Posted in "Observations", What I know, tagged anna Deveare Smith, brain injury, Chris Abani, crows, environment, Inspiration, intelligence, Isabel Allende, Jill Bolte Taylor, Joshua Klein, lost time, motivation, random observations, storytelling, william mcdonough on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Random Observations: May 27, 2008
“Lost Time and Inspiration”
Every now and then I stumble across a book, or an Internet site, or a television series, or a performance fesitval…. some space that I can blissfully explore/experience for hours, even days.
I lose all track of time, forgetting other things… you know… the kinds of things [...]
Posted in "Observations", What I know, tagged free ideas, william mcdonough on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bill McDonough “The Wisdom of Designing Cradle to Cradle”
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Joshua Taylor “The Amazing Intelligence of Crows”
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Posted in "Observations", What I know, tagged free ideas, Jill Bolte Taylor on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jill Bolte Taylor “My Stroke of Insight”
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Isabel Allende on Passion and Women
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Posted in "Politics", What I know, tagged "Politics", africa, agri-business, environmentalist, food, green, green party, hunger, industrial agriculture, John Tierney, the environment on May 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have you got a solution to world hunger? Me neither. But that doesn’t mean I remain neutral or am not interested in the subject.
(smile)
Sometimes I feel a bit like a contestant at a beauty pageant when these kinds of topics come up
Hello Everyone!! I just want to say what a thrill it is [...]
Posted in "Observations", "Science", What I know, tagged "Science", animal intelligence, bird language, new york times, this is what i know, verlyn klinkenborg on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Random Observations: May 7, 2008
“Animal Intelligence”
Continuing my science kick, I have been following the latest stories released in the journals Nature and Science.
One story reports on a group of researchers at MIT who wondered how young birds move from babbling to mature bird song.
See: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5876/630 and: http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/05/audio_special_babbling_bird_br.html and: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/science/06obsong.html?ref=science# and: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080501-bird-brains.html and: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/05/01/bird-song-babble.html
Now, I think this is an interesting question. Do chicks [...]
Posted in "Observations", "Science", What I know, tagged "Science", biotechnology, body part repair, finger growing, medicine, plastic surgery, random observations, vetrans on May 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Random Observations, May 1, 2008
“Re-Growing Body Parts”
(This entry really should be filed under “Astounding Observations”)
The implications…
While tinkering with a model airplane, a man in the United States chopped off his middle finger, just above the final knuckle. The cut was as flat and clean as a butcher’s slice, straight through the bone.
Then, [...]
Posted in "Observations", What I know, tagged "Science", consciousness studies, knowledge, phallic symbols, science and art, taxonomy on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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Random Observations April 23, 2008
“The Unbearable Lightness of Taxonomy and Perception”
Mix art with science, and the “pocket rocket” phallic symbol takes on a whole new metaphorical meaning. See: http://www.artscatalyst.org/projects/space/gravity.html
Can a news cycle draw everything we know into its own black hole before the CERN collider even gets a shot? See: “Asking the Judge [...]
