Great Horned Owl Chicks: What's the Neurophysiology of 'Now'?, Berkeley Student Fee-Rise Protest, Zi
What's the neurophysiology of 'now,' that quality of experience in life which traditions point to as optimal or heightened, - its biochemistry?* Tofu and vegetables! and there's something about the jostle-dance in the two-crowded Saturday afternoon Berkeley Bowl that's cooperatively beautiful :) ** There's was a student protest at Berkeley yesterday against the 32% tuition increase.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/20/BA611ANSAB.DTLPolice were in riot gear. Students were protesting for a just cause.Police had completely surrounding the Bancroft library and Wheeler Hal

Native Beech Morning: OLPC Community Summit, World Univ & Sch Hardware, Posts to Social Networks
attending the open One Laptop per Child Community Summit San Francisco tomorrow starting at 9 am - http://tinyurl.com/y95uja2 vav World Univ * You might enjoy World University & School. There's even a hardware section, for free or very low cost technologies, particularly for OLPC countries: http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hardware_Resource_Possibilities and so much more at this open, free, Teaching and Learning wiki, - like Wikipedia with MIT Open Course Ware. ** shop coop - use cloth bags, and recycle & reuse - ban styrofoam and lessen the waste stream personally into our oceans - a huge problem for decades

The Lights from the Redwood Sleeping Deck Murmur with Warmth
The lights from the redwood sleeping deck murmur with warmth in the November eve, in the dark and the rain. More than a pallette, more than a trip, this world is alive with evensong color. The evening is cool, and present in this beauty, the warm pools call. (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/11/lights-from-redwood-sleeping-deck.html - November 19, 2009)

Shark Ponds: Watsu for Sharks, Harbin-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, Harbin Residents
Here's Harbin-from-the-inside - "Watsu for Shark, Yavelow."I see this as an example which would be great to post to a Harbin-wiki-virtual-world-graphy wiki web site:Yavelow is a very skillful Watsu {water shiatsu} practitioner (he's self-published a Watsu book), and is a body worker, and long term resident, and is very funny.Mostly Harbin residents were in the audience, and this (such gatherings are monthly events) was for residents; Yavelow mentions that Ishvara, Harbin's founder, is in the audience. I found this on Facebook, which a Harbin resident friend posted.

Fires in California: Big map of California, Go where you like! Explore ... So much Beauty
Big map of California ... Go where you like! Explore ... so much beauty, so many species :)earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=20093Fascinating history ... 1960s and early 70s {countercu