Category Archives: Rock on-Peace Out

– Blog links from Alex

✫ So funny! How to recognize the artists of paintings.

✫Hannah Metz at home in Brooklyn.

✫All of the books referenced on Orange is the New Black. And here’s their tumblr: booksofoitnb.

✫ As usual, Jason Silva philosophizing in the most enthusiastic of ways xD “Love as the romantic solution to the problem of death”.

✫10 Things I’ve learned about trauma by Catherine Woodiwiss. So good. A crucial point that I’ve come to learn myself through experience is number 3 Healing is seasonal, not linear.

✫8 indoor herbs that purify the air.

✫ I don’t have instagram, but these projects sound fun: Gala’s Radical Self Love Challenge (starts July 1st), and Veronica’s How to do a Peepshow: 30 Day Challenge.

✫The True Self contains good & evil, upright & averse by iao131. I’m not a Thelemite but many of the teachings resonate with me, love this article!

✫ I’m so doing this: DIY geometric favor boxes. Reminds me of Zonko’s and Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes.

✫ DIY washi tape your notebooks and pencils.

✫ How Marilyn Monroe stayed in shape.

✫ Carl Jung’s letter to James Joyce after Jung reviewed Ulysses is so adorable! “I also don’t know whether you will enjoy what I have written about Ulysses because I couldn’t help telling the world how much I was bored[…] The 40 pages of non stop run at the end is a string of veritable psychological peaches. I suppose the devil’s grandmother knows so much about the real psychology of a woman, I didn’t” ahahaha! Oh gosh these two!

✫ Aw! Mayim Bialik: Being a scientist is as cre

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Seasonal High Tunnels Support Conservation and New Farmers | National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

“It is amazing that 300 tomato plants in the high tunnel can produce the same yield as the 1,200 tomato plants growing outside,” Katie explained.  “Growing in the high tunnel takes up less space by growing vertically, helps regulate water usage, and we can produce more marketable tomatoes for essential wholesale markets.”

via Seasonal High Tunnels Support Conservation and New Farmers | National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition.

Blessing the Body – Beauty for all Genders –

The most frequently asked questions I receive from people have to do with my skin, teeth, the brightness of my eyes and overall looks; they want to know what’s my beauty regime. The secrets? So few & simple! And yet so important & profound!

What people need to understand is that the state of my skin, thick nails, white teeth, lustrous hair, etc. are all a byproduct of self love. It frustrates & disappoints me that, whenever I start telling the questioneer about what I do to & with my body, which starts on the inside -not the outside-, they either roll their eyes and zone out until I shut up, or they interrupt “Yeah yeah, but what do you put on your skin, hair, teeth…”. People’s obsession with disregarding their inner world (both the physical and the non-physical) irritates me. And I wonder Why do you ask for an honest answer if you don’t want to hear it?

The way I care for my body often sounds strange to people who want a fast and practical solution, “fast food” style. But if you’ve known me for any substantial amount of time, you’ll know that I don’t do quick fixes. Everything I do in life, I do in a slow, deep deep deep-to-the-core, progressive, curiosity-fuelled, self adoring style, leaving no stone unturned as I make love to myself. Uh-oh, have you already zoned out, dear reader? 😉

via Blessing the Body – Beauty for all Genders –.

Mega breakthrough! New device allows brain to bypass spinal cord, move paralyzed limbs — ScienceDaily

Ian Burkhart, a 23-year-old quadriplegic from Dublin, Ohio, is the first patient to use Neurobridge, an electronic neural bypass for spinal cord injuries that reconnects the brain directly to muscles, allowing voluntary and functional control of a paralyzed limb. Burkhart is the first of a potential five participants in a clinical study.

“It’s much like a heart bypass, but instead of bypassing blood, we’re actually bypassing electrical signals,” said Chad Bouton, research leader at Battelle. “We’re taking those signals from the brain, going around the injury, and actually going directly to the muscles.”

The Neurobridge technology combines algorithms that learn and decode the user’s brain activity and a high-definition muscle stimulation sleeve that translates neural impulses from the brain and transmits new signals to the paralyzed limb. In this case, Ian’s brain signals bypass his injured spinal cord and move his hand, hence the name Neurobridge.

Burkhart, who was paralyzed four years ago during a diving accident, viewed the opportunity to participate in the six-month, FDA-approved clinical trial at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center as a chance to help others with spinal cord injuries.

via New device allows brain to bypass spinal cord, move paralyzed limbs — ScienceDaily.

Wanna be a Roach Rancher? Insects as the food of the future: Locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, silk moth pupae, and beetle and moth larvae — ScienceDaily

Some entrepreneurs, such as Patrick Crowley are making it happen. Crowley is the founder of Chapul Cricket Bars, the first company in the United States to use insects as source of nutrition. At Chapul, he is directly challenging the existing perceptions of insects as food by producing, marketing, and selling an energy bar, in a variety of flavors, made with high-protein cricket powder. “It’s an exciting time to be the forefront of this budding industry,” said Crowley.

While in some countries, insects are harvested in the wild, such practices are typically inefficient and involve risks from environmental toxins and pathogens. Insects, such as crickets and mealworms, can be efficiently farmed in an industrial setting free from contaminants. In fact, samples from insect farms in the U.S. and Europe have been tested for contaminants that sometimes present problems in foods from animal sources, such as salmonella, listeria, E. coli, or Staphylococcus aureus, and have been found to be free of contaminants.

There are a number of challenges for quality mass production of insects that still must be overcome, but the expert panels agreed that insects as a source of food is the way of the future.

via Insects as the food of the future: Locusts, grasshoppers, crickets, silk moth pupae, and beetle and moth larvae — ScienceDaily.

Mission-driven Mobile Market targets food deserts, underserved schools | Kaid Benfield’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

“The group efficiently sets up shop at the wellness center.  Tents and an awning come out to keep people and products cool. Crates holding bundles of greens, boxes of strawberries and glass jars filled with herbs are placed on the side of the bus on removable metal shelves.  The market also sells local meat, eggs, dairy and honey, which, like the produce, is a mix of items from Arcadia and other local farms . . .

“When it’s time to move on, [summer fellow Anna] Hymanson sets the timer, as the group is informally competitive about how quickly they can break everything down.  A lot of precise stacking is required, using one of what [culinary educator JuJu] Harris affectionately calls Bartley’s ‘Ben-ventions,’ a series of wooden frames that prevents things from sliding around.”

via Mission-driven Mobile Market targets food deserts, underserved schools | Kaid Benfield’s Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC.

Holland v Chile: World Cup 2014 – live! | Football | theguardian.com

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeeeeeep! It’s all over. The Netherlands have won 2-0 and will top Group B, while vanquished Chile will finish second. Arjen Robben was once again immense in this match, with his extraordinary turn of speed proving Chile’s undoing. When he has the ball at his feet, you know exactly what he’s going to do, but there’s very little you can do to stop him.

via Holland v Chile: World Cup 2014 – live! | Football | theguardian.com.