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How much science does it take to make your way?

There is little room in most people's regimented 9-5 lives for fate, the supernatural, and divine intervention.

As a freelancer, small business owner, or homeless person on the fringes of life experience it defines your very being.

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 25, 2005 | Comments (0)

Boredom, it's a state of mind

Theory: Boredom is a social thing taught by humans to other humans.

Here is a short lis of situations and places. Choose "bored" or "not bored" for each and see how you score:


Bored? Make your own to pass the time!

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 16, 2005 | Comments (0)

Licking the nectar of the food plant

hummingman.jpg Humming birds have extraordinary metabolism rates and as such, pretty much eat pure sugar.

If we humans had the caloric needs of the hummingbird we could eat nothing but over-processed nonfood. As it turns out, we do not. Apparently the memo has not reached your local grocer.

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 16, 2005 | Comments (0)

To Musak or not to Musak

There are certain kinds of music that just don't ever become musak: country love songs, opera solos, punk. Things that directly communicate and connect with you.

Pop, while it sounds fresh and new, is actually not. It is overproduced and hides and disperses the singer too much -- it becomes "safe" behind the sound board. This is a sure way to get in line for the musak train. If you're in it for the royalties then forget the voice lessons and run, don't walk to your nearest studio. If not, keep it real and stay out of the elevator.

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 16, 2005 | Comments (0)

Salmon with skin of steel

Aside from the rare but tragic cases of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, nature has pretty much followed the "survival of the fittest" model. There are some, perhaps since the invention of wealth, that would much prefer to implement some form of "survival of the richest". With King Henry I of England dying of indigestion and the Japanese Emporer dying from fugu one can see that it is an elusive goal.

Could gene therapy be the thing that we've been waiting for?

Posted by Aaron R. Deutsch on August 13, 2005 | Comments (0)