"I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness."
~ James Thurber
Image of the day:
BODY
~ Chest Building 101 - Introduction! -- "Everyone is guaranteed an A for the course as long as you sit through the course and pay attention... This introduction will give details about anatomy of the chest, different parts, exercises, and workouts. Get the details right here!" This is geared toward bodybuilding style workouts, which I don't advocate, but for those who train that way this is useful.
~ Combos For Power and Size -- "Combos consist of big-money lifts done in rapid succession. Do them right and you'll muscle up quick, along with building speed and power. Oh yeah, you'll also drop some blubber... assuming your heart doesn't explode." This is more my style.
~ Children Raised On Diet Foods Can Turn Into Obese Adults -- "A team of scientists in Canada has suggested that raising children on diet foods and drinks could inadvertently turn them into obese adults. They said that children's bodies learn to connect the taste of different foods and drinks with whether they are high or low in calories, and if they only have diet food and drink this connection becomes distorted leading them to overeat as they develop into adults."
~ 15 Minutes Of Fame With Chad Waterbury -- "'If The Last Rep Recruits The Most Muscle Fibers, Then Why Isn't It The Easiest Rep?' That's the question posed (and answered here) by Muscle Revolution author Chad Waterbury Listen to Chad's neuro-science-based approach to loading parameters, and you'll understand why performance matters more than pain."
~ Energy drinks' caffeine in line with coffee -- "Despite such speedy-sounding names as "Full Throttle," "Amp" and "Rush," energy drinks pack a punch that is generally no stronger than coffee, according to a new report."
~ Vitamin B1 Deficiency Likely Key To Vascular Problems For Diabetics -- "Researchers at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, have discovered that deficiency of thiamine -- Vitamin B1 -- may be key to a range of vascular problems for people with diabetes. They have also solved the mystery as to why thiamine deficiency in diabetes had remained hidden until now."
~ PUMP IRON TO FIGHT FLAB – AND AGING -- "If you’re past your 20s, you’ve probably noticed that your body isn’t as easy to maintain as it used to be. That extra slice of pizza may be more likely to hit your middle, and your muscles may not recover as quickly as they once did."
~ Where's the beef? Not enough of it is on elders' plates, muscle-metabolism study suggests -- "Scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have good news for people who want to stay strong in their old age: older bodies are just as good as young ones at turning protein-rich food into muscle."
PSYCHE
~ Mental Approach - Generating Mental And Physical Intensity -- "You need to have the motivation in order to generate the intensity required to spark muscle growth. Find the inspiration you need... get motivated with these great tips on goal setting, visualization, and more!"
~ Study Suggests High-Dose Fish Oil May Significantly Improve Behavior In Children With ADHD -- "The results of a pilot study published in the Nutrition Journal (http://www.nutritionj.com) suggest that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can benefit from daily supplementation of high levels of purified fish oils."
~ Macho Men Not So Lovable -- "A new study found women think macho men are less faithful and make bad parents."
~ Secret to overcoming shyness revealed -- "The next time you're invited to a party but afraid to go, try approaching this: shyness may affect up to 40 percent of the population, but it doesn't have to be a life sentence."
~ A Sure Sign of Anxiety -- "Are you too anxious?"
~ How to Fight Depression and Anxiety -- "With one comes the other."
~ Infants display a kind of intuitive mind-Reading -- "One of the unique characteristics of humans that distinguish us from the animal kingdom is the ability to represent others' beliefs in our own minds. This sort of intuitive mind-reading, according to experts, lays the cognitive foundations of interpersonal understanding and communication.Despite its importance, scientists have yet to reach a consensus on how this psychological function develops.
~ Love at first sight of your body fat -- "When we choose a partner for a relationship there may be many and complex reasons for our choice, but it has been known for many years that we tend to select people with characteristics similar to our own."
CULTURE/POLITICS
~ The Cross-Cultural Meanings of a Smile -- "If I'm on a date (which believe me, doesn't happen often) I can usually tell how its going by how, and how much, my date is smiling. Is the smile genuine or forced? Polite or flirty? Or worse yet, not smiling at all??"
~ The Wide World of Online Literary Journals -- "Utne.com takes a tour of the hardworking online literary journals providing great writing and new venues for writers."
~ Democratic Debate Spawns Weird Economics -- "Is the budget deficit rising? Is China really our banker? Clinton, Obama, and the rest sure seem to think so."
~ Seventh-inning koan -- "The small mountainous state of Tibet was invaded by China in 1950 and remains occupied by its more powerful neighbor. Led by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Tibetan refugees have maintained a government in exile based in India for nearly 60 years. With the 2008 Olympic games set to be held in Beijing, Tibetans are demanding that China be forced to comply with a pledge it made to the International Olympic Committee to improve its record on human rights. They have also assembled a group of Tibetan athletes in exile and have asked the International Olympic Committee to allow "Team Tibet" to participate in the 2008 games. In the United States, Tibetans are taking their message to where sports fans reside during these sweltering summer months: America's baseball stadiums."
~ ABC, NBC "Liberate" Presidential Video -- "Today, a right-left alliance praised ABC and NBC for joining CNN in liberating presidential debate video - allowing footage to be legally shared, blogged, excerpted, and put on sites like YouTube."
~ Clinton has big lead, but rivals say just wait -- "Hillary Clinton has surged to a big lead in national polls for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination but her chief rivals say the polls are overblown and the race is far from over."
HABITATS/TECHNOLOGY
~ Compound BPA Found To Cause Reproductive Disorders, Study, Scientists Say -- "The journal Reproductive Toxicology on Thursday published on its Web site a statement warning that the compound bisphenol A, which is found in plastic and is similar to estrogen, likely is causing various human reproductive disorders, the Los Angeles Times reports."
~ A New Discovery in Human Evolution -- "A new discovery suggests that Homo erectus may not have evolved from Homo habilis—and that the two may have been contemporaries."
~ San Francisco Wi-Fi Issue Goes to Ballot -- "This freewheeling city can't seem to agree if free wireless access to the Internet is such a great idea."
~ Scientists show differing patterns of rainforest biodiversity -- "Rainforests are the world`s treasure houses of biodiversity, but all rainforests are not the same. Biodiversity may be more evenly distributed in some forests than in others and, therefore, may require different management and preservation strategies. That is one of the conclusions of a large-scale Smithsonian study of a lowland rainforest in New Guinea, published in the Aug. 9 issue of the journal Nature."
~ Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields' -- "Traditional plow-based agricultural methods and the need to feed a rapidly growing world population are combining to deplete the Earth's soil supply, a new study confirms."
~ Trees Won't Fix Global Warming -- "Trees impractical for carbon storage because of high water, nutrient needs."
INTEGRAL/BUDDHIST
~ born, never asked -- "the one line she speaks is this: ‘You were born. And so you’re free. So happy birthday.’ tears just start running down my face when i hear this. because i finally get it. *i get it.*"
~ My view of Barry Bonds -- Matthew Dallman looks at Bonds' record as a teaching moment.
~ AFTER THE GIG LIST MORE BITCHING ABOUT INSTANT ENLIGHTENMENT -- Skip the gig list aqnd go to the part where he talks about Network Marketing, including a mention of Big Mind (Genpo Roshi). He's dead on -- "Also, interestingly, both the network marketing scams and Big Mind® espouse the same idea that this stuff used to take a lot of time, effort and energy, but now a new technique has been developed that'll give you the same effect right away without all the muss and fuss. In the case of the network marketers the goal getting rich, in the case of Genpo and all the rest of them it's getting enlightenment. Believe whatever you want, suckers." Big Mind is based on Voice Dialogue, as I've mentioned before -- and to do it right takes time. It's shadow work, not instant enlightenment.
~ Excavation, Thoughts & Photography -- "5:45am this past Monday morning I sat atop a mountain peak waiting for the sun to rise. The view was black with a gray haze of pre-sunrise. I could see shadows and silhouettes of trees and rolling hillsides. I set up my tripod and placed my camera on top, set the aperture to f/22 and shutter-speed to 45 sec and waited for the oncoming light to capture the image. Waiting for the shutter to click I noticed the peace of this instant, the stillness of life."
~ Start where you are -- "Anyhow, this single phrase is pretty big for me. Let me tell ya a bit about my practice since it's resumed in 2002. I started sitting cuz it was something I learned from a local meditation group in Chatham Ontario Canada. That was all very new-age, but I did learn visualization and how to focus a bit."
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