Well sub-chapter. From Common Sense. Death Is a Part of Life As my subconscious filtered the idea that weaknesses in our systems occurred when we ignored nature’s example, I realised that we found it difficult to deal with death, although it was clearly a part of life. Death was important because fearing it is difficult …
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BT Notes: Spring is springing, Book, TV, Yoga, Hay.
Happy new year! We hope 2015 is off to a good start for you all. For those of you that made it to the walk in the woods over Christmas, photos are on Flickr. Enjoy! We had a great crowd tromping through the woods and enjoying mince pies and vin chaud afterwards! The start of …
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“The Facts” about sustainability, the environment and your future.
Below are the facts stated in the film Cowspiracy and their references. Which ever side you’re on it’s good to know them. For example, one takeaway from the ideas presented is that we can resolve environmental problems, reform economic systems and still keep our cars, if we change our diet. If you take that with …
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Common Sense now printed locally, helping us drop the price.
While researching a way to bind hard copies of Common Sense, our local office supplier, Jones Business Systems, gave us a helpful tip by telling us about a family run printer in the middle of Kilkenny countryside. Patrick Brennan of Digital Outputs was able to print the second run within our meagre budget allowing us …
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Some people call me an entrepreneur. Now I know why …
The Newfoundland Department of Employment claimed a boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his hired help. So they sent an agent to Burin to investigate him. GOVT AGENT: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them.” Boat Owner: “Well, there’s Clarence, my hired hand; he’s been with me for …
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DTRTTRW in yoga pants: FouseyTube
More than 15 million people have watched Yousef Saleh Erakat’s most popular video – the Yoga Pants Prank. It’s funny and it works. Erakat highlights embarrassing aspects of modern culture, like men gawking at women (when they shouldn’t) and women flaunting their booty in public, which encourages men to be misogynistic and other women to flaunt …
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Irish anglers being fished by the state
Sorry, did I say fished? I meant something else … A two-day International Conference ‘Celebrating River Restoration in Ireland and Europe’ organised by MulkearLIFE and hosted by the project’s coordinating beneficiary Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) took place in Limerick this week. The project received € 1.7 million in public money. Local anglers tried to protest …
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Millions of classic images, free online.
Kalev Leetaru has uploaded a searchable database of 12 million historical copyright-free images to Flickr. Most of the images that are in the books are not in any of the art galleries of the world – the original copies have long ago been lost. The pictures range from 1500 to 1922, when copyright restrictions kick …
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FiveThirtyEight – a place for thinking
Nate Silver, famous for accurate political predictions, and his team relaunched fivethirtyeight.com, a website focussed on mining data and interpreting it, under ESPN sponsorship on St Paddy’s day. FiveThirtyEight.com covers a range of current issues from economics to science to sports in a thoughtful, useful way. Though a US focus predominates, that’s OK in a …
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BT – Notes From The Edge – Spring has Sprung
Spring has sprung (in the northern hemisphere). Even though you can’t quite tell when the equinox occurs, the calendar reminds us of the solar cycle – equinox and solstice alternating about the 21st of every third month – March, June, September, December. The spring equinox passed last weekend marking the beginning of Spring in some …
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