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Cool Abandoned Stuff...

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Christ of the Abyss at San Fruttuoso, Italy Kolmanskop in the Namib Desert Abandoned dome houses in Southwest Florida The remains of the SS Ayrfield in Homebush Bay, Australia The abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park outside Beijing, China Fishing hut on a lake in Germany Holland Island in the Chesapeake Bay The Kerry Way walking path between Sneem and Kenmare in Ireland Pripyat, Ukraine 15th century monastery in the Black Forest in Germany Kalavantin Durg near Panvel, India The remains of the Pegasus in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica Angkor Wat in Cambodia The Maunsell Sea Forts in England Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, England Częstochowa, Poland's abandoned train depot Sunken yacht in Antarctica Abandoned distillery in Barbados Hafodunos Hall in Llangernyw, North Wales 1984 Winter Olympics bobsleigh track in Sarajevo Craco, Italy Russian military rocket factor

Strange Doings on the Sun

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Sunspots, Which Can Harm Electronics on Earth, Are Half the Number Expected Email   Print   Save ↓ More   178  Comments   Facebook   Twitter   Google+   LinkedIn smaller   Larger By   ROBERT LEE HOTZ   CONNECT Nov. 10, 2013 7:25 p.m. ET The sun should be at the climax of its usual 11-year cycle of activity, but solar physicists are puzzled by its mellow solar maximum. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports. Something is up with the sun. Scientists say that solar activity is stranger than in a century or more, with the sun producing barely half the number of sunspots as expected and its magnetic poles oddly out of sync. The sun generates immense magnetic fields as it spins. Sunspots—often broader in diameter than Earth—mark areas of intense magnetic force that brew disruptive solar storms. These storms may abruptly lash their charged particles across millions of miles of space toward Earth, where they can sh

The Scary Truth Behind GMO's and Monsanto

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Ahhh the horror! Do you know that almost everything you eat is genetically modified?!?!? GENETICALLY MODIFIED! If God intended humans to eat potatoes, wheat, large fruits, leafy vegetables, docile mammals or semi-flying birds HE WOULD HAVE MADE THEM THAT WAY HIMSELF. Personally, all I eat are chestnuts and fish. And this is why: Why One Zombie GMO Myth Can’t Be Killed By  Keith Kloor  | October 31, 2013 4:06 pm An anti-GMO protest in Los Angeles on May 25, 2013. (Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) An  opinion piece  in  Al Jazeera  repeats many of the tropes one frequently hears about GMOs. The accompanying photo (also displayed in this post) is an apt illustration. At the center is a person holding a sign that connects Monsanto and  Agenda 21 , which is an innocuous U.N. sustainability initiative that has been turned into a feverish conspiracy theory by the likes of  Glenn Beck  and  embraced  by Tea Party conservatives. They think Agenda 21 is part of a larger plot to