Science - It exists

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

a case for sea level living

wow after all the debate and study it may be simpler than thought to treat schizophrenia .... a cause celebre in the 60s might just be an inflammation .... mind you practically everything that goes wrong with you is some kind of inflammation


refutations ... Greenland IS brown

[Serial_Apologist]

a case for sea level living

My head moves faster than my heart - always thought that...

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

always thought that...

... but how do you feel about it S_A?

[Serial_Apologist]

... but how do you feel about it S_A?

In a complete spin Calum!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

i am utterly non localised!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

equations of import etc

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

memo to the phosphorescent virus

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

this is 100 light years across ... a star nursery ... the blue stars are up to 100 times the size of Sol

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

this lady is worth watching her prog

[amateur51]

this lady is worth watching her prog

I was enjoying this programme and getting to know an intelligent, well-informed new presenter ... but still something nagged away at me .... those slightly overdone emphatic hand gestures seemed strangely familiar.

And then I realised - this wasn't new at all - this was a Magnus Pyke tribute

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

more to prof Pyke than hand gestures ...

Pyke professes that there are alternative systems to that of the Western industrialized nations which could retain many of the benefits of science and technology, allow a reasonable standard of living, but still make room for the "good life", many aspects of which were enjoyed by pre-industrial societies. He claims that just as wise nations may not wish to retain a demanding and overbearing monarchy that requires too many unjustified sacrifices, it is "up to the nations who have committed themselves to scientific technology and power to temper the rigors of efficiency and productivity..." He criticizes misplaced values of the Western system in statements such as the following:

"The main body of the citizenry, the 'workers,' are kept segregated from the drones, the women at home, the children, the old and the idle ...the necessary doctrine of the division of labor makes this regimentation necessary. But it has the effect of setting economic effort apart and dividing the day and the week into "work" and "everything else".
"This way of thinking has so deranged our minds that we have come to accept that only when we are actually carrying out paid industrial work are we serving our purpose on earth."
"To minds so deformed, the things that 'retired' people do are not considered to be of value. They are empty, merely something to do."
"The leisure pursuits of the senior executive seem to be corroded with competitiveness, superficial sociability, display, and conspicuous consumption. He must own an automobile of a certain size and make, not necessarily to travel in, but to prove that he can afford it."

wicki

[Serial_Apologist]

Good ole Pykie, eh?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

they don't like it up 'em sirra!

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

another lady who is sock removing calibre and an excellent first prog in the Beautiful Minds Series 2

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

gravity makes waves