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Article Links: April-June 2008

Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Fri 25 Apr 2008 11:29 PM PDT  

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• SCIY's Total Downloads set new record in June 2008
• United States Federal Reserve Bank Is Now in Panic Mode
• The Significance of Colours through Flowers: Palash
• The relevance of 1857 in the context of India’s recent history—by Mubarak Ali
• Hints of time before Big Bang—by Dr Chris Lintott
• General Grammar and the Mutation of Consciousness
• Democratic Congress signs off on Funding Major Escalation of Iranian Covert Operations, Seymour Hersh (Alternet)
• Prose and Poetry: The Essence of Poetry. Sri Aurobindo
• The Word: Two Poems—by KD Sethna (Amal Kiran) and by RY Deshpande
• Speech versus Writing in Derrida and Bhartrhari (Arche-writing vs. Sabdatattva) by Harold Coward: U. Hawaii Press
• Amal Kiran on the Mind of Light—by Anurag Banerjee
• Odysseus’s return dated accurately, says report
• ***Roots: The origin of words in the works Sri Aurobindo and Michel Foucault
• Tata and Vivekananda (India Now)
• Picasso and the other faces of Malaga—by Hugh and Colleen Gantzer
• New light on Hampi—by Zerin Anklesaria
• Pournaprema, the Mother’s granddaughter: in Memoriam—by Anurag Banerjee
• The Baby that set off a hi-tech revolution—by Bobbie Johnson
• Happy Summer Solstice with Louis and Ella (U Tube)
• Born Again Ideology: religion, technology and terrorism (u tube) A. Kroker
• Future Bodies: The Technological Future of Human Evolution (CNN Futures summit)
• Present Bodies: Gene, Organism, Environment: Richard Lewinton lecture (U Tube)
• 93: Night in her bosom nursed a greater dawn
• 92: What high change is in thee, O Savitri?
• 91: Human she was once more, earth's Savitri
• The Political Economy of Peer Production by Michel Bauwens (C Theory)
• 90: A crimson seed of God’s felicity
• 89: The superman shall wake in mortal man
• Death Blow to Guantanamo Justice? (The Nation)
• 88: Descend to life with him thy heart desires
• In Defense of Lost Causes by Zizek, book review by Terry Eagleton (Times Literary Supplement)
• Justice vs. Power aka Chomsky vs. Foucault (u tube)
• 87: O beautiful body of the incarnate Word
• 86: O living power of the incarnate Word
• Soros attacks 'craze-following' institutions for inflating oil prices
by ronjon on June 12, 2008 02:00AM (PDT)

• 85: O miracle, where thou beganst, there cease!
• 84: I am the inviolable Ecstasy
• Avatars in the Living Room: 2nd Life in Augmented Reality
• Welcome to Augmented Reality
• 83: Transfigured was the formidable shape
• Triggering Global Revolution
• 82: The Shadow vanishes into the Void
• Faltering Economy squeezes the American Dream
• 81: Her Goddess self grew visible in her eyes
• Obama Makes History
• Reinventing the Sacred by Stuart Kauffman (preface)
• Beyond Reductionism: by Jaron Lanier (Edge)
• 80: It is the storm bird of an anarch Power
• 79: A slope that downward sank
• 78: Earth cannot flower if lonely I return
• Clean Tech Is Only Hope for the Collapsing Economy (Wired Mag. Interview)
• Time's Opuscule
• Only Greentech Can Save U.S. Economy, Says Über-Investor
• The end of the world as we knew it is upon us
• Transition Network: tackling Peak Oil & Climate Change, together
• 77: O dark-browed sophist of the universe
• Max Théon—the Unknown Occultist (1848-1927)
• Bard of Stratford-upon-Seine—by Zafar Masud
• No end to colonial governance—by Rubina Saigol
by RY Deshpande on May 29, 2008 02:36AM (PDT)

• "The Final Empire," by Wm. H. Kötke. Chap. 6: THE DYING OCEANS
• The Ninth Gate Opens
• Free trade has escaped a U.S. onslaught—by Bill Emmott
• Cogito in the Matrix by Erik Davis
• James Joyce and the pre-history of Cyberspace by Donald Theall (Hypermedia Joyce Studies)
• 76: O soul suffer what thou must
• The humble lotta—by Sadaf Siddique
• Leibniz—A Talk by Asok Kumar Ray
• Manufacturing a Food Crisis (The Nation)
• Remembering Dr.L.M. Singhvi by Aryadeep
• "The Final Empire," by Wm. H. Kötke. Chap. 5: THE PHANTOM AGRICULTURE
• Virtual Panopticon: China's Surveillance Society and American Corporations by Naomi Klein (Rolling Stone)
• Future Bodies: Human Animal Hybrid Embryo ok'd in U.K. (Washington Post)
• The Old Titans All Collapsed. Is the U.S. Next? - Washington Post
• Zizek's My Space Page
• 75: The Avatars have lived and died in vain
• Atlantis—True Story or Cautionary Tale?—by Willie Drye
• Neural Buddhists—by David Brooks
• The Reason Behind High Oil Prices
• "The Final Empire," by Wm. H. Kötke. Chap. 4: THE FOREST
• Passing Moments
• Happy Days Are Here Again - Not!
• Effects of the US recession on Asian growth, by Nouriel Roubini
• Suicide Dictionary, by Paul Lonely
• 74: My God is will and love
• Design and the Elastic Mind: N.Y. MOMA
• Posthuman Film Reveiws: Watching the Posthuman Bildungsroman by Davin Heckman (C Theory)
• Ethical living: finding a laugh in climate change—by James Russell
• Peak oil and The Limits to Growth: two parallel stories
• The Wand of Awe—A Book Review by Aditya Sinha

• "The Final Empire," by Wm. H. Kötke. Chap. 3: Soil-The Basis of Life

• Future Bodies: Discipline, Control, & "the Yoga of Resistance"

• Satyagraha: Simplicity & Splendor in the Glass—by Anne Midgette

• Speculators blamed for driving up price of basic foods as 100 million face severe hunger

• Cosmic Conundrum—by Manoj K Das

• 73: A sound pealed through the monstrous realm

• Future Bodies: Evolution & Progress

• Alexander the Great's "Crown" Shield Discovered?—by Sara Goudarzi

• The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs (available May 2, 2008)

• A cosmic insight from Stephen Hawking

• As consumers step on the brakes, will the economy hit the wall?

• SCIY's Readership sets new record in April 2008

• Islamic Scholarship on India by Rajiv Malhotra

• Albert Hofmann, 102; Swiss chemist discovered LSD

• "The Final Empire," by Wm. H. Kötke. Chap. 2: The End of Civilization

• Descartes by Asok Kumar Ray

• James Howard Kunstler: April 28, 2008 - A Collective Psychic Bubble

• The Only Hindu Temple Built by the British

• Evolution and Progress: Writing the Future: MIT Press

• The Trajectory of Change—Pallavi Aiyar reports about the Peking Opera

• Postmodern Film Reviews: Bladerunner by Giovanni Ferri

• 72: On the dreadful edge of Night

• The New American BoogeyMan: Reverend Jeremiah Wright

• Mundus Imaginalis: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Sohravardi by Henri Corbin

• What Darwin Saw Out Back—by Cornelia Dean (NYT)

• • Review of Sri Aurobindo and his Contemporary Thinkers

• Biology as Ideology by Richard Lewontin (review and link to lecture)

• Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto (Carolyn Keen)

• Carbon Dioxide & Methane Rise Sharply In 2007

• In the Garden: Humming Praises for the Wild Bee -- by Anne Raver (NYT)

• Recipes for Disaster (NYT Sunday Book Review)

• "The Final Empire," by Wm. H. Kötke. Chap. 1: Pattern of the Crisis

• Anatomy of an Economic Collapse (NYT Sunday Book Review)

• Apologising to an ill-fated Queen by Zafar Masud

• How Darwin’s ideas evolved—by James Randerson

• 71: At first in a blind stress of woods she moved

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults Recognition and Management

• John Coltrane

• The Boston Celtics

• • "The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of the Future," by SCIY Editor Wm. H. Kotke

• Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: Photographs by Gangaram Malwade

• Edward Lorenz: Father of Chaos Theory Dies (MIT Press)

• Arjava—an Impression by Amal Kiran

• Could Science and Art Become One and the Same?, by Greg Wendt

• Wilber's misreading of Derrida and Postmodernism by Gregory Desilet (integral world)

• The Spirit of Jamshoro by Niilofur Farrukh

• Shift Scenario: Averting Extinction, by Jim Fournier

• ½ Second Tsunami…………………………