Satellite Creates First Global Gravity Map of Earth | Popular Science
My Comment: That nothing between the couch and the far wall, it's not nothing. There's topography that you can't see.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Is your left hand more motivated than your right hand?
Is your left hand more motivated than your right hand?
My Comment: Scientists getting a better idea of consciousness, begin to discover complexities of Kavanah.
My Comment: Scientists getting a better idea of consciousness, begin to discover complexities of Kavanah.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Observations: Crystal memory allows efficient storage of quantum information in light
Observations: Crystal memory allows efficient storage of quantum information in light
My Comment: So how many religions have metaphors and practices relating to light? Quite a few. How many have already made the connection between light and information? Quite a few.
My Comment: So how many religions have metaphors and practices relating to light? Quite a few. How many have already made the connection between light and information? Quite a few.
Monday, June 28, 2010
A pacemaker for your brain
A pacemaker for your brain
My Comment: More applied principles of acupuncture, without needles. Because, if they used needles, it would be called acupuncture.
My Comment: More applied principles of acupuncture, without needles. Because, if they used needles, it would be called acupuncture.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Heavy, rough and hard – how the things we touch affect our judgments and decisions | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
Heavy, rough and hard – how the things we touch affect our judgments and decisions | Not Exactly Rocket Science | Discover Magazine
My Comment: The basis of Judaism, if not most religions. Most commonly known as Zen.
My Comment: The basis of Judaism, if not most religions. Most commonly known as Zen.
Guest Blog: The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature
Guest Blog: The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature
My Comment: This should also be the layman's picture of nature, you know, like when we all agreed that the earth revolved around the sun--even though our senses don't tell us that. You might also find that the Torah, its laws and stories fit very nicely into this view of the universe.
My Comment: This should also be the layman's picture of nature, you know, like when we all agreed that the earth revolved around the sun--even though our senses don't tell us that. You might also find that the Torah, its laws and stories fit very nicely into this view of the universe.
Friday, June 25, 2010
New 'fix' for cosmic clocks could help uncover ripples in space-time
New 'fix' for cosmic clocks could help uncover ripples in space-time
My Comment: No pun intended, but this is going to fly under the radar. There will be a point in the advancement of civilization where time goes through a radical change in concept and definition. This has already happened, to an extent, with Einstein, but it has to come down to the public level, where watches and clocks are just machines that we know have nothing to do with physical time. They may help us to coordinate activities, but they are unrelated to physical time.
My Comment: No pun intended, but this is going to fly under the radar. There will be a point in the advancement of civilization where time goes through a radical change in concept and definition. This has already happened, to an extent, with Einstein, but it has to come down to the public level, where watches and clocks are just machines that we know have nothing to do with physical time. They may help us to coordinate activities, but they are unrelated to physical time.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
How We Fool Ourselves Over and Over: Scientific American Podcast
How We Fool Ourselves Over and Over: Scientific American Podcast
My Comment:
This observation is the cornerstone of ancient religions, and is paramount in the awareness of the serious practioners of these religions. This awareness is what keeps religious groups from also becoming political groups, and a lack of this awareness is what propels religious groups into becoming political groups.
Ultimately, the struggle never leaves the realm of you and the mirror, you and the striving to understand basic texts.
But this awareness doesn't have to be confined to religion. It is a fact of our perceptual life, in the same way that Zen is an inevitable product of what psychology terms ' good object relations', but to be more accurate, really good object relations.
Further investigation of this phenomenon would lead to the question of a collective consciousness, and therefore a collective blindness. Do these things exist? History, I believe, would say that they do. But History does not fit into a laboratory or the experimental model. It is also a question that crosses the boundaries of all western intellectual disciplines. And again, the question is raised, does the existence of these disciplines, our insistence on compartmentalizing knowledge contribute to the blindness?
Nevertheless, the battle remains personal, and can only remain personal, because there is always more information for each person to see, there is always more information that continues to escape our awareness. There is ultimately one choice each person must make, to see or not to see. Or, to put it in more dymanic terms, as did Shakespeare, to be or not to be.
My Comment:
This observation is the cornerstone of ancient religions, and is paramount in the awareness of the serious practioners of these religions. This awareness is what keeps religious groups from also becoming political groups, and a lack of this awareness is what propels religious groups into becoming political groups.
Ultimately, the struggle never leaves the realm of you and the mirror, you and the striving to understand basic texts.
But this awareness doesn't have to be confined to religion. It is a fact of our perceptual life, in the same way that Zen is an inevitable product of what psychology terms ' good object relations', but to be more accurate, really good object relations.
Further investigation of this phenomenon would lead to the question of a collective consciousness, and therefore a collective blindness. Do these things exist? History, I believe, would say that they do. But History does not fit into a laboratory or the experimental model. It is also a question that crosses the boundaries of all western intellectual disciplines. And again, the question is raised, does the existence of these disciplines, our insistence on compartmentalizing knowledge contribute to the blindness?
Nevertheless, the battle remains personal, and can only remain personal, because there is always more information for each person to see, there is always more information that continues to escape our awareness. There is ultimately one choice each person must make, to see or not to see. Or, to put it in more dymanic terms, as did Shakespeare, to be or not to be.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The Neuroscience of Distance and Desire: Scientific American
The Neuroscience of Distance and Desire: Scientific American
My Comment: How many religions have mentioned that the world as we see it is an illusion? Just about all of them at last count.
My Comment: How many religions have mentioned that the world as we see it is an illusion? Just about all of them at last count.
Friday, June 11, 2010
A drug discovery boutique | health
A drug discovery boutique | health
My Comment: This falls into the category of synthesis, seeing a commonality in what were once considered unrelated diseases. The Chinese do this all of the time, and would call these new drugs, if they work, treatments for Toxic Heat.
My Comment: This falls into the category of synthesis, seeing a commonality in what were once considered unrelated diseases. The Chinese do this all of the time, and would call these new drugs, if they work, treatments for Toxic Heat.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Health Scan: Collagen from tobacco shows great promise
Health Scan: Collagen from tobacco shows great promise
My Comment: But Bogie lighting up a petri dish of collagen just isn't the same.
My Comment: But Bogie lighting up a petri dish of collagen just isn't the same.
Observations: Night sight: Our eyes scan the action in our dreams
Observations: Night sight: Our eyes scan the action in our dreams
My Comment: There are those who would call this, 'introspection'. Or 'focusing within'. Or...prayer. The inner gaze.
My Comment: There are those who would call this, 'introspection'. Or 'focusing within'. Or...prayer. The inner gaze.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Op-Ed Contributor - Chosen, but Not Special - NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor - Chosen, but Not Special - NYTimes.com
My Comment: Prose that combines the beauty of the English language with the vapidity of My Mother the Car.
My Comment: Prose that combines the beauty of the English language with the vapidity of My Mother the Car.
Building peace and green architects | environment
Building peace and green architects | environment
My comment: Israel get on with it, the non-distracted it.
My comment: Israel get on with it, the non-distracted it.
Genetic biomarker links kidney disease to African descent | health
Genetic biomarker links kidney disease to African descent | health
My comment: Israel gets on with it what it does best.
My comment: Israel gets on with it what it does best.
Observations: Deep in thought: What is a "law of physics", anyway?
Observations: Deep in thought: What is a "law of physics", anyway?
My Comment: Religion is a half-step away, but not your grandaddy's religion. Nevertheless, it is religion.
My Comment: Religion is a half-step away, but not your grandaddy's religion. Nevertheless, it is religion.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Acupuncture's molecular effects pinned down: New insights spur effort to boost treatment's impact significantly
Acupuncture's molecular effects pinned down: New insights spur effort to boost treatment's impact significantly
My Comment: Not to mention Chi, Life Force--the things an acupuncturist would tell you if the scientists would simply pick up a phone and ask.
My Comment: Not to mention Chi, Life Force--the things an acupuncturist would tell you if the scientists would simply pick up a phone and ask.
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