////////////////HUMAN REACHED ARCTIC OCEAN SIBERIA 30KYA
/////////////////25 KYA- ICE AGE TOOK HOLD MINUS 80 DEG C
///////////////WAS ADAM AND EVE METAPHORICALLY IN MID EAST 140 KYA
///////////////////HOMO ERECTUS IN CHINA 1.8 MYA
///////////////BUT NO LIVING DESCENDENT
/////////////////ALL PRESENT DHINESE HAVE AF ANCESTORS LIKE REST OF HUMANITY
//////////////////AGE OF STARS- STELLIFEROUS ERA
///////////////////SILENCE IS GOLDEN AND COMPULSORY
//////////////////FIRST WEEK IN NICU, FINAL WEEK IN ICU
//////////////LF THE DASH
/////////////////Half of all adults older than 65 years of age made an emergency room (ER) visit in the last month of life, according to a study in the June issue of Health Affairs
//////////////////Most individuals do not face the reality of death until it is relatively imminent. As a result, they are unprepared for the same psychologically and spiritually.
/////////////Patients who are at and/or near the natural age of death, from my experience, experience a much more peaceful death and dying experience than hospice patients who are dying at a relatively young age of acute illnesses, injuries, and/or the result of chronic disabling illnesses such as Cancer and COPD. Their bodies and minds have gradually adapted themselves to their decline and death something that those facing acute injuries or illnesses at an relatively young age have not accomplished.
///////////////sciam-Making Sense of Mortality
Awareness of our mortality has different effects depending on whether the awareness is conscious and reflective or subconscious and fleeting. Prolonged contemplation of death produces shifts in personal values and goals.
Terror Management Theory proposes that we unconsciously fend off thoughts of our mortality by investing in our culture as a symbolic way of attaining some degree of immortality.
A large body of research has shown that subconscious awareness of mortality prompts people to defend their worldviews, even in ways that may be harmful.
/////////////////brwsr-The scholar of language tells us about the progress of the spoken word from 3000 BC to today, how two languages disappear every month, and the 50,000-word novel written without using the letter “e”
////////////////There are a lot of languages around, perhaps 6,000 or 7,000, but if we continue to lose two a month we are going to see about half the world’s languages disappear in the course of a century.
//////////////////the forces that have put English where it is – which mostly had to do with global economic power, first of the British Empire and then the United States
////////////////One is that human languages are repositories of culture and that language tradition is a good way of retaining within a group all things which have been built up as worth knowing.
////////////////I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.” [TS Eliot, The Waste Land]
//////////////focuses on the small languages that make up about 96% of all spoken languages but are spoken by only about 4% of the world’s population.
//////////////NON SPECIALIST ENTHUSIAST SHAKES THINGS UP
////////////////BIG BANG SPLIT APART, PRIMITIVE LF SPLIT APRT, PANGEA SPLIT APART, HUMAN SAME ORIGIN -SPLIT APART
///////////////WAGNER, PANGEA THEORY
//////////////////N AM PLATE AND EURASIAN PLATE
//////////////////WEGNER, CONTINENTAL DRIFT, THEORY VINDICATED
/////////////////BRWSR-No one is arguing for some kind of Amish future. But the research is now making it clear that the Internet is not 'just' another delivery system. It is creating a whole new mental environment
//////////////THE WITNESS- H FORD
/////////////////////Kanishk Tharoor, on sport
"Tennis, a sport for people who don't like sports. Golf, a sport for people who don't like people"
///////////////`Kanishk Tharoor, on sport
"Tennis, a sport for people who don't like sports. Golf, a sport for people who don't like people"
////////////////VS-was a 1.2 percent decline in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) last year compared with 2010.
////////////////VS- PEAK CAR?
/////////////////........Retiring has all but stopped my need for a car
///////////////////.........Cars made today will still be on the road in 20 years.
//////////////////..........More cars were sold in China last year than in the USA and more cars will be sold in China in 2020 than the USA and Europe combined. Then there is India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico
////////////////////...........The aging of the baby boom is a huge contributor to the drop in miles driven
///////////////........... In many cities, there are more telecommuters than transit riders on any given day
///////////////.......... Nice to know there will be a Christmas 2012, at least the retailers can go ahead and process those xmas orders.
/////////////////SCIAM-As humans came to rely on tools to survive, those with hands better able to make and wield those tools were more likely to pass their genes to the next generation. Mary Marzke at Arizona Sate University in Tempe argues that hand bones of humans are quite different from those of other primates because of our use of tools. Our hands are better able to manage the subtle grips necessary for making and using tools to maim or kill other species
/////////////////Viruses generally evolve even more quickly than bacteria.
///////////////////........Gaea is annoyed at her naughty children, and she will have the last word or whimper as the case may be.
////////////////............Man is not exempt from the Laws of Nature. What we will become in the future is at stake
///////////////..........Humanity no longer relies on Darwinian biological evolution for our greatest adaption. Culture - an external resevoir of language, technology, art and science adapts and presrves change and mutates at a rate thousands of times faster than biology. Some culrures evolve faster where they are more responsive to environmental challenge. Democracy and consumer economies are clearly among those,
/////////////////..........unless and until we destroy ourselves, a very real possibility, we are in an evolutionary race as always against diseases that see us as food and lodging but at maniac speeds. Viri, prions, anti-biotic resistant bacteria, similar fungi, adapt at remarkable speeds basically exploiting the adaptive properties of DNA/RNA transmission, not all of it sexual, some of it literally percolating through the ground and water. Against that we have our neural/artificial information systems that must try to stay ahead of the biological responses. If we do, we win, if we don't, the plagues win. Game on.
//////////////////////sciM.....By the early 1960s microbiologist Robert Guthrie had perfected a test for phenylketonuria (PKU) that simply required a drop of blood from a baby's heel. Children with PKU suffer brain damage and seizures because they cannot break down the amino acid phenylalanine, which is found in high-protein foods.
////////////////SN MVIE- DEAD CALM 1989
///////////////From 45 to 65 percent of your daily calories should come from carbohydrates. Emphasize complex carbs, which contain healthy, satisfying fiber, and limit simple carbohydrates.
////////////////Protein should account for 10 to 35 percent of your total daily calories. Choose plant sources of protein, such as beans, lentils, and soy, as well as lean meats, skinless poultry, and fish.
////////////////Women should eat from 21-25 grams of fiber a day; men, 30-38 grams a day.
/////////////////Make It Tea Time
Research reviewing 20 studies, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, found that sipping green tea reduces LDL by an average of 5.30 mg/dL, though the amount of green tea sipped varied widely from one study to the next. The secret ingredient in green tea to help lower your cholesterol? Antioxidants called catechins. One cup has between 50 and 100 mg of catechins. Get out your mug — across the studies, participants had between 3 and 10 cups a day.
////////////A report in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease analyzed a number of studies on lifestyle interventions for cholesterol management and found that stair-climbing can reduce LDL cholesterol by 6.6 mg/dL. Other aerobic activities and strength training (which tones muscle) can also reduce total cholesterol.#
///////////////Bargdill (2000) explain:
"Boredom is equivalent to the freeze response. In this response, people ignore the possibility of taking creative steps toward making their lives meaningful. Instead, they wait for others--for outside assistance to a very personal insight. Like a deer in the headlights, these people freeze. They hope that the intrusive danger, meaninglessness, will disappear and that they will be able to return to their daily lives. [Instead] they are no longer in motion. They are aware, but paralyzed. They are bored."
BOREDOM AS FREEZE RESPONSE
//////////////Success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan.
//////////////F-SKIM READ-
The article is too damn long for my current ADHD state induced by reading blogs
//////////////probably is not appropriate to refer them for a routine pediatric eye examination, and the child may need to go directly to an emergency room or to a pediatric neurologist. These would be:
Severe headaches;
Headaches that are increasing in severity and frequency;
Headaches that are interfering with normal activities;
Headaches that are associated with nausea and vomiting; and
Headaches that occur during the night and awaken the child or occur early in the morning.
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