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Categories:
I. Mathematics
II. St. Bucky Fuller.
III. Beat
IV. Buddhism
V. Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets.
VI. Renaissance Influences.
VII. Music, Video, and so on.

FAQs


I. Mathematics.
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Egyptian_mathematics    }discussion of ancient Egyptian math that includes their invention of fractions. Also includes, how they did multiplication and division, and algebra and geometry.
http://www.academicinfo.net/mathmeta.html   }another pretty good list of math sites. Especially, wolfram-free sites. Includes a link to “3000 completely worked-out proofs in logic and set theory”.
http://www.alpertron.com.ar/ENGLISH.HTM    }site has an engine that performs factorizations(decompositions) using ECM (the Elliptic Curve Method) - !! Enable your browser’s Java to use this site.
http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery   }The Pi Searcher lets you search for any string of digits (up to 120 of them) in the first 200 million digits of Pi. You can also show any substring of Pi. The Pi Searcher uses a combination of linear search (searching each digit one by one) for small search strings and a pre-computed index for large search strings. The result is that the Pi searcher is extremely fast -- it takes less than 1/50th of a second to handle most requests. For more information, see how the Pi Searcher works.
http://www.angio.net/pi/digits.html   }I'm frequently asked where people can get such a ridiculously large amount of pi. Be warned that 50 million digits of pi takes up 50 megabytes. This can take up to 4 hours to download with a 28.8k modem!  On this page are 10,000 digits of Pi formatted for humans. Also here, 1 million digits of Pi (Might take a while to download) .
http://www.angio.net/pi/pi50.4.bin    }50 million digits (compressed, special): You can download 50 million from the Pi searcher here in .iso format, this is the download link. .iso format is an image format. If you don't know what that is and would like to know, look in JKU, Academic Research List. http://sdrv.ms/R4hwOv , and in JKU, Online Tools 2015. http://1drv.ms/1ze7vbs , to find it out.
http://www.basic-mathematics.com/free-math-problem-solver.html#top   }we recommend this site for all students and children. Solves math problems, lets you specify kind and format. Passed our tests, although we didn’t try as hard as we might have to crash it.
http://www.cln.org/themes/tessellations.html    }a page of tessellation links, with descriptions, but unfortunately with many deadlinks. These links are meant for students and teachers.
http://www.creatorix.com.au/philosophy/t03/g027.html    }read the paragraph for “logic”.
http://www.crystalinks.com/indiamathematics.html   }overview of ancient Indian math, with links at page-bottom.
http://www.design-training.com/fashion-design/topology-resources.html   }topology links on the Web. Topology is a mathematical study of geometric properties with several different branches such as algebraic and differential topology. Perhaps the first person to bring attention to the beginnings of topology was Euler. In 1736, Leonhard Euler published a paper relating the discovery of a different type of geometry where distance wasn't relevant.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Egyptian_numerals.html    }intro to ancient Egyptian math.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Egyptian_mathematics.html    }overview of ancient Egyptian math.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Zero.html    }a very traditional history of zero, including ancient Indian mathematics.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Projects/Pearce/Chapters/Ch7.html   }discussion of the invention of decimal numeration and the place-value system by the ancient Indians.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Indian_mathematics.html   }an overview of ancient Indian math.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Indian_numerals.html   }discussion of ancient Indian numerals, etc.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Egyptian_numerals.html    }intro to ancient Egyptian math.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Egyptian_mathematics.html    }overview of ancient Egyptian math.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Zero.html    }a very traditional history of zero, including ancient Indian mathematics.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Projects/Pearce/Chapters/Ch7.html   }discussion of the invention of decimal numeration and the place-value system by the ancient Indians.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Indian_mathematics.html   }an overview of ancient Indian math.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Indian_numerals.html   }discussion of ancient Indian numerals, etc.
http://www.einet.net/search/einet?q=%22number+theory%22   }einet’s page for “number theory”. Good short selection of results (when using The Directory), but marred by Google ads.
http://gams.nist.gov/   }guide to available mathematical software for use in computational science and engineering.
http://www.gottfriedleibniz.com/mathematics/leibniz-calculator.html    }Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz built the first digital mechanical calculator during 1672-1694.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Prime_numbers.html   }fairly good short primer on primes.  einet was started by UCB as galaxy.einet.net, ‘way back when.
http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/modules.html   }quantum modules of synergetic geometry.
http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/tmod.html   }the T-module in synergetics. 
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/recreational-math   }the Khan Academy recreational math page, including a Community Questions page. 163 links on the page. Some fun links, such as Recreational mathematics and inspirational videos by resident mathemusician (sic) Vi Hart, on Spirals, Fibonacci and being a plant; Hexaflexagons; About pi and tau; Singing (and noises); and Mobius strips.
http://wikis.lib.ncsu.edu/index.php/Ancient_Indian_Math   }very brief overview of their numerals, place-value, and decimal systems. The ancient Indians invented base-10 math.
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/math/matsite.htm   }list of mathematics sites, for college students and teachers; it does have a few DLs. 
http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Majors/Math/matindex.htm   }other links to math sites.
http://library.thinkquest.org/22584/emh1200.htm   }another good illustrated summary of ancient greek mathematics.
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/history/pythag/pythag.html   }good page full of the basics of Pythagorean math, and most of it right. Illustrated.
http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/wheremath.html    }tessellation and tiling math basics.
http://mathoverflow.net/   }MathOverflow is a question and answer site for professional mathematicians. It's built and run by you as part of the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites. With your help, we're working together to build a library of detailed answers to every question about research level mathematics. We're a little bit different from other sites. Here's how: Ask questions, get answers, no distractions.This site is all about getting answers. It's not a discussion forum. There's no chit-chat.
http://www.math.tamu.edu/~dallen/masters/egypt_babylon/babylon.pdf    }brief paper on ancient Babylonian math, including their algebra, such as solving of square roots, quadratics, etc.
http://www22.pair.com/csdc/car/carhomep.htm   }Cartan's methods of exterior differential forms are applied to a variety of physical problems, from the perspective of Continuous Topological Evolution.
http://www22.pair.com/csdc/ed3/ed3multi.htm   }Applications of External Differential Forms. Many links here, to pages, documents, and pdfs.
http://www22.pair.com/csdc/ed3/ed3multi.htm   }syllabus and commentary to Applications of External Differential Forms.
http://www22.pair.com/csdc/ed3/ed3remot.htm   }Maple programs and special links relating to Cartan’s Topological Structure and Applications of External Differential Forms.
http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/critics.html   }A number of malicious Black Hole and Big Bang creationism zealots, adducing no
arguments of their own devise, have resorted to merely citing the following equally feckless quintet, either in full or in part, on a number of blogs and other websites, in irrational and feverish attempts to refute my proofs that Black Hole universes and Big Bang universes are nonsense.
http://www.qbyte.org/    }math puzzles (some with answers), resources, and links.
http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/    }random number generators from the University of Salzburg.
http://www.rosicrucian.org/publications/digest/digest1_2009/05_web/ws_04_tripodi/ws_04_tripodi.pdf    }Pythagorean teachings across the centuries. Illustrated.
http://www.sanalnair.org/articles/index-ved.htm   }some of the little-known facts about Vedic math.
http://www.snark.ca/math.htm#Mathematics    }linklist on math sites, etc.  Found under “Ideas”.
http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb1sup1.html    }discusses ancient Babylonian math and their invention of the base-60 number system, which is appropriate for spherical geometry. They were superb astronomers, perhaps as good as the Indians. Note that their computation of the length of the modern year was precise to several digits after the decimal point, and that their algerbraic solution of the quadratic was correct by modern standards (i.e., all around 1700 b.c. or before, etc.). Note also their very accurate tracking and computation of the sidereal year of Jupiter. Why?
http://math.stackexchange.com/   }Mathematics Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for people studying math at any level and professionals in related fields. It's 100% free, no registration required. Every page on this site, of the type linked to, have many links will will find some of very interesting, on the right side of the page. There are 230 links on this page.
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/204339/resources-to-learn-the-meaning-of-any-math-symbol?rq=1   }how do I learn mathematical sysmbols?  And two answers, (1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mathematical_symbols ; and (2)  http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/Notation.html .
http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/91682/determine-the-coefficient-of-expansion-of-the-product-of-two-sumations    }Mathematica Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for users of Mathematica. It's 100% free, no registration required.  The page linked to gives the answer, square the sum, to the question, I would like to determine the coefficient of a desired term in the product of two summation where the powers of x are not necessarily integers. 
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1397038/entering-math-through-the-side-door   }here a programmer asks for help in understanding math; there are informal replies, followed by a formal reply. On these pages, that's the format. The formal answer is in larger boldface and follows the informal ones.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibniz-mind/#LanMin    }start reading at “3. Mind and Language” and you’ll see how this is about mathematics; in particular, it is about logic and combinatorial math, symbols, and how they give rise to what we identify as thinking.
http://it.stlawu.edu/~dmelvill/mesomath/obsummary.html    }historical summary of ancient Babylonian math.
http://data.stackexchange.com/   }portal for many math, engineering, and other technical websites; also computer-related sites, such as coding, anti-virus, and so on.
http://www.suite101.com/content/the-mathematics-of-ancient-egypt-a49376#ixzz1GcCoFJza    }The Mathematics of Ancient Egypt: The Impressive Numerical History of an Ancient Civilization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristica_universalis#Three_criteria   }the true Universal Language will be mathematical in nature.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mathematics   }the Wikipedia mathematics portal page. Links.
https://zenwerx.com/?s=digit+of+pi   }4 million digits of pi on this page. PI Calculated to 4,000,000 decimal places just for the heck of it (actually it’s
2^22 decimal places, or 4194304).

II. St. Bucky Fuller.
http://1st-spot.net/topic_synergetics.html   }excellent Bucky linksite.
http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/search/label/Buckminster%20Fuller   }many rare mps3, videos, and other materials here. Free to download. Highly Recommended. The most complete collection of Bucky A/V materials.
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/marksomers/42.html   }an explanation of synergetics by Amy Edmondson.
http://architecture.about.com/od/geodesicdomes/Build_a_Geodesic_or_Monolithic_Dome.htm   }brief descriptions of dome types and their history, for those who are starting at the beginning.
http://www.byexample.com/projects/current/dome_construction/    }practical, simple construction methods of the geodesic dome, with photos, parts list, everything. DIY.
http://www.byexample.com/projects/current/dome_cover/   }details on the dome covering.
http://members.cruzio.com/~devarco/nature.htm   }Fuller proposed that synergetic math, based on whole numbers and easily modeled or demonstrated by anyone, would be understandable to a 10-year old.
http://www.domehome.com/   } Timberline Geodesic Dome packages that make it easy, practical and affordable for people to construct their own homes.
http://geodesicdome.info/index.php?start=3   }news excerpts and info on those building domes.
http://www.grunch.net/snelson/   }student of Fuller’s who helped develop the tensegrity structures that Bucky is world-famous for.
http://www.grunch.net/synergetics/volumes.html    }synergetics’ hierarchy of polyhedra.
http://www.grow-dome.co.uk/   }facts on the “grow dome”, a geodesic greenhouse that doubles as a Jacuzzi/hot tub cover, shed, or studio. Wood and plastic. Photos on portfolio page. From the UK.
http://www.hoberman.com/fold/main/index.htm   }site featuring Hoberman spheres. Site suitable for children.
http://www.hoberman.com/home.html   }the page for adults, on Hoberman spheres.
http://www.miqel.com/fuller_design_science/success_for_earth_life.html   }Earthscope, formerly Dashboard Earth. 12aug13. R. Buckminster Fuller author, scientist, artist, inventor, architect, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, metaphysician, cartographer, visionary, social historian, creator of dymaxion engineering, geodesics, synergy, synergetics, World Game & world resources inventory, arguably the first modern futurist. www.bfi.org
http://pacificdomes.com/   } Pacific Domes is a Global Manufacturer and Distributor of Geodesic Domes.
http://www.tensegrity.com/   }What is tensegrity? "The word 'tensegrity' is an invention: a contraction of 'tensional integrity.' Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guaranteed by the finitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discontinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors. Tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder"
- Richard Buckminster Fuller (excerpt from Synergetics, p. 372.)
 http://www.thirteen.org/cgi-bin/bucky-bin/bucky.cgi   }info about the TV show “Thinking Out Loud” about Bucky, his inventions, etc., featured in the “American Masters” series on PBS. Videocassette available.
http://www.thirteen.org/bucky/film.html   }page features two QT movie shorts of Fuller.
http://www.thirteen.org/bucky/guinea.html   }This page features links to various people’s perspectives on Bucky, including his daughter.
http://www.thirteen.org/cgi-bin/bucky-bin/netforum/bf/a/1   }a discussion board on Bucky topics.
http://www.thirteen.org/bucky/newwork.html   }this page features new works by those who are continuing what Bucky started.
http://www.westnet.com/~crywalt/Bucky.html    }The Bucky Fuller Travelling Miracle Medicine Show. This one should be read page-by-page, one page at a time, for then you will understand that he was a Saint.
http://www.worldgame.org/~wgi    }a modern-day development of Bucky’s World Game.
http://vimeo.com/4558711   }time-lapse video of Kitty Clark building a dome for her art class. It started snowing there so the video didn’t record the ending. 1:30 .
http://www.wnet.org/bucky/cities.html   }floating geodesic cities and modern domed-over cities.

III. Beat.   (see also the Poetry List http://sdrv.ms/xYANGU )
http://www.answers.com/topic/beat-movement   }one perspective on the Beat Movement or Generation.
http://www.archive.org/details/74P008   }first part of a reading by di prima, ginsberg, waldman, 1974. 1:31:37.
http://www.archive.org/details/naropa_a_reading_by_allen_ginsberg   }second part of a reading by di prima, ginsberg, waldman, 1974. 45:00.
http://www.blacksparrowbooks.com/show.asp?id=2   }recommended article about Black Sparrow Books.
http://beat-poetry.blogspot.com/   }moderns trying their  hands at beat poetry, but not very well, IMHO. Included for completeness’ sake.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/kelly/   }more poems by Kelly. He sometimes writes in the Beat style, if one could put it that way.
epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/18_anderson.mp3   }L. Anderson
epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/01_dr_miller.mp3  }Laurie A.
http://www.dreamtimepodcast.com/2006/10/episode-17-october-in-railroad-earth.html    }Kerouac reading accompanied by Steve Allen on the piano. Info about Kerouac, Dylan, and Ginsberg.
http://home.earthlink.net/~robert.kelly/robertkelly/id5.html   }the poem Ariadne, one of our favorite Kelly poems!
http://home.earthlink.net/~robert.kelly/robertkelly/index.html   }Kelly’s homepage.
http://ps1.el.net/media/archive/mp3/sbtbtcon_04ruas_waldmanpt1.mp3   }conversation with Anne Waldman.
http://fusionanomaly.net/williamsburroughs.html   }nice, well-written article about William S. Burroughs, with lots of links (mostly on same site).  See brief sample on page.
http://fusionanomaly.net/billlaswell.html   }HQ, complete page on Bill Laswell. This site can be a little hard to read, helps if you turn out the room lights.
http://gawker.com/5358510/jim-carroll-author   }another obit of Carroll. We consider him a child of the beats, and the interface between Beat and Punk.
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ginsberg.htm   }short bio on Ginsburg.
http://www.litkicks.com/BeatGen/   }a much better page on the Beat Generation with several links to-the-point, e.g., books, films, etc.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=452377050&blogId=475320288   }Michel Bowen obit.
http://www.naropa.edu/news/articles/elephant_fall2006_lres.pdf   }includes part of a conversation between Ginsburg and William F. Buckley; published in Elephant,  Autumn, 2006, when Naropa was celebrating the 50th anniversary of Howl. President Coburn spoke and Anne Waldman showed up, as well.
http://platetectonicmusic.com/id257.html   }site features Kerouac reading and a Steve Allen video, interviewing K. Don’t enable activex or whatever, or else view the video on youtube.
http://www.poetry.com/articles/poetic-history/beat-poetry/   }a good brief history of the movement, with 2 links at bottom.
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/62   }nice article about Robert Kelly, one of our favorites, with 3 audio clips.
http://www.poetspath.com/waldman.html   }anne waldman.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/anne-waldman   }brief bio of Anne Waldman.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=171774   }text of one of our favorite Waldman poems.
http://railwayearth.com/   }excerpt from Railroad Earth.
http://www.rooknet.net/beatpage/writers/bukowski.html   }The Beat Page on Bukowski.
http://www.sacfreepress.com/poems/blog/2004/04/history-of-sacramento-poetry-scene.html   }Sacto’s annual October in the Railroad Earth.
atlas.dsv.su.se/~petter/music/Laurie%20Anderson%20-%20Big%20Scien.mp3 
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/Youre-The-Guy_02_mountains.mp3   }every year, we would have this picnic.
http://beatpoets.tribe.net/   }like a blog site, “tribes” you can join.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/03/pouring_some_be.html   }a good page on  Charles Bukowski, with variety.
http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/HT/Hyperlexic_-_Bukowski.mp3   }a smoothly done, sort-of mix-tape of some of Charles Bukowski’s readings.
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Berrigan.php   }Ted Berrigan’s page on Penn Sound.
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Williams-WC.php   }William Carlos Williams’ page.
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ginsberg-Blake.php   }Ginsberg sings Blake; links to other Ginsburg readings.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Waldman.php   }anne waldman reading. Most selections from Eye Of The Falcon seem “down”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzCF6hgEfto&feature=player_embedded#!   }the youtube link to the Allen/K interview.
http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/mb/index.html   }another obit for Michael Bowen. We don’t consider him a world-class artist, though.

IV. Buddhism.
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/shikantaza.html   }detailed and technical account of the “just sitting” (shikantaza) type of Zen. Some of this will be difficult to understand for those not studied in Zen, Buddhism, etc. Well written explanations that will be meaningless to non-meditators.
http://www.answers.com/topic/abhidhamma   Précis of Abhidharma texts.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art31525.asp    }brief descriptions of the types of Buddhist meditation.
http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/search/label/Chogyam%20Trungpa   }a collection called Disconnected, 1974. This could have gone in either Beats, or here. This collection features a poem read by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. 7:14.
http://alchemicalarchives.blogspot.com/search/label/Thich%20Nhat%20Hanh   }here are five zen talks given between 16 March and 7 September 2008, by Thich Nhat Hahn, whom we consider a saint.
http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2009/02/shambhala-sun-two-sciences-of-mind.html   }a presentation and view of the relationship between HH The Dalai Lama and Francisco Varela. They also co-authored a book on Sleep and Dreams.
http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1658   }description of the Buddha-family traits or Buddha Families.
http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/abhidhamma.pdf   }pdf of a scholarly translation into English, with commentary, of the Abhidharma.
www.buddhanet.net/present.htm   }This is one Buddhist’s view on psychological “freedom”. We don’t endorse his views, and disapprove  of some of his language; furthermore, he cites Ken Wilber, who is known to be ‘talking through his hat’. However, this page is typical of what you’ll encounter among Buddhist psychologists, and so in included for you for that reason.
http://www.buddism.ru/   }this site has a very large, free, HQ library, the largest Buddhism library on the Web. Very thorough. Most of the site is in english, the rest in Russian or Tibetan. the Library includes manuals, grammars, and dictionaries for translating between English, Tibetan, and Russian, many dictionaries, and instructions for how to use all the dictionaries and documents. Highly Recommended.
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html   }seems like a good place to start reviewing Buddhism online, but some links are old or expired and many lead to the Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php   ), which is good, but from there, most of the e.g. jpegs are expired, gone, and so on.
http://www.citeulike.org/user/cmvalma/article/2267210   }précis/intro to Franciso Varela’s work on using Buddhist result for insights into cognition, and on improving the knowledge of cognitive science in that way.
http://www.dharma.org/bcbs/Pages/RecommendedReading.html    }a listing of a variety of scholarly works on Buddhism, some with reviews, including Varela’s The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience. (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1992.)
http://www.logictutorial.com/   }some notes on historical Buddhist logic (scroll down).
http://www.mahidol.ac.th/budsir/buddhism.htm   }pretty good site on Thai Buddhism, which is usually Theravada or Hinayana.
http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/ewing1.htm   }long essay on historical Buddhist logic vis-à-vis Berkeley, Hume, etc.
http://prisonmindfulness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/PDN-Resource-Guide-Buddhist-Glossary.pdf   }A glossary of Buddhist terms, written for easier understanding of those terms.
http://prisonmindfulness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/meditation_kit_07.pdf   }the Tricycle Meditation Kit is here.
http://prisonmindfulness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/PathofFreedom_Session1.pdf   }this is the Path Of Freedom workbook. Remember that most of the materials were written by Buddhists, such as Fleet Maull, who was a student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche from 1977 until his death in 1987.
http://prisonmindfulness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/zafu.pdf   }instructions for making a Zafu (meditation cushion).
http://prisonmindfulness.org/resources/prisoners/   }there are free pdfs that you can download from this page, of various Buddhist verses, principles, and so on.
http://news.religiology.org/2010/10/20/pakistan-to-preserve-2400-year-old-buddhist-caves-in-capital/   }see also their archives, if you like.
http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/practices/meditation.htm   }somewhat longer descriptions of 3 types of Buddhist meditation, with sources and links at bottom of page.
http://www.religionfacts.com/buddhism/sects/zen.htm   }brief description of Zen Buddhism.  References and links.
http://www.savetibet.org/      }The International Campaign for Tibet proudly celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2008. For more than two decades, we have called the world’s attention to the injustices and brutality being suffered by the people of Tibet. We’ve shone a spotlight on China’s repressive authority and intervened on behalf of political prisoners. We’ve worked with and been guided by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and have provided support to Tibetans in exile. The International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) works to promote human rights and democratic freedoms for the people of Tibet. Founded in 1988, ICT, a 501(c)(3) organization, maintains offices in Washington, DC, Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, and London with a field office in Dharamsala, India.
http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?pid=S0716-97602003000100003&script=sci_arttext   }as description of Francisco Varela’s influence on Buddhism and Cognitive Science by  Eleanor Rosch Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.  This is an obituary, and includes her memories of organizing a summer conference at Naropa  Institute in the late 1970s on Buddhism and Cognitive Science.
http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1658   }brief descriptions of the five Buddhist families, from Shambhala Sun article.
http://technorati.com/tag/buddhism   }brief statement of Buddhism with links following on page. We didn’t check every link on the page but they have text summaries of them.
http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/private/flanagan_lectures/Science_for_Monks.pdf    }pdf essay, Science for Monks: Buddhism and Science, by Owen Flanagan, Duke University 2006 USC Templeton Fellow. He mentions Varela’s work in the essay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhidharma   }Wikipedia’s good descriptions of the Abhidharma teachings/texts.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/FEUJAPAN/ZEN.HTM    }this page shows well the differences between Zen and other types of Buddhism.
http://zenbuddhismreligion.com/   }a much more thorough description of Zen by an obvious practioner. Includes a Zen story, etc. Very thorough history, with equivalents shown between Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.  Good reading.

V. Asteroids, Meteors, and Comets.
Videos about comets, meteors, and asteroids, are below in the Category, VII. Music, Video, and so on. http://www.338arps.com/   }images of all 338 peculiar galaxies that Halton Arp found.
http://www.amasci.com/freenrg/bindet.html   }detecting regions of reduced binding force.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020605082558/electric-cosmos.org/localspace.htm   }the old version of don scott’s pages, circa 2002.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020605081732/electric-cosmos.org/electricplasma.htm   }same, electric plasma.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020605081421/electric-cosmos.org/darkmatter.htm   }missing “dark” matter.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020605140731/electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm   }the electric sun.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020605192142/electric-cosmos.org/sudbury.htm   }neutrino observations.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020605082039/electric-cosmos.org/hrdiagr.htm   }electrical cosmology.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020605081738/electric-cosmos.org/galaxies.htm   }galaxies and stars.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030712065714/electric-cosmos.org/planets.htm   }info on planets and plasma effects.
http://web.archive.org/web/20030803052006/www.holoscience.com/views/view_mars.htm   }the grand canyon and the Valles Marineris (thornhill’s site).
http://inside.bard.edu/specialproj/clas214/info.html   }This page gives a very good brief overview of the place of Catastrophism in physical evolution models.
http://inside.bard.edu/specialproj/clas214/fall2000/syllabus.html   }This page, the course syllabus, shows which books (or monographs) of Alfred De Grazia, Prof. Mullen uses in his course at Bard College in New York.
http://inside.bard.edu/specialproj/clas214/index.html   }Professor William Mullen’s frontpage.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/15/world/europe/russia-meteor-shower/   }Moscow (CNN) 8:15 PM EST, Fri February 15, 2013-- A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals regionFriday morning before exploding with a flash and boom that shattered glass in buildings and left about 1,000 people hurt, authorities said. Described by NASA as a "tiny asteroid," the meteor's explosion created a blast in central Russia equivalent to 300,000 tons of TNT, the space agency's officials said Friday, adding that the incident was a once-in-100-years event. The injured included more than 200 children. Most of those hurt are in the Chelyabinsk region, though the vast majority of injuries are not thought to be serious.
http://cometography.com/pcomets/045p.html   }description and history, also with photo, of 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova.
http://www.cosmologystatement.org/   }crackpots that believe all that new, stupid stuff. (about 530 of them).
http://members.cox.net/dascott2/ImageList.html    }photos of various astronomical objects taken by Donald E. Scott.
http://www.curtrenz.com/comets11.html   }graphic view of comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) during 2011 from overhead.
http://www.curtrenz.com/comets13.html   }plot of the comet’s path in equatorial coordinates during sep 2011 to nov 2011.
http://www.curtrenz.com/comets14.html   }plot of the comet’s path in equatorial coordinates during nov 16 2011 to mar 05 2012.
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/arp.htm   }redshift, etc. Remember that the ”redshift” method of measuring galactic or greater distances, is false.
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/summary.htm   }summary.
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/links.htm   }links.
http://www.electric-cosmos.org/sun.htm   }review of the electric sun.
http://www.elenin.org/   }more on comet elenin, and its “flyby” with comet Honda.
http://fusionanomaly.net/buckyballs.html   }WASHINGTON (Reuters) Tuesday March 21 4:06 PM ET - Weird gases from outer space arrived on Earth during a dinosaur-killing asteroid strike 65 million years ago, and survive in molecular cages called buckyballs, researchers reported on Tuesday. Buckyballs, lacy-looking molecules made up of carbon atoms, are also known as fullerenes and are named in honor of Buckminster Fuller because they are shaped like the geodesic dome he invented. Inside the buckyballs was a strange type of cosmic helium, along with other gases, Bunch said in a internal link telephone interview.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/02/live-blog-asteroid-2012-da14-has-close-call-with-earth/   }ABC News' Kirit Radia, based in Moscow, passes on notes from a conversation with Paul Abell of NASA's Orbital Debris Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston:
"This was the BIGGEST meteor to hit since the 1908 impact that flattened a large part of Siberia. NASA's preliminary calculation is that this thing weighed in at 7,700 tons (not 10 tons as Russian scientists first said).
"NASA's preliminary estimate is that this item was about 15 meters in diameter (the 1908 one was 50 meters), larger than the one that streaked across the skies of California last year (though that one was probably heavier due to its composition)
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QuantaHTML/_start_here.htm    }This page has all the volumes from the Quantavolution And Catastrophe  series of Alfred De Grazia, late Professor Emeritus of the University of Chicago, in HTML, PDF, and plaintext, an Acrobat reader that you can download, and other info, such as word-frequency counts of the chapters, and so on.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QuantaHTML/index_all.htm#v_pdf_01    }the PDF files of Chaos and Creation can also be found here.  This is the PDF file for chapters 1 and 2, but the Acrobat reader will automatically load the correct chapter from the TOC if you’re on the webpage/site. If you are not, then the other chapters’  URLs follow so that you can download them all. They all deal with the effects, etc., of comets, asteroids, and meteors, but mostly comets. The evolution of the Solar System and the earth.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/cc_docs/cc_2.pdf    }Chaos and Creation, chapters 3-5.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/cc_docs/cc_3.pdf   }Chaos and Creation, chapter 6.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/cc_docs/cc_4.pdf    }chapter 7.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/cc_docs/cc_5.pdf   }chapters 8 and 9.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/cc_docs/cc_6.pdf   }chapters 10 to 12, and bibliography.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/lte_docs/lte_1.pdf   }PDF of The Lately Tortured Earth. This book (monograph) concentrates much more on meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites, and their effects. This is the link to the first seven chapters of it. You’ll need to download all the files for this book for the Acrobat reader to access them on demand; while you’re on the webpage/site, it does that automatically.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/lte_docs/lte_1.pdf   }Chapters 8 to 11 of The Lately Tortured Earth.   The history of the physical earth.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/lte_docs/lte_1.pdf   }chapters 11 to 15.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/lte_docs/lte_1.pdf   }chapters 16 to 19.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/lte_docs/lte_5.pdf    }chapters 20 to 25.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/lte_docs/lte_6.pdf    }chapters 26 to 29.
http://www.grazian-archive.com/quantavolution/QUANTAVOL/lte_docs/lte_7.pdf    }chapters 30 and 31. HTML and plaintext versions of these documents are also available from the same website.
http://www.heavens-above.com/comet.aspx?cid=103P&Session=kebgfefjddaplikgfcjpbpdl   }images showing current location of comet 103P Hartley. Page updated at least daily.
http://www.heavens-above.com/comet.aspx?cid=9P&Session=kebgfefjddaplikgfcjpbpdl   }images showing current location of comet 9PTempel 1. Page updated at least daily.
http://www.heavens-above.com/MinorPlanet.aspx?desig=1&Session=kebgfefjddaplikgfcjpbpdl   }images showing location of minor planet 1 Ceres. This same site shows the location of seven other minor planets as well; see their homepage.
www.heavens-above.com    }their homepage. Register or use anonymously; however, if you register, the site will automatically calculate all views, orbits, etc., based upon your longitude and latitude.
http://highpowerrocketry.blogspot.com/2011/07/comet-c2010-x1-elenin-replaced-with.html   }page with video, what if we replaced comet elenin with a brown dwarf (there is still debate about what elenin is, and what comets actually are, etc.)(the substitution is performed by a computer simulation, video is 3:21). The video must be watched on full screen setting.
http://www.jamesphogan.com/bb/CPG.html   }excellent summary of all the new astrophysics and physics of crater, etc., formation, and plasma physics. No color jpegs but accurate summations.
http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2010/10/28/ScienceTech/Asteroid.Collisions.X.Marks.The.Spot-3952701.shtml   }Hubble Space Telescope records asteroid collisions.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/neo/neo_flash.cfm   }more general info about comets, meteors, and asteroids. Note that this is mainstream, old-school type info about them.
http://homepage.mac.com/cygnusx1/anomalies/ElectricSky_20080322.pdf   }this is an attempt by one mainstream scientist to criticize the new, emerging sciences shown in this list and others (Groundhog List, Part Deux, etc.). That is, were in the middle of a new scientific revolution now, and the fires are burning the forest down from many different directions (compare, e.g., Rupert Sheldrake, etc.). And so this critic sits in his cabin and can’t smell the smoke. Still this List is balanced by opposing views.
http://www.metaresearch.org/solar%20system/solar.asp   }good note on the exploded planet as origin hypothesis.
http://www.morien-institute.org/spaceguardlinks.html   }seems like a more intelligent discussion of small solar system objects. Note that the Oort cloud is a conjectured or hypothesized area, not yet observed by anyone.
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/index.html   }repeat of the solar data page. The sun effects comets.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/soho/soho_periodic_comet.html   }news about comet P/2007 R5 SOHO. 9/11.
http://www.nightskyinfo.com/   }info about finding, predictions for asteroids, comets, meteors.
http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/index.php?p=soho_15yrs   }story of P/2007 R5 SOHO and the satellite that found it, along with 1,950 other comets!  SOHO is the greatest comet finder in history.
http://www.occultopedia.com/a/asteroid.htm   }site suggests topic software and books and reviews extinctions.
http://planetarydefense.blogspot.com/2011/01/comet-elenin-c2010-x1.html   }info on comet elenin. Sept.2011.
http://elenin.paranomalo.us/2011/05/comet-watch-update-45phonda%e2%80%93mrkos%e2%80%93pajdusakova/   }news about 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova and its close approach to the earth in 2011.
http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/~luca/Topics/cosm/dark_matter_types.html   }types of dark matter, etc.
http://portaltotheuniverse.org/blogs/posts/view/22038/   }technical news about comet C/2009 P1 Garradd.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1945977/the_many_faces_of_the_shear_alfvn_wave/index.html?source=r_technology    }included just for interest and completeness; plasma physics are at the heart of the New Astrophysics. See also links on this page re/Alfvén waves.
http://www.snark.org/sb.htm   }contains a rather long link-list for info about small bodies of the solar system. This seems to be a really complete list.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/tercrate.htm   }the standard view of craters, etc., as for students.
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_590493.html   }asteroid collision, they think.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011/arch11/110530asteroids.htm   }If astronomers treated historical data with the same rigor and attention to detail with which they treat present data, they would consider that that evidence indicates the occurrence of events only a few thousands of years ago that reorganized the Solar System and resurfaced the Earth. Instead of taking for granted their speculation that 1999RQ36 is a pristine sample of billion-year-old proto-life, they would consider that it might be a space-fried fragment of life recently blasted from the ruins of the Earth.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2008/arch08/080130miss.htm   }Any object coming far from the earth will carry a different charge. As it encounters lower layers of the Earth's plasma sheath, the voltage between the object and the layer could abruptly increase and the object begin to visibly
discharge. At first it would be surrounded by a “glow discharge”, a diffuse luminescence similar to St. Elmo’s fire or to high-altitude “elves”. As the
voltage rises, the discharge would jump to “arc” mode and the object would become an electrode at the focus of upper-atmospheric charge. At this point
material would begin to ablate in a sputtering process as well as from velocity-caused air friction. If the current flow becomes too extreme, capacitive
discharges within the meteor will cause a violent outburst of electricity with sudden bright flashes. The meteor is now called a "bolide," or flaring meteor.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060823bigbangscience.htm   }cosmic microwave background temperatures.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060308crater.htm   }lunar craters, how they’re formed, etc. With photos.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2011/arch11/110530asteroids.htm   }Are carbonaceous asteroids the precursors of life or the wreckage of life? NASA plans to launch the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer mission, also known as OSIRIS-REx, in 2016. The
spacecraft will orbit the Near Earth Object (NEO) 1999RQ36. After a year in close orbit, the probe will gather a sample of material from the object’s
surface and bring the sample back to Earth. If astronomers treated historical data with the same rigor and attention to detail with which they treat present
data, they would consider that that evidence indicates the occurrence of events only a few thousands of years ago that reorganized the Solar System and
resurfaced the Earth. Instead of taking for granted their speculation that 1999RQ36 is a pristine sample of billion-year-old proto-life, they would
consider that it might be a space-fried fragment of life recently blasted from the ruins of the Earth.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2004/arch/040712craters-eros.htm    }craters on Eros explained only by electrical activity.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060310crater.htm  }more on lunar craters. Photos.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2012/09/12/hot-comets/   }”Comets are said to be composed of “dusty ices.” Why have crystalline structures that require high temperatures been found in them?”
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2009/arch09/091109asteroid.htm   }On September 27, 2007, NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft on a mission that will
take it into the asteroid belt, where it will study two of the largest planetesimals in orbit between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres and Vesta. Dawn is so named because it will be observing objects thought to have existed since the dawn of the Solar System. Ceres has recently been added to the roster of "dwarf
planets" along with Pluto—Ceres being the only one within the asteroid belt. Vesta, the first one of the Dawn mission's targets, could also be added,
something that data from the space probe will help to determine. Vesta is the second largest asteroid, with a diameter of approximately 530 kilometers. It was found in 1807 by Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers. Using Saturn's moons for scale again, Vesta compares to Enceladus or Mimas in size.
http://www.universetoday.com/75601/hubble-sees-asteroid-collision-in-slow-motion/   }asteroid collision photos.
http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2009/arch09/091109asteroid.htm  }Plasma arcs do not disturb the surrounding surfaces when they are used in industrial applications. Based on laboratory analysis, that is what has occurred on Vesta and on all the asteroids, moons, and planets of the solar system: plasma discharge erosion. Planetary scientists ignore electrical explanations, which rectify the anomalies in other theories, because they know almost nothing about plasma and electric currents in space. Electricity can create the very things they are sending out probes to study
http://www.universetoday.com/88239/capture-comet-c2009-p1-garradd-now/   }this has the descriptions of comet garradd, photo, graphics, and video (0:29). It can be seen with binoculars.
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Gerrard+Perseid-meteor.jpg   }great photo of comet garradd with the perseid meteors.
http://www.vortexmaps.com/vortices.php   }gravitational mystery spots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova   }wiki for 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova. 9/11.

VI. Renaissance Influences.
http://www.3pipe.net/2010/10/renaissance-recycling-perseus-as-medici.html   }
In a time and place not too distant, an introduction to Renaissance studies consisted of the dictum that it was a glorious period resurrecting antiquity from the depths of the dark ages. In my recent travels to Florence, the anachronistic nature of classical symbols really hit home. Staring at the Birth of Venus, I saw within the beauty of Botticelli's goddess the embodiment of Medici commercial ambition, where Pagan themes were not being reborn, but recycled into something different. 14mar14 Update: this site is going down. It is a Recommended site, so, use this URL for now: https://web.archive.org/web/20130602071340/http://www.3pipe.net/2010/10/renaissance-recycling-perseus-as-medici.html .
http://careofthesoul.net/2013/04/real-presences/   }James Hillman always spoke of the Greek gods as if they were present, not literal but real. Years ago I read Karl Kerenyi’s idea that religion begins in the atmosphere of a place or situation. An image for Hillman is not an intellectual abstraction but a presence, again, one that is real but not literal. The Mona Lisa, Hamlet, and Sherlock Holmes have become so real in some people’s imagination that they relate to the figures as real presences, though they know they are fictions. Seeing the astrological conditions of an ordinary day may be another way of taking certain images seriously without turning them into abstract ideas or confusing them with actual persons.
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/Classes/US310/On-Hillman.html   }Renaissance Neoplatonism and Archetypal Psychology. “what enabled the Renaissance was not (as is commonly supposed) the rediscovery of humanity or nature, but the rediscovery of soul and its paradoxical nature, for while it is in us, we are also in it. That is, the imaginative world of the soul has an objective existence independent of our individual egos. He identifies Petrarch's descent from Mont Ventoux as the turning point because, as you will recall, it was there that he consulted Augustine's Confessions at random and, from what he read, realized that the world inside is just as large and real (just as given) as the world outside. In that passage (X.8) Augustine described his imagination as "a large and boundless chamber," both a power of his and a part of his nature, yet beyond his comprehension. "Therefore is the mind too strait to contain itself." “
http://www.esotericarchives.com/dee/index.html   }Dee’s writings listed with brief descriptions. “John Dee was an influential Renaissance figure. He was Queen Elizabeth's scientific advisor. In later life, he became disillusioned with pure science and started experimenting with occult techniques of the day. “
http://esotericarchives.com/dee/sl3188.htm    }Mysteriorum Libri Quinque or, Five Books of Mystical Exercises of Dr. John Dee, An Angelic Revelation of Kabbalistic Magic and other Mysteries Occult and Divine revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelly. A.D. 1581 - 1583
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/a606/John-Crowley/?si=0  }scroll down. “This is the fourth novel--and much-anticipated conclusion--of John Crowley's astonishing and lauded AEgypt sequence: a dense, lyrical meditation on history, alchemy, and memory. Spanning three centuries, and weaving together the stories of Renaissance magician John Dee, philosopher Giordano Bruno, and present-day itinerant historian and writer Pierce Moffett, the AEgypt sequence is as richly significant as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet or Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time. Crowley, a master prose stylist, explores transformations physical, magical, alchemical, and personal in this epic, distinctly American novel where the past, present, and future reflect each other.”
http://gfisher.org/chapter_10.htm   }very in-depth page on John Dee, which also discusses his mathematics, as well as his life, influences, associations. “A relatively late exemplar of a person who united astronomy/astrology with mathematics and recommended observation of nature was John Dee. “
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72098458  }The negative attitude towards influence is a relatively recent phenomenon, and is a result of post-Enlightenment individualism, where there is an excessive concern for originality and "genius". Barfield explained that the concept of independent creativity emerged well after the Renaissance. Before the Renaissance "genius" is a spirit-being other than the poet himself, and they would say "he has a genius". After the Renaissance the inspiration is seen as part of the poet himself and we say "he is a genius".
http://books.google.com/books?id=tRi-9BfkbNcC&dq=editions:ISBN0520028171&source=gbs_book_other_versions   }”The Renaissance Imagination: The British scholar's major Renaissance articles explore the nature of the period's imagery and symbolism, the relation between its art and literature, and Renaissance attitudes toward ancient and contemporary history.”
http://www.greenmanreview.com/book/book_crowley_endlessthings.html    }replacement link for the review of Endless Things. Smallbeer Press seems to have lost their website. “Crowley's metaphor of The "chain of books" used as both modes of preserving past knowledge and as physical objects which link the past with the future is one of the narrative sleight-of-hands that help create the multilayered texture of this novel as a book composed of many other books. The complexity of such metaphors in combination with the enigmatic nature of Crowley's prose style lends a mystical aspect to the story, which often unfolds only to reveal more sophisticated interpretations, like one of those Renaissance dream poems which seem to be about love, but might also be about alchemy, or metaphysics, or even political intrigue. “
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/crowleyjohn.html    }page on the AEgypt tetralogy, and a review of Crowley’s Little, Big , written by someone who “got it”. “The Aegypt Cycle — (1987-2007) Publisher: Pierce Moffett is an unorthodox historian and an expert in ancient astrology, myths, and superstition. The land that Moffett studies is not the real, geographical Egypt but Ãegypt, a country of the imagination. When Moffett discovers the historical novels of local writer Fellowes Kraft, his course is charted. Kraft’s books interweave stories of Italian heretic Giordano Bruno, young Will Shakespeare, and Elizabethan occultist John Dee — stories that begin to mingle with the narrative of Moffett’s real and dream life in 1970s America. As Moffett’s journey in and out of his comfortable reality continues, what becomes clear is revelatory: there is more than one history of the world.“
http://hermetic.com/texts/neoplatonism.html   }Renaissance Platonism from the Academy founded by Marsilio Ficino and Cosimo de'Medici, had only the slimmest of institutional support in Europe as a distinct discipline. Only a few philosophers, such as Cardinal Bessarion, Nicholas Cusanus, Marsilio Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola, can be unabashedly classified as "Neoplatonists." In the history of ideas, Renaissance Neoplatonism is more important for its diffusion into a variety of philosophies and cultural activities, such as literature, painting, and music.
http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/john_kessler/giordano_bruno.html   }nice bio on Bruno. “When he was thirteen years old he began to go to school at the Monastery of Saint Domenico. It was a famous place. Thomas Aquinas, himself a Dominican, had lived there and taught. Within a few years Bruno had become a Dominican priest. Bruno was interested in the nature of ideas. Although the name was not yet invented it will be perfectly proper to dub Bruno as an epistemologist, or as a pioneer Semanticist. He takes fresh stock of the human mind.”
http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?2480   }links about Ægypt. Publishers, prices, and covers (cover art), both American and British.
http://italianrenaissanceresources.com/units/unit-7/more-resources/   }This unit explores the significance of ancient Roman artifacts for Italian painters of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The essay begins with a brief overview of art and architecture during the Roman Empire and addresses both the destruction and the survival of antiquities in the Christian era. It investigates the symbolic and thematic uses of Roman ruins in fifteenth-century paintings of Christian subject matter.
http://www.librarything.com/author/moorethomas   }Thomas Moore’s booklist. That is, a list of the books Moore has written, many of which pertain to these Renaissance Studies, on the Library Thing site.
http://www.librarything.com/work/302045   }The Astrological Psychology of Marsilio Ficino by Thomas Moore, with recommended related books on the same page. “Marsilio Ficino, who is almost unknown today, was perhaps the most influential philosopher of his age. It was Ficino who translated from Greek into Latin those first texts that arrived in Florence from Constantinople around 1438-39. It was Ficino who established a new academy in Florence modeled on Plato's academy. Ficino flourished under the sponsorship of the Medici family, and because of his relationship with them and their generosity in support of his academy, he effectively became tutor and intellectual mentor to the Florentine intelligentsia. Looking back with the 20/20 hindsight of the 21st century, it is apparent from what Thomas Moore tells us that Ficino functioned in some ways as a psychotherapist to his friends and students. His letters are full of helpful advice about right living and striving to make of one's life a work of art. The Planets is Ficino's treatise on using one's imagination to apply astrology to that end.”
http://www.librarything.com/work/61050   }page of The Reenchantment of Everyday Life, by Thomas Moore, with recommended related books on the same page. If you want to start to study or understand the Renaissance, this is a book you must include.
http://blog.mythfire.com/   }”In this vein, Hillman writes that “Death in the soul is not lived forward in time and put off into an afterlife. It is concurrent with daily life as Hades is side by side with his brother Zeus.”[5] According to Hillman, the problem lies in our “defense against Hades,” or, put differently, our “defensive identities with life.”[6]  So often we do everything in our power to escape (our fear of) death, preferring instead feelings of excitement and invincibility, hope and possibility. We prefer spirit but forget the equally important and deepening present-minded soul.”
http://blog.mythfire.com/?p=3073   }”“It is against this background that we must place also such major Renaissance concerns as reputation (fama); nobility, and dignity. They take on further significance when envisioned within a psychology that bears death in mind. To consider fama merely as fame in our romantic sense puts Renaissance psychology into the inflated ego of the very important person or pop star. But when death gives the basic perspective, then magnificence, reputation, and nobility are tributes to soul, part of what can be done for it during the ego’s short hour on the stage. Then fame refers to the lasting worth of soul and psychology can afford to treat of the grand themes: perfection of grace, dignity of man, nobility of princes.” “
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03016a.htm   }the Catholics’ view of Bruno.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1968/feb/29/bacons-magic/   }brief page on Francis Bacon.
http://www.occultopedia.com/b/bruno.htm   }Bruno links page, books are often from Amazon.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/bruno.htm   }repeats Kessler’s brief bio of Bruno then 2 more interesting articles.
http://www.powells.com/biblio/61-9780940262287-1   }synopsis and review of The Astrological Psychology by Ficino.
http://www.questia.com/read/1476008/metaphor-and-symbol   }
http://radicalacademy.com/philbruno.htm   }Bruno and some of the important Renaissance ideas.
http://readerfeedback.labs.wikimedia.org/wiki/John_Dee   }wiki bio of John Dee.
http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/    }page that mentions both Ficino and Agrippa in context.
http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/agrippa.html   }In 1509 Agrippa wrote De nobilitate et praecelentia foemini sexus , (the nobility of the female sex and the superiority of women over men), which was not published until 1532. In 1509 Agrippa also began writing his magnum opus, Three Books of Occult Philosophy which was finally published in 1531. As is clear from the long delay between the writing and publishing of many of his works throughout his life Agrippa was dogged by ill luck and opposition to his ideas and works.
http://www.renaissanceastrology.com/ficino.html   }illustrated bio of Marsilo Ficino. He led the Florentine Platonic Academy under the Medicis. “Ficino's writing is truly a joy to read as its elegance and clarity reflects the harmony and beauty of the themes he explores. It is unfortunate that translations of his works so quickly go out of print. A case in point is the translation by Kaske and Clarke of Ficino's Three Books on Life. An excellent academic translation, Three Books on Life is Ficino's magnum opus on astrological magic and talismans. This is a key work for anyone interested in Renaissance astrological magic, but sadly, it has just gone out of print.”
http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/pnm/index.htm    }more in-depth page on Agrippa’s philosophy, mentioning his influence on Bruno. Has his works as well, with illustrations.
http://www.setileague.org/awards/brunoquo.htm   }another very interesting if brief bio of Bruno.
http://smallbeerpress.com/books/2007/05/01/endless-things/   }Endless Things. DL 2011
http://www.soundstrue.com/authors/Thomas_Moore/   }brief bio on Thomas Moore.
http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/books/books.php?id=705   }brief review of The Reenchantment of Everyday Life, by Thomas Moore. He uses Ficino and other Renaissance influences in this book, as well.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020325/aegypt.shtml   }nice review of Crowley’s AEgypt, by someone who seems to have ”gotten it”.
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-2685-gnosis-and-hermeticism-from-ant.aspx    }this page is a book description, but the synopsis has some useful insights about Renaissance Hermeticsm.
http://taboodada.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/unearthly-territory-the-enigma-that-was-john-dee/   }probably the best of the biographies on John Dee.
http://courses.unt.edu/rdecarvalho/h5040/StudentPapers/Yates01,Frances.htm   }sysnopsis and comment on Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, by Francis Yates.
http://ionamillersubjects.weebly.com/emergent-healing.html   }“Symptoms belong to the embodied soul. The metaphorical reality of the psyche is more than mere fiction but less than literal. Metaphors are more than symbolic ways of speaking. Metaphors facilitate thought by providing an experiential framework in which newly acquired, abstract concepts may be assimilated. They are ways of perceiving, feeling and existing. Through this imaginal reality we find soul, meaning, and significance in our suffering. Intractable problems create a continuous flow of psychological ideas, “ (Hillman) The Healing Power of Narrative History: "To heal the symptom, we must heal the person, and to heal the person we must first heal the story in which the person has imagined himself." --James Hillman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegypt   } The four volumes mingle Moffett's real and dream life in America in 1977 (and, in an extended coda, into the early 1980s) with the narrative of the manuscript he is preparing for publication. The manuscript, left unfinished by its author Fellowes Kraft, is an historical fiction that follows the briefly intersecting adventures of Italian heretic Giordano Bruno and of British occultists John Dee and Edward Kelley. Moffett is trained as a historian, and is under contract to write a popular history covering hermetical themes. Early in the process, he conceives of writing a novel which, it is clear, would be Ægypt; his ruminations on that novel describe the structure of the novel he is in. The novels generally have three main "strands" reflecting on three main characters, one occurring in the present day generally following Pierce or Rosie Mucho in their artistic works, and two occurring in the Renaissance following the historical fictional activities of John Dee, Edward Kelley and Giordano Bruno as written by Fellowes Kraft. The difference is marked stylistically by dashes indicating dialogue for events that happened in the Renaissance and events in the twentieth century marked by dialogue in ordinary English quotation marks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Cornelius_Agrippa    }wiki bio of Agrippa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crowley  }bio,etc.

VII. Music, Video, and so on.
http://epc.buffalo.edu/sound/mp3/sp/dial_a_poem_poets/guy/04_closed_circuits.mp3   }Laurie Anderson.
http://www.catholicboy.com/intro.php    }bio/info about Jim, before he died.
http://www.coolthingsifind.com/post/1256770725/julee-cruise-falling-julee-cruises-falling   }Falling, by Angelo Badalamenti, sung by Julee Cruise,
http://www.soundsanalytical.com/wp-content/audio/mixtapes/31day_2010/06%20Julee%20Cruise%20-%20Falling.mp3    }this is the mp3.
https://www.khanacademy.org/math/recreational-math/vi-hart/pi-tau   }fun videos about pi and tau, for students and children.
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4342   }This visualization presents a small sample of the 9 years of comets seen by SOHO from the perspective a an observer at a fixed point above the ecliptic plane with the Sun at the center. Stationed in a halo orbit around the Earth-Sun Lagrange point since 1996, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has monitored the Sun for nearly 20 years. The Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) instrument blocks out the bright solar disk, making it easier to see the corona of plasma and dust around the Sun, normally only visible during solar eclipses. This instrument also provides a very large field of view of the region around the Sun. In addition to the benefit of this capability in solar studies, SOHO/LASCO can see many comets which pass very close to the Sun, called 'sungrazers'. Observers on Earth rarely see these objects as they are obstructed by the Sun's glare and Earth's atmospheric scattering at sunrise and sunset. SOHO/LASCO has seen not only many known comets, but discovered many more NEW sungrazing comets. At the time of this writing, the discovery count is approaching 3000.There are nearly sixteen comets and trajectories plotted in these visualizations which covers the time frame from January 2005 to December 2013 at the rate of one frame of the movie corresponding to one day.The trails are color coded based on group membership: Yellow - non-periodic comets; Cyan - Periodic comets.
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ginsberg-Blake.php    }Ginsberg sings Blake; links to other Ginsburg readings.  Here’s one mp3 from that page for you, The Shepherd from Songs of Innocence, by William Blake: http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Ginsberg/Blake/Songs-of-Innocence/Ginsberg-Allen_02_The-Shepherd_New-York_12-15-69.mp3         }Allen Ginsburg sings songs from the writings of William Blake.
http://videolectures.net/ephdcs08_chaitin_lcai/   }Leibniz, complexity, and incompleteness.
http://music.yahoo.com/track/497528   }it’s too late.
http://music.yahoo.com/ar-297420   }Jim Carroll link. They died, then he died. (Content changed and video removed by Yahoo 2011.) Instead, use this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6pPLeXsd9A   }Jim Carroll (1949-2009) and the Jim Carroll Band doing “People Who Died”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cECiIoBGLSI&NR=1   }bukowski against mickey mouse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHRcKjvX1xE&feature=related    }Bukowski on people. 3:29.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBEkjFZ4XdA&feature=more_related    }Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski.  4:36.
http://www.archive.org/details/74P008   }first part of a reading by di prima, ginsberg, waldman, 1974. 1:31:37.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez2U8FBjd30     }Published on Oct 20, 2014. Rare video footage about the Tibetan yogi tradition which had been kept secret for centuries, featuring Ven. Lopon Sonam Zangpo of the Drukpa Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, and other enlightened lamas. Also shown is the dorje, that the Tibetan saint Milarepa had used for his yoga practice. At the end of the video is briefly appearing H.H. the 16th Karmapa and the late Ven. Kalu Rinpoche. If you know other monks in this video, kindly make a comment with a time stamp and name of the monk you know. Thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=De9b8Z94nQk#!   }recent scientific video on comets, with Wal Thornhill (2012). 6:34.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXkcoZxZ_-Q&feature=related     }the electric universe, a summary of the ideas. Not in the 5-part series.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiPtd2XlJ-s&feature=related   }electrical forces induce cometary display. Includes beautiful footage from the HST (Hubble Space Telescope) of e.g., cometary ‘tails’ or filaments from nebulas, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5ba7k5nQas   }Asteroid 2012 DA14 misses Earth in close fly-by.  1:32.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF6Dd8MXnjI   }Russian meteor compilation, 2:06.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxKVzJcUW-Q   }0:12, flyby of DA14 2012.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ce6Pk_0TNE   }The recent explosion of a large meteor over Russia caused hundreds of injuries and considerable damage to local buildings—the most destructive such event in more than 100 years. The explosion has also raised new questions pointing directly to the behavior of large meteors in the Electric Universe. Here is a simple experiment by a member of the Thunderbolts group, relating to the APPEARANCE of material ejected in the forward direction at 6:22 in this presentation: http://youtu.be/DUe7VTnHIXI.  The experiment demonstrates some interesting optical effects of scratches on a transparent surface such as a windshield. A good reason to avoid shouting more exotic speculations as fact, something that has already occurred in Internet comments on the video segment. All fact-based interpretations of the clip, however, will be welcome.  9:49.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbUK3c9zak   }part 1 of 5 of the electrical universe. This is the same video that starts the thunderbolts series. That is, one video starts two different series, though their subjects are basically the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smnA523i4lU&feature=related    }part 2 of 5 of the electrical universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS7BvN_WIBY&feature=related   }part 3 of 5 of the electrical universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M8OGBlt9fw&feature=related   }part 4 of 5 of the electric universe. Explains the cause of cometary tails, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpzO32rC0m0&feature=related   }part 5 of the electric universe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGz-F0swMJE&feature=related   }part 1 of the plasma sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkwE5yP3ZnM&feature=related   }part 2 of the plasma sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMPalc8ffA&feature=related   }part 3 of the plasma sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggvIJBvsVrk&feature=related   }part 4 of the plasma sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qblBO62jbAs   }part 5 of 6 of the plasma sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiS9ht_E8lI&feature=related   }part 6 of 6 of the plasma sun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2JbQxezyaM&feature=related   }plasma rain falling on the sun, 1:18.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIbUK3c9zak&feature=related   }part 1 of thunderbolts, and also of the electric universe. That is, this one video starts two different series: thunderbolts, with 7 parts, and electric universe, with 5 parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCbMJEDKzE&feature=related   }part 2 of 7 of thunderbolts, the tutorial. This is about plasma and cosmology, that is, astrophysics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orI5cuJ9x10&NR=1   }part 3 of 7 of thunderbolts, a tutorial on the electric universe. This information is background for the Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids category above; e.g., electrical scarring on planetary bodies, causing cratering, etc. It is somewhat repetitive of the first series, so you would want to watch one or the other, but not both, unless you’re learning this material for the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTmCFEVQVK4&feature=related   }part 4 of 7 of the tutorial, thunderbolts of the gods.  Part 3 ends almost in midsentence so this part is necessary also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROIVcPra-vI&feature=related   }thunderbolts part 5 of 7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjifuQeYGJM   }thunderbolts of the gods, part 6 of 7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDfrnrh1R0U&feature=related   }thunderbolts, part 7 of 7.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROIVcPra-vI&NR=1    }Sunspot update (2/2011).  Also explains flaring in ion tails of comets, etc., plus origins of comets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjifuQeYGJM&NR=1   }continuation of modern cometary science (Comet Tempel 1). 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdfDcVXeKHo&index=13&list=PLwOAYhBuU3UeYFyfm2LilZldjJd48t6IY   }The electric comet idea forces us to consult the astronomical testimony of our earlier forebears, where independent accounts, told with different words and different symbols in different parts of the world, convey a story of planetary catastrophe. 5:12.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAjA_mxwSKc&NR=1   }more video about modern or new discoveries in astrophysics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-a_jlM50PU    }the rocky comet, This is first in a series of Rosetta Mission Updates with Wal Thornhill and Dave Talbott. In this brief video, Wal offers a preliminary assessment of the Rosetta Mission to Comet 67P, 5:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UliVkgc5s4    }The Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Perhaps the strangest solar system object ever observed up close in the course of the space age. It was the target of the Rosetta probe, whose 10-year journey began in March 2004, under the sponsorship of the European Space Agency. The probe is now orbiting the nucleus of 67P, and investigators hope to confirm the comet’s link to the very origins of our solar system. In this brief overview of the Rosetta Mission, David Talbott begins a series of reports on the continuing surprises facing comet theorists, 5:31.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqxF5u_iaRg    }no water on the comet? The comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will be in the news for several months. And it has the potential to spark extensive controversy.  Issues could range from electric fields in space, to solar system history and the history of earth itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QMkjPeeVYU   }Rubble on 67P Defies Current Comet Theory, 4:43.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceZqIXkX3u0    }Jets of Comet 67P -- Failed "Explanations" Continue, 5:30.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0smmBtmO_cU    }Comet 67P -- Electrical Sculpting of Surface Dust,  4:43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34wtt2EUToo   }1:29:01. The video presented here is still in development. For the present listing of credits (being developed simultaneously with extensive scientific review), see our credits page: http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2013/08/05/electric-comet-credits/ . We believe that this critical analysis of textbook comet theory can have a major impact on human understanding of these remarkable bodies. It can also reach well beyond the specialized science of comets to provoke a reconsideration of the Sun, planetary history, and a good deal more. We live in an Electric Universe, and the enigmatic behavior of comets provides unique insights into the role of charged particles and electrified plasma throughout the Cosmos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnM7v-awEm8&feature=related   }mystery of planetary scars; plasma. 7:56.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wmL-fQPUtM   }how to load comet Elenin into your Stellarium. 10:02. Download: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/stellarium/Stellarium-win32/0.13.3/stellarium-0.13.3-win32.exe?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stellarium.or%2F&ts=1436590974&use_mirror=iweb }starts automatically. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=I3tEcQFL3Wo#t=9s   }video of the Great Comet McNaught from January, 2007. 1:23.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fR-d6YP95E&feature=related   }video about comet elenin. 14:26.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wn_HqbMmn-4   }deep impact, confirming the electric comet. 25:37. Oct.2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQz1VDAFnE   }that movie, time-lapse made of images from 14 years of HST photos, star activity. More hubble videos on this page.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFc5egacxY&index=11&list=PLwOAYhBuU3UeYFyfm2LilZldjJd48t6IY   }NASA’s New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto is attracting international attention to planetary science. And like all recent missions to planets, moons, comets and asteroids, surprising discoveries already abound for scientists on Earth. Giant mountains on the Plutonian surface, and enormous, deep chasms on the Moon Charon, a surprising absence of so-called impact craters on Pluto, and the rich Plutonian atmosphere have all left investigators searching for answers. Today, Wal Thornhill begins a series of reports on the New Horizons mission. We begin by taking a step back to examine the most fundamental concepts about our solar systems origins, and the formation of planets and stars.  7:24.  NASA's New Horizons Twitter Feed: https://twitter.com/nasanewhorizons ; Pluto's Giant Mountains: http://www.businessinsider.com/fly-over-footage-from-new-horizons-of-plutos-mountains-2015-7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w21446NGOl4&index=12&list=PLwOAYhBuU3UeYFyfm2LilZldjJd48t6IY  }On July 14, 2015, the NASA Spacecraft New Horizons will achieve the first ever flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto. The much anticipated mission is receiving international attention, and early images of the Plutonian system are already sparking some scientific discussion. Like the scientific world at large, the Electric Universe community eagerly awaits New Horizons’ findings. In May of this year, physicist Eugene Bagashov offered his own analysis of the mission, as well as a few predictions of what we might expect from an electric universe perspective. Today, we again discuss with Eugene the Pluto investigation, including the possible early fulfillment of at least one of Eugene’s predictions. 8:35.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqVOxq7mE48&list=PLwOAYhBuU3UeYFyfm2LilZldjJd48t6IY   }NASA's New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet Pluto continues to provide planetary scientists with new challenges and deepening mysteries. Likewise, the Rosetta mission to comet 67P has revealed startling cometary phenomena that conventional theory cannot begin to explain. February Space News, The 'Impossible' Dunes of Comet 67P, in which we predicted that dramatic and "weird" changes to the comet's surface would be imaged in subsequent months: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu3diNE_Re8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK0HszupAkA&list=PLwOAYhBuU3UeYFyfm2LilZldjJd48t6IY   }In the previous Space News episode, we discussed recent, astonishing images of the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. Many other surprises have already been revealed in the data thus far released from NASA’s New Horizons mission. Today, physicist Eugene Bagashov discusses what we have learned thus far about Pluto’s
atmosphere and the larger Plutonian environment. 9:25.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ITIHLib3w   }talk as energy, then pretense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3dMWNJcr0Y&feature=related    }questions and hemlock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9fV9m48zwU   }what they call, Jan Cox.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYEdYt2XMQ&feature=related   }more, 3:41. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9ITIHLib3w&feature=related   }more, 58 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpH9R_XCIqc&feature=related   }no gradual change, 34:26.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtpeWRh8Qw4   }The Fuller World. Design Scientist. (NET Series F-155, no. 1)  Ann Arbor, Michigan: National Educational Television. December 1963.   20:08.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HPItz8oulXk#!   }The Fuller World. The Sum of its Parts. (NET Series F-155, no. 2) Ann Arbor, Michigan: National Educational Television, December 1963. R Buckminster Fuller speaks. 29.08. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mupqsLupSM8   }The Fuller World. Futuretense. (NET Series F-155, no. 3). Ann Arbor, Michigan: National Educational Television December 1963. 29:03.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yca5k5SYqzk&feature=related   }Upon its completion in October 1958, the Union Tank Car Dome, located north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was the largest clear-span structure in the world. Based on the engineering principles of the visionary design scientist and philosopher Buckminster Fuller, this geodesic dome was, at 384 feet in diameter, the first large scale example of this building type. "A Necessary Ruin" relates the powerful, compelling narrative of the dome's history via interviews with architects, engineers, preservationists, media, and artists; animated sequences demonstrating the operation of the facility; and hundreds of rare photographs and video segments taken during the dome's construction, decline, and demolition. 30:02.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JwOX4PlO2A   }Some brief clips from the "Lost Interviews" tapes with Buckminster Fuller, where Dr. Fuller discusses the nature of Tensegrity (or "Tensional Integrity") in structures. 6:38.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Ny3BfhVdw   }Demonstration of the strength and elasticity of a Tensegrity structure (R. Buckminster Fuller) by partially disassembling it. It is interesting to see how the structure degrades non-linearly. It is worth mentioning that the tension component of this structure is not elastic - it is high test mono-filament fishing line. In the video it looks like it could be rubber. 3:49.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwbcNmxxSMc&playnext=1&list=PL223579C8EFFBF093&feature=results_main   }Co-curators Dana Miller and Michael Hays discuss Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, an exhibition featuring one of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century. Utilizing his doing "more with less" credo, Fuller's designs endeavored to benefit the largest portion of humanity while consuming the minimum amount of the earth's resources. This video presents four examples of Fuller's integrated approach to the design and technology of housing, transportation, and cartography--the Dymaxion House, ca. 1930, Dymaxion Transport Vehicle, ca.1933 , Wichita House, ca. 1945, and The Fuller Projection Map, ca. 1943. 4:33.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPLcci1uoEI&feature=related    }Tensegrities: Truncated Tetrahedron, Cube and Octahedron. 2:48. To learn about tensegrities, visit http://www.kennethsnelson.net/   }”My art is concerned with nature in its primary aspect, the patterns of physical forces in three dimensional space.“  This artist has patents for tensegrities, and for models of the atom, and for other structures. Site includes tensegrities. See the tutorial on tensegrity here, highly recommended. Also here, http://kennethsnelson.net/animations/   } weaving and tensegrity videos.

FAQs.

1. Q: I noticed that you don’t have very much about Allen Ginsburg in your Beat category. Why is that?
    A: We feel that Ginsburg and a few others have been over-emphasized. There are movies about him and the Beats and … and so on. So, we’re striving for balance with our Category.
2. Q: Some of the websites in Asteroids have appeared on your previous lists. Why are you repeating them here?
    A: For completeness’ sake, and since not all readers have seen the previous lists; and to provide background for some of the “new” explanations for craters, comets, etc. The same remarks apply to the Comet and Electric Universe, Electric Sun, etc., websites. Any intelligent reader can read and understand these websites: they are chosen that way.

3. Q: So, why do you have Laurie Anderson on your Beats list?
    A: We consider her a Beat-child also, just like Jim Carroll. They’re both, as it were, third-wave or third-generation beats (e.g. Waldman and similar were second-wave, etc.).
4. Q: Then why don’t you have all the Beats on your List? Your List isn’t complete.
    A: Neither are theirs. For example, some would consider Ken Kesey part of the Beat Generation, and from there it isn’t far, culturally, to say, Timothy Leary or Ram Dass (Richard Alpert). Nevertheless, yes, the “first wave” is generally thought of as Kerouac, Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and Herbert Huncke, then Gary Snyder, Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, and we think also Michael Bowen.
The “second wave” would have been Bob Kaufman, Diane DiPrima, Ed Sanders, Waldman, Ray Bremser, Ted Joans, and say Charles Plymell, Jack Micheline, Herschel Silverman, Marty Matz, Ron Whitehead, and others. To this we have added a “third wave” including Jim Carroll, Laurie Anderson, and others. We also include Robert Kelly as associated with the above, poetically if not any other way, and Charles Bukowski as well. Certainly, Bukowski wrote in what’s considered a “Beat” style in many of his poems.
5. Q: What is Doth?
    A: American Fundamentalist so-called Christians, who wish to force their bizarre values on everyone else if possible. Their name Doth comes from the fact that they read only the old, King James version of the Bible and will allow no other. They are very strict and have some very unusual notions about their Holy Book, and as a consequence of this, about Life, The Universe, and Everything as well. Dr. Dae and I are pleased to bring you this Free List which, thankfully, is blessedly Doth-free.
6. Q: Did you ever participate in Bucky’s World Game?
    A: Yes, twice. Once in Corvallis, Oregon, in 1988, and once in Orange County in the 1970s. (Jae Kamel)
7. Q: Who is your Math List for? It seems to me that Math is a vast field to cover.
    A: Math these days is more like a collection of vast fields to cover. Our list is for the curious and intelligent non-professional, that is, not a Math professional. We try to keep the list deep enough to interest other scholars, yet shallow enough to satisfy the merely curious. We also include a few sites that are suitable for children. In general we try to follow this pattern for all Categories and Lists. No professional will need our lists and none will ever see them, probably. But lots of students and intelligent and curious people will, and so the lists are for them. But there’re always enough links and so on for those that want to study more deeply.
8. Q: Were you being sarcastic in your description of the “cosmology statement” website, above?
    A: Obviously; or, at the least, we were certainly being droll about it.
9. Q: Do you have any other special websites of interest, not shown above, that reflect what you and Dr. Jone Dae have been trying to teach us, or share with us?
    A: Well, you know, just this one: http://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/g-i-gurdjieff-the-hidden-history-of-the-sufis#comments    }if you read this webpage you will surely begin to understand what is important for you to know.
10. Q: Is it true that you’re on Library Thing, Mr. Kamel?
      A: http://www.librarything.com/home/JaeKamel    }this should go to my homepage there. If not, http://www.librarything.com/profile/JaeKamel    is my profile there, and  http://www.librarything.com/catalog/JaeKamel    is my library there. Click on “Covers” to see just the book covers displayed.  Dr. Dae is not on Library Thing yet.
Contact me if you cannot view my library there.
11. Q: Is it true that the ancient Greeks did mostly Geometry, and not much Arithmetic or Number Theory?
      A: No. That is a great lie and a very common misconception. Following in the footsteps, so to speak, of the great civilizations that came before them in their part of the world, they were superb Arithmetists and Number therorists. They also inheirited the Babylonians love for math word problems, and wrote at least one that was so hard, and that we still have today, that no modern math student can solve it, either. Computers were used to determine its exact solution in the 20th century.
12. Q: Did John Dee and Giordano Bruno ever meet?
      A: John Crowley thinks that they may have, but he was writing fiction. Their main connection is that they both studied and taught Renaissance Hermetic Philosophy, and surely they did hear of each other. Their lives overlap, in terms of birth- and death-dates, and Bruno was in England for a while when Dee was alive and working for QE 1st , and so on.
13. Q: Don’t scientists today think that people like John Dee, who studied the occult, were insane or stupid?
      A: Obviously, yes, this is true. Unfortunately, people who believe in myths had no place to throw rocks at other people’s myths. And it is useful to remember that people in the Renaissance, say, like Dee, were just as intelligent as today’s scientists are, maybe more so, and that people always have been.
14. Q: Are you saying that today’s scientists believe in myths?
      A: Of course; obviously. That’s why these lists are made, so that people like you can enlighten and educate themselves. For info about our answer, see especially the URLs on this list, and on “The Groundhog List” which preceded this one. All your questions will be answered then if you read the contents of each URL in the relevant categories. For example, there is much more about Archetypal Psychology on the previous list; and so on.
15. Q: Are you and Dr. Dae planning to release any other lists in the future?
      A: Yes. For example, we are considering releasing our “Web Tools” List to the public, to you. We also have a new partner now, Ms. Julie Éclair. She’s produced a Photolist in the same style as our lists, and we’ve agreed to include it with our next distribution. Finally, we are also considering releasing our more formal Research List, and Academic Research List, as well. As always, it is always most useful for you to let us know, via whichever address you received this from, which Lists you liked the most and what you would like to see on future lists.
16. Q: What is Doth?
      A: Doth is the curious language spoken by fundamentalist and evangelical Christians. It is also the name of those same people; the contrast is with ‘Goth’. Consider that the Goth music is the antithesis of the Doth music, and that the appearance of people in the Goth lifestyle is exactly opposite in every way to the appearance of the Doth people. So, then, the fundamentalist and evangelical Christians are called Doth, spelled with a ‘d’ as in ‘dog’, and their opposites are called Goth, spelled with a ‘g’ as in ‘god’. The prime source and example of the Doth language is the King James Version of their Holy Bible, FYI.
17. Q: What is Frontierland?
      A: The name of the state sometimes shown as ‘Colorado’ on maps, etc.