big on love, tolerance, and the human potential
Yes, ladies and gentleman, gravity is a horrible natural force for our poor bodies to endure, so allow me to introduce what they’ve known for years at NASA. A few moments counteracting gravity using the Old Age Rejuvenator Centrifuge will reverse the action of gravity! Come one and all. Get that spry as a whirling bucket feeling. Be centrifused today!
The USA is about 300 million people living on 3,794,000 square mile. That’s a population density of approximately 79 Americans per square mile.
If the population density of the United States was equal to that of Brooklyn, the entire US population would fit into New Hampshire.
If we lived as tightly as Manila, Philippines, the entire USA would be just 52 by 52 miles.
Yes, it’s human activity. Stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and fossil fuels have changed the planet
Wired’s Brandon Keim: “From diverting a third of Earth’s available fresh water to planting and grazing two-fifths of its land surface, humankind has fiddled with the knobs of the Holocene, that 10,000-year period of climate stability that birthed civilization.”
We enter a new geologic time, an age of mankind’s making.
Here’s a short Sufi tale, a timely reminder on the treasure of marriage, no, on the honor of knowing each other:
A lover came to the dwelling of the Beloved and asked to be admitted. “Who is there?” the Beloved asked. “I am here,” the lover answered. The Beloved refused to admit the lover.
After wandering in grief and longing for years, the lover returned to the Beloved and begged to be admitted. “Who is there?” The lover responded, “You alone are there.”
The door opened.
New research from Penn’s School of Medicine has opened up a clearer understanding of how the human eye communicates with the brain.
While earlier studies on vision have focused on what kind of information is sent from eye to brain, the Penn team instead wondered how fast and how much of that information is transmitted.
By studying an intact retina, the team found “spikes” of electrical impulses to the retina transmit data at 10 million bits per second—a speed that rivals computer connections of 10 to 100 million bits per second.
Only 65 percent mailed back the 2000 census form. The remainder had to be collected in person at a cost of about $57 per household.
The 2020 Census may look in our records for some form of existing documentation such as databases and archives to count us.
“Dismissing then those pretty feminine phrases, which the men condescendingly use to soften our slavish dependence, and despising that weak elegancy of mind . . . and sweet docility of manners, supposed to be the sexual characteristics of the weaker vessel, I wish to show . . . that the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being.”
This volcano, Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull eruption, is a fissure more than one-half mile in length. Will the crack lengthen? Will the fissure cause flooding by spreading under the ice? Iceland wants to know.
Yes, much ‘suspenseful concern’ about fountains of lava near a field of glaciers.
1816 — first flag of Canada.
Flying about 150 years before their Maple Leaf.
The infinity symbol over sky blue symbolizes the fusion of native and immigrant peoples toward a vigorous and cooperating new society that will exist forever.
Never strutting heraldry nor religion, Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, thought that using heraldry or religious symbols in public affairs is exhibitionist and arrogant.
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Update: Elegant wee product, full of bugs!
While writing posts, capturing a screen or a snippet of a website such as a logo is laborious, but screensnapr makes it easy.
And FTP upload is automated !
Meditators were found to have thicker cortex in the dorsal anterior cingulate and bilaterally in secondary somatosensory cortex.
Yes I think I can be pretty sure you read it here first.
Touched equipment.
Side Threading. Why didn’t I think of that?
“Why can’t someone invent a better needle? We’ve been to the moon for goodness sake.”
Pam Turner’s Spiral Eye Needle is attracting crowds at trade shows. The Patent Office is showcasing.
The needle can be threaded with your eyes closed.
We are each the executive HQ of the milieu, the agency of action, the liquid reciprocity of benefits and rights.
In the domain of the oak, the ox and the eagle, we make worthiness a conflict with perfection beyond the warrior’s urge to destroy, worthiness, the undreamt reward to the victor while subjugating the right to deny the loser, worthiness in charge of the civilization, that’s the deal we make, the inescapable onus on the individual to participate in the benefit of the whole, to scorn the myriad dynasties that misunderstand the miracle that can do that, worthiness, folding history’s duration into the critical mass of the free !
[pullquote]We must push for character.
Otherwise it’s Enema 2.0… numb in nodes of decision trees… tolls, polls and policy rolls… capitalist, christian and cowboy lost in the covert power of cue. BORING.[/pullquote]Some say we are the ‘probabilistic logic for the synthesis of reliable organisms from unreliable components’, a dismaying sprawl of uncoined vigor.
Beta of lobe and icon of belly, we are precious order and chaos. I’d say we are debugging space time toward the function of character, toward worthiness, the curiosity of breathing.
Here is how to force a line break in WordPress. An easy solution too!
Switch to the HTML editor and place this snippet at the end of the line. Validated code? I don’t know. It just works.
When I first shuddered at <?php echo get_settings(‘home’), I wholeheartedly agreed, because there’s much involved to install and adopt a premier community platform, but I wouldn’t have expected WordPress to be abandoning the carriage return. I was up all night trying plugins and raw PHP and HTML code snippets or switching off the TinyMCE Visual editor. Fail. The wpautop filter simply will not allow conventional <BR /> and <P> tags.
Here’s a css stylesheet solution:
p{
padding-bottom:7px;
}
Why? A padding of 7 pixels is average line height of a carriage return. Adjust accordingly.
And for special fun:
<p align=”left”> </p>
Pay attention now. This is NOT your mother’s alignment. Do you see the space? When wrapped in <code> tags using the WordPress HTML editor, wpautop sees %20, a blank line of one character, ASCII 255, the beloved transparent GIF, a preserved space. One is enough to fill a line.
Wpautop is a rat under the floor. Switching from the HTML editor to Visual might strip inserted code, sometimes and sometimes not.
Going anywhere, doing anything, we leave a trail of ‘our unique bacteria’. And yes, law enforcement has discovered we leave a ‘germ print’ as useful as our fingerprints.
This is the first de facto USA flag, and what the pioneers of Massachusetts truly believed. The 1636 colony agreed they had the right to any flag they wanted. Without exception, they voted to remove the cross. The 1780 Seal of the State of Massachusetts carried the inscription:
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty
How long did it take to build?
It took me three days. I built it on an old computer I had in my bedroom.
Then what happened?
I showed it to my friends and they criticized it; they asked why anyone would want to use it. So I went onto a few forums and asked people to try the site, and I got 20 people to try it.
How many users do you have now?
Well, after the initial 20 users the site doubled and it continued to double every day since then. Last month I saw 30 million unique visitors come to the Web site and one million new people visit each day. It continues to multiply and I just couldn’t stop it from growing.
What were you thinking while this was happening?
I woke up one morning and checked my computer and saw all of these news articles about Chatroulette. I yelled to Mom to come and look at my computer. At first she was very nervous, but she doesn’t really understand it very well and asked me why I’m not going to school.
“Trading anonymity for accountability has led to radically improved conversations. … A lot less antagonism and a lot more thoughtfulness and general politeness.”
Why aren’t our government “leaders” talking about slashing the military-industrial complex, which is ruining our economy with unnecessary imperial adventures?
And why aren’t any of our leaders talking about stopping the permanent bailouts for the financial giants who got us into this mess? And see this.
And why aren’t they taking away the power to create credit from the private banking giants – which is costing our economy trillions of dollars (and is leading to a decrease in loans to the little guy) – and give it back to the states?
If we did these things, we wouldn’t have to raise taxes or cut core services to the American people.
The Bush years and Republican outsourcing.
What about these contractors?
About 7.6 million people earned their paycheck through federal government contracts in 2005, a 50 percent increase since 2002.
In 2000, federal spending on all government contracts was $208 billion rising to $457 billion by 2007.
And their lobbyists?
The Washington Post reports that the number of registered lobbyists in Washington doubled between 2000 and 2005, to nearly 35,000.
Six of ten richest counties and twelve of the top 25 richest counties are around Washington DC. In one county alone, there are:
New York City has rolled 350 carts loaded with fresh, local vegetables into its food deserts.
I was talking to myself while reading this that if you were Howard Hughes you would want to hire a writer exactly like the writer that knew his job the way this writer knows and if you were Howard Hughes somebody should tell you there’s a writer you want:
“But. I cannot figure out from the release or from press coverage very much of how the process, identified as potentially useful for batteries with an energy density far higher than anything we have now, works and what’s left after it works or how one would throttle such a thing.
“Science writers, in addition to the nose for nonsense, hype, and scam that any reporter needs if he or she is worth a paycheck, need to work particularly hard at sheer explanation. That’s our added value – ability to boil the technical jargon and concepts of biology or physics or chemistry that terrify most reporters and reduce it to reasonably simple English. Throw in some narrative on the discovery process and its context you have a story.
“If a phenomenon is new to science or merely to the layman, this means taking the reader inside the genomes or stellar cores or combustion chambers or atoms and molecules and widgetry to provide a sense, however shielded in metaphor and simile, of what in tarnation is supposedly going on.
“Sometimes it’s almost impossible. But in this case it seems doable, even on deadline. This did not, it appears, get much pickup in mass media. Where it did, there is heat but little light.
Yo. The story might or might not be important. But p-p-please notice the writer, Charlie Petit, offers no shuck.
True Slant:
Congressmen spend between 5 and 7 hours a day on the phone begging for money.
And by the way, when you’re a freshmen, you have to fill out sheets of everybody you call, and how much money per hour, and they have coaches that teach you how to get more money from each one of your phone calls, and who to call, and what data points to have on them to tickle them to make them more apt to give you money.
It is out of control.
And it’s legalized.
AP’s Science Writer says, “Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones”.
“Tectonically, the Earth is up to no particular mischief”, says MIT’s Charlie Petit.