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Archive: June, 2005
SunFest 2005
Natural Home Tour Including Solar/Wind Power
Learn how you can create a sustainable home and lifestyle from the Wilson family, recognized experts at green living. Held on location at the Wilson Natural Home, you get a full tour of this amazing, inspiring home, that incorporates straw bale natural insulation, passive solar design, solar & wind power, natural construction materials, and a green roof.
Event Date: Saturday, September 10, 2005
Time: 1pm – 5pm
Where: The Award-Winning Wilson Natural Home. 1 hour north of Toronto near beautiful Hockley Valley
Special offer: Free electricity for life!
People who have solar photovoltaic systems and mini wind-turbines installed on their homes often produce enough electricity to not only fulfil all their household energy needs, but have enough left over to sell back to the grid. Unfortunately the money you get for the electricity you sell isn’t nearly as much as it costs to buy from your supplier.
Now imagine if your country’s government forced suppliers to match that price, what a huge incentive it would be? More people would want to install these alternative energy systems, not only because they would get free energy for life, but they would also have a way to considerably supplement their household incomes. (more…)
Jack S. Kilby, an Inventor of the Microchip, Is Dead at 81
It has just been brought to my attention that Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, died on Monday.
His death, after a brief battle with cancer, was announced yesterday by Texas Instruments, the Dallas-based electronics company where he worked for a quarter-century.
The integrated circuit that Mr. Kilby designed shortly after arriving at Texas Instruments in 1958 served as the basis for modern microelectronics, transforming a technology that permitted the simultaneous manufacturing of a mere handful of transistors into a chip industry that routinely places billions of Lilliputian switches in the area of a fingernail.
His achievement – the integration – yielded a thin chip of crystal connecting previously separate components like transistors, resistors and capacitors within a single device. For that creation, commonly called the microchip, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.
Go ahead, commit an atrocity
Have you always wanted to go on a Bonny & Clyde-esque rampage across America, showing those goody-two-shoes know-it-alls the meaning of calamity? Have you always wondered what that little Curious George guy would have turned out like without the guidance of the Man in the Big Yellow Hat? Do you like simple games where your options are to either “move” or “commit atrocity”?
I answered “hell yes!” to all of those questions last night, and so Bobby Stones presented me with this fine piece of programming…
Women fall into 'trance' during orgasm
“The scans show that during sexual activity, the parts of the female brain responsible for processing fear, anxiety and emotion start to relax and reduce in activity. This reaches a peak at orgasm, when the female brain’s emotion centres are effectively closed down to produce an almost trance-like state.”
Related:
Scan spots women faking orgasms
“In women, turning off fear and anxiety is key, while men need to know they will be physically stimulated.”
Professor Holstege said: “Women can imitate orgasm quite well.” But with genuine orgasm, he said: “What we see is an extreme deactivation of large portions of the brain and especially the emotional parts involved with fear. “If you look at the women who faked orgasm intentionally you see the motor cortex – the conscious part of the brain – is activated. “This means the movements that we make in [real] orgasm are not conscious. “And if you are fearful, it is very hard to have sex. It’s very hard to let go.”
He said this was useful for men to know. “When you want to make love to a woman, you must give her the feeling of being protected.”
Bsti found this gem.
Ceremonial acts of gladness
Here are a whole bunch of pagan rituals described in detail for your convenience.
I find it’s more powerful to make up my own rituals. And it’s more fun! Ask Hal Falon. He once wrote to me, asking to be pen pals and reassured me he’s witchier than most women. I did not find this information reassuring. I’m obviously not pagan enough.
World Society for the Protection of Animals
“WSPA is willing to go to places in the world that no one else wants to. They get the job done and at a reasonable cost. This is often done at considerable risk to life and limb. It’s very impressive.”
~ Michael Wood
Retired Airline Pilot and WSPA member for more than 30 years
Help Save Japan’s Dolphins!
More than 20,000 dolphins and porpoises are being slaughtered each year and their meat, containing toxic levels of mercury, is being sold as food in Japan, often times labeled as whale meat. Send a letter to President Obama, Vice President Biden and Japanese Ambassador to the United States Ichiro Fujisaki urging them to address this issue »
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