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Self Awareness - The Essential Key

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:02:36 GMT

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Is there an ‘essential key’ to personal development? One without which the ‘unlocking’ of your potential might be difficult if not impossible?

Without this ‘key’ personal growth is slow, and sluggish.

The ability to self-observe, what some people call self-awareness.

Self-awareness meaning the ability to become aware of what is going on in:

* Your mind’s eye (the cinema screen of your mind)

* Your inner ear (verbal self-talk, sounds, talk from other ‘parts’ of you)

* Your feelings (meaning tactile and visceral feelings inside and outside of your body)

* Your emotions (feelings that you have labelled as ‘emotions’)

* Intuition- literally ‘inner-knowing’

If you are not aware of what is going on inside YOU – what your perceptions are reporting to you on the inside, you lack access to vital information.

You can’t change what you’re not aware of.

Beginning of Time Discovered

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:59:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Zooming in on the Universe's First Starlight: "Everything Else Came After This"

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Scientists have seen the first starlight ever recorded,

the first star to send light which reached Earth. This light is the earliest, the furthest away, the most red-shifted, and every other factor that could possibly say "Everything else ever came after this."

The bright light is also poignant as it results from a Gamma Ray Burst, GRB 090423, meaning that this first light comes from the death of a star imploding into a neutron star or even an early black hole. The light exhibited a record breaking redshift of 8.2

The event occurred when the universe was only half a billion years old and the light has literally spent all of time to get here.

The starburst was so early it was used to confirm that this kind of thing even happened back then. The signal outshone galaxies, and is now our earliest evidence of anything that happened back then.

Tags: astronomy, physics, time, space, big-bang-theory, first-light

Beginning of Time Discovered

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:59:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Zooming in on the Universe's First Starlight: "Everything Else Came After This"

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Scientists have seen the first starlight ever recorded,

The event occurred when the universe was only half a billion years old and the light has literally spent all of time to get here.

The starburst was so early it was used to confirm that this kind of thing even happened back then. The signal outshone galaxies, and is now our earliest evidence of anything that happened back then.

Tags: astronomy, physics, time, space, big-bang-theory, first-light

Clever fools: Why a high IQ doesn't mean you're smart

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:25:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Entire article at NewScientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427321.000-clever-fools-why-a-high-iq-doesnt-mean-youre-smart.html?full=true

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IQ tests are very good at measuring certain mental faculties, he says, including logic, abstract reasoning, learning ability and working-memory capacity - how much information you can hold in mind.

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The flip side of this is that everyone can improve their rational thinking and decision-making skills. Richard Nisbett at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and others discovered that just half an hour's training in statistical reasoning can improve a person's ability to use rational thinking in everyday situations. And we don't need formal training to improve: there are many tricks we can teach ourselves, says Perkins (see "How to avoid making foolish decisions").

Editorial: A rational alternative to testing IQ

Tags: new scientists with big brainzzzzz, smirt people, brainzzzzzzzzz

Defenders of Christianity

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:31:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Thank goodness it was all so long ago.

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'We shall not tolerate in our ranks anyone who hurts Christian ideas.'

Hitler

The Oxford Group was a Christian movement that had a following in Europe and America in the 1920s and 1930s. It was initiated by an American Lutheran pastor Dr. Frank Buchman,

Buchman referred to Himmler as "a great lad"

'He lets us have house-parties whenever we like.' He did not seem to think much of England or of Canada: England was in a terrible state — 'seething with Communism'; and so was Canada.

I thank Heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism,

Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last, bewildering problem.

The world needs the dictatorship of the living spirit of God.

Human problems aren't economic. They're moral and they can't be solved by immoral measures.

they could be solved through a God-controlled Fascist dictatorship.

Tags: oxford group, national socialism

Whatever is going on here, it is not science

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:04:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Read more

Clip Source: www.financialpost.com

Only by playing with data can scientists come up with the infamous 'hockey stick' graph of global warming

The often-hyped claim that the modern climate has departed from natural variability depended on flawed statistical methods and low-quality data. The IPCC review process, of which I was a member last time, is nothing at all like what the public has been told: Conflicts of interest are endemic, critical evidence is systematically ignored and there are no effective checks and balances against bias or distortion.

I get exasperated with fellow academics, and others who ought to know better, who pile on to the supposed global warming consensus without bothering to investigate any of the glaring scientific discrepancies and procedural flaws. Over the coming few years, as the costs of global warming policies mount and the evidence of a crisis continues to collapse, perhaps it will become socially permissible for people to start thinking for themselves again.

Brits flee socialized healthcare

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:27:15 GMT

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Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

Brits flee socialized healthcare

Oh, what lovely conditions we have to look forward to should Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore get their way:

Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS – with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.

And by the end of the decade 200,000 “health tourists” will fly as far as Malaysa and South Africa for major surgery to avoid long waiting lists and the rising threat of superbugs, according to a new report.

The first survey of Britons opting for treatment overseas shows that fears of hospital infections and frustration of often waiting months for operations are fuelling the increasing trend.

Patients needing major heart surgery, hip operations and cataracts are using the internet to book operations to be carried out thousands of miles away.

India is the most popular destination for surgery, followed by Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland and Spain. But dozens more countries are attracting health tourists

Tags: healthcare

Brits flee socialized healthcare

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:27:15 GMT

clipped by: billpar

Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

Brits flee socialized healthcare

Oh, what lovely conditions we have to look forward to should Hillary Clinton and Michael Moore get their way:

Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS – with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.

The first survey of Britons opting for treatment overseas shows that fears of hospital infections and frustration of often waiting months for operations are fuelling the increasing trend.

Patients needing major heart surgery, hip operations and cataracts are using the internet to book operations to be carried out thousands of miles away.

India is the most popular destination for surgery, followed by Hungary, Turkey, Germany, Malaysia, Poland and Spain. But dozens more countries are attracting health tourists

Tags: healthcare

A Mind All Logic is Like a Knife All Blade.....

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:59:46 GMT

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Clip Source: allpoetry.com

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941),γ[›] sobriquet Gurudev,δ[›] was an Indian -Bengali polymath. As a poet, novelist, painter ,musician, and playwright, he reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",[1] he became Asia's first Nobel laureate by winning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature

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Facts are cooling off climate alarmism

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:34:14 GMT

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It’s an inconvenient time for world leaders to be speechifying about global warming — earlier this week at the United Nations, today and tomorrow at a G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh. The supposed certainty behind their push for new eco-regulation is melting faster than the Arctic ice.

Global temperatures have held steady for several years, contrary to the expectations of statistical models. This month, a leading German user of these climate models predicted temperatures would fall for “one or two decades” to come.

Why the reprieve? The German, Mojib Latif, cited changing currents in the northern Atlantic Ocean. He even went a step further, saying the currents were also responsible for an unknown portion of the warming in the late 20th century.

There’s more. Writing in the journal Science, a group of scientists has offered a new explanation of how the sun affects the Pacific climate system.

Climate models missed this effect

Climate models have missed a lot

Tags: climate change, global warming, politics, religion, science

A Mind All Logic is Like a Knife All Blade.....

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:59:46 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: allpoetry.com

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Tags: rabindranath tagore

Why Groups and Prejudices Form So Easily: Social Identity Theory

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:53:41 GMT

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Why Groups and Prejudices Form So Easily: Social Identity Theory

This classic social psychology experiment shows how little excuse people need to form into groups and start discriminating against others.

People's behaviour in groups is fascinating and frequently disturbing. As soon as humans are bunched together in groups we start to do odd things: copy other members of our group, favour members of own group over others, look for a leader to worship and fight other groups. Just glance at Sherif's Robbers Cave experiment for proof of how easy it is to provoke war between groups.

social psychologist Henry Tajfel

believed it was possible for a group, along with its attendant prejudices, to form at the drop of a hat

they thought a group could form even when there was no face-to-face contact between members, none of the people knew each other and their 'group' behaviour had no practical consequences. In other words they had absolutely nothing to gain (or lose) from this barely existent group

Wigan3-1 Chelsea

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 19:08:48 GMT

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Wigan secured a famous 3-1 victory over 10-man Chelsea, their first over one of the 'big four' in 35 matches, at the DW Stadium to knock the Blues off the top of the Premier League table.

Titus Bramble headed the Latics in front in the first half, only for Didier Drogba to pull Chelsea level just after the break thanks to an error from Chris Kirkland.

Eight minutes into the second half Hugo Rodallega ran through and was brought down by Chelsea keeper Petr Cech, who was red-carded - and the attacker smacked the spot-kick home.

In injury time Paul Scharner slid in to finish after Maynor Figueroa squared across the six-yard box - and set the home fans celebrating.

It was not less than Wigan deserved as they enjoyed a good deal of the ball after the opening goal against a Chelsea side missing Joe Cole and Michael Ballack, out with a cold and calf injury respectively.

Is the Internet melting our brains?

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:58:59 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: I start with Plato's critique of writing where he says that if we depend on writing, we will lose the ability to remember things. Our memory will become weak. And he also criticizes writing because the written text is not interactive in the way spoken communication is. He also says that written words are essentially shadows of the things they represent. They're not the thing itself. Of course we remember all this because Plato wrote it down -- the ultimate irony.

We hear a thousand objections of this sort throughout history: Thoreau objecting to the telegraph, because even though it speeds things up, people won't have anything to say to one another. Then we have Samuel Morse, who invents the telegraph, objecting to the telephone because nothing important is ever going to be done over the telephone because there's no way to preserve or record a phone conversation.

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Sept. 19, 2009 | By now the arguments are familiar: Facebook is ruining our social relationships; Google is making us dumber; texting is destroying the English language as we know it. We're facing a crisis, one that could very well corrode the way humans have communicated since we first evolved from apes. What we need, so say these proud Luddites, is to turn our backs on technology and embrace not the keyboard, but the pencil.

Such sentiments, in the opinion of Dennis Baron, are nostalgic, uninformed hogwash. A professor of English and linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Baron seeks to provide the historical context that is often missing from debates about the way technology is transforming our lives in his new book, "A Better Pencil." His thesis is clear: Every communication advancement throughout human history, from the pencil to the typewriter to writing itself, has been met with fear, skepticism and a longing for the medium that's been displaced.

Tags: communication media

Is the Internet melting our brains?

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:58:59 GMT

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Tags: communication media