The Boomer News asks: Can we change our ways?
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, media | No Comments »Apparently all the information we gather through our senses is filtered by our conscious mind and assembled with respect to importance in the hippocampus. We all decide which memories are retrieved and reinforced. These memories are stored in various parts of ...
A late Boomer
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, family | No Comments »Four of our children are late baby boomers. They were born between 1959 and 1963. My blog pops up with Baby Boomer blogs on the Internet because I call my blog The Boomer News. Grandpa is a late bloomer,... not a late ...
How well does your Hippocampus work?
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, family | 1 Comment »The hippo-campus is the place in the brain that consolidates memory information. All the memory retreival information is not stored in the Hippocampus. Everyday your Hippocampus replays activity from the previous day while your sleeping. Take care of your Hippocampus. Kids, It's your ...
Subconscious & Conscious Mind Communications
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, family | No Comments »This is the 4th blog in a series on the conscious mind ... and memory. From 2.5 million years ago until Homo sapiens came along about 200,000 years ago in Africa there was not much going on with the Hominids ...
The Memory Time Line
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, family | 3 Comments »This is the 3rd blog in a the series of blogs on the conscious mind. When we asked a famous cosmologist if our "universe in black hole concept" was possible, he responded; "We don't know" And if we were to ask an expert in ...
Your Memory … is You!
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, family | No Comments »This is our 2nd blog in our quest to narrow down when a human being had the 1st conscious thought ... like; "What's it all about Alfi?" (Alfi was probably the 2nd person to have a conscious thought). We think that the development of ...
Consciousness … Another Event Horizon?
Saturday, October 25th, 2008 Posted in consciosness, family | No Comments »OK kids, this will be the 1st blog in a series of blogs that deals consciousness as part of our quest to zero in when humans 1st conscious abstract thought occurred. We are going to be conceptual engineers again, like ...
The Tower of Misinformation … revisted
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Posted in family | No Comments »Two years ago, I wrote a blog called The Tower of Misinformation. I was making a comparison to the story of the Tower of Babel in the Bible. Even though everything I read on the Internet is in English, (the same language), I felt it was becoming very ...
Happy Birthday Jack 10-15-2008
Monday, October 13th, 2008 Posted in family | No Comments »Last year you were considering being a comedian. This year I seem to remember hearing you say you'd like to be a lawyer. Jack, we already have a lot of funny lawyers in Washington D.C. (Sorry Jack, that's your grandpa trying to make a ...
After 9/11 we were told to consume … now what?
Sunday, October 12th, 2008 Posted in Politics, family, media | No Comments »After 9/11/2001 Americans asked our leaders what we could to help. Our leaders told us that our job was to consume. Now that we are in a deep economic crisis, Americans again are asking what we can do to help. Hey kids, ...
Will a leader emerge?
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 Posted in Politics, family | No Comments »Kids, the 1920s were prosperous times until the stock market crash in 1929. My Irish born parents were beginning to get financially established. They had come to the United States some 15 years earlier. They bought a home in Springdale CT with ...
Who will be capable of leading a hot, flat, crowded world?
Sunday, October 5th, 2008 Posted in TV News Media | No Comments »I don't know, but I sure don't want to be singing "Bring on the clowns" after the upcoming elections. I haven't read Thomas Friedman's book yet, but I hope he is saying that our president, our congressman and our CEO's must surround ...
Happy 17th Birthday Chiara 10-9-2008
Sunday, October 5th, 2008 Posted in family | No Comments »Like you, I was still a junior in High School at age 17. In the book I wrote, Generation to Generation, the Part I sections were about my stories at various ages from 3 to 27. In chapter 16 Part I ...
The Boomer News started in 1941
Saturday, October 4th, 2008 Posted in family, media | No Comments »The name of our blog is the Boomer News. The newspaper, the Boomer News, was created in 1941 by your grandpa for his 5th grade class mates. The one-page newspaper was circulated amongst the thirty children in our 5th grade class. I ...
Why didn’t they show us the TED spread?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Statistics, media | No Comments »Almost all the financial reporters and pundants agree that the credit crunch message done poorly and was lost in the bail out of Wall Street message. The afternoon the House failed to pass the bill, I watched the plunge in the stock market as ...