...all, inside and out, lol, profound and light, every aspects of the universe we live in, from physics to biology to psychology to sociology to history to environmentalism to math to philosophy to comedy to the arts and everything about my fellow inhabitants of whatever unique form or nature, no matter how alien it might seem...as longs as it is simplified, clear, delightful, friendly and not too technical :) -- i want to know the how, but also the why.
Music
Subject: What A Wonderful World
Movies
A must see...long, but edifying and uplifting!
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THE ROMANTIC SIDE OF PI - AWWWWW...
Television
PARTY ON!!!
This is an imporant video (passed on in a bulletin by Tony and Blue Is Magnifying Life) called "THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF" - New proof of how thoughts and actions can reverse severe mental damage and serious pain, even in those with only half a brain! We can rewire ourselves...while the link no longer works, I am leaving it here so you can track it.
Here is another fascinating, thought provoking and important video. Titled "As Above, So Below" it is an introduction to the Theory of Fractal Evolution by Dr. Bruce Lipton. It is long, but well worth it!
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Now, for something scary: A fascinating look at a dominating food industry and genetics. "The World according to Monsanto"
Re pollution, transgenics, harmful effects, seeds and patents, world crops and small farmers...
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From: pluto (( dwarf planet ))
Date: May 2, 2008 7:19 PM
Actually, Aurora Borealis(north) and Aurora Australis(south) are Best Observed in Spring (or the southern hemispheres fall) Westerners usually look at it egocentrically.
Auroras are caused by solar activity, but the sun doesn’t know what season it is on Earth.
So how could one season yield more auroras than another?
To answer these questions and others, NASA has deployed a fleet of five spacecraft named THEMIS (short for “Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms”) specially instrumented to study auroras. Angelopoulos is the mission’s principal investigator.
Auroras are much more than just pretty lights in the sky. Underlying each display is a potent geomagnetic storm with possible side-effects ranging from satellite malfunctions in orbit to power outages on terra firma. Telecommunications, air traffic, power grids and GPS systems are all vulnerable. In a society that relies increasingly on space technology, understanding these storms is vital.
It turns out that magnetic connections between the sun and Earth are favored in springtime. It’s a matter of geometry: As Earth goes around in its orbit, Earth’s magnetic poles wobble back and forth. (The poles don’t really wobble, but the combination of Earth’s 23-degree polar tilt plus orbital motion makes the poles seem wobble from the solar point of view.) Around the time of the equinox, Earth’s magnetic field is best oriented for “connecting-up” with the sun, opening the door for solar wind energy to flow in and spark Northern Lights.
But wait, there are two equinoxes, spring and fall, with similar magnetic geometry. Indeed, autumn is aurora season, too.
The THEMIS mission uses 5 identical spacecrafts to study auroras and the substorms that ignite them.
Image by the Goddard Space Flight Center's Conceptual Image Lab
Geomagnetic disturbances are almost twice as likely in spring-fall versus winter-summer, according to historical records.
Launched in February 2007, THEMIS has already observed one geomagnetic storm with a total energy of five hundred thousand billion (5 x 10^14) Joules. “That's approximately equivalent to the energy of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake,” says Angelopoulos.
“This storm moved twice as fast as anyone thought possible,” crossing an entire polar time zone in 60 seconds flat! THEMIS may have found the storm’s power supply: "The satellites have detected magnetic ‘ropes’ connecting Earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun," . "We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras.
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Heroes
...michael faraday...who discovered and unified electromagnetism: his is a story that is worthy of great admiration, the classic tale of someone who overcomes intellectual, social, physical and financial handicaps through sheer faith and makes an astounding discovery that changes the understanding of the forces in the universe!
PLUS...
http://www.area-daily.com/email/em090331.html
Check it out...SENE film art and music festival mentioned!
lana's Details
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Divorced
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5' 8"
Zodiac Sign:
Libra
Children:
Proud parent
Occupation:
painter, writer
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About me: WHAT I LOVE THE MOST ABOUT MYSPACE IS THE WARM, INTELLECTUAL AND UPLIFTING EXCHANGES, YOUR JOYFUL, ENTHUSIASTIC FRIENDSHIP, THE STIMULATING CONNECTION IT PROVIDES ME WITH EACH OF YOU. I HAVE FOUND GREAT, LOYAL FRIENDS HERE...THE RELATIONSHIPS HAVE BEEN LONG AND LASTING. I AM NOT HERE TO ENGAGE IN ADDING FOR SHEER NUMBERS. IF YOU WANT TO BE MY FRIEND, I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!
There's only a few thousand Bonobos left...we must save our dear closest cousins...! If only their warn-torn country resolved their differences in the way the Bonobos do!
Clicking on the link will take you to a comprehensive article about their situation and unique lifestyle. Here is a photo sent to me by the Bonobo org.
My son Michael's company Area Daily (www.area-daily.com) has just created downloadable travel guides - first one is for Napa wine country!
MY SWEET FRIENDS:
Many of you have asked about my weekend in NYC, so here's the news: it was exceptional! Friday through Sunday, September 11-13, 2009, Fordham University very successfully hosted "Across the Generations: Legacies of Hope and Meaning," an international conference sponsored by the Institute of General Semantics. There were over 300 people attending from around the world!
The conference was co-sponsored by the New York Society for General Semantics, the Media Ecology Association, Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Lifwynn Foundation for Social Research, the Taos Institute, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, the Viewpoints Research Institute, and of course, Fordham University.
It featured amazing presentations by the distinguished Alan Kay, Jerome Bruner, J. T. Fraser, Kenneth Gergen, Renee Hobbs, Paul Levinson, Paul Ryan, Denise Schmandt-Besserat, and more, with special performances by Thus Spoke The Spectacle and John Watts (formerly of Fischer-Z) who were terrific! And of course our own brilliant author and poet, Professor Lance Strate! He was truly incredible to hear and watch in action!
On Friday evening, September 11, 2009, noted author and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson (daughter of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson) delivered the 57th Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture titled "The Changing Shapes of Lives: Making Meaning Across Time" in Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Hall, at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in New York City. Her talk, raising consciousness, was highly stimulating and critically important. The lecture was preceded by a wonderful gourmet dinner. It was great fun, and my table companions were fascinating!
YES, I was honored to speak on Sunday the 13th in the afternoon about the influence of words on art, a wordless, visual medium. I explored word's impact from the early beginnings of recorded history through the late 20th Century via the influences of culture, religion, philosophy and politics; how words created objective standards by which to judge quality in art and ironically, also almost destroyed them.
The full article re my talk will be published by the Institute of General Semantics in their quarterly magazine, "ETC" -
ETC is a print magazine that explores conscious awareness...full of thought provoking articles...sign up with general semantics to receive it!
http://www.generalsemantics.org
My art background is on my website:
http://www.deym.com
Who I'd like to meet: The Creator...the infinite simple nonending source of continual creation of all the finite, complex stuff that is us.....
Brian Greene, world renowned String Theory founder and physicist, author of "The Elegant Universe" is brilliant here. The extraordinary crux of this short video is the 20 measured numbers that describe our reality, our entire universe, and how if the figures are altered in the smallest way, our reality could not exit!
The goal now among String Theory physicists is to find the same 20 numbers in the microscopic level, and this would provide ultimate proof of a unified string universe with its 11 dimensions...so cool! Greene estimates that this will happen in about five years!
As me and my lens embrace this tree (a rare remnant of Autumn hues among leafless spaces), I say hello ;) ~Liss
The park near my home Photography (c) Melissa Fallon
It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. ~Carl Jung
Remember catchen fireflies And laying on the grass Watching moon nights watch Crickets song of winters past Our hearts beating child's song Feet with mud prints and Grass, smiles of fireflies Innocence, forever in the glass.
