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Three startups making your time on the road safer and easier

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Earlier this year, CNBC released a list of the most dangerous jobs in the USA. Among the top were well known hazardous...

Business

How can Shazam – and your second screen – help you test drive a car?

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Car maker Volvo has turned to Shazam to make its latest ad and car, the Volvo V40, more engaging to second screen users.

Mobile

Do phone bans really reduce road traffic accidents?

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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A study has found that the link between using a phone while driving & road accidents is not as clear as we think.

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Using tweets to ‘fuel’ a cross country drive for charity

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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ESB Electric Ireland's 'Tweet 'em Home for Christmas' will try to get 3 cars, including a DeLorean, across Ireland using tweets as fuel.

Technology

How to follow the Dakar Rally online

Piers Dillon Scott11 years ago

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The Dakar Rally, one of the largest off road endurance rallies in the world, has launched from Buenos Aires. The Dakar is now a fully digital event supported by YouTube, Twitter and Facebook pages. You can get live updates on each stage of the challenge on their site and on the official Dakar iPhone/iPod/iPad app. The organisers have also released an online video game to accompany the event.

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You may have heard of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers, commonly known as Rajneeshees or sannyasins, from the incredibly popular Netflix documentary “Wild, Wild Country.”

Well in today’s episode we speak with a former follower of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult to get a better understanding of how this society functioned, what it was like to live in normal society as a member of the cult, and what it was like on the famous Oregon ranch.

With our guest, Annie (who has asked to remain anonymous but showed her mala that she wore during her time as a Rajneshee to prove her affiliation with the cult), we find out how she first find out about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the Rajneeshees, and what inspired her to join their cult, where she goes into great detail about how she found them when she was 16 at an Alcoholics Anonymous event.

She also shares why life as a Rajneeshee was difficult off the ranch in normal society, as society often treated them with a mixture of suspicion, curiosity, and fear. In fact, she was fired from all of her jobs due to her membership in the cult, but she also explains how she saw this as a positive, “a trial by fire” as she claims.

Annie also goes into detail about what it was like visiting the ranch in 1983, when, she believes, much of the footage used in the documentary was filmed. She talks about the important role meditation played in being a Rajneeshee and what a normal day was like on the ranch.

She also shares her thoughts on how accurate the documentary was, how close she came to meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and finally, how she left the cult in the end.

Overall, Annie explains why she doesn’t see the following as a religion or cult, but instead as a community and how this community had such an overall, lasting positive experience in her life.