Tiger Woods just won the US Open, so we’re all thinking about golf. One of the main reasons that communities object to have golf courses built in their areas is that, while they bring valuable tourism to the area, they also bring pesticides, which are needed to keep all that grass green and weed free. This can leach into the water table, but what if you could grow golf course quality grass WITHOUT using pesticides?
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It’s really math – Philosophers have been biting their nails over this question for hundreds of years. Musicians and mathematicians don’t seem to have much in common, but scholars have suspected for centuries that the mysterious force that shapes the melodies that catch the ear is nothing other than math?geometry, to be precise. The Greek mathematician Pythagoras described pleasing musical intervals with simple mathematical ratios more than 2,600 years ago and this science evolved further during the Middle Ages when deep thinkers used those same ratios to model the “music of the spheres”?what many at that time believed to be the harmonious movements of the sun, moon and planets.read more
listen to Whitley talk about his new novel – Click here to listen to an interview with Whitley Strieber by Rick Kleffel, who talked to him about his new novel “Midnight” (which has been retitled “Critical Mass” and will be published in January, 2009). And read Whitley’s latest Journal, where he writes about the media debunking of the crop circles, which Linda has a special report about on this week’s Dreamland.
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Contrary to popular notions about what is normal or healthy, new research has found that it is okay NOT to express one’s thoughts and feelings after experiencing a trauma, such as a school shooting or terrorist attack. Counselors are always made available after these terrible events so people can talk about them, but people who “bottle it all up” recover just as well?in fact, they do even BETTER.
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