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!