it's crossed my mind several times, the height of human beings seems to be growing. is that my perception or is it really true? I would love to know if anyone has answers ... I researched it a bit, but what really makes me wonder is the lineage of my family and friend's families ... the offspring always seems to be taller than their parents.
I'm taller than my mother and I think just by a hair may be taller than my father, my brother is taller than any of us ... and my mother is taller than my grandmother ... of course as age sometimes 'debilitates' our form our parents ‘shrink’ overtime … but still, it seems children are getting taller. Even visiting museums and seeing ancient bones, they are all such a short height. ‘ Lucy’ I read stood only 3’ 8” tall. When I asked my biology teacher a few years ago in class, he said that humans were actually getting shorter because to our advantage of survival we want to be short for faster and easier blood circulation … I dismissed the fact, but just remembered it recently again .. I would love to hear other people’s opinions … surely living in Amsterdam is maybe getting to me because almost everyone here is above you in height .. I’m just throwing this thought out there, for fun, on a slow Sunday afternoon ..
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The world which we inhabit is composed of the materials, not of the earth which was the immediate predecessor of the present, but of the earth which, in ascending from the present, we consider as the third, and which had preceded the land that was above the surface of the sea, while our present land was yet beneath the water of the ocean.
(from James Hutton’s 1795 A Theory of the Earth with Proofs and Illustrations)
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E = mc2
well, if you calculated your E ... wow, WOOOW, waaaaa wuuuu ... oh, yeah, it's some crazy crazy amount of potential energy!!!
something crazy, like, oh, enough to be a hot firework of 30 very large hydrogen bombs!!!!
fortunately ... or unfortunately .. we haven't found out how to get that energy out of us yet. you'd have to do some deep meditation and listening to the universe for the answer. but when you find out, you could make quite the statement! .. hopefully when we do find out how, we wouldn't be stupid enough to use it in malicious ways of killing or threatening our own human beings just on the other side of the continent across the ocean. we're not yet sophisticated enough to know all these things ..the most energetic thing we've produced yet is the Uranium bomb and we can't even release over 1 percent of its potential energy ..
but what a great amount, don't you think? will be a super fun place when we're all exploding literally in all sorts of light and information ..
pretty pretty good ..
.. but the best place to be is right here, right now
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For everything, this galaxy and galaxies beyond, this lifetime, emotions and motions, possibilities and infinity .. our creation of speech .. words of awe ..
oh wow, more, wondrous, big bang, wham, sweetly innocently bedazzled, blown away, expanding, wonderful, majestic, magnificent, stunning, marvelling, astonishing, aww, yeah!
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by Robert Syrett
Geometry Greek geo = earth, metria = measure
.. the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures
With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered
Order is repetition of units
Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm
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Dark depths of mystery,
Ancient and true,
Nimble consciousness,
In the creature soup,
Energy and light,
Light made matter,
Waves rise and fall,
Atoms rotate,
Kinesis directs,
Evolution shapes,
Under this life,
Pulsates another.
(by Sarah Janes from her Sex Dream Diary)
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Have a green thumb? Want to spread the love and plant some yummy-licious fruit, green veggies, sunflowers, or a pretty lilac tree? Don’t have a garden though? Even better - just plant it in the parking lot of your nearest supermarket … on the sidewalk near your bus stop .. Or at the park near by ..
In 1649 Gerard Winstanley, one of the first Guerrilla gardeners, said “earth is a common treasure for all.”
Now looked as an ‘urban adventure at the threshold of nature and culture’ .. Richard Reynolds inspires us to partake in Guerrilla gardening: “we do it because we cannot resist the satisfaction of turning a dilapidated patch of land into something more delightful. In a place of compacted mud, rampant dandelions, and empty smoothie bottles we dig in manure, and plant hardy shrubs and luminous bedding.”
And the green-loving guerrillas who commit ‘senseless acts of beauty by planting up roundabouts, verges, and shopping centres, .. the land earmarked for development .. corners of parks .. are technically only guilty of illegal trespassing .. but the spectacle of prosecutions would do little other than highlight officialdom’s own lack of commitment towards providing urban environments fit for the people they claim to serve’ (Graham Burnett)
.. this land is my land … this land is your land ..
So go ahead … spread the love ..
+ www.guerrillagardening.org
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