turning up the volume on one's life

Just like everyone I often am not happy. As I've gotten older I've learned the life lesson that if I want to be happy and in a good state of mind at all times I have to be doing things that bring joy in my life and actively seek out such experiences on a daily basis.

I spent many years of my life not doing this and as a result spent long amounts of time not being happy. Unfortunately there is a lot in life that we can not control, but there are choices that we can make, cause and effect, which is why I believe in free will over fate. As I've gotten older I've had to relearn about myself to discover what really puts me in a good mental state.

I am always trying to turn up the volume on my life. For me that does not mean having raw sex with a bunch of guys or smoking meth, trying to push the limits of what my body can do and going into all out sex hysteria. For me turning up the volume on my life means always doing things that make me happy and bring joy into my life.

I often see people struggling, not getting what they want or not going anywhere in life. I often feel that way myself, but the truth is I can't keep waiting to start my life and there is always an option for happiness in the mean time. My life went on a sharp downward spiral when I turned 22 and I haven't really felt or been the same since then. I feel like I've been hibernating since then, trying to preserve the vestiges of what I had and was for a better time... but that time doesn't ever come, which means the time to turn up the volume is yesterday...

Which is why I often to suggest to people that they turn up the volume on their lives as well.

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The ‘War on Drugs’ has failed: policy should be based on science and human rights

World AIDS day is tomorrow, so I hope everyone is reaching out to peers affected by this epidemic, would at this point means everbody!

Thin Air: Oxygen Atmosphere Found on Saturn's Moon Rhea

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Cool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone

Soyuz capsule brings back space station fliers

Health Buzz: Gays Kept Out of Clinical Trials

Safety board to study requiring condoms in porn

Fast Growing Primitive Black Holes Discovered

Chemists Influence Stem-Cell Development With Geometry

Transcrption factors may dictate differences between individuals

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China breaks ground on space launch center

CDC: H1N1 flu vaccine to be ready by early October

Laskers Honor Work On Stem Cells, Gleevec & Smoking Ban

Men are producing 'super-sperm' too fast and powerful to impregnate women, as scientists blame evolution for infertility rise

Key master gene that can KILL cancer identified by British scientists

Capsules for Self-Healing Circuits
Nanotube-filled capsules could restore conductivity to damaged electronics.

Can Science Make Immortality a Reality?

Showerheads Harbor a Bounty of Germs

Federal researchers have found "intersex" fish -- with both male and female characteristics -- in rivers from the deep Southeast to the Pacific Northwest, indicating that a condition found in the Potomac River is more widespread than previously known.

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One in six long-term young jobless 'dead within ten years'

Life on Mars theory goes up in a puff: Scientists find methane gas would make planet poisonous

Ocean coral offers pain relief for people with nerve damage

Alaska glaciers shrinking fast: survey

The world’s biggest physics experiment will begin doing physics this winter at half power, officials at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, said Thursday.

(08-06) 18:56 PDT -- In the first test of its planet-hunting ability, NASA's new spacecraft Kepler has shown that it can indeed detect planetary objects orbiting distant stars, and is now ready to search for Earth-like planets far out in the Milky Way galaxy.

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NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice

Apparently, bing.com is the new big thing in search, although I have not gone on it yet...

Darrin Goodness on The Magic Pond

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Shuttle Crew Prepares for Return Trip

NASA Scientists Find More Evidence of Water on Mars

900 babies a day are born with AIDS virus in the developing world: report

AP poll: Most students stressed, some depressed

Down Syndrome Yields Key Cancer Clue
Genes Overproduced in Down Syndrome Can Slow Tumor Growth

Massive asteroid bombardment may have helped life to THRIVE on Earth

Homo Sex in Colonial America

Mercury in Retrograde

Mercury went into retorgrade on 5/7, becomes direct on 5/31, then returns on 6/14.

I always notice when Mercury goes into retrograde. As I've gotten older, and lived long enough to notice these patterns more and more in life, I realize now that I feel it before it comes on, am greatly affected by it while in retrograde, and then feel it come out and eventually pass.

Last year, Mercury was in retrograde in all three air signs, but now it's half and half... I guess I can expect it to be completely in my star sign in 3 years.

How does Mercury in retrograde affect your life?

brains

Old age begins at 27: Scientists reveal new research into ageing

I guess in the UK aging has an e... crazy brits! This is very compelling evidence to support life extension... or at least doing something about such an inefficient organ...

900th post

scientists discover the area of the brain that makes us spiritual

interesting... but I'm still more interested in the genes that code for religious fantaticism

Discovery crew prepare to launch into orbit for mission to crank space station to full power

the UK prepares for the first computational knowledge engine

Sometimes I use cuil.com, because they keep saying it's better... but 99% of the time I still just google, which has become synonymous with search the internet.

COPENHAGEN, March 10 (Reuters) - The U.N.'s climate change panel may be severely underestimating the sea-level rise caused by global warming, climate scientists said on Monday, calling for swift cuts in greenhouse emissions.

you know, I keep having this strange feeling that my neighborhood, just 6 blocks from the beach, will probably soon be under water...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft hurtles past moon's orbit

searching the galaxy for the goldilocks spot, an area that's "just right" for the evolution of lyfe (according to our definitions of life)

Although humans could perhaps find analogs of the current definitions of life somewhere else in the galaxy, I think the silicon based life-form theory is still the most sound, as well as the most likely reality in this galaxy, or other parts of the universe.

stem cell news

Stem cell research among most cited papers in biomedicine

Obama lifts restrictions for stem cell research... let's hope he continues to progress towards technologies that will benefit americans.

In some ways, all the opposition researchers faced due to bush only forced them to be more creative... leading to the skin cell to stem cell technique that was just so recently greatly improved. Hopefully, something so inevasive really could become the gold standadrd for regen. medicine therapies, so I guess bush was good for something... he made things so much more difficult that everything now will seem like a breeze by comparison.

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Human Genome Sciences' (HGSI.O) drug to treat chronic hepatitis C met the main goal in a late-stage trial, but failed to show numerically better efficacy compared to standard-of-care, raising questions about the drug's adoption and sending shares crashing to an all-time low.

btw, I wrote a 10 page essay about hep c... it's called the silent epidemic, with vast worldwide influence, and some medical professionals consider it the next great pandemic. I think it will be ok, but just something to keep in mind.

A watery mission: NASA's first planet-hunting telescope heads into space

It's my theory that life doesn't need liquid water to exist... maybe someday it will be proven or refuted.

news

*the word of the day is microbicide*

What is the chance that alien life exists? Nasa's latest mission - the Kepler Space Telescope due to launch on Friday night to survey the heavens for Earth-like planets - could soon give us an answer.

... searching for earth like exoplanets, and will be out for 3.5 years.

Stargazers spy elusive binary black hole system: Two monsters circling in distant quasar

and they're supermassive!

Revealed: The headset that will mimic all five senses and make the virtual world as convincing as real life

Hubble captures cosmic tug-of-war between three turbulent galaxies

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omg buy me this outfit plz! I've been going on cyberdog.co.uk for 10+ years at this point, lusting after these garments!

Paris and Lady Gaga are all about the color yellow, it makes people happy and is theraputic. I'm planning on incorporating more yellow into my wardrobe!

What about you? What are your new fashion favs and raves? And what will you be wearing this season?

interesting

List of countries by life expectancy

I know I'm not supposed to quote wikipedia...

->The USA is so far down on the list! When I grew up, all everyone had to say was about how the United States is the best country in the world, etc. USA #1! I guess it doesn't apply any longer...

big deal news

Goldmine Bug DNA May Be Key to Alien Life
Scientists Discover First Ecosystem Having Only a Single Biological Species

The evolution of man is grinding to a halt.

notes
medicine makes it too easy to stay alive
life has become too easy
inferior genes kept in gene pool
less competition
natural selection at a halt
small changes over time
won't look the same in a million years

news

NASA scientists have announced that at least one of the giant lakes previously spied on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons - making it the "only body our solar system beyond Earth known to have liquid on its surface", as the agency puts it.

The first stars in the universe were short-lived brutish monsters, and they changed the nature of the cosmos forever, blazing away a dark fog that had smothered space for 300 million years and beginning to enrich the cosmos with the stuff of life.

Universe's first star born tiny and grew huge

LONDON (Reuters) - A mechanical brass calculator used by the ancient Greeks to predict solar and lunar eclipses was probably also used to set the dates for the first Olympic games, researchers said on Wednesday.

Test of Mars Soil Sample Confirms Presence of Ice
from August 1, 2008.

Nerve cells grown from new-style stem cells

frozen fetus

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Babies born from frozen embryos weigh more, have no greater risk of birth defects and are as healthy or healthier than those conceived using fresh ones, Danish researchers said on Tuesday.

dumb kids play catch on freeway get squished

CHON

Life is made out of CHON: Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen (+ a few trace elements).

How Life Began: The origins of life on earth and the evolution of single celled organisms into the vast multitude of living things on the planet are explored. Included: How life is defined; the catalyst for life; and synthetic life- recreating life in a laboratory.

Sometimes the history channel does play relevant programs! I'm still waiting for tv to meld with the internet, and become the same thing.