I have listened to a Nature podcast:
Stephen Hawkings and Edward Snowden are heroes of mine.
They just found the largest volcano in the entire solar system. And it’s on Earth! Go Science! Team Earth.
Children respond intellectually (as by the ability to differentiate dinosaurs from another species) to not only human noise (chatter), but also animal noise (cf. language).
One of the greatest Herpetologists just died. And he was also a Cold War activator for the U.S., and he describes at least mission in his memoir. He really did this! Some guy (who does the interview) describes immersing himself in that scientist’s work, and even studying them in the Philippines where he found exactly where he travelled to find each specific species! Omg, you HAVE to listen to this guy describe the experience. It was AMAZING. And to hear him talk about the importance of conservation efforts!
Jesus. People shooting down endangered animals, just because they want to! These are animals that have only just recovered from extinction! People “death threat” these murderers.
There is no necessary disclosure for any frakking companies about what chemicals they use! None! The news laugh when they tell how fucked up this in. He even describes the kind of chemicals they use! Holy fuck! The goddamn frakking companies are even saying that the heavy metal waste in the groundwater was already there! Holy shit! He really presents both positions, so calmly, both the liar and then the soft voice of the rational truth.
I have listened to a Science podcast:
Study shows that monkey have a call for cat-in-grass, and bird-in-tree, but then they changed it around, and the monkeys called a combination, “tree-in-cat”!
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I just remembered, regarding pluripotent cells and organ regeneration. Details are imprecise, but the story remains. Which is to say. Rodent is GM to allow injection of adult cell to revert into pluriopotent cell inside organ (nb. displaying more SC markers than expected). Compare with previous work on stem cells acting to regenerate damaged gut. But: next step. How can we possibly intent to inject cells into a human with the intention of having those cells first transform into pluripotent cells, before continuing to transform into relevant cells and assisting appropriately. The authors suggested to avenues for continuing exploration. Can inject chemicals for pluripotency-transformation directly into organ. Which is one. Two. Can use viral-basis for high-tech targetting (i.e. cell targets, gene targets) of gene technology (i.e. rewriting) to prepare target area for receiving and reprogramming cells (into pluripotency). [I acknowledge that this paragraph – In. Particular. – is quite a mess. But the potential, not least with personal implications, for development is, not least with personal implications, (sic! sic!) exciting.]
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I had been on a website called The Elias Forum:
I just remembered… Somewhere in the midst of the midst of Elias et al.,. the following justification: Homo sapien is an outcome of a basis comprising mostly of evolution of a model of organisms occupying themselves by metabolism, procreation, and leisure. Aka. Resource accumulation. Sex. Fun, and Culture. Thus it is no surprise to wake up and find the state of the world and it’s men. In particular the dominance of economics for defining (what some have succumbed to calling, ‘corrupting’) everything! [Sic! Sic.! Exciting!]
Reflecting on things (incl. heroes):
As I sat in the dark, in the wee hours of today’s morning and last night’s transforming night, I listened to a podcast and thought. Among my thoughts were those relating to my heroes. In particular, standing upon a pedestal I can hope only to appreciate, were the icons Snowden and Hawking. Everything lies in its place – even those things out of their places, stuck in mess’ paradigm change – and I am thinking here by some belaboured transition and series of relations, of the greatest thinkers who were also greatest philosophers. And they did exist. They spoke from podiums built of blood and watered-down fat-enclosures (aka cells). They had many names, and mostly an identity each. I can prove that
