Scientists reconstruct Dante's face

Suggested by RYK, via email on Jan. 13, 07.

Is India heading the right way? by Francois Gautier (Auroville).

Inside the Spirit Matrix: A contextualization of contemporary physics, presented at Approaches to Mind Sciences Emanating from Indian Culture, conference organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, India, January 27-29, 2007.

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In string theory, beauty is truth, truth beauty. Is that really all we need to know?

by JIM HOLT

Hi yatanti,

Welcome to SCIY, and thanks for your article suggestion. You're right, that's a great article, so much so that we had already posted it on SCIY. But we gave it a different title that you wouldn't have been able to easily recognize: "The Trouble with Physics: Has physics gone postmodern?", which you can see here. We used that title as sort of an in-group reference to an ongoing discussion we'd been having on SCIY re postmodernism.

Anyway, let us know re any other articles you'd like to see posted, and feel free to get involved is some of our comment discussions if you'd like.

All best,

Ron Anastasia (rjon)
SCIY Founding Editor

http://www.thehindu.com/2007/02/25/stories/2007022500041400.htm

http://esnips.com/_t_/sri+aurobindo

This is a site where many of Sri Aurobindo's book in pdf format are available.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=okTFzbsSFGs

Mercy to animals is an organisation that has exposed cruelity to animals in farms and slaughtering houses.

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/mar2007/gb20070321_338626.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily

Why the U.S still Drives Asia's economy

Water

Homeopathy

http://www.pr.com/press-release/34593

Ron, I have been reading a book by David Korten, The Great Turning. The book masterfully traces the concept of Empire from pre-history to the present and states that the current world situtation has been shaped by the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of the few. The motivating actions of governments are to preserve their control over the forces of money and power. The democracies of the Western world are not true democracies as they maintain their control over the many by giving privilege to the few. Korten goes on to relate various paradigms that our culture buys into and which perpetuate the rule of Empire. One of these views is related in the "Imperial Secular Meaning Story."
"Matter is the only reality. the whole of the cosmos is a product of the orderly playing out of physical forces amenable to description and prediction by mathematical equations. Life is the accidental outcome of material complexity. Consciousness and free will are illusions, nothing more. Because life has no intrinsic meaning, the only rational couse of the intelligent individual is to seek material gratification through the accumulation of wealth and power.
The evolution of the living species occurs through a competitive struggle in which the fittest survive and the less fit perish. Mammalian species, naturally organize themselves into heirarchies of dominance for mutual protection and breeding success.
Human progress likewise depends on competitive struggle in which the most fit triumph and those of second rank serrve the most fit. the winners prove their superior worth and therby their contribution to the betterment of the whole by virute of their victory. They have a natural right to the rewards of their victory as their just due. Their is no reason for guilt or for concern for those whom the struggle destroys or leaves behind, as their loss is itself proof that they are the less fit. For the betterment of the whole, we must all accept that this is their proper fate."
What makes the Great Turning a landmark book is that it exposes these myths for what they are-propaganda for maintaining control with power and wealth. The actions of governments rather than being for the well being of the people they are supposed to serve are for the maintaining of the myths which concentrate power and wealth in the hands of the few. Korten goes on to forge the strategy for removal of these myths and replacing them with the reality of a sustainable Earth Community.
The human and Divine potential of the sage, writer, artist, scientist cannot be fully realized without the move away from Empire to Earth Community. The Bodhisattva's vow, while at the threshold of enlightenment, takes on new meaning for all of us to work out our daily lives in harmony with the movement toward an Earth Community.
See: http://www.davidkorten.org/

Thought Relics by Tagore

Satprem [30-10-1923 — 09-04-2007]

I am not completely sure of this .. But from what I vaguely remember Satprem persevered the work for cataleptic trance .. a state of suspended animation . From the article, "Conquering the habit of body and habit of death ".... I feel this was his aim .

"He is the Spirit that can never die. The spirit will conquer death and let others conquer death, in the Way led by The Light and The Force."... is the crux of what I feel anybody should comprehend after reading his books .

Beyond the Central Dogma of Physics by Ulrich Mohrhoff

Humankind could have only four years of life left

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-emissions21jun21,0,107286.story?coll=la-home-center

China may lead in greenhouse gases

TED : IDEAS WORTH SPREADING

Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers

A document as important as it is moving. It would be very useful for many if someone would translate this from the French original. Luc was Satprem's closest associate for many years (besides Sujata, of course).

http://www.lesyeuxouverts.net/

Smart disposal: A prescription for a healthy planet

I wanted to post some guidelines for disposal of medications for environmental safety. I am copying the text from the magazine " Pharmacy today"

What to tell the patients

1. Check for state or local medication collection or take-back
programs.
2. Check with hazardous waste facilities for disposal programs.
3. DO NOT FLUSH, unless the medication label specifically says to do so.
4. Crush unused solild medications and dissolve liquid ones.
5. Mix with cat litter, coffee grounds, or other solid waste.
6. Place in plastic bag and seal to avoid the risk of poisoning children or pets.
7. Revove all identifying personal information from medication can.
8. Place in garbage can.
9. Proper disposal of medications will prevent them from being diverted and used illegally.

http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/2007060916594261

Nearly 80 percent of India lives on half dollar a day

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSDEL21889420070810?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Dear Ron,

The work Science on the main page is camoflauged by the back ground. You should either change the background picture or the colour of the lettering.

Hi Rakesh,

The problem may be because of the size of the window you're using. SCIY's Main Page is designed to be viewed at a standard size, which you can see by:

1) Opening SCIY's Main Page and scrolling to the top so you can see the four images used in our heading.

2) Play with the width of your viewing window.

3) Confirm that the size of your window does not duplicate the four images. It should show only a small margin of the dark blue background to the left and right of the set of 4 images.

4) At this size, the words "Science, Culture and Integral Yoga" should show up clearly against the background of the left two darker images.

5) Note that if you then increase the width of your viewing window the four images will begin to duplicate. It's true that at some of these wider widths, the word "Science" doesn't show up well against the lighter image of the model of Auroville.

Please let me know if this adjustment works for you.

~ ronjon

Sam Harris talking sense!

Steve Job's speech at Stanford video

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Culture of Peace

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/stories/20080912251806500.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/science/11collider.html?hp