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Monday, April 21, 2003
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Dirk Laureyssens writes: The Big Tube concept is a new 'calculatable' approach. To understand the Universe there no need for mystic explanations, for a complex system of believe, and it confirms the intiutive 'feeling' of many people that there a Unity in this Universe, a vibrating force. But Tunity offers already to many people a remarkable understanding, and even a better understanding of their religion. Unity offers the possibility to explain in a rather simple and understandable way the complexity of dimensions, and offers a solution for infinitessimally small and the infinitely large gravitational interaction. In fact the old image: a snake biting its tail ... is not so bad. ... For me personally this tube approach offers me (1) as an inventor the satifaction that I discovered a new type of mechanism, (2) as a philosopher the way to explain and understand a number of 'strange' realities of this cosmos, such as synchronicity (Carl Gustave Jung), homeopathy, acupuncture, clairvoyance, Kabbala and other fields where resonance is the prime intermediary, (3) as a human the feeling of joy to be connected to all others. Everything is connected to everything, it's only a question of amplitude, length, frequency, level, angle and position in the tube constellation. (04/21/03) | |
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Steve Gilliard writes: We live in an age of global communication and the Internet and shortwave radio make US news accessable to the rest of the world. Internal debates are no longer internal, and restricted to scholars. Our policy must be affected by these changes. The charges of seizing Iraqi oil and promoting Israeli interests is not paranoia or anti semitic doggerel. If you can speak English and have access to the Internet, you can read the Project for a New American Century. They hear it reported on the Arabic service of the BBC and Radio Monte Carlo, news organizations which do not exist to Americans but are regarded as reliable to Iraqis. What was once internal policy debates now exist in a new, open source world where what is said and read in Washington can be said and read anywhere on earth with the Internet. What policy makers will have to consider, not in some misty future, but today, tomorrow, is how we conduct policy in this new world. (04/21/03) | |
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Discovery Magazine -- Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light Texas crude each year. In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil. Really. "This is a solution to three of the biggest problems facing mankind," says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of Changing World Technologies, the company that built this pilot plant and has just completed its first industrial-size installation in Missouri. "This process can deal with the world's waste. It can supplement our dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global warming." (04/21/03) | |
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BBC Science -- Why do people experience religious visions? ... Scientists now believe there may be physical differences in the brains of ardent believers. Inspiration for this work has come from a group of patients who have a brain disorder called temporal lobe epilepsy. In a minority of patients, this condition induces bizarre religious hallucinations - something that patient Rudi Affolter has experienced vividly. Despite the fact that he is a confirmed atheist, when he was 43, Rudi had a powerful religious vision which convinced him he had gone to hell. "I was told that I had gone there because I had not been a devout Christian, a believer in God. I was very depressed at the thought that I was going to remain there forever." Gwen Tighe also has the disorder. When she had a baby, she believed she had given birth to Jesus. It was something her husband Berny found very difficult to understand. "She said, isn't it nice to be part of the holy family? I thought, holy family? It then turned out she thought I was Joseph, she was Mary and that little Charlie was Christ." Professor VS Ramachandran, of the University of California in San Diego, believed that the temporal lobes of the brain were key in religious experience. He felt that patients like Rudi and Gwen could provide important evidence linking the temporal lobes to religious experience. (04/21/03) | |
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Time Magazine -- More women die of heart disease than of all cancers combined. ... Ask American women what disease they're most scared of, and the vast majority will answer without hesitation: breast cancer. They may even cite the ominous statistic that 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer at some point in her life. But what most women don't realize is that they actually have far more to fear from heart disease, which will strike 1 out of every 3. More than 500,000 women die in the U.S. each year of cardiovascular disease, making it, not breast cancer (40,000 deaths annually), their No. 1 killer. Women and heart disease? Better believe it. For while most people still think of cardiovascular trouble as mainly a man's problem, the reality is that heart disease has never discriminated between the sexes. In fact, for a variety of complex reasons, the condition is more often fatal in women than in men and is more likely to leave women severely disabled by a stroke or congestive heart failure. True, women don't usually start showing signs until their 60s—about 10 years after men first develop symptoms. And hormones seem to play a protective role in women before menopause. But the common belief that premenopausal women are immune to heart problems is just plain wrong. Heart attacks strike 9,000 women younger than 45 each year. (04/21/03) | |
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New Scientist -- A contraceptive vaccine that makes dogs temporarily sterile could soon be available. But critics say the cost of repeated visits to the vet and human unreliability mean spaying or neutering should still be the first choice to avoid unwanted puppies. The contraceptive vaccine, designed to render a dog or bitch infertile for at least six months, is the first to work by generating antibodies to luteinising hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH), which controls the production of male and female sex hormones such as testosterone, progesterone and oestrogen. ... Initial small-scale trials showed most dogs remain infertile for more than six months, and any aggressive behaviour is also reduced as happens after neutering. "The remaining issue is to make the vaccine completely reliable," Kelso says. The results of larger trials involving many different breeds of dog are expected in June. (04/21/03) | |
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New York Times -- The United States is planning a long-term military relationship with the emerging government of Iraq, one that would grant the Pentagon access to military bases and project American influence into the heart of the unsettled region, senior Bush administration officials say. American military officials, in interviews this week, spoke of maintaining perhaps four bases in Iraq that could be used in the future: one at the international airport just outside Baghdad; another at Tallil, near Nasiriya in the south; the third at an isolated airstrip called H-1 in the western desert, along the old oil pipeline that runs to Jordan; and the last at the Bashur air field in the Kurdish north. The military is already using these bases to support operations against the remnants of the old government, to deliver supplies and relief aid and for reconnaissance patrols. But as the invasion force withdraws in the months ahead and turns over control to a new Iraqi government, Pentagon officials expect to gain access to the bases in the event of some future crisis. (04/21/03) | |
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New York Times: World -- In a rare, blunt and very public admission of failure if not deception, the Chinese government said today that cases of the dangerous new respiratory disease known as SARS were many times higher than previously reported and pledged an all-out campaign against the virus. Also today the health minister, who 10 days ago described the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome as "under effective control" and claimed that Beijing had only 22 cases at the time, was fired. So was Beijing's mayor, who had loudly proclaimed the city to be safe. With the bureaucratic shuffling and an apologetic, two-hour news conference by a senior health official, the government sought to repair its shredded credibility — at home and abroad — about the spread of the new, sometimes fatal virus. Admitting to the existence of a large number of previously undisclosed SARS patients in military hospitals and revealing what he called the first aggressive survey of cases in some 70 scattered hospitals, the health official said that Beijing had confirmed 339 cases of SARS by Friday. The city's hospitals also held an additional 402 "suspected" SARS cases, a deputy health minister, Gao Qiang, said at a hastily arranged news conference today. He warned that a significant number of the cases are expected to be confirmed as SARS and that on Saturday, seven more cases were listed as confirmed, bringing the total to 346. (04/21/02) | |
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