Extinction of Knowledge

Rain

2011-02-05T21:12:00.001-05:00

Rain is made up of water that tumbles out of the clouds in the high far away sky.The way it falls and travels amongst the trees and ground falling into the cracks is so versatile and unique that it cannot be explained in simple words. However, life in itself is dependent on such a cycle.

Where has this rain come from? This drop is from rome and this from Brazil. Yet, we cannot see the difference and segregate from drop to drop.

We can learn a lot from the rain.

Global Warming...or should I say not?

2011-02-04T10:23:00.000-05:00

Many people seem to not really know much behind the basis of global warming. Often finding themselves confused and frustrated with the inability to connect this wicked cold and very snowy winter with the idea that the whole planet is raising in temperature.

First! Let's not call it global warming. I do not know how the science got twisted to the point that everyone in the world now calls GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE global warming. Now think of it at this new perspective. The climates are changing, all of the coral reefs are in extreme danger. Mainly because global climate change is impacting the ocean environment by causing the water to become more acidic at an increasing rate due to carbon dioxide dissolving in the ocean from the atmosphere. That fact the media got right, YES the carbon dioxide levels are getting scary high.

Coral reefs are most at danger because corals build their skeleton with calcium carbonate, which dissolves in acids. Coccolithophores, a small microscopic phytoplankton important for primary production, are also in danger of not being able to produce their shells. If you mess up the primary producers in a food web, you are in serious trouble. Image if all of the sudden corn plants were unable to make corn ears with edible yellow corn for us to make into almost EVERYTHING we eat (if that statement bother's you read "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan or watch Food Inc.). What would then happen? We would not be in a very good place, and that's what going to happen in the ocean. When an imbalance occurs from an ecological standpoint a few things can happen. 1) Evolution
2) Extinction
3) Domino effect disaster

Basically, without any one species in a food web a niche now becomes available. Even if it is just a microscopic plankton that no one thinks about on a daily basis, without them the world would change forever.

Which brings me to my next point, we really need to care about global climate change. Stop worrying about which scientist is lying and others that are wrong. More often than not, scientist are not wrong, the media is. Scientists don't get paid billions of dollars to lie to the public, they don't go around making up things as they go. There are very standard, strict rules revolving around methodology, publishing, and ethics that make it virtually impossible for a scientist to just be any old crack out there. I once got into a very frustrating debate in a 100 level history class with the professor and some political science students. Whenever I would drop a science term that seemed scary and too smart they would shoot me down saying the public and them don't know what I am talking about, we have scientists for a reason and that we need to dumb down so that everyone understands. Not Cool. People should be told exactly what is found out and if they are unable to understand then google it!! Find the information, how can the whole world just sit back and take ignorance as their main basis. This is why there is so much confusion surrounding global climate change. It's not a political battle.

Global climate is real, it's going to happen. The ecosystem will change. Please don't ignore something with blind ignorance and unwillingness to learn. It's your world too.

-Mia

Liberation

2011-01-29T08:48:00.000-05:00

I want my posts on this blog to focus on my last post's main theme. That we are all caught up and losing our way. We are deficient in what we know and how we can live our life. So, for today I am going to focus on self-help and low-self-esteem. Enjoy! -Mia

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"What is the mark of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself."-Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberation is something that can be referred to on multiple levels, but for the purposes of this post I'd like to refer to an individual's liberation from their own self-doubt.

Friedrich Nietzsche offers so much to learn in the quote above. How many times have you found yourself drenched in embarrassment. This is part of human nature. Whether you are a high-school climbing the social ladder or falling from it to the dark pit of social isolation, a grown adult going through a divorce or welcoming a new baby, it doesn't matter. We all find that at some point in our lives we are ashamed of how we dress, walk, feel, love, proclaim, talk, wonder, think, weigh, and the list goes on and on.

This self-doubt is so strong that it can tear down the personality of even the strongest. It is here that the world can become dark and filled with depression, and at the saddest level suicide.

How can people remove themselves from such a world of self-doubt and low self-esteem? Nietzsche offers a simple, yet profound answer! If you can get to a level where you are no longer ashamed in front of your own self, you can finally accept yourself. And, thus, feel liberated to be who you want to be.

Yet, a simple answer is never an easy endeavor. Learning and changing does not happen in an instant. But it does happen if you want it to, and are willing to see how many amazing things can be done.

Just try.

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If anyone is reading this I'd like to open up emails (extinction.knowledge@gmail.com) with questions regarding this post, and I will try and offer some advice.

****Please, you or someone you know is thinking of suicide please call: 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or visit http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/ *****

Paper

2011-01-28T22:47:00.000-05:00

When given a piece of plain paper, a blank expression can fill your mind with it's empty space. Crumpled or neatly flattened, that paper is the connection between a person and creating what exists in their mind. Yet, how can a person acknowledge what they are feeling and want to express while still containing excitement with-in the opaque blue lines drifting? For to acknowledge, according to Dictionary.com, someone must "Accept or admit the existence or truth of." What starts to begin in this world when we no longer realize what exists or is true?

It seems that in today's fast paced crazed world, many often lose grasp with their own written intellect and fall into a state of exknowledge. Without knowledge as a tool in everyday life, what then happens to it?

Extinction.