Monday, December 28, 2009

the setting sun dissolves in the


Within the last three years intermarital group sex has become
an industry of corporate business, particularly in the xxx area where a new world man is evolving. Computer firms compete with one another, matching couples with couples and compiling guest lists for orgies at homes and private country clubs.
Home videotape systems are rented by the month and tapes of
flagrant sexual activity are exchanged among the participants, many
of whom regularly attend two orgies a week, sometimes as
frequently as four or five,

By the end of the day, his computers will have bought and sold about 60 million to 80 million shares, with the heaviest activity in the last hour of trading, from three to four in the afternoon. xxx and similar firms around the country will race to close billions of bets that hinge on things like tiny differences between the prices of shares in an exchange-traded fund holding the S&P 500 and the individual shares that make up the same index. The profits go to the company with the fastest hardware and the best algorithms--advantages that enable it to spot and exploit subtle market patterns ahead of everyone else. At the end of a typical day, the xxx high-speed business holds no shares at all.

In the Gloomy Depths of the Old Warehouse Dale Saw a Thing That Drew a Scream of Horror to His Dry Lips. It Was a Corpse—the Mold of Decay on Its Long-dead Features—and Yet It Was Alive!

TMS Therapy uses short pulses of magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the area of the brain thought to control mood. TMS Therapy is performed in a psychiatrist's office under their supervision while you remain awake and alert. NeuroStar TMS Therapy® is an outpatient procedure. The typical treatment course consists of 5 treatments per week over a 4-6 week period for 20-30 treatments. Each treatment session lasts approximately 37 minutes.

Critical questions about the mechanism of
H2O oxidation focus on (a) the steps at which
Mn, Ca2+, and Cl− in this process...A real chemical intermediate
in S3 has been detected at high O2
pressures (20 bar). Three substrate binding
sites for such an intermediate are the two
redox-active Mn atoms and Ca2+, which has
been proposed to be a H2O-binding site because
it generally accommodates two or more
bound H2O molecules as ligands in other protein
systems. This aspect of Ca2+
chemistry forms the basis for including the
metal in proposed mechanisms for H2O oxidation. These mechanisms utilize
Ca2+ as a Lewis acid to deprotonate a bound
H2O; the resulting Ca2+-bound OH− is used
as a nucleophile to attack an O=Mn+5 to form
the O-O bond that leads to O2 formation and
reduction of the cluster to S0. Of all of the
metals that can occupy the PSII Ca2+ site, only
Sr2+ can restoreO2-evolution activity in place
of Ca2+, but at much lower rates. This
observation correlates with the Lewis acidity
of both Sr2+and Ca2+, both of which have
higher acidities than other metals that bind
to PSII but are ineffective in restoration of
activity.



video below is "drawdown" by phoenix perry, one of the three best pieces on the reline 2 comp

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

really what waited for me was what i

still from food inc.



position weight matrix symbolic dynamics transiogram
fast-scan cyclic voltammetry
the difference in the branch metrics

...the big Jupiter freighter seemed intact from above, but, when they penetrated into it, they found its whole under-side blown away, apparently by an explosion of its tanks. They moved on to the next ship, a private space-yacht, small in size, but luxurious in fittings. It had been abandoned in space, its rocket-tubes burst and tanks strained...

Magnetic stimulation is a non-invasive and painless method of exciting neurons using strong, time varying magnetic fields generated by a stimulating coil and held close to the intended site of stimulation. Used for research, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy in a range of nervous and psychiatric disorders, magnetic stimulation is able to stimulate the human cortex, spinal roots and peripheral nerves. may be used to excite or inhibit nerve response. In addition a pulse can be either monophasic or biphasic. Monophasic single pulse systems are favoured for neurology applications due to the accuracy of the waveform and low heat output. For rapid rate stimulation, biphasic systems are used due to their ability to produce short and efficient pulses.

black dream on road six...they rehearsed those movements for one another to one another we resign ourselves we resign ourselves to memorizing them the past grew so large that it no longer belongs to us anything that you wanted could be discovered there i sat down on the stairs of the parking garage next to the trader of your story sunlight in the dream the pleasure of the rush mirror empty eyes demeanor of stars that had not faded


When I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble upon some particular perception or another, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I can never catch myself without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

I may venture to infer from myself to the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity
THE AUDIENCE AND THE MYTH OF
ENTERTAINMENT Television is the
software of the earth. Television is invisible. It's not an object. It's not
a piece of furniture. The television set is irrelevant to the phenomenon
of television.






Monday, December 21, 2009

the message of the medium

Protective Underwear Google Inc. is an American public corporation TENA Briefs/SERENITY Pads Tena Super & Serenity Pads Free Samples, Free Delivery $50+specializing in Internet search. It also generates profits from advertising bought Prevail Briefs Ship Free
Same day free shi
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Monday, December 14, 2009

the sun flashed glass iron extension of the lattice


Now called PositiveID, the new company is a merger between VeriChip and Steel Vault, the people behind NationalCreditReport.com...you could have a chip read by a scanner that determines your credit-worthiness," says Evan Hendricks, editor of Privacy Times. "Or you could have a credit card implant."...chipping of immigrant guest workers

The scene was dazzling; the ruins piled-up with the white snow, the mountains completely transformed as they glittered in the sun, and above all...the sky seemed to be of the purest blue



the changes in protein expression in Spirulina platensis upon exposure to high temperature,

The biometric hand was developed at Pisa's Valdera Polo Sant'Anna School and surgically attached to Petruzziello's nervous system via electrodes implanted into the remaining part of his left arm, meaning the robotic body part was actually like an extension of his body.

methodical excavation of the occult abstract cartography

The properties of an integral transform are completely determined by the collection of functions onto which it projects. The wavelet transform projects onto a set of functions which satisfy a simple linear relationship between different levels of dilation.





Sail Away NV from visbot on Vimeo.

 glass viral you looked rather like that story in the magazine that dream that now surrounded her it takes a lot of glory to be able to pursue such total contradiction...and to act with the fortune blood of your death you answered you name the ghost that died in those steps the same moment betrayed we do nothing now we remember how it was the same moment betrayed the madness grows closer when those who follow portrait and album 

We applied 13 minutes of bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the anterior temporal lobes.Only participants who received left cathodal stimulation (decrease in excitability) together with right anodal stimulation (increase in excitability) showed an improvement in visual memory. This 110% improvement in visual memory

     The Pantheon of Phantoms, which are then in vogue, is the Heaven of the Ignorant.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

autumn that was cut with passenger



robust prewhitening (sphering) was applied as a linear
transformation as

There are 6 locations along the visual pathway with potential for functional restoration of sight through microstimulation :
the retina,
the optic nerve,
the optic tract,
the dorsal LGN of the thalamus,
the optic radiation,
the primary visual cortex.
Lemaux......Genetically Engineered Plants and Foods Ann Rev Plant Biol 2008

---A) food supply production biochemicals rennin/chymosin; B2; alpha-amylase; lactase

---In 2005, the billionth acre of a GE crop was planted. In 2006 the worldwide acreage of GE crops was 252 million acres grown by 10.3 million farmers in 22 countries---

---Nearly all major-acreage, commercial releases of GE crops are based on B) pest protection via genes from Bt or HT<><><><>

C ) yield

In 2001, transgenic rice plants expressing the maize proteins 

pyruvate
orthophosphate dikinase (PPDK)
and 

phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) exhibited a higher photosynthetic capacity (≥35%)///

nitrogen use efficiency transcription factor Dof1//


                    ((( Nitrogen assimilation in plants needs not only inorganic nitrogen present in soil but also carbon skeleton (2-oxoglutalate, 2-OG), which is produced from photosynthetic metabolic intermediates

/abiotic stress tolerance, e.g., high salt, high and low water availability, and temperature extremes.



1)Constitutive expression of CBF genes from the cold response pathway in GE Arabidopsis induces expression of target COR (cold-regulated) genes and enhances freezing tolerance in nonacclimated plants

2) Transgenic tomato plants overexpressing avacuolar Na+/H+ antiport produce fruit when grown in 200 mM sodium chloride, ∼40% of sea water


---D) alter nutritional quality-combating human diseases
1)introduction of three genes into rice to create the much publicized Golden Rice variety, enriched in provitamin A
2)increasing calcium levels threefold in potato
3) increasing folate levels in tomato
4) development of a subunit vaccine against pneumonic and bubonic plague that
is immunogenic in mice

5) a potato-based vaccine for hepatitis B
6) GE pollen vaccine that reduces allergy symptoms
7) edible rice-based vaccine targeted at alleviating allergic diseases such as asthma, seasonal allergies, and atopic dermatitis
---E) utilization of plants to produce alternative energy sources
1)engineering Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, to produce hydrogen gas,.
2) Paper waste GE bacteria engineered with trifunctional designer cellulosomes or bifunctiona systems can degrade microcrystalline cellulose and straw
3)Efforts are also aimed at improving the ability of engineered plants and microbes to process cellulosic biomass into usable
biofuels



jm smith seeds of deception

data validation, performance enhancement (caching and index utilization), application security,

*
MP3: A VESSEL A COUNTERWEIGHT (the other side version)
soundtrack to a movie in progress here---if you want to contribute a voice, words or images drop me a hello

When brain stimulation reward was induced, the subjects experienced feelings that were described as "cheerful," "alert," "good," "well-being," "comfort," "relaxation," "joy," or "satisfaction." Since the deep brain stimulation procedure is equivalent to a "self-stimulation" experiment, they could become "addicted to the stimulation itself" or "compulsive about the stimulation," and stimulate themselves "for the entire day," "at maximum amplitude" and, in some instances, "into convulsions."

Thursday, December 3, 2009

new forms through which words

snapshot from the seashell and the clergyman
the twisting of magnetic fields in the accretion disk Transfer Triggered Architecture
...if I were a superstitious man, I’d think that the age of the perfect machine is about to be superseded by the age of the perfect failure—mechanical failures that can’t be explained on any level.... voting machine hacking contests///photorealistic images in video games


..............[.[.[.[.[.[..]]].[[[[ Premonition{ It has pleased the Author of Creation to cause (to His human and reasoning Creatures of this generation, by a 'combined' appearance in His Zodiacal and Cometical system) a 'warning Crisis' of universal concernment to this our Globe.

||||||||||||||||||||||||||i don't believe in the computer and became certain not so very long ago that the internet was an illusion: at that very instant, it became clear that i must attribute every waking thought to moments that one could retrieve from some digital representation.
anyone who is misfortune enough to stumble across this trajectory is

neutron-degenerate matter,,,instruction set architecture

the notion of vacuum depends on the path of the observer...highrise slavegridThe binding site for the covalent antagonist has been mapped to a particular aspartic acid residue in the third transmembrane region

ultra-dense phases of degenerate matter

the strength of the stellar wind...you were playing yourself in that fatal line a gambler with his own persona he said but the card without a name almost like an explanation the odds always favor the house...the vision and the intersection with what can we abandon those visions your place in the accident beyond what you could keep track of...rain...a highway...thunder in the northwest we leave the mad to the mad you said cast off with them the names of their gods someone whose habits were uncontrollable

its electrons are driven into its protons, forming neutrons and neutrinos in a burst of inverse beta decay, or electron capture.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

the last words of the sentence


http://www.flickr.com/photos/lidorwyssocky/



cyanobacteria) phycobilisomes versus iron stress induced chlorophyll binding protein encircle ps 1/>/>/>/>/>

structural complex of psII and LHCII proteins J. Barber
A location of protein complexes
B photosynthetic electron transport
C antenna system
D xanthophyll cycle
E state transition process
F photosynthetic reduction cycle
G starch: synthesis/ breakdown
H photorespiration

composition and regulation of antenna proteins sensors for size regulation .variations in relation to light levels in relation to fluorescence levels

rate of photosynthesis= rate of carbon accumulation/ rate of oxygen evolution 02 evolved per co2 assimilated

high performance liquid chromatography

martek docosahexaenoic acid///////What is Docosahexaenoic Acid (DHA)?

Docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, is a polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acid found throughout the body. It is a major structural fat in the brain and retina accounting for up to 97% of the omega-3 fats in the brain and up to 93% of the omega-3 fats in the retina. It is also a key component of the heart. Numerous studies confirm that everyone, from infants to adults, benefits from an adequate supply of DHA.

omega six and omega three
eicosapentaenoic

genomes- cyanidoschyzon merolae (red alga)
- thalassiosira pseudonana (diatom)

chlamydomas reinhadtii
ostreococcus tauri
nucleomorph genome
recombinant proteins of therapeutic value

nickle- urease]]]]selenium- gluthathione peroxidase

bigelow lab ocean science

PAUL W. BEHRENS photobioreactor review in algae culutring techniques
1998 review of martek work
gas exchange, temperature. pH



javornicky docosahexaenoic acid crypthecodinium
***michael borowitzka murdoch U- dunaliela salina beta-carotene
haematoccus pluvualis nannochloropis
**wastewater treatment hallister, ca
low grade for animal feed } carbonator, paddle wheel mixing depth
** olaziola m outdoor algal production (richmond a ///shimamaysu H))
porphyra most valuable seaweed

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

known and evident versions




we transmitted low-intensity, low-frequency ultrasound waveforms through hippocampal slice cultures from remotely positioned tissue-matched piezoelectric transducers

alone possession the ticket marker had very nervous features green eyes a sports coat sweatpants and trainers medallion of a wolf membrane remodeling during synapse modification some other girl she said apparition from the pits the margin index

limited vision restored to blind patients a small chip containing about 60 stimulating electrodes glasses-mounted camera feeds images and power to the implant via a wireless induction loop

lunar outpost agriculture

augment everyday objects and physical environments with invisible and networked computing functionality

we transmitted low-intensity, low-frequency ultrasound waveforms through hippocampal slice cultures from remotely positioned tissue-matched piezoelectric transducers


The more the internal contrasts within a thing fade into insignificance by comparison with the contrasts between it and its environment, and the more the internal connection among its elements overshadow its connections with its environment, the more natural it becomes for us to regard it as a distinct object.


limited vision restored to blind patients a small chip containing about 60 stimulating electrodes glasses-mounted camera feeds images and power to the implant via a wireless induction loop


images in this post taken (without permission) from the following flickr users (the doll snap journeyed through my phoroshop)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dxdt22/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yosigo/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cormacphelan/

Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run Lola Run from shiffman on Vimeo.

one exposes the accident in order not to be exposed to the accident...to be exposed to an accident...when a painter exhibits his work, one says: he exposes his work..similarly, when we cross the street, we expose ourselves to a car accident

Sunday, November 1, 2009

[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[nature of the flaw

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and there was the shadow of a festival or a circus the third falcon image


walked across the thin edge of the shadow individuals in a particular place

Interface generally refers to an abstraction that an entity provides of itself to the outside

the suppression of the functions of the thinking principle...predation and the evolutionary origins of the nervous system

the impediment to the realization. was it because what you wanted to realize contained in itself its own contradiction? the concept is flawed, it replying, the category is false

microbial production of biopolymers
(caister press)

1 xanthan gum 86,000 tpa
2 alginates
4 cyanophycin- polyaspartic acid
5 poly-γ-glutamic acid (γ-PGA) produced by various strains of Bacillus has potential applications as a thickener in the food industry
6 levan polysaccharide feed additive/ cosmetic component/ drug delivery/ surfactant
7 hyaluronic acid production in Bacillus
11 polyhydroxyalkanoates

tethered moth

the passage courier sat on the edge of the washtub and stared at himself in the mirror waiting for the cascade to make its way through the blood vessels of his brain. he could barely see himself, his skin was pale white, his nose and eyes flushed, forehead cold, shining with sweat, his black hair damp. i just need enough until tomorrow he said

the mutual interference of two worlds expressed with an acute indifference to the forgotten and inherently meaningless original sources

Everything in the world exists in order to end up in a book, he quoted. well and good i replied but what is and is not a book? Must it be ink printed on paper? What about pixels on a screen or files in a program?


blind signal separation...vacant on the sea, another monument to violence...mirror-neuron system by erotic video

locus coeruleus axons ramify all over the brain produce norepinephrine....amphetamine displaces the NE from storage vesicles whereas activation of the LC produces a startle response - a state of panic and a hyperresponsiveness to all stimulus in the environment...sensory stimulation speeds up the firing of the LC accelerated firing enhanced by treatment with LSD/mescaline...the LSD analog methylsergide which has no psychedelic effects is correspondingly ineffective in enhancing LC reactivity

Tuesday, October 27, 2009






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...........zxzxzxzxzxzxzxzxxzxzxz......zzxxzxzxzxx.zxxz...........zxzx....everything that has do to with symbolic expression has for its object the love of some person, whether or not they exist hardly means anything at all and in fact i remember one of the most prolific men of this age freely admitting that his greatest love was not for a real person, rather, it was for a fictional character whose creation had originated in the imagination of another. And what, after all, is the real relation between what we know, our conception of a person, and whatever it is that they truly are? how are our conceptions of real people any more real than our conceptions of their fictional imitations?

Data at 100 Kbps are encoded by
amplitude shift keying on a 15.5 MHz carrier. Power is also
wirelessly transmitted to the implant using a 125 KHz
carrier, and is rectified by the implant to create ±2.5 V
power supplies.
The implant itself is attached to the outside of the eye,
where it receives and processes the power and data. The
implant then sends electrical stimulation current to the
retinal nerve cells via a thin-film microfabricated array of
sputtered iridium oxide film (SIROF) electrodes, which is
surgically inserted into the subretinal space through a flap in
the sclera.

a vector, a genetically engineered adeno-associated virus, to carry a normal version of the gene, called RPE65, that is mutated in one form of LCA, called LCA2, that accounts for 8 to 16 percent of all LCA cases.

that figure now unwound a labyrinth of outsiders the setting every thought gateway sd twenty five the memory narrowed on the false escape grew fainter and the wind where are




 This goal parallels the continuing quest in biotechnology
to construct microbial strains capable of accomplishing
an ever-expanding array of desired biotransformations. These
biotransformations are aimed at products that range from simple
precursor chemicals (Nakamura and Whited 2003; Causey et al.
2004) or complex molecules such as carotenoids (Misawa et al.
1991), to electrons in biofuel cells (Liu et al. 2004) or batteries
(Bond et al. 2002; Bond and Lovley 2003), to even microbes capable
of precipitating heavy metal complexes in bioremediation

The outgrowth of neurons from the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis and the formation of synapses were controlled by topographical structures processed from a polyester resist. Action potentials were evoked in individual neurons by capacitive stimulators integrated in the chip. They propagated along guided neurites, passed through electrical synapses and triggered postsynaptic excitations that were recorded by field-effect transistors.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

a wardrobe of constellations


APB: The Book Of Changes from THE LIGHT SURGEONS on Vimeo.
the opposite of money
valley of real sound

“The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue of reason about madness,

A film composed of images from prisons. Quotes from fiction films and documentaries as well as footage from surveillance cameras. A look at the new control technologies, at personal identification devices, electronic ankle bracelets, electronic tracking devices

DBS was approved by the FDA as a treatment
for movement disorders in 2002


pocket guide to biotechnology and genetic engineering rolf d schmidt

aspergillis niger- citric acid
corynebacterium glutamicum- amino acids
clostridium- biomass into alcohol

We are only who we are asleep in out dreams. Every other context is a compromise, and the names we learn from one day to the next distinguish only illusions. When I presume to know myself, the future disappears in contradiction. If you and I knew what belongs here, and what does not, then there would be nothing that compels us to read any more of it. Between one person and everyone else, there are only reasons and numbers. When you pursue your own interests as far as they take you, no one else will understand you. When you have nothing left to say for yourself, perhaps someone else will speak through you.

solitude is total. only machines are useful. everyone who is of value to others is only a machine.

Friday, October 16, 2009

signature agent for the third falcon image



as far as growing algae as a transportation fuel, if you like the idea, make sure that you can grow your fuel more cheaply than petrochemicals before you get too far beyond the drawing board. The Aquatic Species Program report summarizes a twenty year investigation into the viability of bio-diesel, and becoming familiar with its conclusions should be one of the first tasks of anybody wanting to educate themselves about the potentials of such technologies. There is something elegant to the idea that quite attracted me, personally. It certainly seems a lot more plausible an energy source than the ethanol from corn absurdity. I recall feeling a little disappointed when I read a case study by Dimitrov concerning the Greenfuel company. The case study displays how algal growth constraints, constraints that are founded within thermodynamics of photosynthesis, limit the yields in such a way that the enterprise will not be economically viable.

frozen certainty of depression...exception stack trace


We looked down at the ground and then into his eyes: "So, the revolution will be complete when the language
is perfect?"........a faint shadow of a smile as he replied: "The secret is to move from translation, to direct thought, to
automatic response. No need for self-discipline. "

It's just that their attitudes as human beings leave their merits as craftsmen far behind: only those attitudes give true meaning
to the works that we admire




dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
by Johan Grimonprez


looking at themselves through the grave a signature agent he was the first...who wrote your mannerisms engaged in the border sect empty as for others their emotions were synchronized look at them...i said...look at them she repeated...i did as she asked...dedicated to what is normal within life...absence dull weakness opposition to every conviction...

 hybrid strains showed reduced photosynthetic growth, due to the lack of pyrenoids, the chloroplast sites where CO2 is concentrated for optimal photosynthesis...these results suggest that the Rubisco small subunits contribute significantly to overall Rubisco activity, both by directly affecting catalytic performance and indirectly enhancing efficiency by targeting the enzyme to the algal pyrenoid.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

in the mirror of my own compulsion

there's being useful, "said r3j, "and there's being a cog in some assembly line. why is this line even here, i ask myself. if someone else could just as well do this, then why don't i just let them? it means less than nothing to me, I'll just walk away."

"you're not as free as all that" said g9s. "there's the tiny matter of getting yourself something to eat everyday. if you don't queue up for the factory, assume your persona in official registries, you'll find yourself sleeping on the cement and begging for coin change."

he stared off into the horizon, gestured over sphere for the descent, thought to himself:"why is there such limitation to what people can be? what are all these people for?"
snapshot from: manufactured landscapes
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I reached over and minimized the screen. picked up the paper that i had in my hands and started copying the figures. scientists were thinking about energy for 7 billion people, talking of a new Manhattan project...a new Apollo program...I wonder, in the abstract, if the species isn't extinct in a thousand years, where will the power be coming from when someone reaches over to flip on the light switch? 1859 first oil well dug

US oil extraction: a 9 million barrel a day peak in 1970...today under 6 million

the total amount of oil prior to any extraction was 2 trillion (2 thousand billion) nearly half of this has been consumed

all of the oil pumped worldwide equals about 25 billion barrels annually

about half of the oil ever discovered comes from the 40 largest fields

the largest oil field in the world is ghawar- 87 billion barrels

the united states has 5% of the worlds population but consumes 25% of the worlds energy

consumption of electricity by americans 1000 watts per capita per annum

138 billion gallons of gasoline consumed annually by vehicles in the United States

the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 mandates that 36 billion gallons of the United States' transportation fuel come from renewable sources by 2022

sunlight yields 342 watts per square meter averaged over the entire earth surface

I don't recall where I copied these figures from. That's useful, in a way, because for each of them you should ask yourself whether or not they are correct and how somebody went on about measuring them. there are two major ideas that seem to be accepted by the majority of people professionally employed as scientists. 1) that the introduction of vast quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere has the capacity to effect global temperature. and 2) that the hydrocarbons that we have discovered beneath the surface of the earth are a limited resource

i'd be interested in being able to reference concise discussions that debate these issues. Overall however, the perspective that is going to guide our curiosity is this: perhaps it is possible to harness the power required for running human civilization MORE CHEAPLY...WITH LESS HUMAN EFFORT...than the way that it being done presently. At the limit we have the "can't get something for nothing"and the "can't get out all that you put in" embodied in the laws of thermodynamics. What is interesting is trying to figure out how much we can practically expect to gain.

i spent about eight hours with vaclov smil and his "energy in nature and society" and was rather impressed in the author's faculty for encyclopedic synthesis.


photo taken (without permission) from http://www.flickr.com/photos/yosigo/118808337/
once again. here's a link to the nate lewis presentations. which far outstrip my scattered impresssions here:

http://nsl.caltech.edu/energy

watched the crabtree sustainable energy lecture today on mittechtv and it had a couple of interesting moments but lewis has honed his presentation over a lot more audiences


eventually going to embed some of the Chu stuff, another adept big picture painter

, the revolutionary artist must refuse to contribute to the mass accumulation of commodified objects of labour. Artistic creation, consequently, cannot be justified as any sort of superior or compensatory activity, and the art of the future will be nothing if not "the radical transformation of situations", an "extremism independent of any cause."
the lights from the fires glowed a brilliant blue along the red of the sunset horizon. brilliant white where they burned their brightest. and equally white, the lights from the planes on their grids across the sky. r3j gripped the wheel and said as if to himself


synthetically generated seizure EEG
 



Thursday, October 8, 2009

skeleton code in phase sapphire

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stimulation of the clitoris significantly increased regional cerebral blood flow in the left secondary and right dorsal primary somatosensory cortex (1) illusory somatosensory percepts can affect primary somatosensory cortex in a manner that corresponds somatotopically to the illusory percept

orgasm was mainly associated with profound rCBF decreases in the neocortex
particularly in the left lateral orbitofrontal cortex (2) , inferior temporal gyrus (3) and anterior temporal pole(4)


4 YOUR EYES WERE MADE CERTAIN from motivesbeyondreason.net on Vimeo.



 The dependence of the rates of electron-transfer reactions
within covalently linked donor-acceptor molecules on the A) free
energy of reaction and B) the electronic interaction between the donor and the acceptor

delta G° is the free energy of reaction,
VDA is the electronic coupling between the donor and acceptor, and
gamma is the total energy of the nuclear reorganization (structural change) within the donor, acceptor, and solvent required for the reaction to occur.

sexual stimulation of the penis increased rCBF in an area of the right hemisphere encompassing the posterior insula and adjacent posterior part of the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII) (5) and decreased rCBF in the right amygdala. (6)  recreate unconscious language
of symbolism exploring sensory perception representation virtual and physical state stimulate dream-like state of consciousness


Functional imaging research suggests the insular is involved in two types of salience. Interoceptive information processing that links interoception with emotional salience to generate a subjective representation of the body. This involves the anterior insular cortex with the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex (Brodmann area 33) and the anterior and po
sterior mid-cingulate cortices. Second, a general salience system concerned with environmental monitoring, response selection, and skeletomotor body orientation that involves all of the insular cortex and the mid-cingulate cortex

like the sponsor of a public service podcast...fascism was a virtual psychopathology that served deep unconscious needs...years of bourgeois conditioning had produced suffering in work, commerce, and conformity...the people needed to break out, to invent the hatreds that could liberate them...a perverse sexual act can liberate the visionary self in even

the implanted pulse generator is a battery powered neurostimulator encased in a titanium housing, which sends electrical pulses to the brain to interfere with neural activity at the target site


twist of that setting the room was shaded in that dream there is no tomorrow there is no yesterday what about you we asked...in the age you reclaimed nothing of what was done- your luxuries led you through supernatural progressions possessed by am unfailing certainty some incessant enthusiasm blood of the dream consequent to being observed only appeared when there was blood i would have entered there they awaited me i was at last