The Monitor is a science podcast by Scientific American. Very condensed science stuff from various areas of concern. Science, and here especially nature science, has developed into a machinery of »knowing it all« and not only that but also into an apparatus of experts and expertise knowing how to deal with it all. Therefore science mingles with everything. Whether this is so good and whether science can actually really give us guidance, I leave this open to you to judge. Anyhow, here is a tool that presents facts and news that may help you to reconsider your own and other standpoints either way.
This post gives you among other things some facts about methan. I thought this suits, as we had this post about cows and methan a few days ago.
We earn our daily living with biestmilch! What it is? Great stuff! The most powerful food in the world... This is one of the ads for the campaign, we are currently planning.
The new 1.2 Miro is available. I think it is a convenient tool to watch free internet video channels and play any video file. Link to Download
It is not only since I'm working with biestmilch that I'm interested in the various states of cognition and being in the world. Biestmilch makes me deal first of all with the question of well-being. I know by now that the condition of well-being has so little to do with health. This candid talk of Jill B. Taylor supports my notion.
When I was working in psychiatry, I was confronted with states of being and cognition of a very different kind. Psychotic states made me realize the versatility and volatility of what we call real. The presentation of Jill Taylor is enlightening, and may give you an idea about the fluidity of cognition, consciousness, awareness, reality, you name it. Jill B. Taylor translates her experience on the edge of life into words, into the words of a scientist – another person might have done this differently. She gives us a logic explanation for 2 very different but fundamental conditions of being in the world: 1) feeling boundless as an integral part of the universe or/and 2) being a creature confined to the body embodying a social being. Our awareness of being in the world is drifting between these poles of existence depending on the signals we are exposed to from the insight and the outside.
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke. As it happened – as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding – she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
I'm a regular visitor of TED talks and I like sketches, and I'm steadily searching for new ways of presenting so-called knowledge (a difficult term, I don't want to elaborate on now) beyond PowerpPoint. I popped into this post on infoaesthetics that I think is a convenient post for a rainy and snowy Easter holiday (at least around here in Central Europe).
At TED2008 in Monterey, two sketch artists (or knowledgecartographers) David Sibbet & Kevin Richards captured the Big Questions live as they happened. Their illustrations highlight the most memorable quotes, great questions & unexpected connections. They were watching each speaker, sketching their impressions, and feeding everything into a groundbreaking new system for sharing and connecting ideas. Autodesk's BigViz system is an interactive way to record and synthesize big ideas in a collaborative environment.
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Am Wochenende waren wir auf Schloss Reichenberg. Es war Biestmilch's Seven erster öffentlicher Auftritt in der Therapeutenszene. Den Vormittag verbrachten wir in den Gewölben des Schlosses, wo Harry auch zum Didgeridoo griff. Es gelang ihm bei aller Mühe nicht, die Mauern zum Erzittern zu bringen ;-)
Today our rickshaw arrived, we bought it last week on ebay. Now the tinkering starts. Next time you will see »the Indian lady«, she will look very different. During the weeks to come she is going to transform into a multimedia vehicle accompanying us on a summer event tour through Germany.
This video is a nice motion portrait of Biest 02 Chris McCormack alias Macca as a young guy on the triathlon short course distance.