Prints of all my sketches, in this blog, in the Thousand Sketches and in the Gallery are for sale.
Dare I say it, there is just enough time left for Christmas if you buy now. In New Zealand you have a little longer.
Thousand Sketches – Colour
This is a sketch in the Thousand Sketches project. I was thunbing through them and noticed this one. I had no memory of it. Bland? I looked at it for ages. I like it!
#0622 Colour
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Nuclear Energy?
Nuclear isn’t necessary : article : Nature Reports Climate Change:
The notion that we need nuclear power to address climate change does not reflect the realities of the marketplace or rapid new developments in energy technology.
Ruskoff mp3 – Korzybski Memorial Lecture
http://www.generalsemantics.org/misc/akml/akmls/rushkoff.mp3
I liked his talk. (Right click the link to download button) He goes into the state of the world with some enthusiasm & intelligence. He misses the Marxism that applies so thoroughly to what he is discussing, which is a pity, but he also amplifies it, sees the same stuff from another fresh angle.
Weekly Digest of Tweets 2009-12-13
5 Tweets and my 7 min audio commentary
Tweets follow.
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Climate change – Malcolm Turnbull MP (Aust)
Is the proposed ETS in Australia any better than the NZ one, which the NZ Greens say is a scam to make the rich richer & won’t do anything for climate?
Are the NZ Greens right?
Malcolm Turnbull makes sense, (who thought I’d be quoting an Aussie Liberal!)
First, let’s get this straight. You cannot cut emissions without a cost. To replace dirty coal fired power stations with cleaner gas fired ones, or renewables like wind let alone nuclear power or even coal fired power with carbon capture and storage is all going to cost money.
Meditation, the brain, Dalai Lama – Scientific American
Interesting, compelling? What do you think?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=meditation-on-demand-nov09
Elaborating, the spiritual leader of Tibet explained to the audience of scientists that although he meditates for four hours every morning, it is hard work. He divulged that if neuroscientists could find a way to put electrodes in his brain and create the same outcome he gets from meditating, he would be an eager volunteer. Now a set of experiments from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University moves us a step closer to making his wish a reality. The neuroscientists managed to induce in mice a brain-wave pattern associated with meditation—answering a long- standing question about how this pattern is generated and theoretically laying the groundwork for a cognitive-enhancement technology that could mimic meditation’s effects.
Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturers
Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecturers:
List of all the lectures. And to my delight, many are in mp3!
Later
Here is a pdf of Albert Ellis
Links to more follow later in this months posts.
Weekly Digest of Tweets 2009-12-06
Another lot; This one has #waltzzztv items
Alfred Korzybski: Writing
This book, Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950, from 1990 is only available second-hand – too expensive. I then found the Google edition below.
Later:
This book and all of Korzybski’s books are for sale cheaply at General Semantics Institute online
Later
I a Bought Science & Sanity from GSI – arrived in days! It is also online here.
Alfred Korzybski: Collected Writings, 1920-1950 follows (embedded)
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