The Great Bell Chant (The End of Suffering)
Read by Thich Nath Hanh, chanted by brother Phap Niem.
The creators of this audio track were Gary Malkin, the composer/arranger, producer, and collaborator Michael Stillwater. The work came from a CD/book called Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, and it could be purchased by going to wisdomoftheworld.com.
Visuals taken from:
HOME, Earth and Baraka
Foto del Dia 1.18.11
…view from BurjKhlaifa skyscraper in Dubai.
Posted: January 18th, 2012
at 8:43am by Black Ock
Categories: architecture,foto del dia
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MNP Keynote: Louie Schwartzberg - Gratitude
Posted: January 17th, 2012
at 10:37am by Black Ock
Tagged with TED, TEDxSF, Louie Schwartzberg, Gratitude
Categories: youtube,keynote speakers
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Scientists Able to "Cloak" Time
Making an event invisible on the time scale? Scientists claim to have done it.
WASHINGTON - It’s one thing to make an object invisible, like Harry Potter’s mythical cloak. But scientists have made an entire event impossible to see. They have invented a time masker.
Think of it as an art heist that takes place before your eyes and surveillance cameras. You don’t see the thief strolling into the museum, taking the painting down or walking away, but he did. It’s not just that the thief is invisible - his whole activity is.
What scientists at Cornell University did was on a much smaller scale, both in terms of events and time. It happened so quickly that it’s not even a blink of an eye. Their time cloak lasts an incredibly tiny fraction of a fraction of a second. They hid an event for 40 trillionths of a second, according to a study appearing in Thursday’s edition of the journal Nature. We see events happening as light from them reaches our eyes. Usually it’s a continuous flow of light. In the new research, however, scientists were able to interrupt that flow for just an instant.
Other newly created invisibility cloaks fashioned by scientists move the light beams away in the traditional three dimensions. The Cornell team alters not where the light flows but how fast it moves, changing in the dimension of time, not space. They tinkered with the speed of beams of light in a way that would make it appear to surveillance cameras or laser security beams that an event, such as an art heist, isn’t happening. :: read more ::
Commuter Slide
Posted: January 17th, 2012
at 6:30am by mnp
Categories: mnp is for the children
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This Bra Could Save Yo’ Life
The Emergency Bra, a brassiere that can turn into two life-saving gas masks for victims of biological warfare won the 2009 Ig Nobel Public Health Prize. It just went on sale via this website, which describes the invention as "an "Emergency Bra, Nursing Bra, Two Face Masks [and] Strapless bra."
The bra, available in sizes 32B to 40C, came as a result of Chernobyl. Seriously. :: read more at Nerve.com ::
Posted: January 14th, 2012
at 9:33am by Black Ock
Categories: clothes,weaponry,fo' real?
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