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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
It’s hard to believe that it has taken modern science 200 years to catch up to Lamarck. One of the common threads on Nautis Project has always been the incompleteness of a biological theory of evolution, morphology, and memory. It is these gaps in our knowledge that people like Lamarck, Darwin, Bergson, and Goethe tried [...]
Continue reading...How Ignorant Are We?
3. July 2008
“About 1 in 4 Americans can name more than one of the five freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment (freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition for redress of grievances.) But more than half of Americans can name at least two members of the fictional cartoon family, according to a survey. The study by [...]
Continue reading...Underlying Reality Beneath It All
21. June 2008
As I have gotten older and had a chance to catalog my dreams, I’ve noticed that each dream, though bizarre and individual in narrative, are beginning to self-assemble. It’s as if I am given only brief, random glimpses into another life - a life that keeps on moving even when I’m not around. This is [...]
Continue reading...Summer ‘08 Reading List
21. June 2008
Most of these books are new to me. Instead of re-reading the classics - again, I’ve decided to pick up some new books - even some fiction. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse Spook by Mary Roach The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt The Holy Qur’an: A Modern English Reading, Volume I The Story of India by Michael Wood A Passage to [...]
Continue reading...Black Tide of Occultism
15. June 2008
I’ve been thinking about a conversation I had last summer. Some friends and I were discussing Richard Dawkin’s book, The God Delusion, with Rupert. As always, Rupert’s ideas are well thought out and always seem to come out of left field - at least to me. This got me thinking… There are people everywhere that [...]
Continue reading...Psychiatric Drugs Help Skinny People
13. June 2008
From the New Scientist, “Yet one culprit is rarely mentioned: the broad range of psychiatric drugs that can cause substantial weight gain. They include drugs marketed as antidepressants (such as amitriptyline, doxepin and imipramine), mood stabilisers (including lithium and valproate) and antipsychotics (including clozapine, olanzapine and chlorpromazine). After 10 years on lithium, for example, two-thirds [...]
Continue reading...Obama Wins Nomination
4. June 2008
In what he called a “defining moment for our nation,” Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday became the first African-American to head the ticket of a major political party. Obama’s steady stream of superdelegate endorsements, combined with the delegates he received from Tuesday’s primaries, put him past the 2,118 threshold, CNN projects. “Tonight we mark the [...]
Continue reading...Moron of the Day: Wendy Portillo
27. May 2008
From CBS News, “A Port St. Lucie, Fla., mother is outraged and considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class. Melissa Barton says Morningside Elementary teacher Wendy Portillo had her son’s classmates say what they didn’t like about 5-year-old Alex. She says the teacher then had [...]
Continue reading...Panda Earthquake Detector
24. May 2008
From reuters.com, “It’s been well-documented that animals are better than we are at picking up little changes in the surrounding world. Watch your dog lose his marbles 30 minutes before a thunderstorm arrives and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. It only makes sense then, that the pandas at Wolong National Nature Reserve near [...]
Continue reading...$250k Bond for Sheldrake Attacker
5. May 2008
A man accused of stabbing a lecturer on thought transference last month at a downtown Santa Fe hotel will remain in jail unless he can come up with $250,000. On Friday, state District Judge Michael Vigil set the cash-only bond for Kazuki Hirano of Yokohama, Japan, who has been held for a month at the Santa [...]
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