Random Musings of an Ethnic Artist

The Most Vital Lessons for Starting Over

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:45:05 -0400

The Most Vital Lessons for Starting Over:

In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman presented this interesting speculation:

“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms—little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence, you will see, there is an enormous amount of information about the world, if just a little imagination and thinking are applied.”

Fascinated by Feynman’s question, Seed put a similar one to a number of leading thinkers: “Imagine—much as Feynman asked his audience—that in a mission to change everyone’s thinking about the world, you can take only one lesson from your field as a guide. In a single statement, what would it be?”
Here are their answers…

Just Discovered! Our Solar System protected by a "Ballerina Skirt" of Magnetic Foam at it's farthest edge!

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:26:26 -0400

Just Discovered! Our Solar System protected by a "Ballerina Skirt" of Magnetic Foam at it's farthest edge!:

Scientists are surprised to discover that previous notions about the edge of our solar system were simply wrong - they weren’t imaginative enough!
It seems these magnetic Bubbles are a million miles wide - about the same size as the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
A truly amazing new development which defines how our solar system is interacting with the rest of the galaxy!!

Why medical care is about business rather than our caring for our health.

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 21:03:20 -0400

Why medical care is about business rather than our caring for our health.:

Today medicine is a BUSINESS rather than an ART.
Managed Care is the doctor’s timeclock. What the doctor serves the patient is monitored by spreadsheets and bottom lines. And how could practitioners feel good… excited about their service if they are just like the everyday deliverer of services. As ART has become computerized/digitized… so has the other arts & sciences.
We do not lack brilliance in Society - it is simply enslaved to those who desire self-interested profiteering over everything else in the world.
Is that not the realm of The dEVIL?

YouTube - ‪DocumentingIan's Channel‬‏

Tue, 31 May 2011 11:01:52 -0400

YouTube - ‪DocumentingIan's Channel‬‏:

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STORY: The children of Minamisoma City, Japan are living amid high levels of radiation and toxic rain after the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power plant following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Will the children be evacuated as some experts advise, or will they stay where they are inside the 30 km zone and head back to school as the government has ordered?

This trailer is part 4 of 4 of “In the Radiation Zone: the Children of Minamisoma”, a behind-the-scenes look at what happened during the filming of the feature documentary “Killing the Darlings of Minamisoma”.

Sacred Economics | Reflections on money, gift, and society by Charles Eisenstein

Wed, 25 May 2011 12:42:12 -0400

Sacred Economics | Reflections on money, gift, and society by Charles Eisenstein:

An excellent look at the current state of life here in our collective world - here is a sample from the post - “While fiscal stimulus under present circumstances doesn’t address the deep issue, it does point toward a deep solution. Stimulus can create jobs doing things that don’t bring a positive return on capital — such things as intensive recycling, restoring wetlands, cleaning up toxic waste, caring for the indigent sick, teaching people to garden, beautifying the urban environment, holding free music and arts festivals, and so on. Happily, these are the things we want and need more of, as opposed to more sprawling suburbs, electronic billboards, coal mines, trash incinerators, nuclear weapons, and plastic bags. When economists speak of (on the Left) increasing demand or (on the Right) increasing productive investment to stimulate growth, aren’t they essentially calling for even more of the things of which we already have enough? Today, every sign of a recovery in housing starts is celebrated as great economic news — all at a time when, in the United States, 19 million housing units stand vacant!”

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Program to bring fresh seafood direct to consumers

Mon, 23 May 2011 18:17:03 -0400

Program to bring fresh seafood direct to consumers:

Because many employees are single and cook only on weekends, the boxes are designed to be small, 2 pounds of seafood or less. The price is $20 to $26 per week.

“At most, there will be a 48-hour window between the time the fish is caught and when it gets into your hands here,” says Olivia Wu, a Google executive chef and former Chronicle food writer, who spearheaded this CSF. “This is as fresh as you can get besides going to the dock to buy it yourself.”

The seafood varieties, all of which will be sustainable and locally caught in season, will include salmon, black cod, halibut, Pacific flounder, lingcod and more obscure varieties such as chili pepper rock cod, which is not usually found in markets.

Invisible phone turns your palm into a touchscreen - Yahoo! News

Mon, 23 May 2011 13:13:19 -0400

Invisible phone turns your palm into a touchscreen - Yahoo! News:

CRAZY !! This system utilizes your current smartphone (an iPhone is used in the prototype), and maps the touchscreen to the palm of your hand. You then simply touch your palm wherever you would normally tap on the screen. Your phone reacts to the input as though you were touching it yourself, allowing you to answer calls (via speakerphone) and even utilize apps.

DailyGood: Family Finds $45K -- And Returns It

Mon, 23 May 2011 13:08:56 -0400

DailyGood: Family Finds $45K -- And Returns It:

“I’m not perfect, and I wish I could say there was never any doubt in my mind. We knew we had to give it back, but it doesn’t mean I didn’t think about our car in need of repairs, how we would love to adopt a child and aren’t able to do that right now, or fix up our outdated house that we just bought,” Ferrin said. “But the money wasn’t ours to keep and I don’t believe you get a chance very often to do something radically honest, to do something ridiculously awesome for someone else and that is a lesson I hope to teach to my children.”

Read the whole story….

China suspends nuclear building plans

Sun, 22 May 2011 16:14:35 -0400

China suspends nuclear building plans :

China has suspended approval for new nuclear power stations following the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi plant.

It will also carry out checks at existing reactors and those under construction.

China is currently building 27 new reactors - about 40% of the total number being built around the world.

The news comes as China grows increasingly worried about the nuclear accident in Japan.

The decision to temporarily halt approval for nuclear plants came at a meeting of China’s State Council, or Cabinet, chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao.

“We will temporarily suspend approval for nuclear power projects, including those that have already begun preliminary work, before nuclear safety regulations are approved,” read a statement from the State Council.

“Safety is our top priority in developing nuclear power plants.”

It went on to say that China’s medium and long-term nuclear plans would be “adjusted and improved”.

49 Million-Year-Old Face of Spider Frozen in Amber

Sun, 22 May 2011 15:24:38 -0400

49 Million-Year-Old Face of Spider Frozen in Amber :

The amber fossil — housed in the Berlin Natural History Museum — is a member of a living genus of the Huntsman spiders (Sparassidae), a group of often large, active, free-living spiders that are hardly ever trapped in amber. (See the haunting 3-d animation!)

This is a true Time-traveler!

Amusing Conversations from The Edge of Knowledge

Sun, 22 May 2011 14:24:25 -0400

Amusing Conversations from The Edge of Knowledge:

“To arrive at THE EDGE of the world’s knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.”
Edge.org was launched in 1996 as the online version of “The Reality Club,” an informal gathering of intellectuals that held met from 1981-1996 in Chinese restaurants, artist lofts, the Board Rooms of Rockefeller University, the New York Academy of Sciences, and investment banking firms, ballrooms, museums, living rooms, and elsewhere. Though the venue is now in cyberspace, the spirit of the Reality Club lives on in the lively back-and-forth discussions on the hot-button ideas driving the discussion today.

In the words of the novelist Ian McEwan, Edge.org offers “open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful … an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and inanimate world … an ongoing and thrilling colloquium.”

Protozoa Could Be Controlling Your Brain... Affecting Your Thinking & Behavior!)

Sun, 22 May 2011 14:12:00 -0400

Protozoa Could Be Controlling Your Brain... Affecting Your Thinking & Behavior!) :

ROBERT SAPOLSKY/Stanford University - The parasite my lab is beginning to focus on is one in the world of mammals, where parasites are changing mammalian behavior. It’s got to do with this parasite, this protozoan called Toxoplasma. If you’re ever pregnant, if you’re ever around anyone who’s pregnant, you know you immediately get skittish about cat feces, cat bedding, cat everything, because it could carry Toxo. And you do not want to get Toxoplasma into a fetal nervous system. It’s a disaster.

(Watch the Video…)

ROBERT SAPOLSKY is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University and of neurology at Stanford’s School of Medicine. His books include A Primate’s Memoir, and Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping.

Elephants Outwit Humans During Intelligence Test : Discovery News

Sat, 21 May 2011 22:12:32 -0400

Elephants Outwit Humans During Intelligence Test : Discovery News:

Elephants can cooperate and understand the logic of their actions that produce success.
Quite amazing actually… makes you go hmmm….!

Duck vs. Pup Amazing ! The little duck chases the doggy...

Sat, 21 May 2011 21:20:59 -0400

Duck vs. Pup

Amazing ! The little duck chases the doggy relentlessly!

Random Musings of an Ethnic Artist

Sat, 21 May 2011 21:19:17 -0400

Random Musings of an Ethnic Artist

Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation

Sat, 21 May 2011 19:50:35 -0400

Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation:

McDonald’s Takes Initial Positive Step by Starting to Use Cage-Free Eggs in the U.S.

When I upgraded our efforts to combat factory farming a half-dozen years ago, a top priority was to end the cruel confinement of egg-laying hens in barren battery cages—a practice that’s harsh and unacceptable, and inconsistent with our values about the care of animals. Our then-new campaign director, Paul Shapiro, had spent many years prior to his arrival at The HSUS publicizing the horrors of battery cages, and our campaign would aim to step up the campaign and turn around the situation.

The Integral “Killer App” Challenge | Integral Spiritual Practice

Sat, 21 May 2011 18:48:06 -0400

The Integral “Killer App” Challenge | Integral Spiritual Practice:

Just as Email and iPhones have become indispensable technological ”killer apps”… perhaps GOOD WORKS will be the next Human “killer app”!
This article imagines that improvements in Consciousness can also spread… like wildfire… improving all our lives!

Couple Has Similar Twins for Second Time (by AssociatedPress)

Fri, 20 May 2011 17:41:06 -0400

Couple Has Similar Twins for Second Time (by AssociatedPress)

The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops | Mail Online

Fri, 20 May 2011 17:40:30 -0400

The GM genocide: Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops | Mail Online:

This is MUST READ! The results of America’s negative karma… we must take responsibility to end these poisonous products shared worldwide and stop the evil work of corporations! It negatively affects & threatens ALL LIFE on Earth. (Do it for the children & grandchildren!!)

NRC: Fact Sheet on Analysis of Cancer Risk in Populations Near Nuclear Facilities—Phase 1 Feasibility Study

Fri, 20 May 2011 17:32:15 -0400

NRC: Fact Sheet on Analysis of Cancer Risk in Populations Near Nuclear Facilities—Phase 1 Feasibility Study:

‎” NRC regulations ensure plant operators monitor and control these releases to meet very strict radiation dose limits, and plants must publicly report these releases to the agency. Some communities are concerned about these releases’ potential impact on the health of those living near those nuclear facilities.”

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Website…lots of real information. We only need to Take ACTION because the institutions we support with our $$ are failing to protect us. Money & Profits are given priority over people’s Lives. We must stand up for ourselves… who else will if not us÷