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CW: 3D printed brain models
Let's start out with something fun! These images show FFF and SLA #3dprinting printouts of a high-resolution T1 #mri scan of my brain. I created them using some basic neuroimaging software, 3D modeling software, and my scan data. Some research labs make such prints as gifts for their #neuroimaging study participants. I already had my data from trial runs of our studies.
The (somewhat transparent) model was done on an SLA (resin) printer at about 40% actual size. I'm planning to do a life-size print eventually, but the printer is too small to hold my brain, so I'll need to print one hemisphere at a time and do some hand tool work.
The other two prints were done on an FFF 3d printer at life-size scale using glow-in-the-dark filament (a real kick at halloween to decorate with glowing models of your own brain).
I teach a technology innovation course for first-year business students and I love taking these models in after talking to them about 3D manufacturing and its applications (particularly in medicine). It is also fun to show students my T1 and fMRI data and say "here's proof your professor has a brain!"
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A risk taking society
In my previous Dutch postings I talked about our society taking certain risks.
Not only teenagers get an information overload and seem to be hard-wired to take risks. Today’s teens are “stressed out” but also a lot of adults get bombarded with a lot of decision-making factors though frequently underestimate the value of privacy and its attendant risks, and it’s taking a toll. Over the last five years, more people got into conflicts, there’s been a steady increase in the number of anti-depressants prescribed and we could notice a lot more self-killings.For a lot of things which come over us the last few years several individuals and groups gave early warnings. As there were te concerned nature lovers who gave notices about potential nuclear dangers and anthropologists who gave scientific proof of expecting difficulties in groups of people or economists who warned about the exchange market propensity for risk-taking without liability which were both dismissed as paranoid anticipation of low-probability events.
Some existential risks
Effective risk management is central to economic efficiency. Yet major players in the last crises have insisted that they should not be held accountable for risks they underestimated.
Extreme weather disasters, especially floods, are on the rise (see Two seminal Nature papers join growing body of evidence that human emissions fuel extreme weather, flooding). For certain religious people it is a normal sign of the End-times, but it does not mean for them we do have to ignore neither the risks nor the ways to avoid certain risks. Climate change will compound existing weather-related risks, but the consumers do have to be aware how they can influence the weather and environmental situations.
Dirk Geldof, writer of:” not more but better” writes in his blog that it is normal to a community to produce more risks than they actual can keep under control. Being able or not to control creates already taking in the risks. Not wanting to see the possibility of danger or to neglect the chance on damage is the vanity of man that puts himself above possible incidents or plots. We cannot see next to climate change or global warming, globalization and imminent dualisation, increasing freedom and far-reaching individualization, growing time pressure and the explosion of diversity in our cosmopolitan cities.
<img class="thumbimage " style="border: 0 none;" src="http://www.eoearth.org/files/122301_122400/122398/200px-Ulrich_Beck.jpg" alt="The sociologist Ulrich Beck. Photo: Munich University” width=”200″ height=”164″ border=”0″ />The sociologist Ulrich Beck
We now are confronted with our world as a global risk society. The notion ‘risk society‘ is such metaphor because it prompts us to look in an other way to our world and our society, with a focus on the risks that we – unless we not otherwise can – would preferably not like to see. Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck brought up this element of the risk society which could be “a society increasingly preoccupied with the future (and also with safety), which generates the notion of risk,” or that community which in a systematic way shall try to deal with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself. Beck sees a dynamic that is driven by an increase in risks and in the ability of science to detect increasingly minute risks, leading to a fundamental re-ordering of social positions in society, and to a transformation in the cultural meanings of risk. These authors argue that whilst humans have always been subjected to a level of risk – such as natural disasters – these have usually been perceived as produced by non-human forces. But we should be aware that after creation man got the change to take care of mother earth. It was given to him on loan. Man had to give name to plants and animals but had also to respect them. And that is were it all went wrong. Man thought he could do anything and it would not be so important which impact it had on nature. The last decennia the materialistic man became so greedy and so ruthless that he thought he could concur anything in this world. Giddens and Beck argue that it is possible for societies to assess the level of risk that is being produced, or that is about to be produced, but hey looked over the fact that most people are not interested into the damage done for future generations.
The aim to get a better life and the aspiration to enjoy life more has brought an attitude of trying to fins as many as possible way to enlighten and to make this life as easy as possible. But then we do have to ask at what cost. The way how we use the raw material and how we handle the feedstock are things we can not put aside. We should be fully aware how we handle the products of nature. End 60ies we came already on the streets to utter our voice, but then everybody laughed with our naïvety. The dangers we pointed at for the nuclear waste, the disgraceful use of nature, the danger of trying to modify natural products, the creation of so many by-products … everything was washed away as not important or something ridiculous small.
In certain sense, we would not have to complain for objectively seen we never before in the history had such a realm and have been so good insured . In the Netherlands, Belgium and in the European countries the last 25 years is the wealth, the purchasing power and the consumption doubled!
Traditional institutions and structures have shaped people’s lives for ages and gave them the symbols that provided meaning, place and purpose in society, giving order to their lives and forming tight social communities. In the name of individual freedom and autonomy structures of these traditional societies became challenged in the 17th century when the individual began to emerge as the center of life. The common, traditional comprehension of life as lived within a we within traditional institutions was replaced by a new focus, the I. The children from the 60ies boom were even more focused on that own self, and their children became the battlefield and the buying out product of the divorced couples. Early modernity championed the rights and freedoms of the individual; as this new understanding entered the imagination of modern societies it began to effect and then replace these traditional structures and institutions with new ones that shaped people
in very different ways. in the new industrial societies the extended family all but disappeared to be replaced by the small, nuclear family. Work and family were separated and most of the relationships were now in the form of more impersonal, work-related and contract-type relationships. Previously the family as a group of people, and the community as a parish, or the community of the village became not any more interested in the others of the community. The personal contacts diminished and the ‘we’ was displaced by the social contracting ‘I’ who now was going to give loyalty to professional organizations, church groups, work places and other social institutions, but from the 21st century also grow further away from those organisations. The churches became more empty and lots of people left God and His business. But by not being interested any more in His Laws and values they thought they had gained a new liberty and permission to do all those things that they wanted to do which could give them fun. Entertainment has become the main factor, and today we can notice that some people change partner as they change underpants. Values, good morals and ethics were lost and most of the people were most concerned about themselves. We now can find loyalty to institutions
and structures to one in which meaning and identity are grounded in the self as the primary agent of meaning; a shift to the I primary agent of meaning.
For companies the worker has become an economical object without any further value then the economical statistics. The human part of the worker has become of no value at all. If we are not careful this economical asset is to conquer every bodies life.On socio-economic terms we have the luxury that already more than 60 years we did not have to encounter war in our own environment. The wars we saw on television were far from our bed and having no share in it made us not divide and gave us no reason to complain. Many do not to be hungry but many live in obfuscate poverty in Belgium and the Netherlands, but also in the surrounding countries, by which it so luxurious country Germany certainly can not escape. We have private-insurances systems for our houses, our car, our holiday, our right assistance, a possible unemployment, our pension and our savings, funeral insurance and name but on.
With all this scientific and electronic gadgets is it still not that the distribution is directly tied to social class, with those at the top getting more and those at the bottom getting less. And are those who give those false micro-credits not misusing their high standards of economical higher position to create a mist of a possible intangible future? Should we not be more concerned with the distribution of “bads” instead with the distribution of “goods” —namely, the realization of untoward risks? Because many risks (e.g., mudslides, nuclear fallout, economic crises) do not respect class boundaries, everyone is, therefore, equally at risk. This dissolving of social class means that social actors are “individualized,” thrown on their own without the collective identity of social class.
I am aware that by engaging in its traditional role of generating new discoveries and new technologies, science inevitably creates and adds to existing risks but at the same time, science is the principal institution for detecting and analysing risks, especially those that are subtle. This misalignment of science’s roles is recognized by the, now, “individualised,” free-floating social actor who undertakes actions, such as in a social movement, to continuously pressure and reinvent scientific and social institutions.
Nowhere can we see the shift of the social fight and the failing from the existing institutions as clear as by the climate change. The industrialised countries should also be aware what they bring over the third world countries and the desserts and flood lands they create. People should be aware what consequences their traffic and consumerism has on the effects of our climate.
To live nicely or to lead a good life that would not damage the life of others shall confront us with the conscious choices we must make. The ‘must’ choose became an essential risk factor in our society. With the continuing risk making a wrong choice and the returning question how to handle that risk. The problem is that we with our very selfish capitalist society sit saddled with a group by which everybody had to see only for his own nest.We have a common interest, but at the same time we sit with the unequal distribution of wealth and risks and thus per definition with conflicts. Therefore also a question of ecological justice is the whole methodology of the ecological foot print per definition. It goes over interests conflicts. That makes the discussion over the posts-Kyoto-agreements also so difficult. The bigger danger is, that the fight over the question who is responsible and who must do the most efforts would lead to the fact that we are much too late and do much too little efforts.
As Freudenburg added, specialization has increased so much since the invention of the streetcar that perhaps the most salient risks of contemporary life are those associated with what he has called “recreancy,” or institutional failure—“the failure of institutional actors to carry out their responsibilities with the degree of vigour necessary to merit the societal trust they enjoy.” Citizens of an increasingly interdependent world, accordingly, need to be able to ‘count’ on not just the physical machinery they use, but also whole armies of specialists, most of whom they will never meet and who are expected to have forms of expertise that ordinary citizens may not be competent to judge, let alone have the ability to control.We have the freedom to think and to act, but we do have to use this freedom wisely and always have to be aware of the consequentions of our acts. We should be careful of the social impacts of energy dependence and of the global ecological footprint for the things we do and which we need. We should always have to weigh up. And we should not loose tract that man proposes but God disposes.
The recent nuclear disasters should be the trigger to get people think more about the risks the previous generation has taken and the risks we our willing to take in consideration of those who shall have to continue living after us. This will mean that we have to consider threats from physical, chemical, and biological agents and from a variety of human activities as well as natural events. We shall not have to accept new technologies just like that because they seem to make live easier or would bring a cheaper solution. We should be aware of the dangers of gene technology, nuclear power, mobile communication, voltaic cells, climate change issues, invasive species, and food hazards. We cannot be blind for the financial crisis, environmental pollution, terrorism, and health and social policy. More and more we should analyse risks of concern to individuals, to public and private sector organizations, and to society at various geographic scales. We have to take up our responsibility!
Like Yacov Haimes, University of Virginia said: “The challenge is that for many of the public, risk engulfs lots of mystery and misunderstanding and misperception. In particular we need to address the element of modeling; we have to see how to model the system,
how to understand it better. Only then can we really do proper risk assessment,
management, and communication. So the question is, How do we answer the question what are the impacts of current decisions on the jobs given that life is dynamic, all systems are changing, they are all under risk and uncertainty, and our decision must be adaptive and must be incremental at the time?”I always say “Freedom is respecting the freedom of others”. We now do have to look for the risks we may take and we may encounter by continuing our way and by trying to come to a better way of living, not only for ourselves but for the whole world.
The law sets boundaries and the boundaries define what you must do … but those same boundaries are supposed to define and affirmatively defend the dry ground of freedom, which we have to cherish, where people can go forward focusing on their goals, including taking reasonable risks all day long, and be accountable not by law but by those who deal with them about whether they’re good at their jobs and whether they want to deal with them. That idea has been lost. Most people have also put aside the Laws of God, the Helper and Deliverer, and by doing that they have taken away a sure guideline to make the best out of life.Previously:
Japan’s nuclear disaster reason to think twiceand about this subject of taking risks, in Dutch:
- Nemen van Risico door de maatschappij
- Energie met vergiftigd geschenk
Also read:
Risks, Radiation and Regulation+++
Related articles
- Writing about “Agnotology, Ignorance and Uncertainty” (ignoranceanduncertainty.wordpress.com)
In philosophy and mathematics the dominant formal framework for dealing with unknowns has been one or another theory of probability. However, Max Black’s ground-breaking 1937 paper proposed that vagueness and ambiguity are distinguishable from each other, from probability, and also from what he called “generality.” The 1960’s and 70’s saw a proliferation of mathematical and philosophical frameworks purporting to encompass non-probabilistic unknowns, such as fuzzy set theory, rough sets, fuzzy logic, belief functions, and imprecise probabilities.
Ellsberg’s classic 1961 experiments demonstrated that people’s choices can be influenced by how imprecisely probabilities are known (i.e., “ambiguity”), and his results have been replicated and extended by numerous studies.
Several studies have suggested that Knightian uncertainty (ambiguity) and risk differentially activate the ventral systems that evaluate potential rewards (the so-called “reward center”) and the prefrontal and parietal regions, with the latter two becoming more active under ambiguity. Other kinds of unknowns have yet to be widely studied in this fashion but research on them is emerging. Nevertheless, the evidence thus far suggests that the human brain treats unknowns as if there are different kinds. - Risky Business: Why Teens Need Risk to Thrive and Grow (psychologytoday.com)
According to a recent study by University College London, risk-taking behavior peeks during adolescence, suggesting that teens are “programmed” to take risks more often than other age groups. The same study also found that teens took risks because they liked the thrill of risk-taking as opposed to not being able to understand the consequences of their behavior.Risk-taking and rule-breaking is linked to developmental changes in the brain that serve to help teens become healthy, analytical adults. Thus, a certain amount of positive risk-taking is necessary for adolescents to fulfill their universal need for independence, developing a separate identity, and testing authority.
- How far do we want to go, take risks for ourselves and for others? We should know that climate change has “possible security implications”. Heat, Drought, Famine All Part of Coming ‘Exponential’ Increase Of Climate-Related Disasters (treehugger.com)
The collective global response, taking the lead of nations on the Security Council no doubt, has been obviously been inadequate, even as donor nations themselves are not in the middle of their own climate-induced crises (the current US heatwave notwithstanding). - Flood victims ‘fear climate change’ (confused.com)
People are more likely to think they are vulnerable to the effects of climate change if they have had floods in their neighbourhood, such as those in summer 2007 which led to a large number of claims on home insurance policies. They are also more likely to believe that global warming is a problem.
Psychologist Dr Alexa Spence, at the University of Nottingham, said: “We know that many people tend to see climate change as distant, affecting other people and places.“However, experience of extreme weather events like flooding have the potential to change the way people view climate change, by making it more real and tangible and ultimately resulting in greater intentions to act in sustainable ways.
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Purge Day but it's PMDD day/week.
It fucking sucks that the only "cure" for this is birth control pills WHICH MY GUYS THAT'S WHY I GOT AN IUD IN THE FIRST PLACE because no matter my best efforts and all the alerts and reminders -- sometimes I forget days and sometimes they just happen to be the "right" day(s) to let the monster slip through.
Which is why it's actually really useless for me as actual birth control. Which is why I got the IUD and after two insertions and three extractions- I am never never never doing that to my body again. So I guess it's a "good thing" I'm eternally single. 🙄
#Women's-Health #reproductive-health #PMDD #pre-menstrual-dysphoric-disorder #contraception #when-will-we-get-actual-research-on-women's-bodies #YOGA-ain't-gonna-do-SHIT-for-the-absolute-homicidal-psychopath-that-comes-out-of-my-brain-from-NOWEHERE #meditation-ain't-gonna-fix-fucked-up-hormones-bitch -
## Mahabharata
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client *Antenna Pod on Android* and searched for `Mahabharata`
I then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the ***RSS feed*** which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only **briefly** up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful ***Epic***
## The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the *entire length* of a living room!
**Artie** has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the *University of Canada* and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I have**You will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...**
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the ***Stories of the Mahabharata***. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually **read *the Mahabharata***.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
*I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.*
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
* 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
* Stories within Stories **Bhagvad Gita** e.g
* ***16 million and Mahabharata***
* **16 million snakes** fall from the sky in the beginning
* **16 million people die** in the **massive war** that erupts at the climax of the Epic
* These statistics are iterated and reiterated by **Artie** in her podcast
* Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of **science and literature** not as Holy Scripture## spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of ArtieThe Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The **Bhagavad Gita** is an **excerpt** of the Mahabharata
* The Gita is short
* teaches you about Dharma
* while the War is coming close
* you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
* is a Epic within an Epic
* **People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart** (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
## Have fun!
EOF
^Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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## Mahabharata
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client *Antenna Pod on Android* and searched for `Mahabharata`
I then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the ***RSS feed*** which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only **briefly** up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful ***Epic***
## The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the *entire length* of a living room!
**Artie** has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the *University of Canada* and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I have**You will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...**
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the ***Stories of the Mahabharata***. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually **read *the Mahabharata***.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
*I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.*
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
* 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
* Stories within Stories **Bhagvad Gita** e.g
* ***16 million and Mahabharata***
* **16 million snakes** fall from the sky in the beginning
* **16 million people die** in the **massive war** that erupts at the climax of the Epic
* These statistics are iterated and reiterated by **Artie** in her podcast
* Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of **science and literature** not as Holy Scripture## spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of ArtieThe Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The **Bhagavad Gita** is an **excerpt** of the Mahabharata
* The Gita is short
* teaches you about Dharma
* while the War is coming close
* you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
* is a Epic within an Epic
* **People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart** (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
## Have fun!
EOF
^Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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## Mahabharata
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client *Antenna Pod on Android* and searched for `Mahabharata`
I then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the ***RSS feed*** which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only **briefly** up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful ***Epic***
## The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the *entire length* of a living room!
**Artie** has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the *University of Canada* and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I have**You will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...**
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the ***Stories of the Mahabharata***. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually **read *the Mahabharata***.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
*I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.*
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
* 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
* Stories within Stories **Bhagvad Gita** e.g
* ***16 million and Mahabharata***
* **16 million snakes** fall from the sky in the beginning
* **16 million people die** in the **massive war** that erupts at the climax of the Epic
* These statistics are iterated and reiterated by **Artie** in her podcast
* Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of **science and literature** not as Holy Scripture## spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of ArtieThe Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The **Bhagavad Gita** is an **excerpt** of the Mahabharata
* The Gita is short
* teaches you about Dharma
* while the War is coming close
* you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
* is a Epic within an Epic
* **People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart** (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
## Have fun!
EOF
^Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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## Mahabharata
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client *Antenna Pod on Android* and searched for `Mahabharata`
I then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the ***RSS feed*** which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only **briefly** up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful ***Epic***
## The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the *entire length* of a living room!
**Artie** has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the *University of Canada* and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I have**You will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...**
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the ***Stories of the Mahabharata***. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually **read *the Mahabharata***.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
*I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.*
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
* 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
* Stories within Stories **Bhagvad Gita** e.g
* ***16 million and Mahabharata***
* **16 million snakes** fall from the sky in the beginning
* **16 million people die** in the **massive war** that erupts at the climax of the Epic
* These statistics are iterated and reiterated by **Artie** in her podcast
* Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of **science and literature** not as Holy Scripture## spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of ArtieThe Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The **Bhagavad Gita** is an **excerpt** of the Mahabharata
* The Gita is short
* teaches you about Dharma
* while the War is coming close
* you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
* is a Epic within an Epic
* **People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart** (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
## Have fun!
EOF
^Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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## Mahabharata
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client *Antenna Pod on Android* and searched for `Mahabharata`
I then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the ***RSS feed*** which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only **briefly** up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful ***Epic***
## The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the *entire length* of a living room!
**Artie** has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the *University of Canada* and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I have**You will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...**
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the ***Stories of the Mahabharata***. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually **read *the Mahabharata***.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
*I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.*
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
* 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
* Stories within Stories **Bhagvad Gita** e.g
* ***16 million and Mahabharata***
* **16 million snakes** fall from the sky in the beginning
* **16 million people die** in the **massive war** that erupts at the climax of the Epic
* These statistics are iterated and reiterated by **Artie** in her podcast
* Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of **science and literature** not as Holy Scripture## spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of ArtieThe Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The **Bhagavad Gita** is an **excerpt** of the Mahabharata
* The Gita is short
* teaches you about Dharma
* while the War is coming close
* you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
* is a Epic within an Epic
* **People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart** (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
## Have fun!
EOF
^Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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Mahabharata
md formatted
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client Antenna Pod on Android and searched for
MahabharataI then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the RSS feed which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only briefly up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful Epic
The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the entire length of a living room!
Artie has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the University of Canada and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I haveYou will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the Stories of the Mahabharata. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually read *the Mahabharata*.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
- 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
- Stories within Stories Bhagvad Gita e.g
- 16 million and Mahabharata
- 16 million snakes fall from the sky in the beginning
- 16 million people die in the massive war that erupts at the climax of the Epic
- These statistics are iterated and reiterated by Artie in her podcast
- Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of science and literature not as Holy Scripture
spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of Artie
The Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The Bhagavad Gita is an excerpt of the Mahabharata- The Gita is short
- teaches you about Dharma
- while the War is coming close
- you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
- is a Epic within an Epic
- People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)
For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
Have fun!
EOF
Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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Mahabharata
md formatted
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client Antenna Pod on Android and searched for
MahabharataI then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the RSS feed which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only briefly up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful Epic
The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the entire length of a living room!
Artie has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the University of Canada and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I haveYou will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the Stories of the Mahabharata. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually read *the Mahabharata*.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
- 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
- Stories within Stories Bhagvad Gita e.g
- 16 million and Mahabharata
- 16 million snakes fall from the sky in the beginning
- 16 million people die in the massive war that erupts at the climax of the Epic
- These statistics are iterated and reiterated by Artie in her podcast
- Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of science and literature not as Holy Scripture
spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of Artie
The Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The Bhagavad Gita is an excerpt of the Mahabharata- The Gita is short
- teaches you about Dharma
- while the War is coming close
- you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
- is a Epic within an Epic
- People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)
For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
Have fun!
EOF
Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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Mahabharata
md formatted
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client Antenna Pod on Android and searched for
MahabharataI then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the RSS feed which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only briefly up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful Epic
The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the entire length of a living room!
Artie has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the University of Canada and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I haveYou will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the Stories of the Mahabharata. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually read *the Mahabharata*.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
- 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
- Stories within Stories Bhagvad Gita e.g
- 16 million and Mahabharata
- 16 million snakes fall from the sky in the beginning
- 16 million people die in the massive war that erupts at the climax of the Epic
- These statistics are iterated and reiterated by Artie in her podcast
- Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of science and literature not as Holy Scripture
spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of Artie
The Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The Bhagavad Gita is an excerpt of the Mahabharata- The Gita is short
- teaches you about Dharma
- while the War is coming close
- you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
- is a Epic within an Epic
- People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)
For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
Have fun!
EOF
Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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Mahabharata
md formatted
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client Antenna Pod on Android and searched for
MahabharataI then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the RSS feed which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only briefly up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful Epic
The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the entire length of a living room!
Artie has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the University of Canada and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I haveYou will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the Stories of the Mahabharata. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually read *the Mahabharata*.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
- 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
- Stories within Stories Bhagvad Gita e.g
- 16 million and Mahabharata
- 16 million snakes fall from the sky in the beginning
- 16 million people die in the massive war that erupts at the climax of the Epic
- These statistics are iterated and reiterated by Artie in her podcast
- Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of science and literature not as Holy Scripture
spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of Artie
The Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The Bhagavad Gita is an excerpt of the Mahabharata- The Gita is short
- teaches you about Dharma
- while the War is coming close
- you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
- is a Epic within an Epic
- People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)
For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
Have fun!
EOF
Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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Mahabharata
md formatted
When I wanted to listen to the Mahabharata I simply went into my podcast client Antenna Pod on Android and searched for
MahabharataI then got a hit to which I subscribed immediately. I didn't even need to go to the website that I linked below, my clients simply fetch the RSS feed which I shall also include in the sources
I shall dwell only briefly up on the content of the Mahabharata here. Instead of a full story, I shall point you to Wikipedia feeds regarding this beautiful Epic
The Mahabharata is so vast that the physical books cover the entire length of a living room!
Artie has also talked about the Mahabharata, in her podcast. She has studied the subject at the University of Canada and she has been studying at the time of her recording, the Mahabharata for 25 years.
Artie drew the same conclusion as I haveYou will never be able to remember everything about the Mahabharata just what is important to you, in your life...
I have screenshots of my podcast reader ready but chose not to include them, because it doesn't matter what you use in order to listen to the Stories of the Mahabharata. What does matter is that if you're interest is sparked, you can listen to it, but most important you should actually read *the Mahabharata*.
I don't need to tell you that reading something yourself, is more powerful than listening to an audiobook or a podcast
I'm certain you've also read Stephen King's Christine, just like me, in just a couple of hours and have experienced how reading a great book forms in your mind. I'm also certain that you know The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge by heart❤️ just like I do.
Naturally I'm kidding; those are my experiences though and they have formed incredible synapse connections within my brain system and my Atma
You don't need to read the Stories of the Mahabharata in Sanskrit, it is probably translated in whatever language you speak natively.
I enjoy listening to the podcast as a supplement to the actual books. I am a multilingual individual and thus can enjoy this Epic and multiple languages.
The statistics of the Mahabharata are astonishing
- 100,000 I repeat 100,000 Shlokas
- Stories within Stories Bhagvad Gita e.g
- 16 million and Mahabharata
- 16 million snakes fall from the sky in the beginning
- 16 million people die in the massive war that erupts at the climax of the Epic
- These statistics are iterated and reiterated by Artie in her podcast
- Arti approaches the Mahabharata from a point of view of science and literature not as Holy Scripture
spawn
When the Mahabharata begins, snakes fall out of the sky. Snakes, many of them. If you want to hear that level of beginning you should listen to the podcast of Artie
The Stories of Mahabharata by Shudipta Bhoumic, is a treasure to listen to, even while you are riding in traffic. He has the incanny ability to talk about the Mahabharata in a very comfortable form and manner, only a scholar on the subject can do
Note;
The Bhagavad Gita is an excerpt of the Mahabharata- The Gita is short
- teaches you about Dharma
- while the War is coming close
- you learn how to life as a warrior and a Dharmic Atma
- is a Epic within an Epic
- People have learned the Bhagvad Gita by heart (it;s short irt the Mahabharata)
For the rest I advise you, to go on your own Mahabharata Discovery Mission. I've given you some of the tools that I use
Have fun!
EOF
Z
Sources:
Antenna Pod on Android
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagavad_Gita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arjuna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devayani
https://shows.acast.com/thestoriesofmahabharata
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/thestoriesofmahabharata
#Mahabharata #Epos #Stories #Devak #Prata #Bhema #Arjuna #Krishna #Epic #Hinduism #not #religion #podcast #wonderful #War
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Oof, I added some spanish connectors (also, except, since, etc) to my Anki deck ahead of my oral exam to give a conversational boost if I needed it, but they are just all sliding off my brain. They're mostly multi-word, unlike in English and German, and I have no mental image of what eg "con tal de que" actually looks like, unlike nouns or adjectives.
On the plus side, super useful for actual conversations, regardless of exam stuff, if I can get them in there.
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Attending MVP Summit this week. I had to look up the term Purple Teaming. Unfortunately it is what I thought it was and not about actual purple people, old pop tunes or Easter candy. #MVP #MVPSummit Overfilling my brain this week.
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I feel like if I were an engineer who worked for years on visual AI models like #Sora, #DallE, #DeepDream, etc, I would by now have developed brain damage or some sort of dissociative disorder from viewing so much derangement.
Just seeing some of this stuff is painful, but seeing it day in day out seems like it could slowly erode your actual perception & sense of reality.
I know certain things get in your head. Like the first time I used VR, my dreams were influenced by that type of space.
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I feel like if I were an engineer who worked for years on visual AI models like #Sora, #DallE, #DeepDream, etc, I would by now have developed brain damage or some sort of dissociative disorder from viewing so much derangement.
Just seeing some of this stuff is painful, but seeing it day in day out seems like it could slowly erode your actual perception & sense of reality.
I know certain things get in your head. Like the first time I used VR, my dreams were influenced by that type of space.
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CW: Songwriting, Filk Diaries, longish
Some surviving filk:
"Old Dead Modem Blues" (1994?) was short enough that it stayed in my head all by itself. I didn't add the extra verses until 2021.
"Space Parity" (1995?) I admit was just about perfect theming, and the way I could have the filk lyrics cross over with the actual Bowie lyrics in places meant that it was able to survive in my head all those years with no mutation. It's literally unchanged from when I penned it.
"Pooper Scooper" isn't actually all that old; I think I wrote the chorus in 2013 and posted it on Twitter. Tight rhyming, again, is what helped that one to not be forgotten, and when I came to write the verses and bridge last year, all I needed to do was go back and make sure I'd remembered the Abba song correctly, because that song is from an album I barely know.
It's funny where I find my jottings. At one point I was using IMAP notes because iOS supported them, and it wasn't till I was cleaning those out and moving the notes to iCloud years later that I came across the completely forgotten "Brillo, Spit-Brillo". I padded it out to the requisite three verses with a story arc last year.
"I've Written a Self-Referential Major-General Parody" must be from the mid nineties, based on the poor rhyming I tolerated back then. I don't think I actually had it written down anywhere but when I committed it to paper for last year's concert, out it came from my brain, intact.
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#DailyDigest for 2025-04-28
It's been a productive day!
- Made progress on the #writing front. I've mapped out several upcoming scenes for my novel that still sits somewhere between #scifi and #speculativeFiction. Still on track to finish by the end of next month. (+1437 words)
- Brainstormed some interesting #storytelling and #interactiveFiction ideas with my business partner.
- Still can't shake the uncertainty about how my project and/or client landscape will look this year. The not-knowing part is definitely outside my comfort zone.
EDIT:
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Bear with
It started with a trifling dissatisfaction with how the IPCC arrived at their composite global temperature series which then developed as new datasets came out. Or perhaps even before then, with a similarly trifling dissatisfaction on the very same topic. My blog doesn’t get a lot of comments, but the two more recent posts have had a lot of very interesting and technical comments from Bruce Calvert (Thanks Bruce) on how to formalise some of the ideas. My latest post on the topic largely ignored the formalisms because I have a preference for simple methods (and a small brain).
What both are trying to do is satisfy a bunch of criteria. We have a set of different global temperature datasets, but what we want is:
- A single dataset…
- That integrates all of the information that the individual datasets provide
- Also, integrating all the knowledge we have that isn’t necessarily tied up in those datasets
- With a reasonable central estimate
- And an uncertainty range that represents our uncertainty
- which can be used to generate samples that are representative of uncertainty at all time scales
- and are representative of actual global temperature variability
These criteria would make a useful dataset with broad utility.
My method (as it has developed) provides 1, 4, 5, and 6, but falls short on 2, 3 and 7 by throwing out some information and mixing together datasets that represent somewhat different things. One could quibble about 4, 5, and 6 of course.
The Guttorp and Craigmile method (see also) provides 1, 4, 6, and 7, but does less well (in my assessment, see the links above) on 2, 3 and 5. In places their central estimate is likely compromised by poor dataset choices and they ignore information that is available in the datasets. These issues could be remedied.
Is it reasonable? Well, it includes some older datasets (e.g. GETQUOCS) that have old bias adjustments because they have a nice uncertainty analysis. One might even argue that with the publication of DCENT, all other datasets are questionable. I would counter that by noting that the major compelling improvements from DCENT really affect the early 20th century warming, but prior to that it just widens the uncertainty range.
Does it really represent our uncertainty? Again, it’s hard to say. We have an ensemble of opportunity and rather a poor one at that. The hierarchical grouping I suggested is healthier than it was when I first suggested it. We now have DCENT and COBE-STEMP3, which broaden the range of estimates, but we are still trying to estimate a broad distribution with a handful of samples. My method is only as broad as the range of the datasets we have but this is partly by design. Another thing missing is the fact that we know that mixing and matching the land and ocean components of NOAAGlobalTemp and HadCRUT would widen the spread.
Does it use all the information? No. The hierarchy tries to encode the major covariances that define the structural uncertainties, assuming these come from the choice of SST (or marine temperature) dataset. We know that datasets use similar land temperature datasets and largely the same sea ice datasets. I also don’t use uncertainty ranges if they’re not represented by an ensemble. This is partly in order to avoid having to make assumptions about the correlation structures of the errors and partly because I don’t know what those structures are. I’m also missing information from the NOAAGlobalTemp ensemble. That would be a very useful addition. The Vaccaro dataset also has an ensemble and an interestingly different interpolation approach. And now there is a new dataset in preprint, GloSAT, which combines marine air temperatures with land air temperatures to give a completely new beast.
How to do better?
One obvious way is to get those missing ensembles.
Another is to employ the more formal statistical approach
Sticking with my simplistic approach, Bruce came up with an interestingly objective way to weight datasets using the estimated covariances between them. This would rely on expert judgement and it seems like this would be a difficult issue. There’s not a single covariance between datasets. Say two datasets use the same SST dataset, but different interpolation methods and land temperatures. At any time step, the two datasets will effectively give the SST dataset different weights and those weights will change over time. That means the covariance will change over time too. The temporal structure will also vary with time. It’s complex but we could come up with reasonable approximations. We could weight land and ocean as 30:70 representing the ratio, or have some simple smoothed representation. We could develop a hierarchy of hierarchies. We could take a survey of experts, asking them to make their covariance estimates. etc.
So, a first minimal extension is to include GloSAT and Vaccaro ensembles, because the data are just there begging to be used. I rearranged the hierarchy to put Vaccaro and GETQUOCS in the same category and separated them from the HadCRUT5 datasets. I also jacked the ensemble up to 50,000 members because I can and I want to make matplotlib explode.
The shape of the uncertainty curve might look odd, but it’s just a consequence of using 1850-1900 as a baseline. Uncertainty is generally smaller during the baseline period because each ensemble member is forced to average to zero during that period. It increases afterwards because there is a lot of uncertainty in the early 20th century.
Till next time…
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CW: Slut Journal
🧵 1/2 I have been so horny today, craving cum and piss. I did manage to connect with a few guys online but no actual play. One of them may be coming by tomorrow at lunch. I’m trying not to overthink it. #ADHD brain is excited about possibilities.
This got me to thinking about my disconnects with allistics; the communication and struggles with signals and understanding. It often gets in the way of play. Frustrating.
#slut #CumPig #PissPig #faggot #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent
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Hello everyone! This is my first Blaugust post! I take my sweet time learning new things and that’s why I’m eleven days late to the party but still in time to write a bit more than usual. I found out about Blaugust some time ago through Belghast since we are members of the same instance on Mastodon. My blog isn’t even 1 year old so, by the time I’ve heard about it, it was November or December or something. This reminds me of the first time I’ve heard about Inktober. It was exactly at the end of October! It’s my curse and my relationship with time (if we can call it that) has been thorny, to say the least.
What’s this blog about? I’ve been writing about video games since November 2023. The idea was keeping a record of the games I’ve been playing, to not let those experiences fall into the oblivion of my memory. I’ve been very concerned about keeping track of events and defying the limitations of memory. That’s why we write down things, right? We keep records of important transactions, we keep journals with our deepest thoughts, we write books and poetry, we read books and take notes in the margins, we write important notes and stick them on our computer screens, we have private folders with secrets (hehe) and we have secrets we’ll never share with anyone – ever. I’m an archivist: I think about memory preservation, about communities, about history and about the mind on a daily basis.
My father-in-law died of dementia in 2022, and then my father died from a myriad of neurological health complications, alone, in the same year. I spent 2023 trying to make sense of things, didn’t visit any family, didn’t do much except playing video games (they were a life saver) and somewhat lost the track of time. You see, when something deeply traumatic happens to you, time flows differently. The memory you hold of things is fresh like it happened yesterday even though the actual events happened years ago, sometimes deep in the past. Outside of the doctor’s office, my wife told me she was diagnosed with cancer. It was 2018 or 2019. I don’t remember the year. It’s important to know the year for archival purposes, but to me, as a direct participant, it isn’t. It happened yesterday; I still remember the length of her hair (because it’s four times longer now), what she was wearing, the expression on her face of shock and disbelief – the pale color of her skin. Hell, I even remember having punched a wall outside. And most of all, I remember what it feels to get the news from the perspective of a family member. The only family member around. However, we later engaged a community around us, and my colleagues, friends and extended family were my army of angels. That’s why I talked about my personal army of angels on this blog when I wrote about Shin Megami Tensei. They’re real people, they helped us though a very difficult and taxing time. We survived! With the help of real people and health professionals. And now she’s embracing life, she’s healthy and I’m healthy in return. Honestly I never cared much about me, I don’t believe I still do, but for her I keep going.
Well, why am I writing about all this? Is it to make you go away after reading about my pathetic experiences? I don’t believe you’re unfamiliar with any of this, one way or another. It’s to talk about memory and why it’s so important to register not only the big events of our life but also the smaller things that entertain us, the books we read, what we’re currently studying and the video games we play, or any other thing. Since I feel that my memory fails me more often than not, I feel the need to write a bit more openly, using the internet to get out of my head and constant brain farts, and keeping information more accessible instead of using a physical journal inside a drawer that no soul will read anyway.
This brings me to Blaugust again. The prospect of writing every day is a bit daunting. There’s a reason I haven’t completed an Inktober event in my life and it won’t be this year either. Why would I write every day if I’m not that interesting? Well, I can always write about the uninteresting, as long as I keep writing. And it doesn’t have to be every day. It’s not like the Blaugust police will break into my house and take me in for questioning. Right? Belghast? So I looked it up on Google and found a blog called Gaudete Theology where the author wondered about the same “what is Blaugust” question, about a year ago.
https://gaudetetheology.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/here-comes-blaugust/
But why the hell did I end up inside a theology blog anyway? Does Google know something about me that I don’t know about? In my last post, I wrote about my writing as a side quest. The idea of the post was to explain how I balance playing video games and writing about them. I privilege playing video games first, because they’re the main source of my content, and if I have something to say then I write about it. I tend to be very consistent with my method and Blaugust is a means of disrupting it a little bit. I don’t have infinite time, but I have yet another side quest and that is my interest in theology. I haven’t written anything structured about it yet, but the interest is there and for this hobby (I’ll consider it a hobby because I’m no official student in the matter) I focus mostly on reading.
I come from History and what I’ve been noticing is that there’s a big difference between the academic articles I read about events in the Middle Ages, which is what I burn for, and, say, books written by Christian mystics from the Late Middle ages. As an example, to read The Way of Perfection written by Saint Teresa of Ávila is way different than reading about her historical context in 16th century Spain and the Counter Reformation movement. This is obvious to me now but it wasn’t before. To read a spiritual text I need to be in the zone, to be connected and available to fully get the message. Writing about theology is not my main activity because after my reading sessions I feel spiritually depleted, lingering in the words I’ve read and floating in the air, experiencing the warmest embrace. Teresa embraces Christ, her beloved, and I embrace her with no shame. It’s an experience I can’t begin to describe. And also, one thing is reading text about doctrine and the Bible and other thing is reading about the architecture of the soul like in Interior Castle. I prefer to dwell in the latter as I grasp a bit about the former in the process, instead of dwelling in discussions between old misogynistic men about who has the biggest Bible (he-he).
Anyway, Gaudete Theology has been an enormous pleasure to read and I’m so glad I found her. She’s able to put into words things that I struggle to describe and her devotion is something I’ve never experienced in anyone physically present in my life. Also, she’s Catholic and inclusive, feminist, accepts other forms of faith, and rolls with a certain pragmatism that I don’t possess. It’s something. Her writings are the perfect connection to a reality of someone who strives to make an actual meaningful impact in the world. If I wasn’t looking for Blaugust I’d never have found her blog, so there’s that.
Back to video games, I play mostly on PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch and very little on Playstation 5. It’s not because I don’t like the games, it’s just the lack of time. I still have all my Vanillaware games to play on PS5, except for Unicorn Overlord, which I played on the Switch. I’m always open to new gaming suggestions as well as books, movies, anime, you name it. Everything is interesting!
https://swordofseiros.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/first-post-of-blaugust/
#archives #blaugust #blaugust2024 #blogging #books #christianMysticism #contentCreation #family #gaming #history #hobbies #memory #religion #theology #VideoGames #videogames #wordpress #writing
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Daily writing prompt What topics do you like to discuss? View all responsesTranslating today’s prompt from Jetpack to Robert-speak it is asking me to write about what I like to write about in my personal blog/journal/brain dropping target. I thought I had an About Me page around here somewhere that served that purpose for me. Whatever, I feel a bullet list coming on…
What topics do I like to discuss?
- My wife, Jen
- My step kids, Bellana and Harry
- All things family
- Music
- Playing music
- Writing music
- All things related to playing in a band
- Listening to music
- Arguing about music (I am a grade A music snob and I am always right)
- Recording music
- All things related to musical instruments and gear
- Leaving the house to go and listen to live music (which doesn’t happen often anymore because I am old and go to bed early)
- Sports
- Hockey, both NHL and minor leagues and sometimes even NCAA
- Baseball, both major and minor leagues
- Travel
- Stressing about money and how we don’t have enough for what we want to do with our lives but still try to find a way if we can
- Weight loss surgery recovery and all the gross stomach issues that go along with it that are 100% worth the struggle
- Working as a programmer for a software company that develops systems for hospitals
- Photography
- Digital photography
- Film photography
- Cell phone photography
- Bad haiku that are likely viscously insulting to the actual artists who write real haiku
- Technology
- Being a total Apple fanboy
- Social media and how it is both an obsession and infuriatingly awful
- Politics
- How the maga cult is the new nazi party and how that fascist pile of orange goo is literally evil
- Cats
Yeah, that seems like a good, short list of topics I like to talk about on this cute little bloggie page. Hopefully you, dear readers, are into reading weird, middle aged people from New England who like to write insipid crap about some of these topics, and hopefully I don’t make you wait too long before hitting something you are particularly interested in.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/26/topics-2/
#art #dailyprompt #dailyprompt1920 #Life #Music #photography #Writing
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Daily writing prompt What topics do you like to discuss? View all responsesTranslating today’s prompt from Jetpack to Robert-speak it is asking me to write about what I like to write about in my personal blog/journal/brain dropping target. I thought I had an About Me page around here somewhere that served that purpose for me. Whatever, I feel a bullet list coming on…
What topics do I like to discuss?
- My wife, Jen
- My step kids, Bellana and Harry
- All things family
- Music
- Playing music
- Writing music
- All things related to playing in a band
- Listening to music
- Arguing about music (I am a grade A music snob and I am always right)
- Recording music
- All things related to musical instruments and gear
- Leaving the house to go and listen to live music (which doesn’t happen often anymore because I am old and go to bed early)
- Sports
- Hockey, both NHL and minor leagues and sometimes even NCAA
- Baseball, both major and minor leagues
- Travel
- Stressing about money and how we don’t have enough for what we want to do with our lives but still try to find a way if we can
- Weight loss surgery recovery and all the gross stomach issues that go along with it that are 100% worth the struggle
- Working as a programmer for a software company that develops systems for hospitals
- Photography
- Digital photography
- Film photography
- Cell phone photography
- Bad haiku that are likely viscously insulting to the actual artists who write real haiku
- Technology
- Being a total Apple fanboy
- Social media and how it is both an obsession and infuriatingly awful
- Politics
- How the maga cult is the new nazi party and how that fascist pile of orange goo is literally evil
- Cats
Yeah, that seems like a good, short list of topics I like to talk about on this cute little bloggie page. Hopefully you, dear readers, are into reading weird, middle aged people from New England who like to write insipid crap about some of these topics, and hopefully I don’t make you wait too long before hitting something you are particularly interested in.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/26/topics-2/
#art #dailyprompt #dailyprompt1920 #Life #Music #photography #Writing
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Daily writing prompt What topics do you like to discuss? View all responsesTranslating today’s prompt from Jetpack to Robert-speak it is asking me to write about what I like to write about in my personal blog/journal/brain dropping target. I thought I had an About Me page around here somewhere that served that purpose for me. Whatever, I feel a bullet list coming on…
What topics do I like to discuss?
- My wife, Jen
- My step kids, Bellana and Harry
- All things family
- Music
- Playing music
- Writing music
- All things related to playing in a band
- Listening to music
- Arguing about music (I am a grade A music snob and I am always right)
- Recording music
- All things related to musical instruments and gear
- Leaving the house to go and listen to live music (which doesn’t happen often anymore because I am old and go to bed early)
- Sports
- Hockey, both NHL and minor leagues and sometimes even NCAA
- Baseball, both major and minor leagues
- Travel
- Stressing about money and how we don’t have enough for what we want to do with our lives but still try to find a way if we can
- Weight loss surgery recovery and all the gross stomach issues that go along with it that are 100% worth the struggle
- Working as a programmer for a software company that develops systems for hospitals
- Photography
- Digital photography
- Film photography
- Cell phone photography
- Bad haiku that are likely viscously insulting to the actual artists who write real haiku
- Technology
- Being a total Apple fanboy
- Social media and how it is both an obsession and infuriatingly awful
- Politics
- How the maga cult is the new nazi party and how that fascist pile of orange goo is literally evil
- Cats
Yeah, that seems like a good, short list of topics I like to talk about on this cute little bloggie page. Hopefully you, dear readers, are into reading weird, middle aged people from New England who like to write insipid crap about some of these topics, and hopefully I don’t make you wait too long before hitting something you are particularly interested in.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/26/topics-2/
#art #dailyprompt #dailyprompt1920 #Life #Music #photography #Writing
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Daily writing prompt What topics do you like to discuss? View all responsesTranslating today’s prompt from Jetpack to Robert-speak it is asking me to write about what I like to write about in my personal blog/journal/brain dropping target. I thought I had an About Me page around here somewhere that served that purpose for me. Whatever, I feel a bullet list coming on…
What topics do I like to discuss?
- My wife, Jen
- My step kids, Bellana and Harry
- All things family
- Music
- Playing music
- Writing music
- All things related to playing in a band
- Listening to music
- Arguing about music (I am a grade A music snob and I am always right)
- Recording music
- All things related to musical instruments and gear
- Leaving the house to go and listen to live music (which doesn’t happen often anymore because I am old and go to bed early)
- Sports
- Hockey, both NHL and minor leagues and sometimes even NCAA
- Baseball, both major and minor leagues
- Travel
- Stressing about money and how we don’t have enough for what we want to do with our lives but still try to find a way if we can
- Weight loss surgery recovery and all the gross stomach issues that go along with it that are 100% worth the struggle
- Working as a programmer for a software company that develops systems for hospitals
- Photography
- Digital photography
- Film photography
- Cell phone photography
- Bad haiku that are likely viscously insulting to the actual artists who write real haiku
- Technology
- Being a total Apple fanboy
- Social media and how it is both an obsession and infuriatingly awful
- Politics
- How the maga cult is the new nazi party and how that fascist pile of orange goo is literally evil
- Cats
Yeah, that seems like a good, short list of topics I like to talk about on this cute little bloggie page. Hopefully you, dear readers, are into reading weird, middle aged people from New England who like to write insipid crap about some of these topics, and hopefully I don’t make you wait too long before hitting something you are particularly interested in.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/04/26/topics-2/
#art #dailyprompt #dailyprompt1920 #Life #Music #photography #Writing
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currently reading "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon (co-host of #MaintenancePhase), which states:
"In 2004, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published 'Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000,' the study that first trumpeted that some four hundred thousand Americans died each year simply from being fat."
I already have some idea of how this story will go, from listening to Maintenance Phase's episode on The French Paradox*, and my little goblin brain wants to publish a study of Actual Causes of Death that proves that some millions of Americans die each year "under mysterious circumstances"
* the TL;DR version is: "cause of death is very hard to actually determine and is influenced to a great degree by policies and how forms are designed"
for the whole story, check the episode out:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79PcksGTHF5qIhqjNEftLm -
currently reading "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon (co-host of #MaintenancePhase), which states:
"In 2004, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published 'Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000,' the study that first trumpeted that some four hundred thousand Americans died each year simply from being fat."
I already have some idea of how this story will go, from listening to Maintenance Phase's episode on The French Paradox*, and my little goblin brain wants to publish a study of Actual Causes of Death that proves that some millions of Americans die each year "under mysterious circumstances"
* the TL;DR version is: "cause of death is very hard to actually determine and is influenced to a great degree by policies and how forms are designed"
for the whole story, check the episode out:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79PcksGTHF5qIhqjNEftLm -
currently reading "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon (co-host of #MaintenancePhase), which states:
"In 2004, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published 'Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000,' the study that first trumpeted that some four hundred thousand Americans died each year simply from being fat."
I already have some idea of how this story will go, from listening to Maintenance Phase's episode on The French Paradox*, and my little goblin brain wants to publish a study of Actual Causes of Death that proves that some millions of Americans die each year "under mysterious circumstances"
* the TL;DR version is: "cause of death is very hard to actually determine and is influenced to a great degree by policies and how forms are designed"
for the whole story, check the episode out:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79PcksGTHF5qIhqjNEftLm -
currently reading "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon (co-host of #MaintenancePhase), which states:
"In 2004, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published 'Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000,' the study that first trumpeted that some four hundred thousand Americans died each year simply from being fat."
I already have some idea of how this story will go, from listening to Maintenance Phase's episode on The French Paradox*, and my little goblin brain wants to publish a study of Actual Causes of Death that proves that some millions of Americans die each year "under mysterious circumstances"
* the TL;DR version is: "cause of death is very hard to actually determine and is influenced to a great degree by policies and how forms are designed"
for the whole story, check the episode out:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/79PcksGTHF5qIhqjNEftLm