Monday, January 26, 2009

Food For Thought


This page contains interesting information that will make you wonder about what you've been told, about a good many things. Items are in no specific order.

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Recommended:

The Mom
Song
The Mom Song

This is a humorous, yet chilling reminder of what Miguel Ruiz was talking about regarding our "domestication and indoctrination" process... [Read More]

Making A
Killing
Making A Killing

From drugging with psychotropic medications, to contaminated water, to the destruction of electric vehicles, it's all here and in the name of corporate greed... [Read More]


Chinese
Food
Chinese Food Fun Facts

Jennifer 8 Lee presents very interesting information about the orgins of things "Chinese" which really are not, during the 2008 Taste3 Conference in Napa, California... [Read More]

Happiness
Links to Happiness

Dan Gilbert presents an insightful and humorous perspective at why we're not happy, during the 2005 TED Conference in Oxford, England.... [Read More]



The
Bees
The Missing Bees

Dan Van Engelsdporp has the answer to why the bees are dying or disappearing. He also has the solution, but it's going to take our willingness to change a few things - or else... [Read More]


Animal
Copyrights
Creating Animal Copyrights

Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow is an ongoing project, capturing the extraordinary interactions between humans and animals. To date, Ashes and Snow has attracted more than 10 million visitors, making it the most attended exhibition by a living artist in history.... [Read More]


The HiTW
Project
The Hole-In-The-Wall Experiment

Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" (HiTW) experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and peer interest... [Read More]


US Int'l
News

US International News Coverage Truth

Alisa Miller asks how the news shapes the way we [Americans] see the world, during a 2008 TED presentaion in Monterey, California. For those living outside of the USA, you won't be surprised by her answer... [Read More]



It's Happy
Sauce :)
It's Happy Sauce ;)

Malcolm Gladwell, a detective of fads and emerging subcultures, chronicler of jobs-you-never-knew-existed, topples the popular understanding of bias, crime, food, marketing, race, consumers and intelligence. This time, it's the spaghetti sauce... [Read More]


History of
Monogomy
The Origins and History of Monogamy

Lyssa Royal, channeling Germane, provides a thought provoking segment on where the institution of "Monogamy" came from, why it was important at the time and not so important now; why women tend to need it more than men... [Read More]


Gold - The
Obsession

The Endless Obsession With Gold

Micheal Tellinger contrasts his childhood experiences living in the gold-mining towns of South Africa, where he saw the obsession first-hand, to that described in the Sumerian clay tablets - revealing why it's so coveted... [Read More]



Corporate
Greed

Corporate Greed and the Global Economy

The evidence is now clear, industrial-civilization has caused irreparable damage to earth's ecological systems. When asked why humanity isn't responding, the more important question is what are the forces blocking change... [Read More]



Brain
Paint

BrainPaint

BrainPaint is a state-of-the-art neurofeedback system which systematically calculates suggestions used in brain function - similar to that of computerized chess crunching data to explore the potential of future moves... [Read More]


Connected
Minds

Princton University's Global Consciousness Project

Collective unconscious, a pool of shared experiences among our species. Princeton’s Global Consciousness Project (GCP) is an international data recording effort from over 65 countries around the world.... [Read More]



Secret Life
of Plants
The Secret Life of Plants

Cleve Backster demonstrated to a group at Yale that the movements of a spider, in the same room with a plant wired to a polygraph, could be detected as the spider started to scamper away from an approaching human... [Read More]


God's
Chosen
God's Chosen Ones

Ever wonder why the Jews are called "God's Chosen Ones" or why time and time again, someone's trying to subdue, torture or exterminate the lot? There are two complimentary explanations on the next page. Are you sure you really want to know the answer... [Read More]


Nick
Vujicic
Nick Vujicic

Nick Vujicic has a way of inspiring people of all ages. He has a heart of gold, this one... [Read More]


Darfur

Women of Darfur

Women and girls who have fled the genocide in Darfur, Sudan are particularly vulnerable to rape and attack while performing the essentil task of collecting firewood for cooking... [Read More]



A Holy
War?

A Holy War?

The images that follow have a story to share with you. What that story will be depends on your individual belief system. CONTENT AVISORY... [Read More]



Painting
Elephants

See Elephants Painting

Watch this elephant, rescued from abusive treatment in Burma, now paint a beautiful image of another elephant... [Read More]



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