Tuning The Brain by Jay Goldstein released
Dr Jay Goldstein of the Chronic Fatigue Sydrome Institute has finally released his new book on how to treat the illness.
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March 4, 2004
Cocktail that made CFS improve
My severe Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) symptoms improved dramatically this year and neither I, nor my doctor know why. Now they're getting worse, and again I have hypotheses, but I don't really know. So, as a scientist who may be soon gaining or losing quite a few abilities, I thought I should summarize what I took over the time my Chronic Fatigue Syndrome symptoms, particularly my energy, concentration, memory, arithmetic, and speech improved.
(turns out I had Ciguatera poisoning)
March 8, 2004
CFS News condensate 8/3/04
There has been a few news reports about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome recently, most of them full of distracting noise and difficult to find content. So here is my condensation of the stories on the web this week:
"Fatigued teens need early treatment":http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1058165.htm
"Gill says her research reinforced that fatigue was really the chronic symptom of CFS. "
So the chonic symptom of "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome" is actually fatigue? How insightful!
March 14, 2004
Emma shaved her head!
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Emma joined the "World's Greatest Shave":http://www.worldsgreatestshave.com to raise money for the "Leukemia Foundation":http://www.leukemia.com.au
March 16, 2004
George W Bush explained as fantasy
"Which science fiction/fantasy hero/villain is George W Bush?":http://senbe.blogspot.com/2004_03_14_senbe_archive.html
A *lot* of information about Bush Jr packed into a very small and well-written piece.
Iain's blog is "An/Aesthetics":http://senbe.blogspot.com/
March 21, 2004
Longevity of Man - How long can we live?
Longevity ego blogged across the decades! In 1985 I wrote an essay on longevity and anti-ageing science for my first year biology course. In 1994 I updated it with new telomere information and posted it on my website and had it published in "The Sydney Futurian", the newsletter of the Sydney Futurian Science Fiction Society
Today I did an RSS search on anti-ageing medicine and found "Anti-Aging Medicine & Science Blog":http://anti-ageing.us/2003_04_13_blog_archive.html , and lo and behold, they have "my article on longevity linked from the Futurian mirror site":http://members.optushome.com.au/aussff/longevity.html as one of their references!
"The "Plausible Futures Newsletter":http://www.plausiblefutures.com/index.php?cat=6698&offset=20&ps=20 focus on large scale social change and the implications of emerging technologies on the world system." Their lens looks to the Futurian mirror of my article, too.
This is enough to persuade me that I should be paid to write.
The least I can do is blog this.
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March 23, 2004
How To Win Friends And Influence People
Every geek should have this on their shelf by age 10, and study it and put it into practice. This book changed my life and helped me learn social skills and insights which have served me so well that they are second nature. I am constantly horrified by the number of people who have never read this most important work.
The Art Of Deception by Nicolas Capaldi
An Introduction to Critical Thinking: How to: Win an Argument, Defend a Case, Recognize a Fallacy, See Through a Deception
A witty and entertaining tutorial on the art of informal logic. He shows you how to recognize when logic is being abused, by teaching you how to win arguments by abusing the rules of informal logic. So you learn the rules by being taught to cheat!
You are introduced to all of the logical fallacies you may have felt were wrong, but previously never had a name for, and then how they can unfairly be used to win arguments. This way you learn how to conduct fair arguments and to avoid the fallacies yourself. Every high school student and undergrad should be given a copy to study, certainly everyone who has ever been in an argument.
Real Magic by Isaac Bonewitz
Every science fiction and fanstasy writer should read this book. Bonewitz has the first "Bachelor in Thaumaturgy" from a Californian University. He takes the assumption that psychic powers exist, and then runs with that through a very logical and rational process to how they must work in a universe where such things are true, drawing on anthropology and psychology and the occult. A facsinating read for believers and skeptics alike. Invaluable for writers. If psychic powers are real, this is how they would work.
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Using a modified version of Timorthy Leary's Six circuit model of the brain, this book illustrates how each circuit is imprinted and work, and has exercises at the end of every chapter for you to play with how your own brain is wired, and to show you how to rewire it for more fun and flexibility. AS life changing as "How to Win Friends and Influence People". I used to lend this book out on a regulat basis in my undergraduate years to friends I deemed intelligent enough to benefit from the experience. Eventually I loaned this one with "Real Magic" to David Eggleton in 1994, and I never heard from jim again, so I no longer own a copy of what was one of my all time favourite books.
The brain is a wonderfully flexible toy, and Wilson shows you how to discover how yours has been programmed by your life experiences, and how to take over for a more satifying life.
Principia Discordia
This is the book that started the Discordian movement. Its the Discordian "bible" God is a crazy woman, called Eris by the ancient Greeks, and called Discordia by the ancient Romans. This is a very subversive anti-dogmatic satiriacal look at religion and mysticism and a lot of fun. My original copy came from "Loompanics":http://www.loompanaics.com and was borrowed by Tristan Gutsche, along with my Ren and Stimpy video tapes, and my escapologist's thumbcuffs . I never saw him again. . I eventually bought my new copy from Amazon.
Illuminatus! trilogy
This is a kill or cure for paranoiacs, with an embarrassment of riches of conspiracies - complete with detailed evidence which is easily referenced. The mout outrageous and silly conspiracies are true (the Principia Discordia quotes are real), and some of the more believeable stuff is false. Wilson and Shea call it "guerilla ontology". Some people may find the viewpoint character changing so often to be distracting, but I enjoyed it as part of the trip. Its very seventies hippy culture, and very funny and perceptive. Its mind-blowing to realize it was written before Watergate and the Nixon insanities were publically known.
March 26, 2004
Pauline Hansen Is Science Fiction by Ian Woolf
Ego blogging again! I put my name into Feedster to check how my RSS feed looks from the other side. Honest. One of the feeds that came up was a "Search Poem by Ivy Alvarez called Pauline Hansen"
In May 1997, the Sydney Futurian Science Fiction Society met, and
as a tiny part of the meeting we discussed One Nation party "leader" Pauline Hansen's book. I wrote up the meeting, Ivy's search engine found it, and thus I had the honour of being included in her poem.
The meeting included discussions of stories in which the themes of
"Orientals in science fiction", "Confucian societies in science fiction", "North America invaded by the Yellow Hoardes", and "Australia invaded by the Yellow Peril" were explored.
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