In doing research on my in-process book , Memes for the Creation of a New Culture, by doing some Googling, I found longish but well worth it essay, The problems with beliefs by Jim Walker on his website, nobeliefs.com. Walker explores the concept of beliefs all the way from their origins to their implications. The essence of his conclusions about beliefs is, don’t have them. I am going to discuss this more in the section of my book, Believing in Your Beliefs which I have enhanced and extended recently. After putting the book online, I found that this section really Read more »
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Dickipedia – A Wiki of Dicks
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The world we live in is a neo-Roman Empire kind of place where the gods who rules us, which we call celebrities, the media and politicians, share a common trait with their ancient larger than life ancestors, many of them allow their power to make them quite unpleasant.A new wiki site called Dickipedia enshrines our modern gods in a Dick Museum of sorts. As far as I can tell, so far they have been spot on in identifying the biggest Dicks among our modern Olympians.While the democrats and other Read more »
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NPR Notices That the Population Explosion is Still Exploding
7 Billion And Counting: Can Earth Handle It? on NPR
Its the beginning of a new millennium and the world’s population is still rising fast. Here is a snip from the NPR story:
Earth’s population stands at nearly 7 billion, and demographers project we may reach 9 billion by the middle of this century.In the past 50 years, population has grown at a rate never before seen in human history. Pastures have become towns, cities have sprawled across the landscape, and humans now live in places once considered remote.
Listen to the NPR story via the link at the top.
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Magnetism and Hallucinated Great Balls of Lightening
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Magnetism and Hallucinations on Sean Kearney's blog Bionic Brain
Magnetically Induced Hallucinations Explain Ball Lightning, Say Physicists on the Technology Review blog
Sean Kearny sites a post in a blog post which suggests that magnetism may be responsible for people seeing ball lightening in storms. The basis of the speculation is a paper by a physicist on the effects of transcranial stimulation Transcranial stimulation in plain English means that someone's brain is a repeated series of magmatic pulses.
Transcranial stimulation is something I have read a bit about but would certainly not be up for Read more »
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- Browsing the Web I Discover the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary on the Open LibraryLink for this Post: Read the Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary at the Open Library In April 1995, I moderated a panel at an event called the Whole Life Expo in San Fransisco, California called "The Future of Consciousness." Among the panel members was Timothy Leary. There was quite a bit of attention on Dr. Leary that afternoon. Earlier in […]
- Celebrating the 69th Annual Bicycle DaySixty-nine years ago, on April 19th, 1943, the late Swiss biochemist Dr. Albert Hofmann took the first planned LSD session. This day has been celebrated by members of the psychedelic culture since the Sixties. In 1983, Dr. Thomas Roberts began calling the day, Bicycle Day and it has been celebrated with increasing enthusiasm ever since. In San Fransisco, the […]
