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"In agriculture, recent inventions included subsoil plowing, better fertilizers, enhanced breeds of farm animals, and new and improved crops. As all of these inventions came gradually to be applied, further earnings increases could be anticipated from them. Fisher also maintained that the management of American corporations was improving, thanks to the application of "scientific" methods, improved layouts of manufacturing facilities, and more sophisticated management techniques." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"From it came all manner of inventions and an explosion of novelty unprecedented in the history of life on Earth. Amplification of the Thumb One of our earliest inventions was agriculture. We began to irrigate the land, plant seeds, and store the harvest. Guaranteed a more reliable source of food, we were that much freer from the caprices of nature. We could ensure against floods or droughts, settle in one place, and build permanent shelters. We discovered that through selective breeding we could create new varieties of plants and animals." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"The preface to Heron's treatise on pneumatics describes some of his inventions as having "useful everyday applications," and others "quite remarkable effects." It seems that the steam engine fell into Heron's second category, to judge from the description he gives, and had only a novelty value. But Heron was not the kind of man to ignore a potential source of energy that could have practical applications—for example he designed a small windmill to power a musical organ (see Keyboards in Sport and Leisure). Could his steam engine have been harnessed for more practical purposes?" - Peter James, Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions (Get the book.)

"People tend to infer that because some inventions have revolutionized our lives that inventions are good to endorse and we should favour the new over the old. I take the opposite view. The opportunity cost of missing a "new new thing" like the airplane and the automobile is minuscule compared to the toxicity of all the garbage one has to go through to get to these jewels (assuming these have brought some improvement to our lives, which I frequently doubt).11 A young man has access to information. With the Internet, he can get all he wants." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"However, in addition to these and other remarkable technological developments, many of which may build on inventions or discoveries that we cannot possibly foresee today, there is another area of progress that could become even more significant, and could outpace our accelerating technological development. This is the development of the human mind and spirit. Looking back over human history, we can see how we have progressed from hunting-gathering groups into agricultural communities, followed by the transition to the Industrial Age, and now to the Information Age." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "Amplification of the Thumb One of our earliest inventions was agriculture. We began to irrigate the land, plant seeds, and store the harvest. Guaranteed a more reliable source of food, we were that much freer from the caprices of nature. We could ensure against floods or droughts, settle in one place, and build permanent shelters. We discovered that through selective breeding we could create new varieties of plants and animals. This enabled us to accelerate evolution, and to direct its course." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"People tend to infer that because some inventions have revolutionized our lives that inventions are good to endorse and we should favour the new over the old. I take the opposite view. The opportunity cost of missing a "new new thing" like the airplane and the automobile is minuscule compared to the toxicity of all the garbage one has to go through to get to these jewels (assuming these have brought some improvement to our lives, which I frequently doubt).11 A young man has access to information. With the Internet, he can get all he wants." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"Not all their inventions, however, were so constructive. One defining characteristic of all forms of life is the collection of genetic material that can be combined in new and interesting ways. In the relarively brief two million years that humans have been recom-bining their DNA, a hundred billion unique versions of the species • Or not." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"More recent inventions also identify that when we tell lies, our skin temperature rises by as much as nine degrees Celsius, and there are stress-related trembles in our voices. This isn't late-breaking news, though. In ancient China, criminal suspects were tried with a doctor in attendance who watched for changes in heartbeat and skin temperature to certify the veracity of their testimony. Four thousand years later, scientists are discovering that lying activates areas in the brain associated with stress responses." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"He had a Greek name, but so did many non-Greek inhabitants of Alexandria, and he often wrote from an Egyptian perspective when describing to a Greco-Roman audience the customs of the temples for which he tailored some of his inventions. But the real answer is that neither Europe nor Africa has an exclusive claim to the genius of Alexandria. Rather the extraordinary achievements of its scientists should be seen as a tribute to the wonderful cultural and intellectual melting pot that was Alexandria." - Peter James, Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions (Get the book.) "Other inventions included a variety of automata and devices designed for use in the theater and as gimmicks for Egyptian temples. In recent years the question of the ethnic makeup of Alexandria's high-tech pioneers has been raised: Were they of Greek or Egyptian stock? Many black scholars today have rightly argued that a native-born Alexandrian such as Heron may well have been a pure Egyptian and that we should picture him with African rather than European features." - Peter James, Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions (Get the book.) "Whether the two inventions were genuinely independent is impossible to tell. With the replacement of bronze by iron after 1000 b.c. came the first iron scale armor, of a kind used for the next twenty-five hundred years across the Old World. Iron armor scales of the mid-ninth century b.c., probably the oldest examples known, were uncovered by archaeologists at the Assyrian capital of Nimrud, in Iraq. Reliefs of the same period show Assyrian bowmen covered from head to foot in fine scale armor, looking rather like medieval Saracen knights." - Peter James, Nick Thorpe, Ancient Inventions (Get the book.)

"Thought to be wonderful inventions, these chemicals were placed in everyday appliances, school buildings and foods. When they were found to be harmful to health, it was almost impossible to eliminate them from our environment. Despite the fact that the manufacturing of many of these chemicals has slowed or stopped, they are still present in our everyday environment, including schools, offices and public buildings. Here are some of the chemicals known today to be carcinogens: • Asbestos is a crystal-like chemical that was developed to improve buildings." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"From the morning rituals that we go through to greet the world each day, to the inventions that we use to make our lives better, to the technology that destroys life through war—our personal routines, community customs, religious ceremonies, and entire civilizations are based on our beliefs. Not only do our beliefs provide the structure for the way we live our lives, now the same areas of study that have discounted our inner experiences in the past are showing us that the way we feel about the world around us is a force that extends into that world." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Indeed—and perhaps this is the point—life as we know it is absolutely dependent upon these complex social inventions. Whatever we might call them, and whatever their characteristics, thought experiments should be taken seriously as a method of investigation. That is, "they should be studied as if they were experiments."5 Yet, there are problems with the method. What is one and what is not? Most thought experiments have been used in physics, particularly quantum physics. But other academics have claimed the method for their own disciplines." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The consequences were felt first in textiles when innovations in spinning cotton stimulated inventions leading to machines capable of factory-based mass production. Industrial development then spread from textiles to iron, as cheaper cast iron replaced more expensive wrought iron. The size of the businesses that utilized these technologies increased, and so did their appetite for energy and material resources. By the second half of the nineteenth century the first industrial revolution brought a battery of new technologies on the scene." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"The company line is that life might seem cruel, but the inventors are paid to work for the company, and the company owns their inventions. Literally hundreds of people at Pfizer have been involved in developing the drug. You can't 17 http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/aspirin_sk.in_cancer.html really point to two individuals and say they spawned Viagra. It is officially a drug invented by a cast of hundreds, perhaps thousands. A patent was granted for Viagra in 1996." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"As all of these inventions came gradually to be applied, further earnings increases could be anticipated from them. Fisher also maintained that the management of American corporations was improving, thanks to the application of "scientific" methods, improved layouts of manufacturing facilities, and more sophisticated management techniques. Businesses were able to plan better for the future, he claimed, partly because of his own invention of "master-charting," a pencil-and-paper method of priority plarining for executives." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"One could go and on and quote the literature, but the point is: even an originally "good" drug, a medication which definitely has its use from time to time, one of the great inventions of modern medicine, is overused and inappropriately used on a routine basis today. The authors guess that the side effects of antibiotics today far exceed the plus side of this medication. (A good book to read on this subject is The Killers Within, The Deadly Rise of Drug-resistant Bacteria by Michael Shnayerson and Mark J. Plotkin." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "There is a lot of talk about anti-aging pills, prolonging of life, and new great inventions." Gerd Schaller: "The facts are the facts, and the numbers are the numbers. Here are some of those numbers: Of all 70-year-old Germans, 96% have at least one disease. Every third person over 70 years of age suffers from five or more illnesses simultaneously. More and more people, in Germany, in England and in the USA, need professional care when they get old; it is already a lucrative industry. Every third child and every fifth adult suffers from at least one allergy." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Food engineers tempt us with their sweet and salty inventions. Yet few have realized the correlation between our degenerating health and all the new food variations. "Well, I have to die someday," is a common response when someone is invited to consider that just maybe these innovative food novelties contribute to bad health. It is true that we are all destined to die, but how many of us want to spend our final years with crippling arthritis, diabetes, Alzheimer's and the numerous other pathologies of old age?" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Every year there will be new "inventions" and a new "magic" bullet. But behind the curtain, unseen by the most of us, there will be lots and lots of elderly people suffering from side effects. So, the more the older population consumes drugs, the more problems will appear - because every drug has side effects. Side effects will be the big issue of tomorrow. So, we will see new diseases, new misery, and new horrifying alarming news about side effects. And there will be more iatrogenic diseases. In the end, we will have many drug-personalities in the older population." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In the seven short years of its existence in Bangalore, the Philips research center alone has come up with 1,500 new inventions. Foreign workers have been cutting into American salaries for many years. Assembly line workers in Taiwan, Mexico, and other places have undermined factory wage growth in the United States. Over the past 30 years, real hourly earnings on the shop floor have gone nowhere. No one particularly cared—because America's economy was shifting to service and consumption anyway. Factory workers were out of fashion and out of luck." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

"Stability Ball This was one of the most brilliant fitness inventions in the history of the industry. It is nothing more than a big rubber ball filled with air and sold as the greatest piece of equipment for abdominal exercise or developing core muscles. You can pay anywhere from $20 to $70 for this oversized beach ball, but you should not purchase this thing as your primary source of exercise. Think of the stability ball for what it is, an accessory to be used to augment your workout." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Countless inventions, business empires, incredible feats of engineering, political conquests—even musical and literary masterpieces—have come into being because of the enormous drive of their creators—a drive with its foundation set solidly in fear. Every action we take, large or small, pivotal or merely routine, is because of desire. We act because something is driving us. What propels us forward is an inner engine composed of our ideas, concepts, beliefs, and personal agreements. And the fuel for that engine is either love or fear. It's as simple as that." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"They show us that many of the linear, cause-and-effect relationships that underpin our perception are inventions of our brains, and not the way the world actually works. Interactive Fields Researchers at the Institute of HeartMath have done a series of experiments on the effects of consciousness on cells. These experiments are done with rigorous protocols, and are intended to replicate earlier research.3 They extended the work of Dean Radin, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"The short answer is, because of the particular economic-political conditions in late-seventeenth-century England: the trade in lunacy—that is to say, the business of private mad-doctoring—the free market, limited government, and the debtor's prison were all English inventions; ironically, each was a consequence of the spread of commerce, capitalism, and individualism, that is, individual liberty and personal responsibility. The writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English physicians, calling mental illness an "English malady," support this interpretation." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.)

"Abstraction, logic, reasoned choice and inventions, mathematics, art, calculation of space and time, anxieties and dreams of love—all these activities of inner life are nothing else than the effervescence of the newly-formed centre as it explodes onto itself. .. .Thenceforward it is easy to decide where to look in all the biosphere to see signs of what is to be expected. We already know that everywhere the active phyletic lines grow warm with consciousness towards the summit." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"We see that many great inventions and discoveries help mankind. And we should never forget the lesson of Nazi Germany, when the powers of science were usurped by a madman. Hitler rose to power using the unethical connections of businesses that were striving for profit at any cost. Science that could benefit mankind was converted to an instrument of control and death. It started with moral weakness in the scientists and business executives who placed profit above human life. It linked drug companies to the military and to unethical businessmen, a fact that has not changed to this day." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

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