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'Zombie' Virus Reanimated After 50,000 Years In Siberian Permafrost
French researchers have reanimated over a dozen prehistoric viruses which have been trapped deep within the Siberian permafrost for nearly 50 million years, according to a pre-print study. After obtaining seven ancient permafrost samples, scientists from the French National Centre for Scientific Research were able to document 13 never-before-seen viruses that had been lying dormant in the ice.
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Pahsaheman: Lenape football-like hybrid sport (Howto play)
One of the more common activities of leisure for the Lenni Lenape would be the game of Pahsaheman: a football-like hybrid, split on gender lines. Over a hundred players were grouped into gendered teams (male and female), and would attempt to get a ball through the other team's goal post. However, men could not carry and pass the ball, only using their feet, while the women could carry, pass, or kick. If the ball was picked up by a woman, she could not be tackled by the men, although men could attempt to dislodge the ball. Women were free to tackle the men. These gender-split rules highlight how a woman's role in Lenape society was harmonious to a man's role, rather than acquiescent.
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"The less men think, the more they talk" - Baron de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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Non Von Neumann Architectures
The development of "Non Von Neumann" Architectures and keeping it covert and controlled for decades, was a great success for them.
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The longevity and sudden demise of superstructures
"Some of the biggest men in the United States are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak of it." - Woodrow Wilson (1913)
"The First Casualty of War is Truth." -Rudyard Kipling
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?" - Joseph Stalin
"There will be in the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude & producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the FINAL Revolution." -Aldous Huxley, Tavistock Group, (1961)
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Evolution of sanitation throughout human history
Evolution of sanitation throughout human history, from 'Early civilization and the middle ages Era', to the 'sanitary awakening and advent of water-borne sanitation era', through to the 'waste water reclamation and eutrophication control Era', and possible future 'Ecological sanitation Era'. Source: Redrawn from Gumbo (2005).
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This photograph was taken by the British Terra Nova Expedition of Antarctica of 1910, before their entire polar team would die on the way back from the South Pole to their ship. The bodies, journals and photographs were discovered by a search party eight months later.
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Wang Xiang Zhai doesn’t like Tai Chi
Somebody posted a quote by (founder of Yi Quan) Wang Xiang Zhai from his 1940s interview containing his thoughts on Tai Chi. It is pretty clear, unambiguous and to the point. Have a read:
Wang Xiang Zhai on Taijiquan (from an early 1940’s interview):As masters of the original Taijiquan, I should recommend the Yang brothers Shouhou and Chengfu. They are my friends, and I know that their Taiji has some knowledge of mechanics. But out of one hundred students, not even one gains its essence…and even then, it is still one-sided, because the skills of intuitive perception died out a long time ago. Originally, Taiji consisted of three fists, Wang Zongyue changed it into thirteen postures, and it was later embellished into as much as one hundred and fifty postures. This is the cause of the distortion.Sticking to mechanical movements, seeking beautiful postures and mistaking it for the glory of martial arts…that is terrible. Such a person cannot comprehend boxing for life. If a man of insight sees such a performance, he will feel sick for ten days.As a means of health preservation, Taijiquan restrains the spirit, and brings discomfort to its practitioner. For combat, it harms the practitioner’s limbs and trunk, and causes a useful body to become a mechanical and stiff thing…it’s nothing more than a waste of time.As for the training method—a punch with the fist here, a slap with the palm there, a kick to the left, and another one to the right—it is pitiful and laughable.As for dealing with an enemy in a fight: please do not even consider it. So ruined is this boxing that it has become useless. There are many more things, but I feel embarrassed to say them.
