Tag: Grand Blueprint
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Sitters vs Rovers
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2011 REPRINT: In the last few years the public and scientific understanding of human temperament has been recovering from the grotesquely false egalitarian / chemical mindset of the 20th century. From NYTimes last month: = = = = = But the Zoloft ad’s…
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Aliens
Via NewSuperstitionist: Adult starfish are not bilateral because they don’t have a body. A starfish is just a “head walking about the seafloor on its lips”. The larva is bilateral and looks like other simple invertebrates, a worm with head and tail. When it morphs into an adult, it stops expressing the genes for body…
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More on C-Tactile
First, reprinting from a month ago: = = = = = START REPRINT: Yasuko has produced a huge number of tutorials using acupressure and similar methods to improve mood and health. This one turned out to be surprisingly effective: Is C-Tactile proper science? Yes. Exactly. = = = = = START QUOTE: The human equivalent…
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SAG, UAW, DAC
The Ankler notes frustration by two old labor activists who are unexpectedly members of SAG. Nader complains that he wrote letters to Fran and she didn’t answer, which seems cranky and whiny. He’s warning that AI is a serious threat, which is redundant because SAG is already treating AI as deadly serious. I don’t see…
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Definite and speculative
Noted on this morning’s walk… A walnut tree dropped a dozen nuts in a dozen seconds from one branch, then stopped. Caught my attention because most of them were falling on a roof, making a loud noise. The same branch on the same tree dropped nuts on the same roof during my walk a few…
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Mammary grammary
The internal evidence of language has always implied that our brains have separate ways of processing One, Two, Three, Four, Many. Languages have basic words or grammatical forms for 1 2 3 and sometimes 4. Beyond 4, the later developed numbers take over, but without any grammatical connections. A new study firms up the brain…
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C-tactile
Yasuko has produced a huge number of tutorials using acupressure and similar methods to improve mood and health. This one turned out to be surprisingly effective: Is C-Tactile proper science? Yes. Exactly. = = = = = START QUOTE: The human equivalent to the C-LTMRs are called C-tactile afferents. The C-tactile afferents, which exist exclusively…
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Adding a tech gene
Last year I mused on tech genes and epigenes. I’ve tacked on a new item that seems appropriate. = = = = = START REPRINT: I just finished pulling together the Morse prototype and the Endicott experiment into a single Poser set, released on ShareCG. Gathering up and debugging a set always stirs thoughts. The…
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Speaking of chickens
Speaking of chickens… A free-range Rhode Island Red videobombed one of the Youtubers specializing in the Philly fentanyl folks. Chickens are scavengers who will eat anything, so they certainly belong in the same niche as rats and seagulls and humans. How did it get there? Well, chickens can fly, though like quail they prefer walking.…
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Nature came back
In previous item I linked a 2015 piece about sleep improving memory. At that time I was going through a ‘phase change’ without knowing it: = = = = = START QUOTE: Since the end of paid work project in early Feb, I’ve dropped into a bad broken sleep pattern, and can’t seem to pop…
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Why did Endicott fail?
MindMatters reviews some newer research on brainwave resonance. This line of research is ‘controversial’ but seems pretty solid now thanks to MRI. The rule is: When intelligent critters are working ‘in sync’, whether in mating or hive activities, their brain waves are literally in sync. Telepathy unquestionably happens in some circumstances. Russian and American scientists…
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Nature’s ledger
Thinking again about the peculiar self-liquidating scrip. A city issued the scrip with a series of boxes or punch locations. Each time the scrip changed hands, a new hole was punched and a small tax was paid to the issuer. When all the holes were punched, the scrip was simply discarded. It had served its…
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Great line
Denyse at MindMatters turns out a couple of classic lines! But an overarching theme has been the need to promote the idea of a gradual development of human-like intelligence. As it happens, ancestors way stupider than their descendants are just not what paleontologists have been digging up. And histories that are made up rather than…
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