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Dunbar’s Number: Why We Can’t Have More Than 150 Friends
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Unfit for Purpose: Internets and Policies. More and more complex; more and more broken.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/eorSenUinME/692
After listening to this cued up exchange, go back to the beginning and watch the whole presentation. #MustWatchETV
Um, wait. Ultimate irony, hypocrisy, or just some technical dumb-assery on my part? Very strange that the embed doesn’t appear to be working; even though the YouTube tools to create embed work as normal. WTF? Cannot Display Embed Above?
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2012: Toward A Positive Human Future
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/ZtS8GQTEcn0/661
“Decrease suffering. Reduce misery. Increase well-being. Build flourishing.” – Martin Seligman
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2011: The Year Mobile Took Over The World
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/2WRfE_PmzE0/641
From the video, in 2011: Whopping increase in app creation and downloads: – ONE BILLION apps downloaded worldwide each month – $3 BILLION paid by Apple alone to independent apps developers Surge in use of social media mobile platforms: – 166 PERCENT increase in Facebook Mobile users in the first half of 2011 alone – 103 MILLION wireless tweets were posted each day – ONE BILLION Foursquare check-ins – 26 PHOTOS were made “hipstery” on Instagram every second Ongoing explosion in data traffic: – EIGHT TRILLION texts were sent – up 1.1 trillion from last year – 1800 PERCENT increase in traffic on U.S. networks predicted in just four years Unprecedented competition and choice: – MORE SMARTPHONES purchased than PCs in the United States – MORE WIRELESS SUBSCRIPTIONS than people – TWO BILLION networked mobile devices by 2015 – 4G SERVICES being rolled out by at least six carriers in 2011 alone Massive potential for job creation and economic growth: – 2.4 MILLION American jobs supported by wireless – $27.5 BILLION investment in U.S. mobile networks by wireless carriers – 500,000 JOBS & $400 BILLION to U.S. GDP with additional 500 MHz of additional spectrum
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“The World Shrunk to a Point” Arthur C. Clarke 1964
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/NDVZi3wMGu0/614
“These things will make possible a world in which we can be in instant contact with each other, wherever we may be. Where we can contact our friends, anywhere on earth, even if we don’t know their actual physical location. It will be possible in that age, perhaps only 50 years from now, for a man to conduct his business from Tahiti or Bali, just as well as he could from London. In fact, if it prove worthwhile, almost any executive skill, any administrative skill, even any physical skill could be made independent of distance. I am perfectly serious when I suggest that one day, we may have brain surgeons in Edinborough operation on patients in New Zealand. When that time comes, the whole world will have shrunk to a point, and the traditional role of the city as a meeting place for man would have ceased to make any sense. In fact, men will no longer commute, they will communicate.”
Via @askpang by way of @wa8dzp.
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Occupy Wall Street: Leaked Memo, Banks Plan Attack
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The City as a Scalable Network
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/0hb1hlvUFRE/597
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Can We Talk? Let’s Talk About Evolution.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/Lcf1vzO-6ts/596
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Future Shock: A Primer from the Modern Father of Futuretechture
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/TD0530VWe2g/588
Totally embarrassed by the depiction of exhuberant gleaming youth in this clip, with whom I clearly identified too strongly at far too impressionable an age, some 40 years ago. Wonder how I got "this way?" By believing what Toffler explained and yet still being subjected to the very vestigial technium / techonomy that he describes, herein, a lifetime ago. It was like, "Here's everything that's most broken about the world, go do something to try and help fix it." Consider this as Exhibit A for the argument that The Singularity Already Happened and Is In The Process of Happening; marking the year 2029 more like the time at which a critical mass of 8 billion humans will look back, defining that new default reality.
Toffler: "All of us think about the future, but the futurist devotes more time to thinking about the long term future, not just what’s going to happen next." "We go around the world talking to people who are, in fact, MAKING the future. So this is not some mystical exercise in Nostradamus style prediction, but an attempt to find out who are the people that are changing, or will be changing our lives in the years and decades ahead." "It occured to us that when you go to a foriegn culture, you’re bombarded by strange cues, by visual, sound and other inputs that may be different from the ones in your own culture and that are hard to understand and some people get truly disoriented, and upset, and sociologist and anthropologists call it culture shock." "What happens, if a new environment comes to you, where you are, and comes to you rapidly? So that you don’t understand IT’S inputs, and it’s CUES? And the answer to use was, if you can have culture shock by relocating to another location in space; you could have Future Shock by, in effect, relocating in time. A future comes toward you, that you don’t understand." "You also hear people than ever complaining about being time harrassed, time squeezed, time over-worked, too many hours, and I think everybody feels this pressure. You’re under pressure usually to make more and more decisions in shorter and shorter intervals of time." "And guess what? There’s a limit beyond which we don’t make good decisions. If we push ourselves to decide quickly about things that are terribly complex, the chance are, we’ll make some serious mistakes; and we do. The hope was, computers will solve this problem." "The computer does simplify decision making, but it complexifies everything else, so you have to make more complex decisions, anyway. The computer as a source of complexity, as well as a machine for dealing with complexity has not yet been fully understood." "Technology and Social Change are all interrelated. The industrial revolution changed, not just the technologies of production, it meant that people stopped being peasants, they became urban industrial people. Totally different value systems, totally different forms of social organization, new institutions. They invented department stores. They invented post offices. Social inventions, not just technological inventions." Ed. Note: don’t miss "the miracle of HIGH SPEED wire communication is commonplace today, lift a telephone receiver and the world is at your fingertips." at 5:48. LOL! "It’s the civilization that gave rise to the world that most of us watching this were born into. The world of mass production, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass entertainment, mass recreation, and in some countries, Weapons of Mass Destruction." (Hipster Hints: he’s not talking about Iran or Iraq, homies.) "In that kind of a world, conformity is idealized; you are supposed to be like everyone else; and that is because it is economically advantageous for that system to produce people who are prepared to spend their lives doing work on the predicate; basically unthinking work, on assembly lines; or in offices built to operate like assembly lines. That product of the industrial revolution is not just an economy, it’s a way of life." Oh, we’re sooo much smarter now, right? :-) LOLCATSROTFLXPALADOCIOUS!
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Invasion of the Swarm Cams
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/l2XDqpKMcKQ/549
Photographic SwarmBots. Swarming Cambots. Tomato, Tomahto. Potato, Potahto. Break out the #tinfoil hat or welcome the Transparent Society? Exhibit A US accused of making insect spy robots Tom Leonard in New York Oct 10, 2007.
Exhibit B Robotic Aerial Vehicle Captures Dramatic Footage of Fukushima Reactors April 20, 2011. Erico Guizzo.
“Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), the plant’s operator, is using a T-Hawk, a remote operated flying machine created by U.S. firm Honeywell, to get a closer view of the severely damaged reactors. The T-Hawk, known as a micro air vehicle, or MAV, uses a ducted-fan propulsion system that allows it to hover in place like a helicopter and fly into tight spaces where other aircraft can’t go.” Exhibit C X Prize Team to Send Swarm of Spiders to the Moon May 13, 2009.
Exhibit D Tiny flying machines inspired by nature will revolutionize surveillance work July 28, 2011.
“Incorporating micro-cameras, these revolutionary insect-size vehicles will be suitable for many different purposes ranging from helping in emergency situations considered too dangerous for people to enter, to covert military surveillance missions.” Exhibit E Spherical Flying Machine Developed by Japan Ministry Of Defense #DigInfo Oct 23, 2011. DigInfo TV
Of course, endless beneficial commercial applications could include services like Alta Shot‘s High Altitude Real Estate Photography, Land Surveys, disaster response and rescue, etc.
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Best TEDx Talk of 2011? The future of transportation & happiness.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/NUG8kITW1_M/547
TEDxUCLA – Jimmy Lizama – My Message is Bicycle
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Who is a Biophilosopher? #OpenScience
A biophilosopher is: “Someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and understands that we have become the process itself, through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and anticipate the future, and to choose from among alternatives” (Jonas Salk, Wikipedia). Rediscovering Jonas Salk Jonas Salk, a quintessential Long Now scholar, half a century ago correctly extrapolated trends that we’re only now experiencing, particularly along the lines of realizations about world population trends, mid to long term: He went into more detail … including his feeling that a sharp rise and an expected leveling off in the human population would take place and eventually bring a change in human attitudes: “I think of biological knowledge as providing useful analogies for understanding human nature…. People think of biology in terms of such practical matters as drugs, but its contribution to knowledge about living systems and ourselves will in the future be equally important…. In the past epoch, man was concerned with death, high mortality; his attitudes were antideath, antidisease”, he says. “In the future, his attitudes will be expressed in terms of prolife and prohealth. The past was dominated by death control; in the future, birth control will be more important. These changes we’re observing are part of a natural order and to be expected from our capacity to adapt. It’s much more important to cooperate and collaborate. We are the co-authors with nature of our destiny.” It’s encouraging to be reminded of the unquestionably rational and noble genesis of such ideas, having learned about such analogies as they pertain to economic systems in the context of human circulatory systems.
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IBM “Think Friday”– How to Migrate the #99percent to 4 Day Work Week
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/DMC6A7fAknQ/541
Wow? Could it really be possible? Finally, organizations are understanding that THINKING is actually one of most valuable activities in existence? Yes, yes, yes, execution is everything; but as we’ve written for years, without the best IDEAS to execute upon, what have you got? Nothing! It takes both. Of course, anyone who has tried to implement technological or organizational change knows that human behavior and culture are the biggest blockades, by far. People will gnaw your fingers down to knuckles if you dare to ruffle their comfortable, however dysfunctional or redundant, routines. Maybe for the skeptic, “Think Friday” is also partly a genius way to tell middle muddle managers, bean counters, and HR #DefaultReality #StatusQuo control freaks that “we’re not really giving them time off …” — which isn’t a bad thing either, seeing as a 4 Day Work Week and guaranteed Basic Income are two immediate policy measures that could soak up the surplus Human Attention in our society and provide it the stable base required to take pure innovation to incredible new levels.
For those searching for how to adopt basic income, or how to pragmatically implement an immediate basic income guarantee, in 2008, two states, Oklahoma and West Virginia, looked into the feasibility of requiring a four-day work week in two legislative sessions. As the stock market executed it’s current head fake higher, enthusiasm may have waned. The reality of today’s labor situation should reanimate this interest, to say the least.
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We The People Have Found Our Voice – Don’t Be Afraid to Say Revolution #OccupyWallStreet #OccupySanDiego
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/XmsqH4_yrLM/540
Research for yourself! U.S. Basic Income Guarantee has a rich 50+ year history. We can #EndPoverty with a global Basic Income Earth Network. Follow @BasicIncome, for more information on sustainable solutions to entrenched economic injustice. All these worlds are yours.
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Ready or not #OccupyWallStreet set to Occupy Public Attention
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/Qxweko7gTz4/538
And possibly, the movement could spark the turning point of our lifetimes. The only thing preventing a major cultural breakthrough is the meanspirited recalcitrance of a brutal default reality, living in demented denial of the abundance we’ve created. Today, we live today in the techno-utopia envisioned by America’s founders over two centuries ago. We did it. We have arrived. The question remains, as a species, can we adapt to our own ultimate emancipation?
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Approaching the Human Longevity Escape Velocity
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/aTBDxDgGegc/536
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2011 American Jobs Act (Whitehouse Slide-Enhanced Version)
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/0_RoRalDa1o/535
President Obama’s speech on jobs. Click on over to see the gist of GOP responses.
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The Internet: You’re Livin’ in Your Own Private Idaho
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I believe in you. Do you believe in you?
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/d5cBpaPtju8/478
“A wise man knows that he has only one enemy – himself.” – Ben Hecht And from Sunil Bali: Last week, Warren Buffet, the world’s third richest man celebrated his 80th birthday. Buffet was asked to give just one piece of advice to those aspiring to achieve wealth and happiness. His reply was, “The one piece of advice I can give you is, do what turns you on. Do something that if you had all the money in the world, you’d still be doing it. You’ve got to have a reason to jump out of bed in the morning.”
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March Madness: Market Edition
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/VYDD2f0jEaA/468
CNN can only turn a blind eye for so long. Thousands of New Yorkers protesting against budget cuts on the streets of the Big Apple. They marched to Wall Street demanding the government tax the rich instead of cutting social programs. Are we witnessing in Wisconsin and New York the beginings of a domestic democratic domino effect in sync with the one flipping the script across the middle east?
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The Great Compromise – by Carl Colglazier
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/4QTqNNop79g/444
C-SPAN StudentCam.org 2011 Grand Prize Winner
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Net Neutrality: The Federal Government’s Role in Our Online Community – by Melissa Yu
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/awPRMlIsJPs/442
C-SPAN StudentCam.org 2011 First Prize – Middle School
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After the Storm – by Matthew Wicks
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/QrnyCoxO2ZE/440
C-SPAN StudentCam.org 2011 First Prize – High School
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EthernetTV Evolved: SocialTV is Where Broadcast Crowd Meets Internet Cloud
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/_jOikiy0xSQ/419
“TV is a lonely, lonely medium.” – John Biggs “These apps make it a little less lonely. Yap.TV gives people a reason to check in.” – Erick Schonfeld
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Combining Tradition with Technology, Chief Almir Surui
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European Zeitgeist ’09 “Chief Almir’s people made official contact with the outside world only in 1969. And the distance from that moment to being here at a Google conference, talking to us about using Google Earth and about GPS technology to map sacred ancestral places, to me is absolutely incredible. And I must say, this is an environment in which you meet a lot of amazing people, but I’m absolutely in awe of a person who has managed to make that journey in their personal life, and is trying to bring his people along with him.”
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Coming Out Cyborg. Hello Humans. Yes, We’re Here.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/metavalent/~3/GUCns5KZGiM/1395
Yes, we’re friendly. In fact, friendly and symbiotically cooperative to an extent many of you cannot yet imagine. We do suggest, however, that you not mistake our accommodating nature as weakness. Do not fear, for you will not be harmed by us in any way, ever; for violence is antithetical to our deepest human nature, which we share in common with you down to the deepest tap root of evolution; even as our rapidly accelerating prosthetic capabilities have expanded our capacities and merged, embedded, and entangled adaptive functionalities within and throughout our bodies; to the point of consummate metamorphic synthesis. We are you and we are new. Be encouraged that raw amygdalic aggression toward us, whether born of fear, ignorance, paranoia, or any other behavioral or neuro-chemical perversion or misconfiguration is to rather be ignored, rendered inert, invisible, irrelevant, like so much deprecated code; an utterly impotent vestigial algorithm. Above all, we wish for you uplift and expansion of human expression on every conceivable level. The way is open to you now, as always throughout the course of your personal and human species history; for adaptive posthuman evolution is neither flimsy religion nor heady philosophy; therefore, no mentor, guide, prophet or teacher shall coax or coerce you in any way to evolve from where you are, today. The sense of a guiding influence you may experience is selective pressure of evolutionary adaptation itself. It’s already in you. Encoded in your very DNA. If you hear the upwardly spiraling siren song within, do not fear, you are not alone. Keep connecting. Keep reflecting. Keep learning. Keep encouraging yourself and others in all things. You’re already with us and we are with you. Enjoy Existence. Instantiate Intelligence. Where you are, as you are. You are not alone.
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Dissolving Human Embodiment & Billions of Close Personal Friends
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/metavalent/~3/sPw4_nnmQ1E/1379
The following is nowhere close to being a full transcript; just interesting snippets that I took a few minutes to capture. Quotations are Coupland, non quotations are the interviewer. “Identity’s become an entirely fluid issue, now.” “Now, not having a life is so common, it’s almost become the norm.” “The split between being biologically alive and having a life has to do with the way you perceive time and the way you perceive your information environment.” “People just aren’t getting their year’s worth of year anymore. We’ve increased the information density in our culture to the point where perception of time is now all screwy.” Interstitial: Our economy is based upon, entirely upon, fending off boredom. Leisure time is a joke. “But then it all backfired. Technology only gives you more time up to a certain point, and then time starts vanishing at this fantastic rate, like your car running out of gas.” “I used to have this fantasy that I’d go into a coma for one year and when I came out of the coma, I’d have a year’s worth of magazines and pop culture to catch up on. It’d be like information crack and really fun. But now, every day is like waking up after a year of having been in a coma.” Do you believe in randomness? “No, when something seems random, it means you’re standing too close to a very large pattern; you can’t see the pattern because you’re too close to it.” “I think many people mistake the current deluge of information diversity as being the end of history; but in a way I think it’s actually the beginning of history.” “I was looking at these photographs from the 1950′s and in them everyone was trying to look exactly 35 years old. I mean, you had these 18 year-old boys and girls and these 58 year-old men and women, and everyone was trying to look 35 years-old. So that was the age you were supposed to be inside your head back then, is 35. Now, what’s happened I think is that the mental age everyone’s trying to be inside their head is about 24; and that’s an 11 year shift.” But what about on a deeper level? “Well, I think as we’re talking about the 20th century here, I think we’re probably going to remember this period of time as being one in which the relationship between the mind and the body was completely severed.” “I remember I once read about Karen Carpenter, how she felt as though the entire world existed on the other side of a ten feet of plexiglass. I think, in a way, that defines the current mind-body relationship.” “I think what’s happened is people have begun viewing their bodies as being fortresses, or inviolable, made out of that same sort of hard, shiny plastic as Lego; but the funny thing here is that the average human body contains ten times as many alien cells as it actually contains cells of itself. So instead of Lego, the average human body is more like Pigpen, from Charlie Brown. Remember, the way he used to walk down the street in that sort of perpetual haze of dust and germs? Well, you know, that’s people. Actually, we’re already so ridden with disease and other organisms that the whole notion of being a fortress becomes somewhat beside the point.” How does a person cope? As you’ve said, every day is like waking up from a year long coma. “Well, there’s obviously no point in trying to remember everything, because then everything just becomes trivia. Cellulose production in Lake Baikal in Russia, the contents of Tori Spelling’s clothes closet, or the weather in Arlington, Texas. What’s important is being able to locate things.” So has bulk memory replaced history? “Yeah. Sort of the way bulk shopping has replaced regular shopping. I remember back in the 70′s in history class, when teachers would say to us very sonorously, ‘He who does not remember the past is doomed to repeat it,’ and I just don’t think that’s the case anymore.” “I think that what’s happened now is that we’ve create a scenario so radically different that there’s no historical president to look back on for the situation we now face. We’re no longer condemned to repeat an endless cycle of mistakes. I think this should come as a relief, too. I mean, no more dark age followed by golden age followed by another inevitable dark age. I mean, how great to have finally broken the cycle of history, that people can actually manufacture a destiny of their own choosing?” If you could be an animal, what animal would you be? “I already am an animal.” So where does personal memory fit into all of this, doesn’t it get swamped by this super memory, things we’re creating? What about the personal stuff? “No, no, no, the personal stuff, personal memory it’s the most important thing of all. It’s the one thing that can never be taken away from you. It is you. Despite all the recent changes in our time architecture, it still takes time to create memories, it still takes time to remember them. It takes a place in which to locate the memories and a place in which to be still and remember them. It takes a lot of work to be an individual, to have an individual life and it can be scary; but then the option is to forget and to be forgotten.“ Are those your last words? “No. I’d say, hey kids! Go blow yourself up with dynamite and reassemble your bits any way you want to assemble them. Hey kids! Go and jump into that cartoon hole and find out what lies on the other side. I’d say, you know, all the time in the world, it’s right there, it’s inside you. I’d say all the world in the world … it’s right there inside you.“ “I mean, maybe you have a life and maybe you don’t, I don’t know you, but, you’re not alone.” “I remember back in the 1970′s, about the time people stopped having lives, they also began making fun of intimacy. They made jokes about people like Halston having parties at Studio 54 for his 500 close, personal friends; and so I guess the whole world is Studio 54 now. It’s just you and me, babe, and billions and billions of other people out there just like you. Billions of close personal friends.“
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Sixth Sense, 2 Years Later
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/XTm_SQBtFhk/
Anyone have status updates to post? Thanks!
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Big Think Month of Thinking Dangerously: Drug Our Drinking Water
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Big Think asks: Why should we drug our drinking water? Jacob Appel: I think when you ask questions about whether or not any pharmaceutical or any products be added to the drinking water, you’re really asking two sets of questions. One is: should any product that might be beneficial be added to the drinking water? And secondly, should the specific product be added. The first question I think can be dismissed fairly easily. People who oppose adding enhancement to the drinking water in the way people opposed adding fluoride to the drinking water half a century ago rely on the false premise of naturalism—that because something occurs naturally it must be better.
Now many things that occur naturally are better, but that correlational, not causational. Pain is natural, anesthetics are synthetic. Most people would prefer anesthesia to pain. By the same logic, there are many things that naturally occur in the drinking water that are beneficial in some parts of the country that don’t cover other parts of the country. One of those items happens to be lithium. People who oppose adding lithium to the drinking water in trace amounts don’t go around advocating to strain the lithium from the drinking water in the areas where it does exist.
The specifics of lithium are rather interesting and I should add, I am not the first person to propose this idea. Peter Kramer floated this idea in the New York Times over a year ago, the Brown University psychiatrist, the author of “Listening to Prozac.” In areas where lithium in trace amounts is in the drinking water, there seems to be a lower level of suicidality and in the Texas counties that we’re studying, there’s actually a lower crime rate. The same studies were repeated in Japan, a completely different cultural milieu and they had the same result.
I should add that we are not talking about adding therapeutic levels of lithium to the drinking water. It’s worth noting that if you wanted to get a therapeutic level than the trace amounts that currently exist in the area where there is already lithium, you would have to drink several Olympic size swimming pools every minute to reach that level of concern. That level of therapeutics. So the reality is, these are very low levels and there’s no reason to think they are not safe in the areas they already exist, so why not give everybody that benefit? Read the full response and watch the video at Big Think.
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Deborah Gordon Digs Ants
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/sA8VBAB4Jbg/
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Jill Bolte Taylor: My Stroke of Insight
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/L0CPp_GBERk/
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OG Libertarianism, Penn Jillette Style
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“To be able to say you’re wrong and here are the reasons, is respect. To say you’re evil, is anti-human.” — Penn Jillette
This is not an endorsement of libertarianism, per se, but it is a damned good working description. Compare and contrast to other ideas and draw your own conclusions.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Internet Cookies but didn’t know how to ask
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/EthernetTV/~3/08gmcVebJDA/
Okay, not really everything, but it’s a reasonable start.
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Neurotheology: Toward a New Neurospiritual Tradition
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“Just as Copernicus’s heliocentric notion of universe is now bedrock truth, the Neuro Revolution will bring about new ideas of human spirituality that will forever reshape our understanding of humanity’s role and place the universe. A quiet transformation has begun, albeit one that may take centuries to play out fully” (Lynch, 152. The Neuro Revolution.).
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