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A gallery of illustrations from the marvelous Artforms in Nature, Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904 by Ernst Haeckel, an eminent, prolific and very controversial German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist, who named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including phylum, phylogeny and ecology.

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Some true gems here!

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/67039/

Some of these are pretty impressive!

Awesome piece of animation:

http://en.qoob.tv/video/clip_view.asp?id=19

GIMP is an Open Source versatile graphics manipulation package similar to Photoshop.

http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

http://www.inkscape.org/

A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

http://www.alistapart.com/

One in 3 Americans suffers from Insomnia. There are currently over 75 categorized sleep disorders, with more sleep disorders being discovered every year. Americans, on average, get 1-2 hours less sleep than is recommended, and for those of us with a bad mattress, those hours that we do get are even less likely to leave us feeling refreshed, and less likely to allow us to reach the restorative levels of deep sleep we need.

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On this site, Noam Chomsky explains why he doesn’t believe there was a conspiracy.

And here, you’ll read why he may have become a tool for the new wrold order!

Check them out here.