This post is in memory of Lech Peszewski, my dear friend of many years. He died on Sunday from complications due to pneumonia resulting from fibrosis. I did not know how badly he was suffering. The last time I saw him, he complained more about his shoulder than his breathing. He did, however, mention his […]
Archives for July 2013
Everybody’s Free To Feel Good!
July 9, 2013 by
Everybody’s free to feel good is the theme of this video, originally called, “Everybody’s Free To Wear SUNSCREEN!” With almost 9,000,000 views, you may have seen it already. One of the main ideas expressed in the video is, “Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.” I suppose this means also not […]
Spirit Rock at 25: meditation and renovation – San Francisco Chronicle
July 8, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Spirit Rock at 25: meditation and renovation – San Francisco Chronicle.
The Brain Is Not The Mind
July 8, 2013 by
In the modern field of neuroscience, there are two extreme positions that ignore the simple fact that the brain is not the mind. According to David Brooks, an accomplished New York Times columnist, these two extremes are: At the lowbrow level, there are the conference circuit neuro-mappers. These are people who take pretty brain-scan images […]
Birthday Greetings For The Dalai Lama
July 7, 2013 by
Open Letter to The Dalai Lama I sent these birthday greetings to The Dalai Lama yesterday. To Your Holiness the Dalai Lama,On the auspicious occasion of your birthday, I send best wishes from my heart to warm yours with the knowledge that you are loved, admired and respected by people the world over.As an active, […]
Is Global Warming Real?
July 6, 2013 by
Is climate change real? Is global warming something that humans are responsible for? I keep asking myself these questions, especially when friends suggest that climate change is a scientific hoax. Last week, I watched an amazing film by photographer James Balog called, “Chasing Ice“. This is an effort by an artist to show the world that climate […]
Scientific Buddhism
July 5, 2013 by
Lama Jampa Thaye is a scholar, author, and meditation master from the UK. He is trained in both the Karma Kagyu and Sakya traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. In this article from the Tricycle blog, he emphatically speaks out against scientific Buddhism. What is scientific Buddhism? It is the effort to radically alter Buddhist ideas to correspond to […]
A Short History of the Cosmos
July 4, 2013 by
Dr. Christopher D. Impey is the Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and the Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona. On February 4, 2013 Dr. Impey gave the Dean Lecture at the Morrison Planetarium in the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. You can find the recording of his lecture on […]
Israel-Chicago partnership targets water resource innovations | UChicago News
July 2, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Israel-Chicago partnership targets water resource innovations | UChicago News.
Are You Playing Genetic Roulette?
July 1, 2013 by
One of the main principles of mindful eating is to choose your food wisely. Are you playing genetic roulette by letting GMO foods into your diet? GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organisms. Did you know that one of the major causes of obesity today is from eating GMO foods? 70% of processed foods in the grocery […]
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