The Lauri Monroy Blog

Its not the food, its the bacteria!

It’s that time of the year when everyone talks about dieting. After we have been over eating all those mince pies and chocolate puddings we want to get rid of that gained extra weight. And typically this is interpreted as a fat reduced diet and eating all those dieting products.

However it is now proven that this approach does work at all. We all know what happens in February, the chocolate snacks return and its just downhill from there. The only winners are the diet product sellers who profit nicely but the rest of us just gain weight.

There are two things that are really proven to work:

Not eating processed food at all – just eating food as nature intended it!
Getting your bacteria in your gut healthy!

How come processed food is not good for me? Well there are several things going on in your body when eating “modern” highly processed foodstuff. The first problem is high intake of sugars typically a form of glucose usually based on corn (this is what Diet Coke, Ketchup etc… are based on!). As a heart surgeon Dr. Dwight Lundell who risked his career completely by going against the big corporates writes in his article (What Really Causes Heart Disease):

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4 Ahau 3 Kankin

Today is 13.0.0.0.0 (4 Ahau 3 Kankin) based on Mayan Long Count calendar. Google incorrectly (shame you Google joining the mass media on this, did you say we do no evil few years back?) claims this is the end of the Mayan Calendar which is totally wrong, its the BEGINNING of a new World Age, the fifth World Age which is another 5125 years long cycle called the 14th Baktun. Mayans had fantastic knowledge of the universe which culminated in the creation of a better calendar system we have currently. Seems the world for some reason likes to ignore the fact that Mayans were fantastic cosmologists – probably better than we are – and want to create negativity to turn the attention away from their calendar systems real meaning and function.

Maya’s had a cyclic time concept, similar to Hindu calendar system. Its only our Western calendar which thinks time being more linear.

Rather than wasting time about publicising silly facts about world ending, the energy should have been focused on understanding the Maya calendar system. Why did they count time in cyclic fashion and how they were able to create more accurate calendars than we have? Why did they count time in millions and even billions of years? We really do not know because the Catholics did a good job burning all the books – only few survived and rest are probably looked in Vatican as they would be too dangerous for our view of the history.

Anyway today is the day when we need to celebrate the beginning of a new Era! Hopefully for the better of humanity. The next 5000 odd years should be better than the last 5000 years.

Maya demand an end to doomsday myth

“We are speaking out against deceit, lies and twisting of the truth, and turning us into folklore-for-profit. They are not telling the truth about time cycles,” charged Felipe Gomez, leader of the Maya alliance Oxlaljuj Ajpop. Read more from: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-maya-demand-doomsday-myth.html.

Mayan time concept is cyclic, not liner like the western calendar. Also the ancient Hindu calendars are also based on a cyclic view of time. Interestingly this book “Endless Universe: Beyond Big Bang” talks about a similar approach to time based on the latest cosmological studies – it is just all a big loop?

You can also read my earlier article about the cyclic Maya calendar.

And the correct Maya calendar image is below.

Maya Calendar Stone

Bristol Pound – Localising Money

Globalisation was supposed to be good for us. But the only thing it does is to allow big corporates became even bigger and evade tax payments. This kills small local businesses and favours the few big global brands. Its time to do something about this at local level. This Christmas buy your gifts from local suppliers rather than from the supermarkets or from global online retailers such as Amazon.

There is one city in the UK which has taken a bold step even beyond that. They have established a new currency called the Bristol Pound. This is a local currency accepted by companies who participate in the scheme. So its not legal currency but valid in participating businesses. What this does it then starts creating a local monetary ecosystem which reduces the monetary leak out of the local system and favours the local suppliers. This is great but its not new. A system called LETS has existed for some time in the UK but it has not become popular. LETS in the UK did not allow you to buy LETS with Pound. You needed to earn them first doing some work and then you could consume them. I guess this reduced the take-up and it did not really break-through where it was used.

The Mayor of Bristol has announced that he will take his salary in Bristol Pounds! This is a fantastic backing for this local currency.

It seems to also have started well as:

AT least £40,000 Bristol Pounds are known to be in circulation around the city just a month on from its official launch.
And more than 350 independent businesses are accepting the new currency.

Wow. More local initiatives like this will certainly help to kickstart the local economies and help fighting against tax evaders such as Amazon.

Proven: Your Nonconscious Brain Can Think

As reported by IEEE Spectrum a study carried out by a Hebred University in Israel has been able to prove that our minds do process information even when we are not thinking about it. So our conscious thought is essentially just a tip of the iceberg so to say and the mind is processing stuff in the background all the time. Interesting!

The original study is titled “Reading and doing arithmetic nonconsciously“.

Unidentified Flying Objects

There has been lots going on around UFOs recently. Based on official reports the number of UFO sightings is going down but at the same time YouTube is filled with more and more UFO videos – many of them fakes obviously. Here is one video however which is shot by a credible TV station in the US and CNN also published the news. Rather strange!

CNN video report is available from this link.

New Energy Innovations

Ivanpah is the latest in Solar energy business. It is the largest solar thermal power tower system in the world. Located in Ivanpah Dry Lake, California, the three-unit power system will be built on about 3,500 acres of public desert land. Looking from the pictures it certainly looks impressive. But you need a huge amount of mirrors just to heat a small amount of water. All the mirrors direct Sun’s energy into a black tank located in the tower standing in the middle. Then the steam from this tank rotates a generator and voilà we have energy!

Ivanpah Solar Thermal System in California

I am all for energy innovations but I believe the future is more about breakthrough innovations which means we need to adjust our scientific models about the universe and not building ineffective solar panels or huge solar thermal plants which due to their size have always a negative impact in the ecosystem. Last week-end there was a conference in Netherlands about breakthrough innovations which would allow us to produce energy simpler, cleaner and cheaper (or nearly free).

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Nice Solar Eclipse Video

This is a video of the solar eclipse visible in Australia yesterday. It clearly shows how the moon’s shadow completely fills or masks the sun. As a result of this masking Sun’s corona is suddenly fully visible due to moon completely masking the Sun.

When this happens animals stop and become silent. Darkness descends for few minutes. People travel around the world to see this fascinating phenomena. It is obviously a fantastic event and where observed it stops everything for a moment. Some scientist’s believe solar eclipse also alters gravity. This so called Allais effect has been measured but the measurement cannot be repeated.

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Light Field Image

This is new and cool. Standard photographic equipment has always been based on the idea of projecting a focused image on a plane. This new Lytro camera takes “living pictures” which means that not a single plane is captured but “the entire light field”. This seems to mean that the light ray direction is also captured not only the intensity of light. Interesting. As a result you get a photograph which can be re-focused AFTER taking the photograph (on a computer of course).

Stunning, you can see the photos from the link below – just click on any area of the image to refocus. Uber cool.

http://www.lytro.com/living-pictures

http://blog.lytro.com/category/lytro-science/

https://www.lytro.com/science_inside

Seems the camera roots are here:

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/array/

Time, Space and Planet Earth

Again on the subject what do we really know, if anything? LOL.

In random I stumbled across this very ancient text written around 420BC by Herodotus. It is considered to be the beginning of written Western history. Obviously lots of other important material and history was burnt in the fire that destroyed the Ancient Alexandrian library around 48BC which is a big shame, but thats another story for another time. Some believe there maybe some rescued artifacts still be available in the closely guarded Vatican Library but most researchers do not have access to that library to verify this. So what we have left in public domain is not much.

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Fantastic time lapse / fly through video of Earth from Space

Time lapse video of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 and 29 onboard the International Space Station from

August to October, 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_28

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedition_29

147 companies that own 40% of the world – mostly banks

Now it is scientifically proven that a very small group of companies control most of the worlds assets. A study published for example in New Scientist reveal the following:

“When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In effect, less than 1 per cent of the companies were able to control 40 per cent of the entire network,” says Glattfelder. Most were financial institutions. The top 20 included Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and The Goldman Sachs Group.”

But who owns those 147 companies?

Bank Bailouts Explained

This will piss you off totally. We pay, loose our properties and bankers party and burn the money. That’s the new world order. They just dont / cannot say this out loud, can they? No of course not as this would lead to a revolution. Maybe it is already happening as everyone knows this anyway.

Greatest Speech Ever Made

It truly is:

Facebook forced to innovate

Seems Facebook started innovations only this year due to Google+. During the previous years no real product improvements have been made (just mainly privacy tweaks) – now we see daily changes on the product. Subscription model ala Google is one thing copied from Google+ (who copied it essentially from Twitter). Well competition is good for innovation. Lets see who wins…