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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.


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//////////////////All quiet on the God front
Simon Blackburn discusses the argument that religious experience can't be discussed
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Simon Blackburn
The Guardian, Saturday 4 July 2009
Article history
This is an eloquent and interesting book, although you do not quite get what it says on the tin. Karen Armstrong takes the reader through a history of religious practice in many different cultures, arguing that in the good old days and purest forms they all come to much the same thing. They use devices of ritual, mystery, drama, dance and meditation in order to enable us better to cope with the vale of tears in which we find ourselves. Religion is therefore properly a matter of a practice, and may be compared with art or music. These are similarly difficult to create, and even to appreciate. But nobody who has managed either would doubt that something valuable has happened in the process. We come out of the art gallery or concert hall enriched and braced, elevated and tranquil, and may even fancy ourselves better people, though the change may or may not be noticed by those around us.



///////////////////THEY WILL BE EDUCATED



////////////////////Multiple intelligences provides a kind of cover to preserve that fable. "OK, little Jimmie may not be a rocket scientist, but he can dance real well. Shouldn't that count equally in school and life?" No. The great dancers of the Pleistocene foxtrotted their way into the stomach of a saber-tooth tiger.

That is the root of the matter. Too many people have chosen to believe in what they wish to be true rather than in what is true. In the main, the motive is a pure one: to see every child as having equal potential, or at the very least some potential. Intelligence is a fundamentally meritocratic construct. There are winners and there are losers. A relative doofus may live a comfortable life so long as his or her parents are wealthy. However, clawing one's own way out of abject poverty is best achieved with a healthy dose of both motivation and "g."



/////////////////POST TRAUMATIC EMBITTERMENT DISORDER
Bitterness is "so common and so deeply destructive," writes Shari Roan at the Los Angeles Times, "that some psychiatrists are urging it be identified as a mental illness under the name post-traumatic embitterment disorder." "The disorder is modeled after post-traumatic stress disorder," she continues, "because it too is a response to a trauma that endures. People with PTSD are left fearful and anxious. Embittered people are left seething for revenge."

Now I grant that there's a lot of anger and bitterness out there. How much of it should be attributed to the last Republican administration? The question straddles psychology and politics, I concede, but in the eyes of many Americans that administration managed in eight years to bring a largely healthy economy to its knees.

To many Americans, there are addition


/////////////////////magine, if you will, the inevitable ads: "Think it's just bitterness from job loss, foreclosure on your home, or that nonexistent pension for which you've been saving all your working years? It may be 'post-traumatic embitterment disorder,' a mental illness that some doctors think is due to a chemical imbalance . . ."



////////////////////These days, when many people approaching retirement open their 401(k) statements, they doubtless feel a bad twinge of "angry plus helpless." How about making that frantic concern and impotent rage? Do we really want the DSM telling us that those feelings—including over the need to postpone retirement by up to a decade—could soon be a symptom of "post-traumatic embitterness disorder"? Wouldn't that be comparable to rubbing salt in an already large wound?



ANGRY PLUS HELPLESS


///////////////////t a recent meeting of a Conservative think-tank in London about the possibility of reducing concepts of moral action entirely to scientific explanations of behaviour, one politician joked about the policy applications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation techniques. The world of understanding, cognition and even action can be managed by manipulating atoms rather than arguments ("opium of the people" in reverse -- chemicals inducing meaning, instead of meanings acting chemically). Even where such claims seem strongest and most striking, it is important to ask what exactly they amount to. Can we really move with ease from the world of atoms to the world of meanings? Or is any apparent smoothness due to the conceptual confusion involved in applying neuro-scientific discoveries to meaningful questions -- so that in the transition we inevitably lose essentially human parts of existence? These questions, newly pertinent because of scientific and social developments, have been anticipated in the philosophy of mind of the past 70 years.



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Depression Symptoms Linked to Cardiovascular Mortality in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation, Heart Failure



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TIAMAT

I use the name Tiamat for the supernova that birthed our
Solar system – this is the name that Thomas Berry gave to her, and
that is the pronoun used in the book "The Universe Story" -
co-authored with Brian Swimme. The name means "Goddess Mother"
... Tia- mat. The celebration of supernova Tiamat in Winter Solstice
ritual – as part of our cosmic lineage - is something I have done
for almost a decade now, and was inspired by Connie Barlow's telling
of it in her book "Green Space, Green Time", and it has evolved
gradually to the present script on-line


///////////////////A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

ac grayling


////////////////////THIS MUCH I KNOW



////////////////////rdf=Atheism - non religiousity to be precise - should be the social revolution of the near future. The religions as crutches of humanity is about to stop now, in the same way as feudalism, aristocracy ..



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Atheism - non religiousity to be precise - should be the social revolution of the near future. The religions as crutches of humanity is about to stop now, in the same way as feudalism, aristocracy ..


/////////////////rejecting any "naturalist" agenda.



//////////////////DAWKINS-VENTER TALK

just going to 'have their genome done' one afternoon.



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Makes me feel better about my fellow organisms.




//////////////////BOOT IT UP FROM SCRATCH-LF-GENOME



////////////////////...........And that machine that is going to replace the whole room of machines...ten years from now it will be a hand-held.

Like the joke about Steve Job's new liver: A third the size of his old one, faster, and holds 1000 more enzymes.



/////////////////BIO SCUM



/////////////////////........ It seems that science's Utilitarian world-view is just as arrogant and self-serving as any religion. Science subscribes to the same deification of humans as any religion. We are the one's who decide what to do with the knowledge we gain through science- and for the most part the products of science only serve to cure the ills of our toiling civilization. Armed with the belief that Humans are the only sentient beings (or any other animal that we decide: Save the Whales, but fuck anything that annoys us) on this planet. Science will do all it can to save a human life while at the same time the Utilitarian world-view has caused and is causing countless deaths (human and non-human) hell, we've build entire civilizations based on this believe. I'm not saying we must stop exploring, but why must we bend everything to serve ourselves? Have we become the gods now?



//////////////////"Evolution is no longer a mere theory to me" (paraphrased).
Dawkins has to jump in and state, without ambiguity, that "evolution is a fact".



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//////////////////today is the birthday of Amazon.com? In 1994, the
Internet phenomenon Amazon.com was founded as Cadabra. In
1995, it changed its name to Amazon.com.




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South Pole physician who treated her own breast cancer dies at 57
Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, the physician who treated her own breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole in 1999 has died at age 57.



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/////////////////A study found no increased fat burning in the 24 hours after exercise vs. after a non-exercise day.



////////////////LV SC=How Earth Got its Oxygen
By Michael Schirber, Astrobiology Magazine
posted: 02 July 2009 09:15 am ET
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Cyanobacteria scum is now considered a nuisance, but these microbes oxygenated our planet over 2 billion years ago. Credit: Washington State Dept. of Health
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The first half of Earth's history was devoid of oxygen, but it was far from lifeless. There is ongoing debate over who the main biological players were in this pre-oxygen world, but researchers are digging up clues in some of the oldest sedimentary rocks on the planet.

Most scientists believe the amount of atmospheric oxygen was insignificant up until about 2.4 billion years ago when the Great Oxidation Event (GOE) occurred. This seemingly sudden jump in oxygen levels was almost certainly due to cyanobacteria – photosynthesizing microbes that exhale oxygen.

When and how the oxygen-exhalers appeared is uncertain, due to the fact that the GOE was a complicated crossroads of global freezing, mineral upheavals and the flourishing of new species.

"We don't know what is cause and what is consequence," says Dominic Papineau of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "Several things happened at the same time, so the story still isn't clear."

To help sort out the geologic plotline, Papineau is studying banded iron formations (BIFs), sedimentary rocks that formed at the bottom of ancient seas.

Papineau's research, which is supported by the NASA Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Program, is focusing on specific minerals in the BIFs that may be tied to the life (and death) of ancient microbes.

Mining BIFs

The iron minerals within BIFs make up the world's largest source of iron ore. However, these rocks are valuable for more than just making steel. Geologists mine them for their rich historical record that spans from 3.8 billion to 0.8 billion years ago.

The origin of the oldest BIFs is, however, a bit of a mystery. The current consensus is that they required the help of organisms to form, but which ones? These simple single-celled sea creatures didn't leave us any bones or shells to pick through, but Papineau thinks there could still be mineral or geochemical fossils in the BIFs.

He and his colleagues have found carbonaceous material in BIFs associated with apatite, a phosphate mineral that is sometimes tied to biology. The implication is that the BIF builders were entombed in their own handiwork.

To verify this, Papineau's team will be studying the BIF carbon and comparing it to other carbonaceous-mineral associations known to be of non-biological origin, including minerals found in a Martian meteorite.

"This work has the potential to show that microbial biomass was associated and deposited together with the iron minerals," says Andreas Kappler from the University of Tuebingen in Germany, who was not involved in the research.

Early appearance of oxygen-exhalers

It is possible that these microbial BIF builders were cyanobacteria, since the oxygen from these microbes could have caused iron oxidation in the pre-GOE ocean.

But if the cyanobacteria appeared long before the GOE, why did it take several hundreds of millions of years for their oxygen exhalations to build up in the atmosphere?

Papineau and his colleagues may have found part of the answer in a complex interplay of biology and geology.

The early oxygen from cyanobacteria may have been destroyed by a preponderance of methane. The two gases react with each other to produce carbon dioxide and water.

"Oxygen can't accumulate in a methane-rich environment," Papineau says.

The methane is believed to have come from microbes called methanogens that spew out methane as a result of consuming carbon dioxide and hydrogen.

In this scenario, the methanogens and cyanobacteria shared the ancient ocean, but the methanogens had the upper hand – their methane emissions kept oxygen at bay, and also warmed the planet through a greenhouse effect. But then around the time of the GOE, these organisms went into decline, and the resulting methane-depleted atmosphere began to fill with oxygen from cyanobacteria.

No nickel to spare

Connecting the GOE to a methanogen decline has been done before, but there has been little evidence to support this hypothesis. Recently, however, Papineau and his collaborators reported in the journal Nature that the level of nickel in BIFs dropped significantly 2.7 billion years ago.

The implication is that the ocean's nickel abundance fell by 50 percent right before the GOE. This is significant because methanogens rely on nickel: it is a central ingredient to the metabolic enzymes involved in their methane production. When the nickel levels dropped, the methanogens presumably starved.

The nickel-famine scenario makes a pre-GOE evolution of cyanobacteria more plausible, but confirming this will take more evidence.

Kappler believes that studying the origin of the oldest BIFs could tell us when life evolved the ability to breathe out oxygen and thereby change the world forever.




////////////////The Apollo Moon landings have been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth centurY



/////////////////////There is a simple way to produce a perfect model of our climate that will predict the weather with 100% accuracy. First, start with a universe that is exactly like ours; then wait 13 billion years.


/////////////////....... often start my undergraduate lectures by asking students the following question: which cognitive faculty would you most hate to lose? Most of them pick the sense of sight; a few pick hearing. Once in a while, a wisecracking student might pick her sense of humor or her fashion sense. Almost never do any of them spontaneously say that the faculty they'd most hate to lose is language. Yet if you lose (or are born without) your sight or hearing, you can still have a wonderfully rich social existence. You can have friends, you can get an education, you can hold a job, you can start a family. But what would your life be like if you had never learned a language? Could you still have friends, get an education, hold a job, start a family? Language is so fundamental to our experience, so deeply a part of being human, that it's hard to imagine life without it. But are languages merely tools for expressing our thoughts, or do they actually shape our thoughts?




///////////////// often start my undergraduate lectures by asking students the following question: which cognitive faculty would you most hate to lose? Most of them pick the sense of sight; a few pick hearing. Once in a while, a wisecracking student might pick her sense of humor or her fashion sense. Almost never do any of them spontaneously say that the faculty they'd most hate to lose is language. Yet if you lose (or are born without) your sight or hearing, you can still have a wonderfully rich social existence. You can have friends, you can get an education, you can hold a job, you can start a family. But what would your life be like if you had never learned a language? Could you still have friends, get an education, hold a job, start a family? Language is so fundamental to our experience, so deeply a part of being human, that it's hard to imagine life without it. But are languages merely tools for expressing our thoughts, or do they actually shape our thoughts?




////////////////Follow me to Pormpuraaw, a small Aboriginal community on the western edge of Cape York, in northern Australia. I came here because of the way the locals, the Kuuk Thaayorre, talk about space. Instead of words like "right," "left," "forward," and "back," which, as commonly used in English, define space relative to an observer, the Kuuk Thaayorre, like many other Aboriginal groups, use cardinal-direction terms — north, south, east, and west — to define space.1 This is done at all scales, which means you have to say things like "There's an ant on your southeast leg" or "Move the cup to the north northwest a little bit." One obvious consequence of speaking such a language is that you have to stay oriented at all times, or else you cannot speak properly. The normal greeting in Kuuk Thaayorre is "Where are you going?" and the answer should be something like " Southsoutheast, in the middle distance." If you don't know which way you're facing, you can't even get past "Hello."



///////////////////o test whether differences in color language lead to differences in color perception, we compared Russian and English speakers' ability to discriminate shades of blue. In Russian there is no single word that covers all the colors that English speakers call "blue." Russian makes an obligatory distinction between light blue (goluboy) and dark blue (siniy). Does this distinction mean that siniy blues look more different from goluboy blues to Russian speakers? Indeed, the data say yes. Russian speakers are quicker to distinguish two shades of blue that are called by the different names in Russian (i.e., one being siniy and the other being goluboy) than if the two fall into the same category.

For English speakers, all these shades are still designated by the same word, "blue," and there are no comparable differences in reaction time.



//////////////////health freedom



/////////////////////Bottom line-

1. No Humanity leave aside ethics.
2. Hunger for just nothing but money.
3. No sympathy

NO ONE CARES UNFORTUNATELY back home.




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WSTRN THOUGHT PROCESS-ULTIMATE REDUCTIONISM

SCIAM MIND=it Body, Fit Mind? Your Workout Makes You Smarter
How can you stay sharp into old age? It is not just a matter of winning the genetic lottery. What you do can make a difference

Do Parents Matter?
A researcher argues that peers are much more important than parents, that psychologists underestimate the power of genetics and that we have a lot to learn from Asian classrooms

Why Music Moves Us
New research explains music's power over human emotions and its benefits to our mental and physical well-being

Do ADHD Drugs Take a Toll on the Brain?
Research hints that hidden risks might accompany long-term use of the medicines that treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder

A Patchwork Mind: How Your Parents' Genes Shape Your Brain
We each have two parents, but their genetic contributions to what makes us us are uneven. New research shows we are an amalgam of influences from Mom and Dad

Can You Be Too Perfect
Striving to be faultless can foster failure--or drive success--depending on the type of perfectionist you are


/////////////////Dreaming as Problem-Solving
Barrett’s preferred evolutionary explanation for dreaming, and the one she’s best known for, is that dreamscapes provided our ancestors (and therefore us) with a sort of creative canvas for solving real-world problems. In support of this, Barrett describes the work of Stanford University psychologist William Dement, who in the early 1970s instructed hundreds of undergraduate students to work on a set of challenging brainteasers before bedtime, so that they’d fall asleep with the problems still on their mind. For example, “The letters O, T, T, F, F … form the beginnings of an infinite sequence. Find a simple rule for determining any or all successive letters.” [The correct sequence is the first letter of each number, so the next one would be “S” for “six.”] One participant who went to bed frustrated by this brainteaser dreamed:



/////////////////Increase Your Creativity: Live Abroad
Recent research shows that people who have lived in a foreign country are more creative when it comes to solving problems



////////////////Evolutionary Origins of Your Right and Left Brain
The division of labor by the two cerebral hemispheres—once thought to be uniquely human—predates us by half a billion years. Speech, right-handedness, facial recognition and the processing of spatial relations can be traced to brain asymmetries in early vertebrates
By Peter F. MacNeilage, Lesley J. Rogers and Giorgio Vallortigara


In the human brain the left hemisphere controls language, the dexterity of the right hand, the ability to classify, and routine behavior in general. The right hemisphere specializes in reacting to emergencies, organizing items spatially, recognizing faces and processing emotions.

Key Concepts
The authors have proposed that the specialization of the brain’s two hemispheres was already in place when vertebrates arose 500 million years ago.
The left hemisphere originally seems to have focused in general on controlling well-established patterns of behavior; the right specialized in detecting and responding to unexpected stimuli.
Both speech and right-handedness may have evolved from a specialization for the control of routine behavior.
Face recognition and the processing of spatial relations may trace their heritage to a need to sense predators quickly.



/////////////////Fast angioplasty best after a heart attack
Heart attack patients who are given a clot-busting drug after having a heart attack should undergo angioplasty to open blocked arteries as soon as possible afterward, Canadian researchers sa



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/////////////////HEAT ILLNESS-GUBLOC



///////////////////In Silence -- Thomas Merton

In Silence

Be still.
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
To speak your

Name.
Listen
To the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
Are you? Whose
Silence are you?

Who (be quiet)
Are you (as these stones
Are quiet). Do not
Think of what you are
Still less of
What you may one day be.
Rather
Be what you are (but who?) be
The unthinkable one
You do not know.

O be still, while
You are still alive,
And all things live around you
Speaking (I do not hear)
To your own being,
Speaking by the Unknown
That is in you and in themselves.

"I will try, like them
To be my own silence:
And this is difficult. The whole
World is secretly on fire. The stones
Burn, even the stones
They burn me. How can a man be still or
Listen to all things burning? How can he dare
To sit with them
When all their silence
Is on fire?"

~ Thomas Merton ~

(The Strange Islands: Poems by Thomas Merton



////////////////////the CULT OF NOTHINGNESS


/////////////////Wandering Sufis (Qalandars



////////////////Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed."
—Robert Gallagher



////////////////The waves in the ocean cannot
have an independant existence of their own.
Water itself appears to be like the high and low tides.
The waves as though take birth, rise to their peak
and dissolve their existence in water only. Likewise
my existence as body, mind and intellect is a manifestation
of Parmatma himself

PANGONIC WAVES



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In Iswara takes place all the play of creation,
sustainance and destruction. Our body exists ony
due to this substratum which is the universal cause
of everything, and so he is also pervading in everything.
Whenever we look at the world one should
bring to mind this fact, and see that this substratum
alone was before the creation, is there when something
exists and will be there when the creation dies
off.

WITH OR WITHOUT AGONY-FABTGON



//////////////////////The individual jiva sullied with ignorance is made pure by constant revelling in right knowledge.
Having brought about the awakening, ‘the awareness of Self ’ (akhandakar vritti) then drops off by
itself, just like the dust of the cleaning nut in water





THAT IS ULTIMATE REDUCTIONIST KNOWLEDGE-TOE



//////////////////Wife, wealth, sons, grandsons, etc., all these;
home, relations-the host of all these there may
be; but if one's mind be not attached to the
lotus feet of the Guru, what thence, what
thence, what thence, what thence?

DNATPOOR



//////////////////VSANDESH=Lessons from a Pencil
A Pencil-Maker once created his masterpieces, but before packing them, he
gave them a nice piece of advice, so that they can truly become one of the
best pencils ever made. He told them:
One: You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to
be held in someone's hand.
Two: You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but you'll
need it to become a better pencil.
Three: You will be able to correct any mistakes you might make.
Four: The most important part of you will always be what's inside, and
Five: On every surface you are used on, you must leave your mark. No
matter what the condition, you must continue to write.




//////////////////Where the mind is without fear
By Rabindranath Tagore
Where the mind is without fear,
and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into
fragments by narrow domestic wars;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches
its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its
way into the dreary desert sand
of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee
into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom,
my Father, let my country awake.
Vedanta Sandesh



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These lessons are indeed equally applicable to all of us. Think.