Pesticide Exposure Found to Lower Intelligence Pesticides, ubiquitous among not only the food supply but farms and homes worldwide, have been found to be creating lasting changes in overall brain structure — changes that have been linked to lower intelligence levels and decreased cognitive function. Previously linked in scientific research to the massive obesity crisis, pesticides are now known to impact the mind in ways that are still not entirely understood. Despite these findings, they are continually touted as safe by the profit-hungry chemical industry. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, observed pregnant mothers in New York who were exposed to a pesticide known as chlorpyrifos (CPF). Banned in 2001 from household use, the chemical is still used worldwide in agriculture. Perhaps the most startling finding by the academic team is that all of the women in the study, of which there were 369 total, were actually below the US established thresholds of acute exposure. From around the web:
» Nanny Bloomberg Strikes Again: Outlaws Painkillers Alex Jones Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 11, 2012 Guns and large soda drinks are just the beginning. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has once again extended the reach of the state, this time outlawing the use of painkillers. Mayor Bloomberg will decide how much pain is tolerable for citizens. The edict from on-high restricts or eliminates the use of the most common painkillers in New York City’s public hospitals. “Abuse of prescription painkillers in our city has increased alarmingly,” Bloomberg said from a lectern at Elmhurst Hospital Center, a public hospital in Queens. According to the New York Times, public hospital patients will be limited to three days’ worth of drugs such as Vicodin and Percocet. Despite the fact Bloomberg and his commissars lack the regulatory authority to impose the new guidelines on private hospitals, several said they would voluntarily adopt the “legislative medicine” measure. This article was posted: Friday, January 11, 2013 at 9:45 am Print this page. BUSTED! Breaking!
Geometry of Thinking for Sustainable Global Governance 24th October 2009 | Draft Cognitive Implication of Synergetics Produced in relation to The Buckminster Fuller Challenge 2010, organized by The Buckminster Fuller Institute, in support of the development and implementation of a strategy that has significant potential to solve humanity's most pressing problems. IntroductionSystems as polyhedraChallenge to comprehension"Uprightness" and global geometryMatrix representation of psychological types and their styles of categorizationEpistemological "body odour"Self-reflexivity in global modellingIntegrating disagreement and dissentRequisite variety of perspectivesSelf-reflexivity through a "shadowy" dualKeys to global governance "embedded" in synergetics as a meta-modelImplications for a "meta-model"Cognitive engagement with globalityChallenge of cognitive geometryExistential and experiential engagement with globalityGeometry as a metaphorical magic mirror of thinkingThe secret within "Bucky's Ball"? Conclusion Introduction Systems as polyhedra