wikipedia |Gabriel Kron (1901 – 1968) was a Hungarian Americanelectrical engineer who promoted the use of methods of linear algebra, multilinear algebra, and differential geometry in the field. His method of system decomposition and solution called Diakoptics is still influential today. Though he published widely, his methods were slow to be assimilated. At Union College
a symposium was organized by Schaffer Library on "Gabriel Kron, the Man
and His Work", held October 14, 1969. H.H. Happ edited the contributed
papers, which were published by Union College Press as Gabriel Kron and Systems Theory
quantumchemistryhistory |Gabriel Kron, a very fascinating man. What I
could do with the history of Gabriel Kron. He was thrown out of the
University of Michigan. I'll tell you a little bit about him that's not
in my book; I did something else. He was thrown out of the University of
Michigan because he was always fighting with the instructors, at
something like sixteen. He decided to work his way around the world, and
came to Hollywood. He was very brilliant. He had so many problems
because his professors were a couple of light years behind him. He got
back to Hollywood, signed a contract for $10,000 or so to work on his
new experimental movie camera, and the company that gave him the
contract paid him the money up front and went bankrupt. So he had a year
or two with no work to do. He came to New York City. In the public
library he started to read books on mathematics and became the inventor
of something called tensor analysis. It became quite important but then
he worked for GE. He was unusual and was not easy to work with because
he was ahead of his time. You have to mention him in the history of
electrical engineering because he was a character....
Book listing (no ad) taken from alibris.com 8/2003.
Yet another reference to G. Kron, 8/2003, - from here
.....
Andrei Petrov described Kuznetsov's work on the method of tensor
analysis for the handling of physical systems of extreme complexity,
based on earlier work by the American engineer Gabriel Kron, whom
Kuznetsov held in high esteem. Petrov also recounted the origin of the
discovery of the significance of what Kuznetsov called the "Principle of
Conservation of Power," for the understanding of living systems as well
as physical economies, whose evolution proceeds in the opposite
direction as that implied by the so-called Second Law of Thermodynamics.
...
Also: Gabriel Kron. Tensors for Circuits. Dover Publication, Inc., second Edition, 1959.
NationalGeographic | Great news! [Princeton University professor] Joe Taylor talked to
Angel Vazquez, who made contact with the observatory via ham radio.
Everybody there is safe and sound,” reported Arecibo deputy director Joan Schmelz.
However, it’s not yet clear how staff who weathered the storm in town
are doing, or what conditions are like for local communities. Reports
suggest that the road up to the facility is covered in debris and is
largely inaccessible.
Still, according to the National Science Foundation,
which funds the majority of the telescope’s operations, the observatory
is well stocked with food, well water, and fuel for generators. As of
Thursday night, there are enough supplies for the staff hunkered down
there to survive for at least a week, although Vazquez reports that it’s
not clear how long the generators will be working.
“As soon as the roads are physically passable, a team will try to get up to the observatory,” the NSF statement says.
Because of its deep water well and generator, the observatory has
been a place for those in nearby towns to gather, shower, and cook after
past hurricanes. It also has an on-site helicopter landing pad, so
making sure the facility is safe in general is not just of scientific
importance, but is also relevant for local relief efforts.
Built in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory has become a cultural icon,
known both for its size and for its science. For most of its 54-year
existence, Arecibo was the largest radio telescope in the world, but in
2016, a Chinese telescope called FAST—with a dish measuring 1,600 feet across—surpassed Arecibo in size, although it’s not yet fully operational.
The observatory was originally designed for national defense during
the Cold War, when the U.S. wanted to see if it could detect Soviet
satellites (and maybe missiles and bombs) based on how they alter the
portion of Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere. Later, the
telescope became instrumental in the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence (SETI) programs and in other aspects of radio astronomy.
HoustonPress | In 1969, Mary Jane Victor was an art history student at the
University of St. Thomas -- and a regular patron of the O.K. Trading
Center. She remembers being amazed to come across the scrapbooks.
At the university art department, Victor was working for art patron
Dominique de Menil, a Schlumberger heiress famous for her eye for
surrealists and the primitive art that inspired them. Victor promptly
told de Menil about her find and put her in touch with the junk dealer.
Soon after, the heiress paid Washington $1,500 for four of the earliest
notebooks.
"Dellschau for her was an eccentric," recalls Steen. "She had a
wonderful affinity for eccentrics." Half joking, she told Steen she was
especially drawn to the coded phrase "DM=X" scrawled across the top of
many drawings. She thought DM stood for "Dominique de Menil." And the
rest somehow equaled her own death.
Soon after de Menil acquired the notebooks, she exhibited some of
their leaves in "Flight," a University of St. Thomas show on the
subject. And it was there that Pete Navarro, one of the most dogged
investigators of Dellschau's mysteries, first encountered the aeros.
Navarro, a Houston commercial artist, was intrigued by UFOs,
especially by a mysterious rash of airship sightings near the turn of
the century, not long before Dellschau began his drawings. Navarro read
about the St. Thomas exhibition one morning at the breakfast table. And
when he saw Dellschau's drawings, he felt there had to be a connection
to the sightings.
Ufologists believe that between November 1896 and April 1897,
thousands of Americans in 18 states between California and Indiana saw a
curious dirigible-like flying machine floating eastward. No physical
evidence of a ship or a designer has ever surfaced, but newspapers such
as the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Daily Express
and Chicago Tribune devoted space to the sightings. In this century,
authors Daniel Cohen and William Chariton have published books on the
subject.
The mysterious craft was first spotted on November 17, 1896, by R.L.
Lowery, near a brewery in Sacramento, California. According to various
newspaper reports, the craft seemed to travel eastward. In spring, it
was spotted in Texas.
At 1:16 a.m. on April 17, 1897, the Reverend J.W. Smith saw what he
thought was a shooting star in the night sky of Childress, Texas, then
decided it was really a flying machine. Eventually he recognized it as
the much-discussed cigar-shaped airship.
Four days after Smith's UFO sighting, the Houston Daily Post gave a
lengthy account of his and other spottings of the same airship, a
30-foot-long skiff-shaped contraption outfitted with revolving wheels
and sails.
Jim Nelson, a farmer from Atlanta, Texas, recalled glimmers of red,
green and blue lights and "a glaring gleam of white light" that shone
directly in front of the airship. In Belton, a crowd witnessed the same
vehicle the next night. They claimed its pilots spoke loudly as they
flew overhead, but the ship's velocity was so great, their words were
lost in the wind.
According to other newspaper accounts, witnesses managed to talk
with the pilots. Sometimes townspeople even came upon the crew members,
who were apparently making repairs to their marvelous machine and were
willing to chat.
In 1972, three years after de Menil bought her four notebooks, Pete
Navarro learned that more Dellschau notebooks were collecting dust at
Washington's junk shop. Nobody wanted them, so Navarro gave the dealer
$65 for one book. Hooked by what he saw, he returned and offered $500
more for the remaining seven.
Navarro tried to sell four of the notebooks to de Menil; she chose
not to buy them -- perhaps because she liked the work in her own
notebooks better. De Menil owned some of Dellschau's earliest notebooks
and believed that they included his best work. As the artist aged, his
works grew looser, more expressionistic; de Menil seems to have
preferred his earlier precision.
But for Navarro, the notebooks weren't about artistic quality; they
were pieces of a historical puzzle. He visited Helen and Tommy Britton,
cousins of Leo Jr. Helen promised she'd try to find more books and
pictures of Dellschau that were hidden around the family's old house,
but she died before she could locate anything. Navarro also talked to
Tommy Britton, who was a preteen when Dellschau died. Now in his 80s, he
may be the last living relative who remembers Dellschau. (Britton
couldn't be reached for this story.)
After culling a vast number of such press clippings, Navarro created
an elaborate map of every Texas sighting and wrote several papers. Some
are on file at the Houston Public Library's Texas archive; others are
available on the Internet at www.keelynet.com.
In "The Mysterious Mr. Wilson and the Books of Dellschau," co-written
with UFO enthusiast Jimmy Ward, Navarro posits a connection between
Dellschau's clandestine society and a mysterious pilot named Hiram
Wilson mentioned in an article by the San Antonio Daily Express on April
26, 1897, about a local airship sighting. The article identifies the
airship's occupants as Wilson, from Goshen, New York; his father,
Willard H. Wilson, assistant master mechanic of the New York Central
Railroad; and their co-pilot C.J. Walsh, an electrical engineer from San
Francisco.
In that story, Hiram Wilson divulged to witnesses that his airship
design came from an uncle. Navarro believes that the uncle could have
been another Wilson -- the Sonora club member Tosh Wilson mentioned in
one of Dellschau's watercolors. According to Navarro, Dellschau's coded
messages say that Tosh searched seven years to rediscover suppe, the
lost fuel, and finally succeeded.
Navarro has found no trace of a Hiram Wilson residing in Goshen. But
he does offer evidence of his presence at 1897 airship sightings in
Greenville, Texas (on April 16); near Lake Charles, Louisiana (on April
19); near Beaumont, Texas (April 19); Uvalde, Texas (April 20); Lacoste,
Texas (April 24); and Eagle Pass, Texas (April 24).
On April 28, the Galveston Daily News ran the headline "Airship
Inventor Wilson." The article reported the inventor's encounter with one
Captain Akers, a customs agent from Eagle Pass. Akers told the
newspaper that Wilson "was a finely educated man about 24 years of age
and seemed to have money with which to prosecute his investigations."
Based on such reports, Navarro proposes several scenarios. Perhaps
the ship spotted near San Antonio had been flown by both Hiram and
Willard Wilson. Or perhaps each pilot was steering his own airship
across Texas. (This would explain why witnesses living a distance from
one another offered simultaneous sightings of a man who identified
himself as Wilson.) Navarro also speculates that one of these Wilsons
was the same Tosh Wilson who had once belonged to the Sonora Aero Club.
In that scenario, Tosh would have been reliving the glory days Dellschau
could only illustrate in his notebooks.
To confirm the aero club's activities, Navarro has traveled to
Sonora, talked to historians, searched the newspapers and even visited
all the cemeteries. He found nothing. At times, he says, he couldn't
help thinking that Dellschau made everything up.
Eventually, whether the Sonora club was a dream or real stopped
mattering to Navarro. One day, he remembers being absorbed by a passage
inscribed in one of the drawings: "Wonder Weaver, you will unriddle my
writings." Navarro grew convinced that he and his brother, Rudy, "were
weaving wonders." He says of Dellschau, "Maybe we had similar minds."
To crack Dellschau's 40-symbol code, Navarro enlisted the help of
his brother, Rudy, and a couple who spoke German. He says the effort
took only one month, but he won't release the key or a literal
translation.
Navarro will talk only about the same phrase that enchanted de
Menil: "DM=X." To Navarro, it stands for "NYMZA," an acronym for a
secret society that controlled the Sonora club's doings. Based on
Navarro's papers, some ufologists have speculated that NYMZA was
controlled by -- what else? -- aliens; Navarro doesn't buy that theory.
Navarro explains that he's saving his best stuff for his
collaborator, Dennis Crenshaw, who's writing a book called The Secrets
of Dellschau. But Steen, at the Menil, isn't convinced that Navarro
really deciphered the symbols. Steen once asked Navarro to translate the
code; Navarro would tell him the meaning of only a couple of sentences.
Navarro is clearly torn between showing off and keeping secrets.
He's compiled a voluminous scrapbook titled "Dellschau's Aeros." He
proudly showed it to me. It's full of wild code translations and weird
exegeses on the aeros and oddments that Dellschau just stuffed, unbound,
in the notebooks: cartoons, a photocopy of Dellschau's marriage
certificate, letters, maps, clippings and more clippings about all
manner of harebrained inventions. There's even a picture of Otto,
Bavaria's Mad Monarch.
theatlantic | It was the time of Gold Rush, and
people of every nationality were pouring into California in search of
that earth that would make them rich.
The settlement of Sonora,
about 130 miles east of San Francisco, was booming. It was there, in the
saloon of one of the local boarding houses, that a group of men would
get together every Friday night and talk of dreams. Well, just one
dream, really: human flight.
They called themselves the Sonora
Aero Club and, over time, they counted some 60 members, possibly many
more. Their ranks included great characters, such as Peter Mennis,
inventor of the Club's secret "Lifting Fluid," later described as "a
rough Man, whit as kind a heart as to be found in verry few living
beengs," despite being "adicted to strong drink" and "Flat brocke." The
Aero Club's rules: Roughly once a quarter, each member had to stand
before the gathered group and "thoroughly exercise their jaws" in
telling how he would build an airship.
On
one night in 1858, a man by the name of Gustav Freyer stood to present
his invention: the Aero Guarda, an airship surrounded by a sort of
hamster-wheel cage that would protect its passengers upon landfall.
Freyer was a highly educated mechanic, and he waltzed up to the
blackboard, took the chalk in hand, and began.
"Brothers," he
said. "You all know I am not quite a professor." He looked at his fellow
airship enthusiasts and continued: "I give you a nut to crack. My idea
is to put a guard fence all around the machine to fall -- land -- easy
and always safe, to keep some of you smarties from falling out." His
contraption, he argued, would somersault upon hitting water, in such a
way that the passengers would always "stay perpendicular, I mean head up
on the floor of the hold."
He drew a sketch on the board and declared his work done.
"Well," he concluded, "now some of
you have to pay the treat for me. Tell ya the truth, I am busted and dry
as a fish!" And they bought him a beer, lifted up their glasses, and
toasted his good health.
Or perhaps they didn't. Perhaps Gustav
Freyer never stood up among his comrades and proposed this ridiculous
design. Perhaps there was no Gustav Freyer, no Friday nights at the
saloon talking about flight, no clink of the glasses to celebrate a
new-fangled airship design.
Perhaps the Sonora Aero Club never existed at all.
designobserver | Sometime in the mid-1960s, a junk dealer in Houston, Texas acquired 12
large notebooks that had been thrown out to the curb after a house fire.
Filled with mysterious, double-sided, collaged watercolor drawings, the
journals were eventually discovered at the junk shop in 1969 by art
history student Mary Jane Victor. Victor attended the University of St.
Thomas in Houston, where she worked with art patron Dominique de Menil.
After telling Menil about the books, Menil purchased four of the
notebooks for the (then) hefty sum of $1,500, and included them
immediately in an exhibition at Rice University in Houston. Pete
Navarro, a local graphic artist and mystery enthusiast, upon seeing the
exhibition — eventually acquired the remaining books, studying them
obsessively for more than 15 years. Navarro eventually sold the
remaining books to museums and galleries.
It turns out that the
drawings/watercolors were the work of one Charles August Albert
Dellschau (1830 - 1923). Dellschau was a butcher for most of his life
and only after his retirement in 1899 did he begin his incredible career
as a self-taught artist. He began with three books entitled Recollections
which purported to describe a secret organization called the Sonora
Aero Club. Dellschau described his duties in the club as that of the
draftsman. Within his collaged watercolors were newspaper clippings (he
called them “press blooms”) of early attempts at flight overlapped with
his own fantastic drawings of airships of all kind. Powered by a secret
formula he cryptically referred to as “NB Gas” or “Suppa” — the “aeros”
(as Dellscahu called them) were steampunk like contraptions with
multiple propellers, wheels, viewing decks and secret compartments.
Though highly personal, autobiographical (perhaps!), and idiosyncratic,
these artworks could cross-pollinate with the fiction of Jules Verne, Willy Wonka and the Wizard of Oz.
The works were completed in a furiously creative period from 1899 to
1923, when air travel was still looked at by most people as almost
magical. Newspapers of that period were full of stories about air travel
feats and the acrobatic aerial dogfights of WWI were legend.
Researchers have found no account of a Sonora Aero Club, not in Texas or
California. So was this simply a fantasy-fueled creative exercise by a
retired man smitten with the wonders of flight? There were numerous
accounts of pre-20th century UFOs in the Houston area — so perhaps Mr.
Dellschau had witnessed something that ignited his simmering creative
soul? The best we can do is speculate on the mystery and be thankful for
the Houston junk dealer who saved a piece of art history.
All
works are watercolor, pencil and collage on paper, approx. 17 x 18
inches, Images are from various public and private collections, supplied
by Stephen Romano, Brooklyn, NY. A book on the images is forthcoming at the end of March from Marquand Books/D.A.P.
alt-market | That maybe, just maybe, the conservative right is being
tenderized in preparation for radicalization, just as much as the left
has been radicalized. For the more extreme the social divide,
the more likely chaos and crisis will erupt, and the globalists never
let a good crisis go to waste. Zealots, regardless of their claimed
moral authority, are almost always wrong in history. Conservatives
cannot afford to be wrong in this era. We cannot afford zealotry. We
cannot afford biases and mistakes; the future of individual liberty
depends on our ability to remain objective, vigilant and steadfast.
Without self examination, we will lose everything.
Years ago in 2012, I published a thorough examination of
disinformation tactics used by globalist institutions as well as
government and political outfits to manipulate the public and undermine
legitimate analysts working to expose particular truths of our social
and economic conditions.
If you have not read this article, titled Disinformation: How It Works, I highly recommend you do so now. It will act as a solid foundation for what I am about to discuss in this article. Without
a basic understanding of how lies are utilized, you will be in no
position to grasp the complexities of disinformation trends being
implemented today.
Much of what I am about to discuss will probably not become apparent
for much of the mainstream and portions of the liberty movement for many
years to come. Sadly, the biggest lies are often the hardest to see
until time and distance are achieved.
If you want to be able to predict geopolitical and economic
trends with any accuracy, you must first accept a couple of hard
realities. First and foremost, the majority of cultural shifts
and fiscal developments within our system are a product of social
engineering by an organized collective of power elites. Second, you must
understand that this collective is driven by the ideology of globalism —
the pursuit of total centralization of financial and political control
into the hands of a select few deemed as "superior" concertmasters or
"maestros."
As globalist insider, CFR member and mentor to Bill Clinton, Carroll Quigley, openly admitted in his book Tragedy And Hope:
"The
powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing
less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands
able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy
of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist
fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret
agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The
apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in
Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s
central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central
bank ... sought to dominate its government by its ability to control
Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level
of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative
politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world."
The philosophical basis for the globalist ideology is most clearly
summarized in the principles of something called "Fabian Socialism," a
system founded in 1884 which promotes the subversive and deliberate
manipulation of the masses towards total centralization, collectivism
and population control through eugenics. Fabian Socialists prefer to
carry out their strategies over a span of decades, turning a population
against itself slowly, rather than trying to force changes to a system
immediately and outright. Their symbol is a coat of arms depicting a
wolf in sheep's clothing, or in some cases a turtle (slow and steady
wins the race?) with the words "When I strike I strike hard."
Again, it is important to acknowledge that these people are
NOT unified by loyalty to any one nation, culture, political party,
mainstream religion or ethnic background.
gurdjiefflegacy |In 1888 the 16-year-old Gurdjieff
witnessed a strange incident: he saw a little boy, weeping and making
strange movements, struggling with all his might to break out of a
circle drawn around him by other boys. Gurdjieff released the boy by erasing part of the circle and the child ran from his tormentors. The boy, Gurdjieff
learned, was a Yezidi. He had heard only that Yezidis were "a sect
living in Transcaucasia, mainly in the regions near Mount Ararat. They
are sometimes called devil-worshippers." Astonished by the incident, Gurdjieff made a point of telling us that he felt compelled to think seriously about the Yezidis.(1)
Inquiring of the adults he knew, he received contradictory opinions
representative of the usual, prejudiced view of the Yezidis. But Gurdjieff remained unsatisfied.
This story is embedded in the narrative of Meetings with Remarkable Men, like one of the monuments in Turkestan which Gurdjieff said helps people find their way through regions in which there are no roads or footpaths. In chapter five Gurdjieff
placed another such marker, an echo of the earlier story. There, he and
Pogossian set off to find the Sarmoung Brotherhood, even if they must
travel, as Gurdjieff says, "on the devil's back." Enroute, far from any city, Pogossian throws a stone at one barking dog in a pack, and he and Gurdjieff
are immediately surrounded by fifteen Kurdish sheepdogs. Like Yezidis,
the two men cannot leave the circle of dogs until they are released by
the shepherds who own the dogs.(2)
Where does this incident happen?
If we set out Gurdjieff's journey with Pogossian on a map and,
following Gurdjieff's instructions, draw a line from Alexandropol
through Van, we see it passes through the Lalish Valley, location of the
tomb and shrine of Sheikh Adi, the principal saint of the Yezidi
religion. Extending the line further, it reaches Mosul, the major town
in the region and a center of Yezidism.(3) By setting such markers, is Gurdjieff advising that we too should "think seriously" about the Yezidis?
Gurdjieff has said that the teaching he brought is completely self-supporting and independent of other lines, was completely unknown up to the present time, and its origins predate and are the source of ancient Egyptian religion and of Christianity.
Why then, has he as much as asked us to look into Yezidism? Some,
swayed in a superficial sense by the subtitle of Ouspensky's book, Fragments of an Unknown Teaching, went hunting for the "missing link" in Gurdjieff's supposedly incomplete teaching. They tried to find this or that source from which he put it together, little realizing that it was they who were fragmentary, not the teaching.
The questions become instead: what ideas do we
encounter in a study of the Yezidis—and do these tell us anything? As we
acquaint ourselves with the Yezidis and their beliefs, we may see that Gurdjieff has led us to materials for a deeper understanding of the nature of an esoteric teaching, of the implications of a teaching transmitted "orally," and of the reasons for his unlikely choice of Beelzebub as the hero of the First Series.
disinfo | Between 1969 and 1977, Apollo mission seismographic equipment
registered up to 3,000 “moonquakes” each year of operation. Most of the
vibrations were quite small and were caused by meteorite strikes or
falling booster rockets. But many other quakes were detected deep inside
the Moon. This internal creaking is believed to be caused by the
gravitational pull of our planet as most moonquakes occur when the Moon
is closest to the Earth.
An event occurred in 1958 in the Moon’s Alphonsus crater, which shook
the idea that all internal moonquake activity was simply settling
rocks. In November of that year, Soviet astronomer Nikolay A. Kozyrev of
the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory startled the scientific world by
photographing the first recorded gaseous eruption on the Moon near the
crater’s peak. Kozyrev attributed this to escaping fluorescent gases. He
also detected a reddish glow characteristic of carbon compounds, which
“seemed to move and disappeared after an hour.”
Some scientists refused to accept Kozyrev’s findings until
astronomers at the Lowell Observatory also saw reddish glows on the
crests of ridges in the Aristarchus region in 1963. Days later, colored
lights on the Moon lasting more than an hour were reported at two
separate observatories.
Something was going on inside the volcanically dead Moon. And
whatever it is, it occurs the same way at the same time. As the Moon
moves closer to the Earth, seismic signals from different stations on
the lunar surface detect identical vibrations. It is difficult to accept
this movement as a natural phenomenon. For example, a broken artificial
hull plate could shift exactly the same way each time the Moon passed
near the Earth.
There is evidence to indicate the Moon may be hollow. Studies of Moon
rocks indicate that the Moon’s interior differs from the Earth’s mantle
in ways suggesting a very small, or even nonexistent, core. As far back
as 1962, NASA scientist Dr. Gordon MacDonald stated, “If the
astronomical data are reduced, it is found that the data require that
the interior of the Moon be less dense than the outer parts. Indeed, it
would seem that the Moon is more like a hollow than a homogeneous
sphere.”
Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, while scoffing at the
possibility of a hollow moon, nevertheless admitted that since heavier
materials were on the surface, it is quite possible that giant caverns
exist within the Moon. MIT’s Dr. Sean C. Solomon wrote, “The Lunar
Orbiter experiments vastly improved our knowledge of the Moon’s
gravitational field … indicating the frightening possibility that the
Moon might be hollow.”
Why frightening? The significance was stated by astronomer Carl Sagan
way back in his 1966 work Intelligent Life in the Universe, “A natural
satellite cannot be a hollow object.”
The most startling evidence that the Moon could be hollow came on
November 20, 1969, when the Apollo 12 crew, after returning to their
command ship, sent the lunar module (LM) ascent stage crashing back onto
the Moon creating an artificial moonquake. The LM struck the surface
about 40 miles from the Apollo 12 landing site where ultra-sensitive
seismic equipment recorded something both unexpected and astounding—the
Moon reverberated like a bell for more than an hour. The vibration wave
took almost eight minutes to reach a peak, and then decreased in
intensity. At a news conference that day, one of the co-directors of the
seismic experiment, Maurice Ewing, told reporters that scientists were
at a loss to explain the ringing. “As for the meaning of it, I’d rather
not make an interpretation right now. But it is as though someone had
struck a bell, say, in the belfry of a church a single blow and found
that the reverberation from it continued for 30 minutes.”
It was later established that small vibrations had continued on the
Moon for more than an hour. The phenomenon was repeated when the Apollo
13’s third stage was sent crashing onto the Moon by radio command,
striking with the equivalent of 11 tons of TNT. According to NASA, this
time the Moon “reacted like a gong.” Although seismic equipment was more
than 108 miles from the crash site, recordings showed reverberations
lasted for three hours and 20 minutes and traveled to a depth of 22 to
25 miles.
Subsequent studies of man-made crashes on the Moon yielded similar
results. After one impact the Moon reverberated for four hours. This
ringing coupled with the density problem on the Moon reinforces the idea
of a hollow moon. Scientists hoped to record the impact of a meteor
large enough to send shock waves to the Moon’s core and back and settle
the issue. That opportunity came on May 13, 1972, when a large meteor
stuck the Moon with the equivalent force of 200 tons of TNT. After
sending shock waves deep into the interior of the Moon, scientists were
baffled to find that none returned, confirming that there is something
unusual about the Moon’s core, or lack thereof.
nature | Lunar-origin studies are in flux. No current impact model stands out as
more compelling than the rest. Progress in several areas is needed to
rule out some theories, support others or direct us to new ones.
First, a better understanding of what happened between the formation
of the disk and the accumulation of the Moon from the disk is essential,
because this phase established the Moon's properties. Did mixing
homogenize the composition of the disk and the planet before the Moon
formed? Were volatile elements lost from the disk, and, if so, did the
pattern of loss vary with the disk's temperature? Canonical impacts
produce a mostly liquid disk whereas in the high-angular-momentum
impacts, the disks are initially largely vapour. Such disk-evolution
models are technically challenging and will require a multidisciplinary
approach incorporating both dynamics and chemistry.
Second,
the likelihood that a resonance altered the Earth–Moon angular momentum
needs to be assessed for a variety of physical states of the early
Earth and Moon and using state-of-the-art models for the tidal
interactions between them.
Finally, further
isotopic comparisons of lunar and terrestrial materials would be
extremely valuable. They should include highly refractory elements, such
as calcium, to test the equilibration model. Finding that an element
that could not have mixed in a vapour phase in 100 years is the same in
the Moon and Earth but different in Mars would argue against
equilibration; finding Earth–Moon isotopic differences in such a highly
refractory element would support it.
Oxygen
provides arguably the most important isotopic constraint on lunar
formation. The distinct oxygen isotopic compositions of the Earth–Moon
system, Mars and most meteorites reflect different initial compositional
reservoirs in the inner Solar System. This simplifies the
interpretation of oxygen compositions compared with elements such as
silicon, whose isotopic abundances are affected by later planet-forming
processes (such as crustal extraction). Increasing the precision of
oxygen isotope measurements could potentially rule out some impact
scenarios.
It remains troubling that all of
the current impact models invoke a process after the impact to
effectively erase a primary outcome of the event — either by changing
the disk's composition through mixing for the canonical impact, or by
changing Earth's spin rate for the high-angular-momentum narratives.
Sequences
of events do occur in nature, and yet we strive to avoid such
complexity in our models. We seek the simplest possible solution, as a
matter of scientific aesthetics and because simple solutions are often
more probable. As the number of steps increases, the likelihood of a
particular sequence decreases. Current impact models are more complex
and seem less probable than the original giant-impact concept.
A
clue may lie in Venus. The assumption that the Moon-forming impactor
had a composition very different from that of Earth is largely based on
what we know about Mars. We do not know the isotopic composition of
Venus, the planet most similar to Earth in both mass and distance from
the Sun. If Venus's composition proves similar to that of Earth and the
Moon, Mars would then seem to be an outlier, and an impactor composition
akin to Earth's would be more probable, removing many objections to the
canonical impact.
Determining the isotopic
composition of Venus's key elements will probably require a mission to
the planet. Such a tantalizing prospect reminds us how much there is
still to learn in our Solar System backyard.
bibliotecapleyades |The ancient civilization of Egypt was nearly destroyed in a cosmic
catastrophe that endangered the entire planet, according to
Velikovsky. Everywhere, huge resources were devoted to study of the
skies. It's widely known that ancient civilizations in Asia, the
Americas, Europe and the Middle East were highly advanced in
astronomy.
While we accept this as a common feature of our past,
Why were so many people interested in the
study of the movements of the planets?
Why is the alignment of astronomical
instruments found in Babylon 2.5 degrees out from the
present alignment of the Earth?
Why did calendars constructed between the
middle of the second millennium BCE *
and 800 BCE have 360 days and months of thirty days?
Why do even earlier calendars have days,
months and years of different lengths again?
* Before
the Common Era
Velikovsky's answer was that the Earth and Mars had
been involved in repeated near collisions with a gigantic comet
since our recorded history began. The events described in the Exodus and in Egyptian
papyri are a vivid description of an age in chaos—plagues, turmoil
and darkness, and the flight of the Hebrews from Egypt toward a
"column of fire" in Sinai.
The Earth was momentarily slowed down and its axis slightly altered
as the comet passed by. Electrostatic forces caused discharges to
arc between the Earth and the comet turning the skies to fire and
the forests to flame. The crust was rent, volcanoes erupted,
earthquakes rocked and darkness enveloped the world—the time of the
Exodus.
Seven hundred years later Isaiah, Joel and Amos described
another series of upheavals; the Sun appeared to stand still in the
sky. Although slightly dislodged from its axis and orbit again, the
Earth fared better this second time.
These were, in fact, the last two acts of a cosmic
drama; the earliest act of which we have records is called The
Deluge.
All cosmological theories assumed that the
planets have evolved in their places for billions of years...
Venus was formerly a comet and joined the family of planets
within the memory of mankind... We claim that the Earth's orbit
changed more than once, and with it the length of the year; that
the geographic position of the terrestrial axis and its
astronomical direction changed repeatedly and that at a recent
date the polar star was in the constellation of the Great Bear.
—Worlds in Collision, p. 361
Velikovsky believed that the origin of the comet that
was responsible for changes in the Earth's orbit was in the
proto-star we know as Jupiter. This idea outraged the scientific
community. But his theories about the natures of Jupiter and Venus
have not yet been proven wrong. He said that because Venus was
younger than the other planets, its surface temperature would be
much hotter and its atmosphere denser than astronomers believed;
these predictions were proven correct.
He predicted Venus would be found to have orbital anomalies in
relation to the other planets; Venus has since been found to rotate
on its axis in reverse direction to the other planets, and its day
is longer than its year. We now know that parts of the atmosphere of
Venus rotate in 4 days (with winds of up to 400 km/h) while the
planet itself rotates in 243 days. Both these rotations are
retrograde.
One of Velikovsky's hypotheses for the slowing of the
Earth's rotation which made the Sun appear to stand still was that
the planet was engulfed in the extended atmosphere of the comet
Venus. Some of the diurnal rotation of the Earth was imparted to
this dust-cloud according to Velikovsky, which fits the eccentric
characteristics of the Venusian atmosphere.
The comet spiraled past the Earth in an ever-decreasing path around
the Sun before taking up its present orbit as the planet Venus. He
further cites evidence to show that the Earth interacted with Mars
on a number of occasions when writing was better developed than
during the Venusian encounters, after Venus flipped Mars out of its
orbit.
bibliotecapleyades |Although people long ago began to wonder
whether the "canals" on Mars were the creation of cosmic engineers, for
some odd reason it
has not occurred to look with the same eyes upon the peculiarities
of the lunar landscape much closer at hand.
And all the arguments
about the possibilities of intelligent life existing on other
celestial bodies have been confined to the idea that other
civilizations must necessarily live on the surface of a planet, and
that the interior as a habitat is out of the question.
Abandoning the traditional paths of "common sense", we have plunged
into what may at first sight seem to be unbridled and irresponsible
fantasy. But the more minutely we go into all the information
gathered by man about the Moon, the more we are convinced that there
is not a single fact to rule out our supposition.
Not only that, but
many things so far considered to be lunar enigmas are explainable in
the light of this new hypothesis.
wikipedia | In 1970, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, of what was then the Soviet Academy of Sciences, advanced an hypothesis that the Moon is a spaceship created by unknown beings.[2] The article was entitled "Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?", and was published in Sputnik,[10] the Soviet equivalent of Reader's Digest.[1][14]
Their hypothesis relies heavily on the suggestion that large lunar craters,
generally assumed to be formed from meteor impact, are generally too
shallow and have flat or even convex bottoms. They hypothesized that
small meteors are making a cup-shaped depression in the rocky surface of
the moon while the larger meteors are drilling through a rocky layer
and hitting an armoured hull underneath.[15]
telegraph | This is the Tower of the Winds, built by Ottavinao Mascherino
between 1578 and 1580, a place to which mere members of the public are
never normally admitted.
Here in the Hall of the Meridian, a
room covered in frescoes depicting the four winds, is a tiny hole high
up in one of the walls.
At midday, the sun, shining through the
hole, falls along a white marble line set into the floor. On either side
of this meridian line are various astrological and astronomical
symbols, once used to try to calculate the effect of the wind upon the
stars.
But this is not the real reason why this man with the
shabby trousers, the oddly distinguished-looking grey hair and the
abundance of irrelevant detail has come to the Vatican.
No, the
real reason for this lies elsewhere in the Tower of Winds, in rooms
lined with miles and miles of dark wooden shelves – more than 50 miles
of them in fact.
Here, bound in cream vellum, are thousands upon thousands of volumes, some more than a foot thick.
This is the Vatican secret archive, possibly the most mysterious collection of documents in the world.
Here you can find accounts of the trial of the Knights Templar held at
Chinon in August 1308; a threatening note from 1246 in which Ghengis
Khan’s grandson demands that Pope Innocent IV travel to Asia to ‘pay
service and homage; a letter from Lucretia Borgia to Pope Alexander VI;
Papal Bulls excommunicating Martin Luther; correspondence between the
Court of Henry VIII and Clement VII; and an exchange of letters between
Michelangelo and Paul III.
There are also letters from Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, St Bernadette, Voltaire and Abraham Lincoln.
And here too – depending on how much faith you have in the novels of
Dan Brown – lies proof that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and continued
their own earthly line.
Once, Napoleon had the whole of the secret archive transported to Paris.
It was brought back, albeit with some key documents missing, in 1817
and has remained in the Vatican ever since – a constant source of myth
and fascination.
But now the Vatican Secret Archive is secret no more.
wikipedia | The Vatican Secret Archives (Latin: Archivum Secretum Apostolicum Vaticanum; Italian: Archivio Segreto Vaticano) is the central repository in the Vatican City for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See. The Pope, as Sovereign of Vatican City and having primal incumbency, owns the archives until his death or resignation, with ownership passing to his successor. The archives also contain the state papers, correspondence, papal account books,[1] and many other documents which the church has accumulated over the centuries. In the 17th century, under the orders of Pope Paul V, the Secret Archives were separated from the Vatican Library, where scholars had some very limited access to them, and remained closed to outsiders until 1881, when Pope Leo XIII opened them to researchers, more than a thousand of whom now examine some of its documents each year.[2]
The use of the word "secret" in the title "Vatican Secret Archives"
does not denote the modern meaning of confidentiality. A fuller and
perhaps better translation of the Latin may be the "private Vatican
Apostolic archives". Its meaning is closer to that of the word
"private", indicating that the archives are the Pope's personal
property, not belonging to those of any particular department of the Roman Curia or the Holy See.
The word "secret" was generally used in this sense as also reflected in
phrases such as "secret servants", "secret cupbearer", "secret carver"
or "secretary", much like an esteemed position of honour and regard
comparable to a VIP.[3]
Parts of the Secret Archives remain truly secret, however: some
materials are still prohibited for outside viewing, including everything
dated after 1939.[4]
vigilantcitizen | I remember when I first watched Eyes Wide Shut, back in 1999.
Boy, did I hate it. I hated how slow everything was, I hated how Nicole
Kidman tried to sound drunk or high and I hated seeing Tom Cruise walk
around New York looking concerned. I guess I reacted the same way
critics did at the time the movie came out and thought: “This movie is
boring and there is nothing hot about it.” More than a decade later,
equipped with a little more knowledge and patience, I re-watched the
movie … and it blew my mind. In fact, like most Stanley Kubrick films,
an entire book could be written about the movie and the concepts it
addresses. Eyes Wide Shut is indeed not simply about a
relationship, it is about all of the outside forces and influences that
define that relationship. It is about the eternal back-and-forth
between the male and female principles in a confused and decadent modern
world. Also, more importantly, it is about the group that rules this
modern world – a secret elite that channels this struggle between the
male and female principles in a specific and esoteric matter. The movie
however does not spell out anything. Like all great art, messages are
communicated through subtle symbols and mysterious riddles.
Rainbows and multicolored lights appear throughout the movie, from the beginning to the end. As if to emphasize the theme of multicolored rainbows, almost every
scene in the movie contains multicolored Christmas lights, giving most
sets a hazy, dreamy glow. These lights tie together most scenes of the movie, making them part of
the same reality. There are however a few select scenes where there are
absolutely no Christmas lights. The main one is Somerton palace – the
place where the secret society ritual takes place.
In Eyes Wide Shut, there are therefore two worlds: The
Christmas lights-filled “rainbow world”, where the masses wander around,
trying to make ends meet and the other world… “where the rainbow
ends”- where the elite gathers and performs its rituals. The contrast
between the two world give a sense of an almost insurmountable divide
between them. Later, the movie will clearly show us how those from the
“rainbow world” cannot enter the other world.
So, when the models ask Bill the go “where the rainbow ends”, they
probably refer to going “where the elite gathers and performs rituals”.
It might also be about them being dissociated Beta Programming slaves.
There are several references to Monarch mind control (read this article for more information)
in the movie. Women who take part in elite rituals are often products
of Illuminati mind control. In MK Ultra vocabulary, “going over the
rainbow” means dissociating from reality and entering another persona
(more on this in the next article).
vigilantcitizen | The second part of this analysis focuses exclusively on the unnamed
secret society Bill stumbles upon and its ritual. Although nothing is
explicitly spelled out to the viewers, the symbolism, the visual clues
and even the music of Eyes Wide Shut tell reveals a side of the
occult elite that is rarely shown to the masses. Not only does the
movie depict the world’s richest and most powerful people partaking in
occult rituals, it also shows how this circle has also the power to
exploit slaves, to stalk people, and even to get away with sacrificial
murders. Even worse, mass media participates in covering their crimes.
The secret society in the movie closely resembles the infamous Hellfire
Club, where prominent political figures met up to partake in elaborate
Satanic parties. Today, the O.T.O. and similar secret societies still
partake in rituals involving physical energy as it is perceived to be a
way to attain a state of enlightenment. This concept, taken from Tantric
yoga, is at the core of modern and powerful secret societies. Although
none of this is actually mentioned in Eyes Wide Shut, the
entire movie can be interpreted as one big “magickal” journey,
characterized by a back-and-forth between opposing forces: life and
death, lust and pain, male and female, light and darkness, and so forth …
ending in one big orgasmic moment of enlightenment. This aspect of the
movie, along with other hidden details, will be analyzed in the third
and final part of this series of articles on Eyes Wide Shut.
vigilantcitizen | Stanley Kubrick’s works are never strictly about love or
relationships. The meticulous symbolism and the imagery of all of his
works often communicate another dimension of meaning–one that transcends
the personal to become a commentary on our epoch and civilization. And,
in this transitional period between the end of 20th century and the
beginning of the 21th century, Kubrick told the story of a confused man
who wanders around, desperately looking for a way to satisfy his primal
urges. Kubrick told the story of a society that is completely debased
and corrupted by hidden forces, where humanity’s most primal
urge–procreation–has been cheapened, fetishized, perverted, and
exploited to a point that it has lost all of its beauty. At the top of
this world is a secret society that revels in this context, and thrives
on it. Kubrick’s outlook on the issue was definitely not idealistic nor
very optimistic.
His grim tale focuses on a single man, Bill, who is looking for an
undefined something. Even if he appears to have everything, there is
something missing in his life. Something visceral and fundamental that
is never put into words, but that is quite palpable. Bill cannot be
complete if he is not at peace with the opposite of him: the feminine
principle. Bill’s quest, therefore, follows the esoteric principle of
uniting two opposite forces into one. As suggested by the last lines of
the movie, Bill will ultimately “be one” and get physical with his wife.
After that, the alchemical process and the Tantric ritual would be
complete. However, as Kubrick somehow communicates in the final scene,
even if these two extremely self-absorbed, egoistical and superficial
people believe they’ve reached a some kind of epiphany, what does it
really change? Our civilization as a whole still has its eyes wide shut …
and those were Kubrick’s last cinematographic words.
BostonGlobe | Even AI giants like Google can’t escape the impact of bias. In 2015, the company’s facial recognition software tagged dark skinned people as gorillas. Executives at FaceApp, a photo editing program, recently apologized for building an algorithm that whitened the users’ skin in their pictures. The company had dubbed it the “hotness” filter.
In
these cases, the error grew from data sets that didn’t have enough
dark-skinned people, which limited the machine’s ability to learn
variation within darker skin tones. Typically, a programmer instructs a
machine with a series of commands, and the computer follows along. But
if the programmer tests the design on his peer group, coworkers, and
family, he’s limited what the machine can learn and imbues it with
whichever biases shape his own life.
Photo apps are one thing,
but when their foundational algorithms creep into other areas of human
interaction, the impacts can be as profound as they are lasting.
The faces of one in two
adult Americans have been processed through facial recognition
software. Law enforcement agencies across the country are using this
gathered data with little oversight. Commercial facial-recognition
algorithms have generally done a better job of telling white men apart
than they do with women and people of other races, and law enforcement
agencies offer few details indicating that their systems work
substantially better. Our justice system has not decided if these
sweeping programs constitute a search, which would restrict them under
the Fourth Amendment. Law enforcement may end up making life-altering
decisions based on biased investigatory tools with minimal safeguards.
Meanwhile, judges in almost every state are using algorithms to assist in decisions about
bail, probation, sentencing, and parole. Massachusetts was sued several years ago
because an algorithm it uses to predict recidivism among sex offenders
didn’t consider a convict’s gender. Since women are less likely to
reoffend, an algorithm that did not consider gender likely overestimated
recidivism by female sex offenders. The intent of the scores was to
replace human bias and increase efficiency in an overburdened judicial
system. But, as mathematician Julia Angwin reported in ProPublica, these algorithms are using biased questionnaires to come to their determinations and yielding flawed results.
A
ProPublica study of the recidivism algorithm used in Fort Lauderdale
found that 23.5 percent of white men were labeled as being at an
elevated risk for getting into trouble again, but didn’t re-offend.
Meanwhile, 44.9 percent of black men were labeled higher risk for future
offenses, but didn’t re-offend, showing how these scores are inaccurate
and favor white men.
While the questionnaires don’t ask
specifically about skin color, data scientists say they “back into race”
by asking questions like: When was your first encounter with police?
The
assumption is that someone who comes in contact with police as a young
teenager is more prone to criminal activity than someone who doesn’t.
But this hypothesis doesn’t take into consideration that policing
practices vary and therefore so does the police’s interaction with
youth. If someone lives in an area where the police routinely stop and
frisk people,
he will be statistically more likely to have had an early encounter with
the police. Stop-and-frisk is more common in urban areas
where African-Americans are more likely to live than whites.This
measure doesn’t calculate guilt or criminal tendencies, but becomes a
penalty when AI calculates risk. In this example, the AI is not just
computing for the individual’s behavior, it is also considering the
police’s behavior.
“I’ve talked to prosecutors who say, ‘Well,
it’s actually really handy to have these risk scores because you don’t
have to take responsibility if someone gets out on bail and they shoot
someone. It’s the machine, right?’” says Joi Ito, director of the Media
Lab at MIT.
theantimedia | Already, the Department of Defense has created the Sentient World Simulation, a real-time “synthetic
mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with
respect to current real-world information, such as major events, opinion
polls, demographic statistics, economic reports, and shifts in trends,” according to a working paper on the system.
In recent years, other scientists have conducted research and even
experimentation in attempts to show actual evidence of the Simulation.
Heads turned last year when theoretical physicist S. James Gate
announced he had found strange computer code in
his String Theory research. Bound inside the equations we use to
describe our universe, he says, is peculiar self-dual linear binary
error-correcting block code.
A team of German physicists has
also set out to show that the numerical constraints we see in our
universe are consistent with the kinds of limitations we would see in a
simulated universe. These physicists have invoked a non-perturbative
approach known as lattice quantum chromodynamics to try to discover whether there is an underlying grid to the space/time continuum.
So far their efforts have recreated a minuscule region of the known
universe, a sliver of a corner that is but a few femtometers across. But
this corner simulates the hypothetical lattice of the universal grid,
and their search for a corresponding physical restraint turned up a
theoretical upper limit on high-energy particles known as the
Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin, or GZK cut off. In other words, there are aspects of our universe that look and behave as a simulation might.
With news that there are two anonymous tech billionaires working on a secret project to
break us out of the Matrix, it’s hard to know whether we should laugh
or scream in horror. Simulation talk is great epistemological fun and
metaphysical amusement of the highest order, but it may speak to an
underlying anxiety regarding the merging of our reality with machines,
or an underlying existential loneliness. It’s even been posited as a
solution to the Fermi Paradox. Why haven’t we met aliens? Well, because we live inside a world they built.
downwithtyranny | Until elites stand down and stop the brutal squeeze,
expect more after painful more of this. It's what happens when
societies come apart. Unless elites (of both parties) stop the push for
"profit before people," policies that dominate the whole of the Neoliberal Era,
there are only two outcomes for a nation on this track, each worse than
the other. There are only two directions for an increasingly chaotic
state to go, chaotic collapse or sufficiently militarized "order" to
entirely suppress it.
As with the climate, I'm concerned about the short term for sure — the
storm that kills this year, the hurricane that kills the next — but I'm
also concerned about the longer term as well. If the beatings
from "our betters" won't stop until our acceptance of their "serve the
rich" policies improves, the beatings will never stop, and both sides
will take up the cudgel.
Then where will we be?
America's Most Abundant Manufactured Product May Be Pain
I look out the window and see more and more homeless people, noticeably
more than last year and the year before. And they're noticeably
scruffier, less "kemp," if that makes sense to you (it does if you
live, as I do, in a community that includes a number of them as
neighbors).
The squeeze hasn't let up, and those getting squeezed out of society
have nowhere to drain to but down — physically, economically,
emotionally. The Case-Deaton study speaks volumes to this point. The less fortunate economically are already dying of drugs and despair. If people are killing themselves in increasing numbers, isn't it just remotely maybe possible they'll also aim their anger out as well?
MyceliumRunning |“I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature.
Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with
information-sharing membranes. These membranes are aware, react
to change, and collectively have the long-term health of the
host environment in mind.
The mycelium stays in constant
molecular communication with its environment, devising diverse
enzymatic and chemical responses to complex challenges.”
The mycelium is the part of the mushroom you usually do not see.
Most of it is found distributed throughout
the soil, consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like structures
(known as hyphae) which absorb nutrients and decompose organic
materials.
The mycelium can be exceedingly small or may form a
colony of massive proportions.
Is this the largest organism in the
world? This 2,400-acre (9.7 km2) site in eastern Oregon had a
contiguous growth of mycelium before logging roads cut through
it.
Estimated at 1,665 football fields in size and 2,200 years
old, this one fungus has killed the forest above it several
times over, and in so doing has built deeper soil layers that
allow the growth of ever-larger stands of trees.
Mushroom-forming forest fungi are unique in that their mycelial
mats can achieve such massive proportions. - Paul Stamets
Mycelium
Running
The mycelium has extraordinary
properties suitable for bioremediation.
It is capable of degrading
pesticides and plastics, and has been shown to break down petroleum
in a matter of weeks:
This, however, is only the physio-chemical
dimension of the mycelium.
According to Paul Stamets, it also has
information/consciousness associated properties:
“I see the mycelium as the Earth's
natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to
communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day
exchange information with these sentient cellular networks.
Because these externalized neurological nets sense any
impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches,
they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the
movements of all organisms through the landscape.”
- Paul Stamets
Mycelium Running
The notion that fungi may participate in
some form of planetary interspecies communication and/or
consciousness through their mycelium may seam a bit 'far out,' but
consider that mushrooms have been used to expand consciousness for
countless millennia.
Even beyond the well-known psychedelic
(literally "soul showing") properties of some species (particularly
Lion's Mane) are their
neuritogenic properties; that is, their
ability to promote new neural cell growth and the enhancement of
communication between them. The resemblance between the filamentous
structures within the brain (axons; dendrites) and the fungi within
the soil (mycelium) may therefore be more than accidental.
Our relationship to fungi is in fact closer than most think.
According to David McLaughlin, professor of plant biology at the
University of Minnesota in the College of Biological Sciences, human
cells are surprisingly similar to fungal cells.
In a 2006 Science
Daily article the topic is explored further:
In 1998 scientists discovered that
fungi split from animals about 1.538 billion years ago, whereas
plants split from animals about 1.547 billion years ago.
This
means fungi split from animals 9 million years after plants did,
in which case fungi are actually more closely related to animals
than to plants. The fact that fungi had motile cells propelled
by flagella that are more like those in animals than those in
plants, supports that.
qz | Harvey’s recent comments regarding Asian men can’t be as easily
dismissed. Essentially, Harvey told his audience that he couldn’t
imagine any way an Asian man could ever be deemed attractive—causing a
social media eruption by playing into long-standing stereotypes of Asian
males as emasculated and nonsexual.
And the reaction rapidly expanded beyond the internet. Prominent Asians, from The Daily Show’s Ronny Chieng to Star Trek icon George Takei to Fresh Off the Boat author Eddie Huang, denounced Harvey—the latter in a massively shared op-ed for the New York Times. All of New York’s leading Asian American politicians sent a joint letter to Endemol Shine, who produce Harvey’s show, demanding an immediate public apology for his “offensive, classless comments.”
Within hours, the internet hive mindhad posted a staggering array of undeniably hot Asian guys, such as those on this expertly curated list by Huffington Post relationship editor Brittany Wong: “21 Fine-As-Hell Asian Men Who Will Make You Swoon And Then Some.”
This is hardly the first time lists like this have popped up—they’re
generated any time a celebrity or media organization invokes the
stereotypical image of the Asian male. Wong’s is very similar to this BuzzFeed post
published back in 2014. Some of the names and faces have changed, but
the commonalities are clear: Almost all of these men are tall,
shirtless, and have the muscles of a Greek god training for the Iron Man
triathlon.
And as a not-so-undeniably-hot Asian guy—a medium-aged divorced dad
with a one-pack, a molded-not-sculpted face and hair that’s backed
gingerly away from my forehead like it’s afraid of my eyebrows—I find
these galleries a little awkward. Highlighting a handful of insanely
gorgeous genetic-lottery winners doesn’t exactly contradict the
assertion that average Asian men like me are, in the eyes, minds, and
hearts of the West, inherently unappealing.
In fact, these hyper-hot galleries underscore the fact that these guys are exceptions to the rule;
that by reaching an optimal standard of Western masculine beauty, these
Asian men have managed to overcome their racialized lack of appeal.
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4/3
43
When 1 = A and 26 = Z
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What day?
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64th day is March 5
My birthday
March also has 5 letters.
4 x 3 = 12
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