Monday, June 28, 2021
2021 : Bizarre Wormnado and Spiral Sheep
DWELLER : Bizarre Wormnado and Spiral Sheep:
There were strange natural anomalies reported as well, that I cannot explain but neither can anyone else.
Hundreds of sheep have caused a stir after they were spotted standing in concentric circles in Rottingdean, East Sussex
‘At that point I was about half a mile away, which made me think that whatever it was, it was huge.
‘It was saucer-shaped, like an alien ship. It was beautiful, but also in 2021 a bit too weird for comfort.
‘I cycled closer and closer and then realised the circle was sheep!’
Chris, who is a lecturer at Royal Holloway University, London, said he thought the sheep were acting ‘weirdly’. via
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What does The New York Times and a majority of other legacy media have in common with Big Pharma? Answer: They’re largely owned by BlackRock and the Vanguard Group, the two largest asset management firms in the world.
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Slavery in the Quakerdom
Slavery in the Quaker World
Katharine Gerbner, September 1, 2019, Friends Journal
Quakers have long been hailed as heroes of the abolitionist movement. Friends like Anthony Benezet and John Woolman worked tirelessly to convince other Whites to abolish slavery and embrace liberty for all. Fourteen years ago, when I began research for my book Christian Slavery, I wanted to understand this abolitionist history better. I started with the “beginning”: the first antislavery protest in North America, written by German and Dutch Quakers in Pennsylvania. But as I quickly learned, this was only part of the story when it comes to Quakers and slavery.
The 1688 Germantown Protest, as it is often called, was the first document in North America to denounce slavery. It is an extraordinary document. It declares, among other things, that the authors are “against the traffick of men‐body.” It goes on to explain that slavery cannot be a Christian practice and that it is against the Golden Rule. It is worth lingering on the following passage:
There is a saying, that we shall doe to all men like as we will be done ourselves; making no difference of what generation, descent or colour they are. And those who steal or robb men, and those who buy or purchase them, are they not all alike? Here is liberty of conscience, w[hi]ch is right and reasonable; here ought to be likewise liberty of ye body.
For the seventeenth century, this is a very unusual statement. It is a document that Quakers—and all Americans—can be proud of. I was excited to write about it. I also felt a personal connection to the Germantown Protest: I grew up in Philadelphia and attended Germantown Friends School, which is just a few blocks from where the 1688 Protest was written. As it turns out, I had passed the site of its creation hundreds of times as I traveled to school down Germantown Avenue.
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Katharine Gerbner, September 1, 2019, Friends Journal
Quakers have long been hailed as heroes of the abolitionist movement. Friends like Anthony Benezet and John Woolman worked tirelessly to convince other Whites to abolish slavery and embrace liberty for all. Fourteen years ago, when I began research for my book Christian Slavery, I wanted to understand this abolitionist history better. I started with the “beginning”: the first antislavery protest in North America, written by German and Dutch Quakers in Pennsylvania. But as I quickly learned, this was only part of the story when it comes to Quakers and slavery.
The 1688 Germantown Protest, as it is often called, was the first document in North America to denounce slavery. It is an extraordinary document. It declares, among other things, that the authors are “against the traffick of men‐body.” It goes on to explain that slavery cannot be a Christian practice and that it is against the Golden Rule. It is worth lingering on the following passage:
There is a saying, that we shall doe to all men like as we will be done ourselves; making no difference of what generation, descent or colour they are. And those who steal or robb men, and those who buy or purchase them, are they not all alike? Here is liberty of conscience, w[hi]ch is right and reasonable; here ought to be likewise liberty of ye body.
For the seventeenth century, this is a very unusual statement. It is a document that Quakers—and all Americans—can be proud of. I was excited to write about it. I also felt a personal connection to the Germantown Protest: I grew up in Philadelphia and attended Germantown Friends School, which is just a few blocks from where the 1688 Protest was written. As it turns out, I had passed the site of its creation hundreds of times as I traveled to school down Germantown Avenue.
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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Jim Nickelson, Artist/Photographer
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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Monday, June 14, 2021
Bear, please wake up
A bear was caught catching a couple of Z’s up on a utility pole in Wilcox, AZ, June 7. A lineman was later able to turn off the power and nudge the bear down 🐻💤 pic.twitter.com/FuppSd2GM0
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) June 14, 2021
Ancient Speck of Stardust
This Antarctic Meteorite Holds a Tiny Speck of Stardust That's Older Than the Solar System
A tiny speck of stardust, hidden within a meteorite from Antarctica, is likely older than our sun — and was catapulted into our celestial neighborhood by an ancient star explosion that predates the formation of our solar system.
This ancient grain is only 1/25,000 of an inch, sports a "croissant-like shape," and could tell us a thing or two about the origins of our solar system, researchers said April 29 in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Using multiple types of microscopes, these researchers peered into the stardust and found that it was made up of a combination of graphite (a form of carbon) and silicate (a salt made up of silicon and oxygen). When the scientists compared this composition with models, they determined that it likely came from a specific type of star explosion called a nova. [Fallen Stars: A Gallery of Famous Meteorites]
Nova explosions happen in the exchange of energy between an ordinary star and a white dwarf, a star that has burned off most of its nuclear fuel. The white dwarf feeds off the other star, accreting enough new material to reignite itself in powerful outbursts that spew material into space. This is how the sample of stardust, named LAP-149, formed and then made its way through interstellar space to the vicinity of our solar system.
"These stardust grains are like fossilized relics of ancient stars," co-author Tom Zega, an associate professor in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona told Live Science. What's more, the researchers know that this piece of stardust must have traveled from far away, because it has high levels of a very specific form, or isotope, of carbon (carbon-13). Such high levels are not seen in any object sampled from our solar system, Zega said.
Star explosions throw ingredients into interstellar space, where they eventually serve as the seeds for planets. So, rare finds like this ancient grain could yield insights into how our solar system formed, according to a statement.
The results provide further evidence that both carbon- and oxygen-rich grains that come from nova explosions helped build the solar system. Though the grain was way too small for the researchers to date it, they guessed, based on its composition and the meteorite that it came from, that its at least 4.5 billion years old — around the time our solar system formed.
"These are the ashes of different kinds of stars that have faded or are on their way to fading out of the the universe," Zega said. "Moreover, because we find them preserved inside of meteorites and because we can age date meteorites using radioisotopes, we know they must be older than the meteorite itself." Meteorites like LAP-149 are "very primitive," and are among the "leftovers from after the sun and planets formed," he added.
Zega and the team hope to find and analyze bigger specimens of stardust in the future, which they hope they will be able to date.
In any case, the very existence of this speck of primordial history is amazing, the researchers said. "It's remarkable when you think about all the [events] along the way that should have killed this grain," Zega said in the statement.
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Originally published on Live Science.
Sunday, June 13, 2021
Apocalyptic
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Saturday, June 12, 2021
Odd detections at the South Pole | supermassive black hole | weirdness in the universe | ghostly new species of neutrinos
Mysterious Particles Found in Antarctica Came From a Supermassive Black Hole
Mysterious Universe - July 4, 2020
Remember the stories in 2020 about NASA allegedly finding a
parallel universe over Antarctica where time appears to run backwards?
Those stories originated with a frustrating fact that has baffled
scientists at a loss for an answer - what are the strange subatomic
particles known as neutrinos doing in Antarctica and where did they come
from? As we suspected in reporting that seemingly unbelievable story,
it wasn't from a reverse parallel universe. However, the real place it
appears they may have originated from is just as unbelievable - a
supermassive black hole.
MORE?
Are strange space signals in Antarctica evidence of a parallel universe?
Odd detections at the South Pole have so far defied explanation, inviting theories beyond conventional physics.
The balloon-based Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) floats over Antarctica.
The University Of Hawai'i
Last
spring, a report from the world’s largest neutrino telescope — a
sprawling grid of detectors woven into Antarctica’s ice — coincided with
a blaze of hyperbolic headlines. They teased the possibility of an
anti-universe where, from our point of view, time runs backward and the
Big Bang represents an end, not a beginning. While it’s too soon to
start searching for our reverse-aging, other-handed doppelgängers,
physicists are still wrestling with strange signals coming in from space
that, to date, have defied easy explanation.
The signals were flagged by a NASA-funded collection of horn radio antennas held aloft over Antarctica by a giant balloon. The device, called the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), picks up radio signals produced when high-energy particles coming from deep space encounter our atmosphere. Some waves skim the Earth before they hit ANITA, and others bounce off the ice. ANITA can tell the difference. During its first float in 2006 and again in 2014, the device picked up anomalous signals that resembled the kind that skim the Earth — but strangely, they seemed to be coming from the surface.
“That means they had to pass through a huge chunk of the Earth,” says physicist Stephanie Wissel of Penn State, who works on the ANITA experiment.
At the heart of this mystery are neutrinos: ghostly, high-energy particles that can stream through almost any material unscathed but can produce the telltale radio pulses that ANITA catches. To further investigate the unusual signals, physicists turned to IceCube, a neutrino telescope made up of long strings of detectors buried near the South Pole. A neutrino passing through the ice may produce other particles that emit tiny flashes of light that IceCube’s sensors can detect.
Scientists reasoned that ANITA’s anomalies should also have produced signals in IceCube, and those signals could reveal the deep-space source of the particles. But after eight years’ worth of data was searched, the mystery remained: The exhaustive analysis turned up no matches.
“If the ANITA signal was astrophysical, then we should be able to detect it in IceCube — and we did not,” says physicist Justin Vandenbroucke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who works on the neutrino observatory.
The new findings, published March in The Astrophysical Journal, mean scientists have to continue looking for less obvious explanations. Some have proposed that the anomalies arose from radio waves bouncing through caverns or buried lakes in the ice. Other theorists proposed more exotic ideas, such as that the heavy, high-energy particles in line with ANITA’s data may describe one candidate for dark matter — the mysterious stuff that’s believed to make up 85 percent of the matter in the universe but has never been detected. Still others hypothesize that the exotic particles fit an existing theoretical model of a parallel universe — one that is symmetric to ours, but populated with antimatter and running backward.
Wissel and her colleagues are preparing a more sensitive upgrade to ANITA that, they hope, will find more of these strange signals. As an experimentalist, she says she’s beholden to data, but appreciates the ideas about where the signals originated. New questions and tests can then confirm — or refute — theories about these deep-space particles and how the universe began.
“They’re trying to do with our data exactly what we want people to do with our data,” says Wissel. “We want ANITA to push observations of ultra-high energy neutrinos into a new regime. We think that there is interesting new physics to be done.”
The signals were flagged by a NASA-funded collection of horn radio antennas held aloft over Antarctica by a giant balloon. The device, called the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), picks up radio signals produced when high-energy particles coming from deep space encounter our atmosphere. Some waves skim the Earth before they hit ANITA, and others bounce off the ice. ANITA can tell the difference. During its first float in 2006 and again in 2014, the device picked up anomalous signals that resembled the kind that skim the Earth — but strangely, they seemed to be coming from the surface.
“That means they had to pass through a huge chunk of the Earth,” says physicist Stephanie Wissel of Penn State, who works on the ANITA experiment.
At the heart of this mystery are neutrinos: ghostly, high-energy particles that can stream through almost any material unscathed but can produce the telltale radio pulses that ANITA catches. To further investigate the unusual signals, physicists turned to IceCube, a neutrino telescope made up of long strings of detectors buried near the South Pole. A neutrino passing through the ice may produce other particles that emit tiny flashes of light that IceCube’s sensors can detect.
Scientists reasoned that ANITA’s anomalies should also have produced signals in IceCube, and those signals could reveal the deep-space source of the particles. But after eight years’ worth of data was searched, the mystery remained: The exhaustive analysis turned up no matches.
“If the ANITA signal was astrophysical, then we should be able to detect it in IceCube — and we did not,” says physicist Justin Vandenbroucke of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who works on the neutrino observatory.
The new findings, published March in The Astrophysical Journal, mean scientists have to continue looking for less obvious explanations. Some have proposed that the anomalies arose from radio waves bouncing through caverns or buried lakes in the ice. Other theorists proposed more exotic ideas, such as that the heavy, high-energy particles in line with ANITA’s data may describe one candidate for dark matter — the mysterious stuff that’s believed to make up 85 percent of the matter in the universe but has never been detected. Still others hypothesize that the exotic particles fit an existing theoretical model of a parallel universe — one that is symmetric to ours, but populated with antimatter and running backward.
Wissel and her colleagues are preparing a more sensitive upgrade to ANITA that, they hope, will find more of these strange signals. As an experimentalist, she says she’s beholden to data, but appreciates the ideas about where the signals originated. New questions and tests can then confirm — or refute — theories about these deep-space particles and how the universe began.
“They’re trying to do with our data exactly what we want people to do with our data,” says Wissel. “We want ANITA to push observations of ultra-high energy neutrinos into a new regime. We think that there is interesting new physics to be done.”
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Live Science - January 24, 2020
Our best model of particle physics is bursting at the seams as it
struggles to contain all the weirdness in the universe. Now, it seems
more likely than ever that it might pop, thanks to a series of strange
events in Antarctica. The death of this reigning physics paradigm, the
Standard Model, has been predicted for decades. There are hints of its
problems in the physics we already have. Strange results from laboratory
experiments suggest flickers of ghostly new species of neutrinos beyond
the three described in the Standard Model. And the universe seems full
of dark matter that no particle in the Standard Model can explain.
Hui Te Rangiora's voyage
New Research Shows Māori Traveled to Antarctica at Least 1,000 Years Before Europeans
When we think of Antarctic exploration, the narrative is overwhelmingly white. The first confirmed sighting of mainland Antarctica was attributed to a Russian expedition in 1820, while the first landing on the mainland is attributed to an American explorer in 1821.
Now, a new paper by New Zealander researchers suggests that the indigenous people of mainland New Zealand - Māori - have a significantly longer history with Earth's southernmost continent.
The research team, led by conservation biologist Priscilla Wehi from Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, looked at oral histories as well as 'grey literature' – meaning research, reports, technical documents and other material published by organizations outside common academic or commercial publishing channels.
"We found connection to Antarctica and its waters have been occurring since the earliest traditional voyaging, and later through participation in European-led voyaging and exploration, contemporary scientific research, fishing, and more for centuries," said Wehi.
The researchers first highlight an early 7th century southern voyage by a Polynesian chief Hui Te Rangiora and his crew. This would have likely made them the first humans to see Antarctic waters, over a thousand years before the Russian expedition and even long before Polynesian settlers' planned migration to New Zealand.
"In some narratives, Hui Te Rangiora and his crew continued south. A long way south. In so doing, they were likely the first humans to set eyes on Antarctic waters and perhaps the continent," the team writes in their paper.
"Hui Te Rangiora's voyage and return are part of the history of the Ngāti Rārua people, and these stories appear in a number of carvings."
This finding might not be much of a surprise to our Māori readers who have been telling these stories for generations, but as the paper explains, academic literature still has a long way to go to catch up to this wealth of knowledge.
"The narratives of under-represented groups and their connection to Antarctica remain poorly documented and acknowledged in the research literature," the team writes. "This paper begins to fill this gap."
But Hui Te Rangiora's voyage definitely wasn't the last time Māori and their ancestors traveled to Antarctica.
Te Atu – a Ngāpuhi man - has been called the first Māori and first New Zealander to view the coast of Antarctica in 1840 as part of the United States Exploring Expedition.
Māori were also part of the 'Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration' in the late 19th and early 20th century, helping European explorers with medicine, construction, scientific expertise and more on journeys to Antarctica.
"Māori participation in Antarctic voyaging and expedition has continued to the present day but is rarely acknowledged or highlighted," the researchers write.
"For Māori on these voyages, seafaring skills were the critical currency."
More recently, a number of Māori have or are currently participating in New Zealand's Antarctic science programs, doing research on everything from the effects of climate change to penguin population ecology, and the team behind this latest paper hopes these numbers will grow.
"Taking account of responsibilities to under-represented groups, and particularly Māori as Treaty partners, is important for both contemporary and future programs of Antarctic research, as well as for future exploration of New Zealand's obligations within the Antarctic Treaty System," said Wehi.
"Growing more Māori Antarctic scientists and incorporating Māori perspectives will add depth to New Zealand's research programs and ultimately the protection and management of Antarctica."
The research has been published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Ghost DNA? Yup
Daily Mail - April 3, 2018
Evidence of an unknown species of human ancestor has been found hiding in the
DNA of West African people. Experts made the finding by analyzing the human
genome, looking for strings of genetic information that were out of place. This
revealed an inheritance of markers from an unidentified human-like species, some
of which may be of benefit to their descendants - including one which
suppresses the development of tumors. Researchers believe an ancient species of
hominin, known as Homo heidelbergensis, may be the most likely candidate for
the 'ghost' species.
Friday, June 11, 2021
Crazy Chief of The Podface Tree People
aka 'Anthropomorphism'
via
My
friend Sim found this pod under an African Flame Tree in the Botanical
Gardens but the seed pod seems to be the wrong shape for a Flame Tree..
(Reminds me of a Maori design :) The seeds seem to be Abrus precatorius
(thanks Umbertoboni & Emilia!) but the pod shape is very odd..)
Hmm.. it seems that nature was warning me not to eat the seeds!
Pay attention because abrine one of the components of this seed is one of the most toxic substances in nature. If it reach the blood few micrograms (1/1000000 g) is enough to die. It is similar to ricin (from castor oil plant) used to kill a soviet spy in London by an umbrella. Ciao, Umberto
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Abrus precatorius - Wikipedia
Abrus precatorius,
commonly known as jequirity bean or rosary pea, is a herbaceous
flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae. It is a slender, perennial
climber with long, pinnate-leafleted leaves that twines around trees,
shrubs, and hedges. The plant is best known for its seeds, which are
used as beads and in percussion instruments, and which are toxic because
of the presence of abrin.
Using sound and wavelength to move rocks
Acoustic Levitation of Stones:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/659601/5b9f2833fa4f3850d48584831ffa40bf.pdf
Harmonics of Nature:
https://www.harmonicsofnature.com/2019/07/07/using-sound-to-move-rocks/amp/
Using sound and wavelength to move rocks
Here’s a page from Scott Hill and Guy Lyon Playfair’s book, The Cycles of Heaven, (used without permission) which I bought in 1979 when I was 15. This account of Tibetan monks using the sound from drums and horns to move rocks up a sheer mountain face includes detailed measurements: the monks stand in a 90 degree arc at a distance of 63 meters from the stone to be moved, which is placed over a shallow cutting in the ground and is 250 meters from the cliff face behind.
Toto - I'll Be Over You
Lyrics:
Some people live their dreams
Some people close their eyes Some people's destiny
Passes by There are no guarantees
There are no alibis
That's how our love must be
Don't ask why
It takes some time
God knows how long
I know that I can forget you
As soon as my heart stops breakin'
Anticipating
As soon as forever is through I'll be over you
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Wednesday, June 9, 2021
writing about music is like dancing about architecture
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| here is one of my more abstract photos (c) LT Hentz (working on my new book) |
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. (I love this... VIA) ah... “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture”
—Frank Zappa
reblog from 2017
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
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