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Cards Against Humanity – A Free Party Game for Horrible People
The full game of Cards Against Humanity is available for free on this website under a Creative Commons copyright.
Cards Against Humanity – A Free Party Game for Horrible People
Rosenhan experiment – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The non-existent impostor experiment
On Being Sane In Insane Places
THE NORMAL ARE NOT DETECTABLY SANE Despite their public “show” of sanity, the pseudopatients were never detected.
Murder-defendant Houston brothers may represent selves » Knoxville News Sentinel
“We’ve got the best counsel in the world,” Leon Houston said. “We’ve got God on our side.”
Murder-defendant Houston brothers may represent selves » Knoxville News Sentinel
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Man climbs building with vacuum gloves
A man has climbed up a BBC building using a pair of vacuum gloves he built himself, in a stunt for a new BBC One science show. Inventor Jem Stansfield, the presenter of Bang Goes The Theory, used an everyday vacuum cleaner to construct the kit.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Man climbs building with vacuum gloves
Mr. Cluck's – Hurley's New Chicken Shack!
Announced at Comic-Con 2009, Hurley appears to be the proud owner of a new chicken franchise!
What a day | Community News | News | Liberty Tribune
Bradley Dice placed 10th in the nation with his project, “Buckminster Fuller: The Actions and Legacies of a Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Scientist.”
Thinkologist: The Dudley Lynch Blog
Somewhere along the way Trevor Blake had a similar epiphany. Blake is a sign language interpreter in Portland, Oregon. But his passion is tracking Bucky materials.
Santa Maria Times
Paul Hawken’s commencement speech, delivered to the class of 2009 at the University of Portland and citing Buckminster Fuller.
King Camp Gillette – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He published a book titled The Human Drift (1894), which advocated that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public, and that everyone in the US should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls. A later book, World Corporation (1910), was a prospectus for a company set up to create this vision
The Human Drift – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gillette’s plan for an immense three-level metropolis (called “Metropolis”) on the site of Niagara Falls. Designed to accommodate a population of tens of millions of inhabitants, the mega-city would draw its electric power from the Falls. [circular houses on a hex road grid - 1894]
R. Buckminster Fuller, Polymath | Stanford Humanities Lab
Exploring the R. Buckminster Fuller archive housed at Stanford.
Book Review – 'Surrender – Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom,' by Bruce Bawer – Review – NYTimes.com
There is no more important issue facing the West than Islamism, Islamofascism or — to use yet another label — radical Islam.
Poaching Crisis As Rhino Horn Demand Booms In Asia
Rhino poaching worldwide is poised to hit a 15-year-high driven by Asian demand for horns
Forgotten Bookmarks
I work at a used and rare bookstore, and I buy books from people everyday. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things I find in those books.
Mysterious altar found in Roman fort – Discovery.com- msnbc.com
It was in its war-like representation that the Anatolian god Juppiter of Doliche became a favorite deity among Roman soldiers.
Mysterious altar found in Roman fort – Discovery.com- msnbc.com
Rhonda Forever 2003-2009
The hands on the screen belong to James Paterson. He is using “Rhonda”, a 3D drawing tool developed by Amit Pitaru circa 2003.
