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Hailing from Lindsey, Ontario, 22-year-old singer/songwriter Tyler Kyte has a voice that grabs you and won't let go. Blessed with a distinct vibrato, and raspy tone reminiscent of Eddie Vedder and Michael Stipe Tyler sings with a passion and emotion rarely heard. His songs combine the classic rock of Steve Miller and Pearl Jam, with a more rootsy approach that could as easily fill a stadium as a coffee house.

Tyler began his professional career as a child in acting. At the age of 10, he landed the coveted role of Young Tommy in the cult musical Tommy at Toronto's Elgin Theatre. This was soon followed by a recurring role in the pre-school science show Guess What and co-hosting the highly successful television series Popular Mechanics For Kids for three years. Additional credits include principal and leading roles in Darcy's Wild Life, Missing, Prom Queen , The Elizabeth Smart Story, Goosebumps & Are You Afraid Of The Dark among others. Most recently you can find

The Teacha, The Philosopher, The Blastmaster… monikers and aliases usually mean nothing in Hip Hop unless you are referring to a true, true legend. Such is KRS-One, the man who has been blessing the mic for 25 years now, spreading knowledge of many aspects of society, religion, politics and, of course, Hip Hop. Still going strong after a quarter of a century, his latest effort Adventures In Emceein’ is all done in true KRS-style, reminding us all that this is what Hip Hop is supposed to sound like. For More of this review please check out: http://www.planeturban.com.au/album_reviews/album_krs_one_adventures_in_emceein

John Bayne | cracked.comIs it possible to be too smart? Maybe. History is full of insane geniuses, humans who mentally put the pedal to the metal - and sometimes through the floor.Empedocles, Greek Scientist & Philosopher, 490-430 B.C.The Genius: Empedocles may have been among the most renowned geniuses in history if not for the fact that his stunning contributions to science are offset by his even more stunning contributions to bullshit. Some 450 years before Jesus, Empedocles discovered:- That light travels at a constant speed- That Earth is a sphere– Centrifugal force– That air is a substance, not an absence of substance.- An (admittedly very crude) theory of evolution- The Italian school of medicineThe Insanity: Empedocles believed he was a god. Not in the 80's hair-band sense or the guy who can beat Mario Bros 3 in 11 minutes sense, but in the literal thunderbolts-from-the-sky and immortality sense. To prove his immortality to his understandably skeptical peers, Empedocles announced that he w

The date was July 25, 2003. I was somewhat in denial of the fact that I was about to sit down with Robert Anton Wilson, philosopher/magician/cantankerous old codger, and conduct an interview with what felt like no prep at all — just a few notes scrawled into my notebook when I found out that I got the interview two hours earlier. You see, originally I was in town only to see a documentary about him entitled Maybe Logic — which by the way was sharp as a tack — but then I decided to go for the gusto and see if I could sit down with the man who warped my mind like a K-hole when I read the Illuminatus! trilogy as a teenager.The reality of the situation was that I could only stay in town for three nights, as that was the maximum amount of time the International Youth Hostel of Santa Cruz would allow me to sleep there. If I wanted to stay longer, I'd be forced to pay inflated summer rates for a motel room or kick it with the hobos and homeless on the streets for a couple of nights. Or worse, I m

Charles Darwin's concept of natural selection has turned 150. On July 1st, 1858, Darwin presented his revolutionary idea, described by philosopher Daniel Dennett as "the single best idea that anyone has ever had," to a small group of scientists in London. Darwin's theory would radically change our understandings of the world in terms of science, religion, and philosophy, but at the time, his fellow scientists were unimpressed, go figure.

Hi folks,

Great new pieces up on Reality Sandwich " www.realitysandwich.com - include Andras Jones first column exploring the new masculinity, and Jason Thompsons essay on the frustrated mindset of deeply alienated immigrant boys that led to the Virginia Tech shooting. We continue to be enthralled by the level of the material we are receiving. Please read the magazine and forward the links to your friends.

The Only Good Man by Andras Jones:

Do you feel like the "only good man"? You are not alone. We men of the early 21st century are isolated, living within ourselves, divided between inner lives of outrageous fantasy and outer lives of mundane duty. We are passionate and reticent. Hungry for something better and, for most of us, without very good models of masculinity. Raised by frustrated women, confused men, and made-up images on a screen, the only help we have is each other, and we dont play together.

Read more: http://www.realitysandwich.com/node/105

Long article about why people have come to believe in God from this Sunday's New York Times:

www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04...tion.t.html

(Posted in full here because NY Times articles stop being free to read after 2 weeks)

God has always been a puzzle for Scott Atran. When he was 10 years old, he scrawled a plaintive message on the wall of his bedroom in Baltimore. God exists, he wrote in black and orange paint, or if he doesnt, were in trouble. Atran has been struggling with questions about religion ever since " why he himself no longer believes in God and why so many other people, everywhere in the world, apparently do.

Call it God; call it superstition; call it, as Atran does, belief in hope beyond reason " whatever you call it, there seems an inherent human drive to believe in something transcendent, unfathomable and otherworldly, something beyond the reach or understanding of science. Why do we cross our fingers during turbulence, even the most atheistic

by Tom McCarthy This paper is called The Generative Crash: Emulation in a Literary Context. What do I mean by generative? Simple: generation is the means by which something is created, by methods natural or artificial - the process through which something is produced, reproduced, replicated, emulated. What is emulation? The Oxford English Dictionary defines emulate as to imitate with the object of equalling or excelling; to vie with, rival; indeed, the word comes from the latin aemulus, rival; it appears in Hamlet as an adjective meaning ambitious. It also, as you all probably know much better than I, denotes a phenomenon within the world of software and computing: the ability of a program or device to imitate another program or device, to trick a pc into thinking its a mac or vice versa - or a BBC Micro, an Atari or a ZX Spectrum. This is to overcome not only incompatability but also obsolescence: emulation makes us able to run programs designed for machines long added to the junky

"Let's get down to the nitty gritty -- let's get this show on the road." - Phish, AC/DC Bag LIVE MUSIC WANDER BY WINTERCITY Soft-rockers The Philosopher Kings and acrobatic show Carillon kick off Toronto's ...

Submitted by Mitch Horowitz on Wed, 27/12/2006 - 10:27pm. The following article appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Esopus (www.esopusmag.com), a biannual of arts and culture. It is also available at: www.mitchhorowitz.com. OUIJA! How this American Anomaly Became

More than Just Fun and Games By Mitch Horowitz Ouija. For some the rectangular board evokes memories of late-night sleepover parties, shrieks of laughter, and toy shelves brimming with Magic Eight Balls, Frisbees, and Barbie dolls. For others, Ouija boards " known more generally as talking boards or spirit boards " have darker associations. Stories abound of fearsome entities making threats, dire predictions, and even physical assaults on innocent users after a night of Ouija experimentation. And the fantastic claims dont stop there: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Merrill vowed until his death in 1995 that his most celebrated work was written with the use of a homemade Ouija board. For my part, I first discovered the mysterio

As I awoke this morning, I was greeted by a sky that had lowered slightly since the previous morning. The sooty atmosphere threatened to choke my senses before I could get to my espresso. In my inexplicably delirious state, I stumbled and clamored to the newspaper. There it was - a picture of our own Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper as a marionette being manipulated by George W. Bush!

The tanks were rolling in, a protective glass bubble sealed my area and little gnomes were giddily and fiendishly hopping down my street waving black flags with skulls and screaming "Beaver alienation is real!" Suddenly, my doorbell rings. A stunning woman with a lizard's tongue is holding a clipboard. She avoids eye contact and curtly blurts out with a deep autocratic voice, "We are rationing peanut butter. Sign." Nervously, I jot down my John Hancock. As I turn to close the door she adds, "Oh, and if you are gay, watch out. We do not like happy people."

On a slightly more serious note, this is, sadly, how I disto