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POPSIntelligent Comments from the Right I couldn't resist clipping this bit of nonsense. It is a comment on a Fox News story about a speech Obama made at the Prayer Day breakfast. About what you'd expect from the heartland.
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POPSYou won't find consciousness in the brain I never knew I was a "neurosceptic". Neuroscience uses the same basic metaphorical language problem as quantum physics. See: http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2010/01/17/is-there-a-language-problem-with-quantum-physics-1/ This persepective also raises serious questions about: http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2010/01/14/carnegie-mellon-scientists-crack-brains-codes-for-noun-meanings/
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POPSIs there a language problem with quantum physics? (2) The stream of a collective consciousness - The same metaphor could apply to the new experience of knowledge as a flow or stream, rather than as collections of individual documents -- . See also: http://openintelligence.amplify.com/2010/01/14/how-conceptual-metaphors-are-stunting-web-innovation/.
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POPSAn invitation to think differently Trend alert? FROM conventional wisdom (received religious professional and academic doctrines and ideologies); TO common sense (thinking for ourselves) Or is that just wishful thinking?
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POPSArctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures show Of course, Canada Tar Sands oil mines have been pouring huge amounts of C02 right into the heart of the Arctic for decades, and the criminal Canadian goverment plans to increase production (therefore emissions) without any meaningful controls. And the US has approved the building of a new pipeline over the melting tundra. Canadian governments, both Federal and Provincial, should be held accountable by the rest of the world for the consequences.
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POPSB- Classic Movies Now Online If you get your kicks from uber kitschy B- films, then we’ve got a little something for you. AMC has launched a new site called B- Minus Classics, which we have added to our growing collection of Free Movies Online. (Our list now contains 125 free classic movies, and numerous sites where you can watch free movies online). AMC describes its new site as:
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POPSUncollected stories of JD Salinger Aside from his Nine Stories, JD Salinger published twenty-two stories in various magazines which remain uncollected. Several attempts have been made to compile these stories together but have met stiff resistance by the author. Spanning his literary career between the years 1940-1965, these stories display changes in both the author's style and message. While some are plainly of commercial quality, most are serious works containing an expansive gift of enlightenment and self-examination: that very-satisfying "Salinger moment"
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POPSMedication and Mental Illness <<<Yet the temptation is often to throw the kitchen sink at these disorders when nothing seems to work. Doctors used to be notoriously reluctant to be honest with patients with cancer or some other terminal diagnosis. Even when everything has been tried with a given patient, I think that in psychiatry there may be a similar reluctance to speak what sometimes is the truth: "I don't know that I can help you." The difference is that in psychiatry there is no pathology report or CT scan demonstrating that a patient is in fact beyond help. In psychiatry it is merely...a feeling one gets. >>>
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POPSThe Known Universe The world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe. For more information visit http://www.amnh.org
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POPSWhat is Life? Kurt Vonnegut's description of an enormous grinning Cheshire Cat as lord of the universe always cheers me up.
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POPSClimate blah blah in a cornflake There are, of course, rigorous and ongoing scientific enterprises which interrogate any stable models and theories of climate change, just how science should be. And if the likes of Bush and Blair lied so viciously you'd be right to query anything that governments say.
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POPSPersonality Types in Cyberspace With a strong predilection towards disagreeing with people, their messages in email and discussion board groups often begin and are peppered throughout with words like "but" and "however." A more subtle oppositional message may start off with "well" or the namesake "yes but." Psychodynamic theory proposes that these people struggle with underlying feelings of hostility that can only be expressed passively or indirectly, via the act of disagreeing. They also may need to oppose others as a way to firm up their somewhat fragile identity or to boost self-esteem by proving themselves right and others mistaken. People with oppositional tendencies may be drawn to the intellectually contentious atmosphere of online discussion groups. That atmosphere, combined with the difficulties in establishing one's presence in a somewhat chaotic environment that lacks the identity-grounding cues of face-to-face contact, may also amplify oppositional tendencies.
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POPSThe Psychology of Cyberspace John Suler, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, Science and Technology Center Rider University. There is a rapidly growing field of 'cyberpsychology': the contents here suggest some of the areas of focus. Clearly, business and marketing research are well represented in studies; another interesting area of study is the social site as a virtual laboratory for studying human personality, motivation,etc; related to the latter the pressing question of how internet relationships (e.g. friendship, group, lover) interact with individuals' lives beyond the internet.
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POPSDeleuze on Difference and Art pics from Earth as Art. views come through the eyes of Landsat -7 satellite. 1. Pinacate Volcano Field, Mexico. 2. Richat Structure in African desert of auritania. 3. Icefall, Lambert Glacier, Antarctica. 4. Ganges River Delta, India. 5. Volga River Delta flows into the Caspian sea. (you may also refer to it as deterritorialized reflections coming out of our atmosphere ..-))
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POPSDeleuze on Difference and Art pics taken from Earth as Art. views come through the eyes of Landsat -7 satellite. (you may also refer to it as a deterritorialized reflections coming out of our atmosphere ..-)) 1. Pinacate Volcano Field, Mexico. 2. Richat Structure in African desert of auritania. 3. Icefall, Lambert Glacier, Antarctica. 4. Ganges River Delta, India. 5. Volga River Delta flows into the Caspian sea.
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POPSTolstoy on War and Light You say if enemies, such as Germans, Turks, or savages, come to attack you, and if you do not make war, they will kill you all. This is an error. If there were a society of Christians who did no evil to anybody, and who gave the surplus of their labor to others, no enemies, either Germans, Turks, or savages, would torture or kill them. They would take what these Christians (for whom there would exist no difference between Germans, Turks, or savages) would give up to them. If a Christian is called upon to take part in war, that is the moment for him to testify the truth to those who do not know it.
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POPSAbel Demetrios Capetanakis, poet, philosopher and literary critic, died of an incurable disease in London in 1944, at the age of 32. During that time he completed seventeen poems which John Lehmann calls ‘one of the most astonishing literary achievements I have ever come across.
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POPSIntelligent Discussion Forums Although they are broadly 'philosophical', the sites I have looked at have categories across a wide range of subjects and ideas. There are several more on the site clipped. The ones I have looked at appear to be stimulating and courteous.
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POPSIs Intelligence Sexy? <<<Many traits in many species have evolved through sexual selection specifically to function as fitness indicators that reveal good genes and good health. Sexually selected fitness indicators typically show (1) higher coefficients of phenotypic and genetic variation than survival traits, (2) at least moderate genetic heritabilities and (3) positive correlations with many aspects of an animal's general condition, including body size, body symmetry, parasite resistance, longevity and freedom from deleterious mutations. These diagnostic criteria also appear to describe human intelligence (the g factor).>>> (from abstract). So then, is there some sort of mirror neuron circuitry in the brain that excites a cortical g spot?
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POPSThe Reassurance of Magic A very straightforward polemic to chew over between the cornflakes and the coffee. (Certainly, almost anything is better than pop science).
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