13 MAR 2015 by ideonexus
The Problem with Natural
A natural pas may afford the most convenient
way to cros a mountain, but it wil be vastly improved by bilding a good road thru it. Fruits and vegetables
that grow wild in their natural state ar greatly and
universally improved and adapted to human needs by
cultivation. Every process of manufacture, from roast-
ing a potato to bilding a battleship, involvs an arti-
ficial change in natural products. All civilization is
based on man's ability to direct natural processes. We
can not depe...Folksonomies: logical fallacy natural
Folksonomies: logical fallacy natural
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Plants as Modified by Man
Ever since science overthrew the idea of spontaneous generation and established beyond doubt that no organism could have existence without a parent cell, the scientific world received a thunderbolt which was to be means of its' first great awakening. And as the message was heralded from one to another it arroused more careful investigation, stimulated advanced thought and opened up a new line of possibilities respecting the whole plant kingdom.
Man did not grope as hitherto in the dark trust...Folksonomies: history artificial selection
Folksonomies: history artificial selection
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notes11 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
We Have Hunter-Gatherer Brains
For three million years we were hunter-gatherers, and it was through the evolutionary pressures of that way of life that a brain so adaptable and so creative eventually emerged. Today we stand with the brains of hunter-gatherers in our heads, looking out on a modern world made comfortable for some by the fruits of human inventiveness, and made miserable for others by the scandal of deprivation in the midst of plenty. 1 notes
notesAttempting to work in a modern world where some hoard their comforts and other go without.
05 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Definition of Science
Science is simply the classification of the common knowledge of the common people. It is bringing together the things we all know and putting them together so we can use them. This is creation and finds its analogy in Nature, where the elements are combined in certain ways to give us fruits or flowers or grain. Folksonomies: science
Folksonomies: science
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notesAs classification of common knowledge of common people.
13 APR 2012 by ideonexus
St. Augustine on Christian Explanations for Origins
It not infrequently happens that something about the earth, about the sky, about other elements of this world, about the motion and rotation or even the magnitude and distances of the stars, about definite eclipses of the sun and moon, about the passage of years and seasons, about the nature of animals, of fruits, of stones, and of other such things, may be known with the greatest certainty by reasoning or by experience, even by one who is not a Christian. It is too disgraceful and ruinous, t... 1 notes
notesRemarkably insightful statement from 426 AD about how Christians look foolish when they try to apply the literal interpretation of Genesis to the natural world.
04 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
We Have Been Living Off Low-Hanging Fruit
We are failing to understand why we are failing. All of these problems have a single, little noticed root cause: We have been living off low-hanging fruit for at least three hundred years. … Yet during the last forty years, that low-hanging fruit started disappearing, and we started pretending it was still there. We have failed to recognize that we are at a technological plateau and the trees are more bare than we would like to think. That’s it. That is what has gone wrong.Folksonomies: technology progress
Folksonomies: technology progress
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notesAnd the fruits of what we can discover technologically easily are vanishing, leading to a plateau.
03 JAN 2012 by ideonexus
We Are Moving to a World Where Only Advertising is Worth ...
If you want to know what’s really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty. If content is worthless, then people will start to become empty-headed and contentless.
The combination of hive mind and advertising has resulted in a new kind of social contract. The basic idea of this contract is that authors, journalists, musicians... 1 notes
notesArtists are being forced to give away their content for free, making it essentially worthless. When content is worthless, people will become contentless.
27 JUL 2011 by ideonexus
The Paleo Diet
An old movie called Quest for Fire opens with our ancestors seated by a fire, munching on a variety of foods. Large insects buzz about the flames. All of a sudden, one of our relatives shoots out his arm, clumsily grabbing an insect out of thin air. He stuffs it into his mouth, munches heartily, and continues staring into the fire. His colleagues dig around the soil for tuberous vegetables and scrounge for fruit in nearby trees later in the movie. Welcome to the world of Pleistocene haut... 1 notes
notesLook to our ancestors for best practices for diet.
