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on Bull Run Water
That's like calling everything in the Portland city limits "downtown".
posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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on Bull Run Water
Why do you keep calling it "Mt. Hood's Bull Run River"? It never touches the mountain. I know this isn't the subject, it just bugs me when "city people" call anything in the Northern Cascades Mt. Hood.
posted 3 years, 9 months ago
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on Natural Medicine?
Did that guy just admit that he does his medical research on the internet? RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Natural Medicine?
I don’t understand how anyone can take naturopaths seriously. Without peer reviewed science they can just make things up. Maybe they don’t directly hurt people but if they prevent someone from getting real treatment that could be dangerous.
I can’t believe that the reason these treatments aren’t accepted by science is because the pharmaceutical corporations are against them. It they really worked the companies would find a way to make money on them.
Real drugs are “natural”. You can’t make something from nothing.
Did you know that it was a naturopath who deliberately introduced dandelions to the Northwest? They probably would have gotten here anyway, but knowing that someone did it on purpose is frustrating.
This training these naturopaths talk about means nothing to me. I could probably find some one to train me in alchemy for 10 years but that doesn't make it real.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Natural Medicine?
Exactly, these methods and compounds need to be rigorously tested just like real medicine. I suspect many have been and there results were no better than placebo.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Natural Medicine?
Very well put. People need to understand that peer reviewed science is a wonderful thing.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Curbing Gang Violence
Good point, but it would just change the problem from violence to ignorance.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Curbing Gang Violence
Yes exactly
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Curbing Gang Violence
The real issues I feel contribute to gang activity are:
Lack of education
The teaching of hatred by older gang members
Teenage popular culture, specifically the attitude that education isn’t necessary or worse something to be scorned
I’m sure you covered these, it’s just too bad your guest had to be someone who follows the same “logic” that the Worthingtons of Oregon City followed to help their sick child.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Curbing Gang Violence
This could have been a great discussion about real issues, except you had to bring this guy on with his superstitious mumbo-jumbo. Wells himself believes and lives a lie, the lie of religion.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on As We Are: Illiteracy
I recently served on a jury in criminal court. The defendant was a 50 something illiterate man with the vocabulary of an 8 or 9 year old. I’m certain he didn’t understand much of what the officer was saying to him when he was read his rights or when he asked to take a field sobriety test and later a breathalyzer. It was nearly impossible for him to understand what the attorneys were saying to him. Did justice serve him well? How could it have? These questions will haunt me for the rest of my life.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Northwest Passages: Peter Rock
I remember this story well. It really touched and inspired me at the time. Living independent of society facinates me. I will definitely read this book.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Forest Values
When I think of the Tillamook Forest I think of a bunch of "white trash" riding their ATVs. Which probably play a role in the sedimentation of streams.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Forest Values
I'm an avid hiker and backpacker so I spend a lot of time in forests. I rarely visit state forest lands, I'm not entirely sure why. It may be that there is so little of it.
My heart says "Don't cut down any trees ever!" But, I know that because there are other people on the planet aside from me, trees do need to be cut for various uses. I hope that there is some way lumber can be harvested without causing too much damage to the ecosystem.
I heard a few months ago that there are lumber yards where piles of logs are just sitting there rotting away because no one is buying them. I don't know if this is true or not.
The book Song of the Dodo is about island biogeography which applies in this situation because untouched forests are "islands" in the sea of human-made "habitats". Many species, plant or animal, need larger habitats then the protected areas provide.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Green Buildings
What drives me crazy is business that leave every light and who knows what else on when they are closed. I can see a couple light for seceurity reasons but sometimes it's out of control. There is a light fixture store in Canby and every product in their store is on 24/7.
Thanks for the great program.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Green Buildings
Can anyone talk about how we might green our houses? I don't mean LEED certified just ways to use less energy or take advantage of the rain that falls on the property, things like that.
According to Scientific American concrete actually absorbes CO2. Not enough to make it carbon neutral, but engineers are working on it.
posted 3 years, 11 months ago
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on Students and Credit Card Reform
When you have a society obsessed with having more and more "stuff", and an economy based on the idea of endless growth, what do you expect will happen? Things will get out of control and people will do what ever they can just to "fit in".
posted 3 years, 12 months ago
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on Students and Credit Card Reform
Nessa said that students don't get their cards from the campus tables. Then why do credit card companies have tables?
posted 3 years, 12 months ago
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on Judge a Book by Its Pixels
What has a greater environmental impact? Cutting down trees and everything else that goes into making a book, or manufacturing an e-book reader and powering it for years?
Siva, the histor of technology is also filled with things that are used in a different way than the inventor imagined. And, I've had my iPod for 5 years and it's still going strong.
posted 4 years ago
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on Judge a Book by Its Pixels
I'm an avid book reader, I almost always have one with me. I think I would get a lot from an e-book reader. Just as my iPod has allowed me to enjoy music in times and places where I never could before, I think a Kindle or some such device would do the same. (No more lugging around heavy books while backpacking.)
Also I don't think anyone should talk down something without trying it for themselves.
posted 4 years ago
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