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500 Words

December 24th, 2009 · → 3 Comments

Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema.
The most challenging thing about writing this blog is not the deadline every week, nor is it generating the snappy content, nor putting an edge on the sharp wordplay. It’s the damn title. 500 words is a cruel master. (Thursday is OK, though.) Some readers have noted that [...]

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Ayurveda

November 19th, 2009 · → 4 Comments

Last week I came down with an ear infection. Fixing it took me to India and to Ukraine. But first, I had to go to a specialist in Santa Monica.
He used a microscope to have a look. Then he inserted a vacuum hose and hit the switch. If you can’t deal with medical details, [...]

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Lightness of Being

August 27th, 2009 · → 5 Comments

Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema.

I’m in New York City spending time in hospital rooms. I have learned two things so far. It’s an outrage that there’s no 72nd Street stop on the Lex Ave line. The closest is 69 Street, which is more of a vague sexual joke than a useful location.  The [...]

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Twitter is Sacred

August 20th, 2009 · → 8 Comments

Twitter, sacred?  Well, maybe. A recent blog by Stephen Dinan started the ball rolling for me by asking “When something is wildly successful, as Twitter now is, I often ask myself about its higher purpose. In other words, what might be the deeper meaning of Twitter?”
Could a string of 140 characters have a higher meaning?
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Heal Yourself

August 13th, 2009 · → 6 Comments

Written by Lee Schneider, founder of DocuCinema
If your ear gets clogged does it mean that you are trying to avoid hearing something that you don’t want to hear? If you have a cough that won’t quit, could it be that you are “barking” for the world to pay attention?
Everybody knows that illnesses come from [...]

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Clean and Dirty

August 6th, 2009 · → 2 Comments

I was watching the waters of the Ganges. I must have been really enlightened that day, because with vision better than Superman’s I could see the E. coli, the hepatitis A, B and C, the typhoid and cholera and dysentery swirling downstream.

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Cult of Personality

July 30th, 2009 · → 13 Comments

I went to yoga the other night. The room was filled with so many acolytes their yoga mats were about a micron apart. It was like boarding the subway in NYC during rush hour and getting an intimate view of your neighbor’s armpit. Only in yoga it’s more exciting because the people are half naked and their sweat flies on you when they flail. That class lasted about 45 seconds for me. I had to leave. I don’t do flailing.

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The New Walter

July 23rd, 2009 · → 8 Comments

Citizen journalism isn’t perfect. There’s something unsettling about the best newsman being a comedian. You can’t place absolute faith in journalists anymore. That’s why there will be no more Walters like Cronkite.

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When Will the Robots Take Over?

July 16th, 2009 · → 6 Comments

There’s enough artificial intelligence out there to write this blog without human intervention. Computers can already beat chess masters by brute computational force. And look! Google Translate can change this into Norwegian: Google oversetter kan oversette denne bloggen. Vel, I kan probably måken thaten up mysefen withouten any programvare.

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Money and Power and Swimming with Sharks

July 9th, 2009 · → 8 Comments

Being meditative and reflective, accepting where you are and preparing to receive abundance are all really easy things to do. You can start by sitting cross-legged on a soft surface and staring into the sun until your eyeballs explode.

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