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Sunday, January 31, 2016

JOHN HIATT LYRICS - Bite Marks


Don't need no teeth to eat my beef
I'm tenderhearted, ain't no Lee Van Cleef
You bit my tires and it blew my mind
Now I can't even roll down the line


---Steve

Homborg, Mr. - Wallace Stevens Wiki - Wikia

http://wallace-stevens.wikia.com/wiki/Homborg,_Mr.

that the functioning of the mind, and of the self, is an echo of the functioning of nature; and that nature, while its ultimate being exceeds the capacity of the mind or self to contain it, nevertheless enters into and is caught by the mind, and in shaping the mind's responses, in a sense becomes the mind--it's weather. Thus selfhood is not separate from nature, but an intimate effect of nature.

---Steve

Saturday, January 30, 2016

Scientism, The Limits of Science, And Religion - Part 2. | Center for Inquiry

http://www.centerforinquiry.net/blogs/entry/scientism_the_limits_of_science_and_religion_-_part_2/

suggests we step out side the 'frame of reference' employed by the study - that's to say, the scientific method - and employ other ways of knowing, ways that in this case (and as is usually the case when it comes to supernatural beliefs) presumably include a combination of gut-feeling, intuition, and heavy reliance on anecdotal evidence. Although the word 'scientism' is not used in this case, that charge is effectively made.

---Steve

Interesting quote from "The Martian: A Novel"

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---Steve

Shared from Twitter: The total value of all the property in the world is $217 trillion - 2.7 times the world's GDP | City A.M.

Add up all the property in the entire world, and you get $217 trillion (£152.2 trillion) of assets, a new report has suggested - that's 2.7 times the world's GDP. 

---Steve

Climatarians’ Crusade: Stop Eating Meat & Save the Planet

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429966/climatarians-crusade-stop-eating-meat-save-planet

Nor is organic farming better for the environment. An analysis of USDA data by agricultural scientist Steve Savage shows huge yield gaps between conventional and organic crops. In comparing the two farming methods, yields were lower in 84 percent of organic crops. For fruit crops, the yield for organic strawberries was 61 percent lower than conventional strawberries, 49 percent lower for organic grapes, and 26 percent lower for organic oranges. For vegetables, yields for organic spinach were 71 percent lower, 49 percent lower for organic carrots, and 30 percent lower for organic potatoes. "To have raised all U.S. crops as organic in 2014 would have required farming of 109 million more acres of land," Savage said. "That is an area equivalent to all the parkland and wildland areas in the lower 48 states or nearly twice as much as all the urban land in the nation." The science simply doesn't support either the nutritional or environmental claims of climatarians who want to rig our diets for political purposes. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressed concern during legislative hearings last year; Congress is now asking for a top-down review of the USDA dietary guidelines, which have never been subject to peer reviews. The recently passed budget bill included $1 million set aside to conduct such a study. "Questions have been raised about the scientific integrity of the process in developing the dietary guidelines and whether balanced nutritional information is reaching the public," lawmakers wrote when proposing the study. "The entire process used to formulate and establish the guidelines needs to be reviewed before future guidelines are issued."

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429966/climatarians-crusade-stop-eating-meat-save-planet
---Steve

Developing Awareness : 13 Facts Everyone Should Know about Metastatic Breast Cancer

http://mbcn.org/developing-awareness/category/13-things-everyone-should-know-about-metastatic-breast-cancer

7. 20% to 30% of people initially diagnosed with early stage disease will develop metastatic breast cancer.

8. Young people, as well as men, can be diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer.

9. Like early stage breast cancer, there are different types of metastatic breast cancer.

10. Treatment choices are guided by breast cancer type, location and extent of metastasis in the body, previous treatments and other factors.

11. Metastatic breast cancer is not an automatic death sentence. Although most people will ultimately die of their disease, some will live for many years.

---Steve

Is Abortion Linked to Breast Cancer?

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/breastcancer/moreinformation/is-abortion-linked-to-breast-cancer

the scientific evidence does not support the notion that abortion of any kind raises the risk of breast cancer or any other type of cancer.

---Steve

Taken (2008) - Quotes - IMDb

Bryan: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

---Steve

The Dumb and the Restless | Rolling Stone


"Again, these people may be dangerous, but their boundless self-pity, their outrageous sense of entitlement and their slapstick incompetence as rebels and terrorists are absolutely ridiculous. Sure, it may not help, but how can we not laugh?

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-dumb-and-the-restless-20160107#ixzz3xWCX2eXX 



---Steve

Sunday, January 10, 2016

[From the Archive] | Cowburnt, by Edward Abbey | Harper's Magazine - Part 2

http://harpers.org/archive/2015/02/cowburnt/2/

The rancher (with a few honorable exceptions) is a man who strings barbed wire all over the range; drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds; drives off elk and antelope and bighorn sheep; poisons coyotes and prairie dogs; shoots eagles, bears, and cougars on sight; supplants the native grasses with tumbleweed, snakeweed, povertyweed, cowshit, anthills, mud, dust, and flies. And then leans back and grins at the TV cameras and talks about how much he loves the American West.

---Steve

The Atlantic: CRISPR's Most Exciting Uses Have Nothing to do With Gene-Editing


CRISPR's Most Exciting Uses Have Nothing to do With Gene-Editing
The Atlantic

Scientists are using the technology to control genes rather than alter them. Read the full story


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