LLPOH Digital Archives: June 2004
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
west nile virus will likely be an issue this year a well ...
some of the references include:
West Nile Story by Dickson Despommier
21st Century Collection Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) - Comprehensive Collection from 1995 to 2002 with Accurate and D by U.S. Government
West Nile Virus: Overview and Abstracts by Margaret C. Lee
21st Century Collection Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) - Comprehensive Collection f by Centers for Disease Control
Viral Fitness: The Next Sars and West Nile in the Making by Jaap Goudsmit
The Official Patient's Sourcebook on West Nile Virus: A Revised and Updated Directory for the Internet Age by Icon Health Publications
West Nile Virus - A Medical Dictionary, Bibliography, and Annotated Research Guide to Internet Refer by Icon Health Publications
West Nile Virus: Epidemics Deadly Diseases Throughout History (Epidemics) by Phillip Margulies
West Nile Virus (Diseases and Disorders) by Melissa Abramovitz
21st Century Complete Medical Guide to West Nile Virus (WNV), Mosquito Risks, National Activity Maps, Emerging Infectious Dis by PM Medical Health News
West Nile Virus: Detection, Surveillance, and Control by Dennis J. White
West Nile virus outbreak : lessons for public health preparedness : report to congressional requesters (SuDoc GA 1.13:HEHS-00-180) by U.S. General Accounting Office
West Nile virus: Field hearing before the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Sixth Congress, first session, ... ork, December 14, 1999, Fairfield CT (S. hrg)
and
Responding to West Nile Virus: Public Health Implications and Federal Response: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy andPosted by E Moritz @ 11:21 PM CST [Link] [No Comments]
so what new adventures and excitement will this year's tour de france bring? [more]
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Its time to think this through again ... Ivy League, SAT Exams, and College Admissions always a mystery. ... don't forget to think about financial aid, student loans, and Pell Grants. If you're thinking far ahead, think "PSAT as well. It could help you get a Merit Scholarship.
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Cathedral Of The Black Madonna: The Druids And The Mysteries Of Chartres (another Jean Markale readable ...) buried in the mysteries of time. (...The great cathedral of Chartres is renowned the world over as a masterpiece of High Gothic architecture and for its remarkable stained glass, considered alchemical glass, and its mystical labyrinth. But the sacred foundations of this sanctuary go back to a time long before Christianity when this site was a clearing where druids worshiped a Virgo Paritura: a virgin about to give birth. This ancient meeting place, where all the druids in Gaul gathered once a year, now houses the magnificent Chartres cathedral dedicated both to the Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and to one of the most venerated Black Madonnas in Europe: Our Lady of the Pillar. Coincidence? Hardly, says Jean Markale, whose exhaustive examination of the site traces Chartres' roots back to prehistoric times and the appeal of the Black Madonna back to the ancient widespread worship of Mother Goddesses such as Cybele and Isis.
Markale contends that the mother and child depicted by the Black Madonna are descended from the image worshipped by the druids of the Virgin forever giving birth. This image is not merely a representation of maternal love--albeit of a spiritual nature. It is a theological notion of great refinement: the Virgin gives birth ceaselessly to a world, a God, and a humanity in perpetual becoming ... from the description).
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Sunday, June 27, 2004
... a new way of looking at what happened on key dates ... and the 20th century.
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A new way to look at skin? You could say the same or hair, or even Bill Clinton ...
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Bill Gates could join the ranks of bloggers, this according to Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times. ... so ... I suppose, it will be on an msn brand blog ... another way to drive traffic to msn ... not a bad idea .... if only ...
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Saturday, June 26, 2004
The Whole Brain Atlas - Online. (Are you into Frontal gyri, Temporal, Parietal or Occipital gyri, Sulci/Fissures, Basal ganglia, White matter, Ventricular system, Basal cisterns, Limbic, Diencephalon, Midbrain, Brainstem, Cerebellum, Vascular structures, Dural structures, Paranasal sinuses, Bony structures, or Cranial nerves? If so, The Brain Atlas is the place for you.)
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Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Detailed Domain Counts and Internet Statistics are located here. Some pretty interesting data like DMOZ Top Listeds Domains, today for example:
Rank Listings Domain
1 236,274 CNN.COM
2 106,285 GEOCITIES.COM
3 48,678 ONET.PL
4 36,342 TRIPOD.COM
5 31,623 ANGELFIRE.COM
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
health-200x-1: there's never enough information, but there might be a few useful clues.
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Monday, June 21, 2004
BSR reminder for global variables $x=$_GET[x]; if working with local windows environments
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
Graham Chapman and Monty Python ... an incredible combination ... [more]
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Plain view of Wiki Life or another approach to View of Life -- The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan, Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth & Death: . . . And Everything In Between, A Buddhist View Life by Daisaku Ikeda, America's First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House (Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)) by Carl Sferrazza Anthony, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan, What Jesus Would Say by Lee Strobel
Latest Dowloadable View of Life PDF s, Ebooks, Documents, and/or Reports:Posted by E Moritz @ 11:43 PM CST [Link] [No Comments]
What would you find if you looked up Magdeburg? Why would you care? You might find Mechthild of Magdeburg: The Flowing Light of the Godhead, Tyranny and Resistance: The Magdeburg Confession and the Lutheran Tradition, The Soul As Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart ... does this shed light? provide insight [more]
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Saturday, June 19, 2004
Happiness is a little extra knowledge at the right time ... to that end, a new guides section is being created, as well as an ebook-pdf dowloadables section. So, be happy ...
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The Satirical is fascinating ...
A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works (Dover Thrift Editions) by Jonathan Swift
The Malcontents: The Best Bitter, Cynical, and Satirical Writing in the World by Joe Queenan
Enter at A, Laughing: A Tongue-In-Jowl Examination of the Sport of Dressage As Seen Through the Satirical Eyes of a Dressage Husband by Brian McKeown
Sketch-O-Frenia: Fifty Short and Witty Satirical Sketches by John Dessler
The Standard Catalog of Hard Times Tokens 1832-1844: The Most Complete Catalog Ever Assembled of the Coin Substitures, Merchant Counter by Russell Rulau
Encyclopedia of Satirical Literature (Abc-Clio Literary Companion) by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Murder Among Talking Fools and Other Mystery Short Stories: 7 Classical, Humorous, Satirical Mysteries by Charles E. Schwarz
Doubletalk: 50 Comedy Duets for Actors (Satirical comedy for professional and student actors) by Bill Majeski
The Satirical Gaze: Prints of Women in Late Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Cindy McCreery
The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race: The Satirical Writings of Paul Krassner by Paul Krassner
The Oxford book of satirical verse by Oxford University Press
Real or Surreal: Social Satirical Art of Alonso Smith by Alonso Smith
The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III by Diana Donald
Dummy's Murder Between Hands and Other Mystery Short Stories: 12 Classical, Humorous, Satirical Mysteries by Charles E. Schwarz
The Cartoon Guide to U.S. History: 1585-1865 (College Outline Series, Co/420) by Larry Gonick
Latest Dowloadable
Satirical PDF s, Ebooks, Documents, and/or Reports:Posted by E Moritz @ 12:26 PM CST [Link] [No Comments]
The Art of Conducting - Legendary Conductors of a Golden Era - is turning out to be a real winner. IF you love symphonic music ... and appreciate the role of the conductor, this one's a must! Maestro: Great Conductors in Rehearsal -- is a great companion DVD also
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Fourierism ... still around? ... IS there anything to learn from François Marie Charles Fourier?
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Friday, June 18, 2004
one of the key players in Aging/Calorie Restriction Research is Leonard P. Guarente. According to his page:
"Limiting calories in the diet extends the life span of rodents by an unknown mechanism. We found that calorie restriction (CR) also extended life span of yeast mother cells, by limiting their concentration of glucose. This extension required SIR2 and sufficient levels of NAD; it was prevented by deleting SIR2 or genes involved in NAD synthesis. CR extends life span in yeast because it increases the rate of respiration. Mutations that block respiration prevent the extension and a genetic trick to increase respiration extends life span in high glucose. CR increases the silencing activity of Sir2p, perhaps because NAD levels rise when respiration increases. We are presently developing a method to calorie restrict C. elegans. We will test possible involvement of each C. elegans SIR2 gene in any extension in life span."
interesting ...
He also authored Ageless Quest: One Scientist's Search for Genes That Prolong Youth by Leonard Guarente --- a related interesting title is The Immortal Cell: One Scientist's Quest to Solve the Mystery of Human Aging by Michael D. West
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David Secko reports in The Scientist 'Longevity' gene, diet linked SIRT1 may play role in why calorie restriction leads to longer life in rats. The story "Experiments on yeast, worms, and mammals have all revealed that cutting calories extends lifespan, but how is this occurs is largely unknown. Now, two independent studies, one reported in the June 18 Science, from David Sinclair's laboratory at Harvard Medical School, and the other reported in the June 3 Nature, from Leonard Guarente's laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have uncovered molecular mechanisms linking aging, diet, and a gene called SIRT1" ... "SIRT1 was found to repress the fat-regulating protein PPAR-ã and other genes that drive fat storage following calorie restriction"
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see Latest on Calorie restriction:
Caloric Restriction: A Key to Understanding and Modulating Aging by Edward J. Masoro
Management of Obesity by Severe Caloric Restriction by George L. Blackburn
Modulation of Aging Processes by Dietary Restriction by Byung Pal Yu
The Retardation of Aging and Disease by Dietary Restriction by Richard Weindruch
Biological Effects of Dietary Restriction (Ilsi Monographs) by L. Fishbein
Latest Dowloadable Calorie restriction PDF s, Ebooks, Documents, and/or Reports: [more]Posted by E Moritz @ 10:50 PM CST [Link] [No Comments]
Thursday, June 17, 2004
According to CNN, Madonna "is" now Queen Esther (if you know what we mean by is) ... yet another metamorph ... [more]
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Franz_Kafka surely knows about theThe Metamorphosis ... but what about the riders of the purple sage? (would Zane Grey roll over? Rover?) [more]
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Sunday, June 13, 2004
Google's FORM S-1 REGISTRATION STATEMENT Makes Fascinating Reading! Thanks Edgar, Thanks SEC (SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION) .... So who is running the big G? According to S-1 these make up the merry (and soon to be merrier; is that too jocund?) band of brothers (and sisters):
Eric Schmidt - Chairman of the Executive Committee, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Sergey Brin - President of Technology, Assistant Secretary and Director
Larry Page - President of Products, Assistant Secretary and Director
Omid Kordestani - Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Field Operations
Wayne Rosing - Vice President of Engineering
David C. Drummond - Vice President of Corporate Development, Secretary and General Counsel
George Reyes - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Jonathan J. Rosenberg - Vice President of Product Management
Shona L. Brown - Vice President of Business Operations
L. John Doerr - Director
John L. Hennessy - Director
Arthur D. Levinson - Director
Michael Moritz - Director
Paul S. Otellini - Director
K. Ram Shriram -Directorand no, I don't think I'm related to Michael Moritz, he never calls, not even on holidays, and we never got a greeting card from him either ... maybe Mike knows the story behind the Google Logo ...
does this count as a case of Data Discovery?
Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis and Discovery by John Shawe-Taylor
Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery by Usama M. Fayyad
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 7th Pacific-Asia Conference, Pakdd 2003, Seoul. Korea, April 30-May 2, 2003 : Proceedin by Kyu-Young Whang
Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining by Usama M. Fayyad
Statistical Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery by H. Bozdogan
Fuzzy Modeling Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery by Earl Cox
Metadata: From Resource Discovery to Knowledge Management by Deborah Karpuk
Handbook of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery by Willi Klosgen
Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data: Tools, Techniques, and Applications by Jason T. L. Wang
Principles of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery: 5th European Conference, Pkdd 2001, Freiburg, Germany, September 3-5, 2001 Proceedings by Luc De RaedtPosted by E Moritz @ 10:13 PM CST [Link] [No Comments]
Casuistry is any attempt to determine the correct response to a moral problem, often a moral dilemma, by drawing conclusions based on parallels with agreed responses to pure cases, also called paradigms. Another common everyday meaning is "complex reasoning to justify moral laxity." Casuistry is a branch of applied ethics. It is the standard form of reasoning applied in common law. Casuistry takes a relentlessly practical approach to morality. Rather than applying theories, it examines cases. By drawing parallels between paradigms, so called "pure cases," and the case at hand, a casuist tries to determine the correct response (not merely an evaluation) to a particular case. The selection of a paradigm case is justified by warrants, and opposed by ??? [forgot the word]. This form of reasoning is the basis of case law in common law. Casuistry is successful because it does not require participants in the evaluation to agree about ethical theories or evaluations before making policy. Instead, they can agree that certain paradigms should be treated in certain ways, and then agree on the similarities, the so-called warrants between a paradigm and the case at hand. Since most people, and most cultures substantially agree about most pure ethical situations, casuistry often creates ethical arguments that can persuade people of different ethnic, religious and philosophical beliefs to treat particular cases in particular ways. For this reason, casuistry is the form of reasoning used in English Law. Casuistry as a method was popular among Catholic thinkers in the early modern period, especially the Jesuits. It however was later attacked (e.g. by Pascal) as the mere use of complex reasoning to justify moral laxity; hence the everyday use of the term to mean complex reasoning to justify moral laxity. Casuists have often been mistrusted as too self-serving, and their reasoning thought too inaccessible. The reasoning is often inaccessible because successful casuistry requires a large amount of knowledge about paradigms, and how parallels can be drawn from those paradigms to real life situations. In modern times, there is a similar tremendous resentment against lawyers and law. In modern times, Casuistry has successfully been applied to Law, bioethics and business ethics, and its reputation is being rehabilitated. A good reference is "The Abuse of Casuistry", by Albert Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin.
So do Stem Cell Issues count in the Casuistry discussion?
[The above is adapted from from Wikipedia via essentials] [more]Posted by E Moritz @ 08:08 PM CST [Link] [No Comments]
Google Logo Mystery is gripping the blogs ... or maybe just a few blogs ... GTEXTS builds on Stuart Buck's post; there's The Unofficial Google Fan Club's post discussing BRYBGR. A thought that occurs is the possibility of Brin using Blue and Red as a pointer to BR-IN. I was going to throw in a reference to Zipf's law and rank ordering ... but didn't get to do that yet. Of course one could attribute some mnemonic attribute such as 'BRing Your Bottle GRandma' - nah, that's a real stretch; but what could BRYBGR stand for? Try blog.outer-court.com's observations. Of course there's fish.cx if you really need more google oriented irreleventia ...
Just for the record, CodeProject identifies Google's font as Catull, and introduces GPaint as a "program to create Google-like logos".
Digital Korea Herald reports that Dennis Hwang (Hwang Jung-moak) is the Korean computer artist (residing in the United States), "who has been drawing the face of Google for almost two years". So Dennis probably's got the best handle ... You might get insight looking at his own words on the googleblog.
Google News Design Critique is a deep design piece ... keep it for later in-depth review.
The BRYBGR Mystery is still open. .... later ... gotta go 'n feed the alligators ....
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Friday, June 11, 2004
Cattle Breeding, the New Billionaires ... really how many billionaires does cattle breeding breed? Who are the Cattle Barrons? Well to get there you might want o bone up on the bone down with the latest on Cattle breeding, like
Australian Cattle Dogs: Everything About Purchase, Care, Nutrition, Breeding, Behavior, and Training by Richard G. Beauchamp
Bred for Perfection: Shorthorn Cattle, Collies, and Arabian Horses Since 1800 by Margaret Elsinor Derry
Tropical Cattle: Origins, Breeds and Breeding Policies by W.J.A. Payne
Beef Cattle Breeding, Feeding and Showing by Lucy Newham
Birth of a Breed:The History of Polled Herefords-America's First Beef Breed (1st Edition) by Orville K. Sweet
The Genetics of Cattle by R. Fries
The Texas Longhorn: Relic of the Past, Asset for the Future by Donald Emmet Worcester
The First 49: Personalities in the Honor Gallery of the a Ha's Hereford Heritage Hall by Donald R. Ornduff
Cowboy Arithmetic: Cattle As an Investment by Harold L Oppenheimer
Dairy Cattle Breeds: Origins and Development by Raymond Brown Becker
Beef Cattle Feeding and Nutrition by Tilden Wayne Perry
The Dairy Cow Today: U.S. Trends, Breeding and Progress Since 1960 by Spahr
Improving Cattle by the Millions: Naab and the Development and Worldwide Application of Artificial Insemination by Harry August Herman
Cattle Genetic Resources by C.G. Hickman
Latest Dowloadable Cattle breeding PDF s, Ebooks, Documents, and/or Reports:does this have anything to do with destiny?
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Tuesday, June 8, 2004
Honkin' On Bobo - Aerosmith - will get you, maybe, a keychain with a harmonica. ... "classic blues and soul covers generously peppered with harmonica, horns, and boogie-woogie piano" (more 'bout aero here.)
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Monday, June 7, 2004
January 13 search led to Ancient Myths and the New Isis Mystery: Seven Lectures Given in Dornach 4 to 13 January 1918 and a Lecture Given in Dornach 24 December 1920 by Rudolf Steiner (reviewed as "In these lectures, Steiner looks at the Egyptian, Greek, and Hebrew myths and illustrates how the myths expressed the consciousness of the people of that time. He sees in the Osiris-Isis story an expression of the loss of a direct experience of the supersensible world. He shows the connection between this loss and the challenge we face today to bring new life to our abstract ways of knowing. ... Steiner then offers a remarkable story, a new Isis legend. In the Egyptian myth the veiled Isis states, "I am the All, I am the Past, the Present, and the Future; no mortal has yet lifted my veil." In the New Isis legend as told by Rudolf Steiner, the Isis figure states, "I am the Human Being, I am the Past, the Present, and the Future. Every mortal should lift my veil." .... RUDOLF STEINER (1861-1925) became a respected and well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, particularly known for his work on Goethe's scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his earlier philosophical principles into an approach to methodical research of psychological and spiritual phenomena. His multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, philosophy, religion, education (Waldorf schools), special education (the Camphill movement), economics, agriculture (biodynamics), science, architecture, and the arts (drama, speech and eurythmy). In 1924 he founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which has branches throughout the world." ) On the other hand ... A Friends search would have led to Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Sein Off: The Final Days of Seinfeld by Jerry Seinfeld, Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by audible.com, and another Sein Off: The Final Days of Seinfeld by Jerry Seinfeld (Latest Dowloadable Julia Louis-Dreyfus PDF s, and Ebooks.) So whose to say?
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Some Key Dates and Series .... start with January 2 (the first is left to its own devices), and then there's January 10 , January 11 , January 12 , January 13 , January 14 , January 15 , January 16 , January 17 , January 18 , January 19 ,January 20 , January 21 , January 22 , January 23 , January 24 , January 25 , January 26 , January 27 , January 28 , January 29 , January 3 , January 30 , January 31 , January 4 , January 5 , January 6 , January 7 , January 8 , January 9 , but where does all this lead? To surprises of course ... [more]
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Sunday, June 6, 2004
Latest on Animal Domestication and Stephen Budiansky .... here and
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Latest books on: 2004 Summer Olympics: include The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Athens 2004 by David Wallechinsky, and The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Athens 2004 (COMPLETE BOOK OF THE OLYMPICS) by David Wallechinsky
Latest Summer Olympics Dowloadables are here (PDF s, Ebooks, Documents, and/or Reports) [more]Posted by E Moritz @ 09:52 PM CST [Link]
discovered via the Meaning of Life Bibliography: Evolution Extended: Biological Debates on the Meaning of Life by Connie Barlow ... the description reads "As in her first well-received anthology, From Gaia to Selfish Genes, Connie Barlow has woven selections from the writings of biologists and philosophers into a unified whole. Once again she explores a range of viewpoints as she invites readers to formulate their own opinions. Editorial passages provide the historical context and introduce the debates that have ensued whenever evolutionary biology has been extended into the realm of meaning. Contents: Prophets of Progress. Julian Huxley. Francisco J. Ayala. Edward O. Wilson. The Naysayers. George Gaylord Simpson. John Tyler Bonner. David Raup. Wedges, Arms Races, and the Role of Strife. Charles Darwin. Richard Dawkins. Governors, Tinkerers, and the Role of Synergy. Gregory Bateson. Francois Jacob. Lynn Margulis and Mark McMenamin. Peter A. Corning. Ratchets, Uroboros, and the Role of Initiative. Jacob Bronowski. Alister Hardy. Karl Popper. Cosmic Visions. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Julian Huxley. Banishing Cosmic Meaning. Peter Medawar. Jacques Monod. Beyond the Binary. Connie Barlow. Dorion Sagan. Connie Barlow and M. Mitchell Waldrop. Evolution as Religion. Edward O. Wilson. Julian Huxley. Alister Hardy. John C. Greene. Responding to Creationism. Henry Morris. Charles Darwin. Theodosius Dobzhansky. Pope John Paul II. John C. Greene. George Gaylord Simpson. William Provine. Martin Eger. Richard D. Alexander. U.S. Supreme Court. Science into Myth. Jeffrey Wicken. Brian Swimme. Laurence Levine" [more]
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Osmoregulation=active regulation of osmotic pressure of body fluids to keep them from becoming too dilute or too concentrated (see here)... the key text on osmotic pressure is Electrolytes, Equilibria in Solutions and Phase Equilibria: Calculation of Multicomponent Systems and Experimental Data on the Activities of Water, Vapor Pressures, and Osmotic Coefficients by G. G. Aseyev located here. A general text discussing osomoregulation worth considering is Biology by Eldra P. Solomon
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Saturday, June 5, 2004
Meaning of Life .... to be added
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Smallville - The Complete First Season (2000) is getting great press and a greater following ... super to the max.
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Thursday, June 3, 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban resurging. Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Emma Watson (Hermione Granger), Robbie Coltrane (Rubeus Hagrid), Michael Gambon (Albus Dumbledore), Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon), Gary Oldman (Sirius Black), Alan Rickman (Professor Snape), Fiona Shaw (Aunt Petunia), Maggie Smith (Professor McGonagall), Timothy Spall (Peter Pettigrew), David Thewlis (Professor Lupin), Emma Thompson (Professor Trelawney) and Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) do great in the movie (via NY Times) [more]
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Wednesday, June 2, 2004
liberty and happiness in one bundle ..... Shrecky Austin Powers or was it mikey myers?
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Cognition and Descartes' Baby, now there's an interesting pair? Was Cogito Man Aware of Cognition? Did he ever have a baby? Is there any reason to laugh? Shoud R.D. be refered to as Cognito? Would he rival Magneto? Only the X-men would know!
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The Spanglish exercise suggests further exploration of word formation theories ... in particular that of Lexeme-Morpheme Based Morphology ... so consider Lexeme-Morpheme Base Morphology: A General Theory of Inflection and Word Formation by Robert Beard ... and there's more ... [more]
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What about Spanglish? Are we getting closer? Are we moving to hybrid culture? Is this reflective of a normal process of cultural evolution? It would be interesting to explore how the phonemes and lexemes are evolving. Is there a devolution of linguistic isolation, or is it mere surrealist speculation? [more]
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Tuesday, June 1, 2004
Welcome to Brain Land ... or at least that's what they may have said. To be continued ... some of the topics include: Abducens nerve, Accessory nerve, Acupuncture, Algolagnia, Altered state of consciousness, Amputee, Amygdala, Anaesthesia, Analgesic, Anatomy, Anterior horn, Arachnoid, Artificial consciousness, Attention, Auditory system, Autonomic nervous system, Avian pallium, Awake, Awareness, Basal ganglia, Behavior, Bewusstsein, Biological tissue, Blood vessel, Blood-brain barrier, Bone, Brain, Brain stem, Brainstem, Brodmann area, Case studies, Caudate nucleus, Central nervous system, Cerebellum, Cerebral cortex, Cerebral hemisphere, Cerebral peduncle, Cerebrospinal fluid, Cerebrum, Chronic pain, Cingulate cortex, Circle of Willis, Circulatory system, Cocaine, Cognition, Cognitive, Cognitive science, Coma, Consciousness, Consciousness-only, Corpus callosum, Cranial nerves, Current events, Daniel Dennett, Dehydration, Dentate gyrus, Dream, Drug, Dura mater, Electrical resistance, Embryology, Emergent phenomenon, Emotion, Endocrine, Environment, Epileptic seizure, Extrapyramidal system, Facial nerve, Fight-or-flight response, [more]
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Things a Man Should Know ??? that was an unusual topic ... so what are things to know? [more]