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the case for non-reductionism

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 09:28:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sounds dry but the science/philosophy of 'wholeism' is inspirational

Special Issue on
Non-Reductionism

“Scientists may be deeply responsible persons...but there is no way internal to science to draw the boundary between responsible and non responsible research projects and applications. This state of affairs can be seen as a consequence... of the overwhelming prevalence of analytic strategies.” more

Tags: reductionism, philosophy, science

Biomimicry talk at TED

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:58:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm into this. Good speaker, twenty minute talk.
Find at http://brianscottdavis.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/biomimicry-talk-from-ted-oxford-2009/

Clip Source: brianscottdavis.wordpress.com

Biomimicry talk from TED Oxford 2009

Tags: biomimicry, science

Obama to right a great wrong

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:17:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It can't come soon enough for 45 million Americans who can't afford health insurance

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

Obama Says Insurance Companies Holding US Hostage

"We are held hostage at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can't afford," Obama told a crowd of some 1,000 people in Montana

Tags: health, justice, politics

20mph limit sought to improve community living

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:06:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Safety is only one aspect of the plan to reduce traffic speed in residential areas.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

charity has called for a new 20mph speed limit across all residential roads in London to encourage a greater sense of safety and community.

The charity will later host an "old-fashioned" street party near east London's Brick Lane to show "what our streets should be used for".

It said London's streets were in danger of losing the social function they had in the past, as they shift from social hubs for the community, into spaces considered no-go areas for children.

Tags: 20mph, environment, safety, traffic

The car should be treated as a guest in residential areas

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:32:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When a horse gallops it travels at 30mph. When it trots it moves at 20. Would you gallop a horse in a residential area? Of course not. So why travel in your car at 30?

Clip Source: www.baltimorespokes.org

We are killing our children to save less than three minutes on our journeys.

Most child pedestrian road deaths would be averted if people drove at 20mph in side streets. As few places are more than a mile from a main road, few journeys involve more than two miles on side roads (a mile at each end). The difference between driving two miles at 20mph and at 40mph is 3 minutes.

A recognition that motorists are solely responsible for the injuries that occur in accidents in residential side streets to the extent that they exceed those that might have been expected at 20mph. The concept of contributory negligence by pedestrians should apply only to injuries that would have been likely to have occurred anyway at 20mph. Any excess over that should be the motorist’s fault.

Ideally we need to reshape streets so that they are used primarily for community use and the vehicle is a guest

Tags: 20mph, speed, safety, environment

Monistic idealism

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:44:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Anyone would want to believe that this is true. Read about it and see if you can be convinced.

Clip Source: kimgraaemunch.wordpress.com

Quantum physics and Consciousness

Quantum physics, as well as a number of other modern sciences, he feels, is demonstrating that the essential unity underlying all of reality is a fact which can be experimentally verified. Because of the enormous implications he sees in this scientific confirmation of the spiritual, Goswami is ardently devoted to explaining his theory to as many people as possible in order to help bring about what he feels is a much needed paradigm shift. He feels that because science is now capable of validating mysticism, much that before required a leap of faith can now be empirically proven and, hence, the materialist paradigm which has dominated scientific and philosophical thought for over two hundred years can finally be called into question.

Goswami is convinced

that the universe, in order to exist, requires a conscious sentient being to be aware of it.

Without an observer, he claims, it only exists as a possibility

Tags: philosophy, monistic idealism

Obama launches vigorous health campaign

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:12:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: what an inspiration!

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Obama launches campaign urging Congress to pass healthcare reform

President Barack Obama has launched a vigorous campaign to force an overhaul of healthcare through Congress within weeks, and extend affordable medical insurance to all Americans, as the centrepiece of his domestic agenda is threatened by Republicans exploiting divisions in the president's party and rising public anxiety over the cost of reform.

Tags: health, healthcare, usa, leadership, statesmanship

airplanes in formation save fuel

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:58:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We all know that geese are saving energy by flying in formation, this research evaluates the amount and finds it significant.

Clip Source: news.stanford.edu

Three airplanes, flying three to five miles behind each other, would save fuel by staying in formation.

To calculate differences in fuel efficiency, the team used performance models of the airline's planes. Flight plans similar to what the team proposes could yield fuel savings of up to 12 percent, Schwartz said.

In addition to saving fuel, formation flight can cut emissions of the greenhouse gases known as nitrogen oxides by one fourth.

Tags: energy, environment

Major British political party gives thumbs down to nuclear weapons

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:30:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They get my vote. You know it makes sense.

Clip Source: www.ekklesia.co.uk

Church campaigners have been cheered by the news that the Liberal Democrats have become the first of the biggest parties to declare they will not renew Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system.

The Guardian newspaper reports that a paper prepared for Nick Clegg now talks of total costs amounting to between £94.7 billion and £104.2 billion, suggesting Trident could consume 9.97 per cent to 10.97 per cent of the defence budget.

Clegg told the BBC: "New leadership in Russia, new leadership obviously in the White House and a wider geo-strategic appreciation means that a cold war missile system designed to penetrate Soviet defences and land in Moscow and St Petersburg at any time, in any weather, from any location anywhere round the planet, is not our foremost security challenge now. We have got to be grown-up and honest about it.

"We have to be realistic and candid about what we can and can't afford as a nation”.

Tags: nuclear weapons, war, defence, sanity.

Body Movements Help Problem-Solving

Wed, 13 May 2009 13:09:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When much younger I found that if I walked around the garden I could learn poetry much more easily than when sitting still

Clip Source: psychcentral.com

Body Movements Help Problem-Solving

As most exercisers have experienced, performance of physical activity is often accompanied by clarity of thought. A new study supports this premise as investigators demonstrated that the brain can use bodily cues to help understand and solve complex problems.

The study, appearing in an upcoming issue of the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, is the first to show that a person’s ability to solve a problem can be influenced by how he or she moves.

Even after successfully solving the problem, almost none of the study subjects became consciously aware of any connection between the physical activity they engaged in and the solution they found.

The new findings offer new insight into what researchers call “embodied cognition,” which describes the link between body and mind, Lleras said.

“People tend to think that their mind lives in their brain, dealing in conceptual abstractions, very much disconnected from the body,” he said.

nuclear weapons: good news on START replacement

Tue, 05 May 2009 10:16:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obama continues his good work

Clip Source: www.truthout.org

Talks between the US and Russia on reducing nuclear stockpiles will begin in May. (Photo: Reuters Pictures)

Moscow - Russian and US officials will meet in Moscow next month for the first round of negotiations to replace a Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty, the Russian foreign ministry said Monday.

Earlier this month US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev pledged to seek a successor agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) by the time it expires in December.

Signed in 1991, START placed strict limits on the number of missiles and warheads in the US and Russian nuclear arsenals, leading to steep reductions in the nuclear arsenals of both sides. But the agreement expires on December 5 of this year.

"As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act," Obama said in a speech in Prague on April 5. "We cannot succeed in this endeavour alone, but we can lead it."

Tags: nuclear weapons, negotiations

It'll take one minute to send this humanitarian email

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:52:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You've got to do it.

Clip Source: takeaction.amnestyusa.org

Don't let Fathi el-Jahmi die in detention

Libyan Journalists, writers and political activists who criticize the authorities or seek to organize peaceful demonstrations risk arrest, torture and other forms of ill-treatment. Fathi el-Jahmi has been detained for more than 5 years after bravely speaking out for political reforms in Libya. He suffers from heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes, and his health is reportedly deteriorating. » Background Information

Tags: human rights, libya, amnesty international

Great presidential leadership, an example by Ike.

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:44:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It takes courage and vision to be able to stand up to strong political lobbies. I think Obama can do the same. Readable article, I didn't know about this history.

Clip Source: 100days.blogs.nytimes.com

How to End a War, Eisenhower’s Way

President Obama’s unscheduled visit to Iraq suggests a president determined to see a war zone first hand and draw his own conclusions. Lincoln availed himself of that opportunity during the Civil War, but the most pertinent example may be Dwight D. Eisenhower, who toured the battlefront in Korea shortly before his inauguration. Ike had pledged to go to Korea if elected, and most voters assumed that the supreme commander — who had so effectively defeated the German Wehrmacht — would quickly dispatch the North Koreans and their Chinese allies.

In bringing peace to Korea — a peace that has endured for over fifty years — Eisenhower asserted his personal authority as commander in chief. Perhaps only a five-star general could ignore his party’s old guard and overrule the country’s national security establishment, almost all of whom believed that military victory in Korea was essential.

Tags: statecraft, defence, defense, korea, war, eisenhower, obama

The design of streets, guidance in the UK

Sat, 04 Apr 2009 22:52:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A manual has just been produced for town designers. If implemented it will mean that the pedestrian and cyclist are top of the hierarchy in town streets rather than the motor car. Much overdue in my opinion. The cameraman has an unfortunate habit of falling asleep occasionally

Clip Source: blip.tv

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Tags: manual for streets, 20mph, environment

start watching this cycling video at 4mins 23secs into it

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:23:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the guy's a genius

Clip Source: cyclinginfo.co.uk

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Cycling Video

February 21st, 2009 — video

Tags: cycling