interesting boing boing post about alternative energy transportation systems.

Hello?

the ignoring stops now, at least temporarily. I witnessed some astonishing events that occured this morning, but vow to keep radio silence on them.

ok, enough for now, see you later.

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I just spent two hours writing an on how to justify to placement of pain management clinics in locations that are outside the existing hospital structure, but my computer crashed and I lost all of it, so maybe another day you will get it.

damn and blast.

The subject of pain management and its related fields have generally been localized within the context of the hospital industry. While this localization provides for expediency with dealing with issues that require a multiplicity of cures, it also limits access and marginalizes methods of pain management that deal with non critical levels of pain. These methods are generally labeled as “alternative” and exist in a realm that is associated with the fringes of medicine. This segregation may perhaps allow these alternative, low power treatments to move into contexts which pain management techniques which are close to the core of the hospital industry are unable to move into. The most critical of these locals is that of the western global business model.

There are already several arms of the hospital industry which have moved into this context. The pharmacy and the optician are two examples that immediately spring into mind. Both of these specializations are just as likely to be found in a mall as they are within a hospital, if not more likely. In both of these cases there is a specific product which the business is able to provide, but the business must also provide some amount of specialized service to be able to sell that product. While in the case of pharmacology, most of the service is provided outside of the business, in optometry, and specifically in the case of lenscrafters all of the specialized service can be preformed on site and in most cases, by administrators with very little training.

To a large extent, technological development is what allows a doctor to work next to a food court. This technology does not however lower the amount of space required to perform the diagnosis, which cuts into space used to sell a specific product. When comparing the products sold by pharmacologists, and those sold by optometrists, the value of a certain volume of product goes up proportionally to the amount of space required to determine the which product is needed. It would follow then that the amount of space needed to preform the duties of an alternative pain management specialist would be sufficiently large to require the sales of an extremely valuable product.

Perhaps there is no necessary product that needs to be sold in conjunction with these pain management techniques. It may be possible that the alleviation of the pain associated with the onset of global industry and business may be enough profit. The only remaining issue is to find an method of pain relief which can not only be simple to train specialists in its practice, but also to be sufficiently sterilized of its fringe qualities that it can fit into nearly any social context.

I made this for my baby. It reminded me of some things i have to get done: laundry, dishes, but also of the more productive and spiritually uplifting things. Like hitting up the ol' cubase sequencer and loading up some drum machine program. Learning languages. Being fiercer in my resistance of 'the man.' Exercising.


There was an interesting article published online at nature.com, the best in science journalism, which discusses a gene therapy discovered to eliminate laziness in primates (monkeys specifically in this experiment).


"The gene knockdown triggered a remarkable transformation in the simian work ethic," says Barry Richmond of the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who studied the animals.

Translation: the monkeys started doing shit. But how?

The team then injected a short strand of DNA into each monkey's brains, temporarily switching off a key gene in a region of the brain called the rhinal cortex, which is known to be involved in processing reward signals. The gene encodes a protein called a D2 receptor that makes nerve cells more sensitive to dopamine, a chemical that is also implicated in the perception of reward.

Why the dopamine receptors? I associate dopamine with stimulants. Maybe the other person who reads this blog can explain this to me. I do know that SSRI -selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors- work in a similar way; they block surplus seratonin from the receptors me thinks.


-Until next time, much love my peeps

My old time tovarish (comrade) Jonathan Brodsky says it best: aint nothin in life bettar than communication 29893 !!expression. Why do we communicate? So we avoid bombing cultures we dont understand for corporate profiteering. So much beauty is to be found in every crevice of cultural friction. We want understanding between cultures and communities of a seemingly polarized nature. For me, the political aspect of communicative power is most prevalent in the politics of food industry. Not enough love! We need more love in the food industry! As it says in the ancient texts: Sell to ye subjects not ye lowest quality crop to rip they moneys off, but Sell to ye subjects the highest quality crop so that ye subjects may proliferate and understand ye moral philosophies!



The words of this tongue will become twofold as we explore the Industry. More Industry to follow!