"The real meaning of AMEN"

Amen! Perhaps you pronounce it Ay-men or Ah-men or Ah-main or even Oh-mein. You say it at the end of prayers or after someone says something you agree with. So be it. Verily. Truly. They’re all translations of the word “Amen.” But is that the true definition?

The Kabbalah has several methods of finding such secrets. One way is to find words that are actually abbreviations made from the first letters of a series of words. Today we call such abbreviations acronyms. An example would be that the word NATO is an abbreviation for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In the Kabbalah, the practice of finding or using acronyms is called Notarikon.

EXTREME CLOSE-UPS OF HUMAN EYE

An Armenian physics teacher Suren Manvelyan used his friends, colleagues and pupils as models to make these amazing ocular portraits. He never thought he would see anything like that – when viewed really close up our eyes look like some dramatic surfaces of far and unknown planets.

“It is quite natural when you shoot macro shots of insects and plants, but to try to make a picture of the eye? I did not expect these results,” says Suren.

“I was not aware they are of such complicated appearance. Everyday we see hundreds of eyes but do not even suspect they have such beautiful structure, like surfaces of unknown planets.”

 

 

TRANSIT OF VENUS: A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENT (JUNE 5-6,2012)

Unless you plan to live for another 100 years, be sure to watch the daytime sky at the beginning of June. Our neighbouring planet Venus will appear as a black dot because it will pan across the face of our sun.

On June 5 and 6, be prepared to look outside during the day. The once-in-a-lifetime event will last for about six hours on both days and will not occur again until the year 2117.

IRISH WOMAN WHO HASN'T SHAVED FOR 18 MONTHS DECIDES TO SHOW EVERYONE THE RESULTS

Like it or not, there are few sights more arresting than a woman with a hairy armpit. The unfettered growth of female underarm and leg hair is considered one of the ultimate social taboos, dismissed as the kind of eccentric behaviour that should only adopted by hippies.
But while as a society we are used to removing all our body hair, one woman has decided to challenge the notion that women must be hair-free to be happy.

Graduate student Emer O'Toole from Dublin decided to stop shaving for good 18 months ago when she came to the conclusion that too much pressure is put upon women to conform to what she calls 'artificial gender norms'.