Mehdi Hasan | Islam Is A Peaceful Religion | Oxford Union … thanx Nadeem
He makes the most important point towards the end of the video.

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Oceanography: Exploring Earth’s Final Wilderness – Prof. Harold J. Tobin
I thought this would be a fun course with mostly Attenborough-esque sceneries and lots of cool info. It was way more than that. I got to learn so much and as always I’ve just taken notes of whatever stood out to me.

– Land info called maps, ocean maps called charts. Navigating with sextant and Captain cook and Darwin history.
– Bartymetry – measuring the depths of the ocean.
– 1 episode just for the Big Bang solar system formation volcanos. 90 billion year history.
– Process and history of making natural oil and gas that we use, how people drilled for it. The consequences of spills and ways to recover from it.
– Different shades of pink salt because different algeas thrive in different salinity.
– Amazing properties of water. Way more then boiling and freezing points. Changes in temperature, density, salinity and pressure in the different levels as you go deeper. Light and colour blue as you go deeper because the other colours/frequencies are not strong enough to go deeper.
– Tides are 1 third sun and 2 third moon gravitational pull.
– Springtide during full moon & new moon because sun and moon are aligned and pulling tides together.
– Tidal bores happen in narrow places where the wave builds up on itself like River Severn.

– Moon and sun are slowing down earths rotation by 2.3 milliseconds per century.
– Gasses get more soluble the colder water gets.
– Different plankton adapt their bodies in different levels to live.
– The word twilight zone originally came from oceanography.
– Jellyfish pulsing is more to sweep water to get the food from it, propulsion is just a byproduct.
– 25% of fish caught for food are thrown away because the ship is not equipped to process these types and are already dead!
– Importance of mangroves because of their roots. The trees look amazing! Kelp and mangrove forests are beautiful.
– Beach replenishment to preserve beaches from erosion. Millions are spent to put back sand on the land.
– Corals are really animals! And a 1-1.5 degree change in the water can kill them (coral bleaching).
– Sea pigs are basically water balloons and they pump water into the leg they want to move.
– El Niño comes from current of baby Christ.
– Kiribati, Tuvalu and Maldives are going to sink in a matter of decades. And the president of one of them is already vacating the inhabitants.
– There is a saying regarding sewage that goes … solution to pollution is dilution. Well its not any more!

Videos

01. Diving In—The Ocean Adventure
02. Explorers, Navigators, Pioneering Scientists
03. Ocean Basics And Ocean Basins
04. Mapping The Sea—Soundings To Satellites
05. Habitats—Sunlit Shelves To The Dark Abyss
06. The Spreading Sea Floor And Mid-Ocean Ridges
07. The Plunging Sea Floor And Deep-Sea Trenches
08. The Formation Of The Earth And Its Ocean
09. The Early Ocean And The Origins Of Life
10. Marine Sediments—Archives Of The Ocean
11. Offshore Oil And Gas—Resources And Risks
12. The Enduring Chemistry Of Seawater
13. How The Physics Of Water Controls The Ocean
14. Waves—Motion In The Ocean
15. Rogue Waves And Tsunami
16. Tides In Theory And Practice
17. Marine Life, Energy, And Food Webs
18. Tiny Plankton—The Most Abundant Life On Earth
19. Soft-Bodied Life In The Dark, Open Depths
20. Swimming—The Many Fish In The Sea
21. Marine Birds, Reptiles, And Mammals
22. Whaling, Fisheries, And Farming The Ocean
23. Where Sea Meets The Land And Why Coasts Vary
24. Where Rivers Meet The Sea—Estuaries And Deltas
25. Coastal Erosion—Beaches And Sea Cliffs
26. Tidal Life, Sea Forests, And Coral Reefs
27. Deep Bottom Life And Hydrothermal Vents
28. Trade Winds—The Circulation Of Heat And Wind
29. Heavy Weather—Storms And Hurricanes
30. The Gulf Stream To Gyres—Vast Surface Currents
31. Upwelling, Downwelling, And El Niño
32. The Deepest, Slowest River—Polar Bottom Water
33. The Ocean And Global Climate
34. The Warming, Rising Sea
35. Marine Pollution—The Impact Of Toxins
36. The Future Ocean

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This video explains how fast we’re losing our ocean life and at the end of the video the ‘teacher’ shares some books and mobile apps for fish lovers to use. You can check the lists and know which fish are ok to eat to reduce their extinction so to speak.

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Specializing in mobile living furniture, Casulo, a German design and furniture company, created an incredible room in a box. The box includes a range of furniture that can more-than adequately fill any living space including a desk, a filing cabinet, an office chair, a pair of stools, a bed frame, a mattress, a wardrobe, and a set of shelves.

The idea of an entire room compactly provided in a single package has become so popular that one can now purchase a bedroom in a box from Amazon.

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Black Image = International Space Station (ISS) is on the night side of the Earth.
Gray Image = Switching between cameras, or communications with the ISS is not available.
No Audio = Normal. There is no audio on purpose. Add your own soundtrack.

Because the station orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes, the cameras will capture a sunrise or a sunset about every 45 minutes. When the station is in darkness, external camera shots may appear black, but can sometimes provide spectacular views of lightning or city lights below.

To see where the ISS is click here: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/

The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the ISS was activated April 30, 2014. It is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module. This experiment includes several commercial HD video cameras aimed at the earth which are enclosed in a pressurized and temperature controlled housing. Video from these cameras is transmitted back to earth and also streamed live on this channel. While the experiment is operational, views will typically sequence though the different cameras. Between camera switches, a gray and then black color slate will briefly appear. Since the ISS is in darkness during part of each orbit, the images will be dark at those times. During periods of loss of signal with the ground or when HDEV is not operating, a gray color slate or previously recorded video may be seen.
Analysis of this experiment will be conducted to assess the effects of the space environment on the equipment and video quality which may help decisions about cameras for future missions. High school students helped with the design of some of the HDEV components through the High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH) program. Student teams will also help operate the experiment. To learn more about the HDEV experiment, visit here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/917.html

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THE SEXODUS, PART 1: THE MEN GIVING UP ON WOMEN AND CHECKING OUT OF SOCIETY

by MILO YIANNOPOULOS

“My generation of boys is f**ked,” says Rupert, a young German video game enthusiast I’ve been getting to know over the past few months. “Marriage is dead. Divorce means you’re screwed for life. Women have given up on monogamy, which makes them uninteresting to us for any serious relationship or raising a family. That’s just the way it is. Even if we take the risk, chances are the kids won’t be ours. In France, we even have to pay for the kids a wife has through adulterous affairs. 

“In school, boys are screwed over time and again. Schools are engineered for women. In the US, they force-feed boys Ritalin like Skittles to shut them up. And while girls are favoured to fulfil quotas, men are slipping into distant second place.

“Nobody in my generation believes they’re going to get a meaningful retirement. We have a third or a quarter of the wealth previous generations had, and everyone’s fleeing to higher education to stave off unemployment and poverty because there are no jobs.

“All that wouldn’t be so bad if we could at least dull the pain with girls. But we’re treated like paedophiles and potential rapists just for showing interest. My generation are the beautiful ones,” he sighs, referring to a 1960s experiment on mice that supposedly predicted a grim future for the human race.

After overpopulation ran out of control, the female mice in John Calhoun’s “mouse universe” experiment stopped breeding, and the male mice withdrew from the company of others entirely, eating, sleeping, feeding and grooming themselves but doing little else. They had shiny coats, but empty lives.

“The parallels are astounding,” says Rupert.

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Never before in history have relations between the sexes been so fraught with anxiety, animosity and misunderstanding. To radical feminists, who have been the driving force behind many tectonic societal shifts in recent decades, that’s a sign of success: they want to tear down the institutions and power structures that underpin society, never mind the fall-out. Nihilistic destruction is part of their road map.

But, for the rest of us, the sight of society breaking down, and ordinary men and women being driven into separate but equal misery, thanks to a small but highly organised group of agitators, is distressing. Particularly because, as increasing numbers of social observers are noticing, an entire generation of young people—mostly men—are being left behind in the wreckage of this social engineering project.

Social commentators, journalists, academics, scientists and young men themselves have all spotted the trend: among men of about 15 to 30 years old, ever-increasing numbers are checking out of society altogether, giving up on women, sex and relationships and retreating into pornography, sexual fetishes, chemical addictions, video games and, in some cases, boorish lad culture, all of which insulate them from a hostile, debilitating social environment created, some argue, by the modern feminist movement.

You can hardly blame them. Cruelly derided as man-children and crybabies for objecting to absurdly unfair conditions in college, bars, clubs and beyond, men are damned if they do and damned if they don’t: ridiculed as basement-dwellers for avoiding aggressive, demanding women with unrealistic expectations, or called rapists and misogynists merely for expressing sexual interest.

Jack Rivlin is editor-in-chief of student tabloid media start-up The Tab, a runaway success whose current strap-line reads: “We’ll stop writing it when you stop reading it.” As the guiding intelligence behind over 30 student newspapers, Rivlin is perhaps the best-placed person in the country to observe this trend in action. And he agrees that the current generation of young men find it particularly difficult to engage with women.

“Teenage boys always have been useless with girls, but there’s definitely a fear that now being well-intentioned isn’t enough, and you can get into trouble just for being clumsy,” he says. “For example, leaning in for a kiss might see you branded a creep, rather than just inept.”

The new rules men are expected to live by are never clearly explained, says Rivlin, leaving boys clueless and neurotic about interacting with girls. “That might sound like a good thing because it encourages men to take the unromantic but practical approach of asking women how they should behave, but it causes a lot of them to just opt out of the game and retreat to the sanctuary of their groups of lads, where being rude to women gets you approval, and you can pretty much entirely avoid one-on-one socialising with the opposite sex.”

“There are also a lot of blokes who ignore women because they are scared and don’t know how to act. It goes without saying that boys who never spend any time alone with women are not very good at relationships.”

Rivlin has noticed the increased dependence on substances, normally alcohol, that boys are using to calm their nerves. “I’ve heard a lot of male students boast about never having experienced sober sex,” he says. “They’re obviously scared, which is natural, but they would be a lot less scared and dysfunctional if they understood ‘the rules.’”

The result? “A lot of nice but awkward young men are opting out of approaching women because there is no opportunity for them to make mistakes without suffering worse embarrassment than ever.”

Most troublingly, this effect is felt more acutely among poorer and less well educated communities, where the package of support resources available to young men is slight. At my alma mater, the University of Cambridge, the phenomenon barely registers on the radar, according to Union society president Tim Squirrell.

“I don’t think I’ve really noticed a change recently,” he says. “This year has seen the introduction of mandatory consent workshops for freshers, which I believe is probably a good thing, and there’s been a big effort by the Women’s Campaign in particular to try and combat lad culture on campus.

The atmosphere here is the same as it was a year ago – mostly nerdy guys who are too afraid to approach anyone in the first place, and then a smaller percentage who are confident enough to make a move. Obviously women have agency too, and they approach men in about the same numbers as they do elsewhere. There certainly haven’t been any stories in [campus newspaper] The Tab about a sex drought on campus.”

“I think that people are probably having as much sex as ever,” he adds. At Cambridge, of course, that may not mean much, and for a variety of socioeconomic and class-based reasons the tribes at Oxford and Cambridge are somewhat insulated from the male drop-out effect.

But even at such a prestigious university with a largely middle- and upper-class population, those patronising, mandatory “consent” classes are still being implemented. Squirrell, who admits to being a feminist with left-of-centre politics, thinks they’re a good idea. But academics such as Camille Paglia have been warning for years that “rape drives” on campus put women at greater risk, if anything.

Women today are schooled in victimhood, taught to be aggressively vulnerable and convinced that the slightest of perceived infractions, approaches or clumsy misunderstandings represents “assault,” “abuse” or “harassment.” That may work in the safe confines of campus, where men can have their academic careers destroyed on the mere say-so of a female student.

But, according to Paglia, when that women goes out into the real world without the safety net of college rape committees, she is left totally unprepared for the sometimes violent reality of male sexuality. And the panics and fear-mongering are serving men even more poorly. All in all, education is becoming a miserable experience for boys.

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In schools today across Britain and America, boys are relentlessly pathologised, as academics were warning as long ago as 2001. Boyishness and boisterousness have come to be seen as “problematic,” with girls’ behaviour a gold standard against which these defective boys are measured. When they are found wanting, the solution is often drugs.

One in seven American boys will be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) at some point in their school career. Millions will be prescribed a powerful mood stabiliser, such as Ritalin, for the crime of being born male. The side effects of these drugs can be hideous and include sudden death.

Meanwhile, boys are falling behind girls academically, perhaps because relentless and well-funded focus has been placed on girls’ achievement in the past few decades and little to none on the boys who are now achieving lower grades, fewer honors, fewer degrees and less marketable information economy skills. Boys’ literacy, in particular, is in crisis throughout the West. We’ve been obsessing so much over girls, we haven’t noticed that boys have slipped into serious academic trouble.

So what happened to those boys who, in 2001, were falling behind girls at school, were less likely to go to college, were being given drugs they did not need and whose self-esteem and confidence issues haven’t just been ignored, but have been actively ridiculed by the feminist Establishment that has such a stranglehold on teaching unions and Left-leaning political parties?

In short: they grew up, dysfunctional, under-served by society, deeply miserable and, in many cases, entirely unable to relate to the opposite sex. It is the boys who were being betrayed by the education system and by culture at large in such vast numbers between 1990 and 2010 who represent the first generation of what I call the sexodus, a large-scale exit from mainstream society by males who have decided they simply can’t face, or be bothered with, forming healthy relationships and participating fully in their local communities, national democracies and other real-world social structures.

A second sexodus generation is gestating today, potentially with even greater damage being done to them by the onset of absurd, unworkable, prudish and downright misandrist laws such as California’s “Yes Means Yes” legislation—and by third-wave feminism, which dominates newspapers like the Guardian and new media companies like Vox and Gawker, but which is currently enjoying a hysterical last gasp before women themselves reject it by an even greater margin than the present 4 out of 5 women who say they want nothing to do with the dreaded f-word.

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The sexodus didn’t arrive out of nowhere, and the same pressures that have forced so many millennials out of society exert pressure on their parent’s generation, too. One professional researcher in his late thirties, about whom I have been conversing on this topic for some months, puts it spicily: “For the past, at least, 25 years, I’ve been told to do more and more to keep a woman. But nobody’s told me what they’re doing to keep me.

“I can tell you as a heterosexual married male in management, who didn’t drop out of society, the message from the chicks is: ‘It’s not just preferable that you should fuck off, but imperative. You must pay for everything and make everything work; but you yourself and your preferences and needs can fuck off and die.’”

Women have been sending men mixed messages for the last few decades, leaving boys utterly confused about what they are supposed to represent to women, which perhaps explains the strong language some of them use when describing their situation. As the role of breadwinner has been taken away from them by women who earn more and do better in school, men are left to intuit what to do, trying to find a virtuous mean between what women say they want and what they actually pursue, which can be very different things.

Men say the gap between what women say and what they do has never been wider. Men are constantly told they should be delicate, sensitive fellow travellers on the feminist path. But the same women who say they want a nice, unthreatening boyfriend go home and swoon over simple-minded, giant-chested, testosterone-saturated hunks in Game of Thrones. Men know this, and, for some, this giant inconsistency makes the whole game look too much like hard work. Why bother trying to work out what a woman wants, when you can play sports, masturbate or just play video games from the comfort of your bedroom?

Jack Donovan, a writer based in Portland who has written several books on men and masculinity, each of which has become a cult hit, says the phenomenon is already endemic among the adult population. “I do see a lot of young men who would otherwise be dating and marrying giving up on women,” he explains, “Or giving up on the idea of having a wife and family. This includes both the kind of men who would traditionally be a little awkward with women, and the kind of men who aren’t awkward with women at all.

“They’ve done a cost-benefit analysis and realised it is a bad deal. They know that if they invest in a marriage and children, a woman can take all of that away from them on a whim. So they use apps like Tinder and OK Cupid to find women to have protected sex with and resign themselves to being ‘players,’ or when they get tired of that, ‘boyfriends.’”

He goes on: “Almost all young men have attended mandatory sexual harassment and anti-rape seminars, and they know that they can be fired, expelled or arrested based more or less on the word of any woman. They know they are basically guilty until proven innocent in most situations.”

Donovan lays much of the blame for the way men feel at the door of the modern feminist movement and what he sees as its disingenuousness. “The young men who are struggling the most are conflicted because they are operating under the assumption that feminists are arguing in good faith,” he says, “When in fact they are engaged in a zero-sum struggle for sexual, social, political and economic status—and they’re winning.

“The media now allows radical feminists to frame all debates, in part because sensationalism attracts more clicks than any sort of fair or balanced discourse. Women can basically say anything about men, no matter how denigrating, to a mix of cheers and jeers.”

That has certainly been the experience of several loose coalitions of men in the media recently, whether scientists outraged by feminist denunciations of Dr Matt Taylor, or video gamers campaigning under the banner of press ethics who saw their movement smeared as a misogynistic hate group by mendacious, warring feminists and so-called “social justice warriors”.

Donovan has views on why it has been so easy for feminists to triumph in media battles. “Because men instinctively want to protect women and play the hero, if a man writes even a tentative criticism of women or feminism, he’s denounced by men and women alike as some kind of extremist scoundrel. The majority of “men’s studies” and “men’s rights” books and blogs that aren’t explicitly pro-feminist are littered with apologies to women.

“Books like The Myth of Male Power (click to hear the full audiobook) and sites like A Voice for Men are favourite boogeymen of feminists, but only because they call out feminists’ one-sided hypocrisy when it comes to pursing ‘equality.’”

Unlike modern feminists, who are driving a wedge between the sexes, Men’s Rights Activists “actually seem to want sexual equality,” he says. But men’s studies authors and male academics are constantly tip-toeing around and making sure they don’t appear too radical. Their feminine counterparts have no such forbearance, of course, with what he calls “hipster feminists,” such as the Guardian‘s Jessica Valenti parading around in t-shirts that read: “I BATHE IN MALE TEARS.”

“I’m a critic of feminism,” says Donovan. “But I would never walk around wearing a shirt that says, “I MAKE WOMEN CRY.” I’d just look like a jerk and a bully.”

It’s the contention of academics, sociologists and writers like Jack Donovan that an atmosphere of relentless, jeering hostility to men from entitled middle-class media figures, plus a few confused male collaborators in the feminist project, has been at least partly responsible for a generation of boys who simply don’t want to know.

In Part 2, we’ll meet some of the men who have “checked out,” given up on sex and relationships and sunk into solitary pursuits or alcohol-fuelled lad culture. And we’ll discover that the real victims of modern feminism are, of course, women themselves, who have been left lonelier and less satisfied than they have ever been.

Some names have been changed.

THE SEXODUS, PART 2: DISHONEST FEMINIST PANICS LEAVE MALE SEXUALITY IN CRISIS

by MILO YIANNOPOULOS

Sexual dysfunction is not unique to the twenty-first century—nor, certainly, to the West. Japan’s “herbivores”—men who shun sex and prefer saving money and going on long walks to riding motorcycles and flirting with girls—have been well documented and are regarded by social scientists as the best example of male sexuality turning in on itself.

But although the sexodus, a new retreat into solitude by Western males, has a different flavour to it and dramatically different aetiology from previously observed social crises, many characteristics are identical. And what’s troubling about men throwing in the towel in both East and West is the rapidity with which the malaise is spreading across entire generations, fuelled not just by sexual dissatisfaction but also the economic and educational pressures felt by so many young boys.

Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. It’s little wonder that in the disorientating modern world, men should seek out extreme measures to help them relate to, and get what they want from, the opposite sex. That probably explains the rise of Julien Blanc, who claims his seminars can transform the way women will respond to you. Blanc is at the extreme end of a movement known as “pick-up artists” or PUAs.

But other voices in the PUA or “red pill” movements, including Daryush Valizadeh, who goes by the pen name Roosh V, says there are structural reasons why society is evolving away from inter-gender contentment. Part of the problem is unrealistic female expectations, says Valizadeh. “Getting laid with attractive women has become extremely hard for average men. Women today of average or even below average quality desire an elite man with above-average looks, muscles, intelligence, and confidence.

“If an average girl works hard enough, she will be able to have a one-night stand with a ‘hot’ guy every now and then because he happened to be horny and wanted an easy lay. The girl then thinks that she actually can get such a man to commit to her for the long term, and so doesn’t give the average guys a chance, holding out for the type of stud that she had a brief sexual encounter with in the past.”

Valizadeh has some controversial views on the state of modern womanhood, too. He says: “It’s also damaging that the attractiveness of women is rapidly declining, mainly due to the obesity epidemic. No matter what members of the ‘fat acceptance’ movement say, men have an innate need for fit women.  What happens is the few attractive girls left get unimaginable amounts of attention.”

According to Valizadeh, today’s sexual marketplace represents a Pareto distribution in which “20 percent of the top guys have access to 80 percent of the best women,” which has the effect of leaving women holding out for the perfect man, a man who of course never comes.

Valizadeh agrees with masculinity author Jack Donovan that men have been feminised by a culture that rejects and ridicules male characteristics and habits. “Good luck naming one male role model that men have today that actually helps them become men,” he remarks. These thoughts are echoed on occasionally rude but compelling male-oriented blogs, such as the phenomenally popular Chateau Heartiste.

They are also supported by the current state of the sex wars, which are constituted bizarrely. One of the remarkable things about recent high-profile skirmishes with feminists is how few mainstream heterosexual men have been involved. In the GamerGate video games controversy, opposition to “social justice warriors” and their attempts at censorship on Twitter has come from older gay men in public life and younger geeks, gamers and drop-outs; in the case of Matt Taylor, it was geeks and other women.

Straight young men simply don’t want to know any more. They’re not getting involved. Some women, too, horrified by what lesbianised third-wave feminism claims to do in their name, opt out of the argument. The absurd result is that geeks, queers and dykes are dominating the discussion about how men and women should interact. Jack Donovan, for example, is gay, as is your present correspondent. It’s as if gays are the only men left prepared to fight masculinity’s corner.

Men want normal relationships that include sex, says Valizadeh. Some of them will read pick-up artist books or go to seminars by people such as Roosh V if they don’t get it or need to be trained out of “white knight” behaviours instilled in them by a female-dominated culture. (Men have been taught that being a nice guy gets you laid. It doesn’t.)

What strikes a lot of women as strange is how rational and systematic so much of this decision-making is by men. Many young men literally perform a cost-benefit analysis and decide that women aren’t worth the hassle. It’s girls who lose out in this scenario: men don’t need the sustained emotional intimacy that comes with a fulfilling sexual relationship and can retreat into masturbatory pursuits, prostitution and one-night stands much more comfortably.

But that’s exactly what it is, from a male point of view: a rational opting out from education, work and marriage by men who have had enough, as a remarkable book by Dr Helen Smith called Men on Strike warned in July last year. (The consensus on this stuff is growing rapidly.)

Men, driven, as many of them like to say, by fact and not emotion, can see that society is not fair to them and more dangerous for them. They point to the fact that they are more likely to be murder victims and more likely to commit suicide. Women do not choose to serve in the Armed Forces and they experience fewer deaths and injuries in the line of work generally.

Women get shorter custodial sentences for the same crimes. There are more scholarships available to them in college. They receive better and cheaper healthcare, and can pick from favourable insurance packages available only to girls. When it comes to children, women are presumed to be the primary caregiver and given preferential treatment by the courts. They have more, better contraceptive options.

Women are less likely to be homeless, unemployed or to abuse drugs than men. They are less likely to be depressed or to suffer from mental illness. There is less pressure on them to achieve financial success. They are less likely to live in poverty. They are given priority by emergency and medical services.

Some might call these statistical trends “female privilege.” Yet everywhere and at all times, say men’s rights advocates, the “lived experiences” and perceived oppression of women is given a hundred per cent of the airtime, in defiance of the reality that women haven’t just achieved parity with men but have overtaken them in almost every conceivable respect. What inequalities remain are the result of women’s choices, say respectable feminist academics such as Christina Hoff Sommers, not structural biases.

And yet men are constantly beaten up over bizarre invented concepts such as rape culture and patriarchal privilege. The bizarre but inevitable conclusion of all this is that women are fuelling their own unhappiness by driving men to consider them as sex objects and nothing more, because the thought of engaging in a relationship with a woman is horrifying, or too exhausting to contemplate. And the sexodus will affect women disproportionately harshly because research data show that when women “act like men” by having lots of casual sex, they become unhappy, are more likely to suffer from depression and destroy their chances of securing a meaningful long-term relationship.

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It’s not just video games and casual sex that young men are retreating into. They are also immersing themselves in fetishes that to their grandparents’ generation would resemble grounds for incarceration, and which drive them further away from the formerly fairer sex. Consider, for example, the example of furry culture and anthropomorphic animal sex fetishism, both of which are experiencing explosive growth, fuelled by the internet.

Jack Rivlin’s student newspaper The Tab, which we encountered in part one, has noticed the trend spreading on UK campuses. (It’s already rife throughout the US.) Other alternative sexual behaviours, including homosexuality and transgenderism, are more prevalent on campus now too.

“It’s eminently plausible that there are a greater number of people who identify as homosexual, bisexual or other sexualities who are happy to be labelled as such these days,” agrees Cambridge Union president Tim Squirrell, from whom we heard in part one, speaking about the students he sees passing through his Union. “I think we’re becoming more open and accepting of people who live different kinds of lifestyles and have different kinds of identities.”

Gay emancipation, of course, may not have been a uniformly good thing for women. Depending on whose figures you believe—and you’re wise not to take the claims of gay advocacy groups or gay magazines too seriously, for obvious reasons—somewhere between 1 per cent and 10 per cent of the adult male population is gay. (It’s probably a lot closer to 1 per cent.)

Just a few decades ago, many of those men—at the risk of stereotyping, the most sensitive, artistic, attractive and highest-earning men; that is, perfect husband material—would have got married, had a few kids and led a double life to pursue their forbidden urges. They wouldn’t have bothered their wives for sex and they would have made great fathers.

But now they’re settling down with men, in many cases not having children at all. In other words, a healthy chunk of the most desirable men—men who no doubt would have cooed along approvingly to feminist exhortations—are now off the market, leaving even fewer eligible men in the dating pool.

(As a side note, here’s an argument you won’t read elsewhere: gay men test significantly higher, on average, for IQ, and we know that IQ is at least partially genetically determined. Gays don’t reproduce as much now they don’t have to keep up the pretence of straight relationships. In fact, surveys say they barely reproduce at all.

Is it too much of a stretch to ask whether society’s newfound tolerance of homosexuals has made society… well, a bit more stupid? Granted, it sounds far-fetched. But while there’s no doubt that liberating gay men from the shame of their secret double lives has been a moral imperative, driven by compassion, no rapid social change comes without trade-offs.)

All this comes before we even discuss the rapid growth of sadomasochistic sex among the young and the “new civil rights frontier” of transgenderism, a psychiatric disorder currently in the process of being repackaged by the Left as an alternative sexual lifestyle.

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The response to part one of this series was colossal. To date, over 300,000 readers have shared it on Facebook. 16,500 readers left comments. Over 500 men wrote to me privately to express their gratitude and support, from every continent and in all age groups. The younger men spoke especially movingly. (Predictably, hundreds of angry feminists on Twitter scorned it as “entitled whinging from white male manbabies,” rather proving the point of the story’s premise for me.) Here are the most representative quotes from my conversations, reprinted with permission.

Mark, 24: “Everyone I know feels the same. Your article spoke directly to us. We’re not all losers and nerds, we’re just normal guys who are either scared of being accused of terrible stuff by harpies or simply can’t be bothered any more. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I just can’t deal with hassle of women any more.”

Mickey: “I say no to the whole thing, even though I am very heterosexual and would like the intimacy of a relationship based on mutual respect. Well, I thought I did, but it’s been so long and the standard of behavior for women remains so low, along with my tolerance for dating bullshit, that it does not look like a realistic desire anymore.”

Francis, 28: “I’m an athlete. My parents have a lot of money. I have plenty of friends and a good social life. I don’t hang out with women any more. Occasionally I’ll have one night stands, but mostly I fill my time with other things. I got accused of molesting a girl at college and since then I’ve just thought, whatever. I play sports instead.”

Tilo, 20: “I don’t know for sure but your article sounds like me and a lot of my friends. I do furry stuff online in secret. I’d be horrified if my parents found out but it’s all that gets me off. Girls are a nightmare. I have a brother who’s ten years older and he feels the same. We’ve given up.”

Hector, 26: “I did stick to that social belief for a brief time thinking that the need for a serious relationship would come with the age, but it never happened and slowly I gave up. Today, a few hours before reading your article, I was having lunch with my mother and she kept talking about girlfriends and how I needed to get married, meanwhile I kept thinking ‘why would I waste my life with this shit?’, and it wasn’t until I read your article a few hours later, that I realised. And I don’t think it’s just my generation that is affected by this.”

We can be quite sure now that the sexodus is not some fringe, isolated internet movement as “Men Going Their Own Way” has sometimes been characterised. A combination of disastrous social engineering, special privileges for women, the relentless mockery of white men on the basis of their sex and skin colour and the economic and educational abandonment for boys has created one, if not two, lost generations already.

Men created most of what is good about the world. The excesses of masculinity are also, to be sure, responsible for much of what is bad. But if we are to avoid sliding into decline, mediocrity and a world in which men are actively discriminated against, we must arrest the decline in social attitudes towards them before so many victims are claimed that all hope of reconciliation between the sexes is lost. If that happens, it will be women who will suffer.

Some names have been changed.

Bonus from Mukund

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Saki Suzuki, 2 ¾ years old, Tokyo

The first time Saki ate the fermented soybean dish called natto, she was 7 months old. She promptly vomited. Her mother, Asaka, thinks that perhaps this was because of the smell, which is vaguely suggestive of canned cat food. But in time, the gooey beans became Saki’s favorite food and a constant part of her traditional Japanese breakfasts. Also on the menu are white rice, miso soup,kabocha squash simmered in soy sauce and sweet sake (kabocha no nimono), pickled cucumber (Saki’s least favorite dish), rolled egg omelet (tamagoyaki) and grilled salmon.

Americans tend to lack imagination when it comes to breakfast. The vast majority of us, surveys say, start our days with cold cereal — and those of us with children are more likely to buy the kinds with the most sugar. Children all over the world eat cornflakes and drink chocolate milk, of course, but in many places they also eat things that would strike the average American palate as strange, or worse.

Breakfast for a child in Burkina Faso, for example, might well include millet-seed porridge; in Japan, rice and a putrid soybean goop known as natto; in Jamaica, a mush of plantains or peanuts or cornmeal; in New Zealand, toast covered with Vegemite, a salty paste made of brewer’s yeast; and in China, jook, a rice gruel topped with pickled tofu, strings of dried meat or egg. In Cuba, Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America, it is not uncommon to find very young children sipping coffee with milk in the mornings. In Pakistan, kids often take their milk with Rooh Afza, a bright red syrup made from fruits, flowers and herbs. Swedish filmjolk is one of dozens of iterations of soured milk found on breakfast tables across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. For a child in southern India, the day might start with a steamed cake made from fermented lentils and rice called idli. “The idea that children should have bland, sweet food is a very industrial presumption,” says Krishnendu Ray, a professor of food studies at New York University who grew up in India. “In many parts of the world, breakfast is tepid, sour, fermented and savory.”

Doga Gunce Gursoy, 8 years old, Istanbul

The elaborate Saturday morning spread in front of Doga includes honey and clotted cream, called kaymak, on toasted bread; green and black olives; fried eggs with a spicy sausage called sucuk; butter; hard-boiled eggs; thick grape syrup (pekmez) with tahini on top; an assortment of sheep-, goat- and cow-milk cheeses; quince and blackberry jams; pastries and bread; tomatoes, cucumbers, white radishes and other fresh vegetables;kahvaltilik biber salcasi, a paste made of grilled red peppers; hazelnut-flavored halvah, the dense dessert; milk and orange juice. While certainly more elaborate than weekday fare, this Gursoy family meal is in keeping with the hodgepodge that is a typical Turkish breakfast.

Parents who want their kids to accept more adventurous breakfasts would be wise to choose such morning fare for themselves. Children begin to acquire a taste for pickled egg or fermented lentils early — in the womb, even. Compounds from the foods a pregnant woman eats travel through the amniotic fluid to her baby. After birth, babies prefer the foods they were exposed to in utero, a phenomenon scientists call “prenatal flavor learning.” Even so, just because children are primed to like something doesn’t mean the first experience of it on their tongues will be pleasant. For many Korean kids, breakfast includes kimchi, cabbage leaves or other vegetables fermented with red chile peppers and garlic. A child’s first taste of kimchi is something of a rite of passage, one captured in dozens of YouTube videos featuring chubby-faced toddlers grabbing at their tongues and occasionally weeping.

Children, and young omnivorous animals generally, tend to reject unfamiliar foods on the first few tries. Evolutionarily, it makes sense for an inexperienced creature to be cautious about new foods, which might, after all, be poisonous. It is only through repeated exposure and mimicry that toddlers adjust to new tastes — breakfast instead of, say, dinner. That we don’t put pickle relish on waffles or eat Honey Bunches of Oats for supper are rules of culture, not of nature. As children grow, their palates continue to be shaped by the food environment they were born into (as well as by the savvy marketers of sugar cereals who advertise directly to the 10-and-under set and their tired parents). This early enculturation means a child in the Philippines might happily consume garlic fried rice topped with dried and salted fish calledtuyo at 6 in the morning, while many American kids would balk at such a meal (even at dinnertime). We learn to be disgusted, just as we learn to want a second helping.

Sugar is the notable exception to “food neophobia,” as researchers call that early innate fear. In utero, a 13-week-old fetus will gulp amniotic fluid more quickly when it contains sugar. Our native sweet tooth helps explain the global popularity of sugary cereals and chocolate spreads like Nutella: Getting children to eat sugar is easy. Teaching them to eat slimy fermented soybeans, by contrast, requires a more robust and conservative culinary culture, one that resists the candy-coated breakfast buffet.

To sample the extensive smorgasbord that still constitutes breakfast around the world, Hannah Whitaker recently visited with families in seven countries, photographing some of their youngest eaters as they sat down in front of the first meal of the day.

Nathanaël Witschi Picard, 6 years old, Paris

Whenever Nathanaël stays at his father’s house, his weekday breakfast is the same. It consists of a single kiwi; tartine, an open-faced baguette with butter and blackberry jam made by his grandparents; cold cereal with milk; and freshly squeezed orange juice. (He would prefer crepes and hot chocolate, which many French children gulp down from bowls and into which they dunk their morning tartine. But Nathanaël’s father, Cédric, is health-conscious.) On weekends, Nathanaël eats croissants for breakfast and also makes his own desserts, a passion inherited from his grandfather, a pâtissier.

Emily Kathumba, 7 years old, Chitedze, Malawi

Emily lives with her grandmother Ethel on the outskirts of Lilongwe, Malawi’s capital. Because Ethel works in another family’s home — doing cleaning, cooking and child care — her extended family of nine rises before 6 a.m. to eat breakfast together before they disperse to work and school. Here, Emily is eating cornmeal porridge called phala with soy and groundnut flour; deep-fried fritters made of cornmeal, onions, garlic and chiles, along with boiled sweet potato and pumpkin; and a dark red juice made from dried hibiscus flowers and sugar. (She is fortunate; half of the children in Malawi are chronically malnourished.) When she can, Emily likes to drink sweet black tea in the mornings, a common beverage for Malawian children.

Birta Gudrun Brynjarsdottir, 3 ½ years old, Reykjavik, Iceland

Birta’s oatmeal porridge is calledhafragrautur, a staple breakfast in Iceland. The oatmeal is cooked in water or milk and often served with brown sugar, maple syrup, butter, fruit or surmjolk (sour milk). Birta also takes a swig of lysi, or cod-liver oil. For part of the year, when the sun barely clears Iceland’s horizon, sunlight is a poor source of vitamin D — but the vitamin is plentiful in fish oils. (The word lysi is related to the Icelandic verb lysa, meaning ‘‘illuminate.’’) Birta’s mother, Svana Helgadottir, started giving her four children lysiwhen each was about 6 months, and now all of them gulp it down without complaint. Many day-care centers and preschools in Iceland dispense cod-liver oil as a regular part of the morning routine.

Viv Bourdrez, 5 years old, Amsterdam

For Viv, breakfast is a glass of milk with bread, unsalted butter and — most important — sweet sprinkles, which come in multiple flavors (chocolate, vanilla, fruit) and sizes (small, large, shavings). A government-run website promoting tourism boasts that every day the Dutch eat at least 750,000 slices of bread topped with the chocolate sprinkles called hagelslag(‘‘hailstorm’’), making it the country’s most popular bread topping. For a nation of nearly 17 million people, that’s close to 300 million slices a year of hagelslag-covered bread. In June, a successful Dutch Kickstarter campaign raised more than $11,000 to create bacon hagelslag. Viv is partial to the multihued sprinkles called vruchtenhagel (‘‘fruit hail’’), while her twin sister, Rosie, reaches for chocoladevlokken.

Aricia Domenica Ferreira, 4 years old, and

Hakim Jorge Ferreira Gomes, 2 years old, São Paulo, Brazil

Aricia’s pink sippy cup is full of chocolate milk, but her brother Hakim’s cup contains coffee (café com leite). For many Brazilian parents, coffee for kids is a cultural tradition; the taste evokes their own earliest memories. Many also believe that coffee provides vitamins and antioxidants and that a small milky serving in the morning helps their children concentrate in school. Hakim ‘‘gets more agitated after he drinks it,’’ his father, Reginaldo Aguiar Gomes, admits. ‘‘I can feel his mood change.’’ But their pediatrician told them that coffee is fine in moderation. Brother and sister are eating ham and cheese as well as pão com manteiga, bread with butter.

Phillip Kamtengo, 4 years old, and

Shelleen Kamtengo, 4 years old, Chitedze, Malawi

Phillip and his twin sister, Shelleen, start their day with a sweet, cornbread-like cake calledchikondamoyo, which their grandmother, Dorothy Madise, cooks in an aluminum pot over a fire. Breakfast for the Kamtengo twins and their older siblings also includes boiled potatoes and black tea with a heaping spoonful or two of sugar.

Koki Hayashi, 4 years old, Tokyo

If Koki and his older brother had a choice, they would prefer an American-style breakfast. Occasionally, their mother, Fumi, lets them eat cold cereal and doughnuts, but she wants her children to grow up knowing what it means to eat Japanese. Here, Koki eats green peppers stir-fried with tiny dried fish, soy sauce and sesame seeds; raw egg mixed with soy sauce and poured over hot rice; kinpira, a dish of lotus and burdock roots and carrots sautéed with sesame-seed oil, soy sauce and a sweet rice wine called mirin; miso soup; grapes; sliced Asian pear; and milk.

Oyku Ozarslan, 9 years old, Istanbul

The foundation of breakfast for Oyku, a fourth grader, is brown bread. She supplements it with green and black olives, Nutella spread, sliced tomato, hard-boiled egg, strawberry jam, butter soaked in honey and an assortment of Turkish cheeses: among them, a crumbly, feta-like cheese called ezine peyniri; eski kasar, an aged, cow’s milk cheese; and tulum peyniri, a variety of cheese made of goat’s milk that was traditionally aged in a goatskin casing.

Tiago Bueno Young, 3 years old, São Paulo, Brazil

Tiago likes chocolate milk and often wakes up asking for it, but sometimes even that is hard to get excited about at 7 on a weekday morning when his mother, Fabiana, has already left for work and he still has to get ready for kindergarten. Cold cereal is the favored breakfast food of the three Young sons. Here, Tiago, the middle child, sits before cornflakes, banana cake and bisnaguinha, a sweet white bread popular with Brazilian children and served with a mild cream cheese called requeijão.

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Table of Contents
1 Why We Eat What We Do
Studies and trends show that Americans, now more than ever, are interested in eating right. Professor Anding begins the course with a description of the current state of American nutrition, a brief introduction to the history of nutrition science, and a roadmap for the lectures ahead.

2 Sources of Nutrition Fact and Fiction
How can you make sense of the barrage of nutritional information – and misinformation – surrounding you? In this lecture, learn how to flag potential cases of health fraud and where to find credible sources of information on nutrition. Also, examine the public health policies designed to promote the well-being of Americans

3 Our Underappreciated Digestive Tract
Our remarkable digestive systems often go unappreciated – until we succumb to some sort of digestive order. Explore the basic functions of the gastrointestinal tract, common ailments that affect between 60 and 70 million Americans at one point or another, and ways to manage these ailments through dietary means.

4 It’s All about the Calories!
Over the past 50 years, the caloric intake of Americans has gradually increased. Understanding the basics of your metabolism can provide the foundation for lifelong strategies for managing weight. Here, examine the determining factors behind your daily caloric intake and learn tips on how to successfully burn calories.

5 Hydration – You Are What You Drink
Do you really need to drink eight 8-oz. glasses of water every day? Discover the science behind the water that constitutes 65% – 70% of our bodies, including a look at the symptoms and treatments of dehydration and overhydration and the effects of caffeine and alcohol on the body’s hydration levels.

6 Not All Carbohydrates Are Created Equal
Carbohydrates account for roughly 50% of the average American’s diet. In this exploration of why these biomolecules are both good and bad for us, study the functions of simple and complex carbohydrates and learn ways you can make wiser carbohydrate choices in your daily diet.

7 Facts on Fiber
Whole-grain cereals, nuts, fruits – these are just a few of the many sources of fiber that are part of a healthy diet. Here, examine the differences between insoluble and soluble fibers and the health benefits of a high-fiber diet for everything from promoting digestive health to controlling blood sugar levels.

8 Protein – An Indispensable Nutrient
Protein is, without a doubt, an indispensable nutrient. But how do proteins function? What are the appropriate protein needs for an average adult? And what can happen if you don’t get enough protein in your daily diet? Discover the answers to these and other questions in this insightful lecture.

9 Fat, Fat Everywhere!
Make sense of the scientific complexities of dietary fat in all its many forms: saturated, unsaturated, trans-fat, cholesterol, and more. Professor Anding helps you distinguish between “good” and “bad” fats and shows you how to regulate dietary fat intake.

10 Vitamins – Spotlight on C
Of all the 13 different vitamins we get through diet or supplementation, Vitamin C is one of the most popular. Investigate the history, benefits, dietary sources, and daily requirements of this water-soluble vitamin. Also, learn the truth about whether Vitamin C can protect you from the common cold.

11 Vitamins A and K – Multitaskers
Continue studying vitamins with a look at two that are fat-soluble: Vitamins A and K. For each of these multitasking vitamins, discover their purpose; where you can find them in the foods you eat; what your daily requirements should be; and what happens when you get too little – or too much – of each in your diet.

12 Vitamin E – Fallen Hero; Vitamin D – Rising Star
In this third lecture on vitamins, focus on Vitamins E and D. Contrary to popular thought, Vitamin E has proven to not be so helpful in the prevention of chronic disease. Vitamin D, on the other hand, may play a role in combating diseases such as diabetes and cancer, according to emerging science.

13 B Vitamin Basics
Vitamin B consists of not one, but of eight different substances that help enable the release of energy from the food you eat. Here, examine the most familiar B vitamins (including thiamin, niacin, and folate) and some of the myths associated with B-vitamin nutrition.

14 The Major Minerals
There are seven major minerals that are essential to your everyday life: calcium, phosphorous, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, and magnesium. This lecture serves as an illuminating primer on the need for these minerals in your diet and focuses on the two that are the most important.

15 The Highs and Lows of Sodium and Potassium
These two counterbalancing minerals play a major role in maintaining normal blood pressure. How does this happen? How many milligrams of each should you incorporate into your daily diet? And what are some successful ways to limit your amount of sodium intake? Find out in this lecture.

16 Iron, Zinc, Selenium – Balance Is Everything
Round out your study of minerals by learning about iron, zinc, and selenium. These three minerals play integral roles in the functioning of your immune system, interacting with more than 100 enzymes and reducing peroxide free radicals (compounds believed to cause aging and possibly cancer).

17 Cardiovascular Disease – What Are the Risks?
Approximately 50% of Americans will develop some form of heart disease within their lifetime, according to some medical sources. Survey the five major forms of cardiovascular disease – angina, atherosclerosis, heart attacks, strokes, and congestive heart failure – and discover the various risk factors you can and cannot control.

18 A Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
Using your newfound knowledge of heart disease, get detailed information on how to understand – and mitigate – your personal risk. Learn what cholesterol and triglyceride levels are appropriate and how to achieve a heart-healthy lifestyle by choosing fat-free or low-fat dairy products, eating fish at least twice a week, exercising at least 30 minutes a day, and more.

19 The DASH Diet – A Lifesaver
One out of every three Americans suffers from high blood pressure, which can lead to shorter life expectancies. As you learn the sources of hypertension, discover how the DASH – Dietary Approach to Stop Hypertension – diet, when combined with sodium restriction and weight management, can help control blood pressure.

20 Obesity – Public Health Enemy Number One
Why has obesity become such an epidemic, both in America and around the globe? Is it a result of genetics, environmental and social factors, or both? What is the difference between being obese and merely being overweight? Find out the answers to these and other questions in this eye-opening lecture.

21 Healthy Weight Management
What are the secrets to maintaining a healthy, optimal body weight? Learn some smart habits here, including balancing your energy sources, exercising regularly, and maintaining a positive outlook. Also, take a look at the American Dietetic Association’s 10 key recommendations for cutting calories in your daily diet.

22 Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes
Delve into the causes, prevention, and treatment of both metabolic syndrome (clustered risk factors that can be a precursor to Type 2 diabetes) and Type 2 diabetes itself. Then, touch on the reasons behind rising levels of this disease in American children – some as young as four years of age.

23 Dietary Approaches to Weight Management
Popular diets. Over-the-counter supplements. Gastric banding surgery. Get detailed explanations of the science behind – and flaws in – these and other popular weight-loss methods. Professor Anding then gives you alternative approaches to long-term weight management, using data from the National Weight Control Registry

24 Nutrition and Cancer Prevention
While cancer is currently the second leading cause of death in the United States, there is a wealth of dietary strategies and lifestyle modifications that can help people reduce their risk of this fearful diagnosis. Discover them here.

25 Nutrition and Digestive Health
Professor Anding guides you through the normal digestive process and points out the characteristics of common digestive disorders. Learn how wise dietary decisions, lifestyle changes, and medication can help control lactose intolerance, celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and more.

26 Prebiotics and Probiotics in Your Diet
Professor Anding guides you through the normal digestive process and points out the characteristics of common digestive disorders. Learn how wise dietary decisions, lifestyle changes, and medication can help control lactose intolerance, celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and more.

27 Food Safety – It’s in Your Hands
While the U.S. food supply is one of the safest in the world, recent outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli show that we should still be concerned with the contamination. Increase your awareness of food safety by exploring food contamination methods, the consequences of food-borne illnesses, and practical prevention methods.

28 Demystifying Food Labels
We’ve all read a food label. But what do you really need to know to make wise, healthy choices? This lecture reveals the best ways to read the back of a package for nutrition information and includes Professor Anding’s useful tips on how to avoid making serious mistakes when selecting food.

29 Facts on Functional Foods
Are functional foods – foods that provide additional health benefits that may reduce disease risk and promote optimal health – worth your extra money? Come to your own conclusion in this lecture, which gives you definitions and examples of functional foods, as well as information on how these foods are marketed and regulated.

30 A Look at Herbal Therapy
The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the use of herbal medicine as a means to prevent or manage disease. This lecture explores the myths and realities behind this alternative form of medicine, with an emphasis on a few of the most popular supplements, including St. John’s wort, ginkgo biloba, and ginseng.

31 Organic or Conventional – Your Choice
An estimated 81% of shoppers buy organic food because they feel it has a higher nutritive value than conventional foods. So are there significant health benefits to eating organic foods? Here, Professor Anding defines types of organic products and details current research about their nutritional advantages.

32 Fake or Real – Sugars and Fats
Nine out of 10 Americans buy or consume products made with artificial sweeteners and fat replacers – so much that it can be difficult to determine if what we’re eating is real or fake. Examine the nutritional advantages and disadvantages of consuming products made with sucrose, fructose, Olestra, and other additives.

33 Creating Your Own Personal Nutrition Plan
Here, personalize the knowledge you’ve gained from earlier lectures by learning how to design your own basic nutrition plan. Explore the four components required to determine your nutritional needs, uncover useful tips to keep in mind as you develop your strategy, and put it all together with concrete examples.

34 Exercise and Nutrition – Partners for Life
Being healthy is not just a matter of what you eat, it’s a matter of how much daily physical activity you get. Discover the components of a practical exercise program and learn how you can implement the right amount of physical activity into your own personal lifestyle – activity that can often prevent many diseases and detrimental health conditions.

35 The Future of Nutrition – Science and Trends
Cast your gaze upon the future of nutrition science. How have scientific breakthroughs (such as the Human Genome Project) allowed for the creation of individualized health goals? Will consumers make more home-cooked meals instead of relying on convenience foods? What foods will we start eating more and less of?

36 Nutrition Facts and FAQs
Nutrition is a very broad and personal subject, and so it’s inevitable that many questions will remain. That’s why Professor Anding concludes the course with an entire lecture devoted to her own expert responses to common nutrition questions she’s been asked during her career.

Glossary
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Steven Spazuk is a Canada-based artist who uses candle soot to create elegant drawings. After depositing soot on his media with a candle or torch, he etches lines and patterns in the soot with  pencils and feathers.

Though Spazuk has spent the last 14 years developing and perfecting his soot painting technique, the creation process always has an element of random spontaneity and improvisation.

More info: spazuk.com | Youtube | Facebook (h/t: lustik, colossal)

When asked by Bored Panda about how he came up with the idea to paint with soot, Spazuk said; “The truth is that I dreamt of it. I was in a gallery (in my dream) and was looking at that black and white landscape and I knew that it was done with fire and completely understood the technique.”

“In the morning when I woke up I remembered that dream and started to experiment. The first attempt at drawing with fire that I made did not work out very well. Sure enough the first paper I put the flame on caught fire. I soon realized I had to use a cardboard paper, one that was thicker and more coated than mat paper.”

“It was then that I immediately knew that drawing with soot would work. It was a instant love affair with the medium. All my ideas related to soot came in those first weeks [in 2001] . The imprints, the entomograms etc… I had a great field of work to explore, and I was aware of all the potential ahead of me. I never stopped since…”

“The biggest challenge in the beginning was to keep the drawings intact. It took me lot of testing with fixatives and spray varnish. Now I can say that I am mastering the spray varnish. You need a really fine spray and you need to shoot at a certain distance.”

Fire Painting Video:

SPAZUK fire painter from Patrick Peris on Vimeo.

Video portrait of the very original and talented Steve Spazuk in his creative space.
More from the artist : http://www.spazuk.com/fr/home-spazuk.php
More of my creative stuff: https://www.facebook.com/patrick.peris.film
Twitter @PatPeris
Music by Pierre Desmarais: http://www.pierredesmaraismusik.com

Portrait de l’artiste-peintre Steve Spazuk dans sa technique hautement originale et dans son atelier de création.
Site de l’artiste: http://www.spazuk.com/fr/home-spazuk.php
Suivis sur le réalisateur: https://www.facebook.com/patrick.peris.film
Musique de Pierre Desmarais: http://www.pierredesmaraismusik.com

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Psycho-Cybernetics Lessons Video with Summary by Dr. Maxwell Maltz
1 – You have a self image and you can change your self image.
2 – You have a success mechanism in you that will help you if you let it.
3 – You can use your imagination constructively or destructively.
4 – Don’t only think but also act creatively.
5 – You can program success like a computer. Relax and let your success mechanism work for you. Remember past successes and forget past failures.
6 – The power of beliefs which become habits. De-hypnotize yourself from false beliefs.
7 – Happiness is a habit just like unhappiness. Believe it belongs to you!
8 – Phases of your S.U.C.C.E.S.S. mechanism. S Sense of direction, U understanding your and others needs, C – courage, C – compassion, E esteem/self-respect, S self-acceptance, S self-confidence.
9 – Failure mechanism. F.A.I.L.U.R.E. F frustration which brings, A aggression of the wrong kind which brings, I insecurity, L loneliness, U uncertainty, R resentment, E emptiness.
10 – Be your own plastic surgeon to remove your own emotional scar that you put there yourself.
11 – How to stand up under stress. Turn a crisis into an opportunity. Tackle a problem realistically.
12 – You can be a winner just as you can be a loser. Simply concentrate on – refuse to let negative feelings make your image shrink, concentrate on your positivity, learn to be yourself, you are here to succeed, realistic goals and use techniques to achieve them.

Psycho-Cybernetics Lessons 1-5
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Waste Land – What an uplifting documentary (2010)

An uplifting feature documentary highlighting the transformative power of art and the beauty of the human spirit. Top-selling contemporary artist Vik Muniz takes us on an emotional journey from Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, to the heights of international art stardom. Vik collaborates with the brilliant catadores, pickers of recyclable materials, true Shakespearean characters who live and work in the garbage quoting Machiavelli and showing us how to recycle ourselves.

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Such rich content I did the usual and took notes of the things I found important at this point in my life.

– Leaves change angles so they don’t take on too much sunlight.
– Top 300mm is the most important for root hairs to absorb oxygen.
– Look up Rotary hoe (sounds like some of the girls I knew in my friends groups back in the day)
– Organic matter does it all water & nutrient holding.
– Worms are irrelevant, no native worms but best fauna in the worst environment, but most nematodes are good and fungi are good too
– Fungi attaches to the plant and gives its roots good things while getting sun love from the plant.
– Look for Australian certified or BFA stamps for organic matter.
– Replace half soil with conditioner and add amendments.
– When you think beetle is the problem just use a soil wetting agent first as usually it’s unwettable soil by just by adding bentonite clay you’re reducing nonwetability.
– Why are you constantly being told to fertilise when Jarrah Forest hasn’t been fertilised. Do feed the soil not the plant and fertilisers usually kill the soil life to feed the plant. Animal manure fertiliser is the most damaging and the rains just drain them to the rivers and lakes nearby.
– If you still want a fertiliser look for NPK ratio 5:1:3 and buy complete trace elements. Slow or controlled release. One that will not harm the soil. Golden rules: Lush growth is not healthy growth (thats like gym big muscles don’t mean healthy). Only fertilise when it’s growing. Don’t fertilise if it’s sick.
– pH – test and read it under sunlight. Men are little colour blind so women better to do it. Adding organic matter helps.
–  Mulch – large irregular particles and doesn’t hold water. Don’t get black mulch. Stone is best mulch. Rules- spread 50-75 mm thick, leave undisturbed and top up if necessary.
– Sandalwood is very easy to grow. 4 years and great nuts. Native sweet potato. Barrier saltbush.
– Raised gardens are no extra benefit was really designed for wheelchair users. All you need is 300mm if you really need one.
– Most veggies can grow in 6 hours of sun.
– Inline drip irrigation is best, overhead butterfly sprinkler is worst.
– Stop digging! Not needed. Kills soil by exposing the good things happening underground. Just cut off veg and let the root and its fungi rot to feed the soil. Bed rotation is useless.
– Do you have a good reason to grow it if you’re not going to eat it, especially in these times when good food is hard to find without growing it yourself.
– Stomach and arm rule, stretch arm and trim whatever reaches your stomach. Bigger tum = smaller plant hehehe. Look up training wire.
– Because of the fruit flies hit grow fruit trees in pots, all kinds of dwarf plants.
– Potting mix and equal amount garden soil, add 100g bentonite clay per 5 gallons and 5 cm waterwise something.
– Pests- crazy caterpillar and maggot video, aphid and wasp street fighter story. 3 methods – squishing, tread them, ignore them.
– Book – What Garden Pest or Disease is That? Every Garden Problem Solved … it is The Gardening bible.
– Look up converting your verge to a native garden.

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The Zero Waste Home with 6 Case Studies … thanks Charles

If you liked the video and want to know more here are 6 quick case studies from around Europe… thanks Charles
– CAPANNORI #1
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tpKYisMp2wcDlSVkxZSlhmeFU/view?usp=sharing

– ARGENTONA #2
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tpKYisMp2wT0haelBNNzFyWEU/view?usp=sharing

– VRHNIKA – SLOVENIAN TRAILBLAZERS #3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tpKYisMp2wMi1tZW9IYjltazg/view?usp=sharing

– CONTARINA #4
Paras note: The Integrated waste management system on page 3 is beautiful
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tpKYisMp2wSVlxeGxxSVplOEE/view?usp=sharing

– LJUBLJANA #5
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tpKYisMp2wTjFkUzFtVXVrVEk/view?usp=sharing

– GIPUZKOA #6
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9tpKYisMp2wUk54YU9EX1phV1k/view?usp=sharing

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Dumpster Diving for Dinner

If you are interested in Rob’s lifestyle you may find these videos useful too
Vermont News: Off the Grid Across America

New York News: Off the Grid Across America

The 6′ x 6′ bedroom
Since this I believe rob has bought a portable cabin and all his stuff fits on his bicycle.

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Notes:
– You may be broke but you’re not broken.
– Man disconnects from nature and because of that he hurts it, in-turn hurting himself.
– The ‘system’ has demonized tobacco (mapacho) by adding their own chemicals and crap. The real stuff is sacred and is still used as protection by the shamans.
– Puking – Get it out, give it to mother earth.
– The right song can fix anything.
– As influencers you need to be heard.
– Nature rewards courage.
– Smell bypasses intellect and goes to the heart. Good way to meditate and no wonder they were constantly spraying stuff in the seminar.
– Leads > Sales > Fulfilment = Business
– I think my friend Malindi started the Chocolate Yogi thing but wow had most of their flavours and they’re sooo good!
– I gazing exercise and hugging.
– Talks about plant medicine and shamanic work.
– Free resources at http://www.thegrandinitiative.com/#!videos/c1246
– We have been working with drums, fire, plants, real food, music longer than we have been without.
– Marketing his products of course and doing some drumming around a guy working with animals. That whole I sense something in you stuff.
– American Apparel don’t use touching up or photoshop their models… look it up.
– Just when I was thinking that he didn’t talk about he started with the 30 day challenge not to eat meat. And advice for Vegans was to stop being such higher than thou pricks.
– 5 minutes of telling each other our stories. Talks about every exercise where people where given talking sticks and they talked about what matters to them and their values, never once is money mentioned.
– Own the computer, don’t let it own you.
– Body lotions, shampoo etc. If you can’t eat it don’t put it on your body.
– Getting fondled at the airport (cracked me up).
– 3 papers NLP exercise. Present State, Present +1 State and Desired State. Something Hypnotica really backs and been meaning to do it so glad was finally taken through it.
– I want to clear up this notion that the curries you eat in restaurants or what ‘tourists’ taste in India is not real Indian food so for Jeffrey to make it sound like that is what everyone in India eats is just ignorant.

Sales
– Ask for the sale – This is it do you want it? Then tell them how to buy it. Don’t chat, sell properly and listen well.
– Best thing we can do for ourselves is what we do for our clients.
1. Who is  your perfect customer.
2. Evaluate 10 customers you have (are they close to the perfect customer?).
3. Does your marketing attract such customers? Do sales training if you need it.
4. Package and position well. Use customer language vs. your language. Also keep actual results vs. precieved results in mind (what they see on google and SEO and FB likes etc). Where is the imbalance there?

Nature Is Speaking – Julia Roberts

A Higher Conscious Conversation – From the film My Dinner With Andre

Questions before 1st Shamanic Journey
A – What could really challenge you?
B – What terrifies me?
C – What are you not willing to let go of?
D – What is your biggest gift to the world?
Draw a stick figure and specify where you feel fear.

Questions before 2nd Shamanic Journey
A – What are you willing to let go of?
B – What fears are you willing to let go of?
C – How might I experience my own medicine?
D – What greatness lies within me that I am afraid to see and feel?
E – What fear do I have about my sexuality and creativity?
F – What is my intention for this journey?

– Amazing shamanic journey. The drums, flutes, dongs, aromatic spray and burning smells of mapacho/tobacco etc reminded me of gong puja and yagnas etc. Felt like I was lucid dreaming until the screams lol. Then the music was driving me nuts I wanted the remix of the yeha noha sacred spirit song and rattles and drumming by Ono Teave. Very tribal.

Business Steps
– Love your client 1st.
– Before having the coffees – qualify. Know if you’re chatting or selling and if you’d both suit each other.
– Be curious about the person, what they want and why.
– Ask if they are a decision maker in a subtle way.
– What do they want, their values and frustrations.
– 80% questions, 20% statements (10% of which should be metaphors).
– Sell an experience and come out from behind the brand, be the face.
– Take the value/vibe down by asking what is not working.
– Then take it back up by asking what would happen if things go the way they want it to go. That is where real value/trust/authenticity is created.
– Now it’s time to act! Get that yes! Or the NLP 3 yes’s.
– Details: Time to sell the product with the positives.
– Money talk. Their profit and your price. If there is a hesitance, address it.
– If you’re international you need a .com site.

Terence McKenna – On Culture and Language (Video)
(Still looking for link ;oP)

Jeffrey’s Routine
– Wake up no snooze and to sunlight. No electronics near the bed or on air-plane mode.
– Lot of water.
– Jumping for 20 seconds (wow this felt so good).
– Cold press/coconut oil pulling.
– Meditate.
– Morning smoothie with all sorts especially reishi mushroom extract. Get it from superfeast.com.au He likes avocado in there too but said ayurveda don’t so look that up. Get wild and organic stuff.
– Feet in the dirt (Jeffrey has video on grounding).
– Weed is getting legal because it’s purity has been hijacked.

Self Issues
– What is your glass ceiling, keep questioning deeper, be your own CCTV.
– Do you embody your mission, vision and value?
– Make a list specific to what you want.

Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

Public Speaking
– Know what you’re selling when you get on stage.
– Usually 90 minute sections for each goal when talking. e.g. Stuart Zadel and his crew.
– Plant in the centre, look around the room. Connect with someone for 3 seconds.
– Walk around. Guys should touch only guys first and not women and they are watching!
– Vulnerable speakers hit home more.
– Ask for permission before telling a story.
– How many of you… question with your hand up strong and sure will get better results.
– Presentation slides should be pictures which get emotions.

Music
– Xavier Rudd – Spirit Bird

– Ono Teave – Shamanic Journet Drumming and Rattling (1 hour or 30 minutes of beats)

– Shamanic – Claire Ludwig
http://www.ayahuasca-wasi.com/songs/2012/Shamanic%20drum%20&%20flute.mp3

– The Earth is our Mother – Diego Palma

– Angels of Healing – Diego Palma

– Jon Henrik Fjällgren – My Home Is My Heart

– Grateful – Carioca

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One of the best courses I’ve done. How many of us use excel day in and out? I use it for my SMART/SWOT analysis, goal setting, workout progress, clocking my hours when I had to… all sorts. And now I feel like Super Excel Man! I’ve saved a couple of videos below which were just wow moments for me. Great teacher and Total Training as usual delivers another great course.

I couldn’t find the Essentials DVD Table of Contents but it’s pretty much the basics (which is not really basic if you’re starting in excel but very easy to learn and catch up on).

Bonus from Hema – Excel Shortcuts You Probably Don’t Know

Advanced DVD
Lesson 1: SUMMARIZING DATA (58 min)
Advanced Subtotals
Formatting the Subtotal Rows
Adding and Copying with Subtotals
Consolidating Data
Introducing the SUMIF Command
Working with the SUMIF Command
Using Array Formulas
Looking at AutoSum Tricks
Utilizing Fill Handle Tricks

Lesson 2: WORKING WITH PIVOT TABLES (52 min)
Creating a Pivot Table
Rearranging Fields in a Pivot Table
Explaining the Report Layout Options
Using the Report Filters Feature
Using Top 10 & Date Filters
Handling Blank Cells
Drilling Down in the Pivot Table
Sorting a Pivot Table
Formatting a Pivot Table
Creating Custom Formats
Explaining the Grouping Options
Adding Formulas to a Pivot Table
Changing a Calculation in a Pivot Table
Replicating a Pivot Table
Counting with a Pivot Table
Using Pivot Charts

Lesson 3: CHARTING IN EXCEL (75 min)
Charts Refresher
Moving, Sizing & Copying Charts
Formatting Charts
Formatting a Series
Exploring the Home & Format Ribbons
Deciding What Chart Format to Use
Show a Time Series with Column or Line Charts
Using Combination Charts
Using Line Chart Accessories
Using Bar Charts to Show Comparisons
Using Component Charts
Using Correlation Charts
Exploring Other Charts
Chart Lies Revealed & Advanced Chart Types
Creating a Custom Layout

Lesson 4: GETTING VISUAL (28 min)
Using Conditional Formatting
Using Advanced Conditional Formatting
Highlighting, Sorting & Filtering Columns
Using SmartArt Functions
Using Different SmartArt Graphics
Embedding a Formula into a Shape

Lesson 5: CREATING POWERFUL FORMULAS (85 min)
Using Goal Seek to Find an Answer
Auditing Formulas
Shrinking the Formula Bar
Understanding Errors
Joining Text Columns
Using Custom Formatting Codes
Pasting Values
Using Paste Special
Breaking Apart Text
Converting Text to Numbers
Using Date Functions
Using Bizarre Date Functions
Using Exponents
Using the VLOOKUP Function
Using Index Match
Using the Offset Function
Using the Convert Function
Looking at Interesting but Obscure Functions
Using the Rand Function
Working with Regression
Ranking & Sorting Formulas

Lesson 6: RECORDING MACROS (18 min)
Displaying the Developer Tab
Recording a Simple Macro
Simplifying the Macro
Recording Using Relative References

Lesson 7: TIPS & TRICKS (28 min)
Showing Off New Tips in Excel 2007
Tips for Handling Worksheets
Using Excel as a Word Processor
Miscellaneous Tips
Validating Data
Changing Text Entry Direction
Using Speak Cells
Final Comments & Credits

AND SO MUCH MORE

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The Coconut (Oil) Cure – All parts
Update: I’ve recently seen some articles and videos that contradict some info so please find your own truth.

Coconut oil got a fair share of bad press in the 1980s on the claim that saturated fats are unhealthy. But did its detractors and the media miss something important? As with the coconut itself, it takes some work to get to the heart of the matter — so we invited naturopathic doctor and coconut oil guru Dr. Bruce Fife to help us crack open the shell of the mysterious island fruit. Dr. Fife, the author of Coconut Cures, Coconut Water for Health and Healing, and The Coconut Oil Miracle, makes a compelling case for the healing properties inherent to coconut, which has long been used in traditional Asian and Pacific medicine. Some Pacific populations consider it a miracle cure; its broad applicability in medicine makes it difficult to argue. Coconut has been shown to be strongly antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal, and notably improves the functioning of many glands and organs; it supports dental, respiratory, and digestive health; the list goes on and on. Maybe the real question is, “What can’t coconut do?” Don’t miss this interview as Dr. Bruce Fife sheds new light on one of nature’s most misunderstood gifts.

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