China does not want any more trouble. North Korea should be absorbed by the vastly more successful South in the private views of the Chinese government. It would make a lot of sense, but a peace treaty between Korea and China, and another one with Japan does not guarantee stability, but 1,000,000 soldiers burning all …
Month: November 2010
Aspirin
Salicylic acid, or Aspirin may be a health food - a naturally occurring plant defense that helps dispose of rubbish (old cells) in the body. A daily intake of about 75mg has been considered medically a good idea for most although the side effect of intestinal bleeding for 0.1% of the population deters general use. …
Sarah Palin gets personal
Sarah Palin's new book explores Obama's background. Early shots in a nasty campaign to come.
Who is a trusted enemy?
A Taleban "leader" sent to negotiate with Hamid Karzai turns out to be a shopkeeper. Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AM19920101123
Happiness defined as “Being in the Moment”
If you define happiness as being in the moment, then the corollary sounds logical.To say that the wandering mind causes depression is to tell every parent to be concerned when their child is introspective. Most intellectual behaviour may be like that. Dreaming does not result in depression. However, addiction to external stimuli do create patterns …
The Drug War
From the village folk in the Peruvian jungle product pickups to the corrupt cops and the culture and guns of New York, the drug trade forms a commercial interaction between certain counties. Hardly "fair trade" because of the level of violence and stealth required to achieve such profit levels. There is talk of changing laws, …
Political Science
I suspect that politics is not a science. It may be the art of pinching the nose of society while forcing down the wrong medicine. It may seem to be the art of finding an equilibrium by polarising opinion. A bit like saying the art of boiling water by freezing it. And that can be …
Strange Events
While cosmic rays hit the earth, we look inside the actions of viruses, how they infect cells by injecting the cell with itself and changing the cell's DNA. But meantime the body has been able to fight viruses by attaching immune cells to the protein well of the virus, and thus being injected with it, …