Ptolemy Tompkins on how treating animals as our brethren benefits both them and us.
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Book Excerpt: Connecting like Jesus
Mary Albert Darling on how the spiritual practice of listening attentively to another person affirms their worth.
Book Review: Connecting like Jesus
Practices and exercises for creating spiritually charged communication within the church community.
Book Excerpt: The Mindfulness Code
Donald Altman on using balance breaks during the day to ward off stress, anxiety, and fear.
Book Review: The Mindfulness Code
44 mindfulness exercises to serve as antidotes to the stress and speed of our overstimulated and always-connected lives.
Thread Number
How do I find the thread number associated with a post?
Book Review: 5001 Simple Things to do For Others (and Yourself!)
5001 things to keep kindness, compassion, and generosity alive in our world.
Communicating Outside of NASAWorld
Successful science communication: A case study, Ars Technica
"It is no secret that, in general, i.e. outside of dedicated science reporting venues and the occasional medical report on the evening news, the scientific community does a craptastic job of communicating with the general public. While I think we at Nobel Intent do it admirably, we are but an infinitesimal sliver in the pie of science. A report that appeared in a recent edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights a case study of effective science communication and deconstructs it to show what parts may be generally applicable to other areas of science."
Book Review: The Divine Life of Animals
A thought-provoking overview of the spiritual connections that tie us to our pets and other animals.
Book Excerpt: Soul of a Citizen
Paul Rogat Loeb challenging citizens to be true to themselves as they move from passivity to participation.
Continuous Recording
I'm looking for some advice. The Oregon Caves National Monument has asked me to install an antique wood wall telephone in their antique telephone booth located inside the lodge. They want to tourists to be able to listen to a recording talking about the Caves, Monument, Lodge etc. whenever the recei
Basic Wind Speed
Salaam, I need to know how I can come to know about design wind speed for a country. Now I m doing tower design in qatar. HOw I know the wind speed of qatar. I need the source so that I can use it for the whole world. Thanks a lot.
Temperature
Why we use temperature Transmitter after Using of RTD ?
Drawing
How many types of Drawing user in instrument?
The essence of pleasure | Gene Expression
I highly recommend this discussion between Paul Bloom & Robert Wright. The topic under consideration is the psychology of pleasure, as reviewed in Bloom’s new book How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like. You can also find out about Bloom’s ideas in this exchange in Slate. The essentialism examined in Descarte’s Baby is being taken for another spin, though with a more precise focus. The bottom line is that pleasure is often contingent on more than proximate empirical sensory input; it depends on what you perceive to be the essence of the object of pleasure, even its history (or more crassly, its price). This truth may make the calculation project of the utilitarian heirs of Gottfried Leibniz pragmatically impossible.
Control Through GPRS
can i send a control interlock signals through GPRS from reservoirs level transmitter to interlock with my pumping station (distance about 8 km far from pumping station)
is it save ?and reliable ?
I'm using scada system
thanks a lot
Earth Fault Tripping
Hello all. I'll be very grateful if you could answer my queries and clear my concepts in the process.
I work in an oil & gas plant as a Trainee Electrical engineer. The power source that we use is a Caterpillar's G3508 (SITA) 630KVA/505kW natural gas engine which runs at only 40-50% load,
1997 Cavalier Won't Start, Crank Sensor ODB
1195 Cavalier onn the way to scrap. ODB says crank sensor. mech broke it in the block trying to remove it. he replaced the ingition control module, no spark still- he says. any idea?
Current Carrying Capacity of Solid Bus Bar
What is the maximum current carrying capacity of a solid bus bar 30x6mm Tin plated copper Ambient Temperature 50 Dec C
Obama Space Plan Under Continuous Assault
At Companies Tied to NASA, Casualties of a Changing Mission, NY Times
"The administration wants to turn to commercial companies for taking future astronauts to orbit while taking a hiatus from any ambitious missions to send astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. Yet Congress has not agreed to the scuttling of Constellation and added a clause in this year's federal budget that prohibited NASA from canceling the program or starting a new one without Congressional assent. The skirmishing continued in earnest this week. Staff members on the House Committee on Science and Technology are reviewing documents that NASA sent over Friday evening to comply with the committee's demand for information used in formulating the president's proposal. In addition, on Tuesday, 62 House members signed a letter sent to President Obama "to express concern" over the direction of NASA."
ATK gets reprieve in NASA funding, AP
"ATK Space Systems says it has been cleared for a scheduled ground test of a new rocket motor in September. ATK says it received notice from NASA that the company will receive $160 million to prepare for the rocket test despite doubts about the future of the space program. The situation could change after October, when a new federal budget year starts."
ATK: NASA releases funds: Ares rocket work may continue through at least September, McClatchy-Tribune
"NASA in the last month threatened to withhold funding and enforce a contract clause that could force ATK to put up $500 million in termination costs for Ares, which is part of the Constellation space project. ATK officials would not confirm it, but NASA projected the termination clause would cost more than 2,000 jobs at the Top of Utah company."
Does moon plan have a pulse?, Houston Chronicle
"And the full 60-member House Appropriations Committee will be deciding whether to adopt Senate-passed restrictions designed to block an administration effort to have Constellation contractors set aside funds to pay potential contract termination costs - a move that critics contend bleeds the program before Congress has taken action. The language is part of the must-pass wartime defense supplemental bill. The panels' deliberations follow a letter to Obama by 62 House Democrats and Republicans from 18 states on Wednesday that urged the president to work with lawmakers on a compromise on the Constellation program."
