Timothy Wilken, MD writes: Today, I define the ORTEGRITY, this is the third in the series that started with the Discovery in North Carolina of the Organizational Tensegrity, and was followed by my discussion of Heterarchy—The Secret of Japan, Inc.. Life’s pattern of organization is the tensegrity,
it has been in use on earth for over three and one half billion years.
The tensegrity is the basis of organizing all living systems including
our own bodies. Up until now we humans have not understood the
mechanism and therefore could not use this pattern to organize our
marriages, our businesses, our organizations and institutions, our
communities, or even the entire human species. Humans who organize
themselves using the pattern of tensegrity will find themselves orders
of magnitude more efficient, more productive, more creative, more
intelligent. More importantly they will be much more successful in
pursuing their goals and desires. Within this half century, we humans
have developed ergometric science to help us improve our tool-making.
Ergometric scientists tell us how to best design tools to fit the human
form. By carefully measuring both the physiology and psychology of the
human body, today’s scientists are seeking to determine the best
designs for new tools. They know that the best tools are those that fit
you like a well-tailored glove fits your hand. Recently ergometric
science has been much advanced by a breakthrough in our understanding
of human intelligence. With the development of the “dual mind” model of
human intelligence it is now possible to design tools that fit the
human “mind-brain”. In other words, we can now ergometrically engineer
tools to fit the way we humans think. …The Ortegrity is a “system of
human organization that creates a conflict-free environment for
decision making and action implementation”. This is an environment so
ergometrically suited to human thinking that efficiency and
productivity are predicted to increase 10 to 1000 times. Yes, that is
10 to 1000 times more efficient and productive. (04/18/08)
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James Howard Kunstler writes: Barack Obama caught hell last week for daring to tell the truth
about the ragged thing that the American spirit has become. He said
that small-town Pennsylvania voters, bitter over their economic
circumstances, “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who
aren’t like them” to work out their negative emotions. He might have
added that the Pope wears a funny hat (see for yourself this week), and
that bears shit in the woods (something rural Pennsylvanians probably
know). Nevertheless, in the manner lately prescribed for those who slip
up and speak truthfully in public (and in contradiction to the reigning
delusions), Obama was pressured to apologize for his statements.

The evermore loathsome and odious Hillary Clinton, co-owner of a
$100 million personal wealth portfolio, seized the moment to remind
voters what a normal, everyday gal she is — who would never look down
on the small-town folk of Pennsylvania the way her “elitist” opponent
had — forgetting, apparently, that the Clinton family’s consigliere,
James Carville, famously described the Keystone State as a kind of
redneck sandwich with Pittsburgh and Philadelphia as the bread, and
Alabama as the lunch meat in between.

As I mull over all this,
I begin to think that Hillary is exactly what the USA deserves and,
that should she manage to winkle away the nomination and get elected
president, the outcome would be instructive and salutary. For one
thing, she will be buried under an avalanche of political woe,
beginning with the basic financial insolvency of everything in the
nation except the Clinton family. Then she would proceed straight into
an oil-and-gas clusterfuck that could take this society back to the
eighteenth century economically.

This would have the positive effect of forcing the American
public to look elsewhere for governance than the usual parties in
Washington, D.C. It’s time for a national purgative, anyway. In fact,
it’s way overdue. Are the Democratic and Republican parties anymore
necessary than the Whigs? Neither of them can really articulate the
problems we face (and when their honchos slip up and come close to the
truth, they’re persecuted for it). (04/18/08)
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April 18, 2008

The simple act of caring is heroic.
–Edward Albert

A 9-Year-Old Walks For The Homeless:
Younger than most of the people in the crowd, 9-year-old Zach Bonner
stepped to the side of the lectern so that people could see him. He
thanked sponsors of his 250-mile walk for the homeless, which was about
to start. “What bothers me is what homeless kids go through,” Zach
said. “What happens when they go to sleep? What happens when they wake
up?” His family doesn’t know why Zach works so hard organizing charity
drives for hurricane victims, underprivileged children and the
homeless. Even Zach has a hard time explaining it. “You know how some
kids like football, and they will eat and breathe and sleep football?”Zach’s mother says. “Well, he’s really into this. This is what makes
him happy.” [more]


Be The Change:
This week, care for someone who is down on their luck.

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BBC Science – A tree said to be the oldest on the planet - thought to be nearly 10,000 years old - has been found in Sweden.

Scientists from Umeaa University discovered the spruce on Fulu Mountain
in Dalarna province while carrying out a census of tree species there
in 2004.

The age of its genetic material was recently calculated using carbon dating at a laboratory in Miami, Florida.

Scientists had believed the world’s oldest trees were 4,000-year-old pine trees found in North America.

The oldest, a bristlecone pine named Methuselah located in California’s
White Mountains, is aged 4,768, according to the Guinness Book of World
Records.

The new record contender, which would have taken root just after the
last ice age, was found among a cluster of around 20 spruces believed
to be more than 8,000 years old at an altitude of 910m (2,985ft) on
Fulu Mountain. (04/18/08)
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BBC Science –
The idea that modern global warming is due to changes in cloudiness
caused by solar influences on cosmic rays is popular with “climate
sceptics”.

But scientists found changes in cosmic ray flux do not affect cloud formation - the second such report in a month.

Separately, other researchers have found that particles from space may affect temperatures at the poles.

Both pieces of research were presented here at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting.

Cosmic rays, hugely energetic particles coming from space, smash into
the top of the Earth’s atmosphere, creating a cascade of charged
particles lower down.

These particles may help water droplets to coalesce, and so aid the
formation of clouds. The proposed link to climate change is that cosmic
rays can be partially blocked by the Sun’s solar wind.

When the Sun is forceful, there are fewer cosmic rays arriving in the
atmosphere, so fewer clouds form, which has a net heating effect on the
Earth. If the mechanism has an impact today, several scientists have
hypothesised, it should be possible to spot a link between the
intensity of cosmic rays and the formation of clouds.

Jon Egill Kristjansson from the University of Oslo is one; and he unveiled his new results at the EGU meeting.  (04/18/08)
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