The Cosmic Review

Introduction to 'The Cosmic Review'.

2009-09-11T02:34:00.000+05:30

Introduction to 'The Cosmic Review'.

This blog will attempt to review the Cosmos ie review any and every item reviewable in the Cosmos. It will carry movie review, digital camera review, restaurent reviw, car review, book review, movie rental review, cell phone review, national review, product review, hotel review, laptop review, personal computer review, camcorder review, game review, news review, video game review, camera review, notebook review, consumer review, motorcycle review, web hosting review, apartment review, x-box game review, music review, dvd review, software review, used car review, pda review, printer review, music download review, computer review, pc game review, tv review, diet review, bluetooth headset review and all reviews and previews.

Macrocosmos and Microcosmos.

2009-09-10T08:07:00.000+05:30

Macrocosmos and Microcosmos.

As everyone knows the Cosmos is made up of The Macrocosmos and The Microcosmos. Scientists who wish to study the nature of the Cosmos are busy peering at the microcosmos through their microscopes or looking at the macrocosmos through their telescopes.

Recently these scientists compared their findings and found out that the pictures they had taken through their microscopes and their telescopes looked the same. The first picture is of the brain taken through an electron microscope.

They compared it with the picture of a galaxy taken through an orbiting telescope. They found both these pictures the same. Take a look and decide for yourself. The first is a picture of the human brain taken through an electron microscope. The second is the picture of a galaxy taken through a telescope.

The scientists were very surprised. Wouldn't you be when I tell you that cubic shaped houses are made up of cubic bricks? Shouldn't common sense have told these scientists the same thing? Did these scientists take all these photographs just to proove their hypothesis? For more information take a look at Micro amd Macrocosmos compared.

Physiology and Pathology both maturing at an early age.

2009-09-08T18:09:00.000+05:30

Physiology and Pathology both maturing at an early age.

Recent reports in the popular press show that humanity is maturing faster and also being attacked by diseases earlier. Is this because of the fast lives we are leading or due to the more stress piled on by accelerated pace of development in the modern world?

It seems that puberty is coming early in young men and women. Researchers have said that this is due to the better nutrition afforded by today's generation. This can lead to more stress as the teens have to learn more than their parents in this age of information overload. Hormones can cause more havoc at an early immature age when teens are still dependent on their parents. This can be one of the reasons behind teen pregnancies in the developed world.

Heart attacks are striking at an earlier age also. Young professionals battling with increased competition in the marketplace are faced with increased tension and stress laden lives. A large shift from the rural to the urban areas has been one of the reasons for this. This has lead to vast areas of rural Europe and America being underpopulated and at risk of being taken over by immigrants who later on due to strife with the native population cause inter-racial tensions.

Diabetes Mellitus also is known to strike earlier due to combination of an urban lifestyle and a 'fast diet' rather than a 'fasting diet'.

Now the latest is Parkinson's Disease which is appearing early due to stress, bad diet and lack of sleep. It has now been labelled as Young Onset Parkinson's. It affects 4-6 million worldwide and 360 people per 100,000 in India.

As is well known the birth rate has been decreasing in the developed countries in spite of the governments offering incentives to couples.

A combination of these factors means that the lifespan is reducing and with violence also increasing a natural reduction in the population seems to be in the offing.

Education and Information Overload.

2009-09-07T01:15:00.000+05:30

The amount of information which has to be imbibed by children is growing with every generation. At the same time due to various factors like good nutrition children are reaching pubertal years much earlier than the previous generations. The amount of years before teens become self-reliant young adults is also growing due to the increasing population which results in increasing competition. Increased competition means everyone has to learn "more and more of less and less" to create a lifelong niche where he can spend his earning years eking out a comfortable income.

This means that soon we will have to find out a way to give our children an instant 'download' of information to the brain to save time and energy. Will this lead to implantable chips in the brain or simply of giving them some handheld electronic encyclopedia which they can refer to instantly?

The Virtual World and The Real World :SPEED.

2009-09-07T01:04:00.000+05:30

Electrons move at lightening speeds in the virtual world. This causes data to move at the speed of thought. Thus the virtual world is much much faster than the real world. However it still imitates the real world so by what trends are going on in it we can predict the trends to come in the real world.

When Google introduced Adsense to promote context based advertising alongside its search results it could not have predicted the development of 'niche' marketing. Yet it is here a mere two three years after Google started it. The speed at which the trends develop was much faster than in the real world though still imitating it. In the real world we have to take care of physical and natural barriers so it was years after marketing started that its specialized branches took root.

No Speed Limits!

2006-10-30T17:32:00.000+05:30

In the virtual world there are no speed limits.

Why do we dance?

2006-09-26T09:19:00.000+05:30

Why do people dance? We say dance is universal. We don't say dance is global. Why? They say dance provides the three components of any well-rounded fitness program: stretch, resistance training and aerobics. It also combines utilization of the body, mind and, most essentially, the spirit. Dance is universal because we see the spheres everyday in their dance around the sun. The two main movements of human dance are revolving around an object or rotation round an axis. In both these movements we are imitating the bodies of the solar system. That is why we dance.

Porn Up Rape Down.

2006-09-26T08:52:00.000+05:30

An academic has claimed to RAW STORY that a decline in reported rape of 85% in the past 25 years can be tied to an increase in pornography consumption.

In a study for Northwestern University's Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series titled "Porn Up Rape Down," Anthony D'Amato, a Leighton Professor of Law at Northwestern University, argues that the proliferation of pornography has lead to a sharp decline in rape across the United States.

According to a 2005 National Crime Victimization Survey, the national rate of rape decreased from 2.5 to 0.5 for every thousand people over a 30-year span from 1973 to 2003. The explanations offered include less lawlessness associated with crack cocaine, women being taught to avoid unsafe situations, that more potential rapists are already in prison for other crimes, and sex education classes telling boys that "no means no."

But in an interview with RAW STORY, D'Amato argues that these are minor factors and do not explain the decline in rape. "Suppose you distribute free condoms to a country, and you find, five years later, that the birth rate has gone down 85%. Would you say that it's just a cosmic coincidence or would you say that the distribution of condoms caused the drop in the rate of birth? The reasoning is the same for my position on rape: the causation factor is reasonably inferred, " said D'Amato.

In "Porn Up Rape Down," D'Amato compiled data from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. In 2001, the four states with the lowest per capita access to the Internet were Arkansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, and West Virginia. The four with the highest per capita Internet access were Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, and Washington.

When compared to Disaster Center's figures for forcible rape for the years 1980 and 2000, the four states with the lowest Internet access showed a 53% aggregate per capita increase in rape, while the four states with the highest Internet access showed a 27% decrease in incidence of rape.

"Critics argue that exposure to depictions of violence causes violent behavior," said D'Amato. "They say that rape is just a subcategory of this principle. They couldn't be more mistaken. Exposure to violent movies, TV programs, or video games has NOT produced more social violence. It has produced the opposite. The amount of social violence per capita in the year 1900 when street gangs attacked pedestrians and murders were common far exceeds the incidence of violence today. Sure, there is violent behavior, but when it happens it makes headlines. Back then it happened so often that it wasn't newsworthy."

"It's not a big mystery," says Bruce David, Editorial Director of Hustler magazine. "It's consistent with all the research data we've seen. In countries where adult material is legal, generally speaking there is a decline in instances of rape and spousal abuse and we have also seen in places where adult material is illegal that the abuse of women can be rampant, like Afghanistan where women are shot in soccer stadiums."

Will Ryder, Director of Hustler's Barely Legal and Britney Rears video line wholeheartedly agrees. "I have always felt this was an absurd claim and that quite the contrary would take place, due to the fact that most who view adult entertainment usually conclude their session with a self-satisfaction reward and are too damn tired to leave the house and rape somebody. The last damn thing he wants to do is go out and hunt somebody down," said Ryder.

D'Amato's interest in the rape-pornography question began in 1970, when he served as a consultant to President Nixon's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. When the Commission found there was no connection between pornography and violent anti-social behavior, Nixon – according to D'Amato – was furious.

In the 1980s, President Reagan created a similar commission under Attorney General Edwin Meese, who D'Amato said "packed it with people who were on record denouncing pornography." In "Porn Up Rape Down" D'Amato wonders how the social facts could change so drastically in the decade between the Nixon and Reagan reports.

As in all cases involving multiple variables this also appears to be a case where all the variables have not been taken into full consideration. However D'Amato deserves praise for bringing this out in the open where now more social scientists can undertake research with more defining boundaries. Now that porn use is being investigated it is worth while also to investigate that other biggest social taboo namely masturbation. In a world burgeoning at the seams with overpopulation and environmental destruction by the rampaging human species social taboos like these designed to multiply humans appear to be out of place.

Why the moon is female?

2006-09-24T23:54:00.000+05:30

The moon has always been associated with the feminine because of the similarity of its periodicity to the female menstrual cycle. In fact the words moon, menses, month and menstruation all originate from the same Greek word 'mene' for moon. The moon is not the cause of menses but since it waxes and wanes in a time-cycle equal to the human female's menstrual period it has been accorded feminine gender. The fact is that the periodicity of the moon equating the female menstrual cycle is a mere coincidence. The shape of the crescent moon is like that of a crucible which also must have helped in its association with the female gender.

When will man escape the sun?

2006-09-16T21:18:00.000+05:30

The father and sustainer of humanity is the sun. The mother who gave birth to us and out of whose substance we are formed is the earth. Humanity is riding the mother in her annual dance around the father who is one of the lesser stars situated in a corner of the Milky Way, a galaxy, which is zooming round the universe. These are perhaps the only two gods which humanity should worship if indeed worship is necessary! Both these are real gods which are least concerned about humanity and have no human failings at all. They also are of really godly proportions compared to humanity. Worshipping these gods will not guarantee you any boon yet in their own way both have been serving humanity since its inception. The sun provides us with energy while taking care not to burn us out of existence. The earth provides us with a home while taking care not to fling us out into the vaccum of space.

Because of these two parents humanity has been hardwired into their cycles. We take the existence of cycles so literally that we are reluctant to resign our souls to a cycleless existence. Hence the Theory of Reincarnation. We are so convinced that nothing can escape the earth that we even condemn our souls to come back and be recycled unless we cast them out to Hell or Heaven both creations of our superabundant imagination.