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10 More Amazing Facts About Dreams

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By BryanJ / Source: The List Universe

Every year scientific groups and national organizations conduct studies and experiments examining human dreams. The study of dreams is known as oneirology. Progress is being made in this area of work, but as a population we know very little about the content and purpose of our dreams. One thing is for sure, the images, thoughts, and emotions that pass through our bodies during sleep can greatly influence our outlook on life.

Keep in mind that the word dream stems from the Middle English word dreme, meaning joy and music. -see list at Mind Power News

CosmoLearning

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This might be the best (along with Plato Learning) educational tool I ever used:

CosmoLearning is an educational website built around the thought that if education has to be free and accessible – the web is the way to do it.
CosmoLearning is a free online school with video lectures, courses, documentaries, books, quizzes, lecture notes and more in a variety of media formats.
CosmoLearning has been designed according to traditional curriculum standards, but with an added intent to bring them all together on the web.
CosmoLearning is an educational website both for the teacher and the pupil alike. Anyone, who has a passion for learning anywhere and anytime.
CosmoLearning is a creation of two teenaged siblings. Look them up on the About page or say hello to them on Facebook.

Pet Beaver Pisses at CBS Reporter

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Even tamed pets are pissed-off at media: Beaver pissed ‘When a beaver on an Early Show animal segment started marking its territory—and correspondent Debbye Turner Bell got sprayed in the face—CBS News must have known it had a viral video on its hands. So the network went ahead and posted the clip itself, complete with slow-motion replay and hilariously obvious headline: “Beaver Urinates on Correspondent.” Needless to say, the clip tops CBS News’ most popular list.’ -CBS

Wise Wife Entraps Own Pedo Husband

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Streetwise and internet savvy 61 year-old wife entraps her own pedophile husband:

‘A UK woman posed as a teenage girl online to entrap her 68-year-old husband in a pedophile arrest. Police say the wife, 61, became suspicious of her husband’s constant use of the Internet, signed into a chatroom he used, and struck up a steamy conversation as a 14-year-old. After he filmed himself—unknowingly from the next room—and arranged to meet for sex, she called the cops, reports the London Times. Police found child porn on his computer, and a divorce is pending. -Times

Smuggled Spiders Worth $2M Seized

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The smuggled spiders worth $2M were sent to Brazil’s national museum:Tarantula smuggling ‘A British pet shop owner was nabbed at the airport in Rio de Janiero this week after customs officers found 1,000 live spiders in his checked baggage. Police say it’s the biggest seizure of wildlife ever made at the airport. The spider-smuggler now faces up to a year in jail and a $2 million fine if convicted of animal trafficking, the Guardian reports. The spiders were sent to Brazil’s national museum.’ -Guardian

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