News Briefs 18-03-2010
Posted by red pill junkie at 05:33, 18 Mar 2010Don't you just *hate* it when you are awaken from a dream, and you feel you were in the middle of something important... but you don't remember what?
- Happy St.
Patrick'sOsiris' day! - Vatican announces commission to investigate the BVM apparitions at Medjugorge —something fishy about the timing here...
- Exhibiting at Oakland: A Golden Dawn (inspired) art show.
- Nick Pope pontificates on the recent Cleveland UFO sightings.
- The first reports of strange lights from lake Erie date back from earlier than you might guess.
- Almost, there baby! New exoplanet is near the habitable zone.
- Red in Jupiter's Spot not what Astronomers thought —BTW, check the name of the astronomer, and see if YOU can spot a Fortean coincidence ;)
- Hubble + IMAX = 3D Eye
candycocaine! Watch the trailer to get high... on science ;) - Alan Boyle shows us the queer quirk tales from the quantum frontier —and you can quote me on that.
- The cat's out of the
bagbox: First quantum effects seen in visible object. - Premonitory novelists? Micah Hanks explores when Truth is stranger than Fiction.
- In her recent diary entry, Anne Strieber deals with hummingbird synchronicities, near-death experiences, and car oracles.
- [Video] Ken Caldeira: Is Geoengineering our only option? [Full program] What's funny to me about this, is that if you take the 'i' from this guy's name, you get 'Caldera', and you know what caldera means in Spanish? look it up :)
- So you think yourself a better person because you consume green products? That's exactly the problem.
- "Elementary, my dear House": Bacterial trail may be next forensic clue.
- 40,000-year-old tools found at construction site in Tasmania.
- Tea leaves used by Chinese archeologists to rewrite the past, not peer into the future —open your miiinds!
- Look into my eyes: Gastroenterologists embrace the use of hypnotherapy.
- Smoking, not alcohol abuse, 'impairs mental function'. I'll drink to that, doc!
- Study links bullying to cognitive deficits & brain changes. It's the scars you can't see the ones that hurt the most.
- Banana component effective against HIV infection —so *that* was Cheeta's secret all along.
- The perfect gift for Greg Taylor's 80th birthday: a personal Rosetta grave stone —Twittering from the great beyond, mate!!
Thanks Kat, Rick & Micah.
Quote of the Day:
"You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you."
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14 July 2008
6 days 41 min
There may be another instance, regarding nonsmokers behavior to smokers. In particular, those who had quit smoking were more apt to display rudeness and intolerance to others; smokers in particular, than those who had never lit up.
The observation was similar - a sort of compensatory ethics - for those that those managed to kick the habit.
I can't, off the top of my head, quote any particular study but I do recall several that were reported that seemed to parallel this outcome.
There's probably a lot of grey psychology in all of this that has little or nothing to do with the act of buying green or smoking, and more to do with basic human behavior.
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
10 August 2004
4 hours 35 min
I like that idea, and hadn't thought of it before.
As a smoker, I find present-day non-smokers as snide and intolerant towards those of us who are nicotine addicts as reformed smokers were a decade ago, however thoughtfully we indulge in our habit.
Perhaps I can now view my daughter and son-in-law's facial expressions at the sight of even an unlit smoke (their obvious conviction that even in its non-burning state it will contaminate them in some dreadful way) as a way of compensating them for the fact that due to their beliefs they can't indulge in lighting one!
Thanks - what a wonderful idea!
Regards, Kathrinn
14 July 2008
6 days 41 min
Wow, Kathrinn... even at this distance, do I sense a kind of smokey satisfaction in your reply? (It's okay... as a smoker myself, I can appreciate even the smallest sum of leverage, and even if it won't really ever change a single heart or mind!)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
6 February 2010
1 year 8 weeks
Kathrinn, I'm allergic to cigarette smoke - it tends to give me really bad pharyngitis - and it can't be denied certain types of selfish smokers can have an appallingly arrogant disregard for the discomfort of non-smokers, but I still think the way smokers're now treated is appalling.
10 August 2004
4 hours 35 min
Hi! I would not smoke around you if I knew you had a real allergy to smoke (Rick has too, I understand). Just, that is, as long as if we ever sit down together for a chat you refrain from wearing after-shave as I'm allergic to that and to perfume (streaming eyes type hayfever - almost instant).
Best wishes, Kathrinn
21 June 2008
1 day 11 hours
The studies of physics and the paranormal take another step closer to each other.
6 February 2010
1 year 8 weeks
red pill junkie: "Look into my eyes: Gastroenterologists embrace the use of hypnotherapy."
Given the gastroenteritic theme, I hope none of these eyes you refer to's brown!
12 April 2007
1 hour 11 min
LOL and me worrying about what kind of acceptable joke I could make with the "benefits of bananas for HIV" story :-P
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
Red Pill Junkie