Zombie Virus Drives Caterpillars To An Explosive Death Halloween is just around the corner, but it seems like some members of the animal kingdom have already started playing ghoulish tricks on one another. Scientists recently discovered something that was causing European gypsy moth caterpillars to behave very strangely. The caterpillars were infected by a deadly baculovirus, and with their last bits of strength, they did something that would be out of the question if they were healthy: they climbed out onto the very highest leaves of their tree in the middle of the day. There, their diseased bodies split open, raining infected caterpillar guts onto the leaves and branches below. The death ritual is so bizarre, that scientists started using the term ”tree top disease” to describe the virus that caused it. The virus “ends up using just about all of the caterpillar to make more virus, and there are other genes in the virus that then make the caterpillar melt. Related Reading: Parasitic Fungus Turns Ants Into Zombies via HuffPo
Free Audio Book - The Sadhana: Realisation of Life by Rabindranath Tagore By: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose work reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Sadhana is a collection of essays, most of which he gave before the Harvard University, describing Indian beliefs, philosophy and culture from different viewpoints, often making comparison with Western thought and culture. First Page: This eBook was produced by Chetan Jain at BharatLiterature. By Rabindranath Tagore Author of 'Gitanjali' To Ernest Rhys Author's Preface Perhaps it is well for me to explain that the subject matter of the papers published in this book has not been philosophically treated, nor has it been approached from the scholar's point of view.
Project Earth for the Environment - Zero Point Energy An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It - StumbleUpon "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. "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. "My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. "My political ideal is democracy. "This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. See also Einstein's Third Paradise, an essay by Gerald Holton
List of emoticons A simple smiley This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons. The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums, such as 2channel, typically show expressions in their own ways. In recent times, graphic representations, both static and animated, have taken the place of traditional emoticons in the form of icons. Emoticons can generally be divided into two groups: Western or Horizontal (mainly from America and Europe), and Eastern or Vertical (mainly from east Asia). Western The emoticon in Western style is written most often from left to right as though the head is rotated counter-clockwise 90 degrees. Eastern Eastern emoticons generally are not rotated, and may include non-Latin characters to allow for additional complexity. Unicode characters References
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Resources — Time Bank of Lake County Here you’ll find links to various services around Lake County, and to our Education area: Been Verified: – rounds up publicly available information on a person and puts it all in one location. The Time Bank Lake County User Manual will tell you how to use the Community Weaver software that runs our Time Bank. {*style:<b> </b>*} Don’t like user manuals? Our online education is held on our Time Bank Lake County page at AnyMeeting . Next webinar April 27, 20111 6:30pm – it’s an online virtual marketplace. Let your community know about the Time Bank! Time Bank of Lake County 8.5 X 11 Poster Put these up at your local library, city hall, grocery store, coffee shop Time Bank of Lake County “Business Card” Save the image file to your computer. Time Bank of Lake County 4 Up Handout Print up, cut into quarters, and keep in your purse or backpack. Requests/Offers to Help Forms
The 48 Laws of Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - StumbleUpon Background[edit] Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history.[5] In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers.[4][8] Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and six months later, Elffers requested that Greene write a treatment.[4] Although Greene was unhappy in his current job, he was comfortable and saw the time needed to write a proper book proposal as too risky.[10] However, at the time Greene was rereading his favorite biography about Julius Caesar and took inspiration from Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon River and fight Pompey, thus inciting the Great Roman Civil War.[10] Greene would follow Caesar's example and write the treatment, which later became The 48 Laws of Power.[10] He would note this as the turning point of his life.[10]
mental_floss Blog » Little-Known Second Verses of 10 Children’s Songs Either I had a really short attention span as a kid and never made it past the first verse of a song (which is entirely possible), or there are some obscure lyrics to the songs we all know and love. Here are a few of them. 1. I'm a Little Teapot. 2. Do your ears hang high? 3. Last night as I lay on my pillow Last night as I lay on my bed Last night as I lay on my pillow I dreamed that my Bonnie was dead 4. In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner forty niner, And his daughter Clementine Light she was and like a fairy, And her shoes were number nine, Wearing boxes, without topses, Sandals were for Clementine. 5. Alouette, gentille Alouette(Skylark, nice skylark) Alouette, je te plumerai(Skylark, I shall pluck you) Je te plumerai la tête(I shall pluck your head) (Je te plumerai la tête)(I shall pluck your head) Et la tête(And your head) (Et la tête)(And your head) 6. Thys Franklyn, syrs, he brewed goode ayle, And he called it Rare good Styngo! 7. 8. 9. 10.
Getting the work done: Preparing for the upcoming talent shortage – Workplace Possibilities A few months ago, I co-hosted the Five generations. One workforce. New solutions. webinar, in which we took a close look at the upcoming challenges and impacts of the 2020 workplace for employers. My co-host, Jeanne C. Meister, author of The 2020 Workplace, discussed a number of salient predictions for how our work environments will change. It is predicted that the country will have a shortfall of 7 million college-educated workers by 2012, compared with the projected need.1The relentless advance of technology will create jobs that require even higher levels of skills.The competition for talent will increase the need for more highly trained employees. A contributor to the talent shortage may be disability absences or leaves of absence (LOAs), in which highly trained employees leave the workplace temporarily or permanently due to medical conditions. 1Researchers Tally Costs of Education Failing.
THE OPEN SOURCE ECONOMY and METACURRENCIES Here's an alternative to complaining about how broken the current system is (or arguing about nonsense like what "should" or "shouldn't" happen). It's a way to create something new that can improve all of our lives. The article below is the latest post to the Metacurrency Project. If you are interested, please join the mailing list (you can get digests either daily or weekly if you just want to keep tabs on it). NOTE: This is proving hideously difficult to explain all at once. So, please bear with me. Basically, what this metacurrency project is about (at least my intent) is to find a way to rapidly build successful open source ventures (and over time: build an open source economy). generate incomes for the participants ($$, yen, Gold, Euros, food, etc.) The short term objective of the project is to build a social network enabled Internet venture, using metacurrencies, that proves the concept. Let's examine this in detail: First, why focus on social network enabled Internet ventures?
Mushin Mushin (無心; Japanese mushin; English translation "no mind") is a mental state into which very highly trained martial artists are said to enter during combat.[1] They also practice this mental state during everyday activities. The term is shortened from mushin no shin (無心の心), a Zen expression meaning the mind without mind and is also referred to as the state of "no-mindness". That is, a mind not fixed or occupied by thought or emotion and thus open to everything. Some masters believe that mushin is the state where a person finally understands the uselessness of techniques and becomes truly free to move. In fact, that person will no longer even consider themselves as "fighters" but merely living beings moving through space. The legendary Zen master Takuan Sōhō said:[2] The mind must always be in the state of 'flowing,' for when it stops anywhere that means the flow is interrupted and it is this interruption that is injurious to the well-being of the mind. See also[edit] References[edit]