Saturday, January 23, 2010

OUR BRAINS ARE US: SYMPTOMS OF AN OFF-KILTER, LEFT-BRAIN, CULTURE



We are OUR TRILLIONS OF INTERCONNECTED NEURONS 
500 trillion according to Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Dundee, Scotland --
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Jelly fish used to be food for some salmon, and marine turtles too -- jelly fish dont have enemies any more-- proliferation of jelly fish can dominate food web and they can eat eggs of fish so prevent reestablishment of fishwill we be eating jelly fish? certain species are being eaten i sushi -- jelly fish salad -- it will become in processed form, probably DANIEL PAULI--CONSEQUENCES OF OVERFISHING,
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A countervailing thought: There is no remedy for love, but to love more. Henry Thoreau 1817 - 1862
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It is part of the merging of the social sciences,” Robert Shiller, an economist at Yale, said of Monday’s awards. “Economics has been too isolated and these awards today are a sign of the greater enlightenment going around. We were too stuck on efficient markets and it was derailing our thinking.”
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HEALTH CARE, OR HEALTH INSURANCE BILL?
from Health Reform Watch -- 2009 salaries of CEO's

http://www.healthreformwatch.com/2009/05/20/health-insurance-ceos-total-compensation-in-2008/
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Part of the wisdom of the Elders is to remind the world that we actually have universal values that are accepted by every government in the world and yet they are not being implemented.” Mary Robinson
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 The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men. ALLEN E CLAXTON

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“Good or bad, moral or immoral, people are going to make markets and trade via computers, and this is a natural area of financial engineers,” says Emanuel Derman, a professor at Columbia University and a former Wall Street quant. -- NYTimes
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