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Star Wars Art

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:07:28 GMT

Nobody can deny the mastery of the Star Wars movies, but we all know these images we see on screen were first drafted on paper by artists.

Now artist worldwide draw inspiration from the movie and add their own spin to some of their favorite characters. Here are some of my favorite.

AtAt by banksy

This is a fantastic illustration of…well of the StarWars character’s last supper, by artist Eric Deschamps.

Eric Poulton shows us his SteamPunk Star Wars art
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This could be a good time!

Brian Arbelaez — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:38:57 GMT

We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For
You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour.
Now you must go back and tell the people that this is The Hour.And there are things to be considered:
Where are you living?
What are you doing?
What are your relationships?
Are you in right relation?
Where is your water?
Know your garden.
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
This could be a good time!
There is a river flowing now very fast.
It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid.
They will try to hold on to the shore.
They will feel they are being torn apart, and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination.
The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.
See who is in there with you and celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all, ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over.
Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.

—The Elders Oraibi Arizona Hopi Nation

Dream Within A Dream

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:57:35 GMT

Take this kiss upon the brow
And in parting from you now
Thus much let me avow
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have flown away
In a night or in a day
In a vision or in none
Are they therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream

I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand
Yet through my fingers they creep
While I weep, while I weep
Can I not grasp them
With a tighter clasp?
O God! Can I not save
But one from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a Dream within a Dream?

Edgar Allen Poe

Saving The World

Rev. Adriana Zotelo — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:37:10 GMT

My Dream To Stop It All

Well, I guess it isn’t to late to blog but I had a dream and I shared it with my aunt and she told me to blog it immediately. So! Here I am and this is the dream;

Whoever knows me personally, knows my group of friends and my groups of friends and I had gotten the amazing and irreversable gift of immortality. As we began to think of the things we would do with this gift, we all decided that the best was to end world hunger, and it was our first project. We did everything and anything to save the world in this aspect except for when we got to Africa, the French had told us that world hunger could not be ended because for every wrong, there is right, and what they meant is, is everyone is fed, where is the wrong?
In our eyes, we just needed the right. So we went to war with the French and the funny thing is, 7 or 10 teenage kids against the thousands of French in the military. But as soon as they realized that we couldn’t die, they surrendered and let us do our thing. Yeah, there were little attempts of stoping it in the process but stopped world hunger.

I believe that if I had this dream, it IS possible. There is a solution to world hunger and we just need to make the right steps. That’s the end of my dream. ^.^ Next, I hope to have a dream of the solution to gas prices…

by Magz

Everyday Environmentalist

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:58:30 GMT

I bet that few of us know the origin of the forest products we purchase. And even fewer know whether these forests were sustainably managed and legally harvested before the timber made its way into the finished products that we have in our homes and offices.

But knowing matters. And choosing responsibly matters too …
Asking for and buying wood and paper products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) — is good for people, good for forests and good for the planet.

Are you a conscientious consumer? Take the Consumer Awerness Survey

For Jack Hurd’s full article visit The Nature Conservancy, or visit ThinkActUnity.org for this and other global campaigns.

Jack Hurd is director of The Nature Conservancy’s Forest Trade Program. Prior to joining the Conservancy, he was with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where he coordinated the WWF/World Bank Forest Alliance, directed WWF’s Cambodia program and served as a regional conservation advisor in Southeast Asia.

HUG O' WAR

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:05:22 GMT

I will not play at tug o’ war.
I’d rather play at hug o’ war.
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.

Telepathic DNA

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:46:36 GMT

DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn’t be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet.

Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double-stranded DNA has the “amazing” ability to recognize similarities in other DNA strands from a distance. Somehow they are able to identify one another, and the tiny bits of genetic material tend to congregate with similar DNA. The recognition of similar sequences in DNA’s chemical subunits, occurs in a way unrecognized by science. There is no known reason why the DNA is able to combine the way it does, and from a current theoretical standpoint this feat should be chemically impossible.

Even so, the research published in ACS’ Journal of Physical Chemistry B, shows very clearly that homology recognition between sequences of several hundred nucleotides occurs without physical contact or presence of proteins. Double helixes of DNA can recognize matching molecules from a distance and then gather together, all seemingly without help from any other molecules or chemical signals.

In the study, scientists observed the behavior of fluorescently tagged DNA strands placed in water that contained no proteins or other material that could interfere with the experiment. Strands with identical nucleotide sequences were about twice as likely to gather together as DNA strands with different sequences. No one knows how individual DNA strands could possibly be communicating in this way, yet somehow they do. The “telepathic” effect is a source of wonder and amazement for scientists.

“Amazingly, the forces responsible for the sequence recognition can reach across more than one nanometer of water separating the surfaces of the nearest neighbor DNA,” said the authors Geoff S. Baldwin, Sergey Leikin, John M. Seddon, and Alexei A. Kornyshev and colleagues.

This recognition effect may help increase the accuracy and efficiency of the homologous recombination of genes, which is a process responsible for DNA repair, evolution, and genetic diversity. The new findings may also shed light on ways to avoid recombination errors, which are factors in cancer, aging, and other health issues.

Posted by Rebecca Sato.
Click here to visit The Daily Galaxy website for actual article.

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