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It causes embarrassment. It triggers intellectual sneers. The most experienced of practitioners and teachers may have trouble talking about it. This creature is sometimes known as vitality, or prana, qi, or just energy. The challenge of bringing together mechanistic medicine with the more subtle aspects of life, is a big one. My own first skirmishes in this paradigm war took place decades ago with my father, a medical doctor and Freudian psychiatrist. Decades on, however, I understand my father’s behaviour. When opposing paradigms clash, the fury of the disagreements is not simply fuelled by logic and methodology.
The laboured point that I am making is that the business of transforming a paradigm — in this case the prevailing clunky model of western medical science — is not simple. Before looking more closely at the political dynamics, let us ask an important question. BLDGBLOG. AL-BAB: an open door to the Arab world. Tofutti break. "it tastes just like ice cream" Sun Sep 02 (full size) Thu Aug 30 Sat Aug 25 Sat Aug 18 Sat Aug 11 Wed Aug 01 Wed Jul 18 Tue Jul 17 Mon Jul 02. Climate Change Articles. Mutiny.in. Redd blog. Mongabay.com news articles on redd in blog format.
Updated regularly. Emissions from rainforest logging average 16% of those from deforestation (04/08/2014) Carbon emissions from selective logging operations in tropical rainforests are roughly a sixth of those from outright forest clearing, finds a new study that evaluated 13 forestry concessions in six countries. The study analyzed carbon losses from elements of logging operations, including timber extraction, collateral damage to surrounding vegetation, and logging infrastructure like roads and skid trails. Study warns of possible REDD+ land grab (03/30/2014) A UN program to reduce global carbon emissions may be putting indigenous communities at risk, jeopardizing local land rights and laying the groundwork for large-scale “carbon grabs” by governments and private investors, argues a new report. Indigenous communities demand forest rights, blame land grabs for failure to curb deforestation.
Diagram: How the Air Force Response to Blogs. The Airforce has created a process flow diagram that indicates very succinctly how the Air Force can and should respond to blog posts, there’s a lot to learn from here, and for the most part, I try to follow these similar rules.
The Airforce, well all military units across the globe come across criticism, so establishing a clear sense of communication guidelines. Thanks to Joey DeVilla for posting this, who learned of this from David Meerman Scott who was in contact with Capt. Faggard who’s involved with the Airforce’s social media team: Twitter, and a blogspot blog, (I’m surprised they don’t have their own blog on the airforce websites, so we’re going off David’s word that this is authentic) There’s a lot to be learned from this military diagram that can be applied to corporations or even your personal blogging efforts.
Bad Astronomy. Well now, this is an interesting discovery: astronomers have found what looks like a "super-Earth" – a planet more massive than Earth but still smaller than a gas giant – orbiting a nearby star at the right distance to have liquid water on it!
Given that, it might – might – be Earthlike. This is pretty cool news. We’ve found planets like this before, but not very many! And it gets niftier: the planet has at least five siblings, all of which orbit its star closer than it does. Now let me be clear: this is a planet candidate; it has not yet been confirmed. The star is called HD 40307, and it’s a bit over 40 light years away (pretty close in galactic standards, but I wouldn’t want to walk there). Massive planets tug on their star harder, so they’re easier to find this way. In this case, HD 40307 was originally observed a little while back by HARPS, and three planets were found. We don’t know how big the planet is, unfortunately.
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