What Is An Indian Marker Tree, And How Were They Used?

Historically, living in complete harmony with nature has been a way of life for the American Indian.  They relied on Nature for all their needs.  Many years ago, traveling from place to place required good navigational skills, directions along the way, and a method to mark common trails.  American Indians used trees to not only mark a trail, but also to signal the presence of important features, some of which were critical for survival.

-Off Grid Quest

10 Quotes From a Sioux Indian Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Luther Standing Bear was an Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief who, among a few rare others such as Charles Eastman, Black Elk and Gertrude Bonnin occupied the rift between the way of life of the Indigenous people of the Great Plains before, and during, the arrival and subsequent spread of the European pioneers. Raised in the traditions of his people until the age of eleven, he was then educated at the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School of Pennsylvania, where he learned the english language and way of life. (Though a National Historical Landmark, Carlisle remains a place of controversy in Native circles.)

-Spirit Science and Metaphysics

L’ivresse de la joie - Avec ou sans alcool

Ce qui est bien avec la joie, c’est que même avec l’Alcootest, on ne peut pas vous confisquer votre permis de conduire. Vous avez beau être sous influence, la joie n’affiche pas l’évanescence du plaisir, ni le contentement du bonheur. La joie est exubérante et jaillit, telle une source vive ; du THC pur dans les veines et dans le cerveau. On ne parle pas de filles de joie pour rien…

Janvier au-dessous de zéro n’est peut-être pas le mois le plus indiqué, mais j’ai beau regarder autour de moi, je ne la rencontre que dans le regard des enfants épris de neige folle et des chiens qui s’agitent la queue. Je me suis fait une radiographie intime récemment et j’ai bien dû admettre que je ne m’agitais pas souvent la queue. Il me semble que cette étincelle pure s’est raréfiée avec les années.

-Le Devoir

Plane With Detachable Cabin Makes Surviving Air Crash Possible

Ukrainian aviation engineer Tatarenko Vladimir Nikolaevich has unveiled a new design for an airplane that might just make surviving an air crash a possibility. Nikolaevich’s design consist of a detachable cabin that could be ejected at any time during take off, mid-flight or landing and allow the passengers to land safely.

-Amusing Planet

Six Huge Stories The Mainstream Media Don’t Want You To Know About

You might have heard about a few of them, but not as much as you should. Here’s our pick of the last 12 month’s top news stories, all pretty much ignored by the corporate press.
Whistleblowers, Ecocide, top secret trade deals, and shady ties between the Islamic State and the West’s closest allies…here are a few hot topics the mainstream media barely covered in 2015.

-Collectively Conscious

Imagining Football’s Future Through the Super Bowl of 2066

Fifty years ago, when it was still a modest spectacle watched on a single medium, played by a single gender, contested exclusively between teams from the US, and largely ignored by most of planet Earth, Super Bowl 50 was nevertheless called a “world championship” by the National Football League, whose very name betrayed a parochial, one-nation interest in what the rest of the world knew—if they knew it at all—as “American football.”

-Wired

How the Super Bowl Became America’s Most Important Event

Before the Super Bowl was the Super Bowl—before it was the secular American equivalent of Christmas, a royal coronation, and the M.A.S.H. finale rolled into one six-hour televised spectacular—it was the triumphant culmination of an ambitious millionaire’s extravagant vanity project. It was, also, a terrible football game.

-Slate

The Fantasy Coffins of Ghana

In the last 50 years, these fantasy coffins have become one of Ghana’s most unique cultural exports. The curious tradition of burying people in coffins shaped like everything from lobsters to busty women is primarily practiced in Accra and has spawned over 10 workshops in the capital city. Almost all of these are owned by former apprentices of Kane Kwei, who died in 1992.

-Slate

Beautiful or just creepy? Russian artist creates dolls that are so eerily realistic that even he admits they make people feel uncomfortable

A Russian artist has become an internet sensation after posting a video showing how he makes his unbelievably realistic hand-painted dolls.

Made from a special type of modelling clay, with glass eyes, French mohair wigs and 13 joints each, Michael Zajkov's dolls are painstakingly hand-sculpted and are not available to order. The Moscow-based artist, who studied sculpture at Kuban State University, southern Russia, learnt his craft while working at a puppet theatre and even makes the clothes himself.

-Daily Mail