bird on the moonUpdate your feeds to http://birdonthemoon.com/new/index.xmlViddy Thursday: Experimental Film- October 13, 2006 "Gimme the Mermaid" (Negativland)http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010733 Viddy Thursday: Experimental Film- October 12, 2006 "Fast Film"http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010732 Viddy Thursday: Experimental Film- October 12, 2006 "Float"http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010731 Spiritual Starvation - A Meditation- October 12, 2006 And it's ironic, isn't it Americans proclaim in large number, we are religious, we go to our houses of worship, we are true believers in this or that God. Religion is touted constantly in the media and in the talk of our neighbors. But I don't think spiritual poverty has anything to do with religion, paradoxical as that may seem. I think it has much to do with human connection, with the sense one gets when one can be part of something larger than oneself, in fellowship with others. Where...http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010730 Muslims unfairly stigmatised, says the Dalai Lama- October 11, 2006 The Dalai Lama, Tibets exiled spiritual leader, has warned against portraying Islam as a religion of violence, saying Muslims have been wrongly demonised in the West since the September 11 attacks. Promoting religious tolerance, the worlds most influential Buddhist leader said on Sunday that talk of "a clash of civilisations between the West and Muslim world is wrong and dangerous." Muslim terrorist attacks have distorted peoples views of Islam, making them believe it is an extremist faith...http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010729 Striking new bird discovered in South America- October 11, 2006 A brightly coloured bird has been discovered on a remote mountain range in South America. The previously unknown species, the Yariguies Brush Finch, has striking black, yellow and red plumage. A British expert co-led the team which made the find during the first biological expedition to the Yariguies mountains in northern Colombia. Ms Blanca Huertas, a curator at the Natural History Museum in London, said: "The description of a new bird is a rare event in modern times." The bird, which has...http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010728 Origin of species mostly in the tropics- October 11, 2006 The tropics may be the cradle of much of the world's biodiversity, and where most species arise before they spread elsewhere, according to a new study. Palaeontologists and biologists at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Chicago showed that three-quarters of a large group of marine animals - including oysters, clams and other molluscs - first appeared in the tropics and later moved toward the poles. Only the remaining quarter of this group emerged at higher...http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010727 Beauty is in the Processing-Time of the Beholder- October 10, 2006 In the late 1870s, scientist and eugenicist Sir Francis Galton developed an image of the prototypical "face of crime" by creating composite photos of men convicted of serious offenses. Though Galton failed to discover anything abnormal in his composite criminal faces, he did find that the resulting visages were shockingly handsome... Studies have since established that people find prototypical facesthose with average featuresto be attractive. A paper published in the September issue of the...http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010726 Nietzsche Family Circus- October 10, 2006 Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010725 Scientists discover 'shadow person'- October 10, 2006 Ever feel as though you're being followed As if someone is behind you, shadowing your every move It might be your shadow person', created by unusual activity in a specific brain region, a new study shows. The paper, published in the British journal Nature, describes the case of a 22-year-old woman with no history of psychiatric problems who was being evaluated for treatment of epilepsy. When a region of her brain called the left temporoparietal junction was electrically stimulated, the woman...http://birdonthemoon.com/Archives/2006/10/index.html#010724 |