First, if you are getting GTA IV, don’t forget to sign up for the Rockstar Social Club. You’ll be able to view an overhead map of Liberty City to see the locations of crimes occurring in everyone’s single player games, you’ll be able to track what your friend’s favorite in-game food is (hot dog!), and all sorts of other statistics. Should be a hoot.
Something else game related: It turns out that games don’t make kids violent, it turns out that non-gamers are the violent ones (including the Va Tech kid. Video games were blamed in that case, but he only played Sonic the Hedgehog as a kid. His roommates were actually surprised that he didn’t play games with them.) Another example of the commonly held belief by ‘experts‘ being completely contrary to reality — what a surprise. The book is Grand Theft Childhood.
Oh, and weed makes rats ignore the bullshit that has been drilled into their heads. No wonder our government has made it illegal: “Research published earlier this year in the journal Psychopharmacology found that the administration of THC and the cannabinoid cannabidiol (CBD) made rats forget prior conditioning.”
Ancient Mega Machines
Food for thought. I think our ancient bretheren were actually even more advanced than this documentary purports (i.e. electrolysis, electricity, hot air balloons, welding, etc.) but this is a pretty good start to better understand our past. We have somehow devolved over time. The fabled Atlantean Age may have just been one high point in a series of human renaissances and collapses. It is my belief that the sphinx and 3 Giza pyramids were found by the Egyptians — not built by them. (There is only one graffito that claims that Khufu made the great pyramid and it’s planted bullshit by the dude that found it. And he wrote it wrong.) They still had some incredible residual technology from their predecessors however. It would be nearly impossible to create some of the giant monuments and obelisks of ancient Egypt with modern day technology and yet according to hieroglyphs they could create an obelisk and erect it in less than two weeks. How?
(I just listened to an interview on Red Ice Creations where a fellow from Nexus Magazine claims that the Egyptians may have used a liquid derived from a plant that can actually soften rock. Or Brown’s Gas. Or Ultrasonic Drilling.)
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Bonus Documentary: Atlantis Reborn (BBC) – A debunking hack job, but good points on both sides. Polar shift in 10,500 BC?
Did you know that there are actually really professional and polished blogs out there where people are really good about their categories and post near-magazine article quality posts? People actually in the fields they study that have real qualitative information? So what are you doing here? Why aren’t you reading one of those?
