Monday, May 25, 2009
Videos from Reality Jam
Friday, May 22, 2009
Jammer
Lately I have been neglecting this blog because of the time needed on my other site, realityjam.com. Once the momentum picks up there I will be back to regular posting here. The most recent addition to the Reality Jam brand is called Jammer. It is a virtual Law of Attraction machine in which the user writes out their desires and broadcasts them into the universe. Of course, it can also be used as anything one wants - to give shoutouts, make comments about the site, "tweet", or anything else one can think of. I created this tool because I felt that Reality Jammers need something they can quickly use to jot down their thoughts or confessions when they don't have time to write a blog or forum comment. Another feature of Jammer is that one can Jam anonymously. This gives an opportunity to express things one might not otherwise want known. It is also available to those who aren't members of the site, so I'm hoping that once they become addicted to jamming they will consider becoming a full member of Reality Jam.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
New Membership Drive
Okay, folks, it's time to get serious about getting new members to join www.realityjam.com. Let's show them what a great resource this site is. And let's get them to get their friends and friends of friends to join and create profiles. Tell everyone you know about Reality Jam and keep bugging them till they create a profile and start posting. Now is the time. Let's make this site HUGE!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
35,000 year old nude sculpture found in Germany
If human culture seems obsessed with sex lately, it's nothing new. Archaeologists have discovered the oldest known artistic representation of a woman - a carved ivory statue of a naked female, dating from 35,000 years ago.
The figurine, unearthed in September 2008 in Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany, may be the oldest known example of figurative art, meaning art that is supposed to represent and resemble a real person, animal or object. The discovery could help scientists understand the origins of art and the advent of symbolic thinking, including complicated language.
"If there's one conclusion you want to draw from this, it's that an obsession with sex goes back at least 35,000 years," University of Cambridge anthropologist Paul Mellars told LiveScience. He was not involved in the new finding. "But if humans hadn't been largely obsessed with sex they wouldn't have survived for the first 2 million years. None of this is at all surprising."
The fixation wasn't just for naked women, though. Early carvings of phalluses appeared in Europe at about the same time.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Time Kards
Time Kard is a unique new concept in which you purchase a card which is the gift of time. This powerful new tool is designed to revolutionize your relationship with time. Basically, it goes like this...a few days after placing your order you will receive your kard in the mail. It is pre-activated and ready to use with the complimentary 15 minutes of time. It is yours to do whatever you want with but for the best results Time Kard suggests that you use it for the benefit of all living things-for example: being kind to someone or something anonymously, or without expecting anything in return. See how it works. If you liked it and want some more then return to timekard.com to add additional time to your kard. At that point, and from then on, however often you return, and however much you spend, adding time to your kard will be a 100% donation to 'random act projects'-an enterprise devoted to creating and implementing new, fun, beautiful, interesting and effective ways of expressing kindness. For more information or to purchase your own Time Kard click here.
Iranian Bahai Leaders May Face New Charges
NEW YORK — The seven Baha'i leaders currently imprisoned in Iran are facing the anniversary of their arrest this Thursday, along with new and extremely grave accusations, after spending a year in jail without formal charges or access to their lawyer, Shirin Ebadi.
"Despite their obvious innocence and the call by many for their immediate release, these seven men and women have been in legal limbo for a year now, against all international human rights standards," said Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Real Hobbits
PARIS (AFP) – The tiny ancient humans dubbed hobbits, whose remains were discovered on an Indonesian island in 2003, were a previously unknown species altogether, according to two new studies.
Debate has raged in the scientific community since the fossils were found on the island of Flores, with some experts insisting they were descended from Homo erectus and others saying evolution could not account for their small brains.
About a metre (three feet) tall and weighing 30 kilos (65 pounds), the tiny, tool-making hunters may have roamed the remote island as recently as 8,000 years ago. Their fossils are about 18,000 years old.
Many scientists have said Homo floresiensis, as the creature is now formally known, was a prehistoric human stunted by natural selection over millennia through a process called insular dwarfing.
Others countered that even this evolutionary shrinking, well documented in island-bound animals, could not account for the chimpanzee-sized brain -- just a third the size of that in a modern human being.
The only plausible explanation, they insisted, was that the handful of specimens found had a genetic disorder resulting in an abnormally small skull or that they suffered from "dwarf cretinism" caused by deficient thyroids.
Two new studies in the British journal Nature go a long way toward settling the debate.
A team led by William Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York tackled the problem by analysing the hobbit's foot.
In some ways it is very human. The big toe is aligned with the others and the joints make it possible to extend the toes as the body's full weight falls on the foot -- attributes not found in great apes.
But in other respects it is startlingly primitive: far longer than its modern human equivalent and equipped with a very small big toe, long and curved lateral toes, and a weight-bearing structure closer to a chimpanzee's.
Recent archaeological evidence from Kenya shows that the modern foot evolved more than 1.5 million years ago, most likely in Homo erectus.
So unless the Flores hobbits became more primitive over time -- considered extremely unlikely -- they must have branched off the human line at an even earlier date.
For Jungers and colleagues, this suggests their ancestor was not Homo erectus "but instead some other more primitive hominin whose dispersal into southeast Asia is still undocumented."
Companion studies published by the Journal of Human Evolution bolster this theory and conjecture that these more ancient forebears may be the still poorly understood Homo habilis.
In any case, Homo floresiensis would be confirmed as a separate species.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Reality Jam TV
Realityjam.com now has its own TV channel - Reality Jam TV. The channel kicks off with the movie Zeitgeist The Movie and Freemasons - A National Geographic Documentary. Other quality programming is planned for the future. Eventually Reality Jam may even introduce original programming. Click here to check out Reality Jam TV.
