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Pluvious's JournalWhat we now know - "Sleep Is Your Superpower" (TedTalk)
Very informative discussion on what is currently known and suspected, on the function and importance on sleep.
For example, did you know that every year, at the daylight savings time change, in the Spring heart attacks spike 25% and in the Fall it drops similarly ?
If, during the night, you don't get the right kind of sleep, the next day your capacity to learn will be severely impacted. And much of what you learned the day before will be lost.
Premature death and even Alzheimer's is strongly suspected to be impacted by our sleeping habits.
Some good tips near the end on ways to help.
Note to jury: Please don't delete this. During these politically tumultuous times, we need all the help we can get in dealing with the stress of the monster in the White House.
Bob Weir, the indelible guitarist of the Grateful Dead, will not rest. (GQ piece)
King Weir
The long strange trip lives on.
The music will never stop.
"...Sometime later, he saw a photo of an ancestor. “He had a full-on Yosemite Sam mustache. I said to myself, ‘That's a look that's fallen from favor for the past 150 years or so. I'm just the guy to bring it back.’ ” It is possible that Weir's tongue is in his cheek, but it is hard to tell. On account of all the beard."
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Then Weir tells the story about the night Jerry Garcia died. ... Sometime in the early-morning hours, Weir had a dream about Garcia: “He had a real sort of intense look in his eye,” Weir says. “He looked straight at me, and then through me”—and here he adds the new part—“and then he stepped into me.”
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He is a living piece of musical and countercultural history, for starters one of the few humans to have been on the bill at the Mythologized Boomer Trifecta of the Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, and Altamont. Kesey gave him acid; Neal Cassady gave him driving lessons; the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi gave him the mantra he still uses to meditate daily.
https://www.gq.com/story/bob-weir-grateful-dead-profile
It's Not Just Measles. What You Should Know About Vaccines For Adults:
I really hate shots, never even gotten a flu shot before.
But I will follow the advice in this NPR piece...
Sigh.
"Many adults are not aware of what vaccines they actually need," says Dr. Pamela Rockwell, an associate professor of family medicine at the University of Michigan who works with the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. "That is also balanced by physician unawareness of what vaccines they should be recommending. It's gotten very complicated, and it is difficult to keep up with all the changes."
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/15/723282022/its-not-just-measles-what-you-should-know-about-vaccines-for-adults
Thank you for sharing your stream of remembrances and reflections
I guess it's no surprise that we become more reflective and wax philosophical as our turn at life slowly winds down.
I catch myself often doing this more and more lately 
So many of the clichés I've heard repeated over the decades, like "youth is wasted on the young" etc - they all make so much sense now lol. But so does realizing the futility of trying to help them young'uns from repeating my own past mistakes.
In the end, we're left with the hope that our species will wise up fast enough to survive the future's challenges awaiting it.
We need a miracle everyday.
Epic collage of hypocrisy sound bites jabbing Obama but destroy Pres Bonespurs !!
I confess, I only made it 50% of the way thru - had to kill it - I was feeling that boiling sensation building up...
Maybe there are others here today with stronger fortitude and feeling the need to simmer some more.
These are toxic times y'all
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1118228314257350657
(Note: posted media is twitter video, if anyone finds the youTube I'll update this post)
Why These Four Presidents ? (inspiring reminder of just WHAT made us great to start with!)
I personally found the linked page below to be a nice, cathartic quick read.
A perfect - if brief - distraction from these gloomy times we're all enduring.
"We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self-government."
-Thomas Jefferson
https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/why-these-four-presidents.htm
Happy Time Break - Project One Life - 100 Dancing Strangers FTW
I can only take so much of you know what...
I had to take a short happy break, maybe good for you too ?!!
This video is a short (3m) fun watch, from a most
interesting fellow with a most delightful hobby !!
Rejuvenate your joy coffers, with a...
Dancing Around The World With Random Strangers !!!
Hopefully, this will bring a few brief smiles into being this fine weekend
Matt's site: https://www.wheretheheckismatt.com
Project One Life's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProjectOneLife
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To the Jury: This is a video promoting World Peace, please don't delete my post.
The Internet has failed - Important warnings regarding social media abuse and our future
Whew !!
This was a hard-hitting read, I'm compelled to share this forward with DU.
I was an early evangelist of the nascent internet back in the 90's, and reading this was a sobering and troubling read. Tho I've been coming to realize of the recent years, something's very wrong been going on, now abundantly clear with the CA/Russian/Trump debacle of 2016.
This presentation from SXSW keynote really breaks it down, but also lays out a plan and path to redemption
This should be required reading for all of us !!
“We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places. [The Web] has ended up producing—with no deliberate action of the people who designed the platform — a large-scale emergent phenomenon which is anti-human.”
SO MUCH MORE at:
http://buzzbands.la/2019/03/13/t-bone-burnetts-keynote-speech-at-sxsw-dire-warnings-vs-the-goal-of-art-to-create-conscience/
One evening dining in Avalon, Catalina Island, early 80's ...
I spoke up to defend a verbally harassed waitress at a nearby table.
It escalated quickly, and I wound up demanded the sheriff be called. I'd derisively told the jerk table to "go back to Newport (Beach) where they belong," which really triggered them - as I'd hoped (young troll was I).
Needless to say, the lone officer arrives and quickly diffused the situation (boring I know).
When the inebriated asswipes all left shortly after, one of the women turned to us from the door, and shouted: "For your information, WE'RE FROM SAN FRANCISCO!!"
We all laughed quite heartily at their retreating backs.
The waitress came over and thanked us for trying to help, and we got a free dessert lol.
It was then I learned from my buddy (who was living there at the time), that the sheriff was none other than the man whom famously had crawled under Charles Manson house to make his arrest.
Apparently he'd been given the choice of working in any California precinct of his choice.
And he'd picked the sleepy little tourist town of Avalon.
Thank you for sharing friend - somewhere in that there tale, is...
... is the answer to how we'll get past this time of Fox/HateRadio induced division.
And I think too, Shara Silverman is on to something.
John Lennon knew, as did MLK and Grandi.
Cheers for a breakout 2019
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