Unlocking Minds
Psychic
researchers say our consciousness has unexplained powers. That
also goes for chickens.
by Jerry Adler, Newsweek
March 19, 2007 issue - As we travel through life we are all
seekers after something larger than ourselves, a truth known to
seers, healers and book publishers through the ages. For
Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, a prominent clinical psychologist at
Berkeley, her quest began in 1991 with the theft of a rare and
valuable harp belonging to her daughter. On the advice of a
friend, she sought help from a professional psychic named Harold
McCoy, who, with only a street map and a photograph of the
harp—he never left his home in Arkansas—told her exactly the
address in Oakland where it could be found. For the rest of her
life Mayer was obsessed with this feat, as who wouldn't be? So
last month, 15 years after the harp was returned, I sent McCoy a
picture of a lock—a cast-iron padlock my grandfather had used to
lock up his pushcart at night—and a set of New York City street
maps. Find the lock, I told him. ..
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Machine May Help
Shed Pounds Without Sweating
Turbosonic Only 10
Minutes To Burn Fat
by Christine Chang, 7 News Anchor
Sweating off the pounds might be a
thing of the past with a new machine that promises to shed
pounds simply by standing on it.
"You can stand on this machine for
10 minutes and it's equal to 45 minutes to 60 minutes of typical
exercise," said DeepTone instructor Jennifer Ament.
Ament said TurboSonic uses sound
waves that produce frequencies to stimulate your cells. She said
a person can burn up to 300 calories in 10 minutes, and that's
why people shouldn't be on it for more than that.
"It's equal to 60 minutes of
exercise so you'd be just overdoing it," said Ament.
"I lost 9 pounds, a pants size,
which is very exciting and I noticed my face tightening," said
Kelly Walton.
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Alnwick Garden -
Home of the World’s Largest Treehouse
by Anita Bath, Say No to Crack
In 2005, the world’s largest
all-wood treehouse was built amongst the lime trees of the
non-profit Alnwick Garden in Northumberland County, UK. This
6,000 square foot treehouse is comprised of walkways, cottages,
shops, a restaurant, and play areas. It is even wheelchair
accessible, and holds close to 1,000 people, so everyone can
play.
If you have kids, you may want to
wait until they’re older and tired of treehouses to take them to
Alnwick. Otherwise, you can be certain their current playset or
treehouse will never be used again...
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The Thinking
Machine
by Evan Ratliff,
Wired
“When you are born, you
know nothing.”
This is the kind of statement you expect to hear from a
philosophy professor, not a Silicon Valley executive with a new
company to pitch and money to make. Yet Jeff Hawkins drops this
epistemological axiom while sitting at a coffee shop downstairs
from his latest startup. A tall, rangy man who is almost
implausibly cheerful, Hawkins created the Palm and Treo
handhelds and cofounded Palm Computing and Handspring. His is
the consummate high tech success story, the brilliant, driven
engineer who beat the critics to make it big. Now he’s about to
unveil his entrepreneurial third act: a company called Numenta.
But what Hawkins, 49, really wants to talk about — in fact, what
he has really wanted to talk about for the past 30 years — isn’t
gadgets or source codes or market niches. It’s the human brain.
Your brain. And today, the most important thing he wants you to
know is that, at birth, your brain is completely clueless.
After a pause, he corrects
himself. “You know a few basic things, like how to poop.” His
point, though, is that your brain starts out with no actual
understanding or even representation of the world or its
objects. “You don’t know anything about tables and language and
buildings and cars and computers,” he says, sweeping his hand to
represent the world at large. “The brain has to, on its own,
discover that these things are out there. To me,” he adds,
“that’s a fascinating idea...”
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