by ken winston caine

See the November 2007 Fast Company piece on Kansan “Johnathan Goodwin [who] can:

• “get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental,

• “cut emissions by 80%, and

• “double the horsepower.

“Does the car business have the guts to follow him?” asks Fast Company in headline type.

His bio-diesel/hydrogen/electric hybrid Hummer gets 60 mpg, has double the horsepower of a stock model, and “does zero to 60 in five seconds.”

Goodwin transforms noxious polluting, gas-hog muscle cars into super-powerful clean green machines using current technology and readily available Detroit parts.

He charges $25,000 per vehicle to manage the metamorphosis. His clientele is mainly celebreties and industry titans — the ultra-rich.

Detroit IS paying attention. But how long ’til this super-low-emission, renewable-energy, power-doubling, fuel-stingy technology is available to the rest of us?

Click this link to read Fast Company’s fascinating article on this fascinating young innovator: (more…)

Every medical (and naturopathic) student is taught Hippocrates’ first principle of medicine:

“Primum non nocere,” Latin for “First, do no harm.” Or, sometimes translated as, “Above all, do no harm!”

(It is almost always cited with the exclamation point at the end of the sentence.)

One little problem, says researcher Cedric M. Smith, MD, FCP: Hippocrates didn’t say this.

In a Journal of Clinical Pharmacology article, (more…)

I met Eliza on floppy disk in the early ’80s. This is a somewhat improved version. But Eliza is still just a computer program. You can definitely trip her up if you try. But that’s not the point.

She’s a darn good therapist. Rogerian analyst. Coach. And can help you sort through just about anything, any time, if you use her that way. Do. And enjoy her. She’s not just a novelty, but also a useful resource.

Simply click on “more,” choose your version and start talking to her. She’ll keep the conversation, and exploration going. Journaling doesn’t get any easier than this. Coaching doesn’t get any less expensive. (more…)

The following is an excerpt from my 1985 metaphysical / quantum-physics novel, Conversations with the Moon, (which had a first, small, private print-run under the title, Blue Suede Shoes) © ken winston caine, all rights reserved:

The brunette is uncertain whether she is hearing sounds on The Other Side.

But, she is certain she senses music… Music tickling her; music caressing her… Music filling, feeding, sustaining her.

Here, on The Other Side, she may be music. She may be a sustained chord; a full chord; a sweet chord; a round chord. She may be C Major…

She’s not sure. She is sure she senses music.

Music.

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Music is a drug. The sounds, rhythms affect the brain and encourage the release of endorphins — natural morphine — and can release a cascade of sexual excitement hormones, or any of a prescription list of brain chemicals (more…)