"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Image of the day:
BODY
~ Destroying Fat: War Room Strategies to Maximize Fat Loss -- From Christian Thibaudeau at T-Nation. "Finally, a fat-loss program we can sink our teeth into! Hmm, maybe that metaphor doesn't work here, given that this program is about how to lose fat by working out in the gym (you know, the ballsy way) instead of by counting calories."
~ When is chicken bad diet food? -- "Well chicken is very good as a protein source because it has close to no fat and is very balanced for it's amino acid profile. The trouble with chicken is that when you cook it you will find that it can get dry and you add come kind of sauce to make it less dry tasting. These sauces tend to be bad."
~ 5 Things You Can Do Right Now -- Some good training advice from Charles Staley.
~ Study casts doubt on duct tape wart cure (AP) -- Another urban myth bites the dust.
~ Sinus Study: Antibiotics Overprescribed -- "Antibiotics are commonly prescribed for the majority of patients with sinus infections even though most cases are caused by a virus rather than bacteria, according to an analysis of treatments...."
~ States push online fitness programs (AP) -- "Arleen East started the year in a rut — overweight, sedentary and plagued by bouts of depression only deepened by her unflattering extra bulk. Since those dark days of winter, the 47-year-old single mother has dropped 16 pounds from her 5-foot-7 frame. She's down to 192 and is pressing ahead with her goal to slim down to 145."
~ Eating extra soy may not promote weight loss -- "Adding soy-protein-rich foods while cutting calories doesn't accelerate weight loss, a new study shows." But it will give you man boobs or breast cancer.
~ Swell gel could bring relief to back pain sufferers -- "Scientists at The University of Manchester believe injections of tiny sponge-like particles could provide an alternative to major surgery in the treatment of chronic lower back pain."
PSYCHE
~ Short Attention Spans Serve Purpose -- "A wandering mind isn't necessarily a bad thing, say psychologists." This is good news for me -- I have the attention span of a gnat. See also: Why our minds are wired to wander.
~ God DOES Answer Your Prayers -- So says Dr, Mercola based on a meta-study of intercessory prayer.
~ Eating Disorders: A Midlife Crisis for Some Women -- I'm seeing this more and more in the gym -- in fact, the majority of anorexics in my gym are over 30.
~ Playing music makes you smart -- "Scientists have uncovered the first concrete evidence that playing music can significantly enhance the brain and sharpen hearing for all kinds of sounds, including speech."
~ Depressed Mothers Can Still Be Good Moms -- "Medically treating post-partum depression may not be enough to improve a mother's relationship with her baby, and is only part of the equation, according to a new study done in part by the University of Alberta.The other essential factor is giving struggling new mothers basic tools to read behavioural cues from their babies and effectively respond to their needs...."
~ Women Experience Different Stresses at War and After Homecoming -- "In a lengthy, well-reported story for this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine, writer Sara Corbett examined the effects of military service in Iraq and Afghanistan on women and how their experiences did and did not differ from their male counterparts. Focusing primarily on the issue of post-traumatic stress disorder, Corbett spoke to many service women and veterans of combat to assess how and why rates of PTSD have been higher in women."
~ Personality Psychology -- "Individual differences make us unique - and often cause rifts. Personality psychology consists of human nature, individual differences, and psychological processes."
~ Internal Body Clock Linked to Mania in Mice -- "The manic state that is at the ancient root of the word "maniac" might result from a screwed up body clock, new findings in mutant rodents suggest."
~ Scientists study infant perception -- "U.S. medical scientists have determined infants are able to detect at least some three-dimensional images."
CULTURE
~ Bush Administration Rejects Recommendations On Health Care From Citizens' Working Group -- "The Bush administration on Wednesday rejected recommendations for revisions to the U.S. health care system made by the Citizens' Health Care Working Group in a September 2006 report, CongressDaily reports (CongressDaily, 3/15)."
~ Why Aren't Humans Furry? Stone-Age Moms Could Be The Answer -- "A prize-winning paper suggests that humans are hairless apes because Stone-Age mothers regarded furry babies as unattractive. Medical Hypotheses, an Elsevier publication, has announced the winner of the 2006 David Horrobin Prize for medical theory."
~ Bush's health care plan not most effective: study -- "At least two of the health care proposals being presented to Congress would cover all or nearly all of the Americans who lack health insurance, and many would lower spending, too, according to an independent report released on Monday."
~ Which is Worse, Murder or Genocide? -- "This is not a moral invective but a scientific fact: We care more about one murder than a genocide."
~ It's Make-or-Break Time for Gonzales -- "Tuesday is a make-or-break day for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales." See also: White House Wants Gonzales to Stay.
~ The long constitutional path from war protests to You Tube -- "We've come a long way since "F**k the Draft." The history of free speech in America features a long proud march of embattled speakers pushing back against government authority. Whereas today's free-speech heroes pretty much just want to be zany enough for YouTube."
~ High Court Hears 'Bong Hits' Case -- "A high school senior's 14-foot banner proclaiming "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" gave the Supreme Court a provocative prop for a lively argument Monday about the extent of schools' control over student speech."
~ MySpace Launches Election Page -- "MySpace.com, the popular social networking site, on Sunday launched a section dedicated to the 2008 Presidential election." I hate the Rupert Murdoch owned MySpace.
~ Journalism and Politics Makes for Some Uncomfortable Pillow Talk -- "James Rainey has an interesting piece in the Los Angeles Times this morning that runs through a partial list of big-name journalists who are married to advisers to 2008 presidential candidates."
~ For the Christian Right, Gay-Hating Is Just the Start -- "As the Christian right works hard to make gays and lesbians second-class citizens, society needs to make a stand -- or else the same tactics will soon be used against other 'social deviants.'"
HABITATS/TECHNOLOGY
~ Mother nature still a rich source of new drugs -- "At least 70 percent of all new drugs introduced in the United States in the past 25 years come from nature despite the use of sophisticated techniques to design products in the lab, researchers reported on Monday."
~ Malaria-Resistant Mosquito Developed -- "Researchers have developed a malaria-resistant mosquito, a step that might one day help block the spread of an illness that has claimed millions of lives around the world."
~ New mechanism for producing cosmic gamma rays from starlight proposed -- "In 2002, when astronomers first detected cosmic gamma rays - the most energetic form of light known - coming from the constellation Cygnus they were surprised and perplexed. The region lacked the extreme electromagnetic fields that they thought were required to produce such energetic rays. But now a team of theoretical physicists propose a mechanism that can explain this mystery and may also help account for another type of cosmic ray, the high-energy nuclei that rain down on Earth in the billions."
~ As opinions flow through blogs and Internet, political power relocates, diffusely -- "There are many ways to define power, but Manuel Castells, Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society, defines power as the ability to make people think the way you want them to think--or to convince those who disagree that they can't do anything about it."
~ Why are male antlers and horns so large? -- "Why are male ungulate antlers and horns so large? Darwin, when proposing his theory of evolution and sexual selection, suggested that the size of male ungulate antlers and horns may reflect male individual quality, and thereby be used by conspecifics as an honest signal of male sexual vigor, health, strength, hierarchical status, or ability to fight."
~ Odd Climate Fixes Weighed -- "Engineers consider everything from artificial trees to solar shades to combat warming."
~ Creepy: Spiders Love to Snuggle -- "While not usually considered paragons of tender, familial love, some spiders do have a touchy-feely side. Scientists have discovered two arachnids that caress their young and snuggle together."
~ Bird Eavesdrops on Another Bird's Alarm Calls -- "Nuthatches appear to have learned to understand a foreign language -- chickadee."
INTEGRAL/BUDDHIST
~ God -- A response to a Sam Harris article from the Buddha Diaries.
~ New! Episode Seven of The Stuart Davis Show: Shh... The Secret!
~ Desilet on Derrida -- From Open Integral.
~ Managing your 50,000 daily thoughts -- From Sentient Developments.
~ Magliola reviews Being and Ambiguity by Ziporyn -- From Ed Berge at Open Integral.
~ Bad Science + Bad Mysticism + Narcissism + Cat Poop = The Secret -- ~C4Chaos reviews the Integral Naked discussion on The Secret.
~ 20 Ways to Become More Resilient -- A fairly integral approach from How to Save the World.
~ blank title, blank mind -- From CJ Smith at Indistinct Union.
~ Alan Kazlev on The Secret.
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