Brainstorming Ideas

The Unsustainable World. Economical Meltdown.

2012-02-01T01:26:00.005+01:00

‘These elites do not have a vision. They know only one word: more. They will continue to exploit the nation, the global economy and the ecosystem. And they will use their money to hide in gated compounds when it all implodes.’ (Chris Hedges) Money rolls. (© 2011 LightColourShade) Any economical system built by humans is in itself unsustainable since it’s always based on some kind of

Breaking Down The Bible. Genesis 5 Generations of Adam

2011-09-12T00:58:00.018+02:00

The fun thing about the Bible is that almost every chapter of it contains some kind of inconsistency or contradiction, and for 2000 years few believers have bothered to seriously question them. The book poses a myriad of questions, but answers very few, if any. 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; I still wonder what

Calculating the Approximate Date of the Apocalypse?

2011-08-31T01:40:00.005+02:00

The Apocalypse — Impact. As the year 2012 draws on, a part of humanity brood over the Mayan calendar predictions that allegedly establish the year 2012 as the end-date of a 5,125-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which might refer to cataclysmic or transformative (if we’re lucky) events in the making. While I was wondering why this particular source of eschatological

Should We Fear Aliens? Part III: Enlightenment.

2011-08-22T17:56:00.024+02:00

‘Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.’ (H. Wells. The war of the worlds.) Looks like I’m not Vox Clamantis In Deserto anymore. Well, there have been two of us supporting this contention: Stephen

The Unsustainable World. Nuclear Waste.

2011-08-12T02:02:00.021+02:00

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." (A. Einstein) Radiation hazard sign Just as I suspected, nuclear fusion took place in at least two Fukushima reactors in the first few days after the earthquake. Tons of highly contaminated heavy water have been dumped into the ocean ever since, but surprisingly nobody seems to care. The entire zone

The Unsustainable World. Fukushima, Japan: An Announced Disaster.

2011-03-28T03:44:00.027+02:00

The truth most people prefer not to hear. "The world began without man, and it will end without him." (Claude Lévi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques) Fukushima nuclear power plant after the tsunami. (by Digital Globe) There’s a whole host of reasons why this world has become unsustainable. Japanese nuclear disaster is a shining example of apocalyptic events that loom large over our future thanks to

What are the dangers of genetically modified viruses?

2011-02-26T21:02:00.012+01:00

A virus Most people never stop to consider the dangers of genetic engineering technique, they just expect it to make pretty babies, correct genetic diseases or create little-eating and fast growing cattle, but men in the street hardly ever take time to look into the technology itself. The bottom line is that external genetic material is introduced into the host cells (say, GM corn grain) by

Forensic Psychology. Crime, Accident or Suicide?

2011-01-31T02:40:00.014+01:00

"Now and then there is a person born, who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else" (Don Marquis, life of mehitabel). Crime scene investigation Brainstorming is about finding the answers to moot questions, as well as getting to the truth behind the appearance or finding logical explanations to situations that apparently make no sense. In short,

Brain-twister. The answer.

2010-11-05T12:00:00.008+01:00

Looks like no-one has managed to crack the puzzle, so I got down to work. It took me quite some time, mainly because I approached the task as if it were Riemannian geometry, but it turned out to be much simpler. The first step is to rearrange the numbers to make 34 in each row, column and diagonal. You’ll see that numbers 1, 8 and 13, 7, 9, 2 stay put, while numbers 15, 5, 12, 10, 4, swapped

Should we fear aliens? Part II: First Contact — Glad Hand.

2010-10-29T02:12:00.024+02:00

Stephen Hawking in Zero Gravity (NASA) “We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet.” “Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach. If aliens visit us

Does absolute Good and Evil exist?

2010-10-15T01:50:00.050+02:00

Musings on the nature of Absolute Good and Evil. "Are there, infinitely varying with each individual, inbred forces of Good and Evil in all of us, deep down below the reach of mortal encouragement and mortal repression — hidden Good and hidden Evil, both alike at the mercy of the liberating opportunity and the sufficient temptation?" — Wilkie Collins. Absolute Good vs. Absolute Evil. (

The greatest con artist ever?

2010-08-25T02:17:00.010+02:00

'In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.' — Giacomo Casanova. A Teacher You can’t deny it takes a special talent to pull off a brilliant swindle. Believe it or not, but the following story really happened. To me it qualifies as one of the best scams of all times. This masterpiece of swiz took place in a remote village somewhere in the Far East in the late

Breaking down the Bible Genesis, 4 The First Mourning.

2010-08-20T01:17:00.015+02:00

Genesis 4:1 'And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.' It seems they weren’t supposed to have sex before the Fall, were they? How would they have reproduced then? Genesis 4:3 'And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.' Genesis 4:4 'And Abel, he also

Can you trust organic food?

2010-08-11T02:02:00.014+02:00

We are what we eat. The answer is — can you trust humankind? Nothing created or done by these devil incarnates, aka humans, is 100% trustworthy, since human nature usually perverts everything. (Of course, I mean humanity in general, not all the individuals it’s made up of). Organic products You can’t possibly check whether, say, organic grains have been mixed with non-organic ones, or the

How to lose weight (about 10 kilos) in five days?

2010-08-04T01:26:00.017+02:00

Turns out it’s pretty simple, besides it won’t cost you a penny (no pills, no specific treatment or fancy therapies), but there’s a downside — it’s a bit tough. All you have to do is move house ....all by yourself, providing of course it’s no less than about 1 km (the upper limit is up to you) away from you actual abode. Literally. That's how full your trolleys should look Which means doing

Great figures in opera? All gone.In Memoriam Cesare Siepi.

2010-07-31T01:23:00.012+02:00

I’m kind of getting off the track here, but the other day I was having a casual conversation with a couple of friends on great opera singers of all times inspired by the recent death of Cesare Siepi which eventually ended in reflections on the demise of great figures in opera. Although with some delay I’d like to pay tribute to one of my favourite bass-baritones, because I owe moments of elevated

Brain-twister with answer.

2010-07-21T00:44:00.015+02:00

1 15 5 12 8 10 4 9 11 6 16 2 14 3 13 7 A brain-teasing question this time. A 13-year old boy challenged us to an apparently simple riddle. I suspect he just couldn’t find the answer. Much to my shame, I’ll have to rack my brain for quite some time — I’ve never been on good terms with numbers. Anyway, can you beat us to it? Here goes the puzzle: Cut this square in four parts and

What are the dangers of nanotechnology?

2010-07-14T02:24:00.017+02:00

"Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers" — Arthur Eddington. Most scientists will harangue us about the highly acclaimed newfangled panacea — “nanotech”, that is basically controlling matter or building machines which could re-order matter on a molecular and atomic scale. It usually deals with 1 to 100 nanometre structures. The concept was first

Breaking down the Bible. Genesis, 3 The Fall.

2010-06-27T01:38:00.020+02:00

“I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modelled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty." — Albert Einstein. This is a crucial event in the book and history of mankind, because this is the point where all our misfortunes began... Despite the fact that it should be taken as an allegory, something terrible

Should we fear aliens? S. Hawking says we should.

2010-06-13T20:51:00.047+02:00

"Suppose that tomorrow a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth, beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals. Would they have the right to treat you as you treat the animals you breed, keep and kill for food, (and I’d add, pleasure or experiments)?" — John Harris. Grey. Should we fear aliens like him? First of all, what

'Lost' Explained: a Disappointment. 'Lost' Answers.

2010-05-27T00:26:00.037+02:00

There’s a definition for this — a total fraud. They’ve been having us on all along! 'Lost'. The island. I've never felt so duped, to think that I've wasted two hours watching this heap of monumental bullshit — I'm still kicking myself. The most depressive (I was hesitating over whether to hurl the TV set from the balcony or simply drop it on somebody’s head), cloyingly sentimental and botched

String Theory — The Music of The Spheres? M-theory (Superstring theory) and Brane cosmology.

2010-05-12T14:35:00.035+02:00

String theory simplified and poeticised. Wünschelrute Schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen Die da träumen fort und fort, Und die Welt hebt an zu singen, Triffst du nur das Zauberwort. (Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff) Magic wand Sleeps a song inside all things Dreaming in the spellbound world That will waken up to sing, You just find the magic word. (Proverbs. Sentence poem by Joseph Freiherr

Quantum Entanglement Questions. Quantum Weirdness.

2010-05-05T23:30:00.026+02:00

'We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.' — N. Bohr. What I most love of quantum mechanics is that it is nondeterministic, which means that it’s generally doesn’t predict the outcome of any measurement with certainty. Instead, it just provides the probabilities of the outcomes, so that ‘measurements of a certain property done on two apparently

Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Evaporation.

2010-04-24T02:01:00.033+02:00

Bekenstein-Hawking radiation questions. 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract physical description. It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we can say about nature...' "The philosophy of Niels Bohr" by Aage Petersen. How does Hawking Radiation work? Stephen Hawking In 1974, Stephen Hawking set forth a theory that due

Breaking down the Bible. (Genesis, 2) Creation of Man.

2010-04-11T01:10:00.018+02:00

Genesis 2:2 'And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.' The Maker that is perfect in every possible way worked only for six days out of His infinite existence and had to take the seventh day off, for the rest of the eternity I guess, and has been kind of monitoring/contemplating the masterwork he launched