December 2009
1 post
the wind, she whispered.
the wind, she whispered through fields of grass blades who bow to even her faintest murmurs and spend their time catching the scattered rays of soft sunlight shining from a somewhat cloudy Irish sky so they may briefly glisten like emeralds as she passes through their realm; vast and limitless they are only the quick choppy waves on the great open sea, a mere decoration on a trinket adorning a...
September 2009
3 posts
The Third Man Factor
I just heard about this book; it seems very interesting.
The Third Man Factor is a biography of an extraordinary idea: That people at the very edge of death, often adventurers or explorers, experience a sense of an incorporeal being beside them who encourages them to make one final effort to survive.
If only a handful of people had ever experienced the Third Man, it might be dismissed as an...
ever feel this way?
“under moonlight”
at the edge we looked down. “it’s a long way to the bottom” jeff stared, “at least five hundred feet.” a tiny river in the distance sparkled in the light of the full moon. there were no clouds, just bright twinkling stars that seemed to pulsate to the rhythm of the night. the sky was a dark shade of blue-purple with a misty violet. the...
August 2009
13 posts
“The solution is obvious: build an economy that increases the role of well-tested...”
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan, is a professor of risk engineering at New York University.
I like this guy’s ideas.
Nuclear Weapon Disarmament
Do you ever just wish things were like they were during WWII? To see what it’s like to actually have faith in your government, to believe that the wars they are fighting are justified, to know that your friends and relatives in the military are fighting against an evil empire and not for one.
I think it’s been about sixty-five years since America has been a beacon of hope to this God...
HIV-AIDS vaccine →
“retrocyclin transcripts to produce functional peptides that are active against HIV-1.”
Thanks to Nitya Venkataraman at the University of Central Florida sex might not be so scary anymore. Venkataraman and cohorts discovered ancient DNA dormant within the human genome that has the ability to fight HIV. This DNA which has been considered ‘junk’ until recently, when...
Scientific Speed Reading: How to Read 300% Faster... →
Great article on manipulating cognitive motor skills and practical reading speed development.
I am going to try this later today.
Hiroshima Day: America Has Been Asleep at the... →
azspot:
For nearly all other Americans, whatever dread they may have felt about the long-run future of the Bomb (and there was more expression of this in elite media than most people remembered later) was offset at the time and ever afterward by a powerful aura of its legitimacy, and its almost miraculous potential for good which had already been realized. For a great many Americans still, the...
July 2009
2 posts
WatchVery interesting video on Marijuana prohibition and the business behind the British Columbia (BC bud) illegal Marijuana trade unions.
June 2009
1 post
May 2009
122 posts
N. Korea threatens to attack US, S. Korea warships
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea threatened military action Wednesday against U.S. and South Korean warships plying the waters near the Koreas’ disputed maritime border, raising the specter of a naval clash just days after the regime’s underground nuclear test.
Pyongyang, reacting angrily to Seoul’s decision to join an international program to intercept ships suspected of...
Who funds anti-drug advertisements? →
Those cheesy far-fetched commercials about using marijuana and killing yourself and your friends are produced by the organization, ’Partnership for a Drug-Free America.’
What isn’t very well known is that major alcohol, tobacco and pharmaceutical companies paid millions of dollars to fund this so-called ’Partnership for a Drug-Free America.’
If we really wanted to...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF PSYCHEDELICS →
The Science of Spirituality →
Very interesting 5-part National Public Radio series on the science behind spirituality. I highly suggest listening to at least the first installment, as it is about psychedelic drugs and their spiritual usages.
LSD users an endangered species? →
“Nobel prize winner Francis Crick told friends LSD was behind his discovery of the double helical structure of DNA.”
“Albert Hofmann’s death almost looks like an LSD bookend. A report from 2007 suggests adolescent LSD use has been dropping since 1996, while the number of students who check “drug unfamiliar” is rising. Researchers call it “generational...
Four Winds, by Bright Eyes off their album...
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency... →
These 41 individuals formerly served in the U.S. State Department, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the branches of the U.S. Military.
Tumblr directory - science; i'm lonely. →
On politics and religion
Just like our last great President, George Bush Jr.; Obama wishes to put the faith (blame) on God. After all, God has a plan:
All of the human life stolen, people slaughtered and entire cities destroyed by way of meaningless warfare, both sides claiming they are killing in ‘God’s name;’ it’s all part of His plan.
I’ll take plate after plate of spirituality and wisdom but sprinkle on it a dash...
Quantifying A Mystical Experience: Hallucinogenic... →
clothedinsky:
wideeyedhippiechild:
yourwonderingmind:
buffleheadcabin:
nociva:
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that an active agent contained in “sacred mushrooms” can induce strikingly similar mystical experiences in different subjects; and the experiences seem to be descriptively identical to spontaneous epiphanies that people have reported for centuries. Preempting accusations...
Watchclothedinsky:
Paul Stamets speaks at the 1999 Psychoactivity Conference in Amsterdam
This guy is great his research on Mycelium and Bioremediation alone have revolutionized the science of mycology but did you know he is also an accomplished martial arts athlete, holding a black belt in Taekwondo (1979), and also in Hwa Rang Do (1994) and he also writes haiku? - wikipedia
and to think; his...
“Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency....”
– Natalie Goldberg (via blogut) (via quote-book) (via crazybeautiful) (via nihilnoetia)