There is very little CO2 in room air. The link says 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon, with traces of xenon, neon, and krypton. Another page says room air has 0.038% CO2. Even an extra 5% oxygen will wipe out a body's co2 levels.
I know you're a doctor, as I've seen your posts here before. Why don't you experiment? Get some air+co2 (or oxygen+co2) for patients who you might otherwise be tempted to put on oxygen prongs, and see what happens.
I have better links, but guard them jealously from people who wouldn't appreciate them anyways.;^)
Hypocapnia is when you don't have enough CO2 in your blood.
I have a bookmark for a.co.uk medical gas supplier on another computer. They have PDFs of their products' Material Safety Data Sheets. As I recally, they have Oxygen, Oxygen +5% CO2, Plain Air + 5% CO2, straight CO2 (for anesthesia), etc.
But I did find a printout of this page: Hyperoxia-Induced Hypocapnia. The practical implication of this piece is that every old person who has been prescribed oxygen by their doctor is also being poisoned. This creates more things to treat, so it's good for the medical system, but not so good for the patient.
If you're going to be on oxygen, 5% CO2 should always be blended in...
Like your theory about the defense complex keeping engineers out of trouble.
But as for poor people... Stress and malnutrition are the biggest obstacles most such people face. Stress alone is rather disabling. Most place require a full month's rent and deposit to move in...
Rather than handouts, I actually like the idea of having Job Projects to do things that need to be done. These would be paid for by issuing currency into circulation. I think the guy I mentioned in that post is incapable of holding a regular job. I overheard him talking with someone at a later date - he used to work in a turkey slaughterhouse. He was either replaced by mexicans, or got run down by the slaughterhouse grind...
Individually it's not a lot, but injecting $306 Billion into Mainstreet, USA would be huge.
Many people might not care about an extra $1000 in their pocket, but people at the bottom of the economic ladder would really benefit - the long-term unemployed, and the people living entirely on food stamps.
When the top 100 Defense Contractors cost taxpayers $306 billion, eliminating the Federal Contractor middle-man seems like an obvious place to start the austerity measures.
Instead of borrowing $306 billion from Wall Street and giving it to defense contractors (owned by Wall Street), the government could create the same $306 billion and give all 300 million of us $1002 apiece.
So the Fed could print a hundred quadrillion dollars tomorrow, and it would all still be "backed" by labor, so there would be no inflation?
You're just being stupid with your opening statement. Not a good way to start.
The "process of separating money from gold" started in 800 AD in China
You could've offer a link, or given a keyword that I could've looked up for myself on Wikipedia or Google.
and has ending in unmitigated disaster every time, simply because human beings can't be trusted with the ability to centrally administer economies.
Monetary researchers, such as the two I linked to, would disagree with your statement here. For example, Lincoln's fiat Greenbacks were rather successful, in that they enabled him to fight the civil war without paying ursury to the banking cartels of his day.
Greedy bankers and thieves create unmitigated disasters. The people in Government generally have good intentions.
Gold, on the other hand, can't be printed.
Did you hear the news yesterday (er, October 28th) about the italian demonstrating his cold fusion plant for his first customer? The thing turns nickel into copper, and produces a prolific amount of heat energy. With such a source of cheap energy, Gold can easily be harvested from the ocean.
all the gold ever mined is still circulating
Most the gold ever mined is hoarded in vaults around the planet. The plebes don't need gold to have a functioning economy.
Also note that under a gold standard, the number of people prospecting for gold...
Very little "new gold" comes from prospectors, today. Caterpillar and chemistry do the work for the vast majority of gold....
This allowed them to print money with nothing backing it.
Money is always backed by human labor, if you go back far enough. Money-backed-by-stuff doesn't work anymore, because stuff no longer needs (very much) human labor to create. I wrote a letter to the editor back when the crazies in Congress were fighting over their lines-in-the-sand (debt ceiling), so I'll just quote myself here:
Money is nothing more than a medium that allows humans to exchange their labors.
Gold used to be the western world's standard form of money... People would dedicate their lives to extracting it from the earth.
Gold extracted with human labor was traded for mining supplies created by human labor... Gold spread from the mine into every corner of the economy.
Gold-as-money had it's problems, of course. The gold rushes (California, Alaska, etc) flooded the economy with extra gold...
Then someone figured out how to extract gold from the earth with Caterpillars and chemistry instead of shovels and slush boxes. The process of disconnecting the government's currency from gold started during the Civil War, with Lincoln's Greenbacks... progressed with FDR's gold freeze... and ended with the de-pegging of the dollar under Nixon.
The folks at Monetary.org and those who advocate Publicly-owned Banks are on the right track, methinks. There are some more important articles at the bottom of my blog post about fixing the governments finances - "bailout for the people", "money and the crisis of civilization", and "I want the earth plus 5%". .
Under the Federal Reserve system, money is only created when someone takes out a loan. If Federal Reserve Notes were truthfully labeled, they would all say This Bill Was BORROWED From Wall Street. This is why it was so important to bail out the banking system: no bankers, no money.
Nothing says "oligarchy" like having an entire economy by its balls.
You don't need fancy buildings and whizzbang gadgets to teach, you simply need inspiring people.
You're referring to "parents", right?
I know the standardized system devalues the contributions parents make to their children's education, but for the first several years parents make an enormous contribution to the molding of their offspring.
The real success of the public system is in the systematic removal of parents from the process. Makes it much easier to mold people's thinking patterns...
John Taylor Gatto says to keep your kids out of school for as long as possible. Skipping Kindgergarten, first, and second grades are most important.
Why solve a problem when you can study it forever?
Research into a disease is directly tied into the pressure to research (breast cancer) and the number of people affected.
Breast cancer is simple: excess estrogen (tells estrogen-sensitive tissues to divide) + underwires (restrict the flow of lymphatic fluid) -> cancer.
There are lots of substances which are "estrogenic", which means they have estrogen-like effects on tissues... BPA (plastic) is estrogenic, as are phyto-estrogen in soybeans (isoflavones) and flaxseeds (lignans).
If teh scientists were to figure out breast cancer, what would the Medical-Industrial Complex do with all their mamogram machinery? Those things don't pay for themselves, you know, and as an added bonus irradiating breasts regularly (annually) makes cancer even more likely.
In fact, some of that stupidity has shown up on OWS, like cries to 'audit the Fed'. Look, idiots, auditing the Fed isn't going to do anything. The Fed is doing nothing illegal.
Without an audit of the public-private beast that is the Federal Reserve System, how would you know whether they've done anything illegal or not? I don't know if the Ron Paul's version of the audit was ever passed, but Senator Sanders got an amendment inserted into some-bill-or-another. His office has this page:
... "As a result of this audit, we now know that the Federal Reserve provided more than $16 trillion in total financial assistance to some of the largest financial institutions and corporations in the United States and throughout the world," said Sanders. "This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you're-on-your-own individualism for everyone else."
Among the investigation's key findings is that the Fed unilaterally provided trillions of dollars in financial assistance to foreign banks and corporations from South Korea to Scotland, according to the GAO report. "No agency of the United States government should be allowed to bailout a foreign bank or corporation without the direct approval of Congress and the president," Sanders said.
"Audit the Fed" was Ron Paul's effort to hold the Federal Reserve accountable. It was a preliminary step to ending the system whereby "Wall Street" loans the economy its money supply. If you have a dollar bill in your pocket, it's only there because someone borrowed it from a banker - the bills are printed by the treasury and purchased by the Federal Reserve at cost [2 cents?]. If you have a quarter or a dime or a Susan B. Anthony dollar in your pocket, the Fed bought these from the Mint for face value.
The initial "Tea Party" rallies were held by Ron Paul's supporters in the 2008 presidential campaign, in response to the bailouts. Paul eventually dropped out of that race, but the "powers that be" thought the "tea party jingle" would be useful to perpetuate the concentration of power.
There's a difference between "greed" as motivation to improve yourself to create more value for others, and "greed" as motivation to grow your bank account any way you can.
Where do the short sellers get the shares to sell into the market? As Jim Puplava explained on FinancialSense.com on September 24, 2011, they "borrow" shares from the unwitting true shareholders. When a brokerage firm opens an account for a new customer, it is usually a "margin" account - one that allows the investor to buy stock on margin, or by borrowing against the investor's stock. This is done although most investors never use the margin feature and are unaware that they have that sort of account. The brokers do it because they can "rent" the stock in a margin account for a substantial fee - sometimes as much as 30% interest for a stock in short supply. Needless to say, the real shareholders get none of this tidy profit. Worse, they can be seriously harmed by the practice. They bought the stock because they believed in the company and wanted to see its business thrive, not dive. Their shares are being used to bet against their own interests. ... In the meantime, Puplava advises investors to call their brokers and ask if their accounts are margin accounts. If so, get the accounts changed, with confirmation in writing.
The Mazda rotaries have traditionally worn out prematurely (needing rebuilds after 80-100k because of oil leaks), and they get relatively poor fuel economy. The design has a slightly higher power/weight ratio, but that specific advantage doesn't outweigh the many disadvantages.
I'm watching the MYT engine, which is a swing-piston engine. Raphial doesn't want to sell out to someone who'd kill it or bury it, and hasn't found anyone to loan him enough to get his factory off the ground.
It should also be noted that some types of stroke can get progressively worse, and that she is currently at a high altitude with low oxygen which might exacerbate the damage....
If you can pass a message along, tell her to rebreathe with the assistance of a plastic bag. This helps prevent hypocapnia (low blood CO2), which is induced by oxygen therapy....
As early as 1885, Miescher-Rusch [4a] recognized that ‘‘ over the oxygen supply of the body, carbon dioxide spreads its protecting wings – especially as it cares for the brain which, for unknown reasons, may lack air in warm blooded animals, whereas skin and muscle may tolerate the ischaemia of a tourniquet for more than half an hour’’. Based on the hypothesis that a deficiency in oxygen induces hypernoea and acapnia, and therefore subnormal respiration, Angelo Mosso in 1898 [4b] administered CO5 mixtures to relieve hypoxic symptoms in subjects exposed to pressures as low as 250 torr (33 kPa ; " 8800 m) in a hypobaric chamber. The im- portance of hypocapnia was re-emphasized earlier this century [5,6], with the suggestion that inhaled CO5 might be useful when climbing to great altitudes. Our own more recent studies have shown that part of the im- provement in oxygenation when subjects are pressurized in a portable compression bag at altitude is due to CO5 accumulation (C. H. E. Imray, T. Clarke, P. J. G. Forster, T. C. Harvey, H. Hoar, S. Walsh and A. D. Wright, unpublished work). However, the beneficial effects of CO5 alone in relieving symptoms of AMS [7] have not been confirmed by other studies [8]. The beneficial effect of CO5 in the management of cerebral hypoxia may be due to a more complex mechanism than a simple increase in ventilation with a consequent increase in PaO5. The addition of CO5 has a powerful vasodilator effect on the cerebral resistance vessels, increasing blood flow and hence oxygen delivery. In sheep at a simulated altitude of " 6000 m, an increase in cerebral blood flow of 54 % was found in comparison with that at sea level ; however, with additional 3 % CO5, cerebral blood flow increased to 288% [9]. Similar rises in cerebral blood flow have been reported in clinical studies carried out at altitude [10,11].
All patients on oxygen should have 5% carbon dioxide added into the mix. While uncommon, this is not entirely unheard of. I found some MSDS from a British medical gasses supplier last week about their various CO2 blends: Normal air enriched to 5% CO2, Oxygen with 5% CO2, pure CO2 for use by an anesthesiologist. The bookmark is on another computer, can find if interested...
It used to be that wealthy families sent their children to college so they'd have a leg up on the proletariat's children.
According to The Screwing of the Average Man, the rush to college started after WWII. All the male veterans who were trained as warriors came home to dismal job prospects... They said, "okay we fought your stupid war you politicos better take care of us". Rather than have a bunch of rebellious unemployed PTSD'd ex-military roaming the streets, Congress sent them to college with the GI Bill. College costs immediately started to spiral out of control.
While you go to high school for a grade (because you have to, and social pressures make it difficult to do the right thing, which is drop out and educate yourself), in college you get to choose what you want to learn about. That kind of choice is valuable, at least.
Global Resource Corporation (archive.org) had a neat microwave technology to liberate propane and diesel from solid plastics. This invention would be very helpful for refrigerator and electronic recycling, because burning plastic on wires to get to the copper releases a lot of hazardous gasses.
But it's too disruptive to the established energy sector, and they ran out of money. For example, everyone knows the best way to mine coal is to strip mine by taking the top of a mountain off, not drilling a hole and lowering a microwave tube. I wonder what happened - maybe Wall Street torpedo'd them. ?
There are some videos on Youtube that demonstrate the prototype with chunks of used tires...
A long time ago members of the American Medical Association wrung their hands about how many doctors there were, and how doctors like them were losing face because competing philosophies didn't kill their patients nearly as often. Bloodletting and Quicksilver (mercury) were the tools of their trade, and anyone who suggested otherwise was a fool.
So, like any competent guild, they started lobbying the legislatures to make competing medical philosophies unable to practice medicine without a "license" from the State.
By the early 1900's, the AMA began the process of weeding out "substandard" medical colleges... But they couldn't do it on their own, so the Carnegie Foundation (which was a proxy for the drug trusts) stepped in to help.
Flexner Report --> closing of 1/2 the country's medical schools --> doctor shortage.
But I'd guess you'd rather go with the USSR model and have unqualified people teaching others to be unqualified doctors who'll then cause large amounts of damage due to their incompetence just to get a "cheap" doctor.
Overtraining doctors makes it easy for them to "miss the forest for the trees"... Like my friend's kid, who had hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on his case, over a 2-3 year period. Just recently his mom, who's been reading and reading and reading, took initiative to start Vitamin A and Vitamin B12 supplementation. And many of the kid's problems started going away. She's rather pissed that the supposed "experts" couldn't figure it out.:)
The Carnegie Foundation made sure that doctors trained in their schools use pharmaceuticals as a first resort (high blood pressure medication, for example), instead of something that you might use temporarily while figuring out the specific cause of the undesired condition.
In the great flu of 1918 (or whenever), conventional doctors turned their hospitals into death wards by suppressing the patient's fever. They didn't even bother to separate flu patients from everyone else.
Osteopathic hospitals were much more survivable... Osteopaths separated flu patients from everyone else, and allowed the temperature as the body's natural response to the pathogen. And their manual treatments helped too.
There's a quite excellent article titled "100 Years of Medical Robbery"... 'twas posted over at mises.org about 7 years ago. Anyways, it covers how the drug trusts helped the American Medical Association weed out all the "subpar" medical schools. Now doctors just learn about how to pick drugs and perform surgery. Well, mostly just that.
Wikipedia has a few good links on the "Flexner Report" page too.... "How the Cost-Plus System Evolved"
I have a friend from high school who I caught up with on Facebook last year... They theorized that his kid's health problem was some kind of "de-novo" genetic mutation. They went to all the best doctors, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of their insurance company's money on genetic tests and MRIs and blood work and pills, etc etc ad infinitum.
'Mom' is apparently a very smart cookie, and her research led her to experiment with... Vitamin B-12, and Vitamin-A. And all the kid's symptoms started going away.
Why didn't any of the swarm of doctors notice? Who knows.
'True health' will be produced by genetic engineering.
You can wait for "them" to figure that out. Me, I'm sticking to the fundamentals.
Suppose humanity figures out most of what it needs to live in perpetual prosperity. Tesla's patents for polyphase AC system expired long ago, and all his notes and prior-art for next-generation energy systems was seized by the FBI when he died.
Drug companies have a real patent problem on their hands: all their old "blockbusters" are losing patent protection, and nothing's coming up to replace them. Why? Because the chemicals we have are good enough.
For the most part, true health is not produced in a chemistry lab, it is produced from "right living": the right kind of food inputs and the right kind of activity make a bigger difference in most people's lives.
There will always be innovation, but the pace will slow down substantially. Our focus needs to move to implementing the ideas we have, rather than fighting patent warfare amongst corporations. 20 more years...:)
Its already being done in most parts of the world. Lookup Cloud Seeding
Or just look up in the sky. Some days you might see odd "contrails" from jets that don't disperse properly, and after a time there's a funny grid pattern up there, before strange "hazy clouds" form (in what was a perfectly blue sky). The "crazies's" websites say that there are patents for dispersing aluminum and other atomized elements through a jet engine... Or maybe "they" have a fleet of drones with spray nozzles on the wings.
I've seen them in Arizona, and also in southern Oregon. Pictures here, so you know what to look for: ArizonaSkywatch.com
I though it was well known that other, non-biotic, inhabitants [wikipedia.org] influence the mind too. Very nasty if you have candadiasis, which is an out of control growth of this critter.
... Is that something you deal with? What are you doing about it? If you'd like to bounce things off me, please visit the contact page and drop me an email - I might have some ideas for you.:)
depends on what kind of bacteria you want to feed. If you want to cultivate bacteria that produce "signs of stress and anxiety", big macs are exactly what you're looking for.:)
There are more bacteria in our intestines than cells in the body, by some estimates. I was disappointed by this comment:
The findings "open up very exciting speculation" about using probiotics to treat mood disorders in people, says Emeran Mayer, a gastroenterologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The types of bacteria in one's intestines are highly dependent on the substrates available. A person who eats a vegetable-rich diet every day - especially grated carrots with salt and vinegar or jerusalem artichokes (rich source of the prebiotic carbohydrate inulin) - will have a totally different types of bacteria in their intestines than those who survive on Big Macs, Fries and carbonated beverages, with or without the probiotic supplement.
It's sorta like... growing a garden. If your plants don't have nutrients, they won't grow very big... But add the right kind of fertilizer, and they'll really take off.
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There is very little CO2 in room air. The link says 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% argon, with traces of xenon, neon, and krypton. Another page says room air has 0.038% CO2. Even an extra 5% oxygen will wipe out a body's co2 levels.
I know you're a doctor, as I've seen your posts here before. Why don't you experiment? Get some air+co2 (or oxygen+co2) for patients who you might otherwise be tempted to put on oxygen prongs, and see what happens.
I have better links, but guard them jealously from people who wouldn't appreciate them anyways. ;^)
Medical Gas Data Sheets (MGDS) has links to them all.
Both the Air + 5% CO2 and Oxygen +5% CO2 sheets say that breathing this gas "increases the rate and depth of breathing".
Hypocapnia is when you don't have enough CO2 in your blood.
I have a bookmark for a .co.uk medical gas supplier on another computer. They have PDFs of their products' Material Safety Data Sheets. As I recally, they have Oxygen, Oxygen +5% CO2, Plain Air + 5% CO2, straight CO2 (for anesthesia), etc.
But I did find a printout of this page: Hyperoxia-Induced Hypocapnia. The practical implication of this piece is that every old person who has been prescribed oxygen by their doctor is also being poisoned. This creates more things to treat, so it's good for the medical system, but not so good for the patient.
If you're going to be on oxygen, 5% CO2 should always be blended in...
Like your theory about the defense complex keeping engineers out of trouble.
But as for poor people... Stress and malnutrition are the biggest obstacles most such people face. Stress alone is rather disabling. Most place require a full month's rent and deposit to move in...
Rather than handouts, I actually like the idea of having Job Projects to do things that need to be done. These would be paid for by issuing currency into circulation. I think the guy I mentioned in that post is incapable of holding a regular job. I overheard him talking with someone at a later date - he used to work in a turkey slaughterhouse. He was either replaced by mexicans, or got run down by the slaughterhouse grind...
Individually it's not a lot, but injecting $306 Billion into Mainstreet, USA would be huge.
Many people might not care about an extra $1000 in their pocket, but people at the bottom of the economic ladder would really benefit - the long-term unemployed, and the people living entirely on food stamps.
When the top 100 Defense Contractors cost taxpayers $306 billion, eliminating the Federal Contractor middle-man seems like an obvious place to start the austerity measures.
Instead of borrowing $306 billion from Wall Street and giving it to defense contractors (owned by Wall Street), the government could create the same $306 billion and give all 300 million of us $1002 apiece.
This would be something like Cook's A Bailout for the People.
So the Fed could print a hundred quadrillion dollars tomorrow, and it would all still be "backed" by labor, so there would be no inflation?
You're just being stupid with your opening statement. Not a good way to start.
The "process of separating money from gold" started in 800 AD in China
You could've offer a link, or given a keyword that I could've looked up for myself on Wikipedia or Google.
and has ending in unmitigated disaster every time, simply because human beings can't be trusted with the ability to centrally administer economies.
Monetary researchers, such as the two I linked to, would disagree with your statement here. For example, Lincoln's fiat Greenbacks were rather successful, in that they enabled him to fight the civil war without paying ursury to the banking cartels of his day.
Greedy bankers and thieves create unmitigated disasters. The people in Government generally have good intentions.
Gold, on the other hand, can't be printed.
Did you hear the news yesterday (er, October 28th) about the italian demonstrating his cold fusion plant for his first customer? The thing turns nickel into copper, and produces a prolific amount of heat energy. With such a source of cheap energy, Gold can easily be harvested from the ocean.
all the gold ever mined is still circulating
Most the gold ever mined is hoarded in vaults around the planet. The plebes don't need gold to have a functioning economy.
Also note that under a gold standard, the number of people prospecting for gold ...
Very little "new gold" comes from prospectors, today. Caterpillar and chemistry do the work for the vast majority of gold....
hth. :)
This allowed them to print money with nothing backing it.
Money is always backed by human labor, if you go back far enough. Money-backed-by-stuff doesn't work anymore, because stuff no longer needs (very much) human labor to create. I wrote a letter to the editor back when the crazies in Congress were fighting over their lines-in-the-sand (debt ceiling), so I'll just quote myself here:
The folks at Monetary.org and those who advocate Publicly-owned Banks are on the right track, methinks. There are some more important articles at the bottom of my blog post about fixing the governments finances - "bailout for the people", "money and the crisis of civilization", and "I want the earth plus 5%". .
Under the Federal Reserve system, money is only created when someone takes out a loan. If Federal Reserve Notes were truthfully labeled, they would all say This Bill Was BORROWED From Wall Street. This is why it was so important to bail out the banking system: no bankers, no money.
Nothing says "oligarchy" like having an entire economy by its balls.
You don't need fancy buildings and whizzbang gadgets to teach, you simply need inspiring people.
You're referring to "parents", right?
I know the standardized system devalues the contributions parents make to their children's education, but for the first several years parents make an enormous contribution to the molding of their offspring.
The real success of the public system is in the systematic removal of parents from the process. Makes it much easier to mold people's thinking patterns...
John Taylor Gatto says to keep your kids out of school for as long as possible. Skipping Kindgergarten, first, and second grades are most important.
Why solve a problem when you can study it forever?
Research into a disease is directly tied into the pressure to research (breast cancer) and the number of people affected.
Breast cancer is simple: excess estrogen (tells estrogen-sensitive tissues to divide) + underwires (restrict the flow of lymphatic fluid) -> cancer.
There are lots of substances which are "estrogenic", which means they have estrogen-like effects on tissues... BPA (plastic) is estrogenic, as are phyto-estrogen in soybeans (isoflavones) and flaxseeds (lignans).
If teh scientists were to figure out breast cancer, what would the Medical-Industrial Complex do with all their mamogram machinery? Those things don't pay for themselves, you know, and as an added bonus irradiating breasts regularly (annually) makes cancer even more likely.
In fact, some of that stupidity has shown up on OWS, like cries to 'audit the Fed'. Look, idiots, auditing the Fed isn't going to do anything. The Fed is doing nothing illegal.
Without an audit of the public-private beast that is the Federal Reserve System, how would you know whether they've done anything illegal or not? I don't know if the Ron Paul's version of the audit was ever passed, but Senator Sanders got an amendment inserted into some-bill-or-another. His office has this page:
"Audit the Fed" was Ron Paul's effort to hold the Federal Reserve accountable. It was a preliminary step to ending the system whereby "Wall Street" loans the economy its money supply. If you have a dollar bill in your pocket, it's only there because someone borrowed it from a banker - the bills are printed by the treasury and purchased by the Federal Reserve at cost [2 cents?]. If you have a quarter or a dime or a Susan B. Anthony dollar in your pocket, the Fed bought these from the Mint for face value.
The initial "Tea Party" rallies were held by Ron Paul's supporters in the 2008 presidential campaign, in response to the bailouts. Paul eventually dropped out of that race, but the "powers that be" thought the "tea party jingle" would be useful to perpetuate the concentration of power.
There's a difference between "greed" as motivation to improve yourself to create more value for others, and "greed" as motivation to grow your bank account any way you can.
For example: Sheared By The Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors. If I owned stocks, I would be sure that "thieves" couldn't borrow them to screw me with a "bear raid". From the link:
The Mazda rotaries have traditionally worn out prematurely (needing rebuilds after 80-100k because of oil leaks), and they get relatively poor fuel economy. The design has a slightly higher power/weight ratio, but that specific advantage doesn't outweigh the many disadvantages.
I'm watching the MYT engine, which is a swing-piston engine. Raphial doesn't want to sell out to someone who'd kill it or bury it, and hasn't found anyone to loan him enough to get his factory off the ground.
It should also be noted that some types of stroke can get progressively worse, and that she is currently at a high altitude with low oxygen which might exacerbate the damage. ...
If you can pass a message along, tell her to rebreathe with the assistance of a plastic bag. This helps prevent hypocapnia (low blood CO2), which is induced by oxygen therapy....
All patients on oxygen should have 5% carbon dioxide added into the mix. While uncommon, this is not entirely unheard of. I found some MSDS from a British medical gasses supplier last week about their various CO2 blends: Normal air enriched to 5% CO2, Oxygen with 5% CO2, pure CO2 for use by an anesthesiologist. The bookmark is on another computer, can find if interested...
Also see the last paragraph on this page: http://www.altitude.org/sleep_at_high_altitude.php
It used to be that wealthy families sent their children to college so they'd have a leg up on the proletariat's children.
According to The Screwing of the Average Man, the rush to college started after WWII. All the male veterans who were trained as warriors came home to dismal job prospects... They said, "okay we fought your stupid war you politicos better take care of us". Rather than have a bunch of rebellious unemployed PTSD'd ex-military roaming the streets, Congress sent them to college with the GI Bill. College costs immediately started to spiral out of control.
While you go to high school for a grade (because you have to, and social pressures make it difficult to do the right thing, which is drop out and educate yourself), in college you get to choose what you want to learn about. That kind of choice is valuable, at least.
Global Resource Corporation (archive.org) had a neat microwave technology to liberate propane and diesel from solid plastics. This invention would be very helpful for refrigerator and electronic recycling, because burning plastic on wires to get to the copper releases a lot of hazardous gasses.
But it's too disruptive to the established energy sector, and they ran out of money. For example, everyone knows the best way to mine coal is to strip mine by taking the top of a mountain off, not drilling a hole and lowering a microwave tube. I wonder what happened - maybe Wall Street torpedo'd them. ?
There are some videos on Youtube that demonstrate the prototype with chunks of used tires...
Oh well.
A long time ago members of the American Medical Association wrung their hands about how many doctors there were, and how doctors like them were losing face because competing philosophies didn't kill their patients nearly as often. Bloodletting and Quicksilver (mercury) were the tools of their trade, and anyone who suggested otherwise was a fool.
So, like any competent guild, they started lobbying the legislatures to make competing medical philosophies unable to practice medicine without a "license" from the State.
By the early 1900's, the AMA began the process of weeding out "substandard" medical colleges... But they couldn't do it on their own, so the Carnegie Foundation (which was a proxy for the drug trusts) stepped in to help.
Flexner Report --> closing of 1/2 the country's medical schools --> doctor shortage.
But I'd guess you'd rather go with the USSR model and have unqualified people teaching others to be unqualified doctors who'll then cause large amounts of damage due to their incompetence just to get a "cheap" doctor.
Overtraining doctors makes it easy for them to "miss the forest for the trees"... Like my friend's kid, who had hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on his case, over a 2-3 year period. Just recently his mom, who's been reading and reading and reading, took initiative to start Vitamin A and Vitamin B12 supplementation. And many of the kid's problems started going away. She's rather pissed that the supposed "experts" couldn't figure it out. :)
The Carnegie Foundation made sure that doctors trained in their schools use pharmaceuticals as a first resort (high blood pressure medication, for example), instead of something that you might use temporarily while figuring out the specific cause of the undesired condition.
In the great flu of 1918 (or whenever), conventional doctors turned their hospitals into death wards by suppressing the patient's fever. They didn't even bother to separate flu patients from everyone else.
Osteopathic hospitals were much more survivable... Osteopaths separated flu patients from everyone else, and allowed the temperature as the body's natural response to the pathogen. And their manual treatments helped too.
An excellent history of modern medicine is covered in Steinreich's 100 Years of Medical Robbery.
hth.
There's a quite excellent article titled "100 Years of Medical Robbery"... 'twas posted over at mises.org about 7 years ago. Anyways, it covers how the drug trusts helped the American Medical Association weed out all the "subpar" medical schools. Now doctors just learn about how to pick drugs and perform surgery. Well, mostly just that.
Wikipedia has a few good links on the "Flexner Report" page too.... "How the Cost-Plus System Evolved"
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I have a friend from high school who I caught up with on Facebook last year... They theorized that his kid's health problem was some kind of "de-novo" genetic mutation. They went to all the best doctors, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of their insurance company's money on genetic tests and MRIs and blood work and pills, etc etc ad infinitum.
'Mom' is apparently a very smart cookie, and her research led her to experiment with ... Vitamin B-12, and Vitamin-A. And all the kid's symptoms started going away.
Why didn't any of the swarm of doctors notice? Who knows.
'True health' will be produced by genetic engineering.
You can wait for "them" to figure that out. Me, I'm sticking to the fundamentals.
Suppose humanity figures out most of what it needs to live in perpetual prosperity. Tesla's patents for polyphase AC system expired long ago, and all his notes and prior-art for next-generation energy systems was seized by the FBI when he died.
Drug companies have a real patent problem on their hands: all their old "blockbusters" are losing patent protection, and nothing's coming up to replace them. Why? Because the chemicals we have are good enough.
For the most part, true health is not produced in a chemistry lab, it is produced from "right living": the right kind of food inputs and the right kind of activity make a bigger difference in most people's lives.
There will always be innovation, but the pace will slow down substantially. Our focus needs to move to implementing the ideas we have, rather than fighting patent warfare amongst corporations. 20 more years... :)
Its already being done in most parts of the world. Lookup Cloud Seeding
Or just look up in the sky. Some days you might see odd "contrails" from jets that don't disperse properly, and after a time there's a funny grid pattern up there, before strange "hazy clouds" form (in what was a perfectly blue sky). The "crazies's" websites say that there are patents for dispersing aluminum and other atomized elements through a jet engine... Or maybe "they" have a fleet of drones with spray nozzles on the wings.
I've seen them in Arizona, and also in southern Oregon. Pictures here, so you know what to look for: ArizonaSkywatch.com
I though it was well known that other, non-biotic, inhabitants [wikipedia.org] influence the mind too. Very nasty if you have candadiasis, which is an out of control growth of this critter.
... Is that something you deal with? What are you doing about it? If you'd like to bounce things off me, please visit the contact page and drop me an email - I might have some ideas for you. :)
depends on what kind of bacteria you want to feed. If you want to cultivate bacteria that produce "signs of stress and anxiety", big macs are exactly what you're looking for. :)
There are more bacteria in our intestines than cells in the body, by some estimates. I was disappointed by this comment:
The findings "open up very exciting speculation" about using probiotics to treat mood disorders in people, says Emeran Mayer, a gastroenterologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The types of bacteria in one's intestines are highly dependent on the substrates available. A person who eats a vegetable-rich diet every day - especially grated carrots with salt and vinegar or jerusalem artichokes (rich source of the prebiotic carbohydrate inulin) - will have a totally different types of bacteria in their intestines than those who survive on Big Macs, Fries and carbonated beverages, with or without the probiotic supplement.
It's sorta like... growing a garden. If your plants don't have nutrients, they won't grow very big... But add the right kind of fertilizer, and they'll really take off.