Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread meekerdb
On 4/20/2014 10:03 PM, LizR wrote: On 21 April 2014 16:27, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net mailto:meeke...@verizon.net wrote: “People are more unwilling to give up the word ‘God’ than to give up the idea for which the word has hitherto stood” --- Bertrand Russell :-)

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread LizR
On 21 April 2014 18:21, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/20/2014 10:03 PM, LizR wrote: On 21 April 2014 16:27, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: “People are more unwilling to give up the word ‘God’ than to give up the idea for which the word has hitherto stood” ---

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 20 Apr 2014, at 21:04, spudboy...@aol.com wrote: Thanks, Professor. You musings about God having a mother using logical consistencies is similar to what mathematical biologist and author, Clifford Pickover does frequently in his books, both fact and fiction. Perhaps God's Mother was a

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Apr 2014, at 01:39, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of meekerdb Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:54 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:26 AM, meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net wrote: On 4/20/2014 2:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Apr 2014, at 20:50, meekerdb wrote: On 4/19/2014 12:37 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Then, the cultivation of industrial help -- which is not psychoactive -- was also made

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Apr 2014, at 02:03, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com ] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2014 5:01 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate. On 20

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 21 Apr 2014, at 05:26, meekerdb wrote: On 4/20/2014 2:27 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 19 Apr 2014, at 20:50, meekerdb wrote: On 4/19/2014 12:37 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: Then, the cultivation of industrial help -- which is not psychoactive -- was also made illegal. Industrial has a wide

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread spudboy100
Did ja know that Martin Gardner was a god-believer? He had a sort of logic behind it, and nobody need agree with him. Safe to say that if Tegmark was a religious believer, and he is not, Gardner would be there with him. On the subject of the miracle of number 19 in the Qur'an, has anyone read

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread spudboy100
Back to our favorite topic, AGW, take a peak at this article or study from the US federales- http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/20/corn-biofuels-gasoline-global-warming Observations: 1. The science of climate is likely massively complicated, obviously. 2. Even good ideas end up

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread ghibbsa
On Saturday, April 19, 2014 8:05:20 AM UTC+1, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 18 Apr 2014, at 22:33, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: Physorg runs a report today in which brain abnormalities are linked with cannabis use,

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi, Of course, if the FDA hides that cannabis can possibly cure some cancers, why should it not hide other possible successful procedure(s). The following documentary shows that this happened/ happens indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGwkt1CWhhw Bruno

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread LizR
On 22 April 2014 06:48, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: Recently the earth-like planet Kepler 186f was discovered. I believe SETI is already listening in its direction with great attention. If we hear something, I'll become more optimistic. Me too! Sadly, the chances are rather

Interesting Google tech talk on QM

2014-04-21 Thread Pierz
Just came across this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc It's a bit long, but I'd be interested to hear anyone's thoughts who is knowledgeable on QM. I don't follow the maths, but I kind of got the gist. What intrigued me was his interpretation of QM and I'm wondering if

Re: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

2014-04-21 Thread Jason Resch
Pierz, I think we discussed Ron Garrett's talk on this list before. You should be able to find something searching the archive. I greatly appreciated his view and invited him to discuss them with us on this list and also invited him to check out Bruno's paper since I found a lot of similarity.

Re: Graham Hancock on The Plant Teachers (Banned TED Talk)

2014-04-21 Thread Pierz
I agree with you, up to the point when you start advocating (on the other thread?) the notion that drink driving should be legal. The key point relates to harm caused. If you choose to smoke tobacco and thereby ruin your lungs and put yourself at risk of lung cancer, it's your body, your

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread Chris de Morsella
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Simply put, we need better energy technology, for energy and climate remediation, and not better government dictatorship, who, are all looking out for us all. If climate

Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread LizR
Seconded. The money spent on the Iraq war, or the War on Terror, or the War on Drugs could in each case easily have been used for something worthwhile, e.g. to provide clean water and medical assistance to the millions of people still living in poverty and dying of preventable diseases. How about

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal On 21 Apr 2014, at 01:39, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb On 4/19/2014 9:01

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

2014-04-21 Thread 'Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 1:37 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate. On 21 Apr 2014, at 02:03, Chris de Morsella

Re: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

2014-04-21 Thread meekerdb
Read Mermin who has written some popular papers on The Ithaca Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, e.g. http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9801057.pdf and the paper by Adami and Cerf, which is where Garrett gets his talk, arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0405005/?/ They take an information theoric approach