1. Dr. Duncan “Om” MacDougall (c. 1866 – October 15, 1920) was an early 20th century physician in Haverhill, Massachusetts who sought to measure the mass purportedly lost by a human body when the soul supposedly departed the body upon death.
2. In 1901 he weighed six patients while they were in the process of dying. The entire bed was placed on an industrial sized scale. The determination of the soul weighing 21 grams was based on the average loss of mass in the six patients within moments after death.
3. Experiments were also done on dogs, but there was no change in mass. The conclusion therefor was that dogs had no soul. 4 months ago
1. The statues on easter island are of men, who by a ritual were made into he form of their deity on earth. When they died, a statue was made to commemorate them.
2. All statues have elongated nails. This was a sign of divinity.
3. There are no trees on easter island. There used to be, but due to the growth of the population all were cut down. With no trees left the people could not make canoes and were marooned on their own island. Food eventually and all died. 4 months ago
1 – Unlike most birds the colouring of male and female Robins is the same both having the red breasts. Young Robins do not have the red breasts however but have golden brown spots.
2 – Robins sing all year around and will even sing at night under street lights silly birds.
3 – Robins are very aggressively territorial and will chase away any intruders into their territory. This means that the Robin you see in your garden is probably always the same one. 7 months ago
1 – you have a greater chance of being struck by lightning, drowning in a bathtub, fatally falling down stairs or dying from a bee sting than being killed by a shark.
2 – the inside of sharks intenstines are spiral shaped meaning that some sharks have spiral shaped poops
3 – sharks regurgitate the things they eat but cant digest, they sometimes also can regurgitate their last meal as a deterant if threatened with the attacker sometimes eating the regurgitated meal rather then the shark. 7 months ago
1 – Dog breeding
2 – Sharks
3 – Robins
4 – Brahman cattle
5 – Cats hairballs
6 – Starlings (favorite birds)
7 – Blogging
8 – Motivation techniques
9 – South Africa
10 – Iraq
11 – Humanists
12 – North Africa
13 – Prussia
14 – Yoga
15 – Russia
16 – Poland
17 – Submarines
18 – Horses
19 – Alpacas
20 – Llamas
21 – Angora goats
22 – Boxing
23 – Deer farming
24 – Recycling
25 – Dust
26 – Giant Tortoises
27 – Sea turtles
28 – Window cleaning
29 – Scottie dogs
30 – Peacocks
31 – East indian black ducks
32 – Chipmunks
33 – Planting seeds
34 – Hazelnut trees
35 – Aurochs
36 – Herefords
37 – Salsa dancing
38 – Weight loss
39 – Cardio fitness
40 – How to style my hair
41 – Calming panic attacks
42 – Draining clay soil
43 – Getting mould off shower tiles 7 months ago
Yamas represent a series of ethical rules in Hinduism and Yoga. They are a list of “Do Nots” for interacting with the external world meant to bring about a compassionate death for the ego.
There are ten traditional yamas in some scriptures:
- Ahimsa (अहिंसा): Nonviolence. Abstinence from injury; harmlessness, the not causing of pain to any living creature in thought, word, or deed at any time. This and Satya (सत्य) are the “main” yama. The other eight are there in support of its accomplishment.
- Satya (सत्य): truthfulness, word and thought in conformity with the facts.
- Asteya (अस्तेय): non-stealing, non-coveting, non-entering into debt.
- Brahmacharya (ब्रह्मचर्य): divine conduct, continence, celibate when single, faithful when married.
- Kshama (क्षमा): patience, releasing time, functioning in the now.
- Dhriti (धृति): steadfastness, overcoming non-perseverance, fear, and indecision; seeing each task through to completion.
- Daya: (दया): compassion; conquering callous, cruel and insensitive feelings toward all beings.
- Arjava (अर्जव): honesty, straightforwardness, renouncing deception and wrongdoing.
- Mitahara (मितहार): moderate appetite, neither eating too much nor too little; nor consuming meat, fish, shellfish, fowl or eggs.
- Shaucha (शौच): purity, avoidance of impurity in body, mind and speech. (Note: Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras list Shaucha as the first of the Niyamas.)
The yamas are designed to conquer self, and eradicate hostile intentions, but they must not be followed out of desire for an end goal. To do this, one must concentrate on the opposite of what it is one is trying to overcome. 16 months ago
- Phacellophora camtschatica, known as the fried egg jellyfish (google it and you’ll see why) is a very large jellyfish
- Its huge (with a bell up to 60 cm (2 ft) in diameter and sixteen clusters of up to a few dozen tentacles, each up to 6 meters (20 ft) long.
- it eats other jellyfish, which looks very weird 20 months ago
- MRI is short for Magnetic resonance imaging.
- An MRI machine uses a powerful magnetic field to align the magnetization of some atoms in the body, and radio frequency fields to systematically alter the alignment of this magnetization.
- MRI provides good contrast between the different soft tissues of the body 22 months ago
- He decided by age of fourteen to become a theologian and later a pastor. When his older brother told him not to waste his life in such a”poor, feeble, boring, petty, bourgeois institution as the church, 14-year-old Dietrich replied:”If what you say is true, I shall reform it!”
- Two days after Hitler was installed as Chancellor, as Bonhoeffer delivered a radio address in which he attacked Hitler and warned Germany against slipping into an idolatrous cult of the Führer (leader), he was cut off the air in the middle of a sentence, though it is unclear whether the newly elected Nazi regime was responsible.
- Bonhoeffer was in the United States in 1939 but went back to Germany. He wrote:”I must live through this difficult period in our national history with the people of Germany.”He returned to Germany on the last scheduled steamer to cross the Atlantic. He died on April 5 1945, 23 days before the Nazis’ surrender. 22 months ago
- Dietrich was born Maria Magdalene Dietrich on 27 December 1901 in Berlin. Around the age of 11, she contracted her two first names to form the then-novel name of “Marlene”.
- She performed for Allied troops on the front lines with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton. She did a pretend”mindreading”act. Dietrich would inform the audience that she could read minds, and ask them to concentrate hard on thinking about whatever came into their minds. Then she would walk over to a soldier and earnestly tell him,”Oh, think of something else. I can’t possibly talk about that!”American church papers reportedly published stories complaining about this part of Dietrich’s act.
- She was bisexual. 22 months ago
