Monday, April 01, 2013
the love of money IS the root of all kinds of evil...,
By CNu at April 01, 2013 1 comments
Labels: ethology , History's Mysteries , Living Memory
Sunday, March 31, 2013
social glue and world-changing?
By CNu at March 31, 2013 0 comments
Labels: not gonna happen...
does science make you moral?
By CNu at March 31, 2013 0 comments
Labels: culture of competence
game recognize game..,
By CNu at March 31, 2013 2 comments
Labels: deceiver , ethology , What IT DO Shawty...
Saturday, March 30, 2013
your grandma's favorite drug songs...,
For better or worse, drugs and popular culture are irrevocably entangled. Nowhere is the link more pronounced than in popular music, an art form that has an almost symbiotic relationship with substances. Whether drugs influence music or vice versa is a subject for debate—but few would argue that the Beatles would have transformed popular culture as they did without the influence of psychedelics; that house music would have become the behemoth it did without ecstasy culture; or that punk would have been quite the same without the relentless energy of speed and the nihilistic black hole of heroin as the twin engines that drove it.
Many might lazily assume that drug culture started in the 1960s—the era when supposedly everybody started turning on, tuning in and dropping out. But the truth is, just as human beings have been getting high since practically the dawn of time, popular musicians have been recording songs about getting high since they first started pressing 78s. To prove it, here's my selection of amazing pre-rock 'n' roll tracks about shooting smack, snorting coke, getting blitzed on booze and dancing all night on speed. Ladies and gentlemen, we present your grandmothers’ favorite drug songs:
By CNu at March 30, 2013 0 comments
Labels: American Original , Living Memory
Friday, March 29, 2013
something other than "adaptation" driving evolution...,
A computational model of greenish warbler evolution (left) fits real-world patterns of the species (right). Color corresponds to degrees of genetic difference. Image: Martins et al./PNAS |
wired | What explains the incredible variety of life on Earth? It seems obvious. Evolution, of course! But perhaps not the evolution most people grew up with.
Some ecologists say the theory needs an update. They’ve proposed a new dynamic driving the emergence of new species, one that doesn’t involve adaptations or survival of the fittest.
Give evolution enough time and space, they say, and new species can just happen. Speciation might not only be an evolutionary consequence of fitness differences and natural selection, but a property intrinsic to evolution, just as all matter has gravity.
“Our work shows that evolution wants to be diverse,” said Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the New England Complex Systems Institute. “It’s enough for organisms to be spread out in space and time.”
In a March 13 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper, Bar-Yam and his co-authors, Brazilian ecologists Ayana Martins at the University of Sao Paulo and Marcus Aguiar at the University of Campinas, modeled the evolution of greenish warblers living around the Tibetan plateau.
The warblers are what’s known as a ring species, a rare phenomenon that occurs when species inhabit a horseshoe-shaped range. Genes flow around the ring, passing between neighboring populations — yet at the ring’s tips, the animals no longer interbreed with one another.
By the usual standards, these end populations have become new species. According to the researchers’ model of the process, no special adaptations or differences in reproductive fitness are needed to explain — or at least to computationally replicate — the greenish warblers’ divergence. Fist tap Dale.
By CNu at March 29, 2013 3 comments
de novo originated genes
evolution and function of de novo originated genes |
By CNu at March 29, 2013 0 comments
"junk" be busy...,
By CNu at March 29, 2013 1 comments
Labels: Genetic Omni Determinism GOD
Thursday, March 28, 2013
energetic costs of cellular computations
By CNu at March 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: agency , microcosmos , What IT DO Shawty...
swarm "intelligence"?
By CNu at March 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: stigmergy , What IT DO Shawty...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
"nones" growth at record levels...,
the real ichthys |
By CNu at March 27, 2013 1 comments
Labels: American Original , Bibtardism , theoconservatism
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
species arise from relatively sudden changes in the supply of nutrients...,
By CNu at March 26, 2013 0 comments
review: the moral molecule, source of love and prosperity
By CNu at March 26, 2013 1 comments
Labels: dopamine , ethology , hegemony , killer-ape
Monday, March 25, 2013
censoring the future
By CNu at March 25, 2013 1 comments
Labels: cognitive infiltration , governance , legalization
why the education system is ripe for disruption
When I think of all the tremendous, seemingly impossible feats made possible by entrepreneurs, I am amazed that more has not been done to reinvent our education system. I want all entrepreneurs to take notice that this is a multi-hundred billion dollar opportunity that’s ripe for disruption.
Our collective belief is that our education system is broken so we spend tremendous energy in trying to fix it. We conveniently place the blame on problems that stem from budget cuts, teacher layoffs, inadequate technology in our schools and our education policies. We need to recognize the fact that our education system is NOT BROKEN but has simply become OBSOLETE. It no longer meets the needs of the present and future generation.
Our education system was developed for an industrial era where we could teach certain skills to our children and they were able to use these skills for the rest of their lives working productively in an industry. We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances. Meanwhile, new categories of jobs are being created because of these technological advances. It’s hard to imagine that half of the jobs that exist today didn’t exist 25 years ago.
Our education system today uses the mass production style manufacturing process of standardization. This process requires raw material that is grouped together based on a specific criteria. Those raw materials are then moved from one station to another station where an expert makes a small modification given the small amount of time given to complete their task. At the end of the assembly line, these assembled goods are standardized tested to see if they meet certain criteria before they are moved to the next advanced assembly line.
We are using the same process to teach our kids today, grouping them by their date of manufacturing (age). We put them on an education assembly line every day, starting with one station that teaches them a certain subject before automatically moving them to the next class after a certain period of time. Once a year we use standardized testing to see if they are ready to move to the next grade of an education advanced assembly line.
Rethinking education starts with embracing our individuality.
By CNu at March 25, 2013 4 comments
Labels: edumackation , What Now?
TED censored Hancock's War on Consciousness talk...,
"The massive backlash against TED indicates something else of great importance. People are getting smarter" TED has permitted the debate after having removed the video.
By CNu at March 25, 2013 8 comments
Labels: alkahest , Livestock Management
Sunday, March 24, 2013
cyprus is a race to mediterranean gas
By CNu at March 24, 2013 0 comments
Labels: banksterism , The Great Game
the cypress crisis isn't what it seems...,
- Russia – Losing its monopoly and ability to manipulate political events in Europe and the Middle East
- OPEC – The Arab nations fear losing their influence on Europe and the ability to manage prices and deprive Israel of not just energy independence but financial freedom from Europe and the United States; it is quite possible that the Arabs are pressuring Russia to threaten the European Union to prevent completion of this pipeline complex in favor of their supply via Turkish territory
- The Fed/ECB banking cartel – Without the ability to control natural resources and the independence of economies in North America and Europe, regardless of size, their ability to profit from advances or misery within the economies disappears and the independence which results weakens their geopolitical influence
Last hope now appears to lie with Russia
By CNu at March 24, 2013 0 comments
Labels: banksterism , The Great Game
Saturday, March 23, 2013
are we headed for a bigger showdown over secrets?
By CNu at March 23, 2013 1 comments
Labels: global system of 1% supremacy , psychopathocracy , quorum sensing?
like burning off a digital tick....,
By CNu at March 23, 2013 0 comments
Labels: facebook IS evil
Trash Israeli Professional Boxer Spitting On And Beating On Kids At UCLA...,
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Farmer Scrub | We've just completed one full year of weighing and recording everything we harvest from the yard. I've uploaded a s...