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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (45598)	1/25/2014 7:44:47 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

Having added a new bookcase today, I was just moving a bunch of old books around and rearranging when I came across this little gem I had not seen in a while. I had read Will and Ariel's series on both civilization and history and philosophy many years ago. They write with a beautiful, lucid, and uncompromisingly HONEST style. But the honesty is always delivered with exquisite tact. This little book is sort of a distillation of the lessons to be drawn from history. Hence the title: The Lessons of History! The clear and beautiful writing is still there, so I went searching the net to see if I could share some of it and hoorah--I found a site! If you find the time...take a look at the chapter on religion. But really...they are all terrific. scribd.com The religion chapter starts on page 43. Gem of a book by two people who perhaps knew more about the history of civilization and philosophy than any two people who ever lived!

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (45598)	1/25/2014 8:04:34 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

"You can almost identify each kind of drug/med each is on, some kind of opiate for brummy, as for the 'cabbage patch kid", for a root vegetable to be this animate it has to be another crystal meth abuser, have rarely seen such hyper delusional paranoia 24hrs a day. At least brum keeps it down to 12hrs/7days but at a whopping 140,000 posts, these are internet records that will never be broken, for few have this much time in their lives to waste." Definitely a boy in a lot of emotional doo doo! $100.00 says that little Attention Whore is GAY! Something really really weird about his sexual overtones. It is like he is really angry at me and the only way he can express it is to call me the worst name he can come up with--a "Muslim"!--LOL!! I don't recall ever having had a young and barely literate wife named Josefly!! HA!

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (45598)	1/26/2014 9:11:32 AM
From: Solon	2 Recommendations Recommended By 2MAR$ average joe Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

More incredible news about the marvels of Evolution! Think of the myriad colors in, on, and around coral reefs. news.sciencemag.org Video: Mantis Shrimp Has a Whole New Way to See Color The mantis shrimp looks like a peacock crossed with a lobster, and it lives in equally colorful coral reefs. So it may be no surprise that the crustacean appears to use an entirely new way to detect color. Researchers report online today in Science that the animal has 12 different types of receptors in its eyes that each perceives a different wavelength. Humans and honey bees get by with just three, but they use their brains to compute the different shades. To make the discovery, the researchers trained a species of mantis shrimp (Haptosquilla trispinosa) to grab at a single wavelength by attaching food to a tiny colored light. They then gave it a choice between the color the animal recognized and a new one. As the second color became increasingly close to the one that meant food, scientists could pinpoint when the shrimp could no longer differentiate between the two wavelengths. While the animals see individual colors, such as orange and yellow, all the variations in between look the same to them. Researchers think that the mantis shrimp sacrifices accurate color definition for quick color detection. And that helps them save brainpower as they rapidly detect friends, foe, and prey among the colorful coral. (Credit: Video courtesy of Mike Bok)