Do you remember a comedy show called ‘Green Acres?’ It aired in the late 1960’s, and told the story of New York lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) who tired of city life and moved his socialite wife Lisa (Eva…
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The greatest cost of crime is the loss of trust. When you start looking at everyone as though they might harm you, something dies inside. How can a community grow when people fear to open their doors? Measured against this…
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A mysterious cavern deep in the wastelands of Siberia held the secret of a third race of Man for 30,000 years. The DNA of a fossilized finger bone and tooth—discovered in a cave located in the Altai mountain range—were analyzed…
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Living in an automobile dependent community means that you have to drive your car everywhere. Each type of community is different, yet living in an automobile dependent community probably has the most negative attributes. In cities, you do not need…
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There are a number of reasons our prison system is failing to do its job. Having been a prisoner for a full year, I saw it first hand. I was a guest of the well known Sheriff Joe’s Tent City…
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Nearly 150 years after its first publication (1859) Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species is still one of the most hotly contested scientific works of all time. No other groundbreaking scientific theory has experienced such a prolonged backlash as…
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A Danish archaeologist Christian Thomsen first coined the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age as the Three-Age System. These can easily be identified by their descriptive names. Copper and bronze, 10% tin and 90% copper, became the…
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New urbanism is a design movement which began in the 1980s in response to the rapidly increasing urban sprawl in the United States. Taking its inspiration from developments done before the rise of the automobile it promotes mixed, walkable communities…
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When studying the creative intelligence of another species, it can be difficult to separate deliberate creative responses from imperfect rote response behavior. Many previous intelligence and language studies in dolphins did not distinguish between them. In most cases, all that…
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A Caesar cipher is the earliest known tool for creating codes to encrypt messages. It is known by several other names, which include Caesar’s shift, Caesar’s code and the shift cipher. This code-breaker is a substitution cipher in which one…
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