Crazed and Confused: The Manti Te'o Story

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"I did not know what to do." - Manti Te'o in an interview with Katie Couric

It started out as a real-life heroic story that pulled on the heart strings of sports lovers everywhere, but as details continue to emerge, the entire public is in a frenzy searching for the truth. How could one seemingly-normal young man, well on his way to football fame, be involved in such a scandal?

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Furry Funnies

Reblogged from Family Survival Protocol - Microcosm News:

Health And Wellness Report

Pet Health

Crying Parrot

Uploaded by okoart1 on Jul 16, 2008

Amazing Parrot with a unique talant.
He cries just like a baby!

amazing bird!!!he talks like a human being!!!

Uploaded by par11par on Nov 18, 2008

TALKING BIRD

Corgi talks to cat

Published on Apr 20, 2012 by 1ystrade

Here is Curie, a Pembroke welsh corgi, in her natural habitat.

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Why humans cry: Shedding an anguished tear enabled us to communicate before language, expert claims

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• UCL Professor attempts to shed light on the mystery of why humans cry Tears were used to communicate as well as their bio-mechanical function

• Other animals shed tears, but none appear to cry because of emotion

The uniquely human phenomenon of crying when we are overcome by emotion developed as a means to communicate our feelings before the emergence of language, an influential scientists claims.

Michael Trimble, a professor of neurology, suggests that there must have been a time in our evolution when tears took on a meaning beyond their simple bio-mechanical function – keeping the eyeballs moist.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2270799/Why-humans-Shedding-anguished-tear-enabled-communicate-oral-language-expert-claims.html

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Supermassive black hole weighed using new scale

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Researchers have proposed a new means for getting a measure of just how massive supermassive black holes are.

They are known to exist at the centres of most galaxies, but a puzzle remains as to how they affect galaxy evolution.

The approach, published in Nature, infers a black hole’s mass from the speed of molecules swirling around it.

It could help weigh hundreds of nearby black holes. Its first use suggests a black hole in the NGC4526 galaxy weighs 450 million times that of our Sun.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21259221

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Habitable Zone For Planets Redefined, Shifting Ranks Of Exoplanets In ‘Goldilocks’ Range

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One of the most important characteristics of an alien planet is whether or not it falls into what’s called the habitable zone ­— a Goldilocks-like range of not-too-close, not-too-far distances from the parent star that might allow the planet to host life.

Now scientists have redefined the boundaries of the habitable zone for alien planets, potentially kicking out some exoplanaets that were thought to fall within it, and maybe allowing a few that had been excluded to squeeze in.

“This will have a significant impact on the number of exoplanets that are within habitable zone,” said research team leader Ravi Kumar Kopparapu of Penn State University.

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A new definition of the habitable zone around planets, denoting where liquid water

could exist, shifts Earth toward the very edge of the solar system’s own habitable zone.

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Spaun artificial brain can see, write, and answer basic IQ questions

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Researchers across the world continue to make advances towards using technology to mimic the human brain, and scientists at the University of Waterloo have created their own functioning model that can even pass the kind of basic questions that appear on a standard IQ test. Known as Spaun — Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network — the artificial brain uses a supercomputer to model 2.5 million neurons (by way of comparison, the human brain is thought to have up to 100 billion neurons).

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VIDEOS - Holocaust Memorial Day reflections

Reblogged from Reclaim Our Republic:

January 27 was International Holocaust Memorial Day

Let us never forget!

A presentation made for a time of reflection during one of our church's Holocaust Memorial Day services.

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Tribute to holocaust victims – We shall never forget!

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Letter to Jewish victims of the holocaust

Israel and the people of Israel are the most powerful tribute there can be to our brothers and sisters perished in the holocaust.

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Divine thought

Reblogged from advocatemmmohan aksharaalu:

Truth

is a  fact 

Like a pearl Dew on a leaf edge

It sustains only in  divine Serenity

any battering of surmises supress the existence of Truth

Defender never find the Truth due to his prejudiced mind

Open minds only  dare to see the Truth as a Divine thought

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Speaking Truth

Reblogged from Eddie Two Hawks:

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words

to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

Tomorrow's Child

Reblogged from Teacher as Transformer:

I will change my routine week and post less often. I need to work on my dissertation topic. I want to enroll in the proposal seminar in June. If not, it will be next fall. I need to begin to set the table for the next part of life's journey.

Today, I commented in an online forum about the state of public education.

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