“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.”
–Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. Wikipedia
Consciousness is not passive. Consciousness is active. In fact, consciousness right now is actively running your life. Your consciousness is making you healthy, making you sick, making you wealthy, making your poor, making you young, making you old.
We are not just passively observing what is going on in our lives. We are actively creating the events of our lives through our own consciousness, our own reducing valves, our own history, our own personality, our own character, our own disposition, our own temperament, our own nature.
Our innate identity (also called Consciousness) underlies our personal nature. Underlies our personal nurture. The consciousness of being (existence, life) itself has no reducing valves, history, personality, character, disposition, temperament or nurture.
Our innate identity is Nature itself. Beyond biology. Beyond evolution. Without beginning. Without end.
Actively pushing through in whatever way it can. With whatever opening it can find. Our lives are painful when we resist the pushing.
“Breathe. Breathe. Breathe,” they tell expectant mothers. So:
“Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.”
Chuck Plunkett|TEDxMileHigh
Nearly 1,800 newsrooms have shuttered across the US since 2004, leaving many communities unseen, unheard and in the dark. In this passionate talk and rallying cry, journalist Chuck Plunkett explains why he rebelled against his employer to raise awareness for an industry under threat of extinction — and makes the case for local news as an essential part of any healthy democracy.
This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxMileHigh, an independent event. TED’s editors chose to feature it for you.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Chuck Plunkett · JournalistChuck Plunkett advocates for greater public awareness and support of quality local news.
March 6, 2020 by VICTOR TANGERMANN (Futurism.com)
In a new paper, physicists argue that extradimensional holes known as “bubbles of nothing” could cause the universe to consume itself from the inside out, Motherboard reports.
Three researchers from the University of Oviedo in Spain and the University of Uppsala in Sweden submitted a paper, appropriately titled “Nothing Really Matters,” to the Journal of High-Energy Physics this month — about a hypothetical, mind-bending hole that could destroy the entire universe.
The paper revives a theory that dates back to 1982, by theoretical physicist Edward Witten.
“A hole spontaneously forms in space and rapidly expands to infinity, pushing to infinity anything it may meet,” Witten wrote in his paper.
Physicists have long posited that most of our universe is made up of nothingness, or vacuum. Anything in a more “excited” or unstable state tends to decay to lower energy states by releasing energy. That means our universe is relatively stable.
But now, scientists, including the ones behind the new paper, are questioning this conclusion, suggesting that the universe is experiencing a “false vacuum,” and hasn’t truly transitioned to its least excited and most stable state. The result: a “bubble of nothing” that could “‘eat’ all of spacetime, converting it into ‘nothing,’” Marjorie Schillo, lead author from Uppsala University, told Motherboard.
While others have claimed such an event is impossible since it would’ve already happened, the theory could help us understand the creation of the universe, according to Schillo.
READ MORE: Physicists Are Studying Mysterious ‘Bubbles of Nothing’ That Eat Spacetime [Motherbaord]
More on the universe: New Theory Could Solve Universe’s Biggest Paradox
Chris Da Crisis Chinese people afraid to shake hands amid the coronavirus outbreak are kicking around a new foot-to-foot greeting known as the “Wuhan Shake.” In a clip on Twitter, a group of men wearing face masks can be seen saying hello to each other by quickly tapping their feet together. “People in China found another way to greet since they can’t shake hands,” wrote one user alongside a video of the “Wuhan Shake.” “I love how people can adapt and keep a sense of humor about stressful situations.” The video, which has nearly 29,000 views, took off on social media where others applauded the creative welcome. “That’s a great idea and you don’t need hand sanitizer,” wrote one user. “Be prepared for a mass outbreak of athlete’s foot!” another Twitter user joked. The viral greeting comes as health officials around the world have discouraged close contact amid the coronavirus outbreak. France’s health minister advised people over the weekend to refrain from the country’s customary double-cheek kiss in order to prevent the spread of the deadly bug. Meanwhile, the Italian government has also warned against displays of physical contact — with the special commissioner for the coronavirus, Angelo Borelli, saying that “maybe it is better in this period not to shake hands.” Across the world, the virus has infected more than 89,000 people and killed at least 3,000 since December’s outbreak in Wuhan, China.
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