I finally put one of my songs up on a web site.  You can listen at
http://www.alonetone.com/childhoodsend/tracks/find-the-words.mp3

Musicians should check out a new music site for musicians.  This is free music.  If you want to promote your music and share it for free this is the site for you.

http://www.alonetone.com

You can post your songs there and receive feedback from the community.  You can also get free distribution on itunes and community sites.

Here is one of my favorite songs by Sudara.

Orgiva

I am reading science writings and studying science courses when I can get the time.

One of the most interesting “discoveries” I find is that the latest scientific thinking is really quite different from what our general cultural assumptions of science are about.

Every now and then one of these changes in scientific thinking breaks through into a great book, maybe a TV series and we slowly shift our view and absorb something new into our culture.

[I am thinking about Jared Diamond’s book “Guns, Germs and Steel” as an example.]

Of course at one level this is obvious. Science does not stand still. Old theories fall by the way and are proved wrong or not accurate and new theories take their place.    If you study science history then you know this happens. But at another level, in our cultural consciousness if you like (media, writings, politics, medical practice, scientific beliefs) we seem to be a long way behind.

It seems that many scientists do their best work when they are young and the scientific establishment is full of scientific conservatives. We hear talk about waiting for them to die off so that new truth can emerge into our culture.

So here is my big question. How slow is our ability as a culture to absorb changes in scientific “truth” and what does that do to us?

We seem to get our truth from pundits, TV series, books and news item and articles. We assess all these inputs and adopt beliefs. We can’t keep up with everything. We can’t read everything ourselves. Do we believe what we are told?

So if its all about belief then how is it different from other beliefs?

The only way out seems to be to read some real science and create our own truth.