Ein Aufenthalt im Rossbad, der Anstalt zu besseren Gesundheit, fordert von jedem das Letzte.

Comic von Leopold Maurer

Die Biest//Gang tritt an die Stelle des Sponsoring von Athleten. An die Stelle einer homogenen Gruppe - in unserem Falle waren es bisher eben Triathleten, die unser Biestmilch-Label getragen haben - tritt  die BIEST//GANG, eine Gruppe von Menschen aus verschiedenen Berufsgruppen: wir sind Triathleten, Programmierer, Designer, Musiker, Geschäftsleute, Coaches, Studenten ... Wir sind alle Eigentümer von kleinen Unternehmen oder Freiberufler, die sich zwischen den Großen behaupten müssen. Dazu ist es heute mehr denn je erforderlich zusammenzustehen und eventuelle Synergien zu nutzen. Networking und Community Building lautet die Devise.

Die BIEST//GANG steht mit Leidenschaft und Überzeugung hinter der Biestmilch, dem neuen Biestmilch-Konzept, dem Lebensstil, den sie verkörpert.
Die Gang ist real und virtuell.

BIEST//GANG Features

• Wanderer zwischen den Welten
• Einzelgänger und Eigenbrötler
• heimatlose Kosmopoliten
• Reisende mit starker Homebase
• sesshafte Kreaturen mit Familie

Wandel und Veränderung sind unser Programm. Wir sind risikofreudig und experimentieren gerne.
Wir bewegen uns an der Front. Dort, wo sich die Dinge ereignen, möchten wir mitmischen.

Norber A. Apostel und Christian Schwab auf der Gitarre in der Eifel beim Triathlon-Trainingslager von Olaf. Es handelt sich um das erste Experiment der Biest-Gang. Es werden andere folgen...

Da ich eher assoziativ funktioniere und die Dinge in meinem Hirn offensichtlich wenig hierarchisch strukturiert sind, gefällt mir natürlich diese Form des Einkaufens. Ich bin ja überhaupt ein Fan von Maps wie auch auf unserer Biestmilch-Seite zu sehen ist. Bei infosthetics.com ist mehr dazu zu finden.

Browse Goods visual shopping

amazon.com map 

Noch eine Map: mein geliebtes Newsportal auf Marumushi.com

Mixing Memory Blog gave me todays inspiration. The paper cited is by Emily Pronin and Dan Wegner and titled »Manic Thinking: Independent Effects of Thought Speed and Thought Content on Mood«

All of us I think have experienced the hype feelings in group sessions that are meant to let thoughts flow freely and the tightly connected phenomenon of the permanent threat to mistake this euphoria or mania for brilliancy of output. Thoughts pour out, words slip away through our mouth so fast that the emerging speed gives us the impression to be productive and really good.

Later in the day when tiredness takes over, the flow converts into congestion, first doubts arise... some of us are even prone to fall into depressive moods at htis time of the day. The next morning, we are totally sober, back to normal reconsidering starts. Everything needs to be thought through again. It is not the case that all of it was useless hybris but some of it, yes, definitely. But this is how the process goes or has to go.

Pronin and Wegner note that the psychiatric illness, mania, is associated with both increased thought speed and elevated mood, along with delusions of grandeur, and the feeling of heightened creativity and inspiration. However, the effect of thought speed has not been studied independent of clinical mania. To explore this relationship, they had college undergrads read out loud a series of emotion-inducing statements (58 in all) in at either a fast or slow pace.

After reading all 58 statements, participants were asked to answer a series of questions designed to assess their mood, energy level, feelings of power, creativity and inspiration, and "grandiosity or inflated self-esteem," along with their own perceptions of their speed of thought.
Consistent with the hypothesis that faster thought speeds affected mood and mania-related feelings, participants in the fast thought condition reported being happier, had higher energy levels, experienced greater senses of power and creativity, and higher levels of grandiosity (though self-esteem did not differ between conditions). Furthermore, these effects were independent of the mood manipulation (positive or negative statements).

Thinking fast produces effects on mood and self-view similar to those of clinical mania. Of course, nothing in these results says that thinking faster doesn't actually lead to more creativity and inspiration. It might be that the process of fast thinking can induce the delusion of turning a bad idea into a good one.
Those of you who have been on illiegal ;-) drugs once in while, know how easy an excitatory state of mind can change your self-esteem and self-evaluation. The implications are clear. It's important, when you're dealing with something important, to slow down now and then (and cut off the supply of coffee other stimulants) in order to be able to soberly evaluate the ideas your are producing. Otherwise, you might end up a world of self-delusions

¹Pronin, E., & Wegner, D. M. (2006). Manic thinking: Independent effects of thought speed and thought content on mood. Psychological Science, 17(9), 807-813.

Guerilla Activities from the Graffiti Research Lab

Defense contractors say that within the next 10 years they’ll have a solid state laser that can put a hole in a sheet of metal from several miles away. Dutch graffiti writers can pretty much do that now with this Hymermobil-mounted L.A.S.E.R. Tagging system dope off the assembly line at the Graffiti Research Lab.

As individuals we may feel lost in many ways. Here are 2 very distinct examples.

That lost we can be in translation

That controlled we might be by covert and inscrutable powers

Puhh, this is a heavy topic. Since years I am aware of the fact that biestmilch is used as anti-aging substance. We even picked up some Hollywood stars (I don't remember their names, because this is not exactly my life focus ;-)) applying biestmilch to their skin with their daily cosmetic treatment.

We at Biestmilch.com decided not to bring biestmilch into the anti-aging territory. Too little knowledge we have about the underlying processes of aging, too many anti-aging strategies are dominated by theories and even ideologies. Most of them are more or less spin-offs of Darwins evolution and natural selection theory. Science tries since round about 140 years to subordinate all biological phenomena known to us under these 2 paradigms. Science makes this split in many ways, one example is to differentiate between non-aging and aging creatures (senescense). Sciences of course ask for the cause and for the sense of ageing. The answers given are sparse and in parts absurd, overloaded with theories, and thus the range of assumptions wide: e.g. is ageing in the genes, is it the acumulation of damages during a life time that finally kills us or is it the fault of altered genetic traits? Is it reproduction that controls the aging process? Is there a deeper sense in aging or is it simply a defect? And so on and so on...

Excuse me, I stop this nonsense now. I got into this turmoil today because I decided to write my monthly biestmilch ciruclar about the aging process and those events in our lifes that accelerate this process, and about approaches that could eventually slow it down. I opened the Pandora box as you can see.

Here a snippet from the box: the rockfish* (Sebastes aleutians). The oldest fish found on dinner tables was 205 years old. And interestingly enough this creature seemed to be still young inspite age. The fish was not weak or sick, its vigor and reproductive capacity not reduced, no decline in strength and agility with age was observed, amazing.

Is it really only a predator attack, fighting enemies, an accident, a contracted disease or food shortages that finally kill the guy? Or is it simply growing old that much slowlier that our observation span is too short to detect the process of aging, but gives us the impression of a condition (state)?

More details the rockfish species...