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Music and the Brain

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:15:59 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: Very interesting stuff, suggest to download the pdf file

Over the last two months, Nature has published a series of essays about the latest scientific research into music, and now that the series is complete, it has been made available as a free PDF.

Among the authors of the essays are Aniruddh D. Patel, a theoretical neurobiologist at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, who discusses the brain's response to different varieties of music, and Laurel Trainor, director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind, who explains the neural basis of music perception.

Nature also has a special podcast featuring a discussion between science writer Philip Ball and music psychologist John Sloboda, both of whom contribute essays to the series.

Tags: music, brain, neuroscience

Sam's Mailbox Collection

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:04:59 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug

Clip Source: sblom.com

I have always been impressed by the ability of a craftsman to take a boring mailbox and make it into a thing of interest, adventure or beauty-- Or simply mount it in a way to catch my eye-- We all see them every day but some are really neat-- below are a few that I have taken and yours that have been sent to me but we would also like a picture of the neat mailboxes in your neighborhood--- Below are also links to Fred and Hildegard's pictures.

How babies are delivered~

Beauty of the beetroot

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:52:04 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: Scientists have discovered that beetroot has a remarkable effect on lowering blood pressure. Maria Fitzpatrick tries a medically approved new juice

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Beauty of the beetroot

Scientists have discovered that beetroot has a remarkable effect on lowering blood pressure. Maria Fitzpatrick tries a medically approved new juice

Earlier this year, scientists at Barts and the London School of Medicine found that beetroot juice can have as great an effect on blood pressure as conventional drugs.

the renowned pharmacology centre that discovered how aspirin can prevent heart attacks and strokes - the research team found that just three hours after drinking 500ml of the juice (the equivalent of eating five medium-sized beetroots) there was a significant decrease in volunteers' blood pressure. The remarkable effects were still noticeable 24 hours later.

So how does beetroot work in the body? Like other superfoods, it has antioxidants in abundance, and is rich in iron, boron and folic acid. Betanene, which gives it its deep colour, is even more potent an antioxidant than polyphenols

RARE WINTER - for the first time since 1917

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:55:13 GMT

clipped by: einbar
clipper's remarks: WATCH - Argentinian glacier begins rare winter rupture

Perito Moreno glacier, which breaks apart in annual summer cycles, is cracking apart in winter for the first time since 1917

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Argentinian glacier begins rare winter rupture

Perito Moreno glacier, which breaks apart in annual summer cycles, is cracking apart in winter for the first time since 1917

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Environment (1min 26sec)

Argentinian glacier begins rare winter rupture

New Gmail features protect from snooping

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:48:14 GMT

clipped by: kkcapricorn
clipper's remarks: Sounds OK to me.

Clip Source: www.webmonkey.com

Gmail added protection from unauthorized logins Monday through new features allowing you to monitor usage and sign out remotely.

The features allow you to police your account from snooping family members, stalkers or those who take advantage when you forget to log out at your local internet cafe.

At the bottom of your email account, near where you would see the terms links and copyright information, is the addition of a line of text that alerts you to the last time your account was accessed and a notification indicating if there are any concurrent logins. Clicking on the “Details” link gives you the opportunity to turn the table and spy on the spys.

The monitoring function includes the ability to track user access by browser type, IP address, date and access type (POP3, Browser, Mobile). The “Sign out all other sessions” button, lays the smack down on infiltrating access and is destined to bring fear to the heart of stalkers everywhere.

Bush Cannot Be Held For War Crimes

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:59:57 GMT

clipped by: sahara
clipper's remarks: He made sure to pardon himself some time ago, watch the 2nd video in case you missed that! Yes, that's right, HE PARDONED HIMSELF!!! He knew he was guilty, or why would he have made sure that he could not be held accountable!

Clip Source: blog.puppetgov.com

[Video]

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

President BUSH PARDON's HIMSELF against POTENTIAL WARCRIMES

[Video]

President Bush Passes a Bill giving himself and his whitehouse retroactive immunity for possible war crimes!
Don't you wish we could all do that? NO WAY I WOULD BE A CRIMINAL!
AMERICA WAKE UP and FIGHT BACK!!

this video was from 2006.

Tags: bush, war, crime

The Simpsons!

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:36:10 GMT

clipped by: bignosemousie
clipper's remarks: Check out the whole flickr set, by brantastic. These are great.

Clip Source: www.flickr.com

whycocomagh, nova scotia.

sara and i passed this house in whycocomagh on our way to cape breton island, and were both like, "what the hell? STOP THE CAR." and we turned around and took pictures in some family's front yard. when the lady who owns the house poked her head out, we apologized, but she said she didn't mind that we were there.

it turns out she'd made all of these wooden simpsons cutouts herself, from scratch, as a surprise for her son who was graduating from school.

she told us that he'd worked really hard and only took breaks to watch the simpsons. apparently these took her about three months to do.

10 Reasons The Dark Ages Were Not Dark

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:07:58 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: listverse.com

I believe that we can safely say that the period of man’s history from 476 AD to 1000 AD is the most maligned of all.

Universities Are Born

The Classical Education (still used today in some schools) was the system used by the Universities which were created in the Early Middle Ages (the first in history).

Scientific Foundations Laid

While progress in Science was slow during this period in the West, the progress was steady and of a very high quality

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Carolingian Renaissance

The Carolingian Renaissance was a period of advancements in literature, writing, the arts, architecture, jurisprudence, liturgical and scriptural studies which occurred in the late eighth and ninth centuries.

Byzantine Golden Age

Religious Unity

a sticky topic

Algebra Arrived

Thanks to the learning of the Islamic people in the East, the world received its first book on algebra.

Art and Architecture

Fantastic Weather

Law Becomes Fair

Agricultural Boom

Lawsuit against US Biz's that profited from Apartheid

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:34:54 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: Despite int'l sanctions, some US corporations kept doing business in S Africa during apartheid years, benefiting from legal wage and labor suppression of black people there.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Landmark Case Returns to NY Seeking Millions from Corporations that Profited from South African Apartheid

It seeks damages from the companies for doing business with the apartheid government despite international sanctions and boycotts. The companies include the oil giants BP and ExxonMobil, banks such as Citigroup and UBS, and the car giants General Motors and Ford Motor

The case was initially dismissed in November 2004 but reinstated last October. The Supreme Court was set to rule on the case in May but sent it back to district court after four justices disclosed they own shares in some of the companies named in the suit

I grew up in Port Elizabeth, for instance, which was the headquarters both of Ford and GM, and they were using black labor, but it was very cheap black labor, because there was a law in South Africa which said (a) blacks are not allowed to join trade unions, and (b) they’re not allowed to strike, so that they were forced to accept whatever wages they were given

Tags: race, business

Army hero, child-rescuer, dies of overdose

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:49:54 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: "He wasn't Joseph anymore. Joseph never came home."

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Army Vet Seen in Iconic Photo Dies of Overdose

An Army medic who became famous for being photographed in 2003 carrying an Iraqi child to safety has died at the age of thirty-one after overdosing on a computer cleaner aerosol. Army Specialist Joseph Dwyer had been struggling with post-traumatic stress syndrome. After he returned from Iraq, his marriage fell apart, and he spiraled into substance abuse and depression. In 2005, he shot up his El Paso, Texas apartment and held police at bay for three hours with a 9-mm handgun, believing Iraqis were trying to get in

His mother Maureen Dwyer said

he just couldn’t get over the war. He wasn’t Joseph anymore. Joseph never came home.”

Tags: iraq

Pentagon: Wait ten yrs, we'll give you "safer" cluster bombs

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:55:26 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: A hundred nations have banned them; Clinton admin had similar policy with 2005 deadline; Bushies postpone till 2018.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Pentagon Vows to Build “Safer” Cluster Bombs by 2018

In May, more than 100 countries agreed to ban cluster bombs. But the United States, Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan have refused to agree to the ban.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed a memo requiring that the US build so-called safer cluster bombs—but the rule won’t go into effect until 2018.

In 2001 a defense policy issued by then-Defense Secretary William Cohen called for a similar reduction in submunitions from cluster bombs by 2005. Leahy said, “Now the Bush administration’s ‘new’ policy is to wait another ten years.”

Tags: war

The Last Hero of Tiananmen

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:38:24 GMT

clipped by: kmcolo
clipper's remarks:

After I left his apartment, though, I decided it was unfair to expect the elderly doctor to continue standing up to the party. He had already achieved more than most and paid a price for it. I doubted the government would ever let him visit his daughter and grandson, but how could anyone expect him to give up that hope?There was only so much one man could do, and only so much a nation could ask of him.

Clip Source: www.pekingduck.org

Philip Pan, for years my favorite correspondent in Beijing (he left a few months ago), has written a devastating article about a letter written by a doctor who saw with his own eyes the victims of the massacre on the streets of Beijing n June 4, 1989 and described in detail the carnage he witnessed in the emergency room that night.

When I last visited him, he turned up the volume on his television set because he believed his apartment might be bugged, and he whispered that he was trying to avoid provoking the government. He said he still wanted to visit his daughter and grandson in California, and he believed that, if he behaved, the authorities would give him permission to go. As I listened to him speak, I couldn’t help but feel a pang of disappointment. The state had been unable to break Jiang, but it had succeeded in silencing him.

Tags: china, governance, dictatorship

The Company of Weeds

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:10:33 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad

Clip Source: www-acad.sheridanc.on.ca

The Company of Weeds

Suppose that, after you die, dozens of books are written about your life. Now suppose that almost all of these books are written by people who hated you. Would you still choose fame? This paradox is the destiny of almost every weed.

Fifteen years ago I became interested in weeds. At that time I knew by common name some of the weeds that we fought, year after year, in our garden. These were only a small fraction, though, of the plants I could see along any roadside. I would sometimes hesitate at the margins of my mowing and consider the lush and vegetation that my civilizing act was holding at bay. I wondered, sometimes, at my presumption, dealing out death and decapitation to victims I hardly knew.

A Dying Breed

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:38:08 GMT

clipped by: Socratoad
clipper's remarks: This is so sad Such striking beauty should be preserved.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

A Dying Breed

Herd Extinct: The Ankole cow could disappear within 50 years.

GERSHOM MUGIRA COMES from a long line of cattle-keepers. His people, the Bahima, are thought to have migrated into the hilly grasslands of western Uganda more than a thousand years ago, alongside a hardy breed of longhorns known as the Ankole. For centuries, man and beast subsisted there in a tight symbiotic embrace. Mugira’s nomadic ancestors wandered in search of fresh pasture for their cattle, which in turn provided them with milk. It is only within the last few generations that most Bahima have accepted the concept of private property. Mugira’s family lives on a 500-acre ranch, and one sunny day in November, the wiry 26-year-old showed me around, explaining, with some sadness but more pragmatism, why the Ankole breed that sustained his forebears for so many generations is now being driven to extinction.

What is good about failure?

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:57:53 GMT

clipped by: willhelm

Clip Source: www.positivityblog.com

what is good about failure?

1. You learn.

Instead of seeing failure as something horrible you can start to view it more as a learning experience. When standing in the middle of a failure, you can ask yourself questions like:

What’s awesome about this situation?
What can I learn from this situation?

There is always one lesson or many more in what you may see as a failure.

2. You gain experiences you could not get any other way.

Ideally, you probably want to learn from other people’s mistakes and failures. That’s not always easy to do though. Sometimes you just have to fail on your own to learn a lesson and to gain an experience no one can relate to you in mere words.

3. You become stronger.

4. Your chances of succeeding increases.

Every time you fail you can learn and increase your inner strength.