Dharmavidya

very interested to read that the whole of physics as we know it may have come unstuck

Particles may have travelled faster than light which opens up the possibility of information being transmitted backwards through time which undermines just about everything. Scientists will be working on this furiously for a while yet to see if these results get confirmed.

The most important is that the child feels loved

"The most convoluted thing in convoluted families, I learnt as I wrote, is that the child feels loved. I knew from a young age that I was a problem which required constant solving; but I never felt unloved. I was lucky. Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four  isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place. If Mum had lived, I would almost certainly not have had two kind, generous fathers; so many dear borthers and sisters; and a succession of beloved mother figures who stepped in and saved me when, unconsciously, I needed them most." - Allegra Huston, in the Independent, on her book Love Child (Bloomsbury)

Quan Yin with 1000 Arms

A nice little film

Inanimate Alice

You can now view three episodes

The Spread of Religions

An interesting film

Need a Break?

I enjoyed this: Stress Test

Blooker Prize

BBC: Some blogs become books - and even win prizes.

Mars Map

When you plan your Martian holiday you'll need a good map

Green Amida

Another new weblog in the Amida family: Green Amida

No Cities in Space

It is interesting that the colonization of space has all but disappeared from the human agenda. When I was a child we all firmly believed that by the time the 21st century arrived the setting up of colonies on othe planets and moons and the construction of free floating giant space stations would be well under way. The technology exists but the will is no longer there. Does this say something about the human mood? The contemporary wisdom seems to be that we have problems enough here so why take on new ones. One might have said the same at many periods of past history. I suspect that at some level this change reflects something about a loss of confidence on the part of the human species as a whole. Pioneering takes a particular kind of audacity and this seems to be being squeezed out of our culture.