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The Failure of the New Yorker Cartoon

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 05:04:40 GMT

clipped by: laceym
clipper's remarks:

Look at the huge amount of information that exists in the world. Before you can even start to understand it, you need to decide which parts of it you are going to spend time understanding, and which you will largely ignore. This means taking a glance at a huge quantity of information and forming quick opinions. From this initial scan, some elements will catch your eye. Those are the parts that you will look at in more detail. It will be a very small percentage of the total amount of information available. For the vast majority of the items we come across in an average day, we glance at the head lines, make our snap judgments, and we move on, looking for the item that strikes enough interest to generate a more thorough examination...
The New Yorker magazine failed to take this into consideration, and created a cover that communicated the opposite of what they wanted to communicate.

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Clip Source: atheistethicist.blogspot.com

People do not have time to stop and think about every piece of information that they come across. They only have time to give it a cursory glance. They form a quick opinion (based more on emotion and pre-conceived ideas than on the content of what they see), then they move on

The vast majority of the people who will see the cover of the New Yorker magazine will not think too deeply about it. They will glance at the cartoon, which will generate an instant emotional reaction. They will then attach that emotion to Barak Obama and, over the next four months, interpret further information through the lens that this cartoon generated.

This instant, unreflective, shallow interpretation of the cartoon for a lot of people will be the idea that the Michelle and Barak Obama hold pro-terrorist/anti-American sympathies who are trying to gain control of the White House. The cartoon ends up reinforcing the very ideas that the author intended to ridicule.

Tags: obama, modern media, information overload

Inventor of Water Powered Dune Buggy Murdered

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:21:52 GMT

clipped by: WomanInTheMoon11
clipper's remarks: He was poisoned March 1998..He died in the parking lot of a restaurant in his home town of Grove City, Ohio. Sharks came a week later and stole the the dune buggy and all of his experimental equipment..
He had patents on his invention and was ready for production. Only $1,500 to equip your car! See the Videos above. No gasoline, just water. Stanley said he was offered a billion dollars from an Arab to basically shelf his idea.
So what is happening with Stan's Great Invention of the 20th Century!! Absolutely nothing. Are they manufacturing his invention. NO, Why not? because it would solve all the world's problems today.
All they talk about is hydrogen gas stations run by Shell and a Canadian Oil Firm. Then they talk all about "hydrogen fuel cells" which take a lifetime of gas burned just to make one fuel cell. A hydrogen fuel cell factory is a real SMOG factory..-- EXCERPTS FROM THE WEB PAGE

Clip Source: waterpoweredcar.com

click on photo to see the movie

A video clip of the famous one time
aired newscast you were not to see. 1998

click on photo to see the movie

Stan Meyer's Dune Buggy that ran on water. Hydrogen/Oxygen fuel in an ICE motor. On board electrolysis, no hydrogen tanks, no bombs on-board, just water. (1998) It ran 100 miles per gallon! The 2nd best inventor of the Century, besides Tesla, who was and will always be #1. Stan is the mustard seed of Water Powered Cars! The video left above is a one timed aired news cast, from his home town of Grove City , Ohio that you are not to view. The video screen to the right is a segment of the Equinox program about Stanley aired back in Dec. 1995 (approx.) See the entire program entitled "It Runs on Water" narrated by Arthur C. Clarke in video clips below.
It is in 4 parts, made possible by Andy the WizardKing from Blackpool, England.
Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4

Tags: auto, fuel, cars, alternative energy

Between Iraq And A Hard Place

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:12:39 GMT

clipped by: A53GG4
clipper's remarks: documentary

Clip Source: www.jaman.com

Between Iraq And A Hard Place

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Between Iraq And A Hard Place follows several American soldiers into the battle zones of Iraq, and into the personal battles they wage upon returning ...

Tags: documentary

Don't try it at home

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:23:00 GMT

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Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: wild, lion, friendship

Addicted to Grief?

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:07:53 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: When time doesn't heal, the brain's reward system may be playing a role

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Losing a loved one is always painful, but for most people time eventually heals the wounds. For about 10 to 20 percent of the bereaved, however, accepting and getting over a loss remains extremely difficult, even years later. Now researchers have come a step closer to elucidating the neurobiological underpinnings of this condition called complicated grief (CG). A new functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study, published online in May in the journal NeuroImage, shows that in CG patients reminders of the deceased activate a brain area associated with reward processing, pleasure and addiction.

While in the scanner, the women saw pictures and words that reminded them of their loved one. Brain networks associated with social pain became activated in all women, but in the CG patients reminders of the deceased also excited the nucleus accumbens, a forebrain area most commonly associated with reward.

Tags: grief, mind, healing, time, brain

Truth

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:18:04 GMT

clipped by: Koalax

Clip Source: cultofthedeadfish.blogspot.com

Junk Food and Depression

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25:07 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Just an idea, of course.

Clip Source: www.edstrong.blog-city.com

[Video]

Our overconsumption of sugar-loaded, high-carbohydrate

food stems from ferocious cravings that are triggered by

low levels of a key neurotransmitter or chemical messenger

in the brain called Serotonin

- the feel good hormone that affects mood

The body instinctively knows that eating junk food will cause

the brain to produce a burst of this feel good hormone

Junk food acts like a psychoactive drug for this widespread

mild depression. That is why it is commonly referred

to as mood food, comfort food, or emotional eating

Contrary to what Americans have been led to believe, the epidemic rise of excess weight gain and obesity in this country is not the result of overeating fat laden foods.

The obesification of America is the direct result of a mild depression that causes people to savagely crave, and then overeat, junk food carbohydrate (sugar).

Tags: depression, junk food

Mullen Presents Medals For Valor To 12 Paratroopers In Afghanistan

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:00:46 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: “We spotted an enemy scout and eventually made contact, but he was able to [disengage and communicate] our location to other fighters in the valley,” Ambrosia said.

Ambrosia’s element had a translator monitoring the enemy communication with a basic one-way radio. The interpreter continued to monitor the radio, and Ambrosia learned that the scout was coordinating with other enemy fighters in the area to launch an attack.

Soon there were at least three enemy elements with three to five fighters each closing in on the platoon. So close, in fact, they were in hand-grenade range of his troops, he said.

“At one point, I started calling the vehicles in the valley to start shooting on our position, because the enemy was too close to call in artillery or mortar fire.”

Enemy radio traffic intercepted by Ambrosia’s interpreter let the paratroopers know the insurgents planned to overrun their position and take them hostage, but they were able to repel the attack, he said.............

Clip Source: www.defenselink.mil

KORENGAL VALLEY, Afghanistan, July 12, 2008

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen pinned five Army Commendation Medals with valor devices, five Purple Heart Medals, one Bronze Star with valor device, and one Silver Star on the troopers’ chests during a ceremony at their combat outpost here.

“It’s an honor and privilege to be here,” Mullen said to the awardees. “This ceremony is about individuals who represent the sacrifice of so many.”

Army Capt. Greg Ambrosia, executive officer of Company A and recipient of the Silver Star that Mullen awarded here, said he can attribute his leadership and confidence during such patrols to the lives he saved during one particular encounter with Taliban fighters on the night of Sept. 27.

Ambrosia and his men set up a makeshift outpost after a nighttime air assault into the valley. The troopers made contact with the enemy early the next morning, receiving a hail of rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire. But they couldn’t spot where exactly the attack was coming from

Tags: adm. mike mullen, afghanistan, purple heart, bronze star, silver star, army capt. greg amborsia, company a, taliban fighters

Tools for creating ideas

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:18:31 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: More at site. Including,

Mind-mapping: Hierarchical breakdown and exploration.
Modeling: For the artist in everyone.
Morphological Analysis: Forcing combinations of attribute values.
Nominal Group Technique: Getting ideas with minimal personal interaction.
# PSI: Problem + Stimulus = Idea!
Rightbraining: Combine incomplete doodles around the problem.
Role-play: Become other people. Let them solve the problem.
Reversal: Looking at the problem backwards.
Reverse Brainstorming: Seek first to prevent your problem from happening.
SCAMPER: Using action verbs as stimuli.
Six Thinking Hats: Think comfortably in different ways about the problem.
Storyboarding: Creating a visual story to explore or explain.
Contradiction Analysis: Use methods already used in many patents.
Unfolding: Gradually unfolding the real problem from the outside.
# Visioning: Creating a motivating view of the future.
Write streaming: Write and write and write until you unblock.

Clip Source: creatingminds.org

Absence Thinking: Think about what is not there.

Art streaming: Keep creating until you get through the blocks.

Assumption Busting: Surfacing and challenging unconscious assumptions.

Attribute Listing: Listing attributes of objects and then challenging them.

Braindrawing: Good for reticent groups.

Brainmapping: Combining brainwriting and mind-mapping.

Brainwriting: Group doodling for non-verbal stimulation.

Breakdown: Careful decomposition to explore the whole system.

Challenge: Challenge any part of the problem.

Crawford Slip Method: Getting ideas from a large audience.

A Day In The Life Of...: Building creative tension from contextualized situations.

Delphi Method: Explore ideas or gain consensus with remote group.

Doodling: Let your subconscious do the drawing.

Essence: Looking elsewhere whilst retaining essential qualities.

Forced Conflict: Using conflict to stimulate the subconscious.

How-How Diagram: Break down problem by asking 'how'.

Toddlers to be taught about human rights

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:55:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Toddlers are to be taught about human rights and respecting different cultures in a scheme condemned as an "absurd" waste of time.

Nurseries across the country are adopting the project, which will see teachers explaining to children as young as three that people across the world live different lives but everyone has a right to food, water and shelter.

Staff will also be expected to ensure that children are treated as independent human beings, and have the "right" to choose their toys or have a drink of water whenever they want.

It is an extension of a Unicef scheme already in use in primary schools, in which pupils analyse the responsibilities of fairytale characters and sign a joint declaration with teachers of how people should be treated.

The move comes amid growing concern about the Government's "nappy curriculum", a set of 69 learning targets for under-fives which experts say will leave young children confused and demotivated.

Tags: toddlers, human rights

This is what craziness looks like

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:21:11 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Researchers say the slow digestive system of cows makes them a producer of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide in efforts to fight global warming.

Scientists around the world are studying the amount of methane in gas expelled by cows and Argentine researchers have come up with a unique way to collect and analyse it.

Berra said the researchers 'never thought' a cow weighing 550 kg (1,210 lb) could produce 800 to 1,000 litres (28 to 35 cubic feet) of emissions each day.

Greenhouse gases are widely blamed for causing global warming. Methane, researchers say, is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere

Study: Low-carb diet best for weight, cholesterol

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:10:46 GMT

clipped by: arifsali

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

The Atkins diet may have proved itself after all: A low-carb diet and a Mediterranean-style regimen helped people lose more weight than a traditional low-fat diet in one of the longest and largest studies to compare the dueling weight-loss techniques.

A bigger surprise: The low-carb diet improved cholesterol more than the other two. Some critics had predicted the opposite.

However, all three approaches — the low-carb diet, a low-fat diet and a so-called Mediterranean diet — achieved weight loss and improved cholesterol.

Other experts said the study — being published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine — was highly credible.

Tags: diet, study

All on the mind - The Future of Cognitive Enhancers

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:15:00 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: This is a short article in the current issue of the Economist. Another sign that cognitive enhancers are gaining public interest and legitimacy.

Clip Source: www.economist.com

FOR thousands of years, people have sought substances that they hoped would boost their mental powers and their stamina.

Leaves, roots and fruit have been chewed, brewed and smoked in a quest to expand the mind.

That search continues today, with the difference only that the shamans work in pharmaceutical laboratories rather than forests.

Such drugs are known as cognition enhancers.

They work on the neural processes that underlie such mental activities as attention, perception, learning, memory, language, planning and decision-making, usually by altering the balance of the chemical neurotransmitters involved in these processes.

a large number of such brain-affecting drugs are likely to emerge over the next few decades.

Provigil and Ritalin really do enhance cognition in healthy people.

It also improves people's performance in tests of their ability to plan.

Mind-expansion may soon, therefore, become big business.

Prepare for drugs that will improve memory, concentration and learning

Tags: brain, cognition, gognitive enhancement

Lost beagle back home after 5 years, 850 miles

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:02:40 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.msnbc.msn.com

Five years ago, a heartbroken 5-year-old girl from Queens, N.Y., was hanging posters for the return of her lost beagle. Today, after years of wishes, little Natalie Villacis has been miraculously reunited with her beloved dog Rocco after he resurfaced some 850 miles away in Georgia — proving that every dog owner can have their day.

Cristina Villacis, Natalie’s mother, said the family was shocked to get a call last week from a shelter in Hinesville, Ga., informing them that their long-lost pup had been found after half a decade. Thanks to a microchip implanted in the dog, an effective form of permanent identification, Natalie’s greatest hopes had been realized.

How Rocco actually got all the way to Georgia from New York remains a mystery.

When her mom told her the amazing news, Natalie just “cried hysterically,” Cristina said. “She actually wanted to go to Georgia to pick him up, but the ride back was too long.”

Tags: child, animal, dog, pet, beagle, family

Prof, college reach settlement after 'Adam and Eve' incident

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:03:57 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: www.firstamendmentcenter.org

Southwestern Community College has reached a financial settlement with a professor who was fired after telling students the biblical story of Adam and Eve should not be taken literally.

Steve Bitterman taught world civilization at the Creston school. He was fired last September after students complained. Bitterman later sued for wrongful termination.

Bitterman's lawyer, Brad Schroeder, says academic freedom should have outweighed religious concerns.

"What was for him a purely objective, academic exercise in studying the religious beliefs of different Western civilizations became a group of fundamentalist students taking exception when it came time for their God to be put under the microscope," Schroeder said today.

Tags: college, religion, god, history, belief