Tag: Grand Blueprint
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The biggest divide
Aside from the obvious male vs female, the widest and most permanent divide is risk takers vs risk avoiders. This divide started LONG before humans or mammals, so in the grand scheme it’s deeper than male vs female. Every life form including bacteria has bold and timid types. Men and women can often understand or…
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More on cavefish
EvolutionNews writes about a new study of blind cavefish, showing experimentally that the loss of pigmentation is epigenetic. Not surprising, given the transient nature of cave water. In 2020 I wrote about an earlier study on the eye gene, also showing that it’s a fast-moving epigenetic change, not a slow random mutation. = = =…
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Broader thought about narrower thought
Following immediately on the neurological connection of annoyance. Noticed this Chomsky quote in a random selecton of memes. = = = = = START CHOMSKY: The smart way to keep people obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but allow lively debate within that spectrum, even encourage the more critical and dissident…
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It’s just neurology, twice
Two puzzles solved by simple neurology. = = = = = (1) Journalists and politicians wonder why we’ve stopped listening to them. On the D “side”, Repeat JANUARY_6_VIOLENT_INSURRECTION thousands of times, and it becomes a background hum. Repeat EXISTENTIAL_THREAT_TO_OUR_DEMOCRACY thousands of times and it’s no longer salient. On the R “side”, Repeat ZERO_TAX thousands of…
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EHD = UFO? EHD = GOD?
Two years ago I was on a UFO kick. I animated Armstrong’s electrohydrodynamic generator, speculating that it might have been the power source for the disc-type UFOs. The same generator led to a different form of speculation in a wonderful 1860 book by Rev Sidney. He explores all the known principles and uses of electricity,…
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Another natural parallel
I don’t grasp fashion or fashionable drugs, so I had no idea this was a problem. Ozempic is so common now that snack food companies are losing money. No munchies, no profit. Snack food companies are taking nature’s route when demand drops. Experiment. Try different variations. Expand your audience by appealing to different types of…
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Probably right
Seen on Substack: = = = = = START QUOTE: You won’t believe the interview I’m working on now. Here’s a taste, “There are no more insects left in Spain. I used to drive coaches for over a decade and had to stop every 100 miles to wash the windshield of all the bugs crushed…
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Geography and language
In language we pin down the consonants, which are really absences of sound. Many writing systems, from Sanskrit to Arabic, write only the consonants. The majority of meaning is carried by the chords of vowel formants, which are shaped by the mostly absent consonants. Consonants are moments when the formant vector changes its direction. In…
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I’d rather
More random pointless thoughts. Before the web, newspapers were divided into Serious Publications and Tabloids. Serious Publications had pictures of Serious Men Doing Serious Things, which was usually a meeting to conjure up a new unjustified war. Tabloids had pictures of pretty girls. The same division happens in the web, with one addition. Serious Publications…
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Why is music unique?
In Gioia’s latest interview he spends a lot of time discussing Romanticism, which is the parallel to my Foy Rebellion. He also uses Taylor Swift vs AI as an example of opposite trends. AI is removing the human element from the ‘low end’ of music, Swift is returning the human element to the top-dollar end.…
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Makes sense
Pointed by Denyse as usual, a preliminary look at a major revision in our understanding of memory and intelligence. = = = = = START QUOTE: Typically, the cytoskeleton network provides mechanical support for the cell and is responsible for cell shape and movement. However, the Moffitt researchers noted that proteins from the cytoskeleton are…
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Metaphor misses
Growth is the Wall Street mantra. Go big or go home. The crime market insists on growth of cash flow, with a negative correlation to profit. In real life you don’t want endless growth. Endless growth is CANCER. In real life you ALSO don’t want to survive by merging into a larger body. Merging into…
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Gelatin and polarization
This gadget shown in a book by Silvanus Thompson grabbed my attention. It was an attempt to polarize electromagnetic waves using mirrors. There isn’t much info on it, and it doesn’t appear to have proved anything. It sounds like a dead end, but with more persistence it could have led to a momentous discovery. Augusto…
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Earth Hour!
Might as well keep up this tradition, which I started in 2011. Repeating the 2017 piece, tributing the previous association of electric power with beauty. Electric Parks and Luna Parks were beautiful and ENTERTAINING places, built to provide a terminus for streetcar lines. The streetcars then brought electricity from the hydro dam or coal-powered plant…
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