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The Banerji Protocols, evolved by Dr Prasanta and Pratip Banerji offer a standardised diagnostic system, different from the case history taking process associated with classical homeopathy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (Documentary Film) http://www.banerjiprotocolsned... Ohsawa, I., et al. Hydrogen acts as a therapeutic antioxidant by selectively reducing cytotoxic oxygen radicals, Nature Medicine, Advance Online Publication, May 7, 2007. Nature Publishing Group, Available online: http://www.nature.com/natureme... Pollack, G. Water, Energy, and Life: Fresh views from the water’s edge, Thirty-second annual faculty lecture, Jan 30, 2008, Univ. of WA. Available online: http://www.uwtv.org/programs/d... Shigenobu, K, et al. Fundamental properties of electrolyzed water, Journal of the Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology, 2000, Vol. 47 No. 5 pp. 390-93. Abstract available online: http://sciencelinks.jp/j-east/... Watanabe, T. et al., Histopathological influence of alkaline ionized water on myocardial muscle of mother rats. J. Toxicol. Sci., 1998, Dec. 23:5, pp. 411-7. Dittman, R. Bio-Terrain, Evolutionary Biology and the Practice of Medicine in the Early 1900s: An Intro to René Quinton’s Marine Plasma. Explore! Vol. 15 No. 4 2006. Pischinger, A. The Extracellular Matrix and Ground Regulation: Basis for a Holistic Biological Medicine. North Atlantic Books, 2007, pp. 3-11. Flament, P. et al. The three-dimensional structure of an upper ocean vortex in the tropical Pacific Ocean Nature, 17 October 1996, Vol. 383, pp. 610-613. Available online: http://www.nature.com/nature/j... Pischinger, A. The Extracellular Matrix and Ground Regulation North Atlantic Books, 2007 . Lo, Shui Yin. The Biophysics Basis for Acupuncture and Health. Dragon Eye Press, 2004. Pal, S. et al. Water at DNA surfaces: Ultrafast dynamics in minor groove recognition. PNAS July 2003, Vol. 100, No. 14, pp. 8113-8118. Water–The Great Mystery is a recent documentary produced by Intention Media. The film interviews top scientists and researchers and presents the latest information on the structural and spiritual properties of water. It will leave no doubt in your mind that water is capable of almost anything. http://www.vibrantvitalwater.c... Tiller, W., Dibble, W., and Kohane, M. Conscious Acts of Creation: The Emergence of a New Physics, Pavior Publishing, 2001, pg. xi. Rein, G. et al. Structural changes in water and DNA associated with new physiologically measurable states. Journal of Scientific Exploration 1994; 8(3) pp. 438-439. McTaggart, L. www.TheIntentionExperiment.com, results of the experiment available online: http://www.theintentionexperim... Smith, C. W. Quanta and coherence effects in water and living systems, J. Alt and Comp Med, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2004, pp. 69-78. Department of Energy Non-chemical technologies for scale and hardness control. DOE-EE-0162 Correa, M., et al. SCD probiotics in the remediation of water contaminated with pathogenic bacteria and copper in Reseda Lake, Los Angeles, U.S. 2009. Emoto, M. The Message from Water, IHM Press, Japan.

See UWTV (University of Washinton Television, http://www.uwtv.org/) They have a cable channel, but I usually watch their content on the Internet.

The video can be found at UWTV.

Are we making good progress on cancer? Why not look at some actual data and listen to some actual scientists? Here's a great show giving a historical overview of the trends in cancer:

Why Me, Doc? What Scientists Know - and Don't Know - About Cancer

And here's a somewhat discouraging outlook from the Nobel-winning head of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center here in Seattle:

Medical Research: The Agony and The Ecstasy

Why learn about cancer from kibitzers on slashdot, when there are great resources for technical-minded folk to learn directly from scientists?

Are we making good progress on cancer? Why not look at some actual data and listen to some actual scientists? Here's a great show giving a historical overview of the trends in cancer:

Why Me, Doc? What Scientists Know - and Don't Know - About Cancer

And here's a somewhat discouraging outlook from the Nobel-winning head of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center here in Seattle:

Medical Research: The Agony and The Ecstasy

Why learn about cancer from kibitzers on slashdot, when there are great resources for technical-minded folk to learn directly from scientists?

No cure for cancer, but at least a partial cure for unfounded optimism about finding a cure for cancer can be found in this talk by Lee Hartwell, Nobel prize winner and head of the Fred Hutchinson cancer center in Seattle:

http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.aspx?rID=2669

Not only is it wrong to view all cancers as a single disease, it may be wrong to view the cancer in a single patient as a single disease. Cancer is genetically unstable, and it may turn out that the nature of the stability is plausibly modelled by assuming the cancer is using genetic (oh the irony) algorithms. IOW, past a certain point (e.g., metastasis), the cancer cells (at least a small minority of them), may be constantly spitting out all manner of genetic mutations at a high rate. This would help explain the extreme adaptability of most forms of cancer metastasis to whatever treatment you care to throw at them. As Judah Folkman said, every time a patient's cancer returns, it seems to have learned about new growth factors.

If you're worried about cancer, focus on prevention, not on the hope of a cure.

I am more worried about carcinogenic crap in the ground, in the water and in the air than global warming.

Perhaps some scientific data would ease your worries? This lecture on what we know and don't know about the causes of cancer probably holds several surprises.

And, of course, it's always useful to remember what the head of Fred Hutch points out about discovering the causes of cancer: if it turns out to be behavior, would it help to know? After all, we know with fair certainty the biggest cause of lung cancer, and a great many people still take up smoking every year.

There are some other good resources out there that stream lectures for free, such as the University of Washington (Check out the CSE Colloquia series and their medical programming) and ResearchChannel.

According to Eric Schmidt, advertising on Google News is a simple matter of priority and importance related to other things in their TODO list. To them, adding more news sources is more important than placing the ads - but he makes a point that ads will come sooner or later. Interesting presentation by the way.

The video from this link has amazing info and pictures of the datacenters.
http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayevent.asp?rid= 2459

• 719 racks
• 63,272 machines
• 126,544 CPUs
• 253 THz of processing power
• 126,544 GB of RAM
• 5,062 TB of hard drive space

It was much better than that.

Here are some links to the show. You can watch it on-line if you don't have Dish Network or your local cable doesn't carry the channel.

A Kinder Cut: Nintendo Surgery Part 1

A Kinder Cut: Nintendo Surgery Part 2

Learn about the evolution of surgery including the development of "minimally invasive techniques" and the impact of performing those operations using robotics. Watch how "Zeus" a state-of-the-art robot, performs an operation under the guidance and direction of a UW surgeon. Then try your hand at being an anesthesiologist as you help "Chris," a robotic patient, undergo preparation for surgery.

I've only seen Part 1, so I'm looking forward to Part 2. I'll probably just wait for it to be broadcast again rather than watch it from the web cast.

It was much better than that.

Here are some links to the show. You can watch it on-line if you don't have Dish Network or your local cable doesn't carry the channel.

A Kinder Cut: Nintendo Surgery Part 1

A Kinder Cut: Nintendo Surgery Part 2

Learn about the evolution of surgery including the development of "minimally invasive techniques" and the impact of performing those operations using robotics. Watch how "Zeus" a state-of-the-art robot, performs an operation under the guidance and direction of a UW surgeon. Then try your hand at being an anesthesiologist as you help "Chris," a robotic patient, undergo preparation for surgery.

I've only seen Part 1, so I'm looking forward to Part 2. I'll probably just wait for it to be broadcast again rather than watch it from the web cast.

Actually to bust your bubble google doesn't buy "xeon" or any of those fancy dancy servers. They buy cheap residenal boxes and rely on redundancy. I remember seeing some google video with that. They blow way too many servers a day. But it's simply cheaper to replace the cheap servers then it is to buy a new super power ultra server.

Wikipedia Article on Google

Ah ... and some googling lets me find the cool little program telling you more how google works.

The Video

Hopefully ive been some help :)

My biggest technical find (although video rather than audio) has to be the University of Washington's CSE Colloquia. These are videos of presentations done in the University, and they are pure content gold. Given by people who know exactly what they're doing, and a focus on real technical complexity rather than hype.

http://www.uwtv.org/programs/displayseries.asp?col lid=485

ACM talk
Schmidt
Hölzle

Here it is, from one of the Google guys:
Google: A Behind-the-Scenes Look.

If you want technology, look no further than the University of Washington TV, available via Satellite and Streaming Video on their website. It features lectures and presentations from actual classrooms at UW. I've been watching this channel for a couple of months now, and it's so much better than TechTV, or G4.

Sites like UMTV and MIT's OCW have interesting video lectures online, but they are, like every other comparable site I know, always in streaming format. That is, not downloadable. But streaming video sucks big time.

Does anyone know of sites that have downloadable video recordings of lectures? I would be especially interested in c. s., psychology and linguistics.

If you read (actually, watch) this article, you'll find google was using 15,000 linux servers as of the year 2002....

"how google does it"

From UWTV.org and the 2002 University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia:

Google Linux Cluster, The
Google's Linux cluster currently processes over 150 million queries a day, searching a multi-terabyte web index for every query with an average response time of less than a quarter of a second, with near-100% uptime. In this discussion, Google Fellow Urs Holzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs. For more information about this program, please see the CSE web site.

Watch here using Windows Media Player or compatible:

Modem

DSL (250k)

Cable (1300k)

The video is also available in streaming mpeg2 using IBM VideoCharger. If you are on the UW lan and want to use the VideoCharger link it can be found on the UWTV site.

If you have broadband and a spare hour, have a look at this lecture about google by Urs Holzle. Its reasonably light on hard-core specifics, but he covers some interesting things like determining the relevance of a page, hosting problems due to very high power density, failure rates of hardware etc etc.

Interesting stuff.

Here's a great video... if you'd like some info about how innovative and agile Google really is: Google Linux Cluster

I got Dish Network two years ago and have been enjoying The Research Channel, UCTV, and UWTV. They've got university lectures nearly around the clock. Some of the lectures are toned down for a lay scientist (lots of annual faculty lectures), and others are broadcasts of actual university classes. CSN would be a welcome addition to these networks for me.

For our many viewers on cable, direct broadcast satellite, and the Internet, ResearchChannel is the C-SPAN of scientific and medical research.