Monday, November 06, 2006

Speedlinking 10/6/06

Morning image is from Live Science:

Happy Monday. Let's get the week off to a good start with a whole mess of good links.

BODY
~ Regular Exercise Plays A Consistent And Significant Role In Reducing Fatigue. Each and every one of my clients who are new to exercise are amazed at the increase in energy they feel.
~ Phys Ed Class More Effective When There's More Talking. "Instead of exercising during class time, we had students spend their time thinking about, planning and analyzing their approach to exercise outside of the classroom."
~ Will Thanksgiving Derail Your Diet? When it comes to the turkey, don't let your eating plan get murky.
~ Seven steps to healthy holidays.
~ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The CDC Says It's a Big Problem.
~ Evolution is a body thing, so Dolphin May Have 'Remains' of Legs goes here.


PSYCHE
~ Key Brain Reward Region Not Activated By Positive Emotional Stimuli In Depression.
~ Investigating The Field Effects Of Consciousness On Socioeconomic Indices. How powerful is a collection of minds? This is how they ask the question: Can the large collective practice of a scientifically documented stress-reducing meditation technique positively impact a larger population through the "field effects of consciousness"--reducing societal stress, crime, and violence, and improving economic and climatic trends?
~ Psychological Approaches Can Help Some Skin Conditions. Emotional issues can show up as skin conditions.
~ Cognitive Neuroscience of Religion.
~ How to be certain that you are “hearing” the guiding "voice" of God, Buddha or Highest Self in your spiritual practices.
~ Mike at Unknowing Mind posts Altruism as Essential Spiritual Practice.


CULTURE
~ Is Dieting Anti-Feminist? There's nothing anti-feminist about wanting to be healthy and look good neked.
~ Good Gym Etiquette: Don't be the most hated person at the gym.
~ We must debate mercy killing of disabled babies, say top doctors. Well, this will sure get the religious right up in arms and make them even more anti-science. What do you think about this?
~ From Polytheism to Monotheism: From pagan origins the worship of One Supreme God emerges, as shown in the hymns of the Rig Veda.
~ Saddam Hussein was convicted of mass murder and sentenced to death. Yawn. Like there was going to be any other outcome from that little puppet court.
~ Time takes on the God vs. Science debate.
~ Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard: The Untold History of Humanity As Seen Through Evolutionary Eyes.
~ Top 5 P2P Books of the Week.


HABITATS
~ Urban Sprawl Not Cause Of Human Sprawl. In the recently released working paper, Fat City: Questioning The Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Obesity, researchers find no evidence that urban sprawl affects weight.
~ Take the The Worldchanging Survey.
~ China takes lead in establishing New World Order.
~ Staples to Offer Environmentally-Friendly Paper.
~ Wal-Mart Eyes Carbon Bounty in its Supply Chain -- seems they want to try to reduce greenhouse gases in their supply chain.


MATTERS INTEGRAL
~ Chris Cowan has two new(?) articles at Visser's Integral World:
* OBSERVATIONS ON KEN WILBER'S JUNE 8TH RANT.
* OF PANDITS AND BANDITS: A MEANDERING RIDE IN KEN WILBER'S WILD WEST.
~ Jordan Gruber (of Enlightenment.com) also has "BEYOND MY KEN?" PERSONAL PONDERINGS ON A PHILOSOPHER PROFOUND.
~ Joe Perez at Until has a new series going called Kronology.


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