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Called “the perfect place to die,” the Aokigahra forest has the unfortunate distinction as the worlds second most popular place to take ones life (the first is the Golden Gate Bridge).
More @ http://atlasobscura.com
I spend last week in Aberdeen Shire (Scotland) for a survival course. It was cold and wet but I had a great time. Under the waking eye from Ex RAF survival expert Conrad Allen we learned the basic skills to survive in the wilderness. Things like the will to survive, immobilizing fear, the need for warmth & water, fire making with with fire steel, building a shelter, using smoke signal and navigation. It definitely was not a week easy camping, and I learned a lot. Anyway; next year I will go trough the advanced course; here you learn to survive one week with only food and water you find on location. So this means, wet cold and hungry, I am looking forward to this.
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Well, this is the country where they produce the computer that I am writing on, my Ipod, IPhone, and all the other crap that I don’t really need. Maybe it’s time to overthink my consume patterns and stop buying things I dont need. Its a drop in the polluted ocean.
Impressive: http://www.chinahush.com/2009/10/21/amazing-pictures-pollution-in-china/
More here: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/print/200911/fallows-health-china
Interesting, are all American Presidents now getting a Nobel Peace Prize when they don’t start a war ? At least that douchebag Bono is not getting honored A it’s a brave new World, but please don’t stop asking questions.
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize @ Google News.
Must read if you used Usenet: Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles