dissolve

Why do some things dissolve but others don't, what are the stains on the towels at the gym and how do astronauts keep their balance in the absence of gravity? Also, what causes meteor showers, can you sneeze in your sleep, what's the best way to dislodge a foreign body in the eye, what is pancreatic cancer and what causes sweaty hands and feet? The answers to this lot, plus news of how Earth came by its water and a chemical to keep unblocked arteries clear...

Why do some things dissolve but others don't, what are the stains on the towels at the gym and how do astronauts keep their balance in the absence of gravity? Also, what causes meteor showers, can you sneeze in your sleep, what's the best way to dislodge a foreign body in the eye, what is pancreatic cancer and what causes sweaty hands and feet? The answers to this lot, plus news of how Earth came by its water and a chemical to keep unblocked arteries clear... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

"Words are like wind and water." -Chuang Tzu The aimless wandering of chaos fertilizing reality with reality. a podcast treatise on tao, chaos, language and paradox, dada/anarchist epistemology and the magic mirror. The vessel flows over with meaning, tzu-jan, flowering spontaneously as a scry stone gourd of fluid protean reality in memetic alchemy; this narrative's strange attractor. the chaos that can be ordered is not the eternal chaos. "Western dialectics analyzes in order to synthesize; chaos or taoist dialectics begins with synthesis in order to analyze." The gourd spills over into manifestation; we shall call it- episode nine. "We build towers of sand all controlled and planned and as the wind demands we watch them blow through our hands. as for the matter of facts knowing expands and contracts so remember that the map is flat and adapt and not react to the fluxuating everchanging complexity is rearranging boiling point and dissapating eye within- we've come to call the self, dissolve the self."- from 'dissolve' essay- copyleft 1996 'Aimless Wandering: Chaung-Tzu's Chaos Linguistics' by Hakim Bey music- copyleft 2009 dissolve by jon meade the empire never ended by jon meade

Water is a remarkable substance that is so familiar that it is often taken for granted. It is relevant to all forms of life and can even turn mountains up-side-down.