Charles Barber
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 Science is still mainly filled with the unknown. The unknown is greater than the known. We are destined to be forever blind voyagers and fellow wayfarers.
But rather than condemn ourselves for how little we know, or worse, pump up and inflate the value of the paltry state of our current knowledge, perhaps it is better simply to accept these limitations. In our flaws and in our ignorance, there is mystery. And mystery is what makes us human and complicated and interesting. There is and always will be something enduringly inscrutable about humanity, and therein lies the beauty. |
Gregg Braden
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 But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know."1
In other words, Rumsfeld was saying that we don't have all of the information and we know that we don't have it. While this now-famous speech was directed toward American intelligence gathering for the war on terror, the same can be said of the state of scientific knowledge today.
As successful as science has been in revealing the answers to our deepest mysteries, some of the greatest minds of our time openly suggest that the language of science is incomplete. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The long-term effects of this contamination are currently unknown, but they can only be negative. The only unknown concerns the degree of harm that will emerge. |
Pam Montgomery
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 We walk on until we come to a fallen log, and here we sit, becoming more comfortable in this dark place, this unknown place. Walking in the dark like this is a way to build personal power, as it helps you to navigate uncharted territory or what seems that way because you can't see it. While working with Plant Spirit Healing there are many times you may feel you are in an unknown place or engaged in something quite unfamiliar. |
Devra Davis
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 This would have been an unknown problem for the residents and a major loss for public health research. Where large numbers of people develop the same specific ailments, or when smaller groups have encountered similar conditions so that their experiences can be looked at together, that's when public health studies are easier. The deaths of a few animals, while troubling, don't prove that people are endangered. With hindsight, it's hard to grasp why it took so long for people to figure out what was going on. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Obesity was unknown to them. In fact, they had no word in their vocabulary to describe being fat. Once placed on reservations, they were no longer faced with periodic food shortages. As the Bureau of Indian Affairs provided them with flour, sugar, oil, and corn, an astonishing thing happened. These lean and wiry people developed an astronomical incidence of obesity. At one time, 100 percent of adult Pima Indians were grossly obese and the incidence of type 2 diabetes was a staggering 65 percent. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It is helpful when one is facing the unknown, such as birth, death, and other passages of life. It is also helpful in treating alcoholism and nervous skin disorders.
A few cases of hives as a side effect have been reported. Andrographis is not recommended for use during pregnancy, as it has uterine-stimulating and aborti-facient properties. Large doses have been reported to cause digestive disturbance.
Range and Appearance
Andrographis can be either an annual or a perennial shrub. It grows wild in thickets and in forests throughout southern Asia. |
| Avoid during pregnancy, while nursing, in children under twelve, and in cases of abdominal pain of unknown cause, ulcer, intestinal obstruction, irritable bowel, Crohn's disease, appendicitis, or acute hemorrhoids. Should the plant cause excess gripe, the antidote is charcoal capsules.
Cascara sagrada is not considered habit forming, but it still is best used on occasion rather than daily; if used over an extended period the bark's effect on the body lessens, requiring that more be used, increasing the possibility of negative effects. |
| The common name yam derives from the Spanish name for the plant, name, a term of unknown African origin. |
Charles Barber
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| But in our characteristic American impatience and zeal, the drugs have been hyped beyond the limits of their ability to help most people; their efficacy with very specific populations has been overgeneralized and misapplied to treat the troubles of the masses generally and upper-middle-class angst specifically; their largely unknown mechanisms of action have been made, literally, into cartoons; and their subtleties have been ignored and side effects overlooked.
Americans have swallowed it all—literally. To say that we are the most medicated nation on earth is an absurd understatement. |
Joseph Campbell
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| This first stage of the mythological journey—which we have designated the "call to adventure"—signifies that destiny has summoned the hero and transferred his spiritual center of gravity from within the pale of his society to a zone unknown. |
Devra Davis
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| The reasons for these results are unknown and need to be resolved through additional clinical studies that assess the importance of menopausal status and other factors, including breast tissue change with age. In the meantime, women must be told the truth, so they can make informed choices about their health care. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 Together with the newly discovered cosmological constant, we thus need twenty-six constants of nature to de-
*The values of some of these constants, particularly those characterizing the properties of neutrinos, are still unknown. scribe the physical world. The list may have to be extended if new particles or new types of interaction are discovered.
FINE-TUNING THE UNIVERSE
The Creator's choice of the constants may appear rather capricious, and yet, remarkably, there does seem to be a system behind it—although not of the kind physicists have been hoping for. |
| This takes us far into the unknown, all the way to the abyss of great mystery. It is hard to imagine how we can ever get past this point. But as before, that may just reflect the limits of our imagination.
Epilogue
To: Galactic Council From: WSX-23EDJ
Greetings! As required by the Protocol, I have completed my inspection of the planet Earth, located in sector S-16 in the peripheral zone of the Galaxy. The human race populating this planet has made good progress in the 1000 Earth years since the last inspection. I have upgraded their status from "budding" to "technologically challenged. |
| Anthropic Feuds
We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origin. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And Lo! It is our own.
—Sir Arthur Eddington
CONSTANTS OF NATURE
The properties of every object in the universe, from a DNA molecule to a giant galaxy, are determined, in the final analysis, by several numbers—the constants of nature. |
| Just like Friedmann's work, Lemaitre's paper remained completely unknown until Hubble's discovery. the most universal laws of nature: the second law of thermodynamics. This law says that physical systems evolve from ordered to more disordered states. If you neatly organize papers into piles on your desk and the wind suddenly blows into the window, the papers are scattered randomly all over the floor. However, you never see the wind picking up papers from the floor and assembling them into neat piles on your desk. |
| There is also a much larger amount of what is called dark matter, made up of some unknown particles. As its name suggests, the dark matter cannot be seen directly, but its presence is manifested by the gravitational pull it exerts on visible objects. Observations of how stars and galaxies move indicate that the mass in dark matter is about ten times greater than that in ordinary matter. Still, putting it all together, the total mass density of the universe comes out to be about 30 percent of the critical density, 70 percent short of the target. |
Charles Barber
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| As Nietzsche said: "We are unknown, we knowers, to ourselves." Or as one of the world's most influential neuroscientists, confided to me, with his guard down: "The brain, it's just really, really complicated."
I recall a psychiatrist, Dr. Anthony Roper, telling me sometime in the mid-1990s, in the heady days of Prozac Nation and the rapid-fire construction of the Serotonin Empire, that patients should take the least amount of psychiatric medications that they need. "I believe you take the minimal amount of medication you can," he said. |
Ann N. Martin
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 Eleven of these shipments were tracked but the whereabouts of the other nineteen is unknown.
At the height of the U.K. mad cow epidemic, from 1993 to 1996, the United Kingdom exported 125 tons of meat and bone meal to Canada but so far the Canadian government advises that Canada is free of BSE. The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom reported that fifteen thousand tons of meat and bone meal were exported to France between 1988 and 1990. In February 1991 France saw its first case of BSE. As of December 2001, France has reported a total of 258 BSE cases and the disease is on the rise. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Thus, a variety of invaders can be living in your body unknown by you. Such problems can manifest with subtle symptoms that are easily dismissed but can make you quite ill. Changes in skin color, rashes and lesions, changes in bowel habits, an itchy anus, and other signs could be indicative of an invasion by these harmful organisms.
Many people who completed this Harmful Organism Cleanse are amazed at the outcome! You can physically see the result as your waste may begin to include these "unwanted guests" after the cleansing process is initiated. |
Tom Bohager
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 One must acknowledge that there are probably unknown factors associated with the success of the research on animal-sourced proteolytic enzymes. It's possible that their effectiveness is based on more than just the proteolytic activity. For example, in individuals who have extreme organ or gland deficiencies (pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, gall bladder failure, or the like), animal-sourced enzymes seem to fortify the glands and organs in ways that the plant-based enzymes cannot. It is what we call the "law of similar," which is the basis of homeopathy. |
| Many headaches are caused by unknown or undetermined factors.
There are four common types of headaches. Tension headaches are caused by a tightening in the muscles of the face, neck, shoulders, and scalp or muscle spasms in these areas, usually due to fatigue or stress. A migraine is a severe, incapacitating headache usually preceded or accompanied by visual disturbances, light sensitivity, and nausea or vomiting. Migraines are caused by constriction of the arteries that lead to the brain, although there are a variety of possible underlying causes. (See migraines. |
| The cause of Crohn's Disease is still unknown; however, the risk increases with a history of food allergies.
A diet rich in fresh vegetables, fruit, and good sources of protein is suggested to reduce the risk of a breakout, minimize ill effects, and reduce the chances of contracting these diseases. Too many starches, fats, red meat, or dairy products may irritate the colon. Regular physical activity is very important to keep the gastrointestinal tract functioning normally. |
| For most of the diseases, the biochemical basis is still unknown. For approximately 200 of them, the disease is known to be due to a deficiency or malnutrition of a single enzyme." Since 1982 many more diseases have been attributed to such a deficiency.
If we could somehow identify the metabolic enzyme needed for a specific health issue, manufacture it, and deliver it to the cell, metabolic enzyme pills would be in every health food store and pharmacy in the world and would no doubt be contributing to the prevention and reversal of many of the most fatal diseases known to man. |
Elaine Magee
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 There are some regions in China in which breast cancer and heart disease are almost unknown," Campbell says. Type 2 diabetes and bone-weakening osteoporosis are much less prevalent, even though the Chinese consume far fewer dairy products than we do in the United States, according to Campbell.
Does soy offer breast cancer benefits? Eating lots of soy-based food may protect older women against breast cancer, suggests a study of Chinese Singaporeans. Researchers, including Anna H. |
Joseph Campbell
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| In the land of sheep stands an unknown woman and points the way." 7
The second is the dream of a young girl whose girl companion has lately died of consumption; she is afraid that she may have the disease herself.
"I was in a blossoming garden; the sun was just going down with a blood-red glow. Then there appeared before me a black, noble knight, who spoke to me with a very serious, deep and frightening voice: 'Wilt thou go with me?' Without attending my answer, he took me by the hand, and carried me away. |
Ann N. Martin
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| In the first survey conducted in 1998, researchers found the presence of sodium pentobarbital in the foods listed below although the levels of this drug were unknown.
1. Super G—Chunk Style
2. Pet Essentials—Chunk Style
3. Americas Choice—Krunchy Kibble
4. Weis Value—Crunchy Dog Food
5. Weis Value—Gravy Style Dog Food
6. Weis Value—High Protein Dog Food
7. Ol' Roy—Meaty Chunks and Gravy
8. Ken-L Ration—Gravy Train Beef, Liver and Bacon Flavor
9. Ken-L Ration—Gravy Train
10. Heinz—Kibbles 'n Bits Jerky
11. Weis Value—Kibbles Variety Mix
12. Kibble Select—Premium Dog Food
13. |
Joseph Campbell
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| That which has to be faced, and is somehow profoundly familiar to the unconscious—though unknown, surprising, and even frightening to the conscious personality—makes itself known; and what formerly was meaningful may become strangely emptied of value: like the world of the king's child,
6 George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber, Traditions of the Arapaho (Field Columbia Museum, Publication 8i, Anthropological Series, Vol. V; Chicago, 1903), p. 300. Reprinted in Stith Thompson's Tales of the North American Indians (Cambridge, Mass., 1929), p. 128.
7 C. G. |
Ann N. Martin
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| Obviously, if the disease has not been described in dogs, the location of lesions in the brain of a dog is also unknown."30
Should we worry about contamination in pet food? Julie Ingwersen, a reporter for Reuters wire service, quotes Stephen Payne, a spokesman for the Pet Food Institute, as saying, "The meat and bone meal produced in the United States remains an excellent source of protein and minerals for pets."31
Unfortunately, labels on pet food give no indication of the source for the meat and bone meal. |
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