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next to the vessel in time only for the fisher’s line or pole to break before a net sizable enough can be reached, and all the while his camera, on the other side of the boat, cannot be reached in |
time to document the story That is, only after exaggeration and misinformation have been stripped away can the real meaning be determined. This is a take on Scripture highly contrary from the recommendations of Vatican II, the Holy Father and |
is different from how the Saints conversed with Scripture. Finally, to approach Scripture with suspicion is to, by default, approach other parts of the doctrines of faith with the same suspicion, for much of Catholic theology is derived from Scripture. |
As mentioned earlier, to operate from a hermeneutic of suspicion is to be suspicious of not only Scripture but also the Church who vouches for it. Furthermore to not trust Scripture means that one does not trust the inspiration or |
the Person whom inspired the holy texts: the Holy Spirit. We know that wherever one person of the Trinity is present so are the other two and every act of God is always Trinitarian by virtue of the presence of |
all three Persons and the nature of who the Trinity is. So, therefore, to be suspicious of Scripture and to use only a hermeneutic of suspicion when interpreting Scripture is to be suspicious of God and all of His work, |
and it demonstrates a lack of faith in the Holy Spirit's guiding power given to the Church. In short, a hermeneutic of suspicion is contrary to the Catholic Church’s teaching, to Church Tradition, to what the saints and Popes have |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Cryonics is the practice of preserving organisms, or at least their brains, for possible future revival by storing them at cryogenic temperatures where metabolism and decay are almost completely stopped. An organism held in such a state (either frozen or vitrified) is said to be cryopr... |
can be expected to remain physically viable for at least 30,000 years, after which time cosmic ray damage is thought to be irreparable. Many scientists in the field, most notably Ralph Merkle and Brian Wowk, hold that molecular nanotechnology has the potential to extend even this limit many times over. To its detractor... |
the primitive state of preservation technology. Advocates counter that even a slim chance of revival is better than no chance. In the future, they speculate, not only will conventional health services be improved, but they will also quite likely have expanded even to the conquering of old age itself (see links at the b... |
body (or at least the contents of one's mind) for, say, another hundred years, one might well be resuscitated and live indefinitely long. But critics of the field contend that, while an interesting technical idea, cryonics is currently little more than a pipedream, that current "patients" will never be successfully rev... |
before cryonics is to be a legitimate field with any hope of success. Probably the most famous cryopreserved patient is Ted Williams. The popular urban legend that Walt Disney was cryopreserved is false; he was cremated, and interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Robert Heinlein, who wrote enthusiastically of ... |
Pacific Ocean. Timothy Leary was a long-time cryonics advocate, and signed up with a major cryonics provider. He changed his mind, however, shortly before his death, and so was not cryopreserved. Obstacles to success Damage from ice formation Cryonics has traditionally been dismissed by mainstream cryobiology, of which... |
is that the freezing process creates ice crystals, which damage cells and cellular structures—a condition sometimes called "whole body freezer burn "—so as to render any future repair impossible. Cryonicists have long argued, however, that the extent of this damage was greatly exaggerated by the critics, presuming that... |
(traditionally glycerol) that inhibit ice crystal formation. According to cryonicists, however, the freezer burn objection became moot around the turn of the millennium, when cryobiologists Greg Fahy and Brian Wowk, of Twenty-First Century Medicine developed major improvements in cryopreservation technology, including ... |
(preservation in a glassy rather than frozen state). In a glass, the molecules do not rearrange themselves into grainy ice crystals as the solution cools, but instead become locked together while still randomly arranged as in a fluid, forming a "solid liquid" as the temperature falls below the glass transition temperat... |
has since been using these cryoprotectants, along with a new, faster cooling method, to vitrify whole human brains. They continue to use the less effective glycerol-based freezing for patients who opt to have their whole bodies preserved, since vitrification of an entire body is beyond current technical capabilities. T... |
is currently testing its own vitrification solution. Current solutions being used for vitrification are stable enough to avoid crystallization even when a vitrified brain is warmed up. This has recently allowed brains to be vitrified, warmed back up, and examined for ice damage using light and electron microscopy. No i... |
brain is compromised, protective chemicals may not be able to reach all parts of the brain, and freezing may occur either during cooling or during warming. Cryonicists argue, however, that injury caused during cooling can be repaired before the vitrified brain is warmed back up, and that damage during rewarming can be ... |
state, or by improving rewarming methods. Some critics have speculated that because a cryonics patient has been declared legally dead, their organs are dead, and thus unable to allow cryoprotectants to reach the majority of cells. Cryonicists respond that it has been empirically demonstrated that, so long as the cryopr... |
organs (and perhaps even the patient as a whole) remain biologically alive, and vitrification (particularly of the brain) is quite feasible. Critics have often quipped that it is easier to revive a corpse than a cryonically frozen body. Many cryonicists might actually agree with this, provided that the "corpse" were fr... |
actually be biologically alive, under optimal conditions. A declaration of legal death does not mean that life has suddenly ended—death is a gradual process, not a sudden event. Rather, legal death is a declaration by medical personnel that there is nothing more they can do to save the patient. But if the body is clear... |
at room temperature for a period of time, or having been traditionally embalmed, then cryonicists would hold that such a body is far less revivable than a cryonically preserved patient, since any process of resuscitation will depend on the quality of the structural and molecular preservation of the brain, which is larg... |
flow) within minutes or hours of cardiac arrest, if the body is left to sit at room temperature. Traditional embalming also largely destroys this crucial neurological structure. Cryonicists would also point out that the definitions of "death" and "corpse" currently in use may change with future medical advances, just a... |
reject the idea that they are trying to "raise the dead", viewing their procedures instead as highly experimental medical procedures, whose efficacy is yet to be either demonstrated or refuted. Some also suggest that if technology is developed that allows mind transfer, revival of the frozen brain might not even be req... |
"uploaded" into an entirely new substrate. The biggest drawback to current vitrification practice is a costs issue. Because the only really cost-effective means of storing a cryopreserved person is in liquid nitrogen, possibly large-scale fracturing of the brain occurs, a result of cooling to −196°C, the temperature of... |
below the glass transition temperature of about −125°C, but high enough to avoid fracturing (−150°C is about right). Alcor is currently developing such a storage system. Alcor believes, however, that even before such a storage system is developed, the current vitrification method is far superior to traditional glycerol... |
traditional glycerol cryoprotection, and the loss of neurological structure is still less than that caused by ice formation, by orders of magnitude. While cryopreservation arrangements can be expensive (currently ranging from $28,000 to $150,000), most cryonicists pay for it with life insurance. The elderly, and others... |
their estate. Others simply invest their money over a period of years, accepting the risk that they might die in the meantime. All in all, cryonics is actually quite affordable for the vast majority of those in the industrialized world who really want it, especially if they make arrangements while still young. Even ass... |
still regard eventual revival as a long shot. In addition to the many technical hurdles that remain, the likelihood of obtaining a good cryopreservation is not very high because of logistical problems. The likelihood of the continuity of cryonics organizations as businesses, and the threat of legislative interference i... |
their cryopreservation arrangements as a kind of medical insurance—not certain to keep them alive, but better than no chance at all and still a rational gamble to take. Brain vs. whole-body cryopreservation During the 1980s, the problems associated with crystallization were becoming better appreciated, and the emphasis... |
rest of the body could be regrown, perhaps by cloning of the person's DNA or by using embryonic stem cell technology. The main goal now seems to be to preserve the information contained in the structure of the brain, on which memory and personal identity depends. Available scientific and medical evidence suggests that ... |
wholly responsible for personal identity and memories (for instance, spinal cord injury victims, organ transplant patients, and amputees appear to retain their personal identity and memories). Damage caused by freezing and fracturing is thought to be potentially repairable in the future, using nanotechnology, which wil... |
of futuristic deus ex machina, but while the engineering details remain speculative, the rapidity of scientific advances over the past century, and more recently in the field of nanotechnology itself, suggest to some that there may be no insurmountable problems. And the cryopreserved patient can wait a long time. With ... |
cryonics movement may begin to decrease. Some critics, and even some cryonicists, question this emphasis on the brain, arguing that during neuropreservation some information about the body's phenotype will be lost and the new body may feel "unwanted", and that in case of brain damage the body may serve as a crude backu... |
Partly for this reason, the Cryonics Institute preserves only whole bodies. Some proponents of neuropreservation agree with these concerns, but still feel that lower costs and better brain preservation justify preserving only the brain. Historically, cryonics began in 1962 with the publication of The Prospect of Immort... |
well understood. Two early organizations went bankrupt, allowing their patients to thaw out, bringing the matter to the public eye, at which point the problem with cellular damage became more well known and the practice gained something of the reputation of a scam. During the 1980s, the extent of the damage from the fr... |
known, and the emphasis of the movement began to shift from whole-body to neuropreservation. Alcor currently preserves about 60 human bodies and heads in Scottsdale, Arizona. Before the company moved to Arizona from Riverside, California in 1994, it was the center of several controversies, including a county coroner's ... |
Science Fair Project Encyclopedia Trier (French: Trèves), is Germany's oldest city. It is situated on the western bank of the Moselle River in a valley between low vine-covered hills of ruddy sandstone. It is located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate near the German border with Luxembourg. Trier had around 100,000 i... |
important wine-growing-region nearby: Mosel-Saar-Ruwer. The Romans under Julius Caesar subdued the Celtic Treverans in 58 to 50 BC. When the Roman provinces in Germany were reorganised in 16 BC, Augustus decided that Trier, then called Augusta Treverorum, should become the regional capital. From 259 to 274 Trier was th... |
years (383 - 388) it was the capital of Magnus Maximus, who ruled most of the western Empire. Sacked by Attila in 451, it passed to the Franks in 463, to Lorraine in 843, to Germany in 870, and back to Lorraine in 895, and was finally united to Germany by the Emperor Henry I. The Archbishop of Trier was, |
as chancellor of Burgundy, one of the electors of the empire, a right which originated in the 12th or 13th century, and which continued till the French Revolution. The last elector removed to Koblenz in 1786; and Treves was the capital of the French department of Sarre from 1794 till 1814, after which time it belonged ... |
is well known for its well-preserved Roman buildings, among them the Porta Nigra, the best preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps, a complete amphitheatre, ruins of several Roman baths, and the huge Basilica, a basilica in the original Roman sense, being the 67m-length throne hall of Roman Emperor Constantine; it ... |
BOSON OR BOGUS, BILLION-DOLLAR BULL? by Hank Mills Salt Lake City, Utah July 9, 2012 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah -- The universe is a mysterious place, and we understand very little about how it works. Sadly, the challenges our civilization |
faces such as war, poverty, pollution, economic turmoil, and "black swan" events may not allow humanity to exist long enough to figure it out before our species goes extinct. If we are to learn how the universe works, breakthrough technologies |
like cold fusion (LENR) need to be pursued, instead of multibillion dollar projects such as the search for the Higgs Boson that will have very few real-world applications in the short-to-medium term. What humanity needs at this moment are working |
technologies that can allow us to overcome the issues that threaten our civilization. The cold fusion-based Energy Catalyzer, known colloquially as the E-Cat, is just such a technology because it could allow for almost unlimited energy production utilizing only tiny |
amounts of cheap, non-polluting fuel. The home version of the E-Cat is expected to be available commercially in the next six months at a cost $600 or less. The Energy Catalyzer has cost Andrea Rossi, a successful and colorful Italian |
engineer, virtually everything he has - perhap smore than $1 million dollars in all. By contrast, it took $9 billion and 30 years of work and 9,000 scientists to build the Large Hadron Accelerator in Geneva that they say "may |
have" discovered the so-called "God Particle," the theoretical construct known as the Higgs Boson. The United States contributed $531 million of that, and it uses enough power FOR 120,000 homes or the entire Canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It costs the |
United Kingdom enough to buy a beer for everyone in the country. With cold fusion technology, funded by less than $100 millioon, humanity could gain a tool that could allow for large-scale desalinization of water and the resulting transformation of |
deserts into productive farmland, along with a massive reduction in the CO2 pollution that fuels global warming. The E-Cat utilizes tiny amounts of nickel powder, hydrogen gas, and undisclosed (for proprietary reasons) catalysts to produce nuclear reactions, with the result |
being a massive release of energy in the form of heat. In every way, this technology matches what I had hoped for throughout my childhood and later on in my life: In addition, the millions of jobs created around the |
world by a cold-fusion revolution would galvanize the global economy and end the current global recession - and do it all safely, without Fukushima-like events. To be blunt, cold-fusion technology holds the potential to transform our world from a planet |
of poverty, war and self-destruction into a place of enlightened prosperity. On the other hand, the existence of the Higgs Boson offers no near-term benefits to humanity. It may give us a bit more knowledge about the universe, but no |
one claims that even one single technology that could be immediately developed using this knowledge. If the existence of the Higgs Boson could yield a warp drive, free-energy device, gravity-modifying device, or other breakthrough in a reasonable period of time, |
perhaps the billions of dollars spent would be worth it. But the truth is that just like hot fusion research, the search for the Higgs Boson is a boondoggle. Due to the lack of any near-term benefits, the funds could |
be better spent elsewhere. If a fraction of the money spent on the search for the Higgs Boson had been put into cold fusion research 20 years ago, there would be no energy crisis today. Instead, cold fusion devices that |
could produce kilowatts of power and very high temperatures - like the E-Cat - would have been quickly developed and commercialized. Instead of putting money into practical technologies that could benefit all mankind in the near term, the career scientists |
naysayed exotic technologies like cold fusion, and lobbied for billions of dollars in additional funding for giant hot fusion reactors and particle colliders. All these years later, we have seen little or no return on the investment in the form |
of technological advancement. We are still stuck with rockets for propulsion and burning fossil fuels for energy. Literally, we are still in a technological Dark Age when it comes to the most fundamental of technologies - energy and propulsion. (If |
you don't count the "black," off-budget projects that use taxpayer money with no taxpayer benefit, and actually have the agenda of making us all slaves.) I do not want to call the search for the Higgs Field or the Higgs |
Boson totally meaningless. However, I think Nicola Tesla's work (although still ignored by the mainstream) into the nature of the ether is much more meaningful. He worked for years to find ways of harnessing the ether to allow for practical |
applications. Some of these applications, such as wireless power transfer and superluminal communication via longitudinal waves in the ether, and his black box that provided electrical power (from the ether) to run an electrical vehicle - have been replicated. Others |
have not yet been replicated, so far as we know. But if a fraction of the billions of dollars spent on hot fusion and the search for the Higgs Boson were utilized to fund inventors with the open-mindedness of Tesla, |
knowledge of how the universe works would be opened up to us very quickly. My personal belief is that all the most important breakthroughs and discoveries will come from projects that can be performed in an ordinary lab, with a |
modest amount of funding. I think expensive multibillion- dollar projects that require monstrous reactors and miles-long particle accelerators belong in the future - if ever - after we have solved the more immediate issues facing our civilization. Once our civilization |
is stabilized and poverty is a thing of the past, after we stop fighting wars over oil and the destruction of our environment has been reduced, then it may be time for larger-scale projects. Of course, by that time, the |
smaller-scale projects may have figured almost everything out that the monolithic projects were designed to explore. By then, the commercialization of cold fusion, free energy, gravity modification, faster-than-light drives and other technologies may have provided us with a more complete |
knowledge of how the universe works. I think the E-Cat is a key example of a technology that was developed on a modest budget that will provide both solutions to the challenges our civilization faces and a huge wealth of |
information about how our universe works. In fact, cold fusion may end up telling us more about how our universe works than the existence of the Higgs Boson. In my opinion, once the world recognizes that cold fusion is a |
reality, it will turn the discovery of the Higgs Boson into a footnote in history. Also, it will expose how a field of study in which researchers are often forced to work on shoestring budgets can yield greater benefits for |
humanity than research that receives billions of dollars in funding. It will hopefully result in the end of "mainstream" and expensive hot-fusion research and projects like the Large Hadron Collider. My friend Sterling Allen of Peswiki.com recently said this to |
me: "I sat next to a guy on a flight to Amsterdam last February who resigned in protest from the Hadron Collider project because of how dangerous it is, having the potential of annihilating the local universe." Cold fusion is |
- Historic Sites Is Our Civic Life Really In Decline? VOTER TURNOUT MAY BE DOWN IN RECENT YEARS, BUT THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE COMMON CITIZEN HAS GROWN TO FAR SURPASS ANYTHING THE FOUNDING FATHERS EVER DREAMED OF October 1999 | |
Volume 50, Issue 6 Today we are at the tail end of the long Progressive Era. We know it has got us less than we hoped, but we don’t know how to picture a mode of citizenship that might give |
us more. Not that it is at all the whole story of citizenship in this century. Citizenship has changed again in the past fifty years, as the civil rights movement and the “rights revolution” broadly added the courtroom to the |
voting booth as a locus for civic participation. Social movements and political organizations that in the past could hope for change only through legislative action have found that the judicial system can offer a powerful alternative route to their goals. |
The civil rights movement opened the door to a widening web of constitutionally guaranteed citizen rights and state and federal laws that expanded citizens’ entitlements and the reach of due process. This affected not only the civil and political rights |
of African-Americans but the rights of women and of the poor and, increasingly, of minority groups of all sorts. A new notion of citizenship has thus overflowed the banks of electoral activity, opening a new channel in the courts and |
streaming on across the terrain of everyday life into schools, workplaces, and homes. The acts and avenues of citizenship today are a world away from anything Jefferson and Washington lived with or conceived of. Today we are left with the |
legacy of each of the past eras of citizenship. Our inheritance of the politics of assent, the politics of partisanship and loyalty, the politics of the informed citizen, and the politics of rights, together, in all their variety, gives us |
Since we are constantly searching for new ways to help study abroad students learn languages before, during, and after their trips, we were delighted to find a new, extremely portable |
way to do so. Not only is PlaySay handy and portable, it is available in Japanese and Chinese as well as Spanish! The system consists of audio image flashcards that |
are available in audio files to learn each word pair in either language direction. You can put these on your iPod or cell phone to easily review vocabulary anywhere you |
happen to be. A really cool aspect of the PlaySay program is what is offered: - Chinese offers preparation for the HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi) levels 1-4, as well as |
the Integrated Chinese textbooks, and the New Practical Chinese Reader series. While studying Chinese recently, my class used the Integrated Chinese textbooks and I painstakingly made hundreds of flashcards by |
hand… I wish I had known about PlaySay! - For Japanese, you can get vocabulary for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), grammar dictionaries, common phrase books, and several others |
such as Japanese for Busy People. - For Spanish learners, flashcards are available for learning and practicing verbs, as well as vocabulary and textbooks too. Since the flashcards are available |
through instant download, you can get started right away. We found PlaySay to be an easy to use, highly effective way to practice, learn, and retain relevant vocabulary for Japanese, |
Use Project-Based Learning to Meet the National Educational Technology StandardsPosted by Andrew K. Miller on Apr 26, 2012 in Blog, Edutopia | 0 comments This post originally appeared on Edutopia, a site created by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, dedicated |
to improving the K-12 learning process by using digital media to document, disseminate, and advocate for innovative, replicable strategies that prepare students. View Original > The ISTE NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) are more than just simple content standards and |
learning objectives. If examined closely, they truly can foster an educational shift to engaging, relevant, technology-rich learning. In terms of project-based learning (PBL), the ISTE NETS, not only align, but can truly support a PBL environment. After my own examination, |
I felt we must have a #pblchat on the subject. Weeks ago, this was our topic. Feel free review the storify archive of the whole chat to get more ideas. Here are some of my ideas and take-aways as well |
as inspirations from others on how some the ISTE Student NETS can support PBL. We will focus on five of the Student NETS this time, but keep in mind there are more, as well as the NETS for teachers, administrators |
and coaches! Student NET #1: Creativity and Innovation Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Okay, I’m going to be a bit crass with this description. PBL requires that students create something new, |
innovate with content, and develop products that show this deeper learning. Students do not gorge on content and then throw it up in a pretty new genre or technology tool. This NET can help teachers ensure that they’re asking for |
products that require innovation of the content and not regurgitation. Through an innovative project idea and driving question, your students are not only learning content, but creating something new with it. Student NET #2: Communication and Collaboration Students use digital |
media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, sometimes at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Two of the key 21st century skills in PBL are communication and collaboration. PBL projects balance the |
learning not only of content, but also 21st century skills that are transferable across disciplines and into life after K-12 schooling. Through this standard, students can communicate and collaborate, both in person with their teams and across the globe, giving |
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