A hitchhiker's guide through the tarot (and other tit-bits) Wildlife in Peril: Nine Species in the Tar Sands War Zone. From Wildlife Promise Up past our northern border is one of the most important wild ecosystems on earth: the Canadian boreal forest. This vast landscape stretches for thousands of square miles across the top of North America, providing habitat for countless animal species and the ancestral home for some of the original humans on this continent — known collectively as the First Nations. Basically untouched until recent decades, the boreal forest’s great natural riches may also turn out to be its undoing: massive amounts of oil have been found in deposits known as “tar sands,” and the energy industry has kicked off a full-scale war on Mother Nature in their rush to boost their profits. Aided by a government that seems determined to wreck the country’s eco-friendly reputation, Big Oil is transforming huge parts of Alberta, Canada into something out of a nightmare, destroying vital wildlife habitat and putting whole populations at risk.
Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West. First published Fri Sep 19, 2008; substantive revision Tue Mar 18, 2014 The Arabic-Latin translation movements in the Middle Ages, which paralleled that from Greek into Latin, led to the transformation of almost all philosophical disciplines in the medieval Latin world.
The impact of Arabic philosophers such as al-Fārābī, Avicenna and Averroes on Western philosophy was particularly strong in natural philosophy, psychology and metaphysics, but also extended to logic and ethics. 1. Transmission. A nearby star may have more planets than we do! HD 10180 is a star that’s nearly the Sun’s twin: it’s very close in mass, temperature, brightness, and even chemical content of our friendly neighborhood star.
But in this case of stellar sibling rivalry, HD 10180 may have the upper hand: a new analysis of observations of the star indicate it may have nine planets! In a new report accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, an astronomer re-analyzed data of the star taken with the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), an exquisitely high-precision camera mounted on a 3.6 meter telescope in Chile. HARPS has been observing HD 10180 for years; the star is a mere 130 light years away, making it bright and easy to study. The observations look to see if the star exhibits a periodic shift in its light: a Doppler shift as planets circle it, tugging it one way and another. The new analysis looks at the old data in a different way, examining it using different statistical methods. Heck, it beats us. 115.1: The 27 Nakshatras or Lunar Mansions as States of Consciousness.
To understand the Nakshatra-sequence, let’s look at its building-blocks, the three gunas.
The three gunas are the three basic aspects of Manifestation, and are described as Sattva or coalescence, Rajas or rotation, and Tamas or dissolution. In our understanding of the Vedic tradition the three gunas are personified subjectively or internally as the trimurti or trinity of Indra (later Vishnu) as Blue Sattva, Brahma as Yellow Rajas, and Rudra (later Shiva) as Red Tamas. In other mystery traditions Indra-Vishnu is Matter-Mother, Brahma is the Soul-Child, and Rudra-Shiva is Spirit-Father. Operating together, the three gunas appear as a spindle-Torus, like a magnetic field, consisting of a sphere with north and south poles opening inward like whirlpools to form a double cone meeting in a single point at the center.
Scientists Cure Cancer, But No One Takes Notice. Bring Back the 40-Hour Work Week. Salmon farming continues to be a major issue. Open net cage salmon farming is one serious risk (Credit: GoBot via Flickr).
By Jay Ritchlin, Western Region Director Salmon farming continues to be a major issue in Canada and the world. The David Suzuki Foundation receives many questions about this issue, and our CEO's recent meeting with a delegation of Norwegian parliamentarians in Vancouver raised more interest in our current work in this area. The David Suzuki Foundation continues to place top priority on the conservation and recovery of Canada's wild salmon. Open net-cage salmon farming is a serious risk over which we, as Canadians, can exercise real-time control. Watch How the Moon Was Formed. Banksy’s scathing criticism of advertising industry.
Dammit, Banksy is a legend.
Not content with smuggling his work into international galleries, satirising the snooty nosed high-end art world, and making searing commentary on big ticket talking points, the British street artist has now weighed into advertising with a damning critique of how the industry makes itself more powerful by making the rest of us feel completely inadequate. To read his full manifesto, click the More link. It’s very insightful, brilliant material. BANKSY SAYS: ‘People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Fuck that. You owe the companies nothing. When Are You Dead?