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Diathermy for food!
From Electronics magazine, Nov 1933. Note that cooking by HF waves was already familiar in industrial and medical applications. This was the first suggestion of home use for “bun sandwiches”. [Was hamburger trademarked? Apparently not, but cheeseburger was trademarked.] Restaurants were starting to use HF ovens around 1960. I remember trying an electronic hamburger in…
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If you claim
Even in normal times, life is ROUGH. When most of the world is stuck inside a Nazi torture chamber, life is way beyond rough. We don’t need more mountains to climb. We don’t need more psychopathic rule-changes. We don’t need more argumentation. We especially don’t need more Pied Pipers. If you claim to be a…
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Wishful
Heavy snow shoveling and roof raking today makes me wish for one of these…. Note the coal bin next to the office building. Wonder where they got their coal?
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No transitionals
Evo News has yet another article on the failure to find ‘transitional fossils’. Since I’ve been reviewing and condensing old blog into new blog lately, I’ve acquired a feel for the strata of my viewpoints. There aren’t any transitional fossils in this record either. When I crystallize a new understanding, the viewpoint shifts abruptly. A…
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Who made more fake panics?
This is a quickie. I don’t feel like doing serious links and study. In 2014 I did a list debunking the Tocqueville “largesse” crap, with considerably more thought and research. = = = = = A few days ago I laid down a bet about the Bush family. It’s obvious that all the fake panics…
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The importance of Brand
Brand failures are annoying but ultimately self-leveling. This one is especially annoying because the brand is trying to create a campaign and a community. Bari Weiss is specifically running an anti-snowflake and anti-canceller brand. This morning she wrote a perfect example of the cancelling impulse. Some obscure Twitter dude expressed an obnoxious opinion, and now…
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Ambiguous, unambiguous
Holmes was found guilty on four of the 11 available fraud charges. From what Carreyrou has been writing this seems appropriate. The story is a tragedy by the classic literary definition, a potentially decent ruler brought down by one character flaw. Holmes wasn’t a professional criminal and didn’t go into the project with a purely…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 1/7
Since I had to switch away from cancellable Blogspot, I’m taking the opportunity to review and condense several long-running topics. Condensing is important. Most topics continued in scattered form for many months, with gradual learning and adjusting as I wrote and studied and animated. “Correction” footnotes often turned into correct understanding. The final result wasn’t…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 2/7
Before 1700 there wasn’t a distinction between astrology and astronomy. Stargazers with or without telescopes were doing serious observation and real math and real geometry to determine God’s will. This purpose was especially dominant in Islam, the most scientific religion. Stargazers were seeking long-term patterns that were reflected in human lives and human civilizations. They…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 3/7
Alphia Hart had a powerful and unique view of copyrights: Copyrighting everything you write is a confession that you have little faith in your ability to continue producing salable stuff — and that there may come a time when you’ll have to fall back on your own, protected material to make a living. When we…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 4/7
Several ‘short takes’ by Hart. = = = = = On vaccination. Note especially that I was writing this item in May of 2019, before vax became the ONLY RELEVANT TOPIC IN THE FUCKING WORLD. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via ZeroHedge: On the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia, a cruise ship belonging…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 5/7
Aberree on health foods and health fads, written in Oct 2017. = = = = = START REPRINT: Aberree provides a nice match-point for offbeet thoughts and products. Sometimes the modern version has become fashionable again, sometimes it remains equally dubious, sometimes it has become CRIMETHINK. One product heard on all the second-string talk shows…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 6/7
Here’s where I did some actual science! First in August 2017: Earlier I had redrawn Volney Mathison’s electropsychometer circuit, which was stolen by Hubbard to create his fake religion. I speculated that it would be more interesting with a zero-center meter instead of Volney’s one-way meter protected by diode. Redrew it again, substituting NPN transistors…
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Reviewing Aberree, part 7/7
Aberree on experiential education. = = = = = START REPRINT: Alphia Hart constantly recommended examining your own ideas, but he didn’t always succeed in examining his own. Along with a preponderance of powerfully original and unique thoughts, he sometimes let out a standard “liberal” thought, as in this 1957 editorial…. In this case the…
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Come on, warmth! Faster!
Looks like the week-long cold spell is about to end. Weather maps show warmer air approaching from the south, but not here yet. I’ve missed my daily walks. To alleviate boredom I continued the electrotherapy graphics with this belt vibrator. It’s not exactly electrotherapy, but it was described in the same books and used in…
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