"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."
~ Roberton Davies
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BODY~ Question of Strength: February -- Q&A with strength coach Charles Poliquin
~ How To Make A Simple And Effective Ice Pack -- A tip from Charles Staley.
~ Women Exercising For Five Or More Hours Per Week Experienced Greater Decrease In Risk Of Breast Cancer Compared To Less Active Women -- "Significant findings have emerged from theCalifornia Teachers Study (CTS) that suggest long-term recreational physicalactivity plays a protective role against invasive and in situ breast cancer."
~ Fat Restriction: Don't Limit the Good Fats -- Good info.
~ Study: Garlic won't lower cholesterol (AP) -- "Garlic doesn't do much for the breath and it stinks for lowering cholesterol. That's the conclusion of the most rigorous, head-to-head study of raw garlic and popular garlic supplements, despite promoters' claims to the contrary." There are a lot of studies that demonstrate the opposite.
~ Black soya beans may help prevent diabetes -- "Eating black soya beans could help control weight, lower fat and cholesterol level and can prevent diabetes, say scientists."
~ 'Extreme Eating' a Big Fat Problem -- "Some Restaurant Menus Offer Several Thousand Calories in a Single Meal."
~ Sex hormone signaling helps burn calories -- "Any dieter can tell you: Body weight is a function of how much food you eat and how much energy you use. The trick to maintaining a healthy weight lies in regulating the balance. Now new research from Rockefeller University suggests that brain cell receptors linked to sex hormones may play a role in the process by which we maintain that balance." This study looked at estrogen, but we also know that low testosterone in males can result in weight gain and muscle loss.
PSYCHE
~ 'I Am Worry' -- "Some People's Lives Are Ruled by Worry and Anxiety."
~ The Reflection in the Pond -- "At its pathological extreme, narcissism is a debilitating personality disorder, characterized by grandiose ego and total lack of personal intimacy. Closer to home, we have all dated a narcissist. Maybe even recently."
~ U.S. Regulators Approve Cymbalta® For Treatment Of Generalised Anxiety Disorder -- "The approval is based on the results of three randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in which the safety and efficacy of duloxetine in the treatment of GAD was studied in more than 800 non-depressed adults."
~ Pumping Emotional Iron -- "Restraint and self-discipline, they say, are hard work—real effort, not unlike weightlifting. And just as you can overtax your biceps or abs, you can also deplete your reserve of emotional control. When life comes at you hard and you persevere, you quite literally use up your potential to do the right thing one more time." This is a really useful post for some of us who have impulse control issues in the evening.
~ Autism across cultures -- "NPR has recently broadcast a short interview with anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker who discusses how autism is understood in different cultures and across the world."
~ Study Finds Reduced Brain Growth In Alcoholics With Family Drinking History -- "The brains of alcohol-dependent individuals are affected not only by their own heavy drinking, but also by genetic or environmental factors associated with their parents' drinking, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."
~ Repressed memory is cultural creation -- "Researchers at Harvard Medical School said the disorder known as repressed memory has a cultural rather than a scientific basis."
~ The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: Overview -- From Life Training -- Online.
~ Polarization -- Part 2 on polarity from Steve Pavlina.
CULTURE
~ How the Government is Threatening Your Freedom to Use Supplements -- "Simply put, the FDA protects corporate interests and sticks it to consumers. The agency pretends they are on the side of free trade but nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, they are on the side of regulations and special interests, all for the protection of certain multi-national corporations."
~ DoD is neglecting troops’ mental health -- "The U. S. Department of Defense is failing to provide adequate psychological support for troops serving in and returning from Iraq, according to a report by the American Psychological Association (APA). The 67-page report, which is authored by a task force of 8 psychologists, was released yesterday."
~ Methadone Abuse is Our Fastest-Growing Drug Problem -- "Initially developed as a drug to treat patients suffering from the often extreme elements of opiate withdrawal, methadone has become one of the most widely abused drugs in the world, with related casualties more than quadrupling over the last five years in the United States alone."
~ Buddhism, a religion or not? [Gene Expression] -- "This is a common issue, and I tend to cause some irritation whenever I declare that Buddhism is a theistic religion, because that's not what you would read in books (or, Wikipedia)."
~ Where Sunni and Shi'a Get Along -- "Despite a long history of sectarian enmity, Afghanistan today seems to have convinced the rival sects to live together."
~ Is This Jesus's Tomb? -- "Director James Cameron presents what he claims is the burial box of Christ. But there's plenty of cause for skepticism."
~ Obama Publicly Scolds His Own Spokesman for Not Playing Nice -- "Markos calls attention to this story by Lynn Sweet for the Chicago Sun-Times, reporting that Obama has repudiated the "hardball tactics" of his own communications chief Robert Gibbs, who apparently acted unilaterally without authorization in firing zingers back at Camp Hillary, when Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson got all whiny and peevish about remarks made by David Geffen."
HABITATS
~ New Report Says Poverty And Social Exclusion Increases Risk Of Mental Illness In Young People With Learning Disabilities -- "A new report from the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities and Lancaster University, UK, has found that children with learning disabilities are six times* more likely to have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder than other children in Britain."
~ New insights into high-temperature superconductors -- "Scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory in collaboration with a physicist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have discovered that two different physical parameters —pressure and the substitution of different isotopes of oxygen (isotopes are different forms of an element) —have a similar effect on electronic properties of mysterious materials called high-temperature superconductors."
~ Mystery Bee Disappearances Sweeping U.S. -- "Without a trace, something is causing bees to vanish by the thousands. But a new task force hopes to finger the culprit and save the valuable crops that rely on the insects."
~ Arctic Expedition to Spotlight Warming Impact on Inuit Groups -- "Polar explorer Will Steger will lead a team across Canada's Baffin Island to document the ways global warming is impacting humans in the far north."
~ Milky Way Black Hole May Be a Colossal 'Particle Accelerator' -- "Scientists were startled when they discovered in 2004 that the center of our galaxy is emitting gamma rays with energies in the tens of trillions of electronvolts. Now astrophysicists at The University of Arizona, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Adelaide (Australia) have discovered a mechanism that might produce these high-energy gamma rays."
~ How do marine turtles return to the same beach to lay their eggs? -- "Marine turtles almost always return to the same beach to lay their eggs. The egg-laying sites are often far from the feeding areas and the females cross several hundred kilometers of ocean with no visual landmarks. How do they manage to return to the same spot?"
INTEGRAL/BUDDHIST
~ From Joe Perez: Wheel of Life -- "You've heard of a Theory of Everything? Well, how 'bout a Symbol of Everything? That is what the Kronos mandala aspires to be... a Map of Maps,..."
~ Also from Joe: Kronology as a system of "ordered Beauty".
~ Buddhist Geeks 8: Where are all the Western Rinpoches? -- "In this podcast, Phil Stanley discusses lineage in Western Buddhism, the lack of western teachers, what it will take to develop more qualified individuals."
~ Breaking Down the Barriers of Resentment -- From Dharmashanti's Blog.
~ Are God and Science reconcilable? -- From Life 2.0.
~ What's New in Innovation: Five Trends Worth Thinking About -- From How to Save the World.
~ Perspectives on the Ego -- Over in the Zaadz I-I pod.
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