nassim haramein must be rolling over in his van.

Maybe souls, life-energy/chi, operate with energy not recognized by mainstream academics, like orgone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgone

"Values, life meanings, purposes, and qualities slip through science like a sea slips through the nets of fishermen. Yet man swims in this sea, so he cannot exclude it from his purview. This is what was meant when we noted earlier that a scientific world view is in principle impossible. Taken in its entirety, the world is not as science says it is; it is as science, philosophy, religion, the arts, and everyday speech say it is. Not science but the sum of man's symbol systems, of which science is but one, is the measure of things.

With science itself, there can be no quarrel. Scientism is another matter. Whereas science is positive, contenting itself with reporting what it discovers, scientism is negative. It goes beyond the actual findings of science to deny that other approaches to knowledge are valid and other truths true. In doing so it deserts science in favor of metaphysics-- bad metaphysics as it happens, for as contention that there are no truths save those of science is not itself a scientific truth, in affirming it scientism contradicts itself. It also carries marks of a religion-- a secular religion, resulting from overextrapolation from science, that has seldom numbered great scientists among its votaries."
  Huston Smith, Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions

The police are a public (as opposed to private/"illegal") protection racket.

“Values, life meanings, purposes, and qualities slip through science like a sea slips through the nets of fishermen. Yet man swims in this sea, so he cannot exclude it from his purview. This is what was meant when we noted earlier that a scientific world view is in principle impossible. Taken in its entirety, the world is not as science says it is; it is as science, philosophy, religion, the arts, and everyday speech say it is. Not science but the sum of man's symbol systems, of which science is but one, is the measure of things.

With science itself, there can be no quarrel. Scientism is another matter. Whereas science is positive, contenting itself with reporting what it discovers, scientism is negative. It goes beyond the actual findings of science to deny that other approaches to knowledge are valid and other truths true. In doing so it deserts science in favor of metaphysics-- bad metaphysics as it happens, for as contention that there are no truths save those of science is not itself a scientific truth, in affirming it scientism contradicts itself. It also carries marks of a religion-- a secular religion, resulting from overextrapolation from science, that has seldom numbered great scientists among its votaries.”
  Huston Smith, Forgotten Truth: The Common Vision of the World's Religions

the big bang model slipped and fell while walking down the runway. perhaps gravity can't be reverse engineered into this model of the universe because it's not exactly correct?

http://whorulesamerica.net

Sociologist Bill Domhoff has been working on American power structures for decades, really good stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch

Could it be affecting our weather, too?

The vast majority of people in congress are there by no accident. They were pre-selected by our ownership class.

Oh you want academic research to back this up? http://whorulesamerica.net (sorry for the snarky website setup :) :) )

"If you think you are depressed, first make sure you're not surrounded by ass-holes."

Make sure you accept reality and your true self. Try to sungaze at least for sunset (sungazing = viewing first/last 15 minutes of sunlight on the horizon). Get outside. Listen to your body. Don't eat crap. Focus on what really matters to you in life. And call me in the morning.

The thermodynamic model of representing food as energy measured as calories is about as wrong as the stork model for reproduction. Sure a stork could physically bring a baby, but it's just not how things work. One way a body decides whether to store fat is insulin response. How exactly do calories account for that?

let's go ahead and make effect a verb since there is a difference between effect and affect as nouns...

Cars are unsustainable not because of their fuel type but because of the sheer amount of energy it requires to hurl ourselves around along with thousands of pounds of metal. It just not a great use of energy.

who said that? charlie sheen?

is money really supposed to be held long term? i think the original use of money was for short term transactions, the proverbial not taking the cow to a transaction and the indirect exchange (not having to trade your goods and services directly for the good and services you seek).

isn't it odd that money doesn't suffer from entropy (explicitly)?