Saturday, November 15, 2008

Rikers Island Inmate Visiting Hours Schedule

The vintage car which I am

leave today I feel. And not as a woman, a good friend or good of all spirits. Much worse. I feel abandoned by most of evolution itself, now that I am 30 years old, I am of the primal forces of natural selection that have produced this amazing diversity of living things become really care. As of now, my health and my physical well-being as it were put on automatic pilot - and when I die in five or fifty years, Nature is the same. It was 5 years ago, very different.

The aging of an organism is not so obvious. There are creatures who - really - are immortal. Easy it is for individual learning, sharing only yes, but never die . Thus, if environmental conditions are favorable, it is conceivable that a specific microbe has survived the last Ice Age to the present day. Also interesting is the life of this colleagues here - the polyp undergoing regularly just built a makeover and will return to teenagers. We humans are built but a bit more complicated - and therefore mortal (although recently known cases be, in which the aging does not seem to progress).

If we ask ourselves why we age, the question is wrongly put. It would be correct to ask why the body created by evolution should make the effort to prevent aging. Genes, which not only blind separation as the single-genes, so basically two ways to survive a long time - by forcing their bodies to live forever, or by the body to produce offspring with these same genes. You can use the body that is the one to a survival machine with protective mechanisms against harmful external factors (predators, starvation, disease, weather changes) and provide a perfect metabolism without toxic side effects. So quite a few investments. Or they can replace quality with quantity and focus on the motto "If my body just in time produce enough viable offspring that in turn pass on the genes, I do not care his future survival." Exactly for this second possibility have the genes "decided" in the higher organisms. Our body is thus used as quickly as possible to produce offspring and to make them viable. After that, he is our genes do not care. The biological theory is appropriate for even less flattering "disposable soma theory " (to German as: theory of expendable body). However, as is observed in the natural environment among primitive tribes average life span due to external factors in about 30 years ago, the human body has probably been shot this out - sexual maturity at 14-15 years, then possible get fast kids, feed them, so the transfer back of the genes, and then your body is just a classic car: The successor generation is there, it goes even still, but how far and how long he creates is his thing. He has a nostalgic value nurmehr, repaired it is a makeshift, there are better things to do.

The sexual drive is hence the stronger than about the impulse to eat a healthy diet. Not for nothing men cause traffic accidents when they see a mini-skirt , but not when they drive past a poster with organic food. Old age is to reach, the genes simply do not care. And since I am now come to this age of genetic importance, I am overcome by the forces of natural selection that bring a living being, so a proper fitness for survival left. Sadly, a vintage to be.

What to do? I want to grow old or die at least not immediately, so you look around for solution strategies. So far the only proven approach to calorie restriction To extend the life proven. For a small portion of extra years, it is also sufficient, happily married to his or (or both, what should happen occasionally), or self younger present. The micro-cellular and biological causes of aging are, moreover, now also known . It is mainly wear (intra-and extra-cellular waste, mutations in the mitochondria, shorter telomeres with each cell division) - so basically nothing Irreversible, a rather technical problem. Some serious scientists, including futurist Ray Kurzweil and biogerontologists Aubrey de Grey have announced the aging why the fight. De Grey believes that with proper effort, you can stop in a few decades, aging and eventually will turn around. For him, the aging of a disease, an evil, which leaves die every day about 100,000 people. Another question is whether immortality is a good thing. But de Grey is right when he says that we do research first and then if we have the technologies, people should have to decide whether to take it to complete. Healthier and more vital, this research would make the people in any case. Perhaps it is enough so, if, as Luis Bunuel once joked, once in ten years just waking up, reading the paper and be amazed.

Too good to be true? In the journal "Technology Review" a competition was created in order to refute de Grey's arguments. Until now no one has done. On the other hand, was assigned by his "Methuselah Foundation" a award to a research group from Illionis , who had managed to make mice live longer than half as long as usual In humans, this would have been 180 years old.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Examples Of A Word Chart

A quite banal hero




This video shows a traffic accident, which happened in May 2008 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. We see an elderly man as he is hit by a car and lie on the ground remains. More than a minute nothing happened. People walk past the scene of an accident, cars are happy their way, a scooter driver makes even around an elegant bow to the seriously injured, only to disappear afterwards. Eventually the police come, until then no one has even approached the poor man only. All stop and stare only.

shocking, right? The police chief looked for even prompted to say : "We have lost our moral compass." But is that really so? Well, not necessarily. This behavior, however unpleasant it may seem to us, is in some sense "normal". For there is something can produce some mighty, the good people to do evil. The great physicist Steven Weinberg once said: "For good people to do evil things, that takes religion." I would like to add something: "... or situation".

The incredible power of the situation is the psychologist for about a half a century known. Many experiments have been performed, which showed how far people in order to adapt to the prevailing circumstances, not to attract attention, "normal" to act, so to be like. It all started innocently, as Solomon Asch 1951 demonstrated that subjects shown a simple question answered incorrectly only because the rest of the group in which they were (all consecrated men of straw), also a wrong answer. If it all say, I say that too. Asch was later the doctor father of Stanley Milgram, who shocked 1962 World . In his experiment people were ready to torture another on a partly sadistic manner and to bring even in danger of death because it "required the experiment and did the experimenter, as if everything is fine. Further, it was nine years later with the Prison Experiment by Philip Zimbardo , a college friend Milgram, in the normal students were brutal beasts, because you put them in uniforms and improvised in a Prison guards than can work. The top of the situational-related madness occupied psychologists Darley and Latane 1968: In its attempt , 90% of people willing to defend even their own lives in great danger, just because it was appropriate to the situation behavior. They sat in a room suddenly invaded the vast amounts of smoke. Since the other people in the room (initiates) showed no reaction, also beat the subjects no alarm and remained sitting in the room. Had it been a real smoke, they would be stifled without exception.

The force of the situation is so immense. That just Philip Zimbardo, author of the prison experiment suggests, therefore, a new Definition of a "hero": a hero is not as we imagine it to us, a knight on horseback with flowing hair, good looks and superhuman strength. He is not a super-or Spiderman. He does not like a fallen on subway tracks unconscious student en after jumping in to save him. Held to be, as Zimbardo says very "banal" . It is enough if you are a Average person who helps once in a lifetime, if it is necessary to break through the walls of the situation-induced rigidity and indifference, does something that does not make others, and as an old on the road lying injured man when onlookers stare only. It is so easy when thinking about it. People should control a situation, not vice versa.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

What To Do When Gropeyou In The Streets

Bin Laden's nightmare

It's a hot summer day, and you are looking for a relief from the heat. A coke is at hand, but the soul is longing for something supernatural, Vitaminreicherem and healthier. For example, a handful of beautiful fresh water drop covered grapes. Only: Where can I take it for her on the fly? - I've got a suggestion for you, seeker: You join simply to Islam, go to a school extremists, blow you in the name of Allah in the air.



In Paradise, knows every decent Islamic fanatics are waiting for a 72 jihadists willing young women for the purpose of successive or simultaneous making love. The text of Sura 56 describes all sorts of delights for the brave warrior of faith, including wine, meat in abundance - and "houris with nice big eyes like pearls well-protected as a reward for their good deeds" (see here ). Huris are brought to interpret the celebrated young women who are 33 years old, (now peeing, sleeping, shoes) no period or other human needs and whose virginity is renewed after every act at all times. Many scholars go further and dream of the wonderful physical attributes of the Huris.

Das zum Beispiel ist ein Video-Ausschnitt aus einer Predigt, in der der saudische Imam etwa Folgendes vorschwärmt (Übersetzung aus dem Arabischen): "...What hair! What a chest! What a mouth! What cheeks! What a figure! What breasts! What thighs! What legs! What whiteness! What softness! Without any creams – no Nivea [!!!], no vaseline. ... There is no god but Allah. He told us that if you entered one of the palaces, you would find ten black-eyed virgins sprawled on musk cushions. ... When they see you, they will get up and run to you. .... When they get hold of you, they will push you onto your back, on the musk cushions. Allah Akbar! ... One of them would place her mouth on yours and do what ever you want. Another one would press her cheek against yours, yet another would press her chest against yours, and the others would await their turn ... "

Another cleric, Al-Suyuti (d. 1505), went further in his Sex Fantasies (quoting here): "Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected Neversoft. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one will marry seventy houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetizing vaginas. "

Too early gesabbert, gentlemen! Apart from the fact that this idea does not make much sense (what about female martyrs, how can a torn into pieces the suicide bomber reached still get something erection like that? If one then also 72 mothers * horror *?), It seems now as if the dream of 72 playmates get a painful shock. A German philologist and Semitic Studies, who performs under the pseudonym Christoph Luxenberg ", wrote a book in 2000 in which he proposes a new reading of the Koran. He believes the former lingua franca in the area was not Arabic, but Syrian a Absprengsel of Aramaic, which today only Mindeheiten is spoken. If you read the Koran but in part to Syriac, then connect amazing things to light - including Luxenberg's exegesis shows that the word "hur" in Syriac means nothing other than "white grapes."

This adds both well in the overall context of Sura 56 (the aforementioned "well-guarded pearls" fit much better grapes than to women), and has the whole idea of paradise simple originate in a garden (see altira severally " pairidaeza " - park, garden, enclosure). Since fit sex orgies not know. In addition, the just promised elsewhere, that they along with their earthly wives and houris "in the shadow on carpets" will relax. The "time" remarks only relish: "A place to meet the wives and maidens each other deserves the name is hardly paradise."

Luxenberg's book, scholars from Princeton to have taken to Beirut with interest and approval, has moved many moderate Muslims to think. I will, however, until the new translation will be refuted, for the time being continue to buy my fruit at the supermarket.