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GoAbroad

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:59:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Social Network Site for traveling

Minke whales shedding blubber

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:56:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The study is Japanese which puts the problem in a nut shell. They say the whales are 'suffering' because of a low krill number. What is significant about that?
Tuna eat krill.

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Japanese scientists have released a study that suggests whales are losing blubber because ocean resources are growing scarce, a claim discounted by others as flawed.

The study, which was published in Polar Biology, after several other journals rejected it, was based on the research of 6779 whales, of which more than 4500 were killed - including some which were pregnant.

It found that the oceans are facing a shortfall of krill, a vital component of the food chain, due to climate change and the recovery of species such as humpback whales.

According to the study, Antarctic minke whales have shed on average 9% of their blubber during the past 18 years, corresponding to an annual weight loss of 17 kilograms.

Minke whales swim to the Antarctic every summer to feed, and to warm waters during the winter to breed.

Blubber is vital for whales because it helps to retain heat in cold waters and store energy and nutrition.

Massive police raids - Like they do in Iraq

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:03:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.salon.com

Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis

Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets. Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff's department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration, charging them with no crime other than "fire code violations," and early this morning, the Sheriff's department sent teams of officers into at least four Minneapolis area homes where suspected protesters were staying.

the dreambody

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:39:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the cutting edge of therapy

Clip Source: www.shrinkrapradio.com

#170 - From Dreambody to Worldwork

Drs. Arnold and Amy Mindell come out of the Jungian tradition and have been doing pioneering work around the world.

Dr. Amy Mindell is in private therapeutic practice in Portland, Oregon and teaches in many countries in the world. She helped developed process oriented psychology in the areas of coma, creativity, and dance. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology and is a diplomate of the Process Oriented Psychology Center of Zurich. She wrote Metaskills: The Spiritual Art of Therapy, Riding the Horse Backwards with Arny, Coma, a Healing Journey, and An Alternative to Therapy as well as many papers in professional journals. Her work with art, music and puppets appears in her newest book “The Dreaming Source of Creativity”. Her studies of the feeling skills in therapy, or “metaskills”, are at the core of much of her work.

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Tags: mindell, dreams, dreambody, processwork, somatics

Minneapolis Gestapo try to sqelch Protest planners

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:58:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sickenin to see this happenin but no surprise to me since I saw it in Berkeley in '68-9-'70 for a patch of garden in a parkin lot.

Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.

Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com reports that protesters in Minneapolis, where the Republican National Convention will soon begin, have been subjected to massive, pre-emptive police raids. Those arrested include members of Food not Bombs, and a group calling itself the "RNC Welcoming Committee," and a group that uses video to protect civil liberties by documenting p

involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets. Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff's department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration

A Fascist Regime (Pre-RNC Raids)

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:04:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://theuptake.org/

Clip Source: www.salon.com

the crime they were charged with is "conspiracy to commit riot

pre-emeptive arrests of those who are peacefully protesting

mass raids in their homes

police state

[Video]

Clip Source: www.minnesotaindependent.com

Tags: freedom

Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:31:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The hammer is coming down in Minneapolis in advance of the Republican National Convention. Unlike Denver which saw no protests to speak of, RNCC is expecting trouble.

My friend Jane Hamsher and Glenn Greenwald are covering activities by the various local and federal police agencies working in concert together to disrupt the protestors in advance of the convention.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis

UPDATE: Here is the first of the videos, from the house that had just been raided:

[Video]

Tags: police state america, protests, rncc, 2008, minneapolis

Police Raid Homes in Twin Cities Prior to RNC

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:15:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The above is from Glenn Greenwald. As is always the case with Greenwald's posts, it's worth reading in its entirety.

While it seems at first read to be a preemptive attempt to stop protests, a moment's thought should tell you that it guarantees them. In fact, it may even provoke violence.

While I hesitate to say that the St. Paul police are trying to ensure riots for the networks, I can't say it doesn't look like they are.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

Here is the first of the videos, from the house that had just been raided:

[Video]

Here is the video we took from the second house as the raid was occurring.

[Video]

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'Killing bacteria with cannabis"

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:54:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2008/08/26/killing-bacteria-with-cannabis

Clip Source: arstechnica.com

Pharmacists and chemists have found another use for the multipurpose cannabis as a source of antibacterial chemicals for multidrug resistant bacteria. Ironically, inhaling cannabis is known to damage the lung's ability to fend off invading pathogens, but the ingredients in cannabis, particularly the cannabinoids, have antiseptic properties. Although scattered research has been conducted since the 1950s, no comprehensive study existed that relates the structure of cannabinoids with antibacterial activity. Giovanni Appendino, Simon Gibbons, and coworkers attempted to remedy that problem by examining the activity of five common cannabinoids and their synthetic derivatives.

All five cannabinoids (THC, CBD, CBG, CBC, and CBN) were potent against bacteria. Notably, they performed well against bacteria that were known to be multidrug resistant, like the strains of MRSA that plagued U.K. hospitals. CBD and CBG have the most potential for consumer use because they are nonpsychotropic.

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Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:25:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 18 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed

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Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:24:46 GMT

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Juan Cole on Biden: he reads journals!!

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:46:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "It struck me as the sort of thing that should happen in our democracy every day-- you write something in your specialty, and your elected representative calls you to talk about it. No lobbies, think tanks, etc. involved." That's high praise! Imagine having a VP informed by people who've given their lives to studying these issues, rather than people trying to angle for more money. Contrast it, for instance, with Cheney's energy policy crew of rich industry insiders.

Clip Source: www.juancole.com

Sen. Biden called me to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Iraq in April 2004, when there was heavy fighting between the Mahdi Army and the US military. He did so on the basis of a journal article I had written on the Sadr Movement in the Middle East Journal, which he had read. That knocked my socks off. People in Washington don't often read journal articles. It struck me as the sort of thing that should happen in our democracy every day-- you write something in your specialty, and your elected representative calls you to talk about it. No lobbies, think tanks, etc. involved.

So it was a positive impression! And in the hearing he was informed and articulate.

A warm congratulations to Senator Joe Biden on his VP candidate position on the Democratic ticket!

Tags: biden

But is it art ? what makes a science-inspired image truly "art"?

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:40:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "that question prompted quite a bit of debate : what makes a science-inspired image truly "art"? Perhaps there is a debate, not so much because Frankel is blurring boundaries, but because she has raised the standard for scientific visualization to an unprecedented high level, making it much harder to tell the difference."

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but is it art?

art and science have a rich long history of feeding into each other

The undisputed queen of scientific visualization today is MIT's Felice Frankel, whose stunning images of things like colonies of bacteria or the behavior of water molecules have graced many a cover of the leading scientific journals

most famous photograph is the one below

Frankel's work is aesthetically pleasing, as well as scientifically accurate, but is it art?

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

When people call Felice Frankel an artist, she winces.

“My stuff is about phenomena.”

Phenomena like magnetism or the behavior of water molecules or how colonies of bacteria grow — phenomena of nature. “So I don’t call it art,”

“When it’s art, it’s more about the creator, not necessarily the concept in the image.”

“She has transformed the visual face of science.”

“To me the idea is to engage somebody to look at something, and they don’t even know it’s science,”

“People are not intimidated by pictures. It permits them to ask questions.”

Science

First Monday Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:22:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 926 papers in 146 issues; these papers were written by 1,147 different authors. In addition, a number of special issues have appeared as well as podcasts at http://www.firstmondaypodcast.org/. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer & Communications Security Abstracts, DoIS, eGranary Digital Library, INSPEC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, LISA, PAIS, and other services."

Clip Source: www.uic.edu

First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 926 papers in 146 issues; these papers were written by 1,147 different authors. In addition, a number of special issues have appeared as well as podcasts at http://www.firstmondaypodcast.org/. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer & Communications Security Abstracts, DoIS, eGranary Digital Library, INSPEC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, LISA, PAIS, and other services.

First Monday was born in the summer of 1995 in a proposal by eventual Chief Editor Edward J. Valauskas to the Danish publisher Munksgaard, to start a new Internet-only, peer-review journal about the Internet.

Tags: peer-reviewed journal open-access

International Realtions reading list

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:47:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.charleslipson.com

he reading list has three components.

First, the main journals in the field. Students should familiarize themselves with important articles and debates, as they appear in the most prominent IR journals over the past four or five years.

Second, a selected list of each IR faculty member's own works. I have also included Alex Wendt's work on this faculty list since many current students have studied with him.

Finally, a general list of books and articles to read in three main areas: IR theory, security, and international political economy (excluding works by UC faculty and recent journal articles, since those are already covered in items I and II). These three sections parallel the three sections of the exam, on theory, security, and IPE.

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Minke whales shedding blubber

Massive police raids - Like they do in Iraq

Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis

the dreambody

#170 - From Dreambody to Worldwork

Minneapolis Gestapo try to sqelch Protest planners

Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.

A Fascist Regime (Pre-RNC Raids)

Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis

Massive police raids on suspected protestors in Minneapolis

Police Raid Homes in Twin Cities Prior to RNC

'Killing bacteria with cannabis"

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To get started with PubMed, enter one or more search terms.

Search terms may be topics, authors or journals.

aaa

To get started with PubMed, enter one or more search terms.

Search terms may be topics, authors or journals.

Juan Cole on Biden: he reads journals!!

But is it art ? what makes a science-inspired image truly "art"?

but is it art?

First Monday Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet

International Realtions reading list