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Monday, August 01, 2011

Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist ('Time-ghost')

"A feature length documentary work which will present a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society”. Kind of a precursor of 'WikiLeaks'? Note: the conspiracy theories are not fully proved yet.

Topics:

Religion, Monetary System, Social Economics,

Human Behavior, Technology and Rationality

Zeitgeist The Movie: (conspiracy theory-based ideas: 9/11, Christ myth, bankers manipulating the Int. monetary system and the media in order to consolidate power)

Part I: The Greatest Story Ever Told (about religions)

Part II: All The World's a Stage (9/11 conspiracy theory)

Part III: Don't Mind The Men Behind the Curtain (US wars for economic gain of the Federal Reserve Bank)

The Movie

Zeitgeist The Movie Part I-1 (YouTube)

Zeitgeist Addendum: (monetary system: Part I-IV)

Addendum

Zeitgeist Moving Forward: (human behavior, technology, and rationality)

Part I: Human Nature

Part II: Human Pathology

Part III: Project Earth

Part IV: Rise

Moving Forward

Zeitgeist Beyond the Pale: [TBA in 2012]

Beyond the Pale

Zeitgeist Official Webpage: Trailer

Zeitgeist The Movie Part III (1 of 5)

Zeitgeist Moving Forward

A Glorious Accident

VPRO-TV: 'A Glorious Accident' & 'The Beauty and Comfort'.
'Een Schitterend Ongeluk' en 'Van de Schoonheid en de Troost'

'A Glorious Accident'

'A Glorious Accident': 'Een Schitterend Ongeluk' (1993) in English with Dutch subtitles

A documentary series filmed in the Netherlands in 1993 by the VPRO and hosted by Wim Kayzer. The series consisted of interviews with several prominent scientists and philosophers and concluded with a final three hour roundtable discussion on human existence and the nature of the universe.

Participants:

Oliver Sacks, neurologist, psychiatrist, and author of Awakenings

Rupert Sheldrake, controversial cell biologist and biochemist

Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher of consciousness and author of Consciousness Exp.

Stephen Toulmin, physicist and philosopher of science

Freeman Dyson, a physicist with interest in maths, nuclear physics, and astrophysics

Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist and popular writer on evolutionary biology

A Glorious Accident: Een Schitterend Ongeluk (1993, movie)

'Van de Schoonheid en de Troost'

'Van de Schoonheid en de Troost': (2000) partly in Dutch

De grootsten op het gebied van de muziek, de beeldende kunst, de wetenschap en de literatuur buigen zich over de vragen van Wim Kayzer.

Participants:

Wole Soyinka, Roger Scruton, Jane Goodall, George Steiner, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Steven Weinberg, Martha Nussbaum, Karel Appel, Edward Witten, Elizabeth Loftus, Rutger Kopland, Gary Lynch, Stephen Jay Gould, Dubravka Ugresic, Simon Schama, Catherine Bott, John M. Coetzee, Richard Dufallo, Leon Lederman, Rudi Fuchs, Tatjana Tolstaja, Freeman Dyson, Richard Rorty, György Konrád, Germaine Greer, Yehudi Menuhin en De samenkomst

Van de Schoonheid en de Troost (2000, movie)

Van de Schoonheid en de Troost (Overzicht)

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

LifeSciences&ScienceOfLife

Life Sciences & Science of Life.

Promoting Vivian Monteban's blog.

http://vivianmonteban.wordpress.com

https://twitter.com/#!/thavm

Example: View of Twitter and Flickr traffic

(blue for Twitter tweets, orange for Flickr pics, white for overlaps)

zoomed in at the speculative 'Mega' University
(fusie van universiteiten Rotterdam, Leiden en Delft)

and here you can spot Facebook activity

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Norwegian Massacre

Massacre in Norway.

A car bomb outside a government building in Oslo and a peaceful youth Norwegian Labour Party meeting on the island Utoya in Norway ended up in a massacre that resulted in almost 100 victims after a cruel terrorist attack. A rambling 1,500-page tract written by "the suspect in Norway's twin attacks" Anders Behring Breivik said he has been preparing the "martyrdom operation" since at least autumn 2009. One of his topics at the Nordisk internet forum: "political strategies for crushing democracy". He counted on civil war and anarchism in The Netherlands after the assassinations of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh and sympathized with the Dutch politicians Pim Fortuyn (LPF), Geert Wilders (PVV) and Ayaan Hirshi Ali because they dare(d) to criticize the Islam. Some of his aims were to liberate Europe from Muslims, and Israel from the Palestines. If the majority of politicians wouldn't achieve this, he would consider a desperate massacre. We all know how it ended up in a terrible tragedy.

Manifesto? Crusaders, Knights Templar? Norwegian Freemasonry "St. Olaus til de tre Søiler" (Blue Lodge of St. John "St Olaus to the three pillars")? Am I dreamin' reading a book of Dan Brown about Templar's? No, unfortunately it's reality!

Can't find any words yet for the horrible attacks on innocent people and the Norwegian democracy. Am sincerely sympathizing with the Norwegian people.

nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/07/23/schutter-noorwegen-kondigde-daad-aan-in-manifest-en-filmpje

norwaynews.com

facebook.com/MyFellowAmericanProject

Friday, June 10, 2011

Strings and branes

Strings and branes.

'M-Theory' is the name of the unknown theory of everything which would combine all five Superstring theories and the Supergravity at 11 dimensions together. It's not a completed theory but rather an approach for producing one. For me it's fascinating to read about (super)strings, (super)gravity, quarks, fermions/bosons, worldline/screens, (mem)branes, curled-up dimensions, supersymmetry, space and time. It makes me even more curious. Recently I heard about two interwoven, non-interacting, worlds at atomic distance. Can you imagine? Two worlds so close and not feeling their existence.

Strings and Branes

Came across a beautiful phrase: "String theory may have the capability to show that all of the happenings in the universe - from the dance of subatomic quarks to the movements of orbiting binary stars, from the big bang to the whirl of celestial galaxies - are reflections of one grand physical principle, one master equation, the theory of everything".

And what about this one?: "In string theory, the elementary particles we observe in particle accelerators could be thought of as the 'musical notes' or excitation modes of elementary strings. The strings in string theory are floating in spacetime. Nonetheless, they have tension".

A brane-world scenario with curled-up dimensions

We still don't know if string theory may be the right theory of nature:
As it stands, string theories are unproved, and perhaps unprovable, as they involve interactions at energy levels far beyond any we can handle. But they are beautiful, to those versed enough in the language of mathematics to follow them. And in their beauty (and perhaps in their impenetrability) they are the heirs to Einstein's - unsuccessful - attempts to produce a unified field theory.