Deborah Yoon
Curiouser and curiouser
April 20th, 2007
Here is a selection of interesting tidbits of information on curious phenomenon in our solar system.
Northern Lights on steroids: Jupiter generates it’s own lights, doesn’t require the sun for the earth-size auroras, because the mega planet’s spin axis churns out 10 million volts around it’s poles. Here is a bit in the National Geographic about it and images that were taken from the Hubble can be found here. Read the rest of this entry »
Our Sun Has Gone Quiet
April 13th, 2007
In accordance to NASA scientists, our sun is at a time period that is called solar minimum and than it has arrived earlier that predicted. Solar minimum is when sunspots have vanished from the sun’s surface and solar flare activity has gone to zero — solar minimum and maximum are two extremes in the sun’s 11-year activity cycle. We are currently experiencing the calm before a massive solar storm that is expected to happen in 2010-12. Read the rest of this entry »
Twenty-Four Brand New Hours
March 30th, 2007
Thich Nhat Hahn is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk, who is best known for his efforts in the peace movement during the Vietnam war, which had resulted in him being exiled from his native country. Nhat Hahn was born in 1926 and was ordained a Buddhist monk at age 16. Then at age 24, he co-founded what is considered to be the nucleus center of Buddhist education in South Vietnam, the An Quang Buddhist Institute. Read the rest of this entry »
‘In dreams begins responsibilities’
March 16th, 2007
Marshall McLuhan had written, “Our ‘Age of Anxiety’ is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s job with yesterday’s tools - with yesterday’s concepts”. Presently, this sentiment can resonate across many systems, whether you work in education, healthcare, science, the arts, politics, and so forth. It can drive us to frustration, a general feeling of discontent, but also has us taking baby steps [like Bob] in the direction towards epiphanies and breakthroughs. Read the rest of this entry »
food..glorious… food
March 9th, 2007
Crazy things are happening in the shelves that proudly offer organic goods and behind closed organic doors. Over the past several years monolithic corporations [i.e — favorites such as Philip Morris] have been stealthily buying out organic organizations and also offering us their own interpretations. For example, Boca products are of Kraft/Altria/Philip Morris origin [their Boca website looks like a Burger King ad] and those well designed Dagoba chocolate bars are owned by Hersheys.. and there is just so much more that you’ll just have to check it out yourself with this map. Read the rest of this entry »
Open Source-rers
March 2nd, 2007
There are many unknown heroes who remain hidden in the smoke of the bellowing Media Machine, however, their continuous, quiet actions attract like-minded spirits, which results in the formations of movements.
A plant scientist, Bent Skovmand passed away on the 13th of February at age 61. His name may not be a well known one, yet Time Magazine had written in 1991, “while not exactly a household name,” [Skovmand] had “more to do with the welfare of the world’s 5 billion people than many heads of state.” Read the rest of this entry »