to Live is to KnoW

I do feel that to live is not necessarily to know..just like the more we learn the more we dont know.. is that means we have to keep on trying to get closer and closer to things we do not know or wish to know in our daily life spans till the day we leave our body?... doesnt sound like tao to me..

When i hear, i forget, when i see, i remember, when i do, i understand.. overall the meaning hidden behind appeals to me more of if we live we do, either we will end up knowing it or not.. then i imagine the phrase to"live is to know" may be a little too shallow for our state of being.. , also i think the consciousness and cognition are two different things, we are all here sharing the same dimension at a different levels of awareness. So knowing may be too extreme for some people whom never quite sure what they meant to know.., mmm can be danger to.. ah..

The last week!

MeMory and MaGiC

This is such an amazing topic, knowing that i've always been drawn to our magical world. I do think that it is amazing that they are numbers of human that able to trick us into their world, and even when we know we are being tricked, often we can't see how they doing it. I respect their capabilities of how they can manipulate of what we perceive the world around us by creating illusions of seemingly impossible or supernatural feats,magic tricks, effects or illusions, (a physcholgical illusion) using purely natural means.. And I think same same connection with all those commercials, fashions, politicians issue, etc., thanx but no thanx to all illusionists expert these days..

it was also very interesting to know that people who had trouble reading body language cues were not fooled by the magic, the illusion world! Oh, so then i looked up in the wikipedia for the word "illusion" which has a very interesting way of interpretation that it is a distortion of the senses, revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation. While illusions distort reality, they are generally shared by most people. Illusions may occur with more of the human senses than vision revealing how the brain normally organizes and interprets sensory stimulation.

Some illusions are based on general assumptions the brain makes during perception. These assumptions are made using organizational principles, like Gestalt, an individual's ability of depth perception and motion perception, and perceptual constancy. Other illusions occur because of biological sensory structures within the human body or conditions outside of the body within one’s physical environment,,mmm.

For the article on the memory, even more deeper meaning; the world hangs on a thin thread and that is the psyche of man.. So the blog assignment referred to how might I view things differently now? Well,surely there is lots of things going on 24 7 all around us, what the beep do we know? there is things that we are familiar with and there isnt, so i guess whatever isnt is a magic or another word illusion.. The informations which i may or may not perceived all at once..ehy. but am sure if i wait long enough with all my patient, then the answer may reveal on its on , again like a magic..mmm hope am making sense here..

week eleven

Describe connections you are making between cell biology and your TCM studies.

This is indeed difficult task for me, esp. missing out all those classes, and havent yet started the TCM theory classes. So on, I feel resistant at this time to make any connection , and somehow I feel that there isnt much art to cell biology itself, and was a reason why am stydying TCM instead.

But anyway and overall, the knowledges of the parts of the body helps for a better understanding of the whole body system.. and sure there are links of all togetherness..

Impressions on the link "How Cells Divide: Mitosis vs. Meiosis":

I was sure very inspired by the move from asexual to sexual reproduction and corresponding process of meiosis, a simple relationships.

week ten biodiversity

Biodiversity in my surroundings

I live in an urban cottage, surrounded by big hugh native palm trees outside my living room windows on a nice garden or courtyard (mainly why am here) and several other species. Pine trees, manzanita trees, redbud are what's growing naturally, then there's lemon trees , jasmine, geraniums, chives, roses, all kinds of different things in my neighbor's garden. And luckily with all of those trees we get lots of bird coming to visit and sing a love song for us. Also I planted lavender, shrub , jubilee outside my house at the front yard, and luckily they are blossoming. Inside the house I have an indoor palm trees , cactus, sweet basil, baby mints, and other baby herbal plants on its way for yummy food..

My neighbour has four chikens in my backyard, they eat all my produce waist and make a great recycling left over produced. He shared us eggs time to time. Not a whole lot of insects around , but there are spiders here and there, esp. where my office table is. There're some ants and the fruit flies in the kitchen, and those spiders doing there job pretty well lately.

Spike's gallery

I couldn’t find the spike’s gallery from the link you’ve given, but then I google search and found Spike walker’s microscopy, “a selection of aquatic life”, under the spike’s gallery link which is definitely super gorgeous and very cool to look at.

Spike Walker, a well known and award winning British photomicrographer, has kindly suggested that Micscape can share a selection of images from his extensive portfolio

week nine chemistry of life

Gene therapy

I looked gene therapy up on wikipedia, and the lists other issues with gene therapy and reasons it may not work so well, including the fact that it has caused deaths.

I think as a human family, we should focus on prevention and healthy balanced living in harmony with the environment, so that we do not create so many toxic situations that cause disease instead of these highly technical fixes that treat the human body like a machine.

The bottom line is that the gene therapies are being developed through use and abuse of innocent animals, I think better if we could just let some things be. It’s not quite right having to test products on animals, so abusive, and perhaps people could connect back to our roots more on searching a better ingredients and substances of resolving things.

Animation

I viewed the animation, its fun to see them all in 3D. The chain reaction animation reminded me of a video game. Great example of a chain reaction, chemically!

Definitions of the “Chemistry of Life”

Relationship to other "molecular-scale" biological sciences "Biochemistry is the study of molecules in the absence of the rest of the organism." and I thought THAT's why I wasn't previously interested in chemistry.

. Looking at living systems at the molecular level, researching diseases to find cures, the biochemistry of viruses, describing the molecular basis of living systems, now I understand , its not too bad having to study the Chemistry.

The increased of understanding on what biochemistry is sure giving me a nice feeling of a whole!

chembalance

http://www.dun.org/sulan/chembalancer/default.htm

http://richardbowles.tripod.com/chemistry/balance.htm

This were kind of fun. Although cant really picture them all in my brain at once, esp. the math thinging, need some more times to read all over again and again, and gotta leave tomorrow to the rainbow family in de wood land. 

http://richardbowles.tripod.com/chemistry/balance.htm

this link, again,No PossiBle!

http://www.geocities.com/hankmcintyre/AntiOx_pH-all_info.html  

I really love this link, i've been all about PH balance for past few months now.. been using this product called : Alkalark Portable Water Ionizer and Alkalizer

its a portable drinking flask which changes ordinary water into mineral alkaline reduced water in a matter of 3 minutes. 

if any of you have times, pls check this link and let me know what are your thought? Hope u all njoy your long holiday...happy real... independence  day...

: http://www.newcelldetox.com/Alkalark_Portable_Water_Ionizer_Alkalizer_p/alkalark.htm

semiconductor

Silicon is the most common metalloid. It is a chemical element, which has the symbol Si and atomic number 14. The atomic mass is 28.0855. A tetravalent metalloid, silicon is less reactive than its chemical analog carbon. As the eighth most common element in the universe by mass, silicon very rarely occurs as the pure free element in nature, but is more widely distributed in dusts, planetoids and planets as various forms of silicon dioxide (silica) or silicates. On Earth, silicon is the second most abundant element (after oxygen) in the crust,making up 25.7% of the crust by mass.

Silicon has many industrial uses. It is the principal component of most semiconductor devices, most importantly integrated circuits or microchips. Silicon is widely used in semiconductors because it remains a semiconductor at higher temperatures than the semiconductor germanium and because its native oxide is easily grown in a furnace and forms a better semiconductor/dielectric interface than any other material.

In the form of silica and silicates, silicon forms useful glasses, cements, and ceramics. It is also a constituent of silicones, a class-name for various synthetic plastic substances made of silicon, oxygen, carbon and hydrogen, often confused with silicon itself.

Silicon is an essential element in biology, although only tiny traces of it appear to be required by animals. It is much more important to the metabolism of plants, particularly many grasses, and silicic acid (a type of silica) forms the basis of the striking array of protective shells of the microscopic diatoms.

another interesting says:

Death rate falls when doctors go on strike

"There are only four times in recorded history that the death rate actually fell. The first was in highly technologically developed Israel in 1973. During a one-month physicians' strike, the national death-rate reached the lowest rate ever. According to statistics by the Jerusalem Burial Society, the number of funerals dropped by almost half. The same thing happened again in 1976 in Bogota, the capital city of Colombia. There, the doctors went on strike for 52 days. The death rate fell by 35% (National Catholic Reporter and confirmed by the National Morticians Association of Colombia). Similar events happened in California a few years later, and in the United Kingdom in 1978 (see "Confessions of a Medical Heretic", by Robert Mendelsohn, MD)." So, does in not stand to reason to find others ways to stay healthy, other than using allopathic doctors and getting prescriptions filled? Think about it...

what is mole?

i did try many time to open all those links but NO possible...!

but anyway, i went to another sources then found out that I thought I understood it in the class but still got confused after reading all those articles, my brain is fried on this mole thinging... the more i read the more i fried... esp. the concept map is on its way..

what I think I understood in the class was that to calculate how many molecules, just take the molecule weight of an element then multiply by Avogadro's number, then u get the mass in grams...

mmm, I'm feeling a little lost in transition. I'm going to walk through everyone else's blog now!

avogadro

http://www.carlton.srsd119.ca/chemical/molemass/avogadro.htm

I kept reading through the definitions and tried to make some kind of connections inside my brain, wasn't as easy as I hope it would be. 

What i see  from this website, in terms of the science itself, I managed to follow the idea of a hypothesis, how it works and why it's necessary, but the actual concepts and math itself somehow still confusing even though it may not supposed to be. 

And very interesting that the people who came up with some brilliant idea die in obscurity before it's recognized, then represented him after his death. I guess during Avogadro's life, people thought John Dalton was the coolest. How crazy it must have been for all those chemists through all those years working head off of Dalton's wrong calculation, and thanx god they finally got it that Avogadro was right. 

alternative fuel

for whom may interest, another interesting alternative fuel on you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3juM6vHwg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiKa4nOkHLw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMovXzVOzc4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxfMz2eDME

chemtrail

Chemtrails The chemtrail conspiracy theory holds that some contrails are actually chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for a purpose undisclosed to the general public. Versions of the chemtrail conspiracy theory circulating on the internet and radio talk shows theorize that the activity is directed by government officials.As a result, federal agencies have received thousands of complaints from people who have demanded an explanation. The existence of chemtrails has been repeatedly refuted by government agencies and scientists around the world. The chemtrail conspiracy theory began to circulate in 1996 when the United States Air Force (USAF) was accused of "spraying the US population with mysterious substances" from aircraft "generating unusual contrail patterns". The United States Air Force has stated that the theory is a hoax which "has been investigated and refuted by many established and accredited universities, scientific organizations, and major media publications". The British Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has stated that chemtrails "are not scientifically recognised phenomena". The Canadian Government House Leader has stated that "The term 'chemtrails' is a popularized expression, and there is no scientific evidence to support their existence." The term chemtrail is derived from "chemical trail" in the similar fashion that contrail is an abbreviation for condensation trail. It does not refer to common forms of aerial spraying such as crop dusting, cloud seeding or aerial firefighting. The term specifically refers to aerial trails allegedly caused by the systematic high-altitude release of chemical substances not found in ordinary contrails, resulting in the appearance of supposedly uncharacteristic sky tracks. Believers of this theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be for global dimming, population control,weather control, or biowarfare and claim that these trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems. Youtube fact: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FO4GHBu_Hs&feature=channel_page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okB-489l6MI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxNeoXkL0mM

Alkali earth metal

Magnesium is a chemical element with the symbol Mg, atomic number 12, atomic weight 24.3050 and common oxidation number +2.

Magnesium, an alkaline earth metal, is the ninth most abundant element in the universe by mass. The commonness of magnesium is related to the fact that it is easily built up in supernova stars from a sequential addition of three helium nuclei to carbon (which in turn is made from a single reaction between three helium nuclei at once). Magnesium constitutes about 2% of the Earth's crust by mass, which makes it the eighth most abundant element in the crust. Magnesium ion's high solubility in water helps ensure that it is the third most abundant element dissolved in seawater.

Magnesium is the 11th most abundant element by mass in the human body; its ions are essential to all living cells, where they play a major role in manipulating important biological polyphosphate compounds like ATP, DNA, and RNA. Hundreds of enzymes thus require magnesium ions in order to function. Magnesium is also the metallic ion at the center of chlorophyll, and is thus a common additive to fertilizers.Magnesium compounds are used medicinally as common laxatives, antacids (i.e.,milk of magnesia), and in a number of situations where stabilization of abnormal nerve excitation and blood vessel spasm is required (i.e., to treat eclampsia). Magnesium ions are sour to the taste, and in low concentrations help to impart a natural tartness to fresh mineral waters.

The free element (metal) is not found naturally on Earth, since it is highly reactive (though once produced, is coated in a thin layer of oxide which partly masks this reactivity). The free metal burns with a characteristic brilliant white light, making it a useful ingredient in flares. The metal is now mainly obtained by electrolysis of magnesium salts obtained from brine. Commercially, the chief use for the metal is as an alloying agent to make aluminium-magnesium alloys, sometimes called "magnalium" or "magnelium". Since magnesium is less dense than aluminum, these alloys are prized for their relative lightness and strength.