Joe English
7th Period
Entry I: Defining Romanticism
Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. Inn general “romanticism” has been used to refer to artists, poets, writers, musicians, as well as political, philosophical and social thinkers of the late eighteenth and early to mid nineteenth centuries. Characteristics of the movement include it being seen as being a beginning of a tradition of resistance to the “Enlightenment,” some see in it the inaugural moment of modernity. Some of the major writers and poets that are associated with the romanticism are Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Macpherson, Washington Irving, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, John Keats, George Gordon Noel Byron.The gothic component in romanticism played a large role in romanticism as a whole, the writers capitalized on the darkness and gloom of reality, exploiting it in order to acknowledge the evil in man in the deepest depths of his being regardless of who he might be. The distinguishing elements of the Gothic component in romanticism are terror, fright, darkness, pain, horror, and evil mystical forces beyond the control and understanding of man. Many writers incorporated a sense of Gothic in their artistry including Edgar Allen Poe and Washington Irving.
Joe English
7th Period
Joe English
7th Period
Entry II:
“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.” (51)
In the above passage there many ideals of romanticism that are conveyed throughout the quote. The first elements of romanticism that is displayed in the passage is are ideas of “life and death” and the “dark world” in which we in habit, the author uses this dark and gloomy rhetoric seek to draw from the Gothic element of romanticism describing the terribly sinister and gloomy world we live in. the effect of this is a contrast between “life and death” and the “the dark world” and the “torrent of light” coming from the “happy and excellent natures which would owe their being” to the main character. Light and darkness plays a major role in this passage and the underlying forces which ultimately control and wield these mysterious powers. The rhetoric contributes to the passage by conveying the author feelings and thought process as he discovers the possibilities of having the power of God in his hands as he begins his new task of creating a “new species” which would bless him, their creator and source, by providing between a contrast between the opposing the forces at hand in the midst of his endeavor.
Joe English
7th Period
Entry III:
WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE
By: John Keats (1795-1821)
WHEN I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace,
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
It is easy to see the elements of Romanticism in the poem “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be.” In his poem John Keats speaks of “unreflecting love,” “shadows with the magic hand of chance”, and the “fair creature of an hour.” Each of the aforementioned quotes share a singular common ground in that they all are reflections of John Keats’s use of Romanticism in his poetry, his emotion, imaginative imagery, and use of symbolism, are displayed throughout the quotes. The romantic elements contribute to the poem by adding emotion and depth in the poem forcing the reader to explore the meaning in its entirety instead of taking it at face value. The meaning of the poem is heightened by the romantic elements because, again, it adds depth to the poem giving it multiple levels upon which it can be perceived and interpreted.
Joe English
7th Period
Entry IV:
ON DEATH
By: John Keats (1795-1821)
I.
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
The transient pleasures as a vision seem,
And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.
II.
How strange it is that man on earth should roam,
And lead a life of woe, but not forsake
His rugged path; nor dare he view alone
His future doom which is but to awake.
Seen throughout the John Keats poem “On Death,” are the elments of Gothic Romanticism. Keats Speaks of a dreary “life of woe,” which we all lead, and the “rugged path” which we dare not view alone. He uses nature, an element of romanticism to help describe this and the dark and gloomy component of Gothic Romanticism to help him express himself through his artistry.
my mate is super keen on romanticism.. if blake were alive, im sure he would marry him.. yes i did say my mate is male...
all he goes on about is contradictions... and when i proved romanticism was a contradiction in itself, he was like well its meant to be... so now we let him get on with his randomness..
Rory
I disapprove how WWF agitators sometimes invade the personal privacy of unsuspecting passer-byes, urging them to pay from 5 to over 50 Eu a month (for an year). The skill they often employ in evoking dereliction and blameworthiness into the minds of the people they talk to, turning their indifference towards the animal kingdom into self-blame, granted that they don't receive any funds from those people, is also well known and criticized by some.
This is very evident in the case with the Green peace Organisation (tm), which I'm almost convinced, serves a darker purpose in modern society as it wrongfully and unjustly makes use of the outdated "Global Warming / Climate Change" - propaganda as its chief source of income steering public opinion through the same machinations used by other and the already mentioned green organisations whilst its confirmed contribution remains somewhat unverified,
which brings the question - could they not be 100% right ?
While I agree with your sentiments, may I present Exhibit A:
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not even close....let me explain
*a better world without pollution, animals and clean environment that isn't a health hazard to the people is one thing (here the WWF win they are doing nothing wrong)
but
*forcibly rubbing in a fabricated guilt, based on a widely accepted theory with =this may shock you= NO, significant scientific proof .
*fuelling a whole new "industry" (ecology) worth Mlrds. of $, based on those vague claims, which just launders money in the background without producing any evident result
*lying to the whole world, by falsifying data (remember wiki-leaks) .... we that's too much.
tell me than proud "Green Peace"/Green Parties' - minion:
=why didn't USA sign the Kyoto protocol? (but imposed it all over the rest of the world)
=why hasn't it got NOTABLY HOTTER (that's what they predicted for the early 2000-s)?
=why did they start calling it "Climate Change" now?
and this:
=Is there anyone that was actually credited for discovering "Global Warming", received a Noble Prise maybe, or did it just appear overnight?
-tell me what did they managed to achieve in terms of supporting the energy independence --- not much
you know how this all sounds like :
THE CHURCH OF CLIMATE CHANGE and THE DOOM PROPHECY
-we don't need another dogmatic belief, thank you very much
now lets do a quick recap of some of the astrophysical evidence against:
-the Sun dictates the climate in the whole Solar System, it displays a cyclic activity in different periods of time ranging from 100 000, 2000, 200, 22, to 11 year cycles. They are closely observed and studied by scientist. There are proven methods using polar ice drill probes , rock and soil samples and other which allow collecting of data about the Earth's climate hundreds of thousands of years ago to even millions (by interpreting galactic radiation isotopes and other methods)(basically the same technology for dating archaeological finds). The more short term climate changes (2000 years) are observed as well with even better accuracy (now having not only indirect but also direct solar data - even from ancient observations, sunspot count...and later with technology: magnetic images, temp ect.. ). The cyclic activity of the sun is evident (with cycles overlapping and interacting) and it is proven that it correlates and has the leading influence over the Earth's climate. =FACT=.
in short (notice how in mass media no one ever talks about the role of the sun) :
-climate in the different eras was very different, with temperatures in the last 1000 years being significantly colder and HOTTER (Greenland, Eric the Red Beard- ring any bells?)
-Climate in the whole Solar system is dictated by the sun if the ice caps on Earth are melting , well guess what the ice caps on Mars are melting as well....with the rather same dynamic by that, leaving place for doubt about the so called Anthropogenic Global Warming
-ozone layer holes are a scam too...in years of increased solar activity (end of the 90-s early 10-s) the ozone layer is REdistributed towards lower geographical widths exposing the Earth's north and south poles....this behaviour of ozone was found in the 1850-s [read it: ozone holes were found in the 1850-s]...(long before there were any air conditioners) , these ozone fluctuations have everything to do with how ozone is created and redistributed and the solar activity , I wont go into detail, go educate yourselves
GO ASK AN ASTROPHYSICIST OR AN ASTRONOMER IF YOU THINK THAT I SAID SOMETHING WRONG
mengo_ said:
now lets do a quick recap of some of the astrophysical evidence against:
-the Sun dictates the climate in the whole Solar System, it displays a cyclic activity in different periods of time ranging from 100 000, 2000, 200, 22, to 11 year cycles. They are closely observed and studied by scientist. There are proven methods using polar ice drill probes , rock and soil samples and other which allow collecting of data about the Earth's climate hundreds of thousands of years ago to even millions (by interpreting galactic radiation isotopes and other methods)(basically the same technology for dating archaeological finds). The more short term climate changes (2000 years) are observed as well with even better accuracy (now having not only indirect but also direct solar data - even from ancient observations, sunspot count...and later with technology: magnetic images, temp ect.. ). The cyclic activity of the sun is evident (with cycles overlapping and interacting) and it is proven that it correlates and has the leading influence over the Earth's climate. =FACT=.
in short (notice how in mass media no one ever talks about the role of the sun) :
-climate in the different eras was very different, with temperatures in the last 1000 years being significantly colder and HOTTER (Greenland, Eric the Red Beard- ring any bells?)
-Climate in the whole Solar system is dictated by the sun if the ice caps on Earth are melting , well guess what the ice caps on Mars are melting as well....with the rather same dynamic by that, leaving place for doubt about the so called Anthropogenic Global Warming
-ozone layer holes are a scam too...in years of increased solar activity (end of the 90-s early 10-s) the ozone layer is REdistributed towards lower geographical widths exposing the Earth's north and south poles....this behaviour of ozone was found in the 1850-s [read it: ozone holes were found in the 1850-s]...(long before there were any air conditioners) , these ozone fluctuations have everything to do with how ozone is created and redistributed and the solar activity , I wont go into detail, go educate yourselves
GO ASK AN ASTROPHYSICIST OR AN ASTRONOMER IF YOU THINK THAT I SAID SOMETHING WRONG
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As an astrophysicist and an astronomer, I'd like to correct you using this analogy.
Imagine you're snug in bed (the Earth), and you have central heating (the Sun) and blankets (CO2). The thermostat on the CH is wonky making the room temperature rise and drop on it's own accord (fluctuating solar activity).
Currently the CH is set to 20C, you pull a blanket on you and your temperature goes up higher than 20C, you pull another blanket on you, and it goes up even higher.
Now the CH hasn't changed, and the blankets aren't providing any extra heat, they're just trapping the heat in making you hotter than you would be without it.
The thermostat goes on the blink and sets itself to 25C, if you were just lying on the bed you'd get up to 25C, but you've got 3 blankets on you, so even though the CH is at 25C, you're hotter than that and start to feel unwell.
Then the thermostat drops itself down to 10C, the room cools as do you. Without those blankets you'd drop to 10C and feel quite cold, but because you have them your temperature is higher than it would be with just the CH, so it feels quite balmy.
Do you understand now that CO2 does affect the temperature and with it the climate?
The media and other luddites may not understand what science is telling them, and hear "CO2 is warming the plannet" when actually what is being said is "CO2 is making it hotter than it should be"
Currently the 11 year cycle is broken (which may explain the longer period that the Tories were in power followed by the longer than usual period that Labour remained in power) in that there is less activity than we would expect.
This is likely to lead to harsher winters which given the UK's inability to cope with a few feet of snow is what we scientists call a "very bad thing"
This is why it is not as hot as predicted due to the predictions using the 11 year solar cycle which you have by citing given credence to.
Using the current solar activity shows that the current global temperature is still higher than it would be at lower greenhouse gas levels (not just CO2 remember).
The US didn't sign up to the Kyoto agreement because the luddites in power at the time were funded by the fossil fuel industries, and rather than realising that a lot of money and jobs can be made by diversifying into genuine "green" technologies they went for the quick buck. I'm amazed you don't know this already. Incidently, due to the UK signing up to the Kyoto agreement, I can use much cheaper fuel without having to pay duty.
The Ozone layer was discovered in 1913, that's a good 60 years after the 1850s by the way.
The ice caps on Mars are mostly CO2, not frozen water, and they melt as Mars enters summer, just as on the Earth the ice caps melt as it enters summer, it just takes more energy to convert ice into water than it does to sublimate CO2 into gas. Come the Martian winter, the caps will be back. This happens every year.
The term climate change aids the explaination to luddites as to what actually is the effect of global warming, the sort of people who turn round and say "it's cold today therefore global warming must be a hoax"
TL;DR my friend. I said I agree with your sentiments (WWF, UN, etc. are ineffectual at best, corrupt and at worst speeding up the process), hence I stopped donating to these fine organizations.
But my original point, and the image I posted still stands. They are protecting our biodiversity, and they are protecting our environment (ever breathed clean air, really clean air outside the city?), they are creating a better future where our lives aren't dictated by the price of commodities, or by some resource that is very much limited in its nature (I'm talking about our reliance on fossil fuels).
The key here is sustainability. Hence, do we work towards a future where our needs for energy is sated by sustainable means, or do we keep burning dinosaurs and wonder where did the smog came from?
While I'm not sure about your procreation goals, I do wish to have children, and I do wish that when I hand over my world to them, I can tell them "Daddy made a difference" when it comes to giving them a better future.
Wiser men than I have said:
We borrow the world from our children
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and I believe in that. I'm a steward of the world, and I don't want to look back on my life and say I didn't do squat to make it a better place.
Now, to answer some of your queries directly:
1. Global warming is the bull$#[email protected]+ that the media spews. The correct term is Climate Change. Read up.
2. IPCC is a fraud, and so is their Chairman. I don't believe that we have enough data to conclusively say that humans are "causing a significant change in the global temperature" but I believe that humans are causing significant changes to the environment. Over-fishing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertification are among the things that we are doing wrong, as well as the observable thinning of the ozone layer. While nothing can be conclusively said to be of human origin, it does seem quite a coincidence for it to happen at the exact same time as when human population growth is exponential, no?
3. USA is a major fraud. The Kyoto Protocol is not followed by the USA because their industry players said that to adhere to the protocol will cause them to lose their "global competitiveness" therefore their leaders did not sign it. Also, why compare to people who are clearly doing it wrong? Why aspire to be the worst?
4. It won't get observably hotter fast, but in the winter months, it will get observably colder, or at least more expensive when you can't pay for your heating bills. Luckily I stay in perpetual warmth, although I will miss my air-conditioner.
Overall, I'd say that your facts are weak, and based on little research, merely what you have personally observed. Without a PhD or a directly related degree, I'd say that the internet+Google+wikipedia will pwn your @$$ pretty easily. Stop using it for facebook and use it to learn for whatever sake. Also, XDA is a geek site, not Fark.com, so do expect some form of intelligence in the answers, and expect to be owned (especially on my turf) when you said something wrong, and say it stupidly (I really meant that and will gladly invite an infraction for saying it).
thanks for the replies,
it's always hard to try and fight the well established ways of thinking even , if not the hardest in the scientific world where not only all previous knowledge is (supposed) to be backed with proof; and everything you say undergoes rigorous checks.
I tried to be critical about everything I wrote, but you have right, xaccers, I see some of it is unclear, but I still stand behind everything I said even that about the thinner ozone distribution over higher geographical widths, mainly Northern Europe where the hole is even bigger due to the specific air/sea currents being discovered sometime in the 19 th century in Norway (Ok not as early as the 50-s maybe, but still) ...or was it Denmark -
--I'll have to check again , thing is I'm doing medicine now so haven't opened my astrophysics notebooks in years, and this thing about the "global warming" being a rather popular science matter wasn't that much referred to in the curriculum. It was in generally regarded as a hoax by my professor...
..got distracted there,
1913 (lets stick to what wikipedia says) - hole in the ozone -- well that's still long before the air conditioner era (not forgetting here what they told us back then how quickly they are supposed to ruin the ozone layer)
I personally know one of the students of the guy who got cited by NASA about his predictions for the 23th (and 24th ??) solar cycle and described it very thoroughly giving its correct form (another maximum peak at the end and its supposed anomalies) and his predictions came true .
ice caps on Mars - I wasn't talking about polar caps on Mars melting because of the current Mars-summer, (that's just plain stupid, of course they would melt in the summer), I was talking that if you compare the ice caps dynamics in the last 30 years (they have good series of telescopic observations for download in the Nasa websites) and you compensate for latency , amount of change and so on... well they pretty much correlate to the general solar activity and Earth's middle temperatures (probably Earth's glaciers as well) , -look for this, there are many articles in the internet
Venus has a thicker atmosphere comprised of all sorts of "green house" gases - which aren't constant like blankets at all they are in continuous dynamic (although no plants and no industry on Venus) and again are dictated by the sun - it's difficult for me to go into detail right now
-I know I'm nothing but a layman in the field but I was fortunate to have met a lot of smart people, whose point of view I'm trying to defend
Lets look at the Wiki article, and what it says about 1913, and you'll see that the Ozone layer was discovered then, not the hole.
We've been using ozone depleting chemicals in commercial and domestic refigeration since the early 20th century, while the depletion was detected in the late 70s.
So even referring to Wiki you are unfortunately reading it incorrectly.
Mars has such a low gravity that the escape velocity is low enough for vast amounts of CO2 to escape into space on the solar wind, so during the summer this is what happens. Nothing is producing more CO2 in large enough quantities to replenish that which has been lost.
This has been going on for millions of years hence why Mars doesn't have much of an atmosphere.
It's also happening with gasses in our atmosphere too, but there's no need to start practicing holding your breath just yet
I'm very glad you've brought up Venus as it demonstrates my blanket analogy perfectly.
Let us look at Mercury, which is closer to the Sun and therefore one would expect to be the hottest planet in the solar system.
Except it isn't. Due to the additional blankets (CO2) on Venus, it is actually hotter than Mercury despite being a third of an AU further away from the Sun.
Also, due to the blanket effect of the CO2, Venus' temperature us rathe runiform and stable, demonstrating how CO2 traps heat, while Mercury ranges from -170C to 350C
So thank you for helping demonstrate how greenhouse gasses can raise the temperature of a planet.
In case you haven't understood, without the greenhouse gasses, being further away from the Sun, Venus would be colder than Mercury, but because it has greenhouse gasses trapping the heat it is actually hotter than it should be.
If you're wondering where the CO2 came from as there's no industry on Venus, then I'll have to explain about the super volcanoes on it's surface which make Mt Everest look like a mole hill (ok I exaggerate for dramatic effect, but not by much, they are seriously huge), and they spew out CO2.
Of course, who's to say there wasn't life on Venus once, the evidence does suggest it once had water oceans...
The CO2 produced from volcanoes on Earth is important, but cannot be blamed for the additional increase in CO2 levels we are experiencing.
There is a theory that during the Earth's history, back when the Sun was a lot less active and therefore cooler, it became nearly completely covered in ice, the so called snowball earth theory. With the temperature that low, precipitation all but stopped, so there was no "washing" of our atmosphere. This lead to a build up of CO2 spewed from volcanoes now long dormant, which raised the Earths temperature higher than it would have been before, thawing the planet and enabling life to continue.
Sakai is quite right in that if we manage to find cleaner ways of doing what we like then how is that a bad thing?
You only have to look at a city from a distance on a hot day to see the smog of pollution that us humans are producing.
We won't destroy the world, but we can quite easily make it inhospitable to humans, I'd rather we don't do that.
Without world governments taking it seriously rather than trying to make a quick buck at ultimately everyone's expense there isn't much direct effect one or two people can have, or for instance a small nation like the UK, but by making the change, following Sweden (I believe) and their plan to be oil free, can put pressure on other countries to follow suit.
As for your teacher telling you that global warming is a hoax, that shows a servere lack of professionalism. My Geography teacher couldn't seperate her own creationist beliefs when marking some of my course work (I did a 50 page essay on the geology and geography of the lands around where remains of our evolutionary ancesters had been found) and gave me 2 out of 20 as a grade. It was then that I realised what her problem was, as before I had found it stranged she denied oil was the remains of zooplankton and algae, instead stating it was "stored solar energy"
She was what we call in the industry a "very bad teacher" and looked like a Gummy bear.
I'm sorry that we have forsaken the civilised tone of the discourse but mentioning the creationists as a counterargument was hardly appropriate, it is just insulting...
who said anything that the Martian atmosphere plays a role in the matter, I was talking about ice caps melting under the pure influence of the solar activity.
(NASA doesn't cite creationists as far as I'm aware)
exactly what you are saying: constant HUGE volcanic activity - but stable temperature spectres nevertheless ? - showing how greenhouse gases are still regulated by natural phenomena
I will write you again in a couple of days about the ozone layer discovery , maybe back what i said with direct links. I'm not ready yet .
I'm not against ecology; just the opposite, if you would look through my discontent with falsifying science for political gain, you would see that I don't want to live to see the ecology movement as a whole being discredited in the near future after these theories have been cast away.
This thread is insulting
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mengo_ said:
I'm sorry that we have forsaken the civilised tone of the discourse but mentioning the creationists as a counterargument was hardly appropriate, it is just insulting...
who said anything that the Martian atmosphere plays a role in the matter, I was talking about ice caps melting under the pure influence of the solar activity.
exactly what you are saying: constant HUGE volcanic activity - but stable temperature spectres nevertheless ? - showing how greenhouse gases are still regulated by natural phenomena
I will write you again in a couple of days about the ozone layer discovery , maybe back what i said with direct links. I'm not ready yet .
I'm not against ecology; just the opposite, if you would look through my discontent with falsifying science for political gain, you would see that I don't want to live to see the ecology movement as a whole being discredited in the near future after these theories have been cast away.
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I'm sorry you weren't able to grasp the point I was making by mentioning my geography teacher.
It is wrong for a teacher, especially a science teacher, to put forward their opinion as fact, or be unable to seperate their own opinions from good science.
It doesn't matter if she believed australopithecus africanus was a chimp like creature unrelated to man, she should have put her beliefs aside and marked according to the quality of the science and research put in front of her.
Likewise your teacher should have given you the tools to understand global warming and climate change rather than opining that it is a hoax.
The Martian ice caps are the Martian atmosphere! What do you think they are made of?
It's frozen CO2 which is pretty much all that is left of the Martian atmosphere, the rest has evaporated off into space.
Mars is tectonically inert, it has very little internal heating, it's got low gravity which as I've explained is why the atmosphere is able to escape.
As I've said, during the Martian summer, the poles recieve more solar engery and the CO2 sublimates back into it's gasious form. A gas is made up of excited particles rushing around bouncing into each other, and many will have enough energy to escape Mars' gravitational hold, evaporating off into space.
You comment about volcanoes and greenhouse gasses on Venus is somewhat confusing.
Let me try to explain a few things so I can see if we understand each other.
Venus is very tectonically active (unlike Mars, and the Earth is somewhere in between), which releases lots of CO2 into it's atmosphere. It's oceans boiled away and there is no precipitation (rain) to clean the atmosphere so unlike on Earth, there is no Carbon cycle.
Consiquently the levels of CO2 built and built and built to their bone crushing levels of today.
The volcanoes are not heating Venus significantly, although it would be a bit warmer by a volcano than away from it obviously. The CO2 isn't heating Venus either. The Sun provides the heat, but this is the important bit which you appear to be having a spot of difficulty understanding, the CO2 traps the heat, meaning that Venus gets hotter than it should be, considerably hotter than it should be, hot enough to melt lead.
With every eruption of CO2 into the atmosphere, the amount at which Venus is hotter than it should be increases (in case you're thinking along the lines that Venus' temperature is constant despite all that CO2).
Now if you were to remove all the CO2 from Venus' atmosphere, it's temperature would drop to what it should be. Got it?
On the Earth, we have rain, and life, which gives us a Carbon cycle.
CO2 released into the atmosphere by animal and plant respiration (yes, plants produce CO2, isn't science amazing?), burning fossil fuels, volvanic activity etc is reabsorbed by the oceans (making them acidic) and plant photosynthesis, and the soil, and concrete, and various other processes (such as dead organic matter that's been buried).
Now if we just burnt a sustainable amount of young trees for our energy, replanting as we chop them down, then there wouldn't be much of a problem.
The CO2 that we were releasing would be the CO2 absorbed by the trees as they grew (of course they release the oxygen leaving just carbon which we then oxydise -burn- putting the oxygen back forming the CO2 produced).
The carbon cycle is pretty balanced for the levels of CO2 we're supposed to have.
Now if you go back millions of years to when that zooplankton was growing before it became crude oil, it's absorbing CO2. Then it died, became buried and turned into crude oil. Basically think of crude oil as stored CO2.
So imagine what would happen to the balanced carbon cycle if we went back millions of years, sucked up a load of CO2 and then released it today.
The cycle gets overloaded, trees may absorb more and grow bigger, but they'll die and release the CO2 back unless we bury them, and if we burn them then they release the extra CO2 even quicker. The oceans absorb more CO2, forming carbolic acid which kills coral and other primary food sources (we're seeing this already). The atmosphere traps more heat, which raises the global temperature above what it should be altering weather patterns. Precipitation increases and there are more floods destroying crops and people (look at Bangladesh), the temperature of the oceans increases killing more coral and primary food sources (many reefs have been bleached through high temperatures).
We're seeing many of these effects already, and that's with only a slight increase in temperatures above what they should be.
Hopefully the Sun's activity will remain depressed and we can play catch up for a little while before it's too late.
Phew, thank God this thread didn't descend into madness. Let's try to keep it civilized, alright?
The fact remains that I have worked and stayed in rural, semi-rural, and urban areas so I can say with certainty that on a weekday morning, the urban area has the worse smog. How observable does it have to be for us before we change our lifestyles for the better? In my country, we were encouraged to drive to boost the automotive industry. Here, our public transportation is so unreliable that I can't trust it to get me to work on time. On top of that, I have certain responsibilities that require me to drive. So I drive.
But I was really excited when they announced that an MRT system is going to be built up in my area. This will make my morning commute easier and less damaging to the environment.
When I go to a grocery store and just buy a few small items, I always tell the cashier to keep the plastic bags. I simply don't need them and consciously try to reduce my plastic footprint.
Similarly, when I buy good and equipment, I buy quality stuff that'll last longer, and I try not to buy synthetic materials.
All these add up to one thing; resources aren't infinite and we need conserve what we can.
Climate change might be controversial and polarising (believe me, I had made fun of it) but that does not mean it's not happening, and it doesn't mean that we (as humans) are completely innocent. We are, as a species, altering entire ecosystems with our action (or inaction) and we need to change that. I'm sure as a medical student, you are familiar with the adage:
First, seek to do no harm.
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And well, frankly, let's hope that in 30 years time, my kids will not look at Kung Fu Panda the same way I'd look at Kung Fu Triceratops.
I wish supermarkets over here changed to paper bags like in the US so they can be easily recycled again, although our plastic bags are now very biodegradable (as I found out when stored something in a bag for 6 months and the bag just crumbled into plastic flakes when I tried to pick it up).
I also wish it was easier to get hold of waste vegetable oil for my car, I can find no suppliers in the area I live in.
SVO is better than diesel, but not as environmentally friendly as WVO.
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I wish supermarkets over here changed to paper bags like in the US so they can be easily recycled again, although our plastic bags are now very biodegradable (as I found out when stored something in a bag for 6 months and the bag just crumbled into plastic flakes when I tried to pick it up).
I also wish it was easier to get hold of waste vegetable oil for my car, I can find no suppliers in the area I live in.
SVO is better than diesel, but not as environmentally friendly as WVO.
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Tesco and Jusco started using bio-degradable plastic bags about a year ago. While I hate the fact that I can't use it for long, it does help the environment.
WVO is kinda hard to refine, hence it isn't really viable.
sakai4eva said:
Tesco and Jusco started using bio-degradable plastic bags about a year ago. While I hate the fact that I can't use it for long, it does help the environment.
WVO is kinda hard to refine, hence it isn't really viable.
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I just need do heat (to remove water/acid) and filter it for my cars. I wouldn't make biodiesel, its dangerous and uses some nasty chemicals, and isn't as good for my engines.
In our city a few years back we were recycling 38% of our rubbish, which for the UK is one of the highest rates.
Hopefully it is going up, our council helps with weekly collections, free bags for recycleables, free wheelie bin for garden waste, free kitchen box for food waste, and free box for glass.
There are loads of recycling collection bins around, and most litter bins have a seperate section for recycleables.
About 80% of my household waste goes for recycling.
Any items taken to the tip that could be resold are transferred to charity shops so not only do they reduce the amount going to landfill, they are helping charities make money.
xaccers said:
I just need do heat (to remove water/acid) and filter it for my cars. I wouldn't make biodiesel, its dangerous and uses some nasty chemicals, and isn't as good for my engines.
In our city a few years back we were recycling 38% of our rubbish, which for the UK is one of the highest rates.
Hopefully it is going up, our council helps with weekly collections, free bags for recycleables, free wheelie bin for garden waste, free kitchen box for food waste, and free box for glass.
There are loads of recycling collection bins around, and most litter bins have a seperate section for recycleables.
About 80% of my household waste goes for recycling.
Any items taken to the tip that could be resold are transferred to charity shops so not only do they reduce the amount going to landfill, they are helping charities make money.
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From what I understand, Taipei's municipality enforces a mandatory seperation of garbage into respective recyclable bags. I'd think that it's a great initiative, but with the "clever" people in my country...
I really try to keep from creating waste and garbage. Most of my boxes from gadgets and gears are re-used or re-purposed, and I have just gave away my old phone to a youth in my church.
And of course, charities do enjoy having donations. Seems like killing two birds with one stone, doesn't it?
Indeed there really is no excuse to not seperate when the council make it so easy.
The concern over making it mandatory over here is that people would get fined because neighbours don't bother seperating and dump their mixed waste in other's bins.
We've already had some councils mis-using anti terror laws to spy on bins and fine owners because it was so full the lid wasn't able to close (the council did have its knuckles wrapped for that though).
At the moment I have my fiancee's late grandmother's clothes in the boot of my car ready to go to a charity this weekend.
It just makes sense to me to reuse (like you do with boxes) or repair items.
Yup. Reducing consumption and reducing waste is a great way to save the earth. I have a tendency to NEVER waste food, and I'm steadily trying to balance hospitality and saving from wastage
The name change to this thread IS NOT an improvement. Please refrain from name calling (even if it's a charity, company ect) I find it highly offensive. You are entitled to your opinion but, I feel the thread title takes it too far.
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Some essential premises - frequently formed by pioneers and bolstered by the drove - practice the aggregate inner voice of the driven in so far as they invigorate a willed improvement. The advancement is normally unrivaled however not really acculturated. The premises being referred to are of this shape: "Our level of mechanical progression is second to none. After achieving this level, we likewise need to set up our general public for peace, and to ensure the peace, technology must be amended to cultivate the approach of war." Technological headway that is pushed toward this path sets an unsafe point of reference for different social orders that dread a risk to their individual powers. They are pushed to likewise encourage a war technology.
In the space of civilization, this method of improvement is not excellent, nor is it morally reasonable. Since it is not morally reasonable, it is socially flighty. An investigation of the premises will uncover that it is the last one that represents an issue. The last start is the finish of two going before premises however is not at all consistently found. What it shows is an energetically concluded conclusion, and being along these lines, it neglects to be figured as a determination from a soundly arranged personality, at any rate at the time at which it was derived.
A general public that advances as per the above presuppositions - and particularly as per the irrational conclusion - has transmitted the mind of non-debatable prevalence over its kin. Up and down, the energy of enthusiasm manages the pace of human direct. Regardless of whether in helpful engagements or willed organizations, the guideline of balance neglects to work absolutely due to the prevalence disorder that grasps the pioneer and the drove. What's more, an alternate society that declines to partake in the aggregate sensibilities or energy of such society has, by the normal rationale, turn into a potential or real adversary and confronts encounter on every single conceivable front.
The greater part of what we find out about the present world, obviously, through the media, is overwhelmed by best in class technology. Social orders that have the greater part of such technology are likewise, on numerous occasions, guaranteed to be the most exceptional. It is not just their headway that lifts them to the zenith of energy, predominance, and popularity. They can likewise utilize technology to streamline and push ahead a comprehension of life and nature in an alternate bearing, a heading that has a tendency to wipe out, however much as could reasonably be expected, an earlier association amongst life and nature that was, in many regards, magical and perilous. This last point does not really imply that mechanical progression is a characteristic of a predominant civilization.
What we have to know is that civilization and technology are not matrimonial terms. Socialized individuals may have a propelled technology or they might not have it. Civilization is not simply an issue of science and technology or specialized foundation, or, once more, the wonder of structures; it likewise needs to do with the good and mental reflexes of individuals and their level of social connectedness inside their own particular society and past. It is from the general conduct cosmetics of individuals that all types of physical structures could be made, so too the subject of science and technology. In this way, the sort of extensions, streets, structures, overwhelming hardware, among others, that we can find in a general public could tell, for the most part, the behavioral example of the general population. Behavioral example could likewise enlighten a great deal regarding the degree to which the common habitat has been used for infrastructural exercises, science and technology. Most importantly, behavioral example could inform a considerable measure concerning the discernments and comprehension of the general population about other individuals.
I do trust - and, I think, the vast majority do accept - that after quickening the rate of infrastructural exercises and technology, the earth needs to retreat in its expectation. Once propelling technology (and its specialist structures or thoughts) contends with the green condition for space, this condition houses trees, grass, blooms, a wide range of creatures and fish needs to shrivel. However the development of populace, the relentless human desiring for quality life, the need to control existence without relying upon the eccentric state of the indigenous habitat incite the utilization of technology. Technology require not posture unjustifiable peril to the regular habitat. It is the abuse of technology that is being referred to. While a general public may legitimately use technology to enhance personal satisfaction, its kin additionally need to ask: "how much technology do we have to protect the indigenous habitat?" Suppose society Y mixes the direct utilization of technology with the regular habitat so as to counterbalance the foolhardy decimation of the last mentioned, then this sort of situating prompts the point that society Y is a darling of the guideline of adjust. From this standard, one can boldly reason that society Y favors soundness more than turmoil, and has, consequently, the feeling of good and social obligation. Any best in class technology focuses to the advancement of the human personality, and it shows that the indigenous habitat has been cavalierly subdued.
In the event that people would prefer not to inhabit the leniency of the regular habitat - which, obviously, is an unverifiable lifestyle - yet as per their own anticipated pace, then the utilization of technology involves course. No doubt the guideline of adjust that society Y has picked must be for a brief timeframe or this is to a greater degree a pretend position than a genuine one. For when the energy of the human personality satisfies itself taking after a momentous accomplishment in technology, withdraw, or, best case scenario, a back off is very unordinary. It is as though the human personality is letting itself know: "innovative progression needs to quicken with no obstruction. A withdraw or a progressive procedure is an affront to the inquisitive personality." This sort of manner of thinking just calls attention to the puzzle of the psyche, its dim side, not its finest range. What's more, in trying to investigate the present method of a specific technology as per the guidelines of the brain, the part of morals is indispensable.
Is it morally ideal to utilize this sort of technology for this sort of item? Furthermore, is it morally ideal to utilize this sort of item? Both inquiries imply that the item or items being referred to are either hurtful or not, earth cordial or not, or that they don't just purpose hurt straightforwardly to people however specifically to the earth as well. Furthermore, if, as I have expressed, the reason for technology is to enhance the personal satisfaction, then to utilize technology to deliver items that damage both people and the regular habitat negates the motivation behind technology, and it likewise misrepresents an affirmation that people are levelheaded. Besides, it recommends that the modern level that the human personality has come to can't get a handle on the substance or method of reasoning of value life. In such manner, a serene conjunction with the regular habitat would have been forsaken for an over the top, asking human personality. The human personality would, in a manner of speaking, wind up plainly adulterated with convictions or thoughts that are untenable in any number of ways.
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Some time ago i released "Advice Guide - The paths i found to improve mental health / destress / cognitivity / consciousness / productivity" on reddit where i mentioned some apps that will help you to improve i named them 'phone tools' , hope you enjoy.
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It all starts with one thought: How to improve? The things i found on my way asking this question are published in this post. I always tried to follow current research and not all of this could be your way of the path. I will update as soon i got new insights and im open for science backed answers that can extend the list. Feel free to contribute and enjoy life.
Point 1 is freshly discovered, maybe it gets extended soon
side note: most mentioned methods also improve autophagy , cleaning your cells from trash
1. Nutrition:
Do's=
- Eat some Olive oil or/and Nuts , prevents high insulin
- use the intermidity diet. 16 hours not eating / 8 hours eating- will keep your brain running and insuline low!
- eat egg yolks and curcumin (turmeric) , they increase neuroplasticity
- omega-3 fats (fish) intake, as well as l-theanine (tea)
- vape nicotin inside an e-cigarette , isolated nicotine helps boosting memory and learning whilst having harmful ingredients in normal cigarettes
Don'ts=
- Dont use preperates to cover brain or health needs! some of them are unhealthy cause they provide to much of a normaly healthy ingredient making you sick at the end
- Dont eat high carbs! Things in your brain cant work nicely when the body produces to much insulin caused from carbs
- dont drink cow milk, it blocks folate receptors and decreases methylation, which are improving your neuronal build (neurogenesis) , Goat’s and sheep’s milk products are usually fine—unless you have an autoimmune disease.
2. Daily Routines
- breath trough your nose : The benefits of nasal breathing are associated with how this breathing purifies, heats, moistens, and pressurizes the air. These changes to the air increase oxygen absorption by approximately 10-15%.
- You all may know it : Meditation. A daily session of meditation , even in doses of 5-10 minutes per day can improve mood, destress, helps fokus
-- Phone tools=
- Mesmerize - with visual , audio and breath stimulation
- Brain.fm - i prefer those sounds as they are binaural, bringing your head in a synchronized state with the selected mindset
- Cold Showers : It releases anti-depressants and is an stress trainer. so its a good prevention if you seem to have a lot stress. i recommend to start cold and change it to warm later.
- Brain training - also classical advice and a hot science topic as some scientists beliefe you just get better in the tasks , my opinion is if the brain gains neuronal connections , its a very good choice/thing. the average brain starts to slowly reduce unused parts at an age of 25!
-- Phone tools=
- Neuronation
- Brain Wars
- Nonogram King
- Sudoku4two
- Futoshiki
- Hex2048
- Loop: Energy
- I Love Hue too
- Sleep - sleep is used to store information in your long term memory, dont lose it! study shows that uncovered sleep can be restored in the next 2 days
- Exercise physically - a healthy body keeps your mind running. dont try to overuse alcohol (healthy amount: 0,5 l each day on 5 days a week) and keep distance from drugs even if you think they provide you a brighter sight of how things are, they change your neuronal connections
-- 10 minutes a day running will help to release neuronal builders and strengthen your allready existing neurons
- Games - yes even games can help you, especially action games cause they fasten your cognitivity
-- Phone Tools=
- Dragon Fly
- Death Worm
- Fruit Ninja
- Temple Run
- Sonic Jump Fever
- Smash it
- Zombie Smasher
- Race the Sun
- Metal Madness
- Mobile Legends
- Jetpack Joyride
- Real Boxing
- Dead Target
- Dancing Road
- Shellfire
- Kickflight
- Overdrive
- Bomb Bots Arena
- Into the Dead
- Learn : The more you remember the easier you will keep information, but be aware- the brain slowly fades unused information when it gets new input. Ask yourself before learning what it may help you with in the future to stay more motivated
-- Phone Tools=
- Audio Now
- StudySmarter
- Coursera
- StoryShots
- Deepstash
- 12 Min
- Inshorts
- Plan your work : we are most productive in little time frames, this covers also learning. Dont multitask, if you excluded all unnecessary distractions, you can enter the highly effective flow state. motivate yourself when imagining why you do something. Theres no reason to think "i cant" , instead think "i dont". failure is the key to sucess , learn from it
-- there are many proven methods to take care of the little time frames, here are two examples =
- 25 minute , followed by 2 minute break , repeat 3 to 4 times until you choose a larger break of around 15 minutes
- 90 minutes , followed by a 10-15 minute break
this also helps when doing things you dont like or if you are procrastinating - brain sends a pain reaction 20 minutes of time , if you overcome that period you will teach yourself its not that bad
surprisingly the same time span (20 minutes) is needed to decrease your focus, breaks will help you getting new information processed
- Use your subconsciousness : Things become sticky when you repeatly hear or see them. Try to take a look on motivational short notices over the day
-- Phone Tools=
- Unlock your Mind
At the end i will leave you with a phone tool for stress prevention, called "Skills".
I didnt mention the many self advice i got from book summarys and podcasts, to keep it informal mostly. Hope this helped you, have a nice one and dont forget to leave comments
Meh, don't vape... put the e-liquid under your tongue; nicotine* is quickly absorbed through the mucous membranes.
Nicotine also is a MAO inhibitor that protects the Substantia nigra region of the brain.
However there's a much better one... Deprenyl. After age 45, 2-5 mg @ day in the morning. One of the true anti-aging drugs.
If you start using before you develop Parkinson's disease you may never develop it.
Everyone will develop Parkinson's disease if they life long enough. Deprenyl is a selective MOA inhibitor that slows down the breakdown of dopamine thereby reducing the workload/ free radical damage of the dopamine producing neurons in the Substantia nigra region of the brain.
For unknown reasons as people age the MAO levels rise for these neurons causing a premature breakdown of dopamine. The neurons are forced to increase their production of dopamine to offset this. It's theorized this in turn causes increase free radical damage to the dopamine producing neurons and their premature death.
If 80% are destroyed signs of Parkinson's disease will manifest themselves.
It 90% or more are destroyed, you will die.
*Good cigars are much tastier and more relaxing than straight nicotine. The olfactory properties of it's many subtle aromas trigger memories long forgotten. Vaping is a boring one trick pony.
Tobacco also has natural anti-inflammatory properties that protect joints and suppress other types of inflammation that nicotine alone does not.
Tobacco is a true smart drug. More effective than caffeine when you really need to stay alert and awake. It's saved my life more than once on the road.
blackhawk said:
Meh, don't vape... put the e-liquid under your tongue; nicotine* is quickly absorbed through the mucous membranes.
Nicotine also is a MAO inhibitor that protects the Substantia nigra region of the brain.
However there's a much better one... Deprenyl. After age 45, 2-5 mg @ day in the morning. One of the true anti-aging drugs.
If you start using before you develop Parkinson's disease you may never develop it.
Everyone will develop Parkinson's disease if they life long enough. Deprenyl is a selective MOA inhibitor that slows down the breakdown of dopamine thereby reducing the workload/ free radical damage of the dopamine producing neurons in the Substantia nigra region of the brain.
For unknown reasons as people age the MAO levels rise for these neurons causing a premature breakdown of dopamine. The neurons are forced to increase their production of dopamine to offset this. It's theorized this in turn causes increase free radical damage to the dopamine producing neurons and their premature death.
If 80% are destroyed signs of Parkinson's disease will manifest themselves.
It 90% or more are destroyed, you will die.
*Good cigars are much tastier and more relaxing than straight nicotine. The olfactory properties of it's many subtle aromas trigger memories long forgotten. Vaping is a boring one trick pony.
Tobacco also has natural anti-inflammatory properties that protect joints and suppress other types of inflammation that nicotine alone does not.
Tobacco is a true smart drug. More effective than caffeine when you really need to stay alert and awake. It's saved my life more than once on the road.
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you recommend people to take an antidepressant ? this is crazy, antidepressants dont stop production of dopamine, they stop them to dock into the receptors. and free radicals are known to be necessary lately
The good thing about free radicals
Free radicals have long been associated with tissue damage. A new study shows that they also promote regeneration. Let us start with the basis: every matter co …
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show us a study that proves parkinson behaves like you describe it as i know not a single old person having parkinson....
tobacco harms lung function, risk of heart disease , circulation and carbon monoxide levels , i dont recommend it.
HeathenMan said:
you recommend people to take an antidepressant ? this is crazy, antidepressants dont stop production of dopamine, they stop them to dock into the receptors. and free radicals are known to be necessary lately
The good thing about free radicals
Free radicals have long been associated with tissue damage. A new study shows that they also promote regeneration. Let us start with the basis: every matter co …
www.wingsforlife.com
show us a study that proves parkinson behaves like you describe it as i know not a single old person having parkinson....
tobacco harms lung function, risk of heart disease , circulation and carbon monoxide levels , i dont recommend it.
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It's not a true antidepressant. Neurochemistry is much more complicated than that.
Your dopamine levels start falling as you age. Lower dopamine levels mean lower testosterone and hgh levels. The deadly triad... you need all 3 to live and be healthy.
Read up on Deprenyl completely than get back to me.
Using too much has the opposite effect. 2-5 mg @ day max and less is better. A 2 day holiday every 7-10 days. Monitoring BP at first as it is an MAO inhibitor but it's selective. It lowers my BP by 1 or 2 points, odd.
Increases fine motors skills and athletic performance. Do not or be careful to use if you suffer from anxiety.
It's a better anti aging drug than anything you listed although I often substitute cigars for it.
Why do you think the incidence of Parkinson's disease is lower in smokers than non-smokers in the same age brackets?
Those pills Muhammad Ali was popping in the ring at the Rumble in the Jungle fight were Deprenyl. Parkinson's disease and its many variant forms are much more common than you realize... live long enough and you will unfortunately discover it.
blackhawk said:
It's not a true antidepressant. Neurochemistry is much more complicated than that.
Your dopamine levels start falling as you age. Lower dopamine levels mean lower testosterone and hgh levels. The deadly triad... you need all 3 to live and be healthy.
Read up on Deprenyl completely than get back to me.
Using too much has the opposite effect. 2-5 mg @ day max and less is better. A 2 day holiday every 7-10 days. Monitoring BP at first as it is an MAO inhibitor but it's selective. It lowers my BP by 1 or 2 points, odd.
Increases fine motors skills and athletic performance. Do not or be careful to use if you suffer from anxiety.
It's a better anti aging drug than anything you listed although I often substitute cigars for it.
Why do you think the incidence of Parkinson's disease is lower in smokers than non-smokers in the same age brackets?
Those pills Muhammad Ali was popping in the ring at the Rumble in the Jungle fight were Deprenyl. Parkinson's disease and its many variant forms are much more common than you realize... live long enough and you will unfortunately discover it.
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"In Parkinson's disease, neurons of the substantia nigra progressively degenerate"
its a symptom of parkinson, not the cause....
Dopamine and Parkinson's Disease - Madame Curie Bioscience Database - NCBI Bookshelf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
as long you cant show me that low dopamine causes parkinson , i dont recommend anyone to take a medication like this , the starving of old neurons is crucial and needed for neurogenesis , its no good idea to prevent it
Control of adult neurogenesis by programmed cell death in the mammalian brain - Molecular Brain
The presence of neural stem cells (NSCs) and the production of new neurons in the adult brain have received great attention from scientists and the public because of implications to brain plasticity and their potential use for treating currently incurable brain diseases. Adult neurogenesis is...
molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com
HeathenMan said:
"In Parkinson's disease, neurons of the substantia nigra progressively degenerate"
its a symptom of parkinson, not the cause....
Dopamine and Parkinson's Disease - Madame Curie Bioscience Database - NCBI Bookshelf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
as long you cant show me that low dopamine causes parkinson , i dont recommend anyone to take a medication like this , the starving of old neurons is crucial and needed for neurogenesis , its no good idea to prevent it
Control of adult neurogenesis by programmed cell death in the mammalian brain - Molecular Brain
The presence of neural stem cells (NSCs) and the production of new neurons in the adult brain have received great attention from scientists and the public because of implications to brain plasticity and their potential use for treating currently incurable brain diseases. Adult neurogenesis is...
molecularbrain.biomedcentral.com
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Come on, stop that chicken/egg bs.
You use nicotine* already for the exact same purpose...
Using Deprenyl or the weaker nicotine works by reducing the amount of dopamine the neurons need to produce. It thought this provides those neurons with enhanced free radical protection.
In mice it greatly extended their lifespan when given starting at a young age.
Medicine is an art not a science...
* nicotine has one nasty side effect; it relaxes the esophagus sphincter muscles. Well documented but few layman know this.
Effects of transdermal nicotine on lower esophageal sphincter and esophageal motility - PubMed
Cigarette smoking has been shown to decrease lower esophageal sphincter pressure (LESP) by 19-42%. This decrease in LESP may be due to nicotine in the cigarette smoke or substances other than nicotine. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a nicotine patch on esophageal motility...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Only if you guys would try to be more polite...
xanthrax said:
Only if you guys would try to be more polite...
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Meh?
We're good. We agree on nicotine and breathing through the nose.
Probably about drinking lots of water and no soda too.
And the OP didn't dis the gars
blackhawk said:
Meh?
We're good. We agree on nicotine and breathing through the nose.
Probably about drinking lots of water and no soda too.
And the OP didn't dis the gars
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Cool! Then I'll join in when you guys arrive to the beer chapter
xanthrax said:
Cool! Then I'll join in when you guys arrive to the beer chapter
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Let's jump straight to the sipping wiskey and Johnny Cash songs
xanthrax said:
Cool! Then I'll join in when you guys arrive to the beer chapter
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i saw a study that 0,5 liters of alcohol on 5 days per week is healthier then drinking nothing but i mainly focus on neurological benefits here. overall health is a huge theme
HeathenMan said:
i saw a study that 0,5 liters of alcohol on 5 days per week is healthier then drinking nothing but i mainly focus on neurological benefits here. overall health is a huge theme
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Bob Hope was notorious for taking his long walks late at night wherever he was. He credited them for his good health and longevity.
Once a stranger commented to him: You look a lot like Bob Hope."
Hope dryly replied: "I get that a lot."
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It depends on the individual. Very little in medicine is written in stone.