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POPSPoem by Sean O'Brien for Gaza "It just seems there is an insoluble contradiction between the possibilities of this time of year and what's actually taking place ... I was literally at my desk and found an idea making its way into the open so I just pursued it," said O'Brien. "Poetry lives in the world like everything else, and tries to make sense of events, including conflict. isn't a message, it is really a representation of appalled horror at what's taking place." Running to 18 short lines, the refrain of "Katyusha, Katyusha" echoes through the poem, which begins: "Katyusha, Katyusha, / Arrow of fire: / Kingdom Come, is it / Below or above?" "I've basically adapted the name of a missile which sounds like a diminutive in Russian, a child's name," said O'Brien, who is also the only poet to have won the Forward prize three times. "It's both a prayer and a lullaby, at the same time as being about something horrific." ... Guardian
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POPSDoes Time Run Backward in Other Universes? Other researchers are working on related ideas, as more and more cosmologists are taking seriously the problem posed by the arrow of time. It is easy enough to observe the arrow—all you have to do is mix a little milk into your coffee. While sipping it, you can contemplate how that simple act can be traced all the way back to the beginning of our observable universe and perhaps beyond
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POPSDid NBC Risk Employee Lives in a Green Agenda Stunt? . . . And if we are successful, we will reach millions of Americans with the story in an unprecedented way. " Translation -- more sham eco shock and awe. The Race to Peak at the Peak By Monday, the team had ascended to Barranco at 13,000 feet. Another eight-hour climb on Tuesday brought them to Arrow Glacier at 15,700 feet, where they laid camp. But while Curry got a view of the mountain's ice cap, Today watchers were treated to one of a haggard looking reporter complaining that the entire crew was experiencing lethargy, severe headaches and fatigue. The acute altitude sickness they'd developed was also causing peripheral edema -- their faces and fingers were quite visibly swollen. And no wonder -- in a rush to summit the mountain for Friday's green week finale, they had broken all rules of altitude acclimatization, starting with Rule #1: Once above 10,000 feet, altitude should be increased no more than 1,000 feet per day.
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POPSPreparing for a broken arrow http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/34D2A614-65F2-4BD1-A974-FB16DAF99187/ 9 out of 10 so far. The big one may be coming soon. http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/9F6663E2-E580-47AE-BFF5-CE357AACE770/ http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/E02742D4-5FF7-446A-9AC0-07816E939C61/ Reminder: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/FB3569E5-ABEA-41C2-AC6E-5AE48408502C/
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POPSPhysicists investigate how time moves forward This provides an orientation, or arrow of time, and it is generally believed that all other time asymmetries, such as our sense that future and past are different, are a direct consequence of this thermodynamic arrow.” In their study, Feng and Crooks have developed a method to accurately measure “time asymmetry” (which refers to our intuitive concept of time, that the past differs from the future, in contrast with time symmetry, where there is no distinction between past and future). They began by investigating the increase in energy dissipation, or entropy, in various arrangements. While time blatantly moves forward in the macroscopic world, the direction of time becomes confusing on the scale of a single molecule
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POPS "Time" - Wheel of Life The Wheel of Life illustrates in a popular way the essence of the Buddhist teachings\ see also :"How Your Brain Can Control Time?? " http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/DBF30537-E365-4B2D-9C2F-ACA704F333CF/ Time as an abstract idea –beautiful illustration \http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/DE078798-AA3B-4029-B82C-AF882516398D/
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POPSSubneural Networks in the Quantum Brain Basically, the neuron or nerve cell, and its synapses is no longer seen as fundamental but as container for smaller structures, notwithstanding the importance of synaptic connectivity.
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