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Real Name: Kurt
Location: Sydney, Australia
Joined:2-4-2007
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About me
I'm an Australian living in Sydney, in a house with my brother and 6 husky/shepherds. He watches TV while I use the computer. My dog Lani hates the computer because she'd rather go walking. I like to try and find out how things work, since discovering what is beneath the cover, can show a new way of looking at something you know, but which can now be understood More clearly.
"I may be guilty of being an idealist, ( ..and a bad poet - but that is more painful) - but I have never had the courage to believe in nothing"
Don Quixote, played by Alonzo Quijana, played by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, played by Peter O'Toole in
"Man of La Mancha"

"We do say that it is the duty, and the responsibility of the community, and particularly those more fortunately placed to see that our less fortunate fellow citizens are protected from those shafts of fate which leave them helpless and without hope, this is the objective for which we are striving. It is, as I have said before, the Beacon: the light on the hill to which our eyes are always turned and to which our efforts are always directed."
Ben Chifley December 1949
Prime Minister of Australia
13 July 1945 – 19 December 1949

Today the community is Global.
Why I use Clipmarks
Clipmarks helps me learn, because when I clip something, it forces me to read it, so the bits I clip can carry the story, rather than think I know about something by reading the headlines.
Clipmarks shows people agree about far more things than they disagree.
In the big picture, Clipmarks can help fill a lot of the gaps, and the way messages can be seen both by subject, and by popular opinion, provides a link between the two. Every clipper's clip is posted, because the clipper is satisfied that the clip reflects their point of view, shows a topic of interest, or because they need a safe place to put their bookmarks, with pictures, in case their system crashes.
We need the people to save the world, politicians can't understand the situation while they are isolated in a power bubble. Clipmarks is a great way pick up stories that aren't in the headlines, but are often more important. To see if other people are thinking the same thing I am (or vice versa), and learn by the way they think. It keeps my mind active and shows me how much I have to learn.
I like the way the clips are listed as clipped, so any range of things might be there. It's easy to learn something by surprise.
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Amazon Drought reduces Carbon Sinks
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by pokkets  3-8-2009   
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Scientist calls for robot ethics rules
pokkets
by pokkets  12-21-2008    1
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Global Methane Levels move up again
pokkets
by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Yawning cools the brain
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by pokkets  12-15-2008    3
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Mobiles distract more than passengers
pokkets
by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Tibetan glaciers rapidly melting
pokkets
by pokkets  12-15-2008   
  The Water supply of nearly a billion people in South Asia in peril? Rather euphemistic way of describing it.! The effects will be devastating. A combination of drought, and Rivers that have become sewers never being purged, to say the least. There is no reason to believe that the melt will do anything but what it has continued to do so far...accelerate. Once scientists were often surprised. Now they are stunned. Why? They once had some fool idea they knew what they were talking about...but they were wrong. At least according to the reports we've had ACCESS to.
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Mammoth genome may explain extinction.
pokkets
by pokkets  12-15-2008   
 Perhaps after the ice age, woolly mammoths just overheated? Global warming means most of the Mammoths that have been in the deep freeze for 10,000 years, will thaw out. The next species on the agenda, is Neanderthal Man.
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Silk the key to rebuilding bone
pokkets
by pokkets  12-15-2008   
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Carbon Trading Scheme 'discounts altruism'
pokkets
by pokkets  12-15-2008   
 If people save energy with new technology out of their own pocket. The carbon points they save will be used or traded by contracted energy suppliers and industries.
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Empathetic virtual humans on the way.
pokkets
by pokkets  12-15-2008   
 They'd be great for advertising and PR work. Perhaps even election campaigns
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Fingerprints reveal more than identity.
pokkets
by pokkets  12-15-2008    3
 For tracking people who aren't using their mobile phones
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outrageous actions by Monsanto
jimbo1000
by jimbo1000  12-15-2008    8
 Don't read this if you suffer from blood pressure
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Crop pests changing with pesticides
pokkets
by pokkets  11-17-2008    2
 And they will also change with Genetically Modified Crops
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Southern ocean close to acid tipping point
pokkets
by pokkets  11-10-2008   
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Searching the Web a workout for the brain
pokkets
by pokkets  10-15-2008   
 The net stimulates the Brain? So does Advertizing.
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Aloe Vera and Garlic top herbal charts
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by pokkets  10-10-2008   
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Microscope reveals developing fish embryo
pokkets
by pokkets  10-10-2008   
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Nanofood safety proposal 'NOT good enough'
pokkets
by pokkets  10-8-2008   
 Why? because it is DANGEROUS. It does nothing to benefit the consumer, but is a means of increasing profits by extending shelf life and appearance. There is a barrier called the Blood-Brain barrier, where the pores through osmosis will only admit a certain number of chemicals. with small molecular size, and identity. Nanofood elements throw a new invasive potential into the mix generally when there are alternatives that are much more healthy.
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Study unravels bacteria's Stress buster
pokkets
by pokkets  10-8-2008   
 It's described as a "global response' which is far more detailed that they once believed.. It can also show where the responses of animal cells in general can have a mechanism that can be compared.
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Medical students fail drug tests
pokkets
by pokkets  10-8-2008    1
 They were generally unaware of street names of common recreational drugs, a knowledge that can be critical in diagnosis, and the prescribing an antidote or remedy. Very often the information given is from people who are delirious, feel threatened, concerned about being responsible for an overdose, or hysterical because of the fear someone they know well may not survive. They can find it hard to trust a doctor without a clue.
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Arctic ocean covered by thin ice
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by pokkets  10-8-2008    1
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Alchemy Laboratories
JohnWaterman
by JohnWaterman  10-6-2008    2
 "Thus have I been wishing to reveal to you in this treatise, as far as may be lawful to me, the Stone of the Ancients, that you, too, might possess the knowledge of this highest of earthly treasures for your health and comfort in this valley of sorrow. I write about it, not for my own good, but for that of posterity, and though my words be few and simple, that which they import is of immeasurable magnitude. Ponder them well, that you also may find the Rock which is the foundation Stone of truth, the temporal blessing, and the eternal reward."
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Our choices go to the core of who we are - Accounting for Taste
einbar
by einbar  10-6-2008    3
 "We consume books, movies, music, and visual art primarily to fulfill the internal emotional needs that are fundamental to our personalities. But we also make choices about art based on a desire to carve out identities for ourselves—to articulate the stories of our lives. By the same token, we look for those stories in others"
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'Old-boy's club holding back innovation
pokkets
by pokkets  10-5-2008   
 We all now have access to a vast amount of research and data on the net. a Few people would have absolutely no hope, but the networks being created on the web, are places where anyone can comment, or include findings, so the pieces can start coming together more quickly. It isn't what we know that is important. it's what we do with the knowledge
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'Historic' 'bailout' passes Congress
pokkets
by pokkets  10-3-2008    2
 This has got Nothing whatsoever to do with People (Who?) This is to bail ou the banking industry and corporate holdings. - give them the cash, and when the Economy hits rock bottom the idea is to buy out things of value, real assets for pennies. There is an Australian Movie 'The Castle' that puts into context "They're Dreamin' " Are we going to sell what we own Like they've sold the U.S. to Europe.? That's up to You
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Cola, stale chip research win win Ig Nobels
pokkets
by pokkets  10-2-2008   
 What they found about the mechanism of sperm and aids killing makes me wonder if cola can be used on other micro organisms like MRSA. The sperm in the sugar, no doubt with the chemicals in cola acting as a catalyst, cause them to 'Eat themselves to death, through osmosis, and the recognition of sugar opening some cellular gates.
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Smell of success in bid to 'build nose'
pokkets
by pokkets  10-1-2008   
 Maybe they have trouble quantifying the way our imaginations are triggered by smell, and the value of the associations it can create, with past memories.
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'Chemical equator' keeps southern air clean
pokkets
by pokkets  9-29-2008   
 The virtual map says it all. Now it means the approach to the solution of the pollution problem needs to be tackled in different ways in each hemisphere. Atmospheric pollution is only one problem. More investigation needs to be done into the nature of oceanic pollution. it did make me wonder of the Nuclear Fusion experiments on Mururoa (Aopuni) and Bikini atolls in French Polynesia last Century. The first nuclear test was conducted on July 2, 1966, code named Aldebaran. France abandoned nuclear testing in the atmosphere in 1974 and moved testing underground in the midst of intense world pressure. A total of 147 underground nuclear tests were conducted at Mururoa and Fangataufa. This practice created much controversy as cracking of the atolls was discovered, A 1979 test conducted at half the usual depth caused a large submarine landslide on the southwest rim of the atoll. Just somehow seemed relevant
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Genetic 'defect' linked to narcolepsy
pokkets
by pokkets  9-29-2008   
 What does also seems worth investigating , is the fact that the condition appears in late adolescence or early adulthood. Why no earlier?
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The boy with the incredible brain-Savant autism
pokkets
by pokkets  9-27-2008   
 Clip 2 What is particularly unusual about Daniel is That he can explain what is happening in his Brain It is a Florid Example of Synesthesia
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The boy with the incredible brain-Savant autism
pokkets
by pokkets  9-27-2008   
 Clip 1
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Our Future is ours to write
pokkets
by pokkets  9-27-2008   
 The grand Unified Theory of Time Space, and Existence. We all have a choice. The choice between Light and Darkness. The Darkness is ignorance, division, fear, and oppression, hunger and need., The light is knowledge, understanding, acceptance, unity, compassion, empathy, faith, hope, and Love. There is a reason we fear the darkness. It will kill us. But only if we believe it is so. When we allow in the light, the Darkness has no substance, and so ceases to exist. So our fears can be relieved, and replaced with hope. The Future is ours to write.
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End Poverty. Be the Generation
pokkets
by pokkets  9-27-2008   
 Not all spirits are positive Not all spirits have hope, all spirits can receive hope, learn hope, become hope. our hopes become our dreams, our dreams become our realities
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Appreciate food
pokkets
by pokkets  9-26-2008    1
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The Paranormal
pokkets
by pokkets  9-26-2008    1
 some organisations such as the United States National Science Foundation have stated that mainstream science does not support paranormal beliefs. Perhaps that's one of the reasons Scientists are surprised so often
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Outdoor pools more 'breathtaking':study
pokkets
by pokkets  9-25-2008   
 They were studying the way exposure to chlorine vapor can cause Asthma. It was believed that out door pools allowed Chlorine to evaporate more quickly. This was more an assumption than a fact. Chlorine Gas and HCl or Hydrogen Chloride, which becomes Hydrochloric Acid, when it dissolves in water as a matter of course, is best in the stomach for digestion, or with or with the Alkali NaOH (Sodium hydroxide) which becomes the neutral Salt It Does Not Belong in the Lungs. Why do we use chemical Pan Microbicides, when there is the potential to give water its own version of an immune system? Creeks, rivers and Oceans Don't need Chlorine to remain clean. Why should we think we have a better defense using Chlorine. killing all microbes can turn water Sterile and Stagnant. We need Oxygenated Water,(Waterfall) and microbes can be part of a self contained Eco=system Pools don't need Chlorine, they need things like Fish . this will also help recycle biological 'waste' we produce naturally
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Pictures: “Lego Block” Prison Cells Readied In Utah
paleblue
by paleblue  9-25-2008    5
 I'd hate to speculate the purpose of these, but the way things are going I wouldn't doubt they are for civil unrest.. If you researched the last RNC you will know that they arrested any un-embedded reporters such as Amy Goodman and crew on bogus charges, but they were among a few people that were arrested by POLICE < in all black uniforms with no ID just POLICE! It is said that the POLICE used in such a violation of our rights will be blackwater types from foreign nations.
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Gitmo prosecutor resigns, protests withheld evidence
masbury
by masbury  9-25-2008    4
 Get this: the prosecutor found the government's withholding of evidence from the defense so unethical as to resign his position as a Commissions prosecutor.
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Would You Eat This Hamburger From McD's?
BartendingBear
by BartendingBear  9-24-2008    6
 Consider the picture before reading the text below it.
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End Poverty by Ending Poor People!
dulios
by dulios  9-24-2008    22
 Louisiana Republican wants to pay poor women to have their tubes tied. And wants to encourage college-educated, rich folks to have more kids.
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