Dolphins using an high level of intellect to catch fish, by creating a ring of sediment (dirt) around a school of fish, causing the fish to huddle together and eventually jump out of the water and into the mouths of the dolphins.
Soon dolphins will be walking upright and contemplating philosophy
It's a situation that exists in the Netherlands where a voluntary group provides just such a service for disabled people. Most clients pay for it themselves but some local authorities subsidise (pay with tax money) the service.
BBC NEWS http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7057929.stm
Police officers in Britain have been reprimanded for sledding
on their riot shields.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HR-3S6_uY0
http://www.npr.org/blogs/talk/2010/01/all_you_do_is_nag_nag_nag.html
Prime Minister Francois Fillon is putting forth a law punishing husbands, wives, and cohabitating couples for "psychological violence." Apparently, the bill looks to cover everything from nagging to false accusations of infidelity, to sustained campaigns of verbal abuse, to a failure to supply the correct answer to the question: Does my bum look big in this?" says The Daily Telegraph
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is a psychologist that studies human happiness and creativity.
He is credited for the term Flow, which is the state of non-thinking action.
It's what sports players call "getting in the zone," or what Zen Buddhist practice in meditation.
Children are experts at flow during play and nonsense activities. Our ability to reach this flow diminishes as we reach adulthood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi
THE CAT-CERTO
A concerto with a cat soloist. It's surprisingly good!
http://www.catcerto.com/cat_video.htm
Deep Sleep Therapy was a bizarre psychiatric treatment in which drugs were used to induce a coma in patients during which the doctors would administer a variety of other mind drugs and electric shocks. The idea was that they'd awaken cured of mental disorders, ranging from depression to schizophrenia. One of the, er, "pioneers" was Dr. William Sargant in the UK who promoted the "therapy" in the 1960s and 1970s. Of course, Sargant is best known for his research on brainwashing. He's the author of Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing (1957), basically a how-to of techniques for reprogramming people. He also developed methods for implanting false memories, and was involved in the Project MKULTRA, the CIA's mind control and chemical interrogation research program. Delightful guy. The BBC Radio 4 recently broadcast a documentary about Sargant's Sleep Room treatments. The program is titled Revealing the Mind Minder GeneralTake some Yale courses via iTunes. Click the link below to check it out!
In a world of confusion, where answers are scarce, we can only.....
Imagine by John Lennon
Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
