Showing posts with label Communication. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Communication. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Caught in The Web ("Connected" film)

Wisdom Quarterly
(, Now Playing, Sept., 2011)

Buddhist cosmology speaks of devolutions and evolutions and epochs of quiescence and chaos, after Earthlings descended from space (Aganna Sutra), genetic manipulation (usually by nagas in a kind of creationism or celestial intervention), and always more revolutions through the aeons (kalpas in an Indian context of yugas).


US teachings about Evolution vs. Creationism

How things turn and have turned may only seem comprehensible as envisioned in the Wheel of Samsara, the "continued wandering on" or cycling through rebirths (due to our skillful and unskillful karma) in countless worlds within 31 Planes [broad categories] of Existence.

But for all that, we still get excited that our mobile device (cell phone) connects us to the Web and lets us tune in and drop out by
feeling "connected." Tiffany Shlain is onto something: We are interdependent.


Thursday, July 21, 2011

The Origin of Sex (video)


7 Things Husbands Want to Tell Their Spo
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Parasites and Pathogens and how sex began
LiveScience.com
Without the pathogens and parasites of the world, there might be no such thing as sex.

A new study finds that in organisms that can reproduce alone or with a partner, sexual reproduction is the result of a deadly arms race between host and pathogen.

Without the presence of pathogens, the host organism sticks with the tried-and-true method of asexual [sexless] breeding. When threatened by a continually evolving pathogen that gets better and better at killing its host, however, the host organism starts seeking out sex partners.

"You actually need these pathogens or parasites to be co-evolving for sex to be maintained," study author Levi Morran, a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University, told LiveScience. More