Neolithic chefs spiced their food

Mineral grains from garlic-mustard seeds found in 6,000-year-old cooking pots.

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Quantum paradox seen in diamond

A quantum effect named after an ancient Greek puzzle has been observed in diamond, paving the way for the use of diamond crystals in quantum computer chips....

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Scottish honey bee losses 'extremely high'

The survey found nearly one in three managed colonies had failed to survive the winter ...

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I wonder if you have noticed that most of us want some kind of psychological safety. We want security, somebody on whom to lean. As a small child holds on to the mother's hand, so we want something to cling to; we want somebody to love us....

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Newspapers Are Billionaires’ Latest Trophies

Mr. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, is paying cash for The Washington Post out of his own personal wealth, currently estimated at more than $25 billion. The Post will cost him roughly 1 percent of what he owns in Amazon stock alone.Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers....

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Now, is it not very important to be refined, both outwardly and inwardly? Do you know what refinement is? It is to be sensitive to everything about you, and also to the thoughts, the beliefs, the feelings that you have within yourself....

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So, it is very important for the teachers to set about unconditioning themselves, and also to help the children to be free of conditioning. Knowing the conditioning influence of parents, of tradition, of society, the teacher must encourage the children not thoughtlessly to accept, but to investigate, to question....

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