Dawson Church
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 They show us that many of the linear, cause-and-effect relationships that underpin our perception are inventions of our brains, and not the way the world actually works.
Interactive Fields
Researchers at the Institute of HeartMath have done a series of experiments on the effects of consciousness on cells. These experiments are done with rigorous protocols, and are intended to replicate earlier research.3 They extended the work of Dean Radin, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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Beyond all the products I mentioned here, Alex tells me that the Empowered Chocolate labs are working hard on new inventions. Okay, they're not really labs; they're more like kitchens, and they're probably taking their own sweet time eating all the mistakes and calling it "research," but before long, we're all going to witness the introduction of yet more Empowered Foods products. I don't know what they'll be, but I'm fairly certain I want to be at the front of the taste testing line to try them out. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The patenting of the first genetically engineered microbe opened the floodgates to corporate greed, and it wasn't long before Big Ag firms began patenting every seed they could get their hands on (a process called "biopiracy"), stealing the inventions of nature and declaring them to be their own.
Today, an astonishing 20 percent of the human genome is now owned by corporations. The simple act of reproducing by having children is now a violation of U.S. patent law. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 There are three rival but not entirely dissimilar tales about the invention of mole poblano,19 but not one of them is backed up by contemporary documents; all three stories could well be 19th-century inventions. One would have it that the nuns of the Santa Rosa convent in Puebla were nervous over the impending visit of their bishop, Manuel Fernandez de Santa Cruz y Sahagun (1637-99); Sor Andrea was in charge of making the sauce for the meal, but chocolate accidentally tumbled from a shelf into the basin in which the mixture was stewing. |
| These inventions put the Swiss at the technological—and financial—peak of the chocolate confectionery business. But there were other refinements as well. For example, in 1899 Jean Tobler began marketing his famous "Toblerone," a still-popular candy bar, triangular in cross-section, in a chocolate shell filled with almond-and-honey nougat; his company merged with Suchard in 1970. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Indeed—and perhaps this is the point—life as we know it is absolutely dependent upon these complex social inventions.
Whatever we might call them, and whatever their characteristics, thought experiments should be taken seriously as a method of investigation. That is, "they should be studied as if they were experiments."5 Yet, there are problems with the method. What is one and what is not? Most thought experiments have been used in physics, particularly quantum physics. But other academics have claimed the method for their own disciplines. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Intellectual property, and patents in particular, are intended to cover inventions; things that we were the first to create, not something we stumbled across because we have the right equipment to detect them in the natural world. Clearly, genes are already in existence. We did not invent them; nature did. And yet, people and organizations have been granted patents on seeds from nature.
No patents on seeds
Those of you familiar with the subject know I'm talking about basmati rice, a type of rice native to India. It has been harvested for centuries throughout India and Southeast Asia. |
Gregg Braden
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 From the morning rituals that we go through to greet the world each day, to the inventions that we use to make our lives better, to the technology that destroys life through war—our personal routines, community customs, religious ceremonies, and entire civilizations are based on our beliefs. Not only do our beliefs provide the structure for the way we live our lives, now the same areas of study that have discounted our inner experiences in the past are showing us that the way we feel about the world around us is a force that extends into that world. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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This was one of the most brilliant fitness inventions in the history of the industry. It is nothing more than a big rubber ball filled with air and sold as the greatest piece of equipment for abdominal exercise or developing core muscles. You can pay anywhere from $20 to $70 for this oversized beach ball, but you should not purchase this thing as your primary source of exercise.
Think of the stability ball for what it is, an accessory to be used to augment your workout. |
David R. Montgomery
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 The plough is one of the most ancient and valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly ploughed, and still continues to be thus ploughed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organised creatures.2
Recent studies of the microscopic texture of soils in southeastern Scotland and the Shetland Islands confirm Darwin's suspicions. |
Devra Davis
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 If Nazi inventions like rocketry were easily adapted by the Allies and the work of Pernkopf continues to be used as a classic reference in anatomy departments around the world, why then were the findings of the cancer hazards of synthetic organic chemicals and tobacco treated so differently?
Why did so little happen to see public health protected against tobacco among the countries that won the war? |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 So what we have here is a baker's dozen of wonderfully healthy foods that range all over the map, from traditional fermented foods like sauerkraut and kimchi, to the mineral-rich seaweeds, to juices made from green grasses, to completely modern inventions like whey protein powder and brewer's yeast. And though this category includes a few foods not found in our Paleolithic diets (our hunter-gatherer ancestors, for example, never came across dark chocolate bars in the wild), a list of the world's healthiest foods would not be complete without any one of them. Eat and enjoy! |
| And high-fructose corn syrup, arguably one of the worst inventions of the food science industry, is even more recent.
ARE THERE HEALTHY WAYS TO FEED A SWEETNESS CRAVING?
So let's recognize that we are sweet-loving folks. The question then becomes how to appease that taste so it doesn't destroy us. Or, put differently, how to feed and mollify the craving while doing damage control.
Now don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying we should never have anything with sugar in it (though we'd all probably be a lot more healthy if we did that, even though life wouldn't be as much fun). |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 The stories we are told are not always about fictional inventions such as Joe and Tim. Sometimes snippets of real personal detail come to us through a clinical report or from the transcript of an official commission of inquiry. For example, a pivotal twentieth-century industrial research experiment gives us considerable personal details of one the workers who was a key participant, although we are not told her first or last name:
No. 2, of Italian origin, was undoubtedly the leading member of rhe group. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Nautilus equipment and the concept of circuit training were brilliant, and opened a whole new door for other creative fitness inventions that helped the expansion of the fitness industry.
When I joined my second fitness center during my Burger King days, I realized that my time in the fast food industry would be short. Soon after walking into a local fitness club I was filling out a form loaded with questions about what I wanted from a fitness program. |
Carlo Petrini
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 And yet the principal inventions in the history of gastronomy were made in the lower levels of society to respond to urgent needs: the absence of food, the perishability of produce, the need to transport or preserve it and therefore to minimize the impact of space and time on what we eat.
In 1801, when the word "gastronomy" appeared in the first writings on the subject, the main "law of the stomach" for most of the urban and rural population was still hunger, as it had been in earlier centuries. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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With 6 million American children already diagnosed as ADHD and a few million more tagged with equally specious inventions, such as anxiety disorders and bipolar disorder, parents are not going overboard by taking proactive measures to avoid psychiatric labels and the drugs that come with them. |
Jacky Law
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 Moreover, most patent laws do not insist that inventions be significant advances in any way, only that they are novel, useful and not obvious. In a sense, they are tangible stamps of approval to give what is essentially an idea some currency in the marketplace. As rights change hands, they no longer reflect where the work was done. Much of the knowledge underlying the antiretrovirals that stem the damage from HIV was discovered in publicly funded universities, for example, as is the case for several other important drugs. |
Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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| They are nothing but predatory inventions.
DRUGS R US: A PILL FOR EVERY CHILD
A 2002 survey done by the Yale Child Study Center and published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, found that 9 of 10 children who visit a child psychiatrist will come away with a prescription. As if this is not predatory enough, most of those prescriptions, when they are made for disorders other than ADHD, are for drugs that have never been tested in children or approved for use in children by the Food and Drug Administration. |
Carlo Petrini
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| Whether or not these pioneers realized how revolutionary their inventions were, it was they who initiated the industrial production of food on a mass scale, which foreshadowed the later industrialization of agricultural techniques.
The present-day food industry needs no introduction—we all know it only too well. It churns out all kinds of comestibles; it even reproduces traditional dishes and carries individual food cultures around the world, at least in their more obvious manifestations. |
| If Nicolas Appert or Francesco Cirio may legitimately be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, with their inventions in canning and sterilization methods, the principle that inspired them has been transformed with increasing speed until it has become paradoxical: consuming a poor-quality fish caught in the Indian Ocean today is easy, accessible, but unsustainable. |
| The laws that govern these processes, after being unknown for centuries, were finally demonstrated simply through culinary empiricism, but progress in the scientific disciplines also led to new inventions.
With the onset of industrialization, the nutritional needs of those who worked in factories and therefore had little time for cooking changed (the working day was much longer then—and to think that today we complain about not having time to cook our meals!). |
Jacky Law
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| Speaking in the early days of the biotech boom in 2000, he said broad patents on minor inventions were encouraging sloppy science that led to a gambling mentality in the investment community.9
DNA sequences, he said, could not be treated in the same way as chemical molecules because they were inherently different. 'My view is that it is a false analogy that will lead to false and senseless conclusions because the DNA molecule itself is unimportant chemically. What is important is the information if contains and how this applies to the cells of the body. |
Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe
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 NakaMats' thinking methods are as original as his inventions. According to Success magazine, when NakaMats wishes to brainstorm, he plunges into the swimming pool and swims underwater as long as he can. While swimming underwater, he scribbles ideas on a special Plexiglas slate he invented for the purpose. Only when he can't hold his breath another second does NakaMats finally resurface. He claims to get his best ideas through this method, which he calls "swim till almost die. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 He was much engaged in court actions brought against him for his alleged habit of infringing patents; he lost most of these cases, the prosecution claiming that he had copied the inventions of others, that he was deliberately obscure, or that he had profited so much by his enterprise that a patent was unnecessary. The first mill to be destroyed by irate displaced skilled labor was one of Arkwright's, at Chorley in Lancashire in 1779. He was the victim of the first transatlantic piracy, when some models and parts of some of his machines were smuggled to New England in 1786. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| One of the greatest inventions in tea history occurred in 1904, at the Saint Louis World's Fair. Exhibitors from around the world brought their products to America's first World's Fair. One such merchant was Richard Blechynden, a tea plantation owner. Originally, he had planned to give away free samples of hot tea to fair visitors. But when a heat wave hit, no one was interested. To save his investment of time and travel, he dumped a load of ice into the brewed tea and served the first "iced tea." It was the hit of the fair. |
Jacky Law
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| A close second is that it must be capable of delivering a profit within the 20-year stretch of time inventors are given exclusive rights - and therefore premium prices - to their inventions under patent laws.
Pharma's rules are identical to those governing any other commercial market except in one important respect, which is that its products are rarely paid for directly by the end-users. People pay indirectly, of course, through their taxes, but the costs to the individual are negligible. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Cocoa powder and slab chocolate are recent inventions that date back to the early eighteenth century. Parts used Ripe seeds (cacao beans).
Cultivation & harvesting Cacao trees are grown from seeds and require high humidity, temperature and rainfall. The fruits are fermented in boxes for about six days to oxidise and release aroma compounds in the beans. The pulp is washed away and the processed beans are dried and packed.
Uses & properties Cacao beans are roasted, pulverised and half of the fat (cocoa butter) is extracted, while the remaining material is powdered as cocoa powder. |
Carlo Petrini
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| But let us not put all the blame on industry (although it deserves a great deal of it, given the scale of its production and the constant stream of unsustainable inventions it churns out): let us reject its model, but admit, for the sake of intellectual honesty, that many other activities which at first sight seem more harmless are in fact equally harmful. Man's hand must always be light in processing raw materials: just as he should respect the original tastes, so he should respect the environment. |
Alex Steffen
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 MIT PhDs, is an online collaborative repository of how-tos that anyone can access to learn how to make just about anything, and to share their own inventions. Instructions are linear, similar to recipes, and they're available for everything from a 3-D chocolate printer to home-canned applesauce to self-replicating robots. Makers join the site, upload photographs of their projects, tag photos with expanded information, then invite the world to comment or improve upon their designs. |
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