RIP New Orleans: 1718~2005

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A Sad Truth: Cities Aren't Forever

The city of New Orleans is not going to be rebuilt.

The tourist neighborhoods? The ancient parts from the French Quarter to the Garden District on that slim crescent of relatively high ground near the river? Yes, they will be restored. The airport and the convention center? Yes, those, too.

But the far larger swath — the real New Orleans where the tourists don't go, the part that Katrina turned into a toxic soup bowl, its population of 400,000 scattered to the waves? Not so much.

Scientists Get First Glimpse At How Plants, Most Animals Repair UV-damaged DNA

The Ohio State University study revealed how the enzyme photolyase uses energy from visible light to repair UV damage.

This enzyme is missing in all mammals, including humans, although all plants and all other animals have it. Greater understanding of how photolyase works could one day lead to drugs that help repair UV damage in human DNA.

Psychodrama, Surrealism, and the Archipelago of Weird, Or, "What Do You Mean 'If'?"

A discussion of a way of looking at the arrangements of mainstream culture and all the isles of counterculture.

Tele: The Dynamics of Rapport

(Cited in the above.) Tele is Moreno's term for what might variously be called "rapport" in its broadest sense, or the category of (generally) reciprocated interpersonal attractions and repulsions. He derived the term from the ancient Greek word for distance. "Just as we use the words...telephone, television, etc., to express action at a distance, so to express the simplest unit of feeling transmitted from one individual towards another we use the term tele..." (Moreno 1934: 159; 1953: 314). Scattered among his writings Moreno had a number of descriptions and informal definitions of tele (pronounced "tay-lay"), but perhaps his most succinct one is that tele is "...the process which attracts individuals to one another or which repels them..." (Moreno 1937b: 213). Moreno developed the tele concept as an integral part of his more general development of sociometry, and another simple definition is that tele is that which is measured by sociometric tests (Moreno 1934: 328). Sociometry is a method that systematically explores the patterns of preferences in group dynamics.

Shaolin in film fightback

From the Matrix and Kill Bill to Kung Fu Hustle and House of Flying Daggers, the Shaolin monks have had to watch passively as their trademark martial arts have made millions for film studios in Hollywood and Hong Kong.

But now the monks are striking back with a series of big budget fight films that will, in true kung fu style, pit their rivals' strength against them by recruiting top international actors and directors.

Sure, it's a beer ad, but you should see it anyways.

EFF Wins Unsealing of Secret Documents in Apple Case

Court documents in the Apple v. Does case were unsealed last week, and they reveal that the software giant sought to subpoena two reporters' anonymous sources without first conducting a thorough investigation inside the company.

Virtual Laser Keyboard

Laptop and PDA users, imagine if you had a device the size of a lighter that could project an image of a keyboard onto any smooth surface onto which you could type as it if were a real keyboard. Well, now you can.

It's a miracle: mice regrow hearts

Scientists have created "miracle mice" that can regenerate amputated limbs or damaged vital organs, making them able to recover from injuries that would kill or permanently disable normal animals.

The experimental animals are unique among mammals in their ability to regrow their heart, toes, joints and tail.

And when cells from the test mouse are injected into ordinary mice, they too acquire the ability to regenerate, the US-based researchers say.

Their discoveries raise the prospect that humans could one day be given the ability to regenerate lost or damaged organs, opening up a new era in medicine.

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However, it is according to the dictates of time and fate that We have resolved to pave the way for a grand peace for all the generations to come by enduring the unendurable and suffering what is unsufferable. An interesting little find on wikipedia.

And I promise I'll get back to real posts soon, I've just been ill the last few days, ever since I've been wanting to write them.