ASPEN, Colo. (AP) – The family of writer Hunter S. Thompson is looking for a cannon to blast his remains skyward, honoring a wish he often expressed.
Anyone wishing to provide the cannon is asked to write a 100-word essay and mail it to the Aspen Daily News, which will pass the entries on to Thompson’s family.
“Were talking 100 words, not 101. And snail mail only. No e-mails or phone calls,” said Daily News associate editor Troy Hooper.
The winner of the contest will have to bring the cannon to Aspen at his or her own expense and possibly short notice.
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The use of Ayahuasca and other shamanic or sacred plants within the context of Western psychology is discussed in this article by the organizer of Ayahuasca-Healing retreats.
In this article the author discusses the nature of a form of creative intelligence which he claims communicates by way of symbols, archetypes & synchronicities. It also deals with the current consciosuness shift taking place on the planet as humanity awakens from its physical slumber and readies itself for spiritual/psychic awakening.
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The basics of ayahuasca are thoroughly discussed in this essay. It is an excellent introduction for neophytes to the vine of the soul.
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This article discuses how ayahuasca and other visionary plants are used in healing. It also examines various methods used by shamans to access latent psychic and healing abilities using psychoactive plants.
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This article focuses on plant based tryptamines, their meaning and function within plants, and corresponding the meaning and function of tryptamines within the human organism. It also discuses the different ways we can utilise plant based tryptamines to capacitate the meanings and functions of the human organism itself.
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The social and psychotherapeutic functions of healing rituals with ayahuasca among Amazonian groups are examined in this article. Their healing effectiveness is explained in terms of Western scientific and sociopsychotherapeutic perspectives. The article also includes an overview of the preparation and application of ayahuasca, the symbolic adaptations to the process of social change, the role of singing, the perceptive mode during the visionary state, and the structure of visions.
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This article which first appeared in LILA : Journal of Cosmic Play, focuses on the various stages and characteristics of the ayahuasca experience. It also deals with the metaphysical aspects of the shamanic world and the role of the shaman as mediator between this and other realms of existence.
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Virtual Reality Tours of Seven European Churches Beautiful quicktime panoramas taken inside and outside of the churches. Navigate using maps or image hotspots.
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Big Fun in the Big Town Incredible German-produced documentary on hip hop and NY street culture from 1986. Features interviews and performances from Grandmaster Flash, Doug E Fresh, Run DMC, Roxanne Shante & Biz Markie, Schoolly D, and more.
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Although mathematics has long been intertwined with the biological sciences, an explosive synergy between biology and mathematics seems poised to enrich and extend both fields greatly in the coming decades (Levin 1992; Murray 1993; Jungck 1997; Hastings et al. 2003; Palmer et al. 2003; Hastings and Palmer 2003). Biology will increasingly stimulate the creation of qualitatively new realms of mathematics. Why? In biology, ensemble properties emerge at each level of organization from the interactions of heterogeneous biological units at that level and at lower and higher levels of organization (larger and smaller physical scales, faster and slower temporal scales). New mathematics will be required to cope with these ensemble properties and with the heterogeneity of the biological units that compose ensembles at each level.
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Algorithms and information, fundamental to technological and biological organization, are also an essential aspect of many elementary physical phenomena, such as molecular self-assembly. Here we report the molecular realization, using two-dimensional self-assembly of DNA tiles, of a cellular automaton whose update rule computes the binary function XOR and thus fabricates a fractal pattern?a Sierpinski triangle?as it grows. To achieve this, abstract tiles were translated into DNA tiles based on double-crossover motifs. Serving as input for the computation, long single-stranded DNA molecules were used to nucleate growth of tiles into algorithmic crystals. For both of two independent molecular realizations, atomic force microscopy revealed recognizable Sierpinski triangles containing 100?200 correct tiles. Error rates during assembly appear to range from 1% to 10%. Although imperfect, the growth of Sierpinski triangles demonstrates all the necessary mechanisms for the molecular implementation of arbitrary cellular automata. This shows that engineered DNA self-assembly can be treated as a Turing-universal biomolecular system, capable of implementing any desired algorithm for computation or construction tasks.
When it comes to distributed computing projects, we all know about SETI@Home and the protein folding project Folding@home, but here are a couple new ones:
The first, Darwin@Home, is a “planetwide effort to create networked digital ecosystems.” In other words, it is a massive artificial life simulation in which digital organisms can breed, compete, and evolve. Pretty cool.
In a somewhat more useful vein, Climateprediction.net is using a distributed computing system to run simulations of possible global warming scenarios, which needless to say, could be an invaluable resource for the coming onslaught of global warming. What makes Climateprediction.net unique is the sheer number of climate change scenarios the project is able to investigate, boosting the predictive power of climatologist’s models exponentially.
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Yes, this is real broccoli, referred to as “Romanesco” broccoli.
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Some non-violent ways we can incapacitate the power elite, using this 4-step process:
- Identify the vulnerabilities: Fragility, overconcentration,
ignorance, arrogance, lack of diversity, centralization, lack of
redundancy, popular disgust, anxiety, dissatisfaction or apprehension,
ill-preparedness, lack of agility, overcomplexity (left hand doesn’t
know what the right is doing), lack of imagination and creativity, etc.
- Acquire resources stealthily: Put together what you
need without letting your target know you’re doing so, or even what you
are capable of doing with them.
- Develop solutions that exploit the vulnerabilities.
- Rigorously assess the likelihood of those solutions working
effectively (incapacitating the incumbent power), and deploy only the
high-probability solutions, quickly, before the incumbents have time to
react and defend themselves.
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