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Contributed by Howard Giske
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 Rio Grande River
Albuquerque is the largest, with 800,000 people in its metropolitan
area. Santa Fe, 7,000 feet above sea level, is the capital, and is the
third largest city. La Cruces, in the south central area is near the
agricultural area of Mesilla Valley, also the home of much chile pepper
production. It is home to the New Mexico State University, and is the
second largest city in the state with 82,000 people. Taos in the
northern part of the state is known for its artist colony and Indian
artifacts and crafts production. Taos also has a white-river
recreational area nearby and fishing, plus skiing in the wintertime.
There’s plenty more places for your New Mexico Incorporation. |
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Contributed by Francesca Black
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 Industrial Hemp
Even though the U.S. government encouraged American farmers to grow hemp for WWII and had even accepted it as payment of taxes in Colonial America, it is now prohibited to grow hemp in the United States.
Cannabis hemp was legal tender in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800's. you could even pay your taxes with cannabis hemp. In the mid-to-late 1800's the 2nd & 3rd most commonly used medications were concentrated cannabis extracts and resins (a.k.a. hashish). At one time American companies Eli Lily, Squibb and Park Davis produced cannabis extract medicines but clearly that is no longer the case.. |
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Contributed by K.D. Goodman
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 Pablo Picasso
There are degrees and levels of it from the best in the county to the world famous. In either case, the magic to it is usually an illusion and the foundations for it are manufactured. We as human beings tend to fall trap to what Dr. Robert Cialdini labeled as ‘social proof’. Social Proof is a dynamic force in persuasion and it works its magic on reputations like a wet snowball rolling down the slope. Social proof is a heuristic, a short cut in cognition that lets us bypass the labors of reasoning in decision making.
I’ll be the first to admit laziness in this regard; I often make purchase decisions based on reviews I read online. I have purchased products ‘reluctantly’ because of a few bad reviews only to revise my opinion to outstanding. In vice I have purchased highly rated products that were complete rubbish, surely products of manufactured hype. My point is that we look for ‘Social Proof’ in our choices, we want validation. |
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Contributed by Sharon White
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 Female Prisoner
Women are far less likely than men to commit crime and this pattern
seems to hold true all over the world. Only 19% of known offenders are
women. Nevertheless, women are far more likely to experience domestic
violence. Two women are murdered every week by their current or former
partner and 44% of violent incidents against women were domestic. |
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Contributed by J. R. Ransom
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 Blue Eyes According to new research, all people with blue eyes can trace their ancestry back to one person who probably lived about 10,000 years ago in the Black Sea region.
Scientists studying the genetics of eye color at the University of Copenhagen found that more than 99.5% of blue-eyed people who volunteered to have their DNA analysed have the same tiny mutation in the gene that determines the color of the iris.
Professor Hans Eiberg of the university said he has analysed the DNA of about 800 people with blue eyes, ranging from fair-skinned, blond-haired Scandinavians to dark-skinned, blue eyed people in Turkey and Jordon.
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