Hairs move rapidly in response to the electric fields, sending messages to the nervous system.
Dr Gregory Sutton, from the university’s School of Biological Sciences, said the bees’ hair danced in response to the electric fields in the same way human hair reacts when a balloon is held to the head.
“A lot of insects have similar body […]
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Valerie Tarico, - The Raw Story/Alternet
Stephan: This is a really interesting essay about religion and sex, that raises issues I hadn't thought about, or thought through, and now that I have I agree with what Valerie Tarico is saying. The relationship is principally one of power.
I put a lot of emphasis on this linkage because it is such a big factor in shaping our culture -- even if we rarely talk about it that way.
Unhappy couple in bed
Sexual intimacy and pleasure are some of humanity’s most cherished experiences. The so-called “best things in life” include natural beauty, fine dining, the arts, thrilling adventures, creative pursuits and community service. But love and orgasms are among the few peak experiences that are equally available to rich and poor, equally sweet to those whose lives are going according to plan and to many whose dreams are in pieces.
Religious conservatives think that these treasured dimensions of the human experience should be available to only a privileged few people whose lives fit their model: male-dominated, monogamous, heterosexual pairs who have pledged love and contractual marriage for life. Some true believers—especially those in thrall to the Protestant Quiverfull Movement or the Vatican—would further limit sexual privileges even within hetero state-licensed, church-sanctified marriages to only couples who are open to intimacy producing a pregnancy and a child. Take your pick: it’s either reproductive roulette or no sex—although you might be able to game God by tracking female fertility and then bumping like […]
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Robert Fantina, - Mint Press News
Stephan: The U.S. arms industry constitutes the richest and most powerful merchants of death collaborative in the world. You almost never see anything about this on electronic media. I think the calculation is that it would upset Americans to know that one of the major activities to which their tax dollars are out centers on killing people -- by the thousands, some years by the hundreds of thousands.. It is giving us a very bad reputation as this essay demonstrates.
ISIS militants stand with a captured American Humvee, given to the Iraqi Army and captured by ISIS, June 19, 2014.
Credit: AP
KITCHENER, ONTARIO — The United States has long billed itself as “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” This fairytale receives credence within the country’s own borders, as its lemming-like citizens place hand on heart, look at the waving flag, and wipe tears from their eyes.
Yet a good story doesn’t often play quite as well when cultures and traditions are different, and for countries that have a free press or that have been victimized by the U.S. — and their name is legion — the lofty statements about liberty and equality that U.S. spokespeople are forever mouthing don’t hold much water.
From the Philippines, Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Nicaragua, right through Korea, Vietnam and Grenada, to Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Palestine […]
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