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Gary ‘Z’ McGee, StaffWaking Times This is Philosophy’s Double-edged Sword… “When Plato’s Socrates states in the Phaedo that philosophy is melete thanatou –that is to say, an intense practice of death – he may mean not just that the object of philosophy should be to help us better cope with our mortality, but also that […]
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The Art of Living & Dying
December 25th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Posted in World News 
Tags: 4kg, arrested, bomb, explosivesproducing, lab, militants, rússia, southern, TNT 
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December 25th, 2015 Awake Goy Gary ‘Z’ McGee, StaffWaking Times This is Philosophy’s Double-edged Sword… “When Plato’s Socrates states in the Phaedo that philosophy is melete thanatou –that is to say, an intense practice of death – he may mean not just that the object of philosophy should be to help us better cope with our mortality, but also that […]
Posted in World News Tags: 4kg, arrested, bomb, explosivesproducing, lab, militants, rússia, southern, TNT No Comments »May the schwartz be with you: New Bavarian police ‘force’ gear draws smiles
November 27th, 2015 Awake Goy The new gear was unveiled this week in Munich by Joachim Herrmann, Germany’s interior minister. The Class-4 protection suits featuring an overcoat with ceramic composite plates and a titanium helmet can stop high-caliber bullets fired by an assault rifle. The design of the helmet is apparently meant to fend off blows targeting the head to […]
X-plant: ‘Mutant’ digests TNT & could be key to contaminated land clean-up, study finds
September 4th, 2015 Awake Goy A team of scientists from Britain’s University of York began the study by growing a number of arabidopsis plants (a type of weed) in soil laced with TNT. Observing plants’ progress in the contaminated soil, the researchers noticed that one plant seemed to thrive. They further discovered that plant was lacking the MDHAR6 gene. The […]
Posted in World News Tags: arabidopsis plants, contaminated land, contaminated soil, plant biologist, TNT, University of York No Comments »Scientists discover how to use plants to clean up the world’s many TNT contaminated sites
September 3rd, 2015 Awake Goy Scientists have discovered why TNT is so toxic to plants and intend to use this knowledge to tackle the problem of cleaning up the many sites worldwide contaminated by the commonly used explosive. Researchers on Thursday said they have pinpointed an enzyme in plants that reacts with TNT, which is present in the soil […]
Fighting explosives pollution with plants
September 3rd, 2015 Awake Goy MDHAR6 plants display enhanced TNT tolerance compared to wild type plants. Credit: Liz Rylott Biologists at the University of York have taken an important step in making it possible to clean millions of hectares of land contaminated by explosives. A team from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) in the University’s Department of Biology […]
