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A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion

“A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion” is a young adult educational eBook.

“A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion” is a young adult educational eBook.

Predominantly a physics textbook within a science fantasy tale; it depicts the spiraling nature of our universe in general and electromagnetism, in particular

 

2020 Version, TOC, Table of Contents, Carol Keiter, Young Adult educational ebook, A Seahorse Tale, A Spin on the Matter of Motion

 

2020 Version, TOC, Table of Contents, Carol Keiter, Young Adult educational ebook, A Seahorse Tale, A Spin on the Matter of Motion

Updated 2020 Version of the (TOC) Table of Contents of Carol Keiter’s Young Adult educational ebook, A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion

https://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/young-adult-educational-ebook-a-seahorse-tale-a-spin-on-matter/

 

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Carol Keiter the blogger 2019-02-22.

Young Adult Educational eBook | A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion |

Revised May 4, 2022 1st segment of TOC

The bibliography which references links, is searchable by subject.

young adult educational eBook:

A Seahorse Tale  

A Spin on the Matter of Motion

Here’s the trailer: http://spinonmatter.carbonmade.com/projects/4800092#1 !

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author website: https://spinonmatter.wordpress.com/2019/08/12/a-seahorse-tale-a-spin-on-the-matter-of-motion/ !

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Doing the writing, editing, illustrations, formatting on my own. If you have any suggestions or connections to schools, educational publishers, or donations, please send them my way.

Young Adult Educational eBook, A Seahorse Tale A Spin on the Matter of Motion, Carol Keiter, conservation, natural world, renewable, climate change, climate crisis, global

Here is the 2020 version and ultimately the completed version of the first page of the TOC of The Seahorse Tale

Young Adult educational ebook, A Seahorse Tale, A Spin on the Matter of Motion, updated version (TOC) Table of Contents

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A Seahorse Tale A Spin on the matter of motion, water funnel baobab

Doing the writing, editing, illustrations, formatting on my own. If you have any suggestions or connections to schools, educational publishers, or donations, please send them my way.

Carol Keiter aka nomadbeatz welcomes donations for her writing, photography, illustrations, eBook & music composition

Carol Keiter aka nomadbeatz welcomes donations for her writing, photography, illustrations, eBook & music composition

The PayPal donation button functions in Safari and Firefox, however is broken in Chrome.

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Tears of Delight PM of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern’s Well-Being Budget & Maori Guardianship | Friendship Bench

I am in tears of delight as I listen to the statements of the Prime Minister of New Zealand and leader of the Labour Party, Jacinda Ardern, speaking of well-being as the measuring stick at the Davos, Switzerland World Economic Forum. She speaks honestly and earnestly – brilliantly revealing to the other diplomats a lens through which to look that is not measuring the quantity of profits through the GDP, but the quality of life and well-being of the people.

New Zealand politics of kindness, empathy and well-being

Among the leaders of the prohibitively expensive and exclusive Davos World Economic Forum, here is yet another example of a leader stepping outside of the dictates of the norm, to instead be a spokesperson for the quality of life. She states that numbers mean nothing, if people are homeless, if the teen suicide rate is high, if people are emotionally and physically ill. It’s another great step for humanity to have an excellent female leader with the bravery to speak the truth. She’s naturally a tremendous advocate for making changes to avert climate catastrophe.

We all know what disasters continue to strike due to industrial practices that are bent on wielding the highest profits, at the cost of health and life of human and species loss and environmental degradation.

Instead of complete lies, such as what comes from the USA present reality-show-muppet-leader, everything that she says speaks truth, conviction and dignity, from the content of her words to her tone and mannerisms. She speaks honestly, as do a number of recently elected female congresswomen in the US. Hurray for the people who are electing these women leaders throughout the world. It is great news.

Not unprecedented in her ideas, the government of Bhutan conceived of the model of Gross National Happiness as a more real measuring stick than the GDP. You can have a high GDP with great numbers, sales and profits that are off the charts…and as you focus the lens in close, you see that the Amazons and Walmarts that are employing high numbers of stressed people, have paved all of the pristine land; expanded their enterprises along with their parking lots stinking of tar and asphalt and wiped out swaths of land that are habitat to creatures who share the planet.

Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness Index

The construction of the GNH Index includes nine domains

Psychological wellbeing
Health
Education
Time use
Cultural diversity and resilience
Good governance
Community vitality
Ecological diversity and resilience
Living standards

We no longer need an economy bent on profit, so that the computer that I’m using has to be replaced every x amount of years, because of it being built to become obsolete in that short amount of time, as the Superfund sites where the minerals are harvested or skeletons of older models of trash accumulate, to litter and poison water and air. There is absolutely a different paradigm waiting for us around the corner.

Jacinda Ardern aims to to bring the New Zealand Maori philosophy of ‘guardianship’ of the environment into politics.

nothing to fear jacinda ardern urges world leaders

weforum Prince William aka HRH Duke of Cambridge, Prime Minister of New Zealand and Labor Party leader
Jacinda Ardern, Dr. Dixon Chibanda of Zimbabwe discuss mental health and friendship bench

One of the panelists was Dr. Dixon Chibanda of Zimbabwe. He is one of a total of 12 psychiatrists in the country of Zimbabwe, to serve a population of more than 16 million. He conceived of the idea of training grandmothers to essentially – listen – and the program has been wildly successful. HE created and implemented the ‘practice’ called a Friendship Bench. He talks of the Friendship Bench in this TED talk. Grandmothers in Zimbabwe are trained in cognitive behavioral evidence based talk-therapy; empowering them with the skills to listen, show empathy and provide emotional support.

The grandmothers have actually been more effective than doctors, in treating depression, anxiety, addictions and for patients’ overall success rates.

Grandmother Jack in Zimbabwe helped to pioneer the Friendship Bench program

Grandmother Jack was one of the first grandmothers in Zimbabwe, empowered to provide evidence-based talk therapy. She saw 256 clients whose lives were improved dramatically. She is now deceased.

The Friendship Bench has since been adopted worldwide.

It has morphed to not be simply Grandmothers, but for peers to sit with each other to listen and show their support.  Certainly it helps dramatically the people who are suffering from physical or mental illness, or addiction and emotional trauma. And most brilliantly it also empowers the person who is trained as the listener, who can provide emotional support and empathy.

The Friendship Bench looks to get peers talking to each other about depression, suicide and mental health

friendship bench london for peers to talk to each other openly

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Young adult educational eBook | A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion

I believe this eBook will build enthusiasm and intrigue for multiple subjects, It is a science reference book, cloaked in a science fantasy adventure; replete with real science and resplendent illustrations; with graphs, charts and links for further investigation.

A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion

Young adult educational eBook for public, private, magnet, charter, cyber, home-schools, autism spectrum, experiential and expeditionary learning.

Here’s the trailer: https://spinonmatter.carbonmade.com/projects/4800092

I just decided to post this letter of introduction which I’m sending to Charter Schools, to each of my blogs, since perhaps someone who’s involved in education, eBook marketing and publishing, with an affiliation with Charter Schools or knows-how in marketing an educational eBook, to provide me with advice or send someone my way!

It’s not finished, but I thought I’d start with the back-end, or front-end, getting it out there.

…I’m looking for the appropriate person/department (academic materials, material acquisition) to market my eBook, which I believe will be of interest to students as an auxiliary learning tool.

A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion

A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion Trailer

This science fantasy adventure involves a spiritual quest (no religious affiliation), full of art and science. The adventure involves the quest of a young woman and the characters she meets in her journey, into an upside-down world. Not really upside down, but a place affected by electromagnetism that has lower gravity levels as one climbs to this place. The people there, where the main character is journeying to, have a correspondingly intrinsic capacity of transparent thought. They are conscious of each others’ thoughts and consequently incapable of telling lies. Yet most of the story takes place as Adora journeys there – as there could be sequels!

Frankly, as of June 1st (almost two weeks since posting this), after editing and moving around information as well as researching and editing bibliography sources, the information below has been updated, and still is no longer current! Nevertheless, you get the gist of the contents! I’ve been working hard within a strict time limit – a really good thing.

HERE IS THE 2020 VERSION OF THE EDITED AND FINAL FIRST PAGE OF THE TOC

2021 Version, TOC, Table of Contents, Carol Keiter, Young Adult educational ebook, A Seahorse Tale, A Spin on the Matter of Motion

The approximately 150 page eBook (Completion end of June, 2017), is designed to be read from beginning to end, or to be read in segments. Almost every page introduces a particular subject; including graphs, charts and links to further investigation of that topic. The online Table of Contents and Bibliography allow the reader to choose from various educational subjects, ranging from biology, climatology, and geography to physics, These scientific topics of inquiry are introduced as they arise in the story; with the inference that these hypothetical events in a fantastical environment, could actually transpire.

Here are a few pages of the bibliography, also subject to change. I’m using google docs in order to also alphabetize the bibliography by subject.

Bibliography created in google docs to feature alphabetical listing by subject.

Bibliography created in google docs to feature alphabetical listing by subject.

Adora & Vitali: A Spin on the Matter of Motion has a plethora of art accompanying the science links, providing the reader with the capability to further investigate a topic. It is a colorful and refreshing learning tool for students and adults. The eBook is a stepping stone of intrigue for subsequent exploration into a multitude of scientific topics.

character name meanings and association with elements

I’m an independent contractor who has been writing two blogs since 2009, I’m particularly interested in environmental sustainability, renewable energy, (DIY) do-it-yourself practices to reduce one’s carbon footprint, reinvesting in the community and especially the topics of wildlife and animal habitat preservation. I participated in a 2 week educational forum about the environment in Paris, during the COP21 Climate Talks in Paris, http://www.placetob.org/en/ As a writer, artist, musician and composer, I have no umbrella organization presently supporting me financially. I welcome any suggestions you may have regarding the eBook world of publishing, as I have yet to approach any publishers. I can provide you with additional sections of the book to view its layout and presentation.

carolkeiter@gmail.com
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ebook trailer:
http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/final-metamorphosis-of-the-ebook-trailer-for-adora-vitali-a-spin-on-the-matter-of-motion/

http://spinonmatter.carbonmade.com/projects/4800092#1

blogs:
http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/
https://digesthis.wordpress.com/

podcast:
https://deliciousmedicinalfood.wordpress.com

art portfolio:
http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/parcel-of-my-portfolio
https://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2015/10/23/carols-artwork-discovered-in-sketchbooks-journals/
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Climbing Sequoias for Climate Change | off-setting global warming with old growth giant redwoods |

I came upon this article in the New York Times, regarding the fact that David Milarch and his co-workers are Climbing Sequoias for Climate Change. It is good information and worth pedaling out there to more people.

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Climbing_Sequoias_for_Climate_change

These giant redwoods, Sequoias, are some of the oldest species on the planet. They are genetically designed to intake carbon dioxide and transform it into oxygen.

David Milarch and his crew are involved in an ambitious global reforestation project, recognizing that these trees have the capability like few other species of trees, to dramatically affect the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, transforming it into oxygen.

On Earth Day 2013, The Archangel Tree Project planted ‘cloned’ California redwoods in six countries around the world. They hope to plant the first sequoias in England and Connecticut on Earth Day 2014.

Giant sequoias whisk in (breath in) CO2 and transform it into oxygen faster than almost any species of trees on the planet; they could be the answer to an attempt to reverse climate change.

The lower branches of these giant sequoias are taller than any tree in the East coast of the United States.

The project takes cuttings from the top branches of these super trees, to make clones, and plant them around the world, with the attempt to reforest the planet with trees that could offset the high levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Also working towards off-setting climate change, Bill McKibben created 350.org, to raise peoples’ awareness about the lowest levels (in parts per million) of carbon dioxide that is allowable in our earth’s atmosphere.

Archangel is locating and propagating the largest and most ancient living things, trees. They have a genetic history of 4,000 years of super-growth. Their object is to spread these species in order to off-set the excess CO2 in our environment. What they are not sure about, is if there is still time for the trees to grow in order to affectively make change.

See my former blog on this same site, “GDP | Gross Domestic Problem | Why the measurement of wealth depends on a healthy environment |”
This contains info about the term “gross national happiness” GNH, coined by the King at the time of the country Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck.

educational eBook Trailer “A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion”

my eBook has a new name,  A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion

Young adult educational eBook for public, private, magnet, charter, cyber, home-schools, autism spectrum, experiential and expeditionary learning.

I suggested that it was the Final metamorphosis of the ‘eBook Trailer’ for “Adora & Vitali: A Spin on the Matter of Motion” – however a new name was born, through the brilliant perception of a mentor who appeared November 15th, 2019

A Seahorse Tale

http://spinonmatter.carbonmade.com/projects/4800092#1

A Seahorse Tale – A Spin on the Matter of Motion Trailer

Thanks to http://carbonmade.com for making it quite simple to build and display, for free!!

Here’s a glimpse at the content, looking at the first page of the (TOC) Table of Contents.

 

Pursuit of Happiness | “the Happy Movie” | “My Stroke of Insight” |

I’ve been writing about happiness for a while now. https://digesthis.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/speaking-of-happiness-laughter-yoga-giggling-guru-madan-kataria/

I have a series of blogs on the subject from different angles. http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2012/07/02/pursuit-of-happiness-idea-authentic-happiness-perma-%E2%80%A8/
In the last months I’ve attended a number of lectures that are part of a colloquium of courses open to the public from LVC, Lebanon Valley College on the subject of happiness. One of these was given by an artist who decided to make a life-long commitment to revealing those people whose courage and risks to tell the truth have enabled the rest of the us to have more rights. https://digesthis.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/americans-who-tell-the-truth-portraits-by-robert-shetterly/
Various people have given lectures, presenting their views on happiness with respect to different disciplines. As part of the colloquium the 2011 documentary “Happy” played recently. I believe that this movie should be mandatory!

http://www.thehappymovie.com/

It’s available through their website and on netflix.

I happened to go to a lecture open to the public a few days ago and subsequently attended a course for one session on “Spirituality and Mysticism”. There I was introduced to a book written by a neurologist who had a stroke. Because of her background as a brain scientist, she was able to communicate clearly the various stages of consciousness and perceptions that she had of her own condition. It’s fascinating and illuminating. “My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor. PhD.

She articulates how her sense perceptions and sense of self were drastically altered when the left hemisphere of her brain (the analytical side which breaks things into compartments, where language and even identity of oneself is built) was no longer functioning. Without the memory and learned structure of how to look at the objects around oneself, one can not identify what these objects are. Her depth perception and distinction of colors and forms was fuzzy. She describes that even the boundaries of where ‘she’ ended had dissolved, and her identification with her own ego dissolved, because she had lost the memory of the aggregate of experiences and composite of all of the different associations that made up the history of who she was, were lost. She described feeling completely boundless and blissful. She saw the world through her field of vision as a bunch of vibrating particles, in which she didn’t see distinctions between objects nor could sense where ‘she’ ended; her sense of ‘self’ expanded way beyond the borders of her own flesh.

In her TED talks presentation http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html (from the German site) she describes the process of consciousness and her realization that we are the life force power of the universe with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. She describes that the right hemisphere of the brain is a parallel processor which is in the here and now; thinking in pictures and processing information in a kinesthetic manner, whereas the left hemisphere is a serial processor which processes information linearly; methodically categorizing, analyzing and associating information about the past and projecting into the future. The left hemisphere of her brain was severely damaged; the part of the brain dealing with language, writing and which formulates and maintains the concept of a separate self. When this ‘ego’ identification receded, along with the other functions that are part of linear thinking, she experienced simply seeing energy and vibrating particles with no distinction of what she was looking at. She sensed very clearly with only the right hemisphere functioning that we are energy beings connected to energy all around us, with an enormous boundless spirit that is not contained within the body. It was an esoteric sense of bliss, nirvana, being one with the universe and at peace. She concludes with the point that we all have the choice to connect to this right hemisphere deep inner peace circuitry, and the more that we do, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will become.

Obviously, we all need the left hemisphere of our brain to function; to plan goals, execute them, learn tasks and to process information. It is a very unique insight coming from someone who is able to communicate the experience of having had a stroke of this nature. In some ways this perception without boundaries is approaching what shamans and mystics experience, as far as seeing the world of matter as it is, vibrating energy.

I’ve added some more information on my other blog about this book.

The Happy movie does not delve into the neurological or spiritual, but looks at the constraints that many of us put on ourselves, in terms of competing with peers for material acquisitions, and the fallacy that these material things are somehow going to bring happiness. The movie looks at the competition and bullying among youth, and also compares people of dramatically different economic standing, revealing that some people with little to no wealth, have an abundance of happiness, whereas other cultures that appear to be quite wealthy in terms of the GDP Gross Domestic Product, are some of the least happy. They point out that the Japanese have constricted themselves into such an emphasis on material gain, that many literally die from overworking, to the extent that they have even added this new word and concept to their vocabulary, Karoshi

With respect to the West’s emphasis on the GDP, the country of Bhutan recognizes that there are things more important than measuring economic growth, because of the fact that one needs to look at the whole picture; some things may be dramatically absent, lost and sacrificed for economic gain. I wrote about this in a previous blog as well. https://digesthis.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/gross_domestic_problem_-why-measurement-of-wealth-depends-on-a-healthy-environment/

And here are a series of other blogs I’ve written on the subject of happiness.

http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/happiness/

http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/synchronicity-experiences-within-delight-of-deepak-chopras-seven-principles-of-synchrodestiny/

http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/halloween-in-berlin-a-deliriously-decadant-costume-party-at-white-trash/

http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/pointing-the-other-four-fingers-back-at-myself/

GDP | Gross Domestic Problem | Why the measurement of wealth depends on a healthy environment |

why trees matter | mushrooms offer solutions | Handprint | Gross National Happiness

When I walk or ride along streets basically every where, I look at trees as I pass them by. I see trees as elegant beings, that besides providing oxygen and shade and beauty, create a home for insects, birds and other animals. They are an integral part of what has created life as we know it on our planet.

This Op-Ed article in the New York times sparked my interest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/opinion/why-trees-matter.html

Walnut tree in a gentleman's yard in Pennsylvania.

As this writer states, “In a bit of natural alchemy called photosynthesis, for example, trees turn one of the seemingly most insubstantial things of all — sunlight — into food for insects, wildlife and people, and use it to create shade, beauty and wood for fuel, furniture and homes.” Ah, and sunlight is hardly insubstantial – as I write about in my other blog regarding plasma cosmology and the electric universe theory.

“Decades ago, Katsuhiko Matsunaga, a marine chemist at Hokkaido University in Japan, discovered that when tree leaves decompose, they leach acids into the ocean that help fertilize plankton. When plankton thrive, so does the rest of the food chain.

Trees are nature’s water filters, capable of cleaning up the most toxic wastes, including explosives, solvents and organic wastes, largely through a dense community of microbes around the tree’s roots that clean water in exchange for nutrients, a process known as phytoremediation. Tree leaves also filter air pollution.”

I will let you read the rest of the article yourself, instead of copying and pasting it ‘-))

Yet, on the same subject, mushrooms also have the capacity to filter and clean toxicities out of the environment, as this article in UTNE reader demonstrates. “Mushrooms Offer Solutions for Environment and Economy”

http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_can_save_the_world.html?quote=294

An image of mycelium below.

“Human beings are more closely related to fungi, than they are to any other kingdom. Within a single cubic inch of soil, there can be 8 miles of these cells. Mycelium are externalized stomachs and lungs, essentially extended neurological membranes.” Paul goes on to say that mycelium form a fabric which is the biological version of earth’s natural internet. The internet, in turn, is man’s tool, or extension, which can be allocated to protect the biosphere”. It’s kind of like the concept that DNA replicates itself, in order for life to ultimately witness and see itself.

We can not measure the worth and wealth of a country or its peoples through qualifiers like the GDP, Gross Domestic Product; the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country’s borders, because this becomes a

Gross Domestic Problem

Gross Domestic Problem

Bhutan has a more enlightened way of approaching the subject, with the King’s assertion of a measure of Gross National Happiness!

Recognize that happiness and environmental health play a much larger role in the attributes which contribute to ‘quality of life’, than ‘wealth’, as measured by economic means alone. Bill McKibben who started 350.org contributed this article about the politics of global warming for the Rolling Stone magazine “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math“.

We need to pay attention to our carbon footprint, showing the detrimental results of our actions on the environment as well as to actively become aware of our social handprint, revealing the benefits of our actions on nature; with the concept of balancing out what we take, through what we share and give!! Our handprint measures the positive impacts we can make, simply by changing the way we do things; at home, at work…

You can read more about this
http://challengingbehaviour.marketingmagazine.co.uk/2012/03/05/forget-your-carbon-footprint-whats-your-handprint/

Why does this matter? Because we don’t inhabit this planet alone.

http://www.joelsartore.com/galleries/the-photo-ark/