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Monthly Archives: July 2011
July 17-23
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Things are changing, as teachers become students and students become teachers. The new knowledge is discovered within. The common knowledge has roots in a past that is no longer relevant. Compassion, joy, and community are the new themes. Strength is within yourself. Know it, acknowledge it, accept it, and be it. You can do what you choose to do. Choose wisely. Act from the heart. Know through compassion and intuition. This is also a time for determining what is truly important in your life and setting up prioriities. Recognize the little stuff for what it is, and be prepared to get rid of it when it becomes burdensome. There are too many emotional hoarders out there who keeping cluttering themselves with memories of past hurts, others opinions, guilt feelings, familial and societal judgments, etc. It is time to jettison all of that! Spend some time developing a ceremony of cleansing and renewal. Make your focus your personal renaissance. Continue reading
“Nature by Numbers” Video
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Dalai Lama at the White House 7/16
Dalai Lama White House Visit: Barack Obama Invites Spiritual Leader For Saturday Meeting

07/15/11 06:12 PM ET
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has invited the Dalai Lama to the White House Saturday, making time for the Tibetan spiritual leader who is in Washington for an 11-day Buddhist ritual.
The president last met with the Nobel Peace laureate in February 2010, infuriating Chinese officials. China accuses the Dalai Lama of pushing for Tibetan independence.
Employing a low-key approach, the White House has set the meeting in the White House Map Room, not the Oval Office, which is reserved for visiting heads of state. The White House is keeping the meeting closed to the news media, as it did last year.
A White House official says Obama will urge that representatives of the Dalai Lama be allowed to engage with Chinese authorities and will call for the preservation of Tibetan culture.
Troops March in San Diego Pa-ride
San Diego Pride: Troops To March As Identifiable Group In Gay Parade For First Time

By JULIE WATSON 07/15/11 02:04 PM ET
SAN DIEGO — Sean Sala felt so elated when Congress approved repealing the military’s ban on openly gay troops the 26-year-old sailor went on TV and revealed his sexual orientation publicly in what he calls his “Rosa Parks moment.”
Now the former Navy operations specialist, who finished his service last month, is organizing what is believed to be the first military contingent of hundreds of active-duty troops and veterans to lead a gay pride parade. The group will march Saturday in San Diego’s parade, the nation’s fifth largest.
to read more, go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/15/san-diego-pride-parade_n_900086.html
Red Wine in Space
Astronauts May Benefit from Red Wine in Orbit
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A chemical in red wine could prove beneficial in fighting the health effects of weightlessness. CREDIT: Dreamstime |
While the astronauts on NASA’s final shuttle mission right now don’t have a sip of alcohol around, new research suggests it actually might be good for their health.
The study found that red wine could help prevent the ill effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body.
An ingredient in red wine, called resveratrol, has shown promise protecting against the bone density loss and insulin resistance that can be side effects of flying in space, researchers said. The finding is based on a study of rats held upside down by their hind limbs and tails to simulate weightlessness. The rats fed resveratrol did not develop the adverse symptoms of the other group.
to read more, go to: http://www.livescience.com/15072-red-wine-space-alcohol-astronaut-health.html
Ecological Effect of Loss of Predator Populations
Loss of World’s Top Predators Is Pervasively Changing Ecosystems
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A healthy coral reef ecosystem with sharks off Jarvis Island, an uninhabited island located in the South Pacific Ocean. A loss of these large predators can alter the patterns of predation and herbivory, ultimately leading to an coral system where reef-building corals and coralline algae lose their competitive advantage. CREDIT: Brian Zgliczynski |
The loss of top predators, such as lions, wolves and sharks, is causing unpredictable changes to food chains around the world, according to a review written by 24 scientists.
These animals, called apex predators, play a crucial role in ecosystems, and their disappearance — often due to hunting by humans and loss of habitat — can lead to changes in vegetation, wildfire frequency, infectious diseases, invasive species, water quality and nutrient cycles, according to the authors led by James Estes, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
to read more, go to: http://www.livescience.com/15051-apex-top-predators-loss-food-chain-ecosystem.html
New Spin on Antimatter
New Spin Revealed on Mysterious Antimatter
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The spinning of a massive body like a galaxy bends and warps space-time according to the rules of general relativity. CREDIT: University of Warwick |
The puzzling prevalence of matter over antimatter in the universe might be related to the bizarre space-time stretching caused by our galaxy’s spin, a new study suggests.
Antimatter is a strange cousin to the stuff that makes up galaxies, stars and us. For every matter particle there is thought to exist an antimatter partner with the same mass but opposite charge. When matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate, converting their mass into energy in a powerful explosion.
Though the universe today is almost completely made of matter, scientists don’t understand why. The Big Bang that created the cosmos 13.7 billion years ago should have produced equal parts matter and antimatter, which would have annihilated, leaving the universe barren of either. Luckily, it didn’t (hence the Earth and the life it supports are here).
to read more, go to: http://www.livescience.com/15063-antimatter-asymmetry-galaxy-spinning.html
Internet Searches Affect Memory Patterns
Is Google Messing with Your Mind? Search Alters Memory Patterns
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Search engines are making people more likely to rely on computers to “remember” things for them, computers and online search engines have become a kind of external memory system that can be accessed at will — and that human memory is adapting to it. CREDIT: Simon Cataudo |
Whether the Internet is making us smarter or stupider may be up for debate, but new research shows that search engines are changing the way we learn and remember things.
People are using the Internet as an external “expert” to be accessed at will. This phenomenon, called transactive memory, isn’t new; it’s been around as long as humans have communicated. We’ve always relied on experts within our group (which used to be other humans) and, with the invention of the printing press, stored information in books. In those cases, we had to remember only who or what held the information.
to read more, go to: http://www.livescience.com/15044-internet-google-influence-learning-memory.html
Calgary Tornado
Tornado surprises Calgary residents, forecasters
BY BILL KAUFMANN ,CALGARY SUNFIRST POSTED:
CALGARY – The small tornado that hit the city ambushed residents and meteorologists alike — and it could happen again, said an Environment Canada official.
Citizens can’t depend entirely on forecasters for extreme weather warnings, meteorologist Bill McMurtry said in the wake of a weak twister that ripped through a southwest community.
“You can’t always rely on someone issuing warnings — there are situations where we’re not going to catch everything,” said McMurtry.
“Sometimes, the best warning is what you see yourself….it’s unfortunate such an event happened over a large urban area. It’s a challenging event for us.”
to read more, go to: http://www.torontosun.com/2011/07/14/tornado-surprises-calgary-residents-forecasters