Finally, A Transition Plan towards a Resource Based Economy: The 4-Hour Work-day When explaining what a Resource Based Economy is and how it would help society and the planet to live a better life, one of the most asked questions by the audience or public in general is the one about transition. If we manage to convince the audience that the Resource Based Economy model is the way to go, we will get questions like: “Ok, it sounds great but......how do we get there?” There is really not a clear answer for that question, but that could change soon if The Zeitgeist Movement embraces a plan that has been discussed by some economists and activists lately but has not become popular yet: The 4 hour work-day. Carlos “Carlin” Tovar, a Peruvian architect, graphic designer and a renowned cartoonist, is proposing a reduction of working hours from 8 to 4 hours a day. But technology is not the problem, he adds. Although he is the only one who has launched a campaign so far, he is not the only person who advocates for work time reductions.
How To Lose Your Mind & Create A New One | Breaking the habit of being yourself requires – dare I say it? – discipline. Daily discipline. So why not actively create your life, instead of mostly running in automatic-reactive-survival mode? Interacting with the quantum field Nobody is doomed by their genetic makeup or hard wired to live a specific way for the rest of their lives. Says Dr. “You… broadcast a distinct energy pattern or signature. In essence, we influence the quantum field through our Being-states (and not only through what we want). Vision and creative mode A brain region called the frontal lobe plays a key role in envisioning the life you desire. If you can hold a vision regardless of what’s going on around you, you are in creative mode, i.e. you refuse to respond to any triggers in your environment, and you KNOW with 100% certainty that your vision must come, as it already happened in the quantum field. This is exactly what we admire in great leaders: Gandhi, Dr. See it and rehearse it over and over, daily. Comments:
Look Inside BMW's Ultra-Green i3 Factory BMW claims to have halved the production time from what it was a decade ago, partly by buying into the sourcing process with a joint venture with carbon specialists SGL Automotive Carbon Fibres to weave carbon thread into dry mats at its hydroelectric powered plant in Washington State. The mats contain a binder agent, and when they arrive at the Leipzig factory they are preformed using ultrasound to activate the binder agent and hold an approximate shape. Each body side uses nine panels. Before the resin is added, most of the excess is trimmed. Normally these scraps would be useless, but BMW uses a special combing machine to align the scrap fibers so they can be reformed into a series of strong preformed panels, which are used to make the i3's non-load-bearing roof. For the main body sides, the preformed mats are placed into the RTM machine molds and injected with resin at 1160 psi and heated to 100 C to set.
The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connecting | Brain Pickings by Maria Popova “Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.” “A principal fruit of friendship,” Francis Bacon wrote in his timeless meditation on the subject, “is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.” For Thoreau, friendship was one of life’s great rewards. But in today’s cultural landscape of muddled relationships scattered across various platforms for connecting, amidst constant debates about whether our Facebook “friendships” are making us more or less happy, it pays to consider what friendship actually is. Philosophers and cognitive scientists agree that friendship is an essential ingredient of human happiness. Maurice Sendak illustration from 'I'll Be You and You Be Me,' a vintage ode to friendship by Ruth Krauss. Donating = Loving
Microwave News | Would You Believe… Specific Frequencies Block Growth of Cancer Cells A couple of months ago, the British Journal of Cancer published a paper detailing some extraordinary results: very specific types of weak electromagnetic (EM) fields were able to stabilize and shrink liver tumors in advanced cancer patients who had exhausted other treatment options. A press release was issued describing how the EM treatment was far more effective than the only available FDA-approved drug. It was pretty much ignored. No one believed it. Today, the British Journal of Cancer is releasing a follow-up paper by the same research group, led by Boris Pasche of the University of Alabama medical school in Birmingham. The new paper shows that the same signals that were effective in patients disrupted cancer cells in the laboratory. Pasche concedes that there is no known biophysical mechanism to explain what they are seeing. Another striking aspect of the work is how little RF radiation is needed to cause such a profound effect on the cancer cells.
www.rdn.bc.ca/cms/wpattachments/wpID3098atID5932.pdf Smule, a Social Network for Making Music Maria Limperos is a closet chanteuse. Several nights a week, after her kids and husband nod off, the pharmacist from Columbus, Ohio, takes her iPhone into her bedroom closet and opens an application called Sing! Karaoke. Under the user name Maria66, she has recorded about 1,000 songs over the past two years—some covers of hits such as Killing Me Softly and Total Eclipse of the Heart, some original songs. She’s recorded duets with strangers as far away as Australia. Limperos is one of roughly 125 million people who use social music-making apps from Smule, a five-year-old startup that takes users a few steps beyond conventional karaoke or button-mashing video games such as Guitar Hero. On Oct. 1 the company unveiled a revamped website, Smule Nation, which highlights select performances from users across all of its apps through a social network accessible online by anyone with a personal computer. That audience is limited somewhat by the software’s relatively high learning curve.
Georgia O’Keeffe on Art, Life, and Setting Priorities | Brain Pickings In her heyday, Georgia O’Keeffe (November 15, 1887–March 6, 1986) was written about as America’s first great female artist. The great social critic Lewis Mumford once remarked of a painting of hers: “Not only is it a piece of consummate craftsmanship, but it likewise possesses that mysterious force, that hold upon the hidden soul which distinguishes important communications from the casual reports of the eye.” In 1946, O’Keeffe became the first woman honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. Exactly thirty years earlier, her career had been catapulted by the lovingly surreptitious support of her best friend, Anita Pollitzer, who had assumed the role of agent-manager and secretly sent some of O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawings to the famous 291 gallery owned by the influential photographer and art-world tastemaker Alfred Stieglitz — the man with whom O’Keeffe would later fall in love. I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected.
Recombination (Coulter-Smith 2006: ch. 4, p. 5) Simon Starling's System Simon Starling’s work offers a prime instance of a creative process in which the autonomous association of ideas operates in conjunction with the toolbox of reasoning: system, rules and conventions. Starling describes his working method as ‘connecting the previously unconnected’, which recalls the Surrealist’s ‘juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities’. Starling’s work does exhibit a creative process, indeed it can be said to represent creative process. Thus, in Inverted Retrograde Theme, 2001, Starling creates a connection between sculptural processes and an instance of artistic system in the form of Arnold Schönberg’s twelve-tone technique of musical composition which uses the chromatic semitone scale rather than the more harmonious diatonic scale. The first three notes are the ‘original’ cell, the following three notes are its ‘retrograde inversion’ (backwards and upside down). Interactive Visual Music: Toshio Iwai What, precisely, is ‘thinking’?
How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love | Brain Pickings by Maria Popova “Life really begins when you have discovered that you can do anything you want.” “There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1941. Indeed, finding a sense of purpose and doing what makes the heart sing is one of the greatest human aspirations — and yet too many people remain caught in the hamster wheel of unfulfilling work. In 1949, career counselor William J. Reilly penned How To Avoid Work (public library) — a short guide to finding your purpose and doing what you love. Reilly begins by exploring the mythologies of work and play, something Lewis Hyde has written of beautifully, with an uncomfortable but wonderfully apt metaphor: Most [people] have the ridiculous notion that anything they do which produces an income is work — and that anything they do outside ‘working’ hours is play. I flew the Atlantic because I wanted to. Echoing Alan Watts’s litmus test of what you would do if money were no object, Reilly suggests: