31 OCT 2018 by ideonexus
Exercise Meaningful in Having Good Mental Health
In this cross-sectional study, we analysed data from 1 237 194 people aged 18 years or older in the USA from the 2011, 2013, and 2015 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Behavioral Risk Factors Surveillance System survey. We compared the number of days of bad self-reported mental health between individuals who exercised and those who did not, using an exact non-parametric matching procedure to balance the two groups in terms of age, race, gender, marital status, income, education l... 1 
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Perception of Time
“Do not squander time,” said Benjamin Franklin, “for that is the stuff life is made of.” Our consciousness, even more than it is posted in space, unrolls in time. I can imagine abolishing space from my awareness—if, say, I were floating in a sensory deprivation tank or became blind and paralyzed—while still continuing to think as usual. But it’s almost impossible to imagine abolishing time from one’s awareness, leaving the last thought immobilized like a stuck car horn, while ...Folksonomies: perception time
Folksonomies: perception time
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WHO Exercise Guidelines
In order to improve cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness, bone health, reduce the risk of NCDs and depression:
1. Adults aged 18–64 should do at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week or do at least 75 minutes of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity throughout the week or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity.
2. Aerobic activity should be performed in bouts of at least 10 minutes duration.
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1 29 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
Encyclopedia Galactica
A. I do not say now that we can prevent the fall. But it is not yet too
late to shorten the interregnum which will follow. It is possible,
gentlemen, to reduce the duration of anarchy to a single millennium, if my
group is allowed to act now. We are at a delicate moment in history. The
huge, onrushing mass of events must be deflected just a little, – just a
little – It cannot be much, but it may be enough to remove twenty-nine
thousand years of misery from human h... 1 notes
notes11 OCT 2013 by ideonexus
The Meaning of "We" in Science and Mathematical Texts
I request a last indulgence from the reader. The introductory material,
thus far, has been written in the friendly and confiding first person
singular voice. Starting in the next paragraph, I will inhabit the first
person plural for the duration of the mathematical expositions. This
should not be construed as a “royal we.” It has been a construct of the
community of mathematicians for centuries and it traditionally signifies
two ideas: that “we” are all in consultation with each other... 1 notes
notes"We" refers to the collaborative effort of problem solving.
04 JAN 2013 by ideonexus
The Human Race Will Only Improve
Such is the object of the work I have undertaken; the result of which will be to show, from reasoning and from facts, that no bounds have been fixed to the improvement of the human faculties; that the pefectibility of man is absolutely indefinite; that the progress of this perfectibility, henceforth above the controul of every power that would impede it, has no other limit than the duration of the globe upon which nature has placed us. The course of this progress may doubtless be more or less...Folksonomies: progress perfection
Folksonomies: progress perfection
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notesWe will only progress and proceed toward perfection.
08 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Stability of the Earth
Thus the system of the world only oscillates around a mean state from which it never departs except by a very small quantity. By virtue of its constitution and the law of gravity, it enjoys a stability that can be destroyed only by foreign causes, and we are certain that their action is undetectable from the time of the most ancient observations until our own day. This stability in the system of the world, which assures its duration, is one of the most notable among all phenomena, in that it ... 1 notes
notesIts sphere is regular, its orbit stable, it is a perfect place for sheltering nature in the Universe.
05 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
On Reading Chronology in Nature
I do ... humbly conceive (tho' some possibly may think there is too much notice taken of such a trivial thing as a rotten Shell, yet) that Men do generally rally too much slight and pass over without regard these Records of Antiquity which Nature have left as Monuments and Hieroglyphick Characters of preceding Transactions in the like duration or Transactions of the Body of the Earth, which are infinitely more evident and certain tokens than any thing of Antiquity that can be fetched out of C...Folksonomies: geology
Folksonomies: geology
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notesHooke describes the difficulty and importance of establishing a chronology for mutations and catastrophes in the geological record.
18 MAR 2012 by ideonexus
Astronomy Killed Astrology
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Cel... 1 notes
notesBy disproving Astrology's concept of celestial mechanics.
12 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
Consciousness Cannot Go Through the Same State Twice
It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible. Folksonomies: philosophy consciousness
Folksonomies: philosophy consciousness
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notesThe very act of going through a state it has been through before will alter the experience by the previous experience.
