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Mars: Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae

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Christmas cards for a 5-year-old boy dying of cancer.

deltafoxtrot:

littleorphanammo:

mercurypdx:

awesome-everyday:

amandoline:

A 5yr old boy named Noah Biorkman , is in the last stages of a 2 1/2yr battle with neuroblastoma cancer. The family is celebrating Christmas next week and Noah’s request is to receive as many Christmas cards as possible. Let’s send him some.

Please send cards to:

Noah Biorkman
1141 Fountianview Circle
South Lyon,Mi 48178

Lets see how many cards we can send to this little guy.

Thank You!

Verified as TRUE on Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/medical/biorkman.asp

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One has animal knowledge about one’s environment, one’s past, and one’s own experience if one’s judgements and beliefs about these are direct responses to their impact – e.g., through perception or memory – with little or no benefit of reflection or understanding.

One has reflective knowledge if one’s judgment or belief manifests not only such direct response to the fact known but also understanding of its place in a wider whole that includes one’s belief and knowledge of it and how these come about.

— Ernest Sosa: Knowledge in Perspective: Selected Essays in Epistemology (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
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ledgergermane:

Air Force: ‘Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilities’ with Bioscience

The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.” It’s all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force Research Lab’s “Human Effectiveness Directorate,” and it’s the latest in a series of out-there military ideas to mess with adversaries’ heads.
For years, armed forces and intelligence community researchers have toyed with ways of manipulating minds. During the Cold War, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. In the 1970s and 80s, a small group of special operations soldiers at Ft. Bragg supposedly tried to teach themselves how to kill with psychic power - the basis for the upcoming movie The Men Who Stare at Goats. In 1994, one Air Force researcher proposed spraying enemies with “strong aphrodisiacs [which] caused homosexual behavior.” Last year, the National Research Council and Defense Intelligence Agency pushed for pharma-based tactics to weaken enemy forces.
This new Air Force project looks to do just that - and boost the cognitive abilities of U.S. troops at the same time. One component of the research effort, called Biobehavioral Performance, is looking for military specimens who are already resistant to physical or mental stressors. By analyzing the biochemical brain pathways of troops who are cool under pressure, the Air Force wants an “external stimulant” that can act as a synthetic version of optimal cognitive stress response and keep airmen operating at top level.


My favorite take on this was “Spiders” a webcomic about a war where the armes forces were helped by thousand of spider bot webcams manned by people around the world.  And the bioscience involved MDMA bombs.  That’s right, ecstasy bombs.  Read part 3 here.  The rest is lost to the sans of time as far as I can tell.

ledgergermane:

Air Force: ‘Overwhelm Enemy Cognitive Abilities’ with Bioscience

  • The Air Force is looking to harness advances in bio-science so they can “degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive abilities.” It’s all part of a $49 million dollar bio-research effort unveiled last month by the Air Force Research Lab’s “Human Effectiveness Directorate,” and it’s the latest in a series of out-there military ideas to mess with adversaries’ heads.
  • For years, armed forces and intelligence community researchers have toyed with ways of manipulating minds. During the Cold War, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. In the 1970s and 80s, a small group of special operations soldiers at Ft. Bragg supposedly tried to teach themselves how to kill with psychic power - the basis for the upcoming movie The Men Who Stare at Goats. In 1994, one Air Force researcher proposed spraying enemies with “strong aphrodisiacs [which] caused homosexual behavior.” Last year, the National Research Council and Defense Intelligence Agency pushed for pharma-based tactics to weaken enemy forces.
  • This new Air Force project looks to do just that - and boost the cognitive abilities of U.S. troops at the same time. One component of the research effort, called Biobehavioral Performance, is looking for military specimens who are already resistant to physical or mental stressors. By analyzing the biochemical brain pathways of troops who are cool under pressure, the Air Force wants an “external stimulant” that can act as a synthetic version of optimal cognitive stress response and keep airmen operating at top level.

My favorite take on this was “Spiders” a webcomic about a war where the armes forces were helped by thousand of spider bot webcams manned by people around the world.  And the bioscience involved MDMA bombs.  That’s right, ecstasy bombs.  Read part 3 here.  The rest is lost to the sans of time as far as I can tell.

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