the U.K. and Poland piled on the pressure by announcing plans for their own tank deliveries. While the latest decision will heal the divisions, getting the tanks over to Ukraine could still take months, or even a year. Officials have said the tanks would be supplied under an upcoming Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, meaning the package wouldn't result in another drawdown of U.S. stock, but would rather come from a new contract or a refurbishment of Abrams tanks from another country. See all the U.S. equipment committed to Ukraine and their replacement contract status.…
Combine the long-term thinking of women
with the short-term focus of men
and bear in mind that different thinking
also results in very different behaviour
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he readers mind get answered as the reading progresses.
N.B. I have not set this up with my participation in mind. Anyone so incline may start a discussion on anything in my writings [perhaps the chapters of the book one at a time] which I will monitor and join if needs be. My discussion contribution is the content itself but, if I am needed, I will come in :-)
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