Degrees of Separation
When I was young, there was a popular saying to the effect that everyone knows someone who knows someone who knows the President. (US culture rather spills over the border) This is based on the …
Category: Science
Quite Enough?
Eric Idle of Monty Python fame sings on the scale of things. “…So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth…” The stats he uses have various scales. Here’s …
Underwater unknown
The TED talks have some real gems. I’m mentioned others here before. In this talk, David Gallo shows some recent underwater footage, some from the deep sea, some from shallow waters. We’re talking Times Square …
Time Comes
It is interesting to see how the media is evolving. In the ’70’s, I used to explore large magazine and book shops, trolling for articles (ideas). Nowadays, while the media corporations consolidate and target lowest …
Vastu
This column on Homes is about Vastu, the Indian version of Feng Shui. While similar in intent, it varies somewhat in detail, partly because of the where the science of energy flow was developed on …
Rethinking Science
Ran into an interesting article today that better states some of my thoughts on evolution. “Stuart A. Kauffman studies the origin of life and the origins of molecular organization. Thirty-five years ago, he developed the …
Spoken Words
The Prophets Conference folks have been doing a series of conferences around the globe on the theme of “The Great Rethinking”. In my area, they had a ‘Bleep’ conference and the following year, a health …
What more is Up?
In one of the more popular posts here, Whats Up?, I wrote a little about what’s been going on in the world of late. Today a number of inter-related things showed up, leading to the …
Star light, star bright
Back on Deepest Being, I briefly touched on a stage of existence, just outside first mind (and illusion), where awareness becomes self-aware at every point. At that value, awareness is like a foam. A foam …
Maxwell not Maxwell?
James Clerk Maxwell wrote a series of equations that defined classical electromagnetism, establishing the properties of electricity and magnetism and that light was an electromagnetic wave. The individual equations bear the names of others, all …
Aliens Are My Brother
So says Father Gabriel Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory. The search for forms of extraterrestrial life, he says, does not contradict belief in God. And some aliens could even be free from original sin, …
The Electric Sun
Over at the For Now blog, some notes on “the electric model” as seen in the film Thunderbolts of the Gods. They don’t see the Sun, and all other stars, as an atomic furnace burning …