OBRA MAESTRA

Money, Power, Wisdom:
September 20, 2009

Before you read any further, let me warn you. This blog post is not typical of what I usually write – and is DEFINITELY NOT for everyone!
If the “existential dilemma” leaves you cold (you lucky dog, you!), or your “search for meaning” rarely surfaces, and (when it does) [...]

Olivier de Kersauson (b. 20 July 1944) is a French sailor and sailing champion.

Kersauson was the seventh child in a family of eight. While he was the only Kersauson not to have been born in Brittany, he was born on 20 July 1944 and brought up near Morlaix in a “provincial Catholic aristocracy with compulsory [...]

Hans Rosling:
Global health expert;
data visionary
© Gapminder Foundation
As a doctor and researcher, Hans Rosling identified a new paralytic disease induced by hunger in rural Africa. Now he looks at the bigger picture of social and economic development with his remarkable trend-revealing software.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the [...]

Jimmy Carter via last.fm

Discrimination and abuse wrongly backed by doctrine are damaging society, argues the former US president.
o Jimmy Carter
o CopyrightThe Observer, Sunday 12 July 2009
[...]

A Tribute to My Friend, Michael Jackson by Dr. Deepak Chopra (En Français plus bas, dedicated to “a loving soul” Grace) Michael Jackson will be remembered, most likely, as a shattered icon, a pop genius who wound up a mutant of fame. That’s not who I will remember, however. His mixture [...]

In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
by Steven Pinker
Introduction
Once [...]

Public Health Advisory: Mobile Phone-Brain Tumour
Vini G. Khurana, MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACS
Key messages of this work:
http://www.brain-surgery.us/about_the_author.html
http://www.brain-surgery.us/mobilephone.html
* Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet exposure to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any danger this exposure poses may be easily dismissed.
* Exposure is long-term and its effects on the body, particularly its electrical organ, [...]

The first of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths:
“Life is Difficulty”

Einstein sought in science what artists seek in art.
Einstein attempted to escape from the gloominess and terrors of society by connecting with the whole universe.
Einstein wanted sense and beauty in the physical world.
“God does not play dice with the Universe.”
He hoped to find a hidden [...]

I am extending to you my reader this timeless message…
Jan 1st. 2008
From my Friend: Linda Forsythe from Mentors Magazine

“The following was written by my friend Susie and I’d like to pass this gift on to you, because you are living a life that matters…
What Will Matter
Ready or not, some day it will all come [...]

ROQUEFORT LA BEDOULE
Localization:

 
Roquefort la Bédoule is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southestern France.
It’s located north of Cassis, east of Carnoux-in-Provence and west of Castellet.
 
Village  old names :
- 1079 : ROCCA FORTIS – 1212 : CASTRUM ROCHEFORTIS – 1220 : CASTRUM DE ROCAFORT – 1246 : CASTRUM DE [...]