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"Various medical authorities swarm in and out of here predicting I have between two days and two months to live. I think they are guessing. I remain cheerful and unimpressed. I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don't see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd." - Robert Anton Wilson (1932 - 2007)
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During Brezhnev's time, the leadership of Communist Party became increasingly geriatric. By the time of his death in 1982, the median age of the Politburo was 70. Brezhnev's successor, Yuri Andropov, died in 1984. His successor, Konstantin Chernenko, died in 1985. Rabinovich said he did not have to buy tickets to the funerals, as he had a subscription to these events. As Andropov's bad health became common knowledge (he was eventually attached to a dialysis machine), several jokes made the rounds...
Related: America is now ruled by people older than the ‘gerontocracy’ of Soviet Union’s twilight days (RT)
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“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.” - George S. Patton (1885-1945)
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Interview with Professor Kenneth Stanley on "Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned" (Machine Learning Street Talk 038). #ML #Creativity
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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century - talk by Neil Postman
"The problem of the 21st century is not to move information - not the engineering of information. We solved that a long time ago. The problem is how to transform information into knowledge and how to transform knowledge into wisdom. If we can solve that problem, all the rest will take care of itself." - Neil Postman
Related: "Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change" - by Neil Postman (1998)
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Instructional scaffolding is the support given to a student by an instructor throughout the learning process. This support is specifically tailored to each student; this instructional approach allows students to experience student-centered learning, which tends to facilitate more efficient learning than teacher-centered learning. This learning process promotes a deeper level of learning than many other common teaching strategies.
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Balanced Life, Peaceful World - A Discussion with Wushu and Qigong Master Lee Feng-San
Pingshuai Gong - 平甩功 - a hand-swinging exercise pioneered by Taiwan Qigong (氣功）master Li Feng-shan (李鳳山）
Pingshuai Course—Live Webcast For The First Time
Pingshuai 30min exercise
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According to Ideokinesis pioneer Mabel Todd, “In order to have a minimum of stress, and therefore of strain, within the body, not only must the structure as a whole be in balanced relation with the outside forces, but each part must be in balance with every other part within the system” (Todd, 56). When we don’t balance the three major weights of the skull, ribcage and pelvis, the body has no choice but to respond by increasing muscular tension in order to avoid toppling over. Many times, the increase in tension that arises due to poor postural positioning leads to chronic discomfort in the shoulders, back, or the neck.
