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Continental Philosophy

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:20:32 GMT

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Continental Philosophy

A Bulletin Board for Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy and More…

Black and White Body Bits

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:44:46 GMT

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Borderlands Sciences Research Foundation

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:26:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Alternative Science has been known under many titles for thousands of years. It has always been an alternative science because it requires the investigator to go outside of their normal perceptions. Shamans and healers of all ages share a common heritage with the Alternative Scientist. A world of patterns, geometry and subtle radiation are operative to both. Alternative science struggles with language to describe the experience of subtle energy. Teaching how to manipulate this subtle energy has always been a challenge. Borderland Sciences preserves this collection so you can aquire your own education.MORE!

20th Century Collection These research texts provide a look into the early resarch of subtle energy by qualified scienctist before teh materialistic paradigm squeezed vitalism out of the picture.many of these texts hold secrets and models of the physical universe that were classified when they were completely worked out by academic engineers. Drink from the Source.

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BORDERLAND SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Borderland Sciences was founded by Meade Layne in 1945 for the purpose of investigating into realms normally beyond the range of basic human perception and physical measurement.

Today, Borderland Sciences continues to be the premier information resource for discerning scholars and advanced researchers on the frontiers of science and awareness.

The primary function we have served for the past 63 years is both the advancement and preservation of Lost Science. A quick look at the catalog will demonstrate the extent of our rare collection.

The Journal of Borderland Research/Round Robin has been a repository of countless observations and unique research by Borderland Science Research Associates for 63 years. All the back issues to 1945 are available.

There is nothing quite like the acquisition of knowledge. The lamp of Borderland Sciences shines in the darkness lighting a path for the intrepid investigatior. This is the essential curriculum!

A Really Long Strange Trip

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:21:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Despite the long-held promise that such substances might reveal the secrets of the conscious mind, the study of hallucinogenic compounds has always been controversial. Once a thriving area of research, projects like these ground to a halt in the late 1960s when a media frenzy over rampant recreational use led the federal government to criminalize both psilocybin and LSD.

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How some dedicated scientists and former flower children managed to bring hallucinogenic drug research back to mainstream labs after more than 30 years.

It's been more than a year since , a professor of pastoral counseling at Loyola College, ingested psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.

He claims that the series of three eight-hour highs

have made him a calmer, less fearful person

It gave me this sense that space and time are human constructions that can collapse

The ultimate reality is something beyond those constructions, and more importantly, everything in the world is connected."

These are familiar sentiments to , the scientist who led a study of 36 volunteers, most of whom detailed similar experiences after taking the hallucinogenic compound.

In a report published on July 1st in the Journal of Pharmacology, more than 60 percent of those intrepid volunteers reported substantial increases in life satisfaction a year after the experiment.

Tags: hallucinigens, drug research, society and drugs

Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:31:39 GMT

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1- Add a Fresh Splash to your Design

learn several techniques for enhancing a basic banner design for a product or servic

2- 10 Great Sites for GIMP Tutorials and Guides

10 fantastic sites for learning and using

“GIMP”

3- Trendy Geometric Lines Design Tutorial

create a group of vector based geometric lines at dynamic 45 degree angles, then follow the walkthrough to rough them up with brush textures in Adobe Photoshop

4- How To Make An Awesome Grungy Paper Texture From Scratch

5- Photoshop: Hand Drawn Design

how to create a hand drawn design in Photoshop using the blending mode and alpha channel

6- Sleek Phone Advertisement

will show you guys how to make a very interesting and sleek Phone Advertising wallpaper

7- Create an Energy Drink Ad Design

a flexible design solution that you can use to create one for an energy drink

8- Illustrate a Fun Magnify Zoom Icon

9- 15 Great Tutorials on Grunge Design Styles!

Beautiful Black And White Photography

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:45:48 GMT

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Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography

Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:23:18 GMT

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Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?

Millions of Americans are embarrassingly ill-informed and they do not care that they are.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

Just how stupid are we? Pretty stupid, it would seem, when we come across headlines like this: "Homer Simpson, Yes -- 1st Amendment 'Doh,' Survey Finds" (Associated Press 3/1/06).

"About 1 in 4 Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half of Americans can name at least two members of the fictional cartoon family, according to a survey.
"The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just 1 in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms."

Crossed (evolutionary) signals?

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:43:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Animals depend on tyrosine phosphorylation to conduct a number of important communications between their cells, including immune system responses, hormone system stimulation and other crucial functions. These phospho-tyrosine signaling pathways utilize a three-part system of molecular components to make these communications possible.

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think.

New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins that cells in more complex organisms, including humans, use to communicate with each other.

According to a paper published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, these findings help confirm choanoflagellates' role as an evolutionary link between single-celled and multi-celled organisms.

They also contend that these insights into the organism's genome may mean that the proteins used to help cells communicate may have other roles as well.

By analyzing the recently-sequenced choanoflagellate genome, the researchers discovered another similarity between choanoflagellates and most metazoans--their genetic code caries the markers of three types of molecules that cells use to achieve phospho-tyrosine signaling proteins.

Tags: evolution, dna, cell signalling

I Wish my Name was Jessica

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:39:28 GMT

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Ignored Psych Patient Dies on Hospital Floor

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:53:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Go to source to see video, where a doctor and security guard just walk away and ignore her.

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Ignored Psych Patient Dies on Hospital Floor

Video Shows Death in NYC Hospital Already Faces a Lawsuit for 'Squalid' Psych Care

At 5:32 a.m. June 19, a woman in a hospital gown in the waiting area of the psychiatric emergency room of a New York City hospital topples first to her knees before collapsing on her face.

A full hour passes. Other people stream in and out of the waiting room, including hospital security guards. The woman writes something on the ground before going completely still. Finally, someone takes notice and alerts the staff. But by then, at 6:36 a.m., the woman is already dead.

Even pared down to a few minutes, the hour-long surveillance video is disturbing.

The woman, 49-year-old Esmin Green, died on the floor of the waiting room at the Kings County Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Department. Her exact cause of death has not been released.

s woman falling to the floor of a N.Y. hospital.

Surveillance footage show

Tags: healthcare, poor, disabled

Earth's Cries Recorded in Space

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:08:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now we will probably have some intergalactic visitor tell us to quieten down or they will put a by pass through our orbit.

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Earth emits an ear-piercing series of chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, astronomers have discovered.

The sound is awful, a new recording from space reveals.

Scientists have known about the radiation since the 1970s. It is created high above the planet, where charged particles from the solar wind collide with Earth's magnetic field. It is related to the phenomenon that generates the colorful aurora, or Northern Lights.

The radio waves are blocked by the ionosphere, a charged layer atop our atmosphere, so they do not reach Earth. That's good, because the out-of-this-world radio waves are 10,000 times stronger than even the strongest military signal, the researchers said, and they would overwhelm all radio stations on the planet.

Theorists had long figured the radio waves, which were not well studied, oozed into space in an ever-widening cone, like light from a torch.

Tags: sshhhh, the, martians, will, hear, you

Shift Happens

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:54:45 GMT

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This is a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fi more

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Watermelon May Have Viagra-effect

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:11:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In watermelons, these include lycopene, beta carotene and the rising star among its phyto-nutrients – citrulline – whose beneficial functions are now being unraveled. Among them is the ability to relax blood vessels, much like Viagra does.
Scientists know that when watermelon is consumed, citrulline is converted to arginine through certain enzymes. Arginine is an amino acid that works wonders on the heart and circulation system and maintains a good immune system, Patil said.

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A cold slice of watermelon has long been a Fourth of July holiday staple. But according to recent studies, the juicy fruit may be better suited for Valentine’s Day. That’s because scientists say watermelon has ingredients that deliver Viagra-like effects to the body’s blood vessels and may even increase libido.

“The more we study watermelons, the more we realize just how amazing a fruit it is in providing natural enhancers to the human body,” said Dr. Bhimu Patil, director of Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center in College Station.

“We’ve always known that watermelon is good for you, but the list of its very important healthful benefits grows longer with each study.”

Beneficial ingredients in watermelon and other fruits and vegetables are known as phyto-nutrients, naturally occurring compounds that are bioactive, or able to react with the human body to trigger healthy reactions, Patil said.

Tags: watermelon, fruit, health, viagra

Wonderful Kurt Vonnegut Interview

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:25:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Well worth the whole read...I loved Vonnegut.

Clip Source: cathy-edgett.livejournal.com

As war against Iraq looms, I asked Vonnegut, a reader and supporter of this magazine, to weigh in. Vonnegut is an American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Victor Debs, a fellow Hoosier whom he likes to quote: “As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

—Joel Bleifuss

You have lived through World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Reagan wars, Desert Storm, the Balkan wars and now this coming war in Iraq. What has changed, and what has remained the same?

even somebody as old as I am, which is 80, only just got here. There were already all these games going on when I got here. … An apt motto for any polity anywhere, to put on its state seal or currency or whatever, might be this quotation from the late baseball manager Casey Stengel, who was addressing a team of losing professional athletes: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”

10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:34:22 GMT

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Clip Source: scienceblogs.com

Although the brain-computer metaphor has served cognitive psychology well, research in cognitive neuroscience has revealed many important differences between brains and computers. Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence. Below, I review the most important of these differences (and the consequences to cognitive psychology of failing to recognize them): similar ground is covered in this excellent (though lengthy) lecture.

Difference # 1: Brains are analogue; computers are digital

Difference # 2: The brain uses content-addressable memory

Difference # 3: The brain is a massively parallel machine; computers are modular and serial

Difference # 4: Processing speed is not fixed in the brain; there is no system clock

Difference # 5 - Short-term memory is not like RAM

Difference # 6: No hardware/software distinction can be made with respect to the brain or mind

Tags: computers, brains, metaphors

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Continental Philosophy

Continental Philosophy

A Bulletin Board for Continental Philosophy, History of Philosophy and More…

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Black and White Body Bits

Borderlands Sciences Research Foundation

BORDERLAND SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION

A Really Long Strange Trip

Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials

Beautiful Black And White Photography

Beautiful Black-And-White-Photography

Ignorant America: Just How Stupid Are We?

Crossed (evolutionary) signals?

I Wish my Name was Jessica

Ignored Psych Patient Dies on Hospital Floor

Ignored Psych Patient Dies on Hospital Floor

Video Shows Death in NYC Hospital Already Faces a Lawsuit for 'Squalid' Psych Care

Earth's Cries Recorded in Space

Shift Happens

Watermelon May Have Viagra-effect

Wonderful Kurt Vonnegut Interview

10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers