[monochrom] Circuit Bending Workshop
Circuit Bending ist das aktive Eingreifen in elektronische Schaltkreise. Wer wissen möchte, wie ohne Elektronikvorkenntnisse Kinderkeyboards oder Taschenradios chaotische Klangereignisse entlockt werden können, ist herzlich eingeladen zu einem Anfängerworkshop. 25.05.2008 15.00 Uhr/ Klangpassage am Brunnenmarkt anschließendes gemeinsames Konzert um 20.00 Uhr. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Bitte batteriebetriebene Geräte zum Modifizieren mitnehmen! - -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser
[monochrom] A Tale Of Two Storms: Myanmar And New Orleans
Sometimes you hear things that are so unbelievable that you wonder whether it was all in your imagination. That is precisely the way that I felt in listening to comments by the Bush administration on the disastrous cyclone that hit the south Asian nation of Myanmar (Burma). Don't get me wrong. I am no fan of the military junta that runs Myanmar and has both repressed its people and served the multinational corporations. I am sickened by their anemic approach in responding to the disaster, one in which it is now estimated that at least 127,000 people may be dead. Yet in listening to the Bush administration and their rants against the Myanmar junta's approach to the disaster, one could get the impression that there had never been something called the Hurricane Katrina disaster. Consider, for just a moment, the Bush rhetoric; in fact, just consider one piece of it. President Bush criticizes the Myanmar junta for its failure to allow into the country foreign aid workers to help with disaster recovery. While this criticism appears to be absolutely correct, it ignores an interesting fact: in the aftermath of the Katrina disaster the governments of both Cuba and Venezuela offered badly needed assistance. The Bush administration, under those circumstances, either ignored the offers or turned them down. In fact, the Cuban government had experienced personnel on standby prepared to fly to the Gulf Coast (note: Cuba has a great deal of experience with hurricanes). What is striking here is not only the hypocrisy of the Bush administration but that few commentators have even noticed. A global chorus of outrage has been expressed with the Myanmar junta, but a significant silence surrounds any comparison with the failures of the Bush administration's approach in the Katrina disaster. http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/17711Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/05/tale-of-two-storms-myanmar-and-new.htmmonochrom at 5/23/2008 12:31:00 PM
[monochrom] Is it permissible for God to kill people?
Interesting discussion. Many people have difficulty with God's acts in the Bible because God seems to be committing or commanding immoral acts (e.g., when God commands the Israelites to wipe out certain people-groups, including children). I think that many of these charges can be alleviated if some good justification can be given for the claim that it is morally permissible for God to kill people as he does in the Bible. One step towards arguing for the claim that it is morally permissible for God to kill people is to argue that people do not have the right not to be killed by God. I may have the right that you not kill me, and vice versa, but perhaps there are different considerations with God. The difference is that while others don't own my body, God may own my body. There are three options: a) God owns the body inhabit and I don't, b) I own my body and God doesn't c) God and I jointly own my body. [...] http://prosblogion.ektopos.com/archives/2008/04/is-it-permissib.htmlLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/05/is-it-permissible-for-god-to-kill.htmmonochrom at 5/23/2008 12:35:00 PM
[monochrom] Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?
One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-cosmic-origins-of-times-arrowprint=trueLink -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/05/does-time-run-backward-in-other.htmmonochrom at 5/23/2008 12:28:00 PM
[monochrom] sonntag abends ist projektion-filmabend im raum d...
ich zeige den wunderbaren it's a mad mad mad mad world... besser bekannt als der film mit dem grossen w! mehr info demnaechst
[monochrom] Increased glucose levels and blood pressure in IVF-conceived children
aus Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology Metabolism (2008) 4, 303-304 Ceelen et al. retrospectively investigated whether children conceived following in vitro fertilization (IVF) were at increased risk of developing cardiometabolic problems. The researchers compared 225 children born after IVF with a control group of 225 spontaneously conceived children matched for age and sex. All children (mean age at the time of follow-up 12.3 years, range 8–18 years) were born to parents with suboptimal fertility. All participants' blood pressure, skinfold thickness and body weight and height were recorded. A subset of 131 pubertal children from each group provided blood samples for measurement of indicators of insulin resistance. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures, the sum of skin-fold thicknesses and fasting glucose levels were all significantly higher in children conceived following IVF than in controls. No significant differences were found between the two groups in fasting insulin concentrations, insulin resistance, or height and weight measurements. Multivariate regression analysis showed that blood pressure and fasting glucose levels remained significantly increased in IVF-conceived children after controlling for confounding factors. -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer
Re: [monochrom] Does Time Run Backward in Other Universes?
das ende der nahrungskette schrieb: One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same. Link http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-cosmic-origins-of-times-arrowprint=true dazu von Not Even Wrong: http://www.math.columbia.edu/%7Ewoit/wordpress/?p=689 As with all claims about the multiverse, the problem is whether they are even in principle scientifically testable or not. If they're not, they're not science and promoting them to the public is a bad idea. The only thing I can find in the Scientific American article that addresses the testability issue at all is the following: As of right now, the jury is out on our model. Cosmologists have contemplated the idea of baby universes for many years, but we do not understand the birthing process. If quantum fluctuations could create new universes, they could also create many other things---for example, an entire galaxy. For a scenario like ours to explain the universe we see, it has to predict that most galaxies arise in the aftermath of big bang--like events and not as lonely fluctuations in an otherwise empty universe. If not, our universe would seem highly unnatural. This doesn't seem to have anything to do specifically with the Carroll/Chen claims about the arrow of time, but rather is just a restatement of one of the desired properties of multiverse models, that they don't lead to Boltzmann Brains. sers Robert
Re: [monochrom] Increased glucose levels and blood pressure in IVF-conceived children
peter hauser schrieb: aus Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology Metabolism (2008) 4, 303-304 Ceelen et al. retrospectively investigated whether children conceived following in vitro fertilization (IVF) were at increased risk of developing cardiometabolic problems. The researchers compared 225 children born after IVF with a control group of 225 spontaneously conceived children matched for age and sex. All children (mean age at the time of follow-up 12.3 years, range 8–18 years) were born to parents with suboptimal fertility. All participants' blood pressure, skinfold thickness and body weight and height were recorded. A subset of 131 pubertal children from each group provided blood samples for measurement of indicators of insulin resistance. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures, the sum of skin-fold thicknesses and fasting glucose levels were all significantly higher in children conceived following IVF than in controls. No significant differences were found between the two groups in fasting insulin concentrations, insulin resistance, or height and weight measurements. Multivariate regression analysis showed that blood pressure and fasting glucose levels remained significantly increased in IVF-conceived children after controlling for confounding factors. sehr Interessant war die Sendung Abenteuer Wissen diese Woche zum Thema Epigenetik http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetik und (auch) In Vitro Fertilisation. In TR gabs auch was zu dem Thema: http://www.heise.de/tr/Riskante-Befruchtung-im-Reagenzglas--/artikel/69552 sers Robert
[monochrom] Fliegender Penis unterbricht Pressekonferenz
http://bloggingtom.ch/archives/2008/05/20/fliegender-penis-unterbricht-pressekonferenz/
[monochrom] Great collection of H. P. Lovecraft quotes
Like... If we knew what we are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked himself in oil and set fire to his clothing one night. (Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family) http://www.amk.ca/quotations/hp-lovecraft/Link -- Posted By johannes to http://www.monochrom.at/english/2008/05/great-collection-of-h-p-lovecraft.htmmonochrom at 5/23/2008 10:10:00 PM
