Two-bit Guru | Friday Link List: worms, upcycling, NDE & afterlife... | Photo of carved pumpkins

“In the great abundance of the universe, why are we often short on AA batteries? Sometimes AAA.” ~Two-bit Guru~

  • If you’re interested in having a thousand or a hundred thousand, or more, novel pets you ought to look into worms. They’ll eat your garbage for you and make worm poop, politely known as castings, to fertilize your plants. Unlike dogs and cats, worms never beg for food at the table.
  • I am perpetually amazed by the creativity of human beings, particularly when it comes to old newspapers and socks and other recyclables. Take a look.
  • Speaking of recyclables, here’s some attractive furniture made out of lowly cardboard boxes.
  • Would you believe that anything radioactive could be good for you? It’s a trick question. Not long after the discovery of radium hucksters jumped on the radiation bandwagon and were hawking radioactivity all over the place. Tobacco was once thought to be okay, too. And trans fats. And there are plenty of gullibles around today who believe that GMOs are the answer to feeding the world.
  • There’s a lot of talk going around about whether the soul exists and whether God exists and whether everything is just consciousness. This talk isn’t coming from philosophers so much as it is coming from scientists, and some of the ideas appear to be supported by research.
  • More than one scientist has had a near death experience that changed his or her ideas about the afterlife. One formerly skeptical neurosurgeon who saw the light, literally and figuratively, met a sister he never knew he had while his conscious mind was defunct. This nightline video is worth watching, too. If the article and the video isn’t enough for you, Dr. Eben Alexander also wrote a book about it, Proof of Heaven.