A new, biomass-based material developed by FAMU-FSU College of Engineering researchers can be used to repeatedly capture and release carbon dioxide.
The material is primarily made from lignin, an organic molecule that is a main component of wood and other plants, and it can take up carbon dioxide (CO2) from concentrated sources or directly from the air. The research was published by Advanced Materials.
Tim Boyd, On the Verge of Wisdom. Available on Amazon. click HERE. Also available at The Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Chennai, click HERE.
First, my gratitude to Tim Boyd, International President of the TS Adyar, for inviting me, and others from various theosophical traditions, persuasions, as well as unaffiliated students, to the 12th World Conference of the Theosophical Society in Vancouver, Canada.
Michael Shermer. The Believing Brain; From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies – How we construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths. Available on Amazon. For more details click HERE
Fantasy and fiction, truth and deception, magical thinking and plausible reality are all around and often within us. Emotionally driven faith with its feel-good beliefs and superficial convictions, in contrast to experientially verified relative truths, whether spiritual, psychic, or material, are always vying for our attention. For theosophists trying to find their way through this maze of illusionary reality, “The Believing Brain” could be a helpful guide on their journey. The work reviews scientific ideas that may require some deeper reflection, in its quest to better understand the brain’s tendency to perhaps blindly believe.
Kashmir Shaivism, The Secret Supreme, Swami Lakshman JEE - State University of New York Press under the imprint of the Universal Shaiva Trust. Available at Amazon. For more details click HERE
It has been stated that Kashmir Shaivism and its traditional views, had remained concealed for at least eight hundred years, prior to the public exposition of its teachings. It was also believed to be an exclusively “oral tradition”, and that Swami Lakshman JEE, of our time, was the last living authentic teacher in the line of this wisdom tradition at the time of his transition, September 27, 1991.
Long ago lived a young man in Istanbul, Turkey. Because he was poor, he had only a single room, sparsely furnished with a few books and a small cot for a bed. One night the young man had a dream — a vision, really.
In it, he saw himself walking on a street in what he came to realize was the city of Cairo in Egypt, a place he had never been. He could clearly see the name of the street and the houses that lined the road.