Category Archives: Science
Global Warming: Peak Oil as Soon as 2014
This is one of the more actually optimistic blog articles I’ve come across recently re: “peak oil” and it is encouraging.
This item is important mostly because it is coming out of Kuwait who is central to OPEC and is not known for peak oil enthusiasm. Any models available to date put the peak back in 2008 and the present reality has been flat with a lot of adjustment going on.
Global Warming: Peak Oil as Soon as 2014
Faith & Science or Faith vs Science
This article and the ideas discussed is a perfect example of what I mean when I talk about all writers being authors of “propaganda”. It’s the terms we decide to use that frames the discussion that ensues. And or versus. Subtle but distinct difference in the selection. As the author of this article points out:
The lesson is here is simple: pay attention to language. The messages and meanings underlying the terms chosen by interest groups can say more about them than they might intend.
Posted by Jamais Cascio in http://www.openthefuture.com/2009/11/blasphemy.html
Brains & Rythmns
A little more information for that last post.
Brain works best when cells keep right rhythms
April 26th, 2009
Brain works best when cells keep right rhythms
It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for proper brain functioning. These rhythms don’t appear to be working correctly in such diseases as schizophrenia and autism, and now two papers due to be published online this week by the journals Nature and Science demonstrate that precisely tuning the oscillation frequencies of certain neurons can affect how the brain processes information and implements feelings of reward.
