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The Woman Who Inspired ‘Dear Prudence’ Opens Up About World Peace, the Influence of the ’60s and Why Kids Today Love the Beatles
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AUGUST 9, 2019 – 5:00 AM – 2 COMMENTS By M.B. ROBERTS @roberts_mb Prudence Bruns, daughter of Maureen O’Sullivan and John Farrow (Bettmann / Getty Images) The Beatles’ muse still believes in world peace. Prudence Bruns, 71, has several claims to fame. First, she’s the daughter of film director John Farrow and actress Maureen O’Sullivan, as well…
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Our world in data – solid statistics, positive change
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Source: https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-conditions-in-5-charts Editor: The following excellent study, with impressive data and statistics to back it up, shows a slow improvement in human living conditions over the last 200 years, with a dramatic improvement in all categories in the last 50 years. The only factor missing in this review is “why?”. What has caused these dramatic…
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A roundup of good news in 2018
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We are grateful to Future Crunch for compiling this incredible compendium of good news for 2018. Go to futurecrun.ch for more. [Each news item listed has a link to the full published story] 27 OCTOBER – 8 NOVEMBER 2018 The United States is on track to set a new record for coal plant closures this…
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The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics
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Nobody understands what consciousness is or how it works. Nobody understands quantum mechanics either. Could that be more than coincidence? BBC Earth. . By Philip Ball 16 February 2017 “I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.” The American physicist Richard Feynman said…
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99 Reasons 2017 Was A Great Year
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Angus Hervey at Future Crunch, Feb 2018 If you’re feeling despair about the fate of humanity in the 21st century, you might want to reconsider. In 2017, it felt like the global media picked up all of the problems, and none of the solutions. To fix that, we (Future Crunch) spent the past…
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My Unlikely Journey To Inner And Outer Transformation
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By Gladys Kimtai on 02/01/2016 I was born in Kapkoi, a small village in Kenya, to a Roman Catholic family. My parents died when I was two, so my grandparents raised my sister and brothers and me. My grandparents both passed away by the time I was twelve. At that point my three brothers,…
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International Yoga Day Celebration in UK Parliament
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Members of British Parliament honour leader of Maharishi’s worldwide Transcendental Meditation organisation at International Yoga Day celebration in UK Parliament, 10 July. The third International Yoga Day was celebrated in the House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Indian Traditional Sciences, and sponsored by the High…
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Guess What? As Of Today, The Western Hemisphere Has No Wars
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By Greg Myre, NPR.org (National Public Radio, USA) September 27, 2016 Fidel Castro and his rag-tag band of fighters assembled on the shores of Mexico, stealthily navigated their overcrowded boat to southeastern Cuba, and unleashed a 1956 insurgency that rocked all of Latin America. That temblor lasted 60 years and ended, more or less,…
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99 reasons why 2016 was a good year
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by Angus Hervey at Tech_Crunch You’re probably reading that and thinking, “You can’t be serious!?” I mean come on. 2016 feels like a half-watched Game of Thrones episode. You pop out to get s0me pizza, and when you get back… All the good people are dead, and the shits are in charge. 2016 has…
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Colombia’s Milestone in World Peace
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By STEVEN PINKER and JUAN MANUEL SANTOS The peace treaty announced this week between the government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, marks more than the end of one war. It is a milestone for peace in the Americas and the world. The 52-year war between the Colombian state…