STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- "Ebola plush toys have been selling so fast in response to this year's outbreak that a Connecticut manufacturer, Giantmicrobes Inc., can't keep them in stock.
The company, which was founded a decade ago, makes stuffed toys based on the appearance of microbes like Ebola, Chicken pox, bed bugs, and even non-harmful microscopic organisms things like brain and red blood cells.
The items are meant to be educational tools for young children, Laura Sullivan, vice president of operations, told CBS News.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2014/10/22/E...z3GzVr5AIv
http://www.google.com/inbox/?gclid=CLSot...Mgod0hcA-Q
Thank God i have never been so burdened by email... an never will be... that i woud need this new app... which to me... looks like it woud make it easier to overlook important stuff an make email more complicated.!!!
http://philosophybytheway.blogspot.com/2...ality.html
EXCERPT: In my last blog I showed that Prinz distinguishes two levels of representing reality. The direct representation of the world is done on a non-conscious level and the indirect representation or the perceiving of the direct representation is done on a conscious level. Prinz uses this “dual representation model” for explaining what free will is. However, for making this clear, I prefer not to follow Prinz, but to turn to the view of Shaun Gallagher. Both views are basically the same, albeit not in detail....
The Wonthaggi "Monster"
http://malcolmscryptids.blogspot.com.au/...nster.html
EXCERPT: Of all those researching mystery animals in Australia, none is more energetic, or more generous, than my friend, Paul Cropper, the co-author of Out of the Shadows and The Yowie. In 1998 he sent me, out of the blue, a package of 106 - yes, 106! - photocopies of newspaper reports, covering 34 years, concerning the "Wonthaggi Beast". Anyone who has ever tried it will appreciate how tedious and time consuming such a task would be - especially with regional newspapers in a different state to his own. [...] These reports are all from the now defunct Wonthaggi Express....
http://www.livescience.com/48309-acousti...rocks.html
SNIP: A self-proclaimed "professional YouTuber" has scored a viral video hit with his discovery of the sci-fi sounds produced by skipping rocks across a frozen lake. The winter phenomenon is old hat to kids from cold weather states, but for Cory Williams, the eerie pings and pews were jaw-droppingly bizarre....
Review: Behind the Gospels -- Understanding the Oral Tradition, by Eric Eve
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc...270&cn=403
EXCERPT: [...] Eric Eve has set as his task to try to understand the oral tradition from which the New Testament works must have come. In a scholarly and important book he reviews the recent scholarship that has to do with the oral tradition of the first century drawing on work done in anthropology, media contrast, form criticism, memory, and the reliability of eye witness accounts. He considers many current works by specialists in these disciplines - presents their arguments, offers criticisms, and assesses the success of the conclusions. [...]
Review: Anomalous Cognition - Remote Viewing Research and Theory, by Edwin C. May and Sonali Bhatt Marwaha
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc...260&cn=396
EXCERPT: Reading this book is not for the statistically faint of heart. This (over-?)technically written series of twenty-six articles published, where the editors do, usually, provide publication data, between 1988 and 2009, overwhelmingly in parapsychology journals, is a "product of forty years of research". Governmental secrecy might account for a publication delay of half that time. Early use of the controversial Uri Geller may also have contributed, as well as the desire to create an aura of technicist scientism contouring the language in difficult graphics and sophisticated-looking statistical formulae....
