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Metaprogramming Vaults : "Get With the Metaprogram" by James Kent. The concept of metaprogramming is simple: a programmed system begins to program itself.

Metaprogramming Vaults : "Get With the Metaprogram" by James Kent

Metaprogramming begins in that split second when a pre-scripted program consciously begins to rewrite itself. Indeed, the act of metaprogramming may be the ultimate benchmark of a conscious system - I metaprogram, therefore I am. Cell Size and Scale. Some cells are visible to the unaided eye The smallest objects that the unaided human eye can see are about 0.1 mm long.

Cell Size and Scale

That means that under the right conditions, you might be able to see an ameoba proteus, a human egg, and a paramecium without using magnification. A magnifying glass can help you to see them more clearly, but they will still look tiny. Smaller cells are easily visible under a light microscope. 'Fabbers' could launch a revolution. Lindsay France/University Photography Hod Lipson, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, right, and engineering graduate student Evan Malone work with a Fab@Home machine in the Computational Synthesis Lab in Upson Hall Feb. 22.

'Fabbers' could launch a revolution

On the stage is a Lego tire duplicated by the Fab@Home. The Two-faced Whirlpool Galaxy (01/13/2011) - Release Images. 8 Month Old Deaf Baby’s Reaction To Cochlear Implant Being Activated // Current. To Our Faithful Current.com Users: Current's run has ended after eight exciting years on air and online.

8 Month Old Deaf Baby’s Reaction To Cochlear Implant Being Activated // Current

The Current TV staff has appreciated your interest, support, participation and unflagging loyalty over the years. Your contributions helped make Current.com a vibrant place for discussing thousands of interesting stories, and your continued viewership motivated us to keep innovating and find new ways to reflect the voice of the people. We now welcome the on-air and digital presence of Al Jazeera America, a new news network committed to reporting on and investigating real stories affecting the lives of everyday Americans in every corner of the country. You can keep up with what's new on Al Jazeera America and see this new brand of journalism for yourself at. How Not to Talk to Your Kids.

What do we make of a boy like Thomas?

How Not to Talk to Your Kids

Thomas (his middle name) is a fifth-grader at the highly competitive P.S. 334, the Anderson School on West 84th. Slim as they get, Thomas recently had his long sandy-blond hair cut short to look like the new James Bond (he took a photo of Daniel Craig to the barber). Unlike Bond, he prefers a uniform of cargo pants and a T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of one of his heroes: Frank Zappa. Woody Norris invents amazing things. Indian Education By Sherman Alexie. I Don't Care. RCA student radically improves the UK plug.

Buddha-meditation.jpg (JPEG Image, 500x375 pixels) Breaking habits of perception-a skill that changes everything « Metta Refuge. Here is another great teaching from Thanissaro Bhikkhu.

Breaking habits of perception-a skill that changes everything « Metta Refuge

While looking for some buddhadharma about dealing with guilt about the past, I came across this paragraph, from the end of his article, “Habits of Perception.” It was so helpful, I stopped my search to read the whole article, which I share below. May it be an aid to developing the skillful perceptions that lead to freedom! A frequent image in meditation instructions is that all you have to do is turn on a light and the darkness goes away. HOW TO NOT DO DRUGS LIKE A COMPLETE MORON - Vice Magazine.

Addiction and Zen. A handbook for addicts and those in recovery, and their families.

Addiction and Zen

Foreword I warmly recommend Mary Heath's article on The Benefits of Zen Meditation in Addiction and Recovery. It shows a sensitive awareness and understanding of the difficulties that people face when they decide to come off drugs and gives a range of strategies for helping this process, ranging from traditional Zen work with the breath and mindfulness and walking meditation, to her own discoveries. Taken together these provide a kit from which people in recovery can choose. Page Chaser: Automatic Bookmarker by Hyeon Joo Lee. Bookmark Does The Work For You The Page Chaser is a flexible bookmark that automatically marks the page as you turn them.

Page Chaser: Automatic Bookmarker by Hyeon Joo Lee

Ordinary bookmarks can fall out and require you to correctly mark where you left off. Guitar Shred Show - Mr.Fastfinger. What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Weaker. Friedrich Nietzsche, the German philosopher, famously said: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger. " This notion found life beyond Nietzsche's--which is ironic, his having been rather short and miserable--and it continues to resonate within American culture. One reason is that suffering, as Freud famously recognized, is an inevitable part of life. Thus we have developed many ways to try to ease it--one of which is bestowing upon it transformative powers (another is by believing in an afterlife, of which Freud disapproved; still another is cocaine , of which he was, for a time, a fan). Another reason is that American culture, born of trauma and imbued with a hopeful can-do ethos, wants to believe this idea, finding it self-affirming.

Crap Art: Album-A-Day. BEGINNER'S GUIDE ... © 1995 Dharman Craig PressonAll Rights Reserved “Zen is not what you think!”

BEGINNER'S GUIDE ...

-- anonymous Preface. How to Extract DNA from Anything Living. First, you need to find something that contains DNA. Since DNA is the blueprint for life, everything living contains DNA. For this experiment, we like to use green split peas. But there are lots of other DNA sources too, such as: Spinach Chicken liver Strawberries Broccoli. Why Americans can't learn foreign languages. Why Americans can't learn foreign languages What struck me most of all about Lawrence Henry's piece on accents was something Mark didn't even mention. Mr Henry notes that in American English a totally unstressed vowel is reduced to a sound usually written down as "uh" (the sound linguists call schwa); and he goes on: It's a rampant American fault and accounts for our relatively poor performance learning foreign languages.

"Effect" becomes "uh-FECT. " Zen Koans - AshidaKim.com. Conan & Hunter S. Thompson Drinking & Shooting Guns on Devour. Language Hacking Guide, written by multilingual Benny Lewis. 20 - bell carol (new) An Essay by Einstein. "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. Insignificant.jpg (JPEG Image, 590x508 pixels) Actualsanity. Scirus - for scientific information. "Seven Blunders of the World" by Mahatma Gandhi.

The 10 Most Revealing Freudian Slips From Politicians. Jean-Paul Sartre summary. The Lone Mountain Path: The Example of Issan Dorsey. Disarming the Jealousy Complex. The recent post distinguished two different kinds of jealousy . The simple variety occurs in all relationships. What Mimicking One's Language Style May Mean About the Relationship. Oct. 4, 2010 AUSTIN, Texas — People match each other's language styles more during happier periods of their relationship than at other times, according to new research from psychologists at The University of Texas at Austin.

101 Zen Stories. Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors. 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness. The four immeasurables. How to Meditate - Guided Meditation Techniques - Buddhist Meditations. List of unsolved problems in philosophy. This is a list of some of the major unsolved problems in philosophy. Clearly, unsolved philosophical problems exist in the lay sense (e.g.