Saturday, August 8, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Lost Art Of Conversation
One of my daughter's friends graced me with her company the other day during her lunch break. What I like about this girl is her absolute forthrightness, making for easy conversation since with her what you see is what you get and my mind didn't have to continually monitor each word and intonation to prevent any misunderstanding. As is, I am working with only half a brain and the memory of a gnat and would have hated to do or say anything to make her think her friend's mom is weird.
After a few bites of frozen pizza freshly out of the toaster oven, and the brief breaking the ice back-and-forth, she confided that she is having a great deal of difficulty making friends. She works and goes to school, she is personable, attractive and well-spoken, and yet despite the many people she meets in the course of her days, she hasn't made any new friends since she graduated high school 2 years ago. She wasn't complaining that she didn't have a love interest, because she does; she was telling me that there are no friendly women around. Astonished that she said this, I shared with her that my daughter was having the very same problem, and my daughter was finding that she can relate more readily with the foreign exchange students at her school than any American female. These girls are not social pariahs, so what gives?
My daughter's friend said she feels people have lost the fine art of verbal communication--and that American women in general are way too catty to other women because they seem to think only in terms of competition for men.
Well, I guess this would put the caboche on any effort to develop natural telepathy. What would be the point--to have people relay blips and bleeps to each other?
After a few bites of frozen pizza freshly out of the toaster oven, and the brief breaking the ice back-and-forth, she confided that she is having a great deal of difficulty making friends. She works and goes to school, she is personable, attractive and well-spoken, and yet despite the many people she meets in the course of her days, she hasn't made any new friends since she graduated high school 2 years ago. She wasn't complaining that she didn't have a love interest, because she does; she was telling me that there are no friendly women around. Astonished that she said this, I shared with her that my daughter was having the very same problem, and my daughter was finding that she can relate more readily with the foreign exchange students at her school than any American female. These girls are not social pariahs, so what gives?
My daughter's friend said she feels people have lost the fine art of verbal communication--and that American women in general are way too catty to other women because they seem to think only in terms of competition for men.
Well, I guess this would put the caboche on any effort to develop natural telepathy. What would be the point--to have people relay blips and bleeps to each other?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Twitter By Telepathy
CNNHealth.com reports Man Twitters Using Brainwaves in today’s article “Brain-Twitter project offers hope to paralyzed patients”. Adam Wilson, working at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tweeted “Spelling With My Brain” on April 15, 2009.
Visitors to this blog might like to know they are in good company and that it may not be “all in their heads” as they might have been led to believe. In deference to this recent breakthrough I have compiled a thoughtful (by no means comprehensive) list of who else might be in on it.
Alta Bates Medical Center, Alabama A & M University, Berea College, Carillon Health Systems, City College of San Francisco, Daughters of Charity Health Systems, Florida Department of Health, Hughes, Humboldt State University, Kingston University, Laurentian University, Lehigh University, Loyola Marymount University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Merrimack Education Center, New York Institute of Technology, North Carolina Research & Education, Ohio State University, Pittsburgh State University, St. Bona Venture University, Science Applications International, University of Central Arkansas, Warwickshire College, Sisters of Mercy Health Systems, St. Louis University, Stanford University, State University of New York at Buffalo, and some curious users of the Alabama Supercomputer Network.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Baked State Allergy Recipe
Back in the day toxicology reports were conducted and reported by neutral third parties. Nowadays, chemical, cosmetic, consumer product and agriculture special interest groups would lead you to believe the same substances that were hazardous to humans at any level back then are safe enough to eat now. For the “baked state allergy” recipe bring your cats and branes. For a balanced report on carbitol cellosolve and other glycol ethers look here
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Hypocritic or Hippocratic?
I recently came across the published treatise "Invisible Killers: The Truth About Environmental Genocide" by Rik J. Deitch and MD Stewart Lonky and was bewildered with one of the author's involvement in putting it into print.
In fact, the Maxie Time diary refers to an instance wherein the patient pointedly asks the doctor to assess the possibility that she had suffered a toxic exposure, leading to multiple chemical sensitivity (August 21, 1996) and he replied, "That's a controversial issue, asthma is less so."
Simply amazing what a decade of denial can do; let the statute of limitations run out--or is the reader to conclude that the government along with the medico-legal community want to be trendy (a la Al Gore) and are now comfortable extolling the truth about environmental toxic exposure.
At any rate, while the book is presented by two experts, the subject of "those blonde guys walking around" is carefully avoided--now that would have made for some really interesting reading!
In fact, the Maxie Time diary refers to an instance wherein the patient pointedly asks the doctor to assess the possibility that she had suffered a toxic exposure, leading to multiple chemical sensitivity (August 21, 1996) and he replied, "That's a controversial issue, asthma is less so."
Simply amazing what a decade of denial can do; let the statute of limitations run out--or is the reader to conclude that the government along with the medico-legal community want to be trendy (a la Al Gore) and are now comfortable extolling the truth about environmental toxic exposure.
At any rate, while the book is presented by two experts, the subject of "those blonde guys walking around" is carefully avoided--now that would have made for some really interesting reading!
Monday, August 13, 2007
Telepathy And Technology
Telepathy, remote viewing, movies projected against the sky, and specifically targeted auditory messages are only some of the events that occur in Maxie Time, a diary of a purported involuntary experiment on a human subject.
If one were to report seeing holographic movies projected against the day sky in 1997, the common person on the street would not think it possible. The professed medical professional would deem one ‘crazy’ and that would be the end of the discussion. Yet, since 2003 a San Francisco-based company IO2Technology patented just such a process by which images from a number of sources, including televisions or computers, may be projected into thin air. Granted this is a small scale version of the sky movie, but the device is currently in the market—called Heliodisplay it retails for about $20,000.
By the same token, back in 1996 or 1997, if one were to ‘hear’ voices that seem to be targeting them and no one nearby is privy to these ‘voices’, the unfortunate observer would be marginalized as schizophrenic, manic or suffering from some other mental instability. Yet, again, since the early 2000’s, any kid with some savvy can download these ‘invisible’ auditory ‘hallucinations’ as ringtones specifically targeting certain age groups, because it turns out, hearing range varies based on a person’s age. Suddenly, it doesn’t seem so improbable to narrow the sound wave and precisely hone its direction to pinpoint a target as well. While this misunderstanding may appear comical, it is very tragic to the subject being marginalized as crazy just for having the misfortune of detecting such a specific sound at a time when the technology was not common knowledge.
If by now there are reasonable explanations for the extraordinary experiences described in Maxie Time, then can the assertion the author makes, that the government is actively conducting synthetic telepathy and remote viewing involuntary human experiments on the general population, be too far fetched? The book is written as a diary and carefully avoids common conspiracy theory pitfalls because the parties involved in this undertaking appear to be operating without subterfuge and with no fear of the law. It seems even the doctors are in on it.
What about the law? Since 1993 there have been several attempts made by the US Senate to propose legislation to prevent conducting involuntary human experiments without the subject’s informed consent, none of which have been ratified. This begs the question, if such involuntary experiments are not ongoing, why the need for such legislation? And is it ever likely such protections can be put into place considering the fallout this would have by giving past victims the legal standing to pursue restitution?
If one were to report seeing holographic movies projected against the day sky in 1997, the common person on the street would not think it possible. The professed medical professional would deem one ‘crazy’ and that would be the end of the discussion. Yet, since 2003 a San Francisco-based company IO2Technology patented just such a process by which images from a number of sources, including televisions or computers, may be projected into thin air. Granted this is a small scale version of the sky movie, but the device is currently in the market—called Heliodisplay it retails for about $20,000.
By the same token, back in 1996 or 1997, if one were to ‘hear’ voices that seem to be targeting them and no one nearby is privy to these ‘voices’, the unfortunate observer would be marginalized as schizophrenic, manic or suffering from some other mental instability. Yet, again, since the early 2000’s, any kid with some savvy can download these ‘invisible’ auditory ‘hallucinations’ as ringtones specifically targeting certain age groups, because it turns out, hearing range varies based on a person’s age. Suddenly, it doesn’t seem so improbable to narrow the sound wave and precisely hone its direction to pinpoint a target as well. While this misunderstanding may appear comical, it is very tragic to the subject being marginalized as crazy just for having the misfortune of detecting such a specific sound at a time when the technology was not common knowledge.
If by now there are reasonable explanations for the extraordinary experiences described in Maxie Time, then can the assertion the author makes, that the government is actively conducting synthetic telepathy and remote viewing involuntary human experiments on the general population, be too far fetched? The book is written as a diary and carefully avoids common conspiracy theory pitfalls because the parties involved in this undertaking appear to be operating without subterfuge and with no fear of the law. It seems even the doctors are in on it.
What about the law? Since 1993 there have been several attempts made by the US Senate to propose legislation to prevent conducting involuntary human experiments without the subject’s informed consent, none of which have been ratified. This begs the question, if such involuntary experiments are not ongoing, why the need for such legislation? And is it ever likely such protections can be put into place considering the fallout this would have by giving past victims the legal standing to pursue restitution?
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