According to the Asian Development Bank, 1.5 billion people live below the poverty line, not the “official figure” of 0.5 billion., so the Asian poverty rate is 41.2% not 12.7%. The explanation is that the officially set poverty line of $1.25 a day is too low and by increasing it by 25 cents, to $1.50 …
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Category:7 Holonics and Life
Mr. BKS Iyengar’s Light shines on
Like millions of others, I have been influenced by this great yoga teacher, though I have never met him. I have read The Tree of Yoga. I refer to Light on Yoga and Light on Pranayama. I study Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. I use props to aid my alignment. I am aware …
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Sharing makes you happy.
A survey by Gallup on the relationship between well-being and community service shows a direct positive correlation. The overall pattern cut across income and age group. The Gallup analysis also found a connection between community service and key indicators of emotional health, such as stress and worry. Sadly it seems that many more U.S. adults …
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Toxins in your drinking water?
It happens regularly now. Tonnes of agricultural fertiliser and sprays running off the land in to the water system causing eutrophication. Algae bloom and everything else dies. And even massive municipal treatment plants can’t clean the water. Farming practices and climate change cause the problem, which will not go away until we all choose to …
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Happiness = …
This is the equation for happiness: What does all that jibberish mean? Basically that expectations determine happiness. That is why looking over the garden hedge at the grass on the other side (the lawn that you can’t have because to belongs to someone else) is a sure way to be unhappy. And why appreciating the …
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Even big brother thinks big brother can be dangerous.
The UN has warned against the dangers of too much data and too much surveillance. In a report, the UN body said more needed to be done to ensure that surveillance was balanced against its harm to personal privacy, noting that: mass retention of data to aid surveillance was “neither necessary nor proportionate”. “disturbingly little” …
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A guide to your body clock.
The BBC offers a handy slide show summarising natural biorhythms. It gives an insight in to why moods and energy levels change during the day. You can see their presentation here and read the main points below. 00:00-02:59 Body enters shutdown Sleep hormone melatonin peaking Minimum levels of attention and vigilance Brain washes itself and …
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What’s So Scary About Smart Girls? They might fix things.
What’s So Scary About Smart Girls? is a provocative read in the NYT. It makes some sad observations and reiterates what evidence proves: that education makes life better and that emancipating and liberating females is the way to realise the great potential of humanity’s “better half”. For example: If you want to mire a nation …
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Tamiflu and others are expensive and don’t work.
Expensive, convenient solutions can be ineffective. But often the perceived convenience obscures this. The treatment of common ailments often falls in to this category, because natural remedies work effectively. The rapid spread of new diseases, like AIDS, BSE (mad cow disease) and bird flu, raise the fear of pandemics and the willingness to seek strong, …
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A world without growth – IMF.
Well that doesn’t seem natural because the plants grow every year and add to the planet’s biomass. When the IMF talks about no economic growth for years, it should raise concern. The head of the IMF talks technically about inflation and capacity but irrespective of accounting, laws and economics, the natural resources of the planet …
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