Showing posts with label Dr Andy Weil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr Andy Weil. Show all posts

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Honey: Where is gene editing for longevity now @Joi @geochurch @Harvard ? & re @MIT @medialab Joi Ito's "THE RESPONSIBILITY OF IMMORTALITY: WELCOME TO THE NEW TRANSHUMANISM," * * * 'Grateful Dead, absolutely rippin' "Sugar Magnolia~Scarlet~Fire" 3/27/88,' 'Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert 1969 Amazing Clear Footage,' Turn sewing machine into robot & 3D printer & Make a Jimi Hendrix jacket~ , 'Jethro Tull - We Used to Know,' 'Jethro Tull - My God (Nothing Is Easy; Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 ),' * * * Glad to have heard Julie Herndon and four other Stanford composers' pieces played last night by the Taks Ensemble (from NYC with a number of Oberlin grads), I head from individual and group questions into network society questions re Manuel Castells - http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con4.html * * * Yes, World Univ & Sch is continuing to develop, and is Quaker/Friendly-informed in part perhaps due to writing and communications over 11-12 years, and a serpentine of a blog, See /Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies & @ - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch -


Where is gene editing for longevity now @Joi @geochurch @Harvard ? & re @MIT @medialab Joi Ito's "THE RESPONSIBILITY OF IMMORTALITY: WELCOME TO THE NEW TRANSHUMANISM" https://web.archive.org/web/20180605002848/https://www.wired.com/story/the-responsibility-of-immortality/ & @DrWeil "Could You Live to Be 150?" https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/health-centers/aging-gracefully/could-you-live-to-be-150/ > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity ~


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1094328608082997248
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1094329903762141184

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Where is gene editing for longevity now @Joi @geochurch ? & re @MIT's Joi Ito's "THE RESPONSIBILITY OF IMMORTALITY: WELCOME TO THE NEW TRANSHUMANISM" https://web.archive.org/web/20180605002848/https://www.wired.com/story/the-responsibility-of-immortality/ & @DrWeil "Could You Live to Be 150?" https://www.drweil.com/health-wellness/health-centers/aging-gracefully/could-you-live-to-be-150/ > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Longevity @WorldUnivAndSch ~


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1094330406650863616
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1094330913884782592



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Grateful Dead, absolutely rippin' "Sugar Magnolia~Scarlet~Fire" 3/27/88 Hampton, VA
Counterculture, Grateful Dead, Hippies, Loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting, Musical Jamming & Rock and Roll



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Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert 1969 Amazing Clear Footage

https://youtu.be/NNAaMpvc8xE


Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert (1969) AMAZING Clear Footage

https://youtu.be/flrKWVeSpPE



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Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert 1969 Amazing Clear Footage
https://youtu.be/PbwUH_eJ2fk >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll Check out "Links to Add" & 1960s, Blues, Counterculture, Hippies, Loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting, Musical Jamming & /Grateful_Dead too @WorldUnivAndSch > ONLINE JAMS


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Jimi Hendrix Live Full Concert 1969 Amazing Clear Footage
https://youtu.be/PbwUH_eJ2fk >https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll Check out "Links to Add" & 1960s, Blues, Counterculture, Hippies, Loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting, Musical Jamming @WorldUnivAndSch & GD 

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Jethro Tull - We Used to Know
>https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll Check out "Links to Add" & 1960s, Blues, Counterculture, Hippies, Loving bliss neurophysiology eliciting, & Musical Jamming too @WorldUnivAndSch > ONLINE JAMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jethro_Tull_(band) ~


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Jethro Tull - My God (Nothing Is Easy; Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 )
https://youtu.be/5WSulenOUb0 GREAT VIDEO & Jethro Tull - We Used to Know https://youtu.be/5EBQ-ljFlt4  



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Good morning, M,

How are you? How's your weekend going? Glad to have heard Julie Herndon and four other Stanford composers' pieces played last night by the Taks Ensemble (from NYC with a number of Oberlin grads) yesterday evening, to have met Julie's partner, John Iver, and to have talked a bit more with Julie and a number of the composers. Somewhat 'normal' creative evening among avant garde, post-hippie Stanford 'brights,' in avant garde (sometimes 'curious') northern California. Julie feels a bit like kin somehow, could be a UU woman (but isn't I think), is creative (very nice composition, and well played), is helpful, from the eastern seaboard ... 

The online WUaS Music School could emerge in collaboration with some of these folks (and Stanford's CCRMA too) too even.

Good WUaS monthly business meeting yesterday.

Would like to grow a circle of kin somehow in very diverse Bay Area California (where sometimes its sexual vibes can weird me out) ... it's not obvious how to however ... individual and group questions I think ... and perhaps emerging into network society questions. 

What are you up to today?

L,
Scott

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Hi M,

I think I head from individual and group questions into network society questions re Castells - http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con4.html ...

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1094651256314855425 ... am a bit of a Castellian in general ...

L, Scott

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Theoretically, heading here from individual/group questions to network society questions re Castells
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/honey-where-is-gene-editing-for.html (+Longevity, Rock, Music, Quaker) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_theory_(Castells)
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Manuel%20Castells -
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Castells/castells-con4.html > https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Network_Society @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1094675708998148098
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1094680383713554432


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Carl,

Yes, World Univ & Sch is continuing to develop, and is Quaker/Friendly-informed in part. This is perhaps due to writing and communications over 11-12 years, and a serpentine of a blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university - (Portland Oregon's Ursula K. LeGuin explored serpentine in her 1985 book "Always Coming Home" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Ursula%20Le%20Guin), as well as WUaS Monthly Business Meeting, where both Larry and I are most regular (https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2019/02/agenda-and-news-for-world-univ-sch-wuas.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/african-bush-elephant-agenda-and-news.html). As Harvard GSE Prof Karen Brennan writes "Good reminder about creative work! (From John McPhee's Draft No. 4) #CreativeComputing" -

https://twitter.com/karen_brennan/status/1091455526423142400 - as way opens. The unfolding platform will seek to code for a kind of the simplicity you suggest, and some of what you suggest is here already (as you may know) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - as we accredit, but Wikipedia in 300 languages and MIT OCW in 5 languages are building blocks that involve some complexity too.

And thanks for your email. Please let Friends know about these open teaching and learning opportunities and for example - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Quakers_-_Religious_Society_of_Friends - where World Univ & Sch is seeking to wiki-add both very inspiring as well as highest quality Quaker resources (and in many languages and countries). 

Getting the WUaS National Science Foundation award will facilitate what you suggest, and such editors (Stanford grad students?) are budgeted for. As you may know, as a former WUaS Board member - thank you for your contributions - WUaS has long had no monies.  If you know of grant writers who might be interested in fundraising, or if you might be interested in the 10% re World Univ & Sch's 'Letter of Agreement: Facilitation Resources to Board +'  - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s_GBHW0gC1LPSbKNgwZz0_F2WVec_OgcWVK0WNtdkO0/edit?usp=sharing - please let one of us know. 





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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Paria Canyon, Vermillion Wilderness: Favorite Health Web Sites, Happiness Resources, Zero Emission Vehicles

Favorite health web sites: drweil.com, health.nih.gov, webMD.com ... (for their 'search' fields) ...

and here, too - scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm


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Favorite happiness websites with ACADEMIC research and links: scottmacleod.com/LovingBlissPractices.htm :) - research is at bottom ...


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California has been a pace setter for decades vis-a-vis car emissions control, worldwide.

Vis-a-vis Global Warming / Climate Change, zero emission vehicles seem sensible.

Here's the Sierra Club's current perspective:


sierraclubca.blogspot.com/2009/12/sierra-club-calfiornia-speaks-up-for.html


And a 2009 Zero Emission Vehicle Review:

arb.ca.gov/msprog/zevprog/2009zevreview/2009zevreview.htm























(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/paria-canyon-vermillion-wilderness.html - December 10, 2009)
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Baobab: Anthropological Fieldwork, Science, Dr. Andy Weil's Integrative Medicine Website, & Global University, in Africa

Anthropology and Science

Anthropological fieldwork - participant observation - is the basis of sociocultural anthropology, which is a social scientific, interpretive practice that engages the same traditions of reason that 'hard' science does. Ethnographic writing here is both a practice and a genre. See for example Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa Malkki's "Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork" (Univ of Chicago 2007). I'll try to post the "Oxford Companion to Philosophy's" short entry on science, in a week or so.


Dr. Andy Weil's Integrative Medicine Web Site

I find Andy Weil MD's web site's search field - drweil.com - particularly helpful vis-a-vis western and alternative medicine. Weil is a Harvard-trained botanist (BA) and medical doctor who offers both allopathic (western medicine) analyses of specific medical conditions, and evidence-oriented integrative and complementary possibilities, drawing on clinical research. He also engages a far-reaching network of skillful and knowledgeable, alternative, healing practitioners, his own analyses, and is a skillful communicator.

Dr. Andy Weil's alternative medicine web site is a fascinating combination of allopathic medicine and integrative/complementary medicine - accessible through the Internet - as well as an important site for medical anthropology vis-a-vis the World Wide Web.


Global University, in Africa

Why not create a U.S. $10 solar, video-capable, iPhone-like device, in conjunction with One Laptop Per Child, to distribute easily in Africa, for example, in the Congo, so that peoples there might start to teach and learn courses vis-a-vis Global University's Wiki, in Agriculture, Business, Computer Science, English, and in Kikongo, Lingala, Tshiluba, Swahili, French and English languages (of the estimated 242 languages of the Congo)?

With this Global University Wiki, local teachers could use such devices to teach one-to-many wherever Internet access is available, in conjunction, to start, with the most competent University there, and to record courses directly to the World Wide Web.
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Monday, July 21, 2008

Flax Seed: Loving Bliss, Omega-3 Fatty Acids & Harbin's Warm Pool ~ L.B. 'Musical' Explorations


Loving Bliss

What's the biology, or more specifically, neurophysiology of the experience of loving bliss? And what is the anthropology of loving bliss?

Again, here's my definition of loving bliss:

~ experiences that are deeply, gratefully, reciprocally appreciative and affectionate, both with a friend or friends, and alone, as well as profoundly and naturally high at the same time, and which are ongoing, biological, 'flow' experiences.

Omega-3 fatty acids (1000 mg 3-4 times per day from flax seed oil, for example) seem to allow for the neurophysiology of loving bliss's emergence, in my experience. For me, ingesting omega-3 fatty acids lead to a biological, harmonizing effect. (Please let me know of studies that support this clinically as this is anecdotal, but Dr. Andy Weil's web site is a rich reference).

For me, too, Harbin Hot Spring's warm pool, as well as Harbin's milieu, can lead to a far-reaching, relaxation response (Benson 1972) which richly contributes to a basis for loving bliss.

{And Ecstasy - [MDMA - methylene_dioxy_meth_amphetamine] is another instance that loving bliss is neurochemical, although I don't recommend taking it.}

For 'flow,' Csikszentmihalyi's book "Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience," about how enjoyment works, shows empirically that this process involves focus or concentration with a goal in mind.

In an anthropological sense, some liminal spaces - places outside social structure - e.g. Harbin, some religious gatherings, Grateful Dead concerts, ragas, traveling, etc. - are sometimes where communitas emerges, and can give rise to loving bliss, in my experience. But I find the 'flow' experience of releasing to elicit the relaxation response particularly salutary, and especially in the Harbin warm pool.


Thinking novelly, with a knowledge-orientation, and systematically, how to access loving bliss when one wants to, and in the ways one wants to, naturally and in far-reaching ways, while functioning well in Modernity, and raising kids, for example?



Loving Bliss Explorations

Seeking loving bliss 'chamber music' musicians, improvisers and composers :)
for the next many decades

For a creative exploration of loving bliss qualities

Naturally and neurophysiologically

Contact - scott@scottmacleod.com


Loving Bliss as Musical Explorations

Guidelines
for practicing loving bliss
scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingLovingBlissvavMusicalInstrument.htm
vis-à-vis practicing a musical instrument


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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Ferns & Horsetails: Plant Evolution at the Rainbow Gathering

Botany one day ~

Walking up the beautiful, flower-filled way through the birch forest toward main Meadow on July 3, I came upon a plant walk, led by 7 Song {Northeast School of Botanical Medicine} and Frank {Plants and Healers}, two knowledgeable botanists who have come to the Rainbow Gathering a lot, I think.


To a large group, they talked about and brought alive the natural flora around us.


They told us about:

willow - salix

spring beauty

lodgepole pine - pinus contorta

shooting star - dodecatheon

veronica scrofulacia - speedwell

the rose family

juniper - a gymnosperm

clover - in the pea family - trifolium


7 Song had to go to another plant talk, so Frank continued to tell us about plants. He recommended "Botany in a Day" by Thomas J. Eppel, which had a table that listed the evolutionary calendar I was asking him for information about. For example, this table showed that angiosperms emerged around 180-140 million years ago, and horsetails and ferns' (the phylum or division Pteridophyta, also known as Filicophyta) emerged beginning about 360 million years ago, in the early Carboniferous, and their emergence spanned around 300 millions years.



It was fascinating to learn about plant evolution and plants in this wilderness at the 2008 Rainbow Gathering, focusing all of our minds, and helping to see the natural world in much detail.


Omega-3 fatty acids

7 Song and Frank also mentioned some plants that had Omega-3 fatty acids in them that are found at 9000 feet in forests like these.

I'm curious, but didn't ask, why omega-3s seem to have a harmonizing effect on the bodymind. Dr. Andy Weil's web site's search field {http://www.drweil.com/} provides information about this, but I haven't seen a lot of clinical studies about this specific effect. Omega-3 fatty acids, (200-1000 mg, 3-4 times a day from flax seed oil) also are beneficial for heart disease, bone density, and many other things, for which there is evidence.
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