The Sounds of Interstellar Space The Sounds of Interstellar Space Nov. 1, 2013: Scifi movies are sometimes criticized when explosions in the void make noise. As the old saying goes, “in space, no one can hear you scream.” Without air there is no sound. But if that’s true, what was space physicist Don Gurnett talking about when he stated at a NASA press conference in Sept. 2013 that he had heard "the sounds of interstellar space?" It turns out that space can make music … if you know how to listen. Gurnett is the James Van Allen professor of physics at the University of Iowa and the principal investigator for the Plasma Wave Science instrument on Voyager 1. The heliosphere is a vast bubble of magnetism that surrounds the sun and planets. For decades, researchers have been on the edge of their seats, waiting for the Voyager probes to leave. Gurnett recalls the thrill of discovery when some months-old data from the Plasma Wave Instrument reached his desk in the summer of 2013. Credits: Author: Dr. More information:
Conscious Evolution: Leaping Into Possibility | Kosmos Journal It is 40 years since the Futurist magazine published Prof. Clare W. Graves’ article titled “Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap,” which contained predictions for our future that have proved remarkably prescient. The conditions that Graves anticipated are those we now experience. Graves’ theory regards human development as an adaptive process in which our Values systems, the codes that we perceive, will enable us to thrive and evolve to fit us to changing life conditions. Spiral Dynamics integral (as the theory subsequently became) predicted the current state of the world. Fast forward to today. The leap is a shift in consciousness. The Conscious Evolutionary Journey We are aware of our position as latecomers to a 4-billion year biological evolution but less so of the psychological and societal development that has since taken place. Societal evolution has been a progression in numbers and complexity. No previous shift has been as stark as this; we are in a new scenario.
Using Google Tools in Project-Based Learning In... Taking Apart Psychiatry: Fraud-Kings of the Mind Jon Rappoport, GuestWaking Times Exploding the myth of “good science…” “Promoting diabolically false science, psychiatry creates a gateway for defining many separate states of consciousness that don’t exist at all. They’re cheap myths, fairy tales.” USA Today, January 26, 2016: “Primary care doctors should screen all adults for depression, an expert panel recommended Tuesday.” —Let’s screen everybody to find out if they have mental disorders. Wherever you see organized psychiatry operating, you see it trying to expand its domain and its dominance. The first question to ask is: do these mental disorders have any scientific basis? An open secret has been bleeding out into public consciousness for the past ten years. And along with that: ALL SO-CALLED MENTAL DISORDERS ARE CONCOCTED, NAMED, LABELED, DESCRIBED, AND CATEGORIZED by a committee of psychiatrists, from menus of human behaviors. For years, even psychiatrists have been blowing the whistle on this hazy crazy process of “research.” Dr.
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10 Basic New Age Deceptions and How to Correct Them Waking Times Editor’s Note: This list was gathered and collated by Brendan D. Murphy with kudos to Mark Passio, Tim McClew for the distillation, and Juliet J. Carter. “Real compassion kicks butt and takes names and is not pleasant on certain days. Mark Passio’s 10 Basic New Age Deceptions 1. The notion that you make things worse by focusing on negative issues is false. Correction: Seeing the negativity for what it is creates an ability to steel oneself against its harmful effects and perhaps avoid them entirely. 2. “No one should ever get angry, it’s an emotion that needs to be purged from your system.” Correction: While non-righteous and unchanneled anger is counter-productive to individual development and collective efforts to bring about collective change, righteous indignation can be a major motivation to create positive change in the world. 3. Many New Agers tout concepts such as Right & Wrong as “dualistic” and therefore invalid. 4. 5. The abuse of meditation and yoga. 6. 7. 8. 9.
¿Qué dice tu letra de ti? Descúbrelo en este infográfico gigante sobre grafología La grafología es una de esas ciencias limítrofes que gozan de tantos adeptos como escépticos: en un sentido forense e incluso paleográfico, ubicar y reconocer las recurrencias en la forma de las letras de una persona puede servir no sólo para identificar a sus autores, sino para establecer ciertas pautas de personalidad: el estado emocional sería, si no evidente, sí posiblemente diferenciable a través del énfasis con que apoyamos el instrumento de escritura. Además de servir para identificar más de 5 mil patrones de personalidad, la grafología médica puede ayudar a reconocer etapas tempranas de enfermedades degenerativas.
The End of Capitalism Has Begun Paul Mason, GuardianWaking Times Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. Instead over the past 25 years it has been the left’s project that has collapsed. If you lived through all this, and disliked capitalism, it was traumatic. As with the end of feudalism 500 years ago, capitalism’s replacement by postcapitalism will be accelerated by external shocks and shaped by the emergence of a new kind of human being. Postcapitalism is possible because of three major changes information technology has brought about in the past 25 years. Second, information is corroding the market’s ability to form prices correctly. But what is all this information worth?
Bretton Woods Conference The Bretton Woods Conference, formally known as the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, was the gathering of 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations at the Mount Washington Hotel, situated in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, to regulate the international monetary and financial order after the conclusion of World War II.[1] The conference was held from the 1st to 22nd of July, 1944. Agreements were executed that later established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, which is part of today's World Bank Group) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Purposes and goals[edit] The Bretton Woods Conference took place in July 1944, but some of its core accords did not become operative until December 1958, when all European currencies became convertible. The main terms of this agreement were: Encouraging open markets[edit] The seminal idea behind the Bretton Woods Conference was the notion of open markets. Failed proposals[edit] Quotes[edit]
Think Global, Act Local; Preparing for and Building the New Era for Humanity It’s mind-blowing the moment we live in. Not only are all the world’s indigenous and modern cultures connecting into a global society for the first time in our known history, but we’re doing it in a reality that is so mysterious that our minds are intertwined at the fundamental level. As duality would have it though; there is madness to this magic. There’s escalating conflict all across the planet. There is a bigger picture though. It is right there for us to feel. It is right there for us to play with. Many exciting developments are taking place. We’ve got a long way to go though and there is only one strategy to make it happen: expand our awareness and translate it into action. Whilst we’ve still got a relatively calm and functioning society, we need to form as many groups as possible. It’s time to step into the warrior’s role; one of action made in love, compassion and a fierce determination to fulfill our true calling. In any case, the tides of turbulence are in full flow.
Bretton Woods system The Bretton Woods system of monetary management established the rules for commercial and financial relations among the world's major industrial states in the mid-20th century. The Bretton Woods system was the first example of a fully negotiated monetary order intended to govern monetary relations among independent nation-states. The chief features of the Bretton Woods system were an obligation for each country to adopt a monetary policy that maintained the exchange rate by tying its currency to gold and the ability of the IMF to bridge temporary imbalances of payments. Also, there was a need to address the lack of cooperation among other countries and to prevent competitive devaluation of the currencies as well. Origins[edit] Interwar period[edit] A high level of agreement among the powerful (nations) that failed to coordinate exchange rates during the interwar period had exacerbated political tensions facilitated the decisions reached by the Bretton Woods Conference. "...
Mapping the Emerging Post-Capitalist Paradigm and Its Main Thinkers By Commons Transition / commonstransition.org “We do not live in an era of change, but in a change of eras” is the way Jan Rotmans from the University Rotterdam describes the structural changes impacting our societies. This is also the phrase Michel Bauwens chose to open his latest book yet to be published in English which title is likely to be close to “Towards a post-capitalist society with the Peer-to-Peer”. For thinkers like Jan Rotmans and Michel Bauwens this change of eras is akin to the Industrial Revolution in the second half of the 19th century, and characterized by transitions in various fields. In a nutshell, our societies face 3 major tipping points: A change in social order from a central, hierarchically-controlled society to a horizontal, decentralized, and bottom-up working unit. (click on the images for higher resolution) We confirmed a few things as we drew this map: This map is very much work in progress and will be improved as we progress. Lead image by Marlon Böhland