2006 « Surfing the Tao

Ancient Ice Shelf Breaks Free from Canadian Arctic

December 29th, 2006

As an update to my last entry, today CNN reports that the 41-square mile Ayles Ice Shelf, one of the six major ice shelves which remain in Canada’s arctic, broke off the coast about 16 months ago.

According to scientists, this “disturning event” shows “we are crossing climate thresholds.”

Island Disappears Beneath the Waves

December 27th, 2006

This week, an article in The Independent entitled “Disappearing world: Global warming claims tropical island” seems to confirm for the first time that an inhabited island has been officially washed off the face of the Earth by rising seas. “The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India’s part of the Sundarbans where [...]

Merry Christmas!

December 25th, 2006

Aloha and Mele Kalikimaka, warm Hawaiian wishes this Christmas! Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all.

The Christmas Truce

December 16th, 2006

On Christmas in 1914, just a few months after the start of World War I, German and British troops along the Western Front held an unofficial cease-fire, meeting each other in No Man’s Land, exchanging gifts, burying their dead, singing Christmas songs and playing ball together. This incredibly moving story has inspired many [...]

Eat Your Apple Seeds

December 9th, 2006

“Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud…” – Linus Pauling PhD (1901-1994) Two times Nobel Prize winner.

Vitamin B17 (also called Amygdalin or Laetrile) is one of the most controversial substances [...]

Free Hugs

December 6th, 2006

A man in Sydney, Australia walks around a mall holding a “Free Hugs” sign…and what do you think happens? If you haven’t yet seen this three and a half minute YouTube video, now’s the time. I keep coming back to it because it’s so heartwarming, and the movement continues to grow. [...]

The Quickening

November 15th, 2006

“Practice not-doing,

And everything will fall into place.” Tao Te Ching, #3

As the world hums along on its ever-quickening pace I often wonder, is time speeding up, or is it just me? No one disagrees that just in the last century our world, its economy, populations, and technologies have advanced at [...]

11:11 Phenomenon

November 11th, 2006

“We work with being, but non-being is what we use.” –Tao Te Ching #11

As we approach 11/11, I want to mention the phenomenon surrounding those numbers. About two years ago I noticed that for some reason I always checked the time when it was exactly 11:11. When I mentioned it [...]

Scientists Create Cloak of Invisibility

October 29th, 2006

Another news item from Wanttoknow.info(for the full ABC news article click here): “Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before to develop a Cloak of Invisibility. It isn’t quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Capt. James T. Kirk or to disguise Harry Potter, but it is a [...]

Scientists teleport two different objects

October 12th, 2006

From WantToKnow.info: “Physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality. Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second. But Professor Eugene Polzik and [...]

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