Make time for thyme: How to grow your own thyme

If you feel like your roast chicken is missing that special something, a pinch of thyme might just do the trick. Now, you could go to your local farmers’ market to purchase a small bundle of thyme… or you could grow it yourself in your very own backyard. Not only is this aromatic, flavorful herb a great addition to any dish, but it’s not that difficult to grow.

Growing your own thyme

According to RodalesOrganicLife.com, there are over 400 varieties of thyme, with those varieties falling under either ornamental thyme or culinary thyme. If you’re growing thyme for kitchen use then the most common and popular types are French or common thyme, lemon thyme, and caraway thyme. Whichever you pick, the best part about these hardy herbs are easy to grow but are slow. Thyme takes anywhere from 14 to 28 days to germinate.

When you purchase an ounce of thyme seeds, you purchase a packet of 170,000 seeds. Those tiny seeds prefer dry soil, lots of sun, and little water and attention. We recommend that you begin seeding indoors in shallow soil, making sure to space them inches apart so they have room to grow. Thyme in small gardens should be placed nine inches apart, while thyme in larger plant beds should be placed 12 to 18 inches apart. Once they’ve taken root you can move them outside for better exposure to the sun.

For best results, harvest your thyme herbs just before they begin to flower. This will allow you to better enjoy their full, potent flavor. To harvest thyme simply clip the stem, one and a half to two inches from the soil, and leave behind the woody growth. After you’ve harvested your thyme place the stems on newspaper sheets or screen and dry them someplace warm and airy. (RELATED: Find more news about growing and using herbs at Herbs.news.)

Thyme can be preserved in a number of ways. You can refrigerate it, freeze it, or preserve it in oil. 

Take note of these extra tips.

• Little to no covering is best for thyme.
• If growing them outdoors isn’t a viable option, then placing them indoors under standard fluorescent lamps will do.
• Mulch is good for controlling weeds.
• Thyme seeds can keep for up to three years, so you don’t need to plant them all at once. You can save the rest for a later date.
• If desired, you can opt to grow your thyme alongside companion plants. Rosemary is a good companion plant if your thyme is being grown inside a container. Tomatoes, eggplants, cabbages, and strawberries are ideal for garden-grown thyme.

Why Thyme?

Now after all this, you might be asking yourself, “Is growing thyme really worth it?”

If your kitchen is your personal domain, then thyme is an invaluable plant. You can use it to give your stews and meats an extra kick. It can be added to butter and even bread. Thyme also pairs quite well with other herbs like oregano and parsley. Really, it’s all up to you on what to do with your homegrown thyme. The best part is that you don’t need to rush to the grocery to buy more once your kitchen runs out of it. You can just step outside into your garden.

If you’re not much of a cook, thyme is still an excellent addition to your home. This simple herb offers a variety of health benefits thanks to its antimicrobial characteristics and antioxidants. Drinking a cup of thyme tea can relieve bad colds or bloating. Adding thyme to your diet allows you enjoy its multitude of vitamins and minerals, including calcium, iron, and vitamin A.

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RodalesOrganicLife.com

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How to make survival candles with soy wax

 Compared to regular paraffin candles, soy candles might not seem all that different at first glance. A candle’s a candle, right? The similarities between paraffin candles and soy candles are only surface-deep. There are many reasons why these vegetable oil-derived candles are much better than regular ones. Because they’re made from soybeans, they’re natural and completely renewable. Soy candles also burn longer and cleaner than paraffin ones, producing less black soot once they’ve finished burning. They’re non-toxic as well, unlike paraffin candles which have been shown to release carcinogenic chemicals when melted.

Picture it: you’re enjoying a nice night at home when the power suddenly goes out. You stumble through the darkness to get your box of emergency candles. You light them up them up and wait for the power to come back on. The candles burn quickly and leave soot behind. These store-bought candles will do in a pinch but they could be better. You could do better…and you can by making your own soy candles.

You don’t need anything super fancy to make your own soy candles. You just need a few materials and time. You would need:

• Soy wax flakes
• Containers (Canning jars, normal glasses, and even tin cans will do)
• Tabs and wicks (If you don’t have access to these, rolled cotton is a good alternative)
• Double boiler or two pots
• Optional: wooden spoon
• Optional: scented oils (We recommend lemon and lavender)
• Optional: Aluminum foil

The steps

1. Prepare everything beforehand. Melted wax solidifies quickly, so you’ll want to make sure that you’ve have your jars or cans ready. Place your wicks and tabs inside their containers.
2. Place your double-boiler on the stove. If all you only have two different pots, fill the larger pot with water a third of the way and then insert the smaller pot inside the larger one. Turn on the heat, bring your double boiler (or pots) to a boil, and then add the soy wax flakes.
3. Wait for your soy wax flakes to completely melt. You can stir the melting wax with a wooden spoon to speed up the process. If you want scented candles, this is the time to add the scented oils. Remove the pot from the stove and then stir in your scented oils. For every pound of melted wax, use one ounce of essential oils.
4. Once the soy wax flakes have fully melted, pour them into their containers. Don’t fill the containers up all the way to prevent the wax from spilling out. Leave a one-inch margin between the rim of the container and the wax. If you used rolled cotton wool, be sure to add them after you’ve poured in the wax to prevent the steam from making them soggy. Use aluminum foil to center the cotton wool inside their containers.
5. Cool down your soy candles and wait for them to harden. It’s best to let them sit overnight at room temperature to prevent the soy candles from cracking.

That’s all it takes to make your own soy candles. These are great to have for around your home because they’ll burn for hours at a time. If you’re planning on making soy candles for camping, it’s best to use aluminum cans and keep them unscented for safety purposes. Otherwise, you’re free to make and use them as you wish.

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CandleScience.com

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Compassion is Now a Criminal Act: 76-Year-Old Man Thrown In Jail For Feeding Cats

Gainesville, Texas – 76-year-old David Parton was thrown in jail last week for illegally feeding stray cats.

Just this week, Parton was released from the Cooke County Correctional Center after spending nine days in jail for refusing to pay the $900 fine that came along with feeding the cats.

Parton has been feeding stray cats in his area for over ten years. However his local government would rather have the cats starve, so they have given him numerous fines for breaking a city ordinance against feeding stray animals. Parton has refused to pay the fines because he understandably believes that they are ridiculous and unjust.

“God told me to keep feeding them and leave the consequences to Him,” Parton told CBS 11 News.

When asked if he would pay the fines if he had the money, Parton said, “Oh, no, if I had a million dollars I wouldn’t have paid it Hell, no. No! And I told them I’d sit it out in jail. I did, that’s why I went to jail, I wouldn’t pay the fine. That law is not right,” he said.

There were five different locations throughout the city where Parton was feeding cats, and while he was in jail the police went through and boarded up the areas so the cats would not return.

“It seems really severe that someone would spend any time in jail at all for doing something that was compassionate. There aren’t any ordinances that actually help the animals. It seems like they’re all out there to punish people for them (animals),” Eric Erlandson of the animal advocacy group Alley Cat Allies said in a statement.

Mayor Jim Goldsworthy has argued that the laws against feeding strays are necessary to keep the number of stray cats down.

“Because when we feed these animals in stray-type situations, not only are we promoting those populations of cats and dogs but we’re attracting skunks and raccoons and possums and all the other critters that come with that. We’ve got a relatively large wild cat or feral cat population; the feeding of the cats from someone who comes into town and feeds cats at random locations is breeding into an explosion in population,” Goldsworthy said.

Alley Cat Allies is currently fighting against the legislation that put Parton in jail, and they are offering him help with his legal battle as well.

“This is a truly disheartening miscarriage of justice. Compassion should not be criminalized, but that is exactly what this man was arrested for—simply providing food for cats. We are proud to offer any assistance to this gentleman who provides a service to the cats and Gainesville,” Becky Robinson, president and founder of Alley Cat Allies said.

“What Gainesville needs is a Trap-Neuter-Return program that will provide neutering and vaccination for the city’s community cats. Locking up innocent people for being compassionate to cats doesn’t help anyone. It’s counterproductive and does nothing to help decrease the community cat population. Only Trap-Neuter-Return can do that,” Robinson added.

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thefreethoughtproject.com

10 Brain Hacks To Instantly Improve Your Memory

Having a sharp memory is important for a lot of reasons. Not only should it improve your professional life, but going to dinner parties and remembering everyone’s name is downright impressive. If you think you have been cursed with a terrible memory, I have good news for you: that’s not true. Anyone can improve their memory by following this simple advice. Learning how to remember things is vital. Many intelligent people have a hard time remembering things simply because they’re not attempting to recover the information (or store it) properly. Just follow these tips, you’ll see an improvement.

1.) Use the “snooze button:” To remember random information like an address or phone number, instead of repeating it to yourself, just rehearse it every 15 seconds or so for a few minutes. Don’t wait longer than that or else the memory will decay.

2.) The peg system: This may seem like a bizarre method to recall information, but he human body peg system works. What you do is imagine parts of the human body itself and use them as “pegs” to store information. You visualize an image of what you are trying to remember and associate it with a corresponding body part.

3.) Just sincerely FOCUS: Many people listen to music or have the television on while they study, but this actually significantly impairs the ability to memorize information. You can’t actually multi-task, you just jump in between tasks. So, to memorize information, just focus and limit other stimuli.

4.) Linking: If you link items together in a list (even if they are unrelated), it’s easier to remember them. A common way to link items together on a list is with a short story, where you incorporate every item.

5.) The keyword method: This is a useful trick when you need to memorize vocabulary when learning a foreign language. To use it, take a sound that you recognize from the new word, visualize that sound and then relate it to the new word you are learning.

6.) The method of Loci: This is also known as the Journey Method and the Roman Room Method. This old memory technique uses a “memory palace” or house. You mentally walk through an area where you have stored information. By walking through different rooms or areas, you can remember the information you stored in those rooms.

7.) Use the chunking method: According to research, you can hold about five to nine (seven on average) items in your working memory at one time. However, we can remember things like a phone number (10 digits-long) by chunking the information into groups. Therefore, that 10 digit phone number is only really three pieces of information.

8.) Setting the information: There is a phenomenon called context-dependent memory, where you can give yourself clues for remembering things based on the sensory input you are experiencing at the time of the memory. Researchers found that when test participants learned something underwater, they could recall the information better when underwater again.

9.) Using music to enhance memory: You shouldn’t distract yourself with music if you’re trying to remember something. Instead, putting long strings of text TO music (like lyrics) is an effective way to remember something. Think of all of the songs you learned in grade school to remember facts; that’s this mnemonic at work.

10.) Smell enhances memory: Smell is one of the most powerful memory recall devices possible. This sense memory is exceptionally strong because the nose is able to go directly to your memory center. If you were studying for a test and wearing a certain perfume, if you wore the same perfume during the test you may perform better.

Easy, right? So the next time you have to remember some facts for a presentation (or you’re at an awesome, busy barbecue), just use some of these tips to improve your ability to recall things. Good luck! Share this wealth of information by clicking on the button below.

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Something Unexpectedly Terrifying Happens Every Time You Get An MRI

MRI stands for “magnetic resonance imaging,” and is a helpful device in the medical community. MRIs aid in the investigation of patients’ anatomies, using magnetic fields and radio waves to see through skin and bone.

If you’ve ever had a scan, you know that when the doctor hands you the results, the image you see looks horrifying. It almost makes you want to ask, “Doctor, is there a demon inside of me?” Below are some of the creepiest MRI scans people felt they really needed to share with the Internet.

This looks like a malignant spirit, but it’s actually just a human being who went through an MRI machine.

This is a child’s head. All the cute little children of the world secretly look like this.

You can tell here that this person has proptosis, a condition that causes the eyes to be too far forward.

This Guy took his MRIs and graciously 3D rendered them for us, adding another dimension of horror.

This is what the whole body looks like as it goes through an MRI machine, from head to toe.

When you put fruits and vegetables through the machine, they look like trippy, psychedelic freak outs. Check out this groovy banana!

Broccoli, baby!

And a tomato!

There’s something about these faces coming out of the dark that make them look like great heavy metal album covers. I seriously don’t think there’s anything more metal than a MRI scan of a sinus infection at this point.

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viralnova.com

An Inspiring Vision Of The Future You Simply Must See

What you are about to see is an absolutely magnificent rendition of a piece by Carl Sagan – synthesized together with amazing visuals of human kinds exploration into our very solar system.

We are amazing creatures, and with willpower and inspiration, we can do anything.

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten. The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood. We invest far-off places with a certain romance. This appeal, I suspect, has been meticulously crafted by natural selection as an essential element in our survival. Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game—none of them lasts forever. It is beyond our powers to predict the future. Catastrophic events have a way of sneaking up on us, of catching us unaware. Your own life, or your band’s, or even your species’ might be owed to a restless few—drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds.

Herman Melville, in Moby Dick, spoke for wanderers in all epochs and meridians: “I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas…”

Maybe it’s a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds— promising untold opportunities—beckon.

Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

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thespiritscience.net

10 Things We Need To Stop Doing To Live Happier Lives

If you are on the path to being a more positive person, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that there area lot of things out there that keep us in a negative mentality! Unfortunately, in today’s society, being positive isn’t highly promoted. Therefore, many of us have become socially conditioned into negativity, often without even realizing it.

There are many things to give up to be more positive, but here are a list of 10 to get started with. It may take us a while to completely rid ourselves of these negative behaviors, but doing so is well worth our efforts!

1) Blaming others

Today, it is very common for people not to take responsibility for their own circumstances and instead blame other people for their problems.

In truth, everything that is going on in our realities is of our own creation, so at the end of the day we really have no one to blame but ourselves. When faced with a challenge, taking ownership of it will empower and uplift you. As long as you keep blaming the world around you, you will remain a slave to circumstance.

2) Comparing ourselves to others

We are all unique creatures, and without our differences this would indeed be a very boring world to live in.

To be a more positive person, drop the need to compare yourself with other people. Your talents are unique to you, and by attempting to measure up with someone else, you will overlook what makes you great.

Let your uniqueness shine, and allow yourself to appreciate the greatness in others withoutfeeling like you need to measure up to it.

3) Listening to angry, sad or hostile music most of the time

Music is a fantastic vehicle for emotion. If you are trying to become more positively minded, be careful of the music that you typically select.

Choose high vibrational music most of the time to keep you uplifted and motivated.

4) Trying to impress each other

Many times we look for outside validation of our greatness. We allow how popular we are or how many “likes” we get on social media to define our self-worth.

Realize that you are great no matter what anyone thinks. You have a lot to offer the world, and whether or not other people recognize it, we need you here doing what you do best. To live a happier life, only worry about impressing yourself!

5) Playing hard to get

Many of us play coy with our emotions. We don’t give love, hugs and kindness freely because we don’t want to be perceived as being too clingy or needy.

This withholding of love creates a society where we are all a little afraid to connect with each other because we’re too busy playing it cool. Realize that everyone appreciates a compliment, a kind word or appreciation.

Give your love freely to others, and you will receive more in return.

6) Being confrontational

Confrontation has been put on a pedestal these days. We love reality shows and talk shows where people fight and get in each other’s faces.

Positive people, however, try to find common ground with all people. They don’t get caught up in the hype. When faced with opposition in another they look for a way to love and accept.

The people who are the most confrontational are usually the ones who need the most love, so to be more positive try to find empathy for those who are struggling to be kind.

7) Needing to be right

This item goes hand in hand with the last one. Often times, we feel the need to defend our perspectives. When we receive any kind of criticism we feel the need to explain our position and why it is the right one.

Becoming more positive requires that you let go of the need to be right. Trust that your perspective, while it might be the right perspective for you, may not be the right perspective for someone else.

It is impossible for us to step into another person’s shoes and see an issue from where they stand because there are too many differences (physical, mental, emotional, environmental, etc) that stand between us. At the end of the day, it’s a good thing that there are so many opinions because it means that there are more options for all of us to choose from. Again, if we all agreed on everything our world would be boring and stale.

8) Exposing ourselves to negative television programming

Many of us sit in front of a screen for many hours every day. A lot of the programming that is on today focuses on drama, crime, disaster and competition.

Recognize the messages of the programming you choose to subject yourself to. It is easier to be a positive person when you choose not to watch programming that encourages negativity.

9) Racing through life

We often forget to stop and smell the roses. We feed into this idea that we need to be constantly busy to be productive and respectable people.

However, the best times in life occur when we allow ourselves to get lost in the moment. If you feel pulled to admire the night sky, give your children a long hug or take a day off from work, do it!

To be more positive we must enjoy the opportunities around us and stop racing past all of the good stuff.

10) Greediness

Sadly, we currently live in a world that promotes separation. Many of us believe that what’s ours is ours, and that we need to protect our assets from others. Greediness is a manifestation of this concept.

To be a more positive person, realize that we are all in this together. If everyone gave just a little bit more, what a beautiful world this would be! So pick up that cup of coffee for a friend, or buy your mom a gift just because.

You can’t take your possessions with you when you die, so try to share them a little more with the world while you are here.

There are many things that we can do to become more positive people, so this is just a starting place. Many of these behaviors have been engrained in us for a very long time, so some of them may be a little difficult to erase. However, as we start taking steps down the path of positivity, the universe will support us and help us in our transformations.

At the end of the day, while dropping these behaviors clearly benefits other people, realize that it also benefits you! Life becomes a lot easier and happier when we stop allowing negativity to permeate our lives. Find your inner peace and life will become more enjoyable and fulfilling.

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raiseyourvibrationtoday.com

Proof Of Reincarnation? This Boy Can Remember Specific Details About His Previous Life As A Woman, Named Pam

Do you believe in reincarnation? Is it something that happens to our soul when we die? Do we move onto another life in a different physicality and continue our evolution as souls?

There are many different perspectives and opinions on this. There are also many religions based entirely around this concept, and amazingly enough, a lot of evidence that can directly support this theory.

Take Luke for example, a little boy who vividly remembers what appears to be a past life as a woman who died in the 1993 named, Pam.

“We shouldn’t define the soul by race or gender.”

Watch the video below to heard about Luke’s story.

Further Evidence About Reincarnation

Interestingly enough, this is not the first time that this has occurred. There are many children and adults worldwide who claim to remember their past lives. Sure, you could dismiss some of these quite easily as there is no real proof,but what about the others? What about the instances such as Luke’s who can remember such specific details about his former life that he would not have been able to know otherwise?

Here is a link for another story about a little boy who remembers so much of his past life as a World War II pilot that he actually gets reunited with his sister! There are just too many details that this boy would have had no way of knowing had he not lived the life that he describes.

Is it possible that this is coincidence? Well, maybe, if you believe in coincidence…

It does seem that these occurrences tend to happen more often to children. Is it because as children, it is closer to the time when they were alive in the past, so the memory of their former lives is more predominant? It seems often that children will try to tell us things that we perceive as nonsense, but what if we were to really start listening to them and make a real attempt to understand what they are trying to tell us?

If you have young children, after reading this you may be prompted to ask your children about their previous past lives and see what they say – the answer just might surprise you!

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collective-evolution.com

Left Brain Vs. Right Brain: The Eye Opening Insights

We have given you voluminous information about your brain and how it functions. However, this one is probably one of the most worthwhile to know. But wait, before presenting the data, we have some questions for you: If you are philosophical and have a way with people, what side of your brain do you use most of the time? Is it the left or the right? If you are always driven to achieve, and always ready with a to-do list, do you prefer your brain’s right portion or the left? How about when you are rational, or emotional? What side of your brain do you use? When you are drawn towards creative projects, or say, love tinkering with numbers? Are you inclined to use the right brain or the left? It would be nice to know why we are attracted to certain activities and why we avoid some, right? What is the relevance of this information, anyway?

This graphic produced by Onlinecollege.org will shed light on the matter

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HOW TO WALK ON ICE

Icy conditions are no fun, especially if you have poor balance. If you shift your center-of-gravity over your front facing foot instead of splitting it evenly between your feet, you can more easily walk across icy surfaces without falling quite so much. Penguins have figured this out, as have many who live in areas covered by ice for weeks each year.

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Chinese Woman With Cerebral Palsy, Does Creative Writing With Left Foot

A young woman in China proves there really are no excuses when it comes to following your dreams. Despite growing up in a rural community in Anhui Province, eastern China, 21-year-old Hu Huiyuan has taught herself how to read and write using television subtitles, all the while living with cerebral palsy. Defying all odds, the creative writer has already written more than 60,000 words for her fiction novel with just the use of her left foot.

Huiyuan’s entire life has been about defying the odds, according to her dad Peng and mom Sun. “When she was born, the doctors said she wouldn’t survive more than a few days, but she did. “They didn’t know what was wrong with her at first, but 10 months later they told us it was cerebral palsy,” said Peng, the Daily Mail reported. “The only parts of her body she could move were her head and her foot, but she was incredibly determined.”

Patients with cerebral palsy experience partial muscle paralysis that is frequently accompanied byloss of sensation and uncontrollable body movements or tremors. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke says this is caused by the damage to or abnormalities inside the developing brain that disrupt the brain’s ability to control movement and maintain posture and balance. However, Huiyuan’s limited body movement doesn’t get in the way of her learning.

“I teach myself. I’m so fascinated by the opportunities that being able to read presents. Being able to write allows me to communicate with so many more people. I’m not a genius but I’m very focused. When you have a disability like this, you have to learn patience,” Huiyuan said.

Huiyuan isn’t the only cerebral palsy patient to have fulfilled her dream. Wang Qiang, a 29-year-old man with cerebral palsy joined a professional boxing competition when he signed up in the eastern city of Shanghai. Qiang was able to master some basic boxing skills with the help of his dad who clutched his arm and held his legs to help him finish the basic training. He was able to join the boxing competition and complete his first-ever professional boxing game, Shanghaiistreported.

These two individuals prove the power of tenacity when it comes to fulfilling your dreams.

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medicaldaily.com

Japanese Reveal Design For First Underwater City

Roughly 70% of the surface is covered by water.  It only makes sense to try to inhabit some of that area, especially with the world’s population expecting to reach 9.6 billion by the year 2050.  A Japanese architecture company has released its design for what will be the world’s first underwater city.  They hope to start building this project within the next 20 years.

This underwater city would be able to hold 5000 citizens, and the electricity and desalinated water supplies come from the actual city which extends down into the sea.  The goal is essentially to make an off land totally sustainable community.  Who could argue with that idea?

While we may not see this 26 billion dollar project come to life overnight, this is one of the coolest concepts out there.

The project’s officials are looking forward to securing funding from private industry and the government as it’s also supported by experts from Tokyo University.

Masaki Takeuchi, the manager of the project reportedly said to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper:

“It would be great if research institutions and governments become interested in our project.”

The 3 Parts of Ocean Spiral:

1. The first part is the floating surface, which will be topped by a 500-meter sphere.
2. According to the blueprint, the central part is a spiral 15km long with room for business zones, apartments, residential areas and hotel rooms for 5000 people.
3. At the very bottom at about 3000 to 4000 thousand meters under the sea the spiral will be linked to an “earth-factory” – a research center for developing energy sources.

The Shimizu spokesman told the Wall Street Journal:

“This is just a blueprint by our company, but we are aiming to develop the technology that would enable us to build an underwater living space.”

The assistant professor in the urban studies department at Tokyo University, Christian Dimmer, claimed that these “techno-utopias” such as Ocean Spiral came as a reaction to other crises like climate change and rising sea levels. He reportedly told The Guardian:

“We had this in Japan in the 1980s, when the same corporations were proposing underground and ‘swimming’ cities and 1km-high towers as part of the rush to development during the height of the bubble economy. It’s good that many creative minds are picking their brains as to how to deal with climate change, rising sea levels and the creation of resilient societies – but I hope we don’t forget to think about more open and democratic urban futures in which citizens can take an active role in their creation, rather than being mere passengers in a corporation’s sealed vision of utopia.”

According to the Guardian:

“The idea of creating communities in the sea resonates in Japan, where land-based communities are at risk from large earthquakes and tsunamis.”

The company also revealed that the spiral structure would descend as much as 9 miles to the seabed, where an “earth factory” would produce methane from carbon dioxide by using micro-organisms.

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This Is What Happens When Boys Were Asked To Slap A Girl, What They Did Is A Total Wake Up Call

Women are always victims of violence from domestic to public, there’s always news about it. It’s sad that some of these women died because of such violence. Is there any way to stop this? Or even lessen it a bit if not totally stop?

A social experiment was conducted by Fanpage.it to spread awareness in this never ending problem of violence against women.

Boys aging from six to eleven years old were asked about what they wanted to be when they grow up. The boys diligently answered the question and the reason why they wanted it.

They were then introduced to a beautiful girl named “Martina”. They were shy at first but were mesmerized by her beauty. The boys later told what they like about her and what attracted them the most.

The boys were also asked to caress her, they touch her hair and arm with shyness and excitement. Then the most shocking part comes, they were asked to slap her as hard as they can. Watch the video below.

Remember this…

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thedailypedia.com