December 2009
9 posts
When the nun Chiyono studied Zen under Bukko of Engaku she was unable to attain the fruits of meditation for a long time.
At last one moonlit night she was carrying water in an old pail bound with bamboo. The bamboo broke and the bottom fell out of the pail, and at that moment Chiyono was set free!
In commemoration, she wrote a poem:
In this way and that I tried to save the old pail Since the...
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“The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are...”
– Emerson, Nature
Artificial Pork Meat Grown In Laboratory →
“You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals…
…At present there is a question mark over the taste as laboratory rules prevent the scientists eating the fruits of their labour.”
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Interview with Peter Hessler →
Cryptographic Voting with Optical Scanners →
“if just 2 percent of voters confirm their codes, it’s statistically almost impossible for vote tampering to go undetected.”
How The System Works—quite interesting, I wonder if a similar technique could have other applications? The idea as a whole seems very elegant—especially because no new technology is needed.
Glass doesn't actually flow over time! →
asset:
Wut!
Yeah, that was my reaction too.
Stuff like this can be frustrating, as it’s difficult to correct people in conversation about something that seems so intuitive.
Thought I would try the reblog as comment, even though I still think it a little cumbersome.
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Phys Ed: What Sort of Exercise Can Make You... →
“It appears that various growth factors must be carried from the periphery of the body into the brain to start a molecular cascade there,” creating new neurons and brain connections, says Henriette van Praag, an investigator in the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. For that to happen, “you need a fairly dramatic change in blood flow,” like the one that occurs when you...