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Bringing Out The Beauty

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:45:26 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: A powerful moment. Like the one where someone told me why they stay behind the lens instead of if front of it.

Clip Source: www.peoplejam.com

It's that moment when the woman of the week
gets 'it'. That moment when she loves her body, loves herself, sees the
beauty standing there in the body she is currently living in.

No surgery. No painful diets. Not even exercise unless the woman
chooses to firm up the 'wobbly bits', as the host, Gok Wan calls them. I
understand there is a U.S. version of this show but I love Gok. He
genuinely sees the beauty of a woman and reflects it back to them until
they see it for themselves. That is a powerful moment.

One reason I love this show so much is because distorted body image
is a pet peeve of mine. I struggle with it myself although not so much
lately. As I've grown older I've learned to appreciate this body that holds me, providing protection for my heart and soul.

We're made to feel afraid and less than by the marketing
images all around us. We're afraid to look different, smell different
or even act in our own best interest when it might make us stand out

sn't it time to love yourself?

The Brain Unmasked

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:37:22 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.technologyreview.com

New imaging technologies reveal the intricate architecture of the brain, creating a blueprint of its connectivity.

Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) is one of these twists. It uses magnetic resonance signals to track the movement of water molecules in the brain: water diffuses along the length of neural wires, called axons. Scientists can use these diffusion measurements to map the wires, creating a detailed blueprint of the brain's connectivity.

Clip Source: www.technologyreview.com

On the next page is an animation of the wiring of a marmoset monkey.

Clip Source: www.technologyreview.com

The marmoset brain, shown above, is about the size of a plum. By scanning a dissected brain for 24 hours, scientists were able to generate a map with a spatial resolution of 400 microns. "The image quality and resolution are much higher than we can obtain in a living subject," says Wedeen.

Clip Source: www.technologyreview.com

Tags: science, neuroscience, brain

2832 Old Versions of 193 programs

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:03:09 GMT

clipped by: swampfoxz
clipper's remarks: For those ,like me,who prefered some older versions of programs.Connections are tough though.You need to wait till late at night.

Clip Source: www.oldapps.com

Now Providing 2832 Old Versions of 193 programs

Video Utilities

Utilities

CD and DVD Tools

Image Editing

Security Tools

Office and Editing

FTP Clients

Developer Tools

File Archivers

Email Utilities

Drivers

Tags: old versions

A human brain in action ...Amazing :-)

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:40:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: stressbuster1.com

Very scary headline!!!

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:30:43 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: Would the U.S. really go for this? I just can't fathom it.

Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

Second President Bush floats prospect of a third

Tags: bush, politics

7 Writing Habits of Amazing Writers

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:48:57 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth
clipper's remarks: This extremely prolific writer has won numerous awards, including the National Book Award. She writes in longhand, and while she doesn’t have a formal schedule, she says she prefers to write in the morning, before breakfast . She’s a creative writing professor, and on the days she teaches, she says she writes for an hour or 45 minutes before leaving for her first class. On other days, when the writing is going well, she can work for hours without a break — and has breakfast at 2 or 3 in the afternoon!

Clip Source: writetodone.com

1. Stephen King. In his book On Writing, King says that he writes 10 pages a day without fail, even on holidays.

2. Ernest Hemingway. By contrast with King, “Papa” Hemingway wrote 500 words a day.

3. Vladimir Nabokov. The author of such great novels as Lolita, Pale Fire and Ada did his writing standing up, and all on index cards.

4. Truman Capote. The author of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood” claimed to be a “completely horizontal author.” He said he had to write lying down, in bed or on a couch, with a cigarette and coffee.

5. Philip Roth. One of the greatest living American writers, Roth works standing up, pacing around as he thinks. He claimed to walk half a mile for every page he writes.

6. James Joyce

Joyce prided himself in taking his time with each sentence. A famous story has a friend asking Joyce in the street if he’d had a good day writing. Yes, Joyce replied happily. How much had he written? Three sentences, Joyce told him.

7. Joyce Carol Oates

what stumbleupon says about search?

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:08:15 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: We need search as a tool to get us from here to there online or for quick information lookups. But we also need alternative mechanisms to help us discover content and information we otherwise might not have known.
After all, I don’t know what I don’t know...confused? read the entire story

Clip Source: gesterling.wordpress.com

There are two news items today that speak to a similar theme: the limitations of search. Search is a remarkably powerful tool and has become the de facto way people find their way around the Internet (bookmarks are dead, though RSS/feeds are on the rise). But it has numerous limitations as a content discovery tool.

Item number 1: eBay is reportedly acquiring StumbleUpon (per TechCrunch).

Item number 2: Google is introducing “queryless search” (personal recommendations based on search history and group behavior for registered Google users).

As Chris Sherman points out, Google’s personalized recommendations is similar to StumbleUpon. Google in introducing this is seeking to offer a way for users to discover content that doesn’t involve their active “searching” for it. In the frenzy surrounding search as a kind of metaphor for everything what has been lost is a kind of “serendipitous” discovery of content.

you might never have discovered

In StumbleUpon the community surfaces sites

Tags: interesting, ebay, stumbleupon, google, search engine.

Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:50:26 GMT

clipped by: wildcat
clipper's remarks: Subtle refinements in brain architecture, rather than large-scale alterations, make us smarter than other animals

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

The human brain lacks conspicuous characteristics—such as relative or absolute size—that might account for humans’ superior intellect.

Researchers have found some clues to humanity’s aptitude on a smaller scale, such as more neurons in our brain’s outermost layer.

Human intelligence may be best likened to an upgrade of the cognitive capacities of nonhuman primates rather than an exceptionally advanced form of cognition.

As far as we know, no dog can compose music, no dolphin can speak in rhymes, and no parrot can solve equations with two unknowns. Only humans can perform such intellectual feats, presumably because we are smarter than all other animal species—at least by our own definition of intelligence.

Of course, intelligence must emerge from the workings of the three-pound mass of wetware packed inside our skulls

Thus, researchers have tried to identify unique features of the human brain that could account for our superior intellectual abilities

Tags: brain, mind, evolution, intelligence

(almost) Instant sore throat cure

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:49:47 GMT

clipped by: rainfever
clipper's remarks: yup, just gettin over a sore throat myself, gonna try this tonight and see if it improves my slightly sore throat....wish I'd found this a week ago.

Clip Source: www.myfinancialjourney.com

Frugal cure for a sore throat

Posted by MFJ under General , Frugality

Clip Source: www.myfinancialjourney.com

I’ve been sick for most of the week and last couple days I have had a really bad sore throat. I had been sucking on cough drops and other common things to try to relieve my sore throat, but it kept getting worse and worse, to the point where I could barely manage to swallow. As a kid I had tonsillitis and strep throat probably on average 5-6 times a year, but back then it was taboo to take your tonsils out so I spent a fair share of my time at the doctors office and on amoxicillin and other antibiotics. Well I hadn’t had strep in a long time and was worried that this had to be strep again. I was just dying so as usual I went to the internet to find a solution.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and I am only posting this because I heard such great things about it and had such wonderful results myself, please consult with your physician before trying this magical elixir.

Tags: sore throat, sick, remedy, feel good, pepper

The (Arrogant) One

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:08:03 GMT

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Clip Source: gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

"I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

B. H. Obama
Meeting With House Democrats
July 29, 2008

...And, with that he blessed the fishes and the 5 loaves of bread and fed the gathering worshippers until they had eaten enough.
And, it was good.

Obama was waxing lyrical about last week's trip to Europe, when he concluded, according to the meeting attendee, "this is the moment, as Nancy [Pelosi] noted, that the world is waiting for."

Halleluiah!

Warner Todd Huston adds:

This is the sort of thing if said by a Republican would be hung around that candidate’s neck like a mill stone. The epithet of “arrogant” would be the tail pinned forever to him and would appear in every single news story. Should a Republican bespeak of himself in such terms, he’d be branded the next Hitler leading us all to ruin.

In response, the GOP released "Audacity Watch" today.

Tags: obama, politics, religion

Seized by Alzheimer’s, Then Love

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:18:40 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: Heart-warming story...

Clip Source: well.blogs.nytimes.com

Institutionalized patients, including those with Alzheimer’s, sometimes find new romance. (Marko Georgiev/The New York Times)

Sometimes Alzheimer’s disease means losing a loved one twice.

As the disease ravages the brain and erases memory, patients who have been married for years, even most of their lives, may stop recognizing their spouses. And sometimes, in a phenomenon rarely discussed, husbands and wives find they must watch helplessly as patients fall in love with someone entirely new.

The romantic lives of Alzheimer’s patients made headlines this week with news that the 77-year-old husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, John Jay O’Connor III, has found companionship with a woman in the nursing home in which he lives. The two patients reportedly spend time together and hold hands, even in the presence of Justice O’Connor.

Let them have a friend, if it buys them a day of happiness

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, INDIA!

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:27:08 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: However your country is, however your politicians are, however the weather, the circumstances, the terror strikes, the price hikes, the conditions of living are...
there is something that pulls and chains you strongly and emotionally to your mother country!
Love you India!!!

Clip Source: www.google.co.in

Top Ten Spices That Defend You Against Aging

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:48:13 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee

Clip Source: articles.mercola.com

Herbs and spices are rich in antioxidants, and they are also potent inhibitors of tissue damage and inflammation caused by high levels of blood sugar.

When researchers tested extracts from 24 common herbs and spices, they found a direct correlation between antioxidant phenol content and the ability of the extracts to block the formation of compounds that contribute to damage caused by diabetes and aging.

Cloves (ground)

Cinnamon (ground)

Jamaican allspice (ground)

Apple pie spice (mixture)

Oregano (ground)

Pumpkin pie spice (mixture)

Marjoram

Sage

Thyme

Gourmet Italian spice

This is not the first time scientists have declared culinary herbs and spices as potent anti-diabetic alternatives.

Cinnamon and cinnamon extracts have previously been shown to effectively lower blood sugar. As a matter of fact, cinnamon was found to increase glucose metabolism 20-fold, in one such study!

1 in 4 Americans Now Suffer From Pre-Diabetes or Some Form of Diabetes

The Male Brain, Explained

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:16:38 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: "We have been assuming that the ways in which emotions are organized in the brain are essentially similar in men and women," but they aren't. Parts of the limbic cortex, which is involved in emotional responses, are smaller in men than in women. Additionally, scientists at McMaster University have found that guys have a smaller density of neurons in areas of the temporal lobe that deal with language processing.

Appreciate his naturally upbeat nature

Does he seem to be "up" most of the time? It's not your imagination: Male brains produce 52 percent more serotonin (the chemical that influences mood) than female brains, according to a study done at McGill University. And studies show that fewer men than women suffer from depression.

Remember his brain is his largest sex organ

The preoptic area of the hypothalamus is greater in volume, in cross-sectional area and in the number of cells. This area of the hypothalamus is in charge of mating behavior.

Clip Source: lifestyle.msn.com

Women have puzzled over it for years—why the heck do men do the things they do? Why do they profess their love for you one minute, then ignore you the next (say, when an Attila the Hun special turns up on TV)? Why can they not remember our birthdays? Let science explain some of these conundrums—and help you rev up your relationships!

Be patient with his memory

The hippocampus, where initial memories are formed, occupies a smaller percent of the male brain than the female brain. If on your first date he can't remember where you work, even though you told him all about it when you met, just remember that size matters … hippocampus size, that is. Don't take it personally.

Don't expect him to get hints

Have a crush on him? You may have to put it out there, because men aren't as skilled at women at reading subtle emotional cues. As Dr. Larry Cahill of the University of California at Irvine puts it,

Tags: male, romantic/sexual/behavior, read the female brain, explained

What is going on, for God's sake???

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:06:31 GMT

clipped by: mugofcoffee
clipper's remarks: Uncle Sam Wants Your Brain

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

By Brandon Keim

Drugs that make soldiers want to fight. Robots linked directly to their controllers' brains. Lie-detecting scans administered to terrorist suspects as they cross U.S. borders.

These are just a few of the military uses imagined for cognitive science -- and if it's not yet certain whether the technologies will work, the military is certainly taking them very seriously.

Mind reading.

Mind readers could be used to interrogate captured enemies, as well as "terrorist suspects" passing through customs. But does this mean, for example, that travelers placed on the bloated, mistake-laden watchlist would have their minds scanned, just as their computers will be?

Cognitive enhancement.

Mind control. Largely pharmaceutical, for the moment, and a natural outgrowth of cognitive enhancement approaches and mind-reading insight: If we can alter the brain, why not control it?

Brain-Machine Interfaces.

Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience and Related Technologies [National Academies Press]