World, Writing, Wealth discussion

Papaphilly wrote: "I really do not like the idea he cannot see the search warrant unredacted."

Agreed.

I am with Papaphilly on this. If authorities are going to do that sort of thing under a search warrant, the search warrant should be handed over in full if requested. If authorities can just wave a piece of paper, burst into your house, take what they want, and not have to show that what they took was justified by the warrant then you are on the road to a dictatorship.

Also, I think this was very heavy-handed. If he saw or recorded something he shouldn't have, but had a legal right to see it from where he was (by that I mean he didn't break into restricted territory) then there should be much simpler ways of dealing with this

We mostly believe memory storage to be a function of the neurological connections in our brains. There is plenty of evidence to support this provided by memory loss being a common result of brain trauma.

So, why do some recipients of organ transplants experience personality changes in line with the organ donors whom the recipients never met? Is there a genetic element to memory?

Personality changes following heart transplantation: The role of cellular memory
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31739...

Fascinating question. Maybe if all such organs have some nerves in them, because the brains has to order them what to do, then all the nerves are also extensions of the brain, i.e. the brain is really delocalized over the whole body. When you get an organ transplant, you get a tiny segment of someone else's brain as well.

If you think that is ridiculous, recall that some of the gigantic dinosaurs had pea-sized brains. They would not need a large brain if they could use a nervous system extending over such gigantic bodies.

I had a friend (now deceased) who had a heart transplant. He was a white man in his late fifties and received the heart of a young black man. Of course he claimed that his libido was enhanced (stereotypical redneck nonsense), but I did see positive changes in his behavior afterward. No way to know if it was due to the heart itself or to the fact that he was so close to death and survived. My aunt received a kidney from an unknown person, and her family claimed that her personality changed and she became cantankerous and moody. Again, who knows what caused the change?

Regarding the guy not being given access to the full search warrant, well the FBI has been doing shady things in recent years. I've lost respect for and trust in them.

This Genetically Modified Tobacco Plant Can Produce Cocaine With Its Leaves | Here's an Explanation
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/28...

An interesting conversation about physics, UFOs, and ESP:
https://youtu.be/iQOibpIDx-4

Dozens of Cattle Slaughtered by Mystery Creature That Left No Tracks
https://www.newsweek.com/dozens-cattl...

Any proof that astrology has merit?

Absolutely! I read it on the internet and we know that is all the truth....8^)

Scout wrote: "Any proof that astrology has merit?"

There are the anecdotes of celebrities who seem enamored of such soothe sayers.

How Nancy Reagan Became Forever Linked with Astrology
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...

Beyond that, not much. Most studies have found that horoscopes are about as accurate as fortunes picked by a random number generator.

Astrologers love to show off their charts, showing which "houses" the planets were in at the moment of your birth. Their charts are wrong. They're using a zodiacal chart which has the year beginning on the Vernal Equinox with the Sun rising in Aries. But because of precession those charts should begin in Aquarius (hence the song https://youtu.be/VlrQ-bOzpkQ).

Historically, astrology has merit in that the observation and charting of astrologers led directly to astronomy. However modern astrologers are entertainers at best and con artists at worst.

The True Story Of A Man-Eating Tiger's 'Vengeance'
https://www.npr.org/2010/09/14/129551...

k-Pop on the moon should qualify as weird.

Japanese billionaire unveils the 8 artists he'll fly to the moon on SpaceX's Starship dearMoon flight
https://www.space.com/dearmoon-announ...

I don't know about weird. They're probably weirded out about being chosen, though. It's not without risks. Would you go if someone paid your way? I'm not sure I would.

If the risk is death, I'd be buying a Speedmaster and getting suited up.

If the risk is getting creeped on (or worse) while trapped in space with a Japanese billionaire, I'd decline.

A lost ancient civilization on the Azores?
https://youtu.be/2bm5ivctdB4


... beyond the Pillars of Heracles...

Wild chimpanzee behavior suggests that a savanna-mosaic habitat did not support the emergence of hominin terrestrial bipedalism
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Hippo swallows 2-year-old boy — then spits him back out
https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/hippo-s...

Good wits from Chrispas, well done and saved! Watch out for 🦛

The kid's parents definitely owe Mr. Bagonza a case of whatever he drinks.

I kinda feel bad for the kid's future classmates. They are never going to have a better story on show and tell day.

What was your point in posting the one about wild chimpanzee behavior? I read the article but couldn't find a definitive conclusion or see how it relates to anything important.

Scout wrote: "What was your point in posting the one about wild chimpanzee behavior? I read the article but couldn't find a definitive conclusion or see how it relates to anything important."

The commonly accepted theory for the evolution of bipedalism in our ancestors is that an upright posture was a more efficient way to travel between copses of trees spread out on the expanding savannah in which our ancestors evolved. It would also have allowed them a better view over the grass, and therefore a better chance of spotting grassland predators, like lions.

The article points out that jungle dwelling chimps walk upright a lot. The authors are pointing out that human type bipedalism could have evolved in jungle environments before those jungles were replaced by savannah.

Science changes all the time when good evidence is brought to bear. this may be another explanation. Whether it is jungle or Savannah does not really matter. It is the underlying idea of upright walking that was the great change. We still do not understand how we started talking either and there are plenty of hypotheses.

I suspect coming down from trees was a start. If you want to live in trees, four hands are better than two hands and two feet.

While we were focused on Elon, the Pentagon talked about UFOs.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0VZpspF6P...

J. wrote: "We mostly believe memory storage to be a function of the neurological connections in our brains. There is plenty of evidence to support this provided by memory loss being a common result of brain t..."

I guess I should have read the rest of the thread before I threw out this view of Reality to you. But I'm all caught up in the opportunity to present the fact that mothers have been found to carry their son's DNA in their brains. Moreover the codes also compose stem cells that can morph into any type the mother's body may need replaced.

In other words - the cells have their own intelligence that 'just knows' how to compose anything - and it may not even be ours alone.

But that's still not the real info that 'pushes my buttons'. It's the other fact that it's been proved our Matri-Biome (our Mito/Myco/Micro suppliers of all of the energy inside of us - which also constitutes 99.9% of our mind-and-matter), has been found to be the sole source of Life/Consciousness/Intelligence - in every cell.

It doesn't come from 'The Nuclear Code', a.k.a. 'The Human Genome'...

Instead - it's the Matri-Biome's pulsations - in conjunction with the same in Mother Nature's Infinite Electromagnetic Spectrum - (according to the ENCODE Genome Project and The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle), that is what composes and controls all of the infinitesimal activity of the matter that is us - and The Eco-System.

So it's this - Unlimited Intelligence - that is how everything everywhere acts in perfect coordination (through what's called 'Quantum Entrainment and Entanglement'), - unless linear-based 'man'-made frequencies of energy interfere with this method of - nonlinear - organization.

Then all hell breaks loose and, in each instance, the matter begins to deteriorate and - in the case of humans - the victims simply begin to lose all Life/Consciousness/Intelligence - as well as their material structure.

But instead of calling the effects what they really are: the results of all forms of Electromagnetic pulsations a.k.a. 'Artificial Intelligence' - Society has labeled them: 'Death'.

That's too bad since the Genuine Intelligence of Mother Nature is has been proved to be made of Uncreated and Undying Energy - that needs no transformation or interruption in 'service' for its - and our - Infinite Continuation.

"How ya like dem apples?"

All of that aside and back to the subject of organ transplants and their effects on recipients, a great book to read on that subject is 'The Heart's Code' by Paul Pearsall. I'd have linked it, but our A.I. here seems to be 'out of order' tonight. LOL

Hi Faith, interesting input. Would appreciate hearing more about the sources of the findings

Nik wrote: "Hi Faith, interesting input. Would appreciate hearing more about the sources of the findings"

Ditto.

Must have been a slow news day.

Fact Check: Did U.S. Invade Iraq to Access 'Ancient Stargate'?
https://www.newsweek.com/us-invade-ir...

Here, what is known as the "Silly Season" approaches.

Ian wrote: "Here, what is known as the "Silly Season" approaches."

Please elaborate.

Serious reporters go on summer vacation all at the same time. The media has to use what it can find, and stuff that normally would be rejected can take a life of its own

Interesting. I wonder how many of those stories are rejected the rest of the year because they are "silly"? And how many are rejected because they don't meet the approved narrative?

Nik wrote: "Hi Faith, interesting input. Would appreciate hearing more about the sources of the findings"

Which part? If you mean a son's DNA in a Mother's Brian, here's a link to that subject. I doubt it's the one I read, but some links are getting scrubbed from the net, ya know...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-...

As for a reference to our Matri-Biome being 99.9% of our Mind and Matter, I'll have to hunt in my files for that info. I have most of it just stuffed up in my head.

But since our Mitochondrial Genomes are bacterial 'in nature', - and there's hundreds to thousands more of them in each cell, a good video from which to get that info is Bonnie Bassler's Ted Talk re: 'Quorum Sensing'. I think she spills the beans in the first 2-3 minutes of it.

For our Myco-Origins, the book to read on that subject is 'Entangled Life' by Merlin Sheldrake. It's all the same Bio-System inside and outside of us pulsating in infinitesimal frequencies of energy - just like Nikola Tesla said.

To get the POV of Reality that comes along with all of these seemingly disparate facts, all we have to do is play connect the dots.

We are energy, Mind and Matter, which is what Einstein meant when he said: "E=MC²". It comes from only our Mitochondria which make up more 'parts' to our cells than does 'human dna'. The latter only qualifies as a virus (program), because it must have the Mitochondria for a Host(ess) to make it mobile, or else it's totally - impotent.

I look at it as a 4 letter keyboard that has no energy of its own. So it needs the Mito's like a keyboard needs an outlet to plug into. Plus the Mito's are the ones that perform the 'music'. The keyboard can't do a thing - alone.

Anyway, I'm at my favorite bookstore and have to leave soon, so I'll try to pick this thread up later.

J. wrote: "Interesting. I wonder how many of those stories are rejected the rest of the year because they are "silly"? And how many are rejected because they don't meet the approved narrative?"

Probably a lot, but we will never know.

Thanks for additional leads and explanation. Still interesting :) I'd take a look further

On the Fringe we often find that stalwart of discovery, the citizen scientist. Tinkerers in their garages, basements, and backyard sheds have been the giants on whose shoulders we have stood. And their ilk continue today. As an example, let's consider an amateurish chemist at work

Thioacetone
https://youtube.com/watch?v=LmAG8-V_W...

So what do y'all think your neighbors are making in their sheds?

He seems to have a lot of relatively good glassware. He has spent a lot for just making stinks.

He has a business model that includes ad revenue from his videos. This accelerated acquisition of gear. But without the videos he would still accrue the tools of his hobby, just like every other hobbyist.

Some of the tools now available to hobbyists are scary.

Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Absolutely Anyone to Hack DNA
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...#

As an aside, I am not sure thioacetone is the stinkiest. As a general rule, in the chalcogens, oxygen compounds can be quite pleasant to smell, sulphur analogs are awful, selenium ones are orders of magnitude worse, and tellurium ones are orders of magnitude worse still. Dimethyl telluride is absolutely awful.

Hope that homebred geniuses can still occasionally beat top - notch commercial think tanks

Ian wrote: "As an aside, I am not sure thioacetone is the stinkiest. As a general rule, in the chalcogens, oxygen compounds can be quite pleasant to smell, sulphur analogs are awful, selenium ones are orders o..."

Curious. From what I've read, Dimethyl telluride has a garlicy odor. I've known a few people who could not handle the smell of garlic (especially, rotten garlic), but it never really got to me.

The odor that knocked me back was from the upholstery of a car in which a person a died and rotted. The poor guy wasn't found for two weeks, in July. The car was bought from his estate auction. We replaced the driver's seat, headliner, and carpet the rest of the upholstery was salvaged by leaving a bushel of apples to rot in the car, then hitting it with a cinnamon scent.

In short, if a used car smells like apple pie; it's not because the previous owner was a baker.

Nik wrote: "Hope that homebred geniuses can still occasionally beat top - notch commercial think tanks"

There's still grounds for hope.

Teen Scientist Invents Life-Saving Cancer Test
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroo...

But also grounds for concern.

The Radioactive Boy Scout
https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/t...

J. wrote: "Ian wrote: "As an aside, I am not sure thioacetone is the stinkiest. As a general rule, in the chalcogens, oxygen compounds can be quite pleasant to smell, sulphur analogs are awful, selenium ones ..."

I checked the Wikipedia article and it mentioned the garlic odour, but that was from someone who had ingested tellurium. That would be a weird thing to do, and my guess is if any dimethyl telluride was made, it would be in incredibly dilute amounts. I shall leave that unchallenged; I have no intention of testing it to see if it is true.

You guys.

I listen to Car Talk on PBS, and a guy called in complaining that he'd bought a car infested with black widow spiders. Hundreds of baby black widows. He was freaking out :-)

I wonder where bought it, and how they got there? Either way, my feeling is he needs to gas them out.

Ian wrote: "I wonder where bought it, and how they got there? Either way, my feeling is he needs to gas them out."

Black Widows are fairly common in the US. They like dark places. I usually run into them in crawl spaces. I understand that bites used to be more common when people used outhouses. All it takes is one female leaving an egg case in the trunk, the dash, or under a seat. I hope that he wasn't driving when he found out about the spiders.

If the car was in the South and it was summer, one could try cooking the bugs by parking it in the sun, and closing it up with the heat cranked for a couple of hours. If that doesn't work, chemical warfare it is, followed by shampooing the interior. The tough bit will be inside of the dash.

HIGH STRANGENESS AT SKINWALKER RANCH
https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/high...

It is a hoax.

Probably. I'm slow to dub it as such because I have yet to see evidence of the financial issues which I would expect. And because of the amount of money that's been poured into the property by otherwise financially sane people since.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtT_iHMEt...