Tag Archives: Science

The Finite Optimist

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As Kipling once wrote, don’t make dreams your master, or thoughts your aim.

To act in accord with dream and thought is an art.

The proper action for the proper thought or dream requires a saints heart and an engineers mind.

It is practical to have a set of rules that allow us to uncover the secrets in life and explore the unknown.

We need to read far and wide and understand to envision the progress the future will hold.

Can you treat your body properly so it will function and stay healthy?

Can you process and build on earth to help it function and stay healthy?

These mysteries require discovery, recovery and more.

Go explore.

Ebola Situation Report For Democratic Republic Of Congo

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This is the 15 report that involves the most current situation of the Ebola disease in this region.

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/273088/SITREP_EVD_DRC_20180712-eng.pdf?ua=1

It is considered to be nearly over after 2 incubation periods of the virus which is 42 days.

Yet it must be said, there needs to be global cooperation to maintain support for health and welfare in any crisis.

The psychology effects alone warrants consideration for ongoing financial support.

The potential for future outbreaks must be entertained to cover further possible instances.

With all the work and study, help and support, this situation report is good news.

WHO and the UN are sustaining the good work necessary to maintain global cooperation and collaboration against any current or future Ebola situation in DRC or elsewhere.

Our hearts go out to all those who were effected by this deadly disease and we offer our condolences to the families and friends of the deaths related in this situation report.

We have broken things up pretty good.

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Mankind is still available for small group activities, and humanity is still raging on with death and destruction.

The goal is to understand competition, hatred and acting in self-destructive group-acts like war.

It’s not always polite to stare in the mirror.

Sometimes we need to go about the business of procreation, raising the family, community, going to work, etc.

It would have been nice to go to a four day work week, but we fucked that up when we started to think IT was the end all be all.

Technology and science by extension are pretty heady, but so is having a sanity for the individual and group to grow into the 21 century.

It seems like a good time to use old technology like mindfulness or meditation.

Old ideas like globalization can’t be all bad.

Things can still go south with unknown diseases, over population, poverty, natural disaster and more.

Never a dull moment with human consciousness.

Strong Gravitational Lenses

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Einstien made sense when he,in the Theory Of General Relativity, guessed that a big mass can pull or bend light toward it due to its great mass.

The big telescope, Hubble, proved his idea by using the mass of a near by galaxy.

Oh, galaxy ESO 325-G004, why does thee love me so?

Now, to hear it in the news, decades later is just icing on the cake.

Another step closer to using science to make use of nature’s ways.

Human Behavior (People are able to change)

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Understanding who you are by understanding how your brain grows and operates.

What do genes have to do with behavior? This is most misunderstood.

Genes have nothing to do with behavior. But the environment turns on genes (or the instructions). Environment’s meaning changes from small to big. This area of understanding and facts is well worth learning all you can.

There is no determinism from genes because of our diverse environments. Think about it. What does culture have to do with it?

Brains and genes and culture coevolve.

Individual selection? Kin selection? Reciprocal altruism? It is very complicated it understand.

Be damned sure you understand human behavior before you judge yourself or others.

Learn to be your best self!

“Behave”. By Robert M Sapolsky

Understanding Hawking and Herzog’s Last Paper: kinda?

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A finite number of multi verses.

Multiple big bangs,

The universe is like a 3D movie with the screen making it finite.

You got to know your theories: Big Bang, Quantum Mechanics And String Theory!

If all else fails, I highly recommend reading the woman who is the Senior Science writer for CBC.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/stephen-hawking-final-paper-1.4648542

It’s A Beautiful Day

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A frantic Friday full of traffic, deadlines and a parking ticket to boot.

A positive thing to do is to take a 15 night vacation in Hawaii for three grand.

If that won’t work, try to stop time, stand at eternity, live without time or space.

Why do I connect with nature, the pattern in the living tree bark, the swaying of leaves and branches in the wind?

How does a pleasant walk outside among nature enrich my senses and provoke ‘right action’ during this active meditation?

Why are my biggest mistakes leading me to my biggest cures?

In positive psychology the term or prompt to make a ‘beautiful day’ is a great excuse to slow down and do less work and experience more beauty in a brief period of time.

To practice all the beauty you can muster in the next 24 hours might be too big of a challenge.

My day is cooperating with me:  a great hike, a good visit with relatives, reading and writing, a good meal, a talk on the phone with another friend and relative, winding down with a light supper, a beer and a good show before a hot shower and bed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_psychology

 

Standing Against The Tide

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Caring about the environment is like being on the fence in today’s media swollen society. With countless collectives, left leanings, and political correct academics, is there a voice for the student naturalist?

Be a student ecologist.

Be a student of science.

Be a student of psychology.

Be a student of philosophy.

Be a student of common sense.

Be an innovative, business oriented worker.

Don’t be afraid of all the stuff that alarmists try to convey.

Be a healthy skeptic but be yourself.

Try to put your money and behaviours where your mouth says you are bound to enjoy.

Try to implement some of the good ideas into your lifestyle.

Humanity Loving Nature

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Climate change is a symptom.

Human behaviour is the problem.

The solution is to change ourselves.

The human imagination can track a love for the planet and the universe.

Our care and attention can change our destructive economy into a planet friendly and universal health care system that supports nature and builds new ways to be green and a live on a happy planet without any destructive behaviour coming from us.

Why not think green, vote green and search for green solutions.

To act on this solution is the best chance for any stakeholder.

Clean up yourself and clean up the world.

The Theory Of Everything

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It may sound simplistic that the universe started from a singularity.

Or that black holes are not that black, that in fact, there is some Hawking radiation escaping from them.

In his book, The Grand Design, he pauses to note the big and the small and everything in between.

The epic, the unified field theory is about putting it all together, questions like how does relativity relate to say quantum mechanics.

Imagine, making sense out of all of this…

Canada, among other nations, mark the passing of great scientists like Max Planck, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

Their contributions to science are still being examined today and for many years into our future,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_everything?wprov=sfti1