Clever Magnetic Beer Wine and Non-Alcoholic Beverage Storage

We've Been Storing Our Beer All Wrong - Reviewed.com Refrigerators

Cleaning the TV Screen

How to Clean Your TV - Reviewed.com Televisions

Innovation Stanford and Silicon Valley

Worth a scrute. The Interdependency Of Stanford And Silicon Valley | TechCrunch

ThL T200 Octacore Six Inch Smartphone

ThL T200 full review - hands-on with a 6 inch octa-core smartphone

Innovation Summit: Innovating at the Intersection of Ideas

Scott Anthony has the story
at The Atlantic
in Innovating at the Intersection of Ideas.

Basics - Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive - NYTimes.com

Basics - Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive - NYTimes.com

A Thirst for God : When Former Skinheads Convert to Judaism, You Know Something Big is Under Way for Religion in Europe

Dan Bilefsky at the New York Times reports on the
Changing Face in Poland [where] Skinhead Puts on Skullcap

"Hundreds of Poles, a majority of them raised as Catholics, are either converting to Judaism or discovering Jewish roots submerged for decades in the aftermath of World War II."

As written at PowerLine:

""There is something afoot in matters of faith -- in Germany as in France and other parts of the allegedly de-Christianized continent of Europe, according to Catholic and Protestant clergymen interviewed on a recent fact-finding tour. They spoke of an ever-growing 'thirst for God.'"

We think that this is a great thing as long as it means that men and women are taking their "spiritual" life more seriously.

This development should not be confused with many of the fundamentalist adherents of the world's organized religions, however, whose connection to true spirituality has often been subverted by political agendas and is no longer connected to any kind of a true God at all.

"True spirituality" is the genuine search for God. The organized or disorganized religious doctrines too often breed no more than brainwashed sects totally removed from any real spiritual life.

Is 'golden age for inventors' at hand? asks John Blake at CNN

Is 'golden age for inventors' at hand? asks John Blake at CNN (January 12, 2010)

Thought and Multitasking at Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Hypermultitasking

Thought and Multitasking at:

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Hypermultitasking

Project Syndicate : A World of Ideas

Project Syndicate A World of Ideas

Life Backwards - Just an Idea

Via CaryGEE I got the following posting by e-mail and thought it to be so good that I left the plug for Skype on it. I know not from whence it cometh but it certainly has a bit of bizarre truth to it....

http://www.skype.com/download/skype/windows/skype3beta.html

**I want to live my next life backwards:***

**You start out dead and get that out of the way.**

**Then you wake up in an old age home feeling better every day.**

**Then you get kicked out for being too healthy. Enjoy your retirement and collect your pension.**

**Then when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day.**

**You work 40 years until you're too young to work.**

**You get ready for High School: drink alcohol, party, and you're generally promiscuous.**

**Then you go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, and you have no responsibilities.**

**Then you become a baby, and then . . .**

**You spend your last 9 months floating peacefully in luxury, in spa-like conditions - central heating, room service on tap, and then...**

**You finish off as an orgasm.**

**I rest my case.***

100 things we didn't know - BBC 2006

January 1, 2006.

See BBC NEWS 100 things we didn't know this time last year.

'God and the Nature of Evolution

Evolution on a grand scale can be defined as the universe manifesting its evolving conception of itself. We also call this God.
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Mind to Matter

Ideas are invisible...until they materialize. - Andis Kaulins

The Truth

The all inclusive singularity of the universe from which everything originates is the truth of existence. - Andis Kaulins

Put Your Life Goals Down on Paper

Put Your Life Goals Down on Paper

Here's an interesting site where you can put into print what you want to do with your life. Studies show that putting goals down on paper greatly maximizes reaching those objectives. Go to 43 Things and try it out.

If you do everything right you will get two links, one to your own list of things and a link to the thing (goal) you have created.

Independent Scholars

Independent Scholars

The New York Sun has a nice article on independent scholars entitled

Oh,To Freely Pursue the Scholarly Life!

According to this article, the main advantage of being independent is independence of ideas,
the main disadvantage is financial.

So what is new?

New Chemical Elements 113 and 115

Oliver Sacks has an article at the New York Times entitled Greetings From the Island of Stability where he writes:

"Last week the discovery of two new elements - 113 and 115 - was announced by a team of Russian and American scientists. There is something about such announcements that raises the spirits, thrills one, evokes thoughts of new lands being sighted, of new areas of nature revealed. "

The article goes on to discuss the new generation of elements which have been "discovered" in modern times.

In this regard, see my suggested revision of The Periodic Table of Chemical Elements .