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POPSThe Life of the Mind As scientists break open the black box of the mind, and begin to unravel the neural processes that define our behavior, it’s becoming clear that who we are—and what we decide to do—is ultimately shaped by the quirks and constraints of these three pounds of flesh inside the head.
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POPSTommy Cooper Jokes - A Celebration Two elephants walk off a cliff...... boom boom! --------------------------------------------------------------------- So I went to the dentist. He said 'Say Aaah.' I said 'Why?' He said 'My dog's died.' --------------------------------------------------------------------- So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.' ------------------------------------------------------------------- So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.' --------------------------------------------------------------------- So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.'
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POPSThe Genius of Photography vs. Susan Sontag's On Photography
|quote]Sontag argues that the proliferation of photographic practice has long begun to establish within people a "chronic voyeuristic relation" to the world around them. And that therefore the meaning of all events is somewhat leveled to an unhealthy degree. As she argues, this fosters an attitude of anti-intervention. Within this it's felt that the photographer should leave their subject, whether it be a person or an event, to its own devices while being photographed, regardless of the moral character of the subject. The justification comes in the idea that the resulting photographs will be documents, representations of events already in motion, in the name of truth and enlightenment. Sontag goes even further to say that the individual who seeks to photographically record cannot intervene, and that the person who intervenes cannot then faithfully record, for the two aims contradict each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Photography Just something I'm pondering.
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POPSRoasted garlic recipe I can never remember what temperature to roast it at. This is good for so many things. You can just spread it like butter on bread. Yum!
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POPS"I'm an American, Too" A sample of the song, "Red, Alabaster, and Blue", Lyrics: He is a young African American male. By the time he hits draft age he might be dead or live in jail And he found his life of crime when they said “No Child Left Behind” He’s an American too. She is 90 with dementia all alone Well, her family couldn’t take it so they put her in that home And now she withers down to bones and at night she gently moans. She’s an American Too She is a young Hmong refugee, She’s full with Child. If her Daddy finds out He will go insanely wild They say they understand her plight, call themselves the Christian Right. She’s An American Too. Chorus: And all they Wanted was to be Free But greenback dollars can’t buy you dignity Black Gold and Icebergs separate us from them. Time to re write the master plan. It is terminal, he’s sick, he needs a cure He’s a second class citizen because he’s uninsured He will leave his family broke because our health care is a joke. He’s an A
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POPSTechnology worship ""There are people on the extremes who can afford to do that. If you're extremely rich you can have an assistant, or if you live off the grid somewhere you might have little need for these technologies," he said. "But the vast majority of people have responsibilities that require them to be connected."
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POPSChallenging Dogmatism in Science David Lorimer in coversation with Dr.Rupert Sheldrake and Dr.Peter Fenwick. Made for the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Scientific and Medical Network.
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