Diabetes: ignoring the signs
You cannot open a newspaper these days without reading about the dangers of diabetes – it is a moving disaster that is damaging innocent Sri Lankans in their prime of…
Towards Solving
The Sri Lankan Energy Crisis and Reducing Climate Change A Report by Roger O. Smith Introduction The future for generating energy from fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas, is becoming…
OVERALL SCENARIO FOR
MOLTEN SALT REACTORS CONTENTS: 1) THE HARD FACTS ARE: 2) AND NOT LEAST: 3) THE POSITIVE STRENGTHS TO THORIUM POWER GENERATION ARE: d 0 c THE HARD FACTS ARE :…
Towards Solving
The Sri Lankan Energy Crisis and Reducing Climate Change A Report by Roger O. Smith Introduction The future for generating energy from fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas, is becoming…
THEY HAVE FOUND THE NOAH’S ARK!
What can we learn about Ancient History? Yes! They have found what is almost certainly the original and definitive ‘Noah’s Ark’ as described in the Christian historical records – the…
Thorium: A Most Interesting Metal
Thorium can be found quite easily around the world – it is four times more abundant than Uranium – which is the choice for power generation from nuclear energy. We…
THE GREAT DIMENSIONS
AND THE ASSOCIATED SECRET MATHEMATICS This ancient mathematics is very interesting – even for us today. It is truly amazing– if you trouble yourself to follow and understand what is…
THE GREAT DIMENSIONS
AND THE ASSOCIATED SECRET MATHEMATICS This ancient mathematics is very interesting – even for us today. It is truly amazing– if you trouble yourself to follow and understand what is…
Good!, The Incorrect View that
The Sumerians Created the first Civilization People who study the ancient clay tablets of the Sumerians tell us the Sumerians were the first to bring to the world ideas of…
The Story of Jack the Giant Killer
In the reign of the famous King Arthur of England, there lived in Cornwall a lad named Jack. He was young, strong and fearless. Jack used to listen eagerly to…
Galileo Galilei
New ideas, especially in science, only move forward when men think and question about what they see to get a better understanding of it, deduce basic principles, etc., – and…
The ANCIENT GANDHARIAN CIVILIZATION
(600 years BCE. to 1000CE.) The Gandharian civilization covered an area of present day northern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan, but it also influenced directly, a vast area of Asia –…
MANNERS: Good or Bad
Consideration for others or good manners, is a central feature of Buddhism. Buddhist practice is the putting in place of one’s own personal ‘Ariya Marga’ or Eightfold Path with the…
The Great Value of Trees
When I see people sheltering under a tree for relief from the heat when waiting for a bus, I smile sadly because I know that as soon as they get…
7: HISTORY AND USE OF THE PALI LANGUAGE
HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT It is thought that when the Aryan-speaking peoples moved into north India, about 2000 years BCE., they brought with them many variations of the Aryan language. Some…
Nietzsche and The Buddha
Buddhism is not a religion in which one merely aspires after perfection; perfection is the normal case" (The Anti Christ 21)
The Neuron Wiring of Infants
Larry King interviewed Ross Perot Larry King Live Show on CNN, seen 6th May, 1999 The interview was chiefly concerned with the matter of the widespread violence that had now…
DIGNAGA – A GREAT
BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHER AND LOGICIAN Here are some notes made on the Buddhist philosopher and logician Dignaga, chiefly taken from ‘A History of Buddhist Philosophy (Continuities and Discontinuities)’ by David J.…