Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution"

"At first, evolution proceeded by natural selection, from random mutations. This Darwinian phase, lasted about three and a half billion years, and produced us, beings who developed language, to exchange information. But what distinguishes us from our cave man ancestors is the knowledge that we have accumulated over the last ten thousand years, and particularly, Hawking points out, over the last three hundred. "I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race," Hawking said. In the last ten thousand years the human species has been in what Hawking calls, "an external transmission phase," where the internal record of information, handed down to succeeding generations in DNA, has not changed significantly. "But the external record, in books, and other long lasting forms of storage," Hawking says, "has grown enormously. Some people would use the term, evolution, only for the internally transmitted genetic material, and would object to it being applied to information handed down externally. But I think that is too narrow a view. We are more than just our genes."

Sadly, our species won't make it for much longer at the rate we'll going. There' so many things in humanity's way in these coming years that I want to believe we, as species will be able to make it through all this... but at this point in time, and the type of world we sadly live in, I don't see it happening unfortunately. To come all this way and for nothing... we'll not even going to be able to make it off this planet, let alone colonize space and other planets... What a shame. God help us all.

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I think this guy is the real pig… He eats so much and it is so fat…

Monkey urinates on Zambian president

LUSAKA (Reuters) – A monkey urinated on Zambian President Rupiah Banda as he spoke to journalists at a news conference on Wednesday.

Banda softly shouted: "You (monkey) have urinated on my jacket," and paused as he looked up to see the animal playing in a tree just above his chair. "Perhaps these are blessings," he said continuing his address amid laughter from the audience of journalists and diplomats at the State House presidential offices. Several monkeys play around the grounds of Banda's residence and his office. There are also many species of antelope and birds in the State House grounds.

16yr Old Boy Discovers Microbe that Eats Plastic

It's not your average science fair when the 16-year-old winner manages to solve a global waste crisis. But such was the case at last month's May's Canadian Science Fair in Waterloo, Ontario, where Daniel Burd, a high school student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, presented his research on microorganisms that can rapidly biodegrade plastic. Daniel had a thought it seems even the most esteemed PhDs hadn't considered. Plastic, one of the most indestructible of manufactured materials, does in fact eventually decompose. It takes 1,000 years but decompose it does, which means there must be microorganisms out there to do the decomposing. Source: Link To Full Article

Meet Irene Andersen, a woman bodybuilder from Sweden

This is what Irene Andersen writes about herself on her website http://www.ireneandersen.com I was born September 9, 1966, in Denmark. When I was 2 years old, I moved to Sweden and I have been living here since then. I grew up in Malmö but moved to Göteborg when I was 20 years old. Göteborg is still my hometown. During several years I worked for Ulf Bengtsson, the founder of World Class Health Studio.

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Loving Day

In the not-too-distant past, it was against the law in many states for people of different races to marry. Richard and Mildred Loving married in Washington, DC in 1958 and returned to their hometown in Virginia as criminals. When they went to trial, the judge found them guilty and sentenced them to a jail term of one to three years. However, the judge told the Lovings that he would suspend the sentence if they agreed to leave Virginia for a period of twenty five years. Given the choice between imprisonment and banishment, they chose banishment. The Lovings moved to Washington, DC. The Lovings filed a suit challenging the law. After a nine-year battle, on June 12, 1967, the US Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case of Loving vs. Virginia that did away with the remaining miscegenation laws. The Loving Day project promotes the celebration of this milestone around June 12th.

Why can't we remember being born?

Shouldn't it be the most memorable day of our existence? Leaving the womb and opening our eyes to the first time to experience a strange new world and we remember nothing? Freud called it infantile amnesia and now it is more commonly referred to as childhood amnesia. There are a number of theories when it comes to why we forget and this article does a great job of exploring them. Why do we forget?

Freud proposed that people use it as a means of repressing traumatic, and often sexual, urgings during that time. To block those unconscious drives of the id, Freud claimed that humans create screen memories, or revised versions of events, to protect the conscious ego.

Whats even more fascinating is that some researchers are suggesting that infants have no sense of self or separateness from their external world until 16-24 months. So that means all babies are enlightened little Buddhas' with no sense of separateness from the infinity. They are born connected to everything around them and their sense of self isn't formed until their parents start teaching them their name and they begin to recognize their bodies as separate from everything else. This article raised many questions for me and really got me thinking. I always told my parents I could remember my life after being born. I could describe them perfectly the hosiptal I was born in.

Real girls' calendar

It is nice and sexy to see a calendar with real girls inside it… The dream of many man, of course….

Unveiling! Arc of the Covenant - Ethiopia. Surprised?

Rome - The Orthodox Patriarch, Abuno Paulos, wants to reveal the millennial secret, and in an exclusive interview with Adnkronos said, "The time is ripe to tell the truth." A museum for the sacred symbol will be built in Axum. This was said in an exclusive interview with Adnkronos, visible on the web site _www.adnkronos.com_ (www.adnkronos.com...) , by the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abuna Paulos, in Italy for a "G8 of religions," who tomorrow will meet for the first time with Pope Benedict XVI, to whom, "if he asks," continued the Patriarch, "I will tell all of the entire situation regarding the Ark of the Covenant." www.adnkronos.com

"The Ark of the Covenant," affirms Paulos, "has been in Ethiopia for many centuries. As Patriarch I have seen it with my own eyes, and only a very few qualified people have been able to do this, so far." According to the Patriarch, it is kept in a church, but to defend the authentic one, a copy of the religious symbol has been placed in every church in the country. The official announcement, in which Ethiopia will give to the world the keys to the millennial secret of the Ark, will be given next Friday during a press conference at 2:00 p.m. at the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome, by the same Orthodox Patriarch of Ethiopia, along with Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Selassie and Duke Amedeo D'Aosta, who will be in Rome tomorrow morning.

But what is the Ark of the Covenant, one of the greatest mysteries of antiquity, on which fantasy, legend and history have continued to be interwoven for centuries? The Ark, in Jewish tradition, contained the Tables of the Law, that is, the Ten Commandments, and the artifact, made of acacia wood, was built by Moses. The outside decorations were of gold, and it was for a long time kept by the Jewish people. It accompanied them in their vicissitudes, the battles and defeats, the wanderings and struggles against the Philistines, and was kept in various places until King David placed it in the fortress of Jerusalem. But it was Solomon, son and successor of David, who put the Ark in the Temple of Jerusalem which he had built. The story is then interwoven with historical events and other religious and national traditions. In fact, the Ark disappeared in 586 BC with the conquest of Jerusalem by the Babylonians and the consequent destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem.

Fla. city to workers: Wear underwear, deodorant

Thu Jun 18, 9:13 pm ET
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. – A Florida city is cleaning up with a new dress code that requires city workers to wear underwear and use deodorant. The city council in Brooksville north of Tampa recently approved a dress code that instructs employees to observe "strict personal hygiene."
It also prohibits exposed underwear, clothing with foul language, "sexually provocative" clothes and piercings anywhere except the ears. Repeat offenders can be fired. The city council pproved the dress code 4-1 as part of a wider effort to update existing policies and ordinances. The one vote in opposition came from Mayor Joe Bernadini. He said the underwear edict "takes away freedom of choice."

Information from: The Tampa Tribune, http://www.tampatrib.com

Spring Hill, Florida - Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Sherry Campbell proves it.

The Spring Hill mother decided to list herself on eBay to get a job. While she has a job at a local car dealership, she makes $7.21 an hour and is on a draw, which means that she owes the company part of that hourly wage if she doesn't sell cars.
This month, she didn't make rent. "You gotta do what you gotta do," Campbell said. "I'm in sales. So I thought what a better way to sell myself than to list myself on eBay." Campbell listed herself as an employee for hire, uploaded her resume and set the starting bid at 99 cents.
She did get a few responses, but they were all for out-of-town jobs. Mostly, Campbell received well wishes from people who admired her audacity and creativity. Campbell's goal is to get a salaried job out of the listing, but someone flagged her post and eBay took it down, saying that listing a person or services is against the rules. If you'd like to hire Campbell, she can be reached through her email address at firstbigdaddy@tampabay.rr.com.

The most stupid hat ever

Charming and beautiful dancing woman

Far far beyond the asteroid belt on Jupiter’s satellite Ganymede you may find this charming and beautiful dancing woman.

Happily ever after?