"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
Unraveling why we sleep:
Quantitative analysis reveals abrupt transition from neural reorganization to repair in early development.
"Sleep serves disparate functions, most notably neural repair, metabolite clearance and circuit reorganization. Yet the relative importance remains hotly debated. Here, we create a novel mechanistic framework for understanding and predicting how sleep changes during ontogeny and across phylogeny."
By Junyu Cao et al.
Iran-Israel: The Larger Implications of Cyber Conflict.
"The Iran-Israel exchange may have done no serious damage, but the fact that both willingly attacked civilian targets and did not suffer any stinging repercussion for doing so may open the door for others to do likewise in future engagements."
By Emilio Iasiello
https://strikesource.com/2020/09/19/iran-israel-the-larger-implications-of-cyber-conflict/
This is going to be a controversial post.
First read this short article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/democrats-may-not-be-able-concede/616321/
Then listen to this discussion about it. Listen to the whole podcast.
https://wisdomofcrowds.libsyn.com/episode-32-the-looming-crisis-of-legitimacy
For me this gets to the fundamental question of democracy in America.
No mater what happens in the next election, for a large segment of the population, it will be both politically existential and physically existential.
And as a result arms will be used.
#CoSoCovid
Remember that as of today we are less than 10%, of the US population infected with the virus. The fall and winter are times of much greater indoor air sharing. So this could in the next 4 months get really out of hand. Expect another 50 to 70 thousand deaths by the end of the year. Even though the treatment of severe cases has improved greatly.
Also, about 2.5, to 3 million Americans are "Long-haulers". People with ongoing debilitating symptoms.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/episode-24
Finally.
Breathable air.
This is the change in air quality over the week.
From almost 600 to about 20.
'The World's Really F*cked But This Show Will Be Pretty Good'
More thoughts:
As much as I love a good protest march, and I believe they should continue. That is not my work. My work is building small, local mutual aid groups. That focus on one small thing to make local lives better.
Turn that despair, and anger, into action.
Organize !
Take a walk around your neighborhood, and find one thing, that needs fixing. Then talk to a few folks about getting it done. Don't ask for permission, just act.
Love is not a noun,
It is a verb.
Action moves the heart.
No, I have zero hope.
“Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact your work will be apparently worthless and achieve no result at all, if not perhaps at times bring about its opposite. As you get used to this, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness and the truth of the work itself.”
~ Thomas Merton
Thoughts.
We are living in fucked times. It is going to get a lot worse. The passing of RGB, is just one of many very bad things. I do not need to list them.
We all need to get up and act.
Do you want your government to respond to a crisis;
Skillfully, Cheaply, Quickly.
Pick Two.
What we have in America today, is a government that can do none of the above.
We need to organize around small local mutual aid groups.
We will face the same three criteria, but we will be able to pick two.
For your reading pleasure.
The latest issue of
The Atlantic
October 2020
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For your reading pleasure.
The latest issue of
The Smithsonian Magazine
For October 2020
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For your reading pleasure,
Here is the latest copy of
The Economist Magazine
for 2020/09/19
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For your reading pleasure.
The latest issue of
Nature Magazine
2020/09/17
(Note: I had to flatten this file to get it under 100MB, so a small loss in quality)
Grad it here:
For your reading pleasure,
The Latest Science Magazine from the AAAS,
for 2020/09/18
Grab it here:
For Everybody here:
(because of the fires, I missed last week.)
If you want the missing issue let me know
It's Friday !
Every Friday I try and upload some magazines. For your reading pleasure. Help yourself. At the moment I am only doing the 5, I read most often. I put them up to expire after a month. So grab them now.
If there is a very wide spread need, I will entertain adding to the list.
Find them here:
( a great explainer on "Renormalization")
How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics
Renormalization has become perhaps the single most important advance in theoretical physics in 50 years.
By Charlie Wood
“It is what I would call a dippy process,” Richard Feynman later wrote. “Having to resort to such hocus-pocus has prevented us from proving that the theory of quantum electrodynamics is mathematically self-consistent.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-renormalization-saved-particle-physics-20200917/
(Some good news)
Researchers validate clinical feasibility for CRISPR-based COVID-19 testing at point of care.
by Courtney Chandler
"The usage of disposable hand warmers to heat the AIOD-CRISPR assay eliminates need for expensive electric equipment, enabling instrument-free point of care molecular diagnostics of COVID-19,"
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-validate-clinical-feasibility-crispr-based-covid-.html
Paper
HOPE is a Bitsy game about learning to rely on others and fighting against hopelessness, together.
HOPE is a collaboration between game designer Cecile Richard and punk band Cable Ties.
It was made as part of the Victorian Music Development Office's initiative to bring indie bands and indie game developers together in Victoria, Australia.
The game was produced by Maize Wallin.
"Hope" is a track from Cable Ties' newest album Far Enough.
The detection of phosphine in Venus' clouds is a big deal, and here's how we can find out if it really is life.
by Paul K. Byrne
So we planetary scientists are faced with two possibilities: Either there is some sort of life in the Venus clouds, generating phosphine, or there is unexplained and unexpected chemistry taking place there. How do we find out which it is?
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-phosphine-venus-clouds-big-life.html
Paper:
Do You Like your Guns Big ?
Watch Hypervelocity Gun Weapon System shot down cruise missile target
A BQM-167 target drone was shot down with a Hyper Velocity Projectile (HVP) fired from a M109 Paladin howitzer on Sept. 3 during the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) demonstration.
http://alert5.com/2020/09/16/watch-hypervelocity-gun-weapon-system-shot-down-cruise-missile-target/
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018