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I expect technology for spiritual growth will become big business in decades ahead. In the way of products, there's already a lot to choose from, but without much in the way of end-user uptake it's hard to judge effectiveness. Down the track when VR, fMRI and advanced AI team up, I think we will be able to trigger massive shifts in consciousness at the flick of a switch - the technological equivalent of a massive psychedelic trip, but tailored to the individual and safe to navigate.

Being able to rapidly alter one's conscious state will be a sought after skill in the future because it's strongly correlated with the ability to heal illness and disease. Yes, I have evidence...
 
Great to see Professor Brian Cox in Australia. Great scientist and very accessible. Has something to say about politicians too.

Professor Brian Cox on elections: don't vote for politicians who say they have all the answers

For physicist Brian Cox, working out how to vote is a simple question of applying a scientific method.

"Look across the political landscape of any country, identify the people with blustering certitude and don't vote for them," he said.
Professor Cox, anointed by David Attenborough as his broadcasting successor, believes the humility required in good science could teach our politicians a few lessons.

"Science is not a collection of absolute truths," he said. "Scientists are delighted when we are wrong because it means we have learnt something."
"I think that the scientific way of thinking is the road to better politics. The value of science is in embracing doubt."

Professor Brian Cox (left) rehearsing with Julia Zemiro for ABC's Stargazing Live at Siding Spring observatory near Coonabarabran. Photo: ABC

The British particle physicist said "politicians need to approach the public not by saying 'this is absolutely right' but by saying this is the best thing to do based on what we currently know.

"Politicians need to embrace doubt as much as scientists do."

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/tec...hey-have-all-the-answers-20170403-gvc6hu.html
 

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basilio said:
Great to see Professor Brian Cox in Australia.
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Did you notice the promo with canvas like background, the gum tree branches stuck in a vertical log held in place by stones and the campfire spaying live cinders into the virtual bush?
 
Tink said:
imv, we need more voices here in Australia.

Where is the science?


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Chaos in Australian Education
https://www.aussiestockforums.com/threads/chaos-in-australian-education.25851/page-6
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Are you trying stymie my equal opportunity for a high paying ABC job by suggesting my gonads are in some way a determinant of maleness. Shame on you Tink, sure I might be butch but I'm still a sensitive female with lotsa facial hair and a penis as it turns out.
 
Gringotts Bank said:
even the life threatening nut and seafood allergies. Belief is powerful.
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So, how do you talk a one- or two-year old child out of the "belief" that the peanut he just ate is great and he should just breathe normally? Or when your precious little Princess breaks out in hives after eating a strawberry?

I do agree though that a lot of "warnings" in the nutrition area is influenced either by marketing of some specific product - from supplements to special (and extra-expensive) food lines, or exaggeration and generalisation of rare sensitivities - many of which may well originate in the minds of hypochondriacs.

Marketing snake oil to a herd of insecure sheeple is a Billion-Dollar industry.
 
pixel said:
So, how do you talk a one- or two-year old child out of the "belief" that the peanut he just ate is great and he should just breathe normally? Or when your precious little Princess breaks out in hives after eating a strawberry?
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Don't get me wrong, food allergies can be fatal and you don't want to mess around when there's an emergency.

But in terms of how all this food allergy thing came to be (when previously it hardly existed), there seems to be a heavy learned element. Kids mirror their parents like nobody's business. If the parent is anxious, the child picks up on it in an instant. If you pair 'anxious parent' with 'strawberry' (like Pavlov's dogs), then the child will learn to reject it very quickly. If food is used as a way to settle an upset child, then the effect will be doubled. If the child is particularly sensitive, the reaction can be extreme, like anaphylaxis.

'Belief' wasn't quite the right word. 'Expectation through association' would be better. Expectation generated through the association of paired stimuli. The child doesn't need to have developed cognitive processes for it to happen.

Researchers probably won't ever investigate this the way they should, because of ethics concerns. But the link posted gives an insight as to how these things develop.
 
You are entitled to your view, Tisme.

imv, not even animals stoop to this level of delusion.
Pumping up children with drugs, surgery etc.
A litter of pups brings three boys and one girl.

There are two sets of bathrooms -

Ladies and Gentlemen
Men and Women
Boys and Girls.

This is my view.
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https://www.aussiestockforums.com/threads/feminism.29219/page-11
 

I think that is a very sensible view.
 
Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence–In Space
Around a black hole 12 billion light years away, there’s an almost unimaginable vapor cloud of water–enough to supply an entire planet’s worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times over.

By Charles Fishman3 minute Read

Scientists have found the biggest and oldest reservoir of water ever–so large and so old, it’s almost impossible to describe.

The water is out in space, a place we used to think of as desolate and desert dry, but it’s turning out to be pretty lush.

Researchers found a lake of water so large that it could provide each person on Earth an entire planet’s worth of water–20,000 times over. Yes, so much water out there in space that it could supply each one of us all the water on Earth–Niagara Falls, the Pacific Ocean, the polar ice caps, the puddle in the bottom of the canoe you forgot to flip over–20,000 times over.

https://www.fastcompany.com/1769468/scientists-discover-oldest-largest-body-water-existence-space


 
This is really cool...

I was sent this link to a presentation by Nate Hagens. I thought it was one of the most holistic analysis of where we are, where we are going and why humans find it exceptionally difficult to recognise problems and tackle them effectively (unless they are almost literally under our noses).
Be very interested to hear other responses.

A bit about Nate.

Nathan John Hagens is a former Wall Street analyst, turned college professor and systems-science advocate. Nate has an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Natural Resources/Energy from the University of Vermont. He is on the Boards of Post Carbon Institute, Institute for Integrated Economic Research, and Institute for the Study of Energy and our Future. He teaches a class at the University of Minnesota called "Reality 101 - A Survey of the Human Predicament”.

Nate, partnering with environmental strategist DJ White, has created the “Bottleneck Foundation”, a nonprofit initiative designed to help steer towards better human and ecological futures than would otherwise be attained. The “Bottlenecks” are the cultural, biological, and technological challenges which will arise as energy and terrestrial biomass begin their long fall back toward sustainable-flow baselines this century. The “Foundation” part of the name is a tip of the hat to Asimov’s “Foundation” series of novels, about an organization designed to mitigate the negative effects of societal simplification. BF is dedicated to making “synthesis science” accessible to a new generation of engaged people, through educational materials and projects which demonstrate that reality is a lot different than our culture currently thinks it is.


 
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