Wikituesday

"Hoʻoponopono (ho-o-pono-pono) is an ancient Hawaiian practice of reconciliation and forgiveness. Similar forgiveness practices were performed on islands throughout the South Pacific, including Samoa, Tahiti and New Zealand. Traditionally hoʻoponopono is practiced by healing priests or kahuna lapaʻau among family members of a person who is physically ill. Modern versions are performed within the family by a family elder, or by the individual alone. [...] “Hoʻoponopono” is defined in the Hawaiian Dictionary as “mental cleansing: family conferences in which relationships were set right through prayer, discussion, confession, repentance, and mutual restitution and forgiveness.” Literally, hoʻo means “to”. Pono is defined as “goodness, uprightness, morality, moral qualities, correct or proper procedure, excellence, well-being, prosperity, welfare, benefit, true condition or nature, duty; moral, fitting, proper, righteous, right, upright, just, virtuous, fair, beneficial, successful, in... more... - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

"After Simeona's passing in 1992, her former student and administrator Hew Len, co-authored a book claiming to teach Simeona's hoʻoponopono. Len makes no claim to be a kahuna. Contrary to Simeona's teachings, the book says that the main objective of hoʻoponopono is getting to “the state of Zero, where we have zero limits. No memories. No identity.” To reach this state, called... more... - Goran Zec

"Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία) is a classical Greek word commonly translated as 'happiness'. Etymologically, it consists of the word "eu" ("good" or "well being") and "daimōn" ("spirit" or "minor deity", used by extension to mean one's lot or fortune). Although popular usage of the term happiness refers to a state of mind, related to joy or pleasure, eudaimonia rarely has such connotations, and the less subjective "human flourishing" is often preferred as a translation." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

"In shopping mall design, the Gruen transfer refers to the moment when consumers respond to "scripted disorientation" cues in the environment. It is named for Austrian architect Victor Gruen (who disavowed such manipulative techniques). Recently, the Gruen transfer has been popularised by Douglas Rushkoff. The Gruen transfer refers to the moment when a consumer enters a shopping mall, and, surrounded by an intentionally confusing layout, loses track of their original intentions. Spatial awareness of their surroundings play a key role, as does the surrounding sound and music. The effect of the transfer is marked by a slower walking pace and glazed eyes." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

"The judge sentenced Kevorkian to serve a 10-25 year prison sentence and told him: "You were on bond to another judge when you committed this offense, you were not licensed to practice medicine when you committed this offense and you hadn't been licensed for eight years. And you had the audacity to go on national television, show the world what you did and dare the legal system to stop you. Well, sir, consider yourself stopped." Kevorkian was sent to prison in Coldwater, Michigan." - mzec

"The term is also used in a metaphysical sense, to describe the joy, terror, humor and other feelings or emotions associated with being and existence. Humans, to an apparently superlative degree amongst all living things, are aware of the passage of time, can remember the past and imagine the future, and are intimately aware of their own mortality. Only human beings are known to ask themselves questions relating to the purpose of life beyond the base need for survival, or the nature of existence beyond that which is empirically apparent: What is the meaning of existence? Why was I born? Why am I here? Where will I go when I die? The human struggle to find answers to these questions — and the very fact that we can conceive them and ask them — is what defines the human condition in this sense of the term." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

Transhumanism is just a statement of the desire to become posthuman ;-) - Alexander Kruel

Minirali su je ustvari jer su tamo dolje čuvali vanzemljake. Istina je tamo vani. - miroslav

The term "thagomizer" was coined by Gary Larson in a 1982 Far Side comic strip, in which a group of cavemen in a faux-modern lecture hall are taught by their caveman professor that the spikes were named "after the late Thag Simmons". The term was picked up initially by Ken Carpenter, a palaeontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who used the term when describing a fossil at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Annual Meeting in 1993.[2] - mzec from Bookmarklet

"In classic Sanskrit, the term duḥkha was often compared to a large potter's wheel that would screech as it was spun around, and did not turn smoothly. The opposite of dukkha was the term sukha, which brought to mind a potter's wheel that turned smoothly and noiselessly. In other Buddhist-influenced cultures, similar imagery was used to describe dukkha. An example from China is the cart with one wheel that is slightly broken, so that the rider is jolted each time the wheel rolls over the broken spot. Although dukkha is often translated as "suffering", its philosophical meaning is more analogous to "disquietude" as in the condition of being disturbed. As such, "suffering" is too narrow a translation with "negative emotional connotations" (Jeffrey Po)[2], which can give the impression that the Buddhist view is one of pessimism, but Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic, but realistic. Thus in English-language Buddhist literature dukkha is often left untranslated, so as to encompass its full range of meaning." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

Jebote kao da imamo tematski wikitjuzdej - miroslav

Pročitao baš prošle godine u ovo vrijeme, taman mi je godišnjica. čapek je ekstra s velikim E - miroslav

super stvar za veliki vrt... za one sa manjim vrtovima, po uzoru na indijance, moju baku i većinu ljudi sa sela: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Vedran

Moj za sljedeći tjedan, nisam odolio primjenjivosti termina u svakodnevnom životu u gradu na plus 30, a i zbilja je kratak: "Dušegupka, kamion-ubica (nem. Gaswagen) je specijalno vozilo namenjeno za gušenje ljudi koje su nacisti koristili za masovna ubistva tokom holokausta. Žrtve su gušene u hermetički zatvorenoj unutrašnjosti kamiona tako što bi se izduvni gasovi (ugljen monoksid) sprovodili u nju. Dušegupke su korišćene u logoru Helmno u Poljskoj i za likvidaciju Jevreja i partizana zatočenih u Beogradskim logorima. Kada je usavršena tehnologija efikasnijih gasnih komora, nacisti su prestali sa korišćenjem dušegupki." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

Ispričavam se što imam višak. Smatrajte to make-your-own-adventure pristupom, dušegupka vs. Saccharomyces cerevisiae. - Goran Zec

"Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a species of budding yeast. It is perhaps the most useful yeast owing to its use since ancient times in baking and brewing. It is believed that it was originally isolated from the skins of grapes (one can see the yeast as a component of the thin white film on the skins of some dark-colored fruits such as plums; it exists among the waxes of the cuticle). It is one of the most intensively studied eukaryotic model organisms in molecular and cell biology, much like Escherichia coli as the model prokaryote. It is the microorganism behind the most common type of fermentation. Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells are round to ovoid, 5–10 micrometres in diameter. It reproduces by a division process known as budding. [...] "Saccharomyces" derives from Latinized Greek and means "sugar mold" or "sugar fungus", saccharo- being the combining form "sugar-" and myces being "fungus". Cerevisiae comes from Latin and means "of beer"." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet

"S. cerevisiae was the first eukaryotic genome that was completely sequenced. The genome sequence was released in the public domain on April 24, 1996. Since then, regular updates have been maintained at the Saccharomyces Genome Database (SGD). This database is a highly annotated and cross-referenced database for yeast researchers. Another important S. cerevisiae database is maintained... more... - Goran Zec

Zanimljivo. Genijalna stvar koju sam nedavno saznao o kvascu: imali su višestanične pretke, tj. sekundarno su se "vratili" na jednostanični način života. Još jedna pljuska u lice antropocentrizmu u evoluciji. - mzec

"In political discourse, if-by-whiskey is a relativist fallacy where the response to a question is contingent on the questioner's opinions and use of words with strong positive or negative connotations (e.g. "terrorist" as negative and "freedom fighter" as positive). An if-by-whiskey argument implemented through doublespeak appears to affirm both sides of an issue, and agrees with whichever side the listener supports, in effect, taking a position without taking a position." - Goran Zec

Siblicid FTW! - mzec

Obligate siblicide je naziv banda, ako sam ja ikad vidio naziv benda. - Goran Zec

Prvi album NPAV. - Goran Zec

The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului) in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Palace is the world's largest civilian administrative building (The Pentagon is the largest overall), most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building. - mzec from Bookmarklet

Aditiv u kuhinjskoj soli - miroslav

"An exocortex is a theoretical artificial external information processing system that would augment a brain's biological high-level cognitive processes. An individual's exocortex would be comprised of external memory modules, processors, IO devices and software systems that would interact with, and augment, a person's biological brain. Typically this interaction is described as being conducted through a direct brain-computer interface, making these extensions functionally part of the individual's mind. Individuals with significant exocortices would be classified as transhumans. The magazine Living Digital gave this description of the concept: "While [the traditional concept of] a cyborg has included artificial mechanical limbs embedded chips and devices, another interesting concept is the exocortex, which is a brain-computer interface. In theory, the exocortex would be a computer-like processing system that would co-exist with and enhance the power of the human brain. Neuromancer is a book that has talked about such a scenario."" - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet