Vortex Smoke Ring Collision

Posted under Amazing, Science, So Awesome!, Videos! :D by Donkey on Tuesday 18 August 2009



The Bionic Burger

Posted under Food!!!!, Health, Science, Videos! :D, Wtf?! by Donkey on Monday 13 April 2009



High Fructose Corn Syrup

Posted under Food!!!!, Health, Life, Science, So totally not ok :\, Videos! :D, Wtf?! by Donkey on Tuesday 17 March 2009

I can’t even put into words how insidious, disgusting, and criminally misleading and irresponsible these insanely offensive ads are. Why is it so easy for companies or industries with money to take people’s trust and rape it with a tire iron? Shit like this makes me angry enough to kill (in my imagination at least). You’re targeting kids, mothers and others, with reckless disregard for their health because it’s profitable. I almost wish I believed in hell.

High Fructose Corn Syrup Ad 1



High Fructose Corn Syrup Ad 2



High Fructose Corn Syrup Spoof 1



High Fructose Corn Syrup Spoof 2



High Fructose Corn Syrup Truth, Still Not Sexy



Pigeon Compass

Posted under Aminals, Science by Donkey on Sunday 15 February 2009

Whoa!

Click image for article.



WNYC: Radiolab

Posted under Creativity, Life, Love, Philosophy, Science, Technology, The Best Things Ever, The World, Wonderful by Donkey on Thursday 22 January 2009


Radiolab (Website)

Radiolab (Podcast)


I can’t recommend this program highly enough. I couldn’t possibly do it justice by trying to describe how brilliant and awesome it is.

This could be a good example of why (and how) “for-profit” leads to compromises in quality, content, and the exploitation of people. The quality of this show is unparalleled, and it’s just all-around brilliant.

You should subscribe to the podcast and download all the episodes right now (it’s free!). :D





Diet Coke - Death in a Bottle

Posted under Food!!!!, Health, Science by Donkey on Wednesday 7 January 2009

A lot of people probably won’t read this because it might upset their American diet style, or they’ll read it with a very closed mind not really believing what they’re reading. I haven’t researched everything that’s sited in this article for accuracy, but it sounds pretty spot-on in relation to how the whole commercial food industry works, and the criminal negligence that they exercise in developing and including poisonous ingredients in their products (e.g. high-fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, fluoride, sodium lauryl sulfate, etc., etc., etc.).

I really don’t understand why someone would continue indulging in something as meaningless and unimportant as a commercially produced food product and put their health on the line when they’re presented with information that clearly outlines how toxic and damaging it is:




Diet Coke Kills


Michael J. Fox Talks To Katie Couric

Posted under Health, Science, Technology, Videos! :D by Donkey on Monday 22 December 2008

What an incredible person:




Truth Vs. Falsehood - David R. Hawkins

Posted under Books, Life, Science, The World by Donkey on Thursday 2 October 2008

I am so thoroughly enjoying David Hawkins’ body of work. ‘Power Vs. Force’ was incredible, as was ‘Eye of the I’ (which I read years ago and am now re-reading), and ‘Truth Vs. Falsehood’ puts Hawkins’ work into an illuminating context.

Here’s an excerpt from the preface:
“The bewilderment of current human society is evidenced by the lack of clarity or comprehension of the fundamental issues, which require identification and elucidation as well as validation of their credibility and authenticity. The primary defect now is, as it always has been, that the design of the human mind renders it intrinsically incapable of being able to tell truth from falsehood. This single, most crucial of all inherited defects lies at the root of all human distress and calamity.

Operationally, the mind is dualistic and thus sets up separatist mentations based on arbitrary, hypothetical positionalities that have no intrinsic reality. Thus, by design, the mind has the basic defect, as pointed out by Descartes, that it cannot differentiate res cogitans (also cognitans) from res externa (i.e., mentalizations about the seeming appearance of the world versus the world as it actually is). The mind thus confuses its own projections and mistakenly assumes that they have an external, independent existence, whereas, in reality, no such condition exists.

The design of the human mind is also comparable to that of a computer in which the brain is the hardware that is capable of playing any software programs fed into it. The hardware is, by design, incapable of protecting itself from false information, and, therefore, the mind will believe any software program with which society has programmed it, for it is innocently without any safeguard or protection. The same declaration has been made by all the greatest spiritual leaders of history who unanimously state that the basic defect of humanity is its relatively invincible ignorance, the recovery from which is operationally impossible without the help of a spiritual teacher.

The human mind, therefore, by virtue of its innate structure, is naive, blind to its limitations, and innocently gullible. Everyone is the victim of the ignorance and limitation of the human ego. Not only is the majority of the content of the average mind fallacious, but it is also programmed to attack itself with self-hatred, depression, guilt, low self-esteem, envy, greed, conflict, and endless misery. These defects are then projected onto the world as hate, war, violence, and genocide. The ego defends its own limitations with prideful denial, thus becoming its own victim.

That the human mind, without help, is unable to tell truth from falsehood due to its own innate structure and design is so staggering a discovery that it is roughly comparable to the discovery by Copernicus that caused cultural shock in the sixteenth century. Because this single face alone is confrontational to the average mind, it will probably not be welcomed or warmly greeted by those who profit from sophistry and its illusions.

In today’s world, it is not just the seeker of spiritual truth who is focused as never before on discovering how to tell truth from falsehood. The general public is in a semi-paralysis state due to the quandary of doubt and futility of hoping for any kind of dependable authenticity in the current public discourse. Public interest is riveted on testimony before investigative panels. Mobs in Madrid chant, “We want the truth.” Juries strain to sift through evidence, and protest groups vociferously challenge every aspect of society.

At this time, there is no common agreement on even the most basic, simple, and obvious questions: What to Do? What to do when an avowed enemy slaughters thousands of innocent civilians? Should we “lock up” criminals or just see them as victims of society and let them run the streets as compulsive predators? Is it simple, common-sense police work to scrutinize obvious terrorist-group suspects, or is that to be forbidden by civil rights? It is not even clear who is the perpetrator and who is the victim. Who or what is to blame?

Mmmmmmm Pasta!

Posted under Food!!!!, Health, Science by Donkey on Wednesday 3 September 2008

Here’s an interesting article on the nutrition-myths that surround pasta like a firing squad: Mmmm pasta!

Contrary to the current popular belief, pasta isn’t bad for you! Imagine that!! Popular belief is flawed!
:o <--- see the shocked face?! See it?!?!! SEE IT?!?!?!

Martin Seligman: Why Psychology is Good

Posted under Life, Science, Videos! :D by Donkey on Monday 11 August 2008

From the website:
Martin Seligman talks about psychology — as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?

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