Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Rare "Prehistoric" Shark Photographed Alive
With a mouthful of three-pointed teeth, the frilled shark may be a fearsome hunter, but it's considered harmless to humans. Those needle-like choppers are better suited to fleshier forms found in the deep sea, such as squid and other sharks.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Half-human and half-animal
'Half-animal' woman may be long-missing daughter, parents say
Created on : 01/18/2007 19:55 (PRI)
Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Jan 18 A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police and a man claiming to be her father said today.
The woman - believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, who would now be 27 years old - cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been difficult to confirm.
"When I saw her, she was naked and walking in a bending- forward position like a monkey ... She was bare-bones skinny," said Sal Lou, who says he is her father.
"She was shaking and picking up grains of rice from the ground to eat. Her eyes were red like tigers' eyes," Sal Lou, 45, told The Associated Press by telephone from Oyadao district in Rattanakiri province, where the woman was found last Saturday.
Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote jungle area, said Chea Bunthoeun, a deputy provincial police chief. The province is about 325 kilometres northeast of Cambodia's capital.
Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district, described the woman as "half-human and half-animal." Sal Lou, a village policeman who is a member of the Pnong ethnic minority, said he recognised his daughter by a scar on her right arm, a result of a cut from a knife she played with when she was young.
The woman was discovered this month after a villager noticed that food disappeared from a lunch box he left at a site near his farm, Chea Bunthoeun said.
"He decided to stake out the area and then spotted a naked human being, who looked like a jungle person, sneaking in to steal his rice," he said. The villager gathered some friends and they managed to catch the woman on January 13.
Created on : 01/18/2007 19:55 (PRI)
Phnom Penh (Cambodia), Jan 18 A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police and a man claiming to be her father said today.
The woman - believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, who would now be 27 years old - cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been difficult to confirm.
"When I saw her, she was naked and walking in a bending- forward position like a monkey ... She was bare-bones skinny," said Sal Lou, who says he is her father.
"She was shaking and picking up grains of rice from the ground to eat. Her eyes were red like tigers' eyes," Sal Lou, 45, told The Associated Press by telephone from Oyadao district in Rattanakiri province, where the woman was found last Saturday.
Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote jungle area, said Chea Bunthoeun, a deputy provincial police chief. The province is about 325 kilometres northeast of Cambodia's capital.
Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district, described the woman as "half-human and half-animal." Sal Lou, a village policeman who is a member of the Pnong ethnic minority, said he recognised his daughter by a scar on her right arm, a result of a cut from a knife she played with when she was young.
The woman was discovered this month after a villager noticed that food disappeared from a lunch box he left at a site near his farm, Chea Bunthoeun said.
"He decided to stake out the area and then spotted a naked human being, who looked like a jungle person, sneaking in to steal his rice," he said. The villager gathered some friends and they managed to catch the woman on January 13.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Fine for consuming liquor
Women to fine men for consuming liquor
Rajgarh (MP), In a unique effort to prevent their men from consuming liquor, women of Lalpuria, a remote village in Khilchipur tehsil of the district, have decided to collect fine of Rs 100 from those drinking alcohol, official sources said today.
The women, who have formed three Self-Help Groups under the Udaan project, have decided to impose the fine of Rs 100 on every man consuming liquor, they said.
The money will be deposited in the Self-Help Group accounts, sources said.
One of the first persons to be accosted by the women was Narsingh, who was fined Rs 50, they said adding after he promised to shun liquor, the women threatened to collect full amount of the fine, if he indulges in the habit again.
Rajgarh (MP), In a unique effort to prevent their men from consuming liquor, women of Lalpuria, a remote village in Khilchipur tehsil of the district, have decided to collect fine of Rs 100 from those drinking alcohol, official sources said today.
The women, who have formed three Self-Help Groups under the Udaan project, have decided to impose the fine of Rs 100 on every man consuming liquor, they said.
The money will be deposited in the Self-Help Group accounts, sources said.
One of the first persons to be accosted by the women was Narsingh, who was fined Rs 50, they said adding after he promised to shun liquor, the women threatened to collect full amount of the fine, if he indulges in the habit again.
Selling new born
9 January 13:53 hrs IST
Mother arrested for selling new born
Ranchi: A woman in Jharkhand has been arrested for selling her day-old son for Rs.10,000.
Police said Chameli Devi of Iccak block in Hazaribagh district gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday. The next day she allegedly sold the baby to a man called Herralal who stayed near her home for Rs.10,000.
Herralal has also been arrested after a neighbour complained to the police.
Reports reaching here said the Chameli Devi already has four children and was driven to selling her fifth born by sheer poverty. Herralal and his wife do not have a child.
Mother arrested for selling new born
Ranchi: A woman in Jharkhand has been arrested for selling her day-old son for Rs.10,000.
Police said Chameli Devi of Iccak block in Hazaribagh district gave birth to a baby boy on Sunday. The next day she allegedly sold the baby to a man called Herralal who stayed near her home for Rs.10,000.
Herralal has also been arrested after a neighbour complained to the police.
Reports reaching here said the Chameli Devi already has four children and was driven to selling her fifth born by sheer poverty. Herralal and his wife do not have a child.
Monday, January 08, 2007
Drug education
China targets school students to combat drug addiction
CHINA-DRUGS (INTERNATIONAL)
Created on : 01/08/2007 16:52 (PRI)
Beijing, Jan 8 Though drug addiction in China has soared by 54 per cent in the last seven years, the country has achieved some success in spreading drug awareness among primary and middle school students, an official said today.
Drug education in primary and middle schools nationwide has made students more capable of identifying and refusing narcotics, secretary-general of China Anti-narcotics Foundation Chen Xufu said.
A recent questionnaire-based survey conducted in several major cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, showed 99 per cent of the 3,000 interviewed students in primary and middle schools were aware of the dangers of drug addiction.
A massive 87 per cent said if somebody offered them drugs such as ecstasy, they would refuse and report the incident to teachers or police.
Drug education is seen as a key component in the fight against drugs as there are more than 200 million primary and middle school students, Chen said.
These schools have made drug awareness part of the regular school curriculum.
According to official statistics, 7,58,100 of the 1,050,000 registered drug addicts in the country are under 35 years of age. The proportion is down from 77 per cent in 2001.
CHINA-DRUGS (INTERNATIONAL)
Created on : 01/08/2007 16:52 (PRI)
Beijing, Jan 8 Though drug addiction in China has soared by 54 per cent in the last seven years, the country has achieved some success in spreading drug awareness among primary and middle school students, an official said today.
Drug education in primary and middle schools nationwide has made students more capable of identifying and refusing narcotics, secretary-general of China Anti-narcotics Foundation Chen Xufu said.
A recent questionnaire-based survey conducted in several major cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, showed 99 per cent of the 3,000 interviewed students in primary and middle schools were aware of the dangers of drug addiction.
A massive 87 per cent said if somebody offered them drugs such as ecstasy, they would refuse and report the incident to teachers or police.
Drug education is seen as a key component in the fight against drugs as there are more than 200 million primary and middle school students, Chen said.
These schools have made drug awareness part of the regular school curriculum.
According to official statistics, 7,58,100 of the 1,050,000 registered drug addicts in the country are under 35 years of age. The proportion is down from 77 per cent in 2001.
University graduates now seek jobs at temples
University graduates in China now seek jobs at temples
CHINA-GRADUATES (INTERNATIONAL)
Created on : 01/08/2007 18:23 (PRI)
Beijing, Jan 8 (PTI) With jobs hard to get in the highly competitive Chinese market, graduates are now stalking the corridors of holy temples.
Famen Temple, one of the four most famous Buddhist Temples in ancient China, has employed four graduate students and five with bachelors degrees.
They were selected at a job market at Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University on Sunday in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province in northwest China.
It also hired 18 graduates from two other universities.
It is the first time the temple has gone to a job market to employ university graduates, said Xiankong, an eminent monk from the temple.
"Our exchanges with the outside world are increasing each year, so we need professional talents in fields such as publicity, reception and management", Xiankong was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
The temple planned to employ two doctors, three masters, 14 bachelors and two technical school graduates who have majored in foreign languages, art, economic management, gardening, information management and Chinese literature.
Nearly 60 students applied for the positions.
The recruitment was a success even if no doctors were hired, the monk said.
The employees need to sign a one-year contract and live in the temple. Unlike the Buddhist monks there, they are free to do what they want in the evening.
The salary for a graduate with a bachelor's degree is 700 to 1,200 yuan (90 to 155 USD) per month, which is the going rate in the province.
CHINA-GRADUATES (INTERNATIONAL)
Created on : 01/08/2007 18:23 (PRI)
Beijing, Jan 8 (PTI) With jobs hard to get in the highly competitive Chinese market, graduates are now stalking the corridors of holy temples.
Famen Temple, one of the four most famous Buddhist Temples in ancient China, has employed four graduate students and five with bachelors degrees.
They were selected at a job market at Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University on Sunday in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province in northwest China.
It also hired 18 graduates from two other universities.
It is the first time the temple has gone to a job market to employ university graduates, said Xiankong, an eminent monk from the temple.
"Our exchanges with the outside world are increasing each year, so we need professional talents in fields such as publicity, reception and management", Xiankong was quoted as saying by Xinhua news agency.
The temple planned to employ two doctors, three masters, 14 bachelors and two technical school graduates who have majored in foreign languages, art, economic management, gardening, information management and Chinese literature.
Nearly 60 students applied for the positions.
The recruitment was a success even if no doctors were hired, the monk said.
The employees need to sign a one-year contract and live in the temple. Unlike the Buddhist monks there, they are free to do what they want in the evening.
The salary for a graduate with a bachelor's degree is 700 to 1,200 yuan (90 to 155 USD) per month, which is the going rate in the province.
Climate change
Climate change
Throughout the 20thcentury, the global average temperature rose by about 0.5oC, and most of the high temperature records were concentrated in the 1990s. There is strong evidence that human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions contribute towards this “global warming”, which encompasses a change in most climate variables, including their variability patterns.
While solar radiation and rainfall are major climatic resources, climate is also the single main factor behind the variability of agricultural production in developing and developed countries alike.
Global warming may thus have profound effects on agriculture1and food security. Crop agriculture, forestry and livestock are directly involved as sources or sinks of GHG, but they are also among the most vulnerable victims of the foreseen changes.
Although there is no consensus on what will happen to agricultural environments and production, and at what pace, the following consequences are generally accepted by the scientific community:
* climate has considerable inertia, and cannot be reversed over a short period of time;
* future scenarios are uncertain and significant reduction of the uncertainties will require a decade or more;
* water vapour concentrations will increase in the lower atmosphere, and global mean precipitation could increase by 1.5 to 2.5 % per 1 °C of global warming;
* sea level rise may reach about 50 cm by 2100.
The response to the changes by organisms is relatively easy to assess at the eco-physiological level. It includes, for instance, shorter crop cycles, CO2fertilisation, modifications of coastal/deltaic agriculture, modified crop/animal and pest/disease relations…
Major methodological difficulties are associated with the extrapolation of impacts to the global scale. The literature stresses the possibility of a modification of the current crop geopolitical balance, human population movements and increased global insecurity.
Throughout the 20thcentury, the global average temperature rose by about 0.5oC, and most of the high temperature records were concentrated in the 1990s. There is strong evidence that human-induced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions contribute towards this “global warming”, which encompasses a change in most climate variables, including their variability patterns.
While solar radiation and rainfall are major climatic resources, climate is also the single main factor behind the variability of agricultural production in developing and developed countries alike.
Global warming may thus have profound effects on agriculture1and food security. Crop agriculture, forestry and livestock are directly involved as sources or sinks of GHG, but they are also among the most vulnerable victims of the foreseen changes.
Although there is no consensus on what will happen to agricultural environments and production, and at what pace, the following consequences are generally accepted by the scientific community:
* climate has considerable inertia, and cannot be reversed over a short period of time;
* future scenarios are uncertain and significant reduction of the uncertainties will require a decade or more;
* water vapour concentrations will increase in the lower atmosphere, and global mean precipitation could increase by 1.5 to 2.5 % per 1 °C of global warming;
* sea level rise may reach about 50 cm by 2100.
The response to the changes by organisms is relatively easy to assess at the eco-physiological level. It includes, for instance, shorter crop cycles, CO2fertilisation, modifications of coastal/deltaic agriculture, modified crop/animal and pest/disease relations…
Major methodological difficulties are associated with the extrapolation of impacts to the global scale. The literature stresses the possibility of a modification of the current crop geopolitical balance, human population movements and increased global insecurity.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Scientists say 2007 may be warmest yet
By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan
LONDON - Deepening drought in Australia. Stronger typhoons in Asia. Floods in Latin America. British climate scientists predict that a resurgent El Nino climate trend combined with higher levels of greenhouse gases could touch off a fresh round of ecological disasters — and make 2007 the world's hottest year on record.
"Even a moderate (El Nino) warming event is enough to push the global temperatures over the top," said Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research unit at the University of East Anglia.
The warmest year on record is 1998, when the average global temperature was 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit higher than the long-term average of 57 degrees. Though such a change appears small, incremental differences can, for example, add to the ferocity of storms by evaporating more steam off the ocean.
There is a 60 percent chance that the average global temperature for 2007 will match or break the record, Britain's Meteorological Office said Thursday. The consequences of the high temperatures could be felt worldwide.
El Nino, which is now under way in the Pacific Ocean and is expected to last until May, occurs irregularly. But when it does, winters in Southeast Asia tend to become milder, summers in Australia get drier, and Pacific storms can be more intense. The U.N.'s Food Aid Organization has warned that rising temperatures could wreak agricultural havoc.
In Australia, which is struggling through its worst drought on record, the impact on farmers could be devastating. The country has already registered its smallest wheat harvest in a decade, food prices are rising, and severe water restrictions have put thousands of farmers at risk of bankruptcy.
In other cases, El Nino's effects are more ambiguous. Rains linked to the phenomenon led to bumper crops in Argentina in 1998, but floods elsewhere in Latin America devastated subsistence farmers.
El Nino also can do some good. It tends to take the punch out of the Atlantic hurricane season by generating crosswinds that can rip the storms apart — good news for Florida's orange growers, for example.
"The short-term effects of global warming on crop production are very uneven," said Daniel Hillel, a researcher at Columbia University's Center for Climate Systems Research. "I warn against making definitive predictions regarding any one season's weather."
What is clear is that the cumulative effect of El Nino and global warming are taking the Earth's temperatures to record heights.
"El Nino is an independent variable," Jones said. "But the underlying trends in the warming of the Earth is almost certainly a result of the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."
Another more immediate effect of the rising temperatures may be political.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard is already under fire for refusing to link his country's drought to global warming. In Britain, Friends of the Earth campaign director Mike Childs said the weather service's 2007 prediction "underlined the gap between the government's rhetoric and action."
Other environmental groups said the new report added weight to the movement to control greenhouse gases.
It came a day after the weather service reported that 2006 had been Britain's warmest year since 1659, and three months after Sir Nicholas Stern, a senior government economist, estimated that the effects of climate change could eventually cost nations 5 percent to 20 percent of global gross domestic product each year.
Figures for 2006 are not yet complete, but the weather service said temperatures were high enough to rank among the top 10 hottest years on record.
"The evidence that we're doing something very dangerous with the climate is now amassing," said Campaign against Climate Change coordinator Philip Thornhill.
"We need to put the energy and priority (into climate change) that is being put into a war effort," he said. "It's a political struggle to get action done — and these reports help."
Last Croc Hunter show
Last Croc Hunter show won't have death
Sat Jan 6, 11:15 AM ET
BRISBANE, Australia - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's final program is complete, but the show about the sea's deadliest creatures will not include footage from the day he was killed by a stingray, his manager said Saturday.
Irwin died Sept. 4, minutes after a poisonous barb from a stingray's tail pierced his chest while he was snorkeling on the Great Barrier Reef in northern Australia shooting footage for two projects, including one titled "Ocean's Deadliest."
Irwin's final moments were caught on video tape, and were used in a police investigation and coroner's examination of the death.
The original tape was returned to Irwin's widow, Terri, and all copies were destroyed, Queensland state Coroner Michael Barnes said earlier this week.
Terri Irwin and close family friend and Irwin's manager John Stainton, one of few to have seen the footage, have both said it will never be shown publicly.
Stainton on Saturday said "Ocean's Deadliest" had been completed in line with Irwin's contract with the Discovery Channel, and would be shown for the first time in the U.S. on Jan. 21.
The show includes footage taken in the week and days before Irwin's death.
"Anything to do with the day that he died, that film is not available," Stainton said.
Finishing the program together was especially difficult because of Irwin's death, Stainton said.
"The documentary was commissioned, we finished it and it's going to air," Stainton said. "It's been a long and arduous saga ... an emotionally charged time to do an edit on a documentary that did have a deadline, and we did have to honor the deadline," he said.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Friday, January 05, 2007
Not in one region
Suffering from mental health higher in India: Survey
A higher proportion of people in India, mostly in urban areas, suffer from mental health, accoring to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
The report based on a survey conducted in six states showed that 47 per cent of the respondents suffered from clinical anxiety, and an equal number were depressed.
The Indian Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS) that carried out the fieldwork for the world survey in India and submitted its report to the WHO has found that sleeplessness and memory disorders affected more than 34 per cent and 44 per cent respectively.
For the World Health Survey, a total of 58343 from 10750 households were covered -- 52 per cent males and 48 per cent females.
The report said overall 40 per cent of the respondents felt jaded and fatigued, 30 per cent had relationship conflicts and more than 58 per cent suffered from stress-related bodyache.
A higher proportion of respondents have reported problems of mental health in Maharashtra, the report said.
The survey was conducted in Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
It has said that most women in India die due to maternal causes.
A higher proportion of people in India, mostly in urban areas, suffer from mental health, accoring to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
The report based on a survey conducted in six states showed that 47 per cent of the respondents suffered from clinical anxiety, and an equal number were depressed.
The Indian Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS) that carried out the fieldwork for the world survey in India and submitted its report to the WHO has found that sleeplessness and memory disorders affected more than 34 per cent and 44 per cent respectively.
For the World Health Survey, a total of 58343 from 10750 households were covered -- 52 per cent males and 48 per cent females.
The report said overall 40 per cent of the respondents felt jaded and fatigued, 30 per cent had relationship conflicts and more than 58 per cent suffered from stress-related bodyache.
A higher proportion of respondents have reported problems of mental health in Maharashtra, the report said.
The survey was conducted in Assam, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal.
It has said that most women in India die due to maternal causes.
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Mysterious metallic object
Mysterious metallic object crashes through roof of house in US
Freehold Township(New Jersey), Jan 4 Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in the eastern US state of New Jersey.
Nobody was injured when the golf-ball sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft.
The rough-surfaced object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police.
"There's some great interest in what we have here," said Lt. Robert Brightman. "It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything like it in my career." He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but declined to name the other agencies whose help he has enlisted.
Approximately 20 to 50 rock-like objects fall every day over the entire planet, said Carlton Pryor, a professor of astronomy at Rutgers University.
"It's not all that uncommon to have rocks rain down from heaven," said Pryor, who had not seen the object that struck the home. "These are usually rocky or a mixture of rock and metal." Pryor said laboratory tests would have to be conducted to determine if the object was a meteorite.
Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object hadpunched a hole in the roof of the single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor, and then bounced, sticking into a wall.
Freehold Township(New Jersey), Jan 4 Authorities were trying to identify a mysterious metallic object that crashed through the roof of a house in the eastern US state of New Jersey.
Nobody was injured when the golf-ball sized object, weighing nearly as much as a can of soup, struck the home and embedded itself in a wall Tuesday night. Federal officials sent to the scene said it was not from an aircraft.
The rough-surfaced object, with a metallic glint, was displayed Wednesday by police.
"There's some great interest in what we have here," said Lt. Robert Brightman. "It's rather unusual. I haven't seen anything like it in my career." He said he hoped to have the object identified within 72 hours, but declined to name the other agencies whose help he has enlisted.
Approximately 20 to 50 rock-like objects fall every day over the entire planet, said Carlton Pryor, a professor of astronomy at Rutgers University.
"It's not all that uncommon to have rocks rain down from heaven," said Pryor, who had not seen the object that struck the home. "These are usually rocky or a mixture of rock and metal." Pryor said laboratory tests would have to be conducted to determine if the object was a meteorite.
Police received a call Wednesday morning that the metal object hadpunched a hole in the roof of the single-family, two-story home, damaged tiles on a bathroom floor, and then bounced, sticking into a wall.
Photokina 2006 Cool Technology
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Bullet in uber slow motion
| So cool!! Use of a supper speed camera to capture the bullet beging shot through many objects and watch the time it blew up!! | |
Mother of all
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth. ~Albert Einstein
Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit. ~Author Unknown
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. ~Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. ~Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck." ~Author Unknown
Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory. ~Dewey Selmon
The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals. ~Martin H. Fischer
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. ~Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~Alfred North Whitehead
If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera. ~John Rich
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. ~Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, "Book X: Pleasure and Happiness," translated by W.D. Ross
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~Robert Zend
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ~Immanuel Kant
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. ~Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et penseés
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. ~Bertrand Russell
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. ~Bertrand Russell
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst. ~Shelley Berman
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses
Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome. ~Esa Saarinen
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -
Unweave a rainbow.
~John Keats, "Lamia," 1819
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. ~Author Unknown
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. ~Woody Allen
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. ~Zen Saying
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit. ~Author Unknown
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. ~Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ~Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. ~Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ~Bertrand Russell
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. ~Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651
The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck." ~Author Unknown
Philosophy is just a hobby. You can't open a philosophy factory. ~Dewey Selmon
The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals. ~Martin H. Fischer
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. ~Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ~Alfred North Whitehead
If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera. ~John Rich
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. ~Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. ~George Berkeley
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. ~Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, "Book X: Pleasure and Happiness," translated by W.D. Ross
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. ~Robert Zend
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ~Immanuel Kant
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. ~Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. ~Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et penseés
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. ~Bertrand Russell
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. ~Bertrand Russell
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. ~John Keats
If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst. ~Shelley Berman
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. ~Epictetus, Discourses
Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome. ~Esa Saarinen
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -
Unweave a rainbow.
~John Keats, "Lamia," 1819
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. ~Author Unknown
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. ~Woody Allen
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. ~Jean Jacques Rousseau
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. ~Zen Saying
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. ~La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil's Dictionary
A dead star
A dead star lives on in the form of the Crab nebula 952 years after its explosive demise. The Crab nebula sits about 6,000 light-years from Earth towards the constellation Taurus [image]. One light-year is the distance light travels in one year, or about six trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). This view of the nebula is actually the result of several space-based platforms, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope.
Turbulence Detected in Space
The highly ionized solar wind blows around our planet, disrupting satellites and endangering unprotected astronauts. A flotilla of four satellites have recently measured random variations in the solar wind's propagation, providing the first definitive detection of turbulence in space.
The observation could improve space weather forecasts, as well as help improve models of turbulent flow in ionized gas, called plasma.
Turbulence is quite common on Earth, as any frequent airplane passenger can attest. But even physicists get a little queasy when trying to explain the nature of this choppy, swirling flow.
"One cannot predict future behaviors with satisfactory accuracy," says Yasuhito Narita of the Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics in Braunschweig, Germany. "Even a small deviation or uncertainty in the initial state will end up with a completely different state."
Monday, January 01, 2007
In Memories we live
We meet, we greet, we part,
but leave a part of us,
imbedded in the memories of friends.
Images, some hazy and amorphous,
some sharp and crystal clear.
With time they dissolve.
Slowly they fade, one by one.
Bit by bit we die
and cease to exist,
when all the memories are gone.
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