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The Foundations of Chinese Medicine
Chinese medicine is huge in scope and requires years of study. However, the primary prescription for health is quite simple: abide by the cycles of nature and maintain peace within the body, mind, and spirit.
In the Yellow Emperor’s Classic, the earliest surviving medical text written over 2300 years ago, Huang Di was told that in ancient times man lived a simple life in accord with nature, but “Nowadays people are not like this ... they adopt recklessness as usual behavior.” What would Huang Di think of today’s lifestyle? Perhaps, it is time to listen to the Yellow Emperor.
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Money is a horrible abstraction of value that detaches people from nature. Digital money worsens it
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The real pandemic: The average American child spends just 4 to 7 minutes in unstructured outdoor play each day, and more than seven hours each day in front of an electronic screen.
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Quote from the Book "The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects" by Alexandra David-Néel and Lama Yongden (1967)
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"Best practices are those that generally produce the best results or minimize risk" – Chad White
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Peruvian shamans join forces to call on Pachamama to end pandemic
A group of Peruvian shamans and healers joined forces on Wednesday in a mystic and traditional ritual, including an offering to “Pachamama” (Mother Earth), asking the forces of nature to make 2022 the year in which the Covid-19 pandemic ends. On San Cristobal hill, the most sacred promontory in Lima in pre-Hispanic times, the shamans and healers gathered, coming from the country’s coastal areas, the Andean sierra and the Amazon jungle with their different methods of calling for prosperity in the coming year.
“It’s going to be a very favorable year for all countries. There’s going to be a very good advance in health and the conflicts are going to diminish. There is going to be peace and tranquility, and good health for everyone,” healer Andres De los Santos predicted for EFE.
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Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why we need more Boutique Search Engines
The stated mission of a company worth almost two trillion dollars is to “organize the world’s information” and yet the Internet remains poorly organized. Or, stated differently, in a world of infinite information, it’s no longer enough to organize the world’s information. It becomes important to organize the world’s trustworthy information.
"Google is no longer producing high quality search results"
Health, product reviews, recipes are three categories I searched today where top results featured clickbait sites riddled with crappy ads. I’m sure there are many more. Feel free to reply to the thread with the categories where you no longer trust Google Search results.
Classic short term thinking. Juice ad revenue in the short run. Open the door to complete disruption in the long run. This is why no software incumbent is truly protected from startup disruption. Inevitably the rot of a bad incumbent product starts from within.
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The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances
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Art by Anatoly Fomenko (Born 1945, USSR) - who is not only an influential mathematician, topologist and an accomplished artist, but also a renegade historian.
More Art can be found here.
Topological cartoon by Anatoly Fomenko
Fomenko the renegade historian
Fomenko has created his own revision of History called New Chronology, based on statistical correlations, dating of zodiacs, and by examining the mathematics and astronomy involved in chronology. Fomenko claims that he has discovered that many historical events do not correspond mathematically with the dates they are supposed to have occurred on. He asserts from this that all of ancient history (including the history of Greece, Rome, and Egypt) is just a reflection of events that occurred in the Middle Ages and that all of Chinese and Arab history are fabrications of 17th and 18th century Jesuits.
He also claims that Jesus lived in the 12th century A.D. and was crucified on Joshua's Hill; that the Trojan war and the Crusades were the same historical event; and that Genghis Khan and the Mongols were actually Russians. As well as disputing written chronologies, Fomenko also disputes more objective dating techniques such as dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating (see here for an examination of the latter criticism). His books include Empirico-statistical Analysis of Narrative Material and Its Applications and History: Fiction or Science?
History: Fiction or Science? - Book by Anatoly Fomenko
Is Ancient History Completely Made Up By 'The Man'? (gawker)
The Chronological Revision Chronicles, Part One: The Fomenko Timeline
