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Money Just a Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion…

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money an illusionU.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money
Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion  –  The Onion

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a meaningless and intangible social construct.

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A moneyless world…

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BBC World Service – Daniel Suelo: The Modern Caveman

He dines on road kill, blogs religiously, sleeps in a cave, and has lived for years without money.

 

Details – Meet the Man Who Lives on Zero Dollars

In Utah, a modern-day caveman has lived for the better part of a decade on zero dollars a day. People used to think he was crazy.

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We’re wimps compared to the apes

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modern man a wimpModern man a wimp says anthropologist | Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions. Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world. . .

 

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Yes, ‘nonsense’ is, in fact, important

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why nonsense sharpensHow Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect – NY Times

When things don’t add up, the mind goes into high gear.

 

 

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Nadir of Western Civilization to be Reached…

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nadir of western civilizationNadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday
At 3:32 P.M. — The Onion

 

WASHINGTON — From the prehistoric Lascaux cave paintings to the stirring symphonies of Mozart to today’s hot-dog eating competitions and action films with comical gerbils, culture has descended into a festering pool of mass ignorance, said Yale sociologist Paul Riordan.

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My new dance instructor

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my new dance instructorBBC NEWS  |  Birds show off their dance moves

Footage revealed that some parrots have a near-perfect sense of rhythm; swaying their bodies, bobbing their heads and tapping their feet in time to a beat. . .
 

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“Bad Idea Jeans”

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At once futuristic, philosophical, tragic, comic, and absurd… ‘So, I lost both my arms, and got these two experimental bionic ones. I’m excited to start driving again!’   Bad Idea Jeans

 

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Bionic driver dies after crash  –  BBC 

A man thought to be the first person to drive a car using a bionic arm dies after a road accident in Austria.

 

 

 

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