Also, this 1884 guy's opinion:

We need to rethink what we mean by "productivity." If not that, challenge the idea that an "increase" of our current standard is inherently a good thing. Maybe take a long-view, Iroquois "7 generation"- type approach to things. Because everyone is already busy being the best and producing like the blazes that we're…

Exciting.

And now the idea of "managing the wildlife in the body" (as in, our microbes) will again change how we treat and prevent certain illnesses.

I advise everyone I manage this, because if you're not your own cheerleader when it comes to work, and everyone else is, they think there must REALLY be something wrong with YOU.

"To quote Grant Morrison, 'they should have kept stealing their ideas from me.'"

Sounds totally different than:

But I am the best...around.

Deeply sorry about your fiancee's mother. There's no way for me to share this without coming off like the bullshit you see on Facebook, but I think it's worth seeing and you might be interested (it's a quick clip, at that).

Ties into the work of George Lakoff and the conceptual metaphor, and how we're not only prone to metaphorical thinking, but constant and persistent exposure to certain broad (familial, the journey, sports) and specific ("fatherly figure," "spinning our wheels," "he hit it out of the park") metaphors become so…

"Epigenetic regulation actually can be passed to the offspring. Give a fat diet to mice, not only does the mother become fat, its offspring will also (even if they are given a normal diet) and best of all, its offspring's offspring will become fatter than control animals. All through epigenetic alterations."

Completely agree! His message is almost entirely straight-forward and crystal clear, grounded yet wide in scope when need be, and without some of the baggage some people would rather avoid. I gained a newfound appreciation for the insights of both Eastern and Western philosophies, and how their accompanying images…

Yeah, I don't want to downplay at all what kind of staggering ecological disaster Syncrude would (and has) create(d). It's almost impossible to comprehend in its magnitude and repercussions. Also, one of the paradoxical effects of effective remediation techniques is that those people think it gives them the…

"Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that, there is another self more really "us" than "I". And the more you become aware of the unknown self — if you become aware of it — the more you realize that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are a function of this total…

Mycologist Paul Stamets has demonstrated proof of concept oil eating mushroom treatments ("mycoremediation"). Even blew bacteria-treated test samples/piles out of the water. If the video isn't cued, start it around 8:00 mark:

Well, if they're going that route, maybe they should call up mycologist Paul Stamets for tips on mycoremediation (if it doesn't cue up, start around 8:00 mark):

Because "we" have a tendency to isolate and separate ourselves from our environment in our preferred reductionist mode of thought. It isn't an "us" and a "them," it's an us-them as a continuous organism. You may be able to distinguish between a cell and a bacterium (and it might be helpful when treating disease),…

This is the same problem we have with bloated defense budgets and private prisons. The jobs are spread throughout the United States, creating essential "company towns," which are the lifeblood of the community (also makes it easier to get funding because every state has "skin in the game").

More than that, we're mostly composed of space (from the atomic perspective). So that would make us space's way of getting a good look at itself.

Guess that microbes solved the engineering problem of generation ships, and they didn't even need a central nervous system to do it. Hell, turns out, that's part of the design!