David Custis Kimball - blog
You: Why Dave; why now?
Me: Well, I've a two talented kids; the younger said, 'Stop with the lectures.' Then asked, 'Dad, can I help you set up a blog?' Moments later, Me: 'OK, that's a great idea, thinkin' they might just read it someday.
me ---> 'Gaarr of Blog' <---
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Matters of Import & Timely Expertise
repressing gossip and hate-speech.
An Unmapped Ponderocity:
To say: '"He is a man of truth," is to say nothing; to say: "He is a man of of," is to state an elementary truth of logic.'
Winston Davids, 1969 - Trinity College Valedictorian - 1970; known endeavor: actuarial contributions to The Donald; since has contacted me and sadly is quite ill. Ask prayers for recovery; thanks for his brilliance and music.
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Medicine, Science, Human Affairs
There are some things that are EVIL (note words of similarity: vile, villian, ill. So we can define evil as something that is not compatible with our life force, something that builds its own life force upon strongest living sturctures to our demise. As opposed to apoptosis where some signal of weakness triggers the overtaking of a living organism. Most often fungi are associated with awaiting that trigger (kinda like putting unwanted clothing in a bag for donation somewhere) Perhaps the trigger is ‘not actively being used’, and is a kind of ‘righteousness’. Distinguishing between the two is tricky. Cancer depends upon canceling out the apoptosis trigger (‘righteousness’) and then overwhelming the life force with the competing tumor or fungus life force. On the other hand, these little buggers aren’t looking for anything but domination.
Recognize Evil when it attacks you and if your immune system is weak… get antibiotics.
Maintaining a good immune response allows ‘righteous apoptosis’ to function. Bad foods, neurotoxins like artificial ingredients, esp. sweetners, send false signals of strength and disrupt apoptosis, and harsh cleaners weaken your immune system as they trigger defensive reactions of aggressive fungi.
Anyway, I remember my newborn daughter contracting staph around a puncture where they drew blood to test her for syphilis as a newborn in Jackson Memorial Hospital, which was also on probation for its bad care. The didn’t have hot water at the time. I’ve had strep throat… no fun and only antibiotics helped, etc.
Common identifiers:
Upper left: E. coli (Sanctioned by law to be included in infant formula until law repealed 7/1/1994
Upper right: 1. Staph
Mid. left: 2. Strep
Mid. mid.: 3. Gonnerhea
Mid. right: Spirilla, a spirochete like Syphilis, but from rat bites.
Lower left: Syphilis, before penicillin, my dad practiced medicine, everyone was assumed to have Syphilis until tested. (thank your bippie for penicillin.)
Lower right: Cholera (still a killer where drinking water is exposed to sewage).
Prokaryote Shapes:
Bacilli- rod shaped; ex: Escherichia coli
Cocci- spherical
- Staphylococci- “clumps” in clusters like grapes; ex: Staphylococcus aureus
- Streptococci- “chains” of bacteria; ex: Streptococcus sp.
- Diplococci – 2 cocci adhered to one another; ex: Neisseria gonnorheae
Spirilla– spiral-shaped with external flagella.
Spirochaetes– spiral-shaped with internal flagella, gives them a boring action; ex: Treponema pallidum (Syphilis).
Vibrio– comma-shaped bacteria; ex: Vibrio cholerae.
The word “moose” was originally Algonquin.
Humor, History, Frog Sense
Yeah, sure and the word ‘mouse’ was originally Algunquin.
(Source: ohyeahfacts)
History, Law+Lawless, Theology, Environment
The Hyde Amendment was established law until Obama. That law prevented public funds from being used for abortion. Martin Luther King was Pro-Life, although his wife apparently was Pro-Choice and accepted an award from Planned Parenthood, according to Alveda King, who sums it up in the spirit of his uncle: ‘If we care about women’s rights, it begins at conception.’
And here’s a shout out for Glenn Beck for featuring her in his August, 2011 Faith Rally.
And it’s not incompatible with ‘The Galaxy Song’ (prior blog post).
Humor, Physics, Design
As nothing is possibly completely static, except at 0 Kelvin, as I-Me approaches one door or the other, it has an attraction or repulsion, time slows and what is particle becomes wave or visa versa, and I-Me slips in and plasters itself on the opposite wall (hopefully of urinals if + or another door problem if -… you can’t bee 2 Shure).
This proves building upon dumb, is dumber and if someone does it again it will be dumbest. Hence the 1st Trilogy of Dumb. (there I did it.)
This is great because it’s so dumb.
Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming - WSJ.com
Environment, History, Science, UncommonSense
Just another arrow in the quiver of intelligence. Carbon is naturally held by cellulose of plants, sea grasses, and even some of our tissue.
Let’s promote GROWTH, soils and focus on the elimination of killing and polluting pesticides, herbicides, selecticides, and heavy metal containing nutrient fertilizers.
I had a bad dream last night of receiving a pressurized container of diazanon or some pesticide that I have used in my youth about 20 or so years ago.. and that leaked out of the cardboard packaging upon opening it up onto the floor of a hospital. The panic of how to clean it up, when the poison is aromatic, and isolating it and containing it was melting the rubber gloves and paralysing feeling in my hands were letting me know what was the effect… death.
Just walk into a Kmart’s garden area, and breath in deeply. The poisons are kept near the cash registers. The fact that the packaging allows any outgassing is a crime.
Let’s get real.
And among these scientists are noted ones from MIT, Princeton, Virginia Tech, Hebrew University, and University of Paris. I’m disappointed that there are not more, but then so many depend on the government for funding. Remember that when listening to any claimed scientist for an objective opinion.
What happened at Obama-no-show trial
Law+Lawless, History, Humor
Justice is blind; Ray Charles is blind; I can’t stop hearing Ray singing ‘Georgia’ ; it’s on my mind; ‘…Oh Georgia, no peace I find just this old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.’
And then I’m thinkin’ that Richard Dawkins would love it if Newton’s 4th law of motion were on trial as well, you know, ‘What goes around, comes around.’
Which leads me to that rousing philosophical melody by Monte Python, The Galaxy Song who opens with us ‘revolving and evolving’, then logs all the grievous speeds and law of numbers to sum it up: ‘So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.’
That’s right, let’s hear it for the penultimate line of prayer. Sing it boy…
Law+Lawless, History
And no news coverage by the Obamedia, e.g. CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS.
History, Humor, BEC, Theology
Richard Dawkins, who admitted in an interview on Ben Stein’s 2008 documentary, ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ that ‘well yes we may have had intelligent life planted here on earth, but they were certainly ‘evolved’.’
Yeah, dude. The danger of knowing the exact position and velocity of a vector force, i.e. reality is that then it can be manipulated to appear as only within the Heisenberg Uncertainty parameters, you can know one but not both…and so you can be the victim of a scam or fooled into not thinking what you already know.
Faith is by definition a leap. You have to look at all that you know, or want to know and then achieve it and then say Yes or No. It extends into every movement you make towards something (certainly in this typing action). I proceed by faith.
In addition to all the Intelligent Designers, the inventor of the Laser, Charles Townes (Nobel Physics 1964) is very thankful that he was allowed to access this science and credits a higher author, and one of the reasons that C. Bose (of the Boson and Condensates) and J Bose of Plant intelligence were ignored is that their science did not fit the mold of what would ‘flatter’ all science, as scientists believe (actually demand) that they are all knowing.
Richard Dawkins is like a flak for the scientists. He promotes the common credulity over their ignorance to promote funding and the ‘piling on’ of evidence that they , the scientist are the enlightened secular ‘godhead of society’. And this is pure garbage, as is the lying, murdering (Fast and Furious), and cheating (ACORN) and cheating like giving GM to Unions over bond holders, Obama administration. Cherrio.
History, Science, Humor
Wow, South Dakota in 1990. Maybe we need to have a Jurassic Park up there; kinda a ‘Disney Awh Rexie Won’t Hurt You’ place to send bullies, hypocrites, Islamists, and kids addicted to Barney. Bazzinga!
A T. rex named Sue (by yoffie_2000)
If you’re ever up or near Chicago, IL, I suggest going to The Field Museum and visiting the largest, most complete, and most preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered. It’s one of the most breathtaking skeletons you will ever see in person, and definitely a great museum overall to explore!
Some information about Sue (catalog number: FMNH PR 2081):
Overall length: 40.5 feet.
Height: 13 feet at the hips.
Estimated to have weighed over 7 tons when alive.
Weight of skeleton: 3,922 lbs.
The length of Sue’s skull is 5 feet, and weighing 600 lbs.
She is named after the palaeontologist who found her, Susan Hendrickson, in Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, South Dakota on August 12, 1990.
Sue’s bones are the biggest of all T. rex skeletons ever found.
Sue is estimated to have been 28 years old when she died, making her the oldest Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered.
The skeleton is so well preserved that palaeontologists can actually see where muscles, ligaments, and tendons attached, along with the cellular structure within the bones is immaculately preserved.
Sue is the first T. rex to have ever been discovered with a furcula (wishbone), gastralia (stomach ribs), and a stapes (ear bone).
Apart from the fact that you technically won’t see it in person as the skeleton’s a cast. Bazzinga.
Actually, the skeleton that sits on display in The Field Museum is 90-95% real. They are the original bones. Sue’s real skull sits on display with the teeth up one floor (right under the T. rex mural above the skeleton in this photo), because it was much too heavy even with the custom architectural design constructed made for Sue’s bones. And for the missing pieces in her skeleton (i.e. a foot, hand, some vertebrae, etc), those were moulded to match what other bones were already found. There have been many complete casts of her skeleton for scientific studying, along with being created for world tours so everyone around the world could get a good look at Sue. You can also tell the difference between what’s fake and what’s real when looking up close to the bones. If you go on their official website, you will find information all about Sue, along with the information that states the skeleton on display in TFM is real. I took a screencap of the page which can be found here (along with clicking on the tool button). I also found another link which states it is her real skeleton (bottom screencap), and the information can be found on The Field Museum’s official website here.
And to triple check my facts, I just called up The Field Museum and talked to a representative about Sue’s skeleton. They stated I was correct with my knowledge on Sue. So yes, it is her REAL skeleton (other than the few missing bones and skull stated above). If you wish to call them up and ask yourself, feel free to. Hope this cleared up more information! — crownedrose (scinerd admin who posted the original entry on Sue)
Physics, Environment, Humor
Oh, all you Republican, Independent, and other anti-Obama racists: STOP with facing mirrors toward the sun; it’s killing the sun too, especially when you reflect the heat back from your gas guzzling SUV’s.
Seriously unplug your computers tonight, Monday, January 23 and it’s a good idea to put memory cards, etc. in a metal tin which is shielded.
Oh, yeah and really all that SUV stuff; it’s really harder to change direction on a more massive car and it will do more damage to another should you hit someone, so ‘Bigger is NOT Better’, like ‘You Butt can NOT make good Butter’. And Limbaugh, you near sighted deaf person, recaputuring energy lost in the heat of braking or decelerating a car or going down a hill and not idling at when stopped actually allows electric and hybrid cars to consume less energy… it’s like a sail boat… you get free stuff, like wind. Besides that, however, you do make some good points against most leftist messages… but don’t strap your harness on my Prius, dude.
(Oh, I do hope those electric cars are shielded from CME’s).
Science, Physics, History, Humor
A glimpse at the space station, post Shuttle. Comet Lovejoy report; dreams of walking on earth, a comment of dreams ‘a certain measure of discontent’. Interesting if true, but I suspect the accuracy. ’I’ll be dreaming…’ (3:24) expresses a future event.
Space junk can be avoided by moving the station, which is significant.
Anyway, a million pounds in space is a huge accomplishment and expense, most of which was born by the USA. Another example of our ‘exceptionalism.’
Oh, and Howard Walowitz’s (Big Bang Theory) toilet seems to be able to make a ‘cup o Jo’ from urine, etc. That dark brew would make me ask, ‘Got Tea?’
Science, Medicine, UncommonSenseVsCommononsense, Law+Lawless
Now the question is why do our government ‘leaders’ support embryonic stem cell funding? George Bush was correct in opposing this wasteful spending spree and caving to the ‘White Tower’ quasi-scientists on the tits of the government weak kneed spend-a-holics.
Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Converted into Brain Support Cells
For the first time ever, stem cells from umbilical cords have been converted into other types of cells, which may eventually lead to new treatment options for spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis, among other nervous system diseases.
“This is the first time this has been done with non-embryonic stem cells,” says James Hickman, a University of Central Florida bioengineer and leader of the research group. ”We’re very excited about where this could lead because it overcomes many of the obstacles present with embryonic stem cells.”
Stem cells from umbilical cords do not pose an ethical dilemma because the cells come from a source that would otherwise be discarded. Another major benefit is that umbilical cells generally have not been found to cause immune reactions, which would simplify their potential use in medical treatments.
History, Science, Physics, UncommonSense, Humor, Theology
Life ain’t always fair, but blonds are. Funny how things work out, while others just armchair yak. Oh, and here’s another pitch to Jagadi Chunder Bose, who transmitted an electromagnetic wave before Marconi, knighted by the Brits, but returned to Calcutta to teach and write stuff that is crazy underappreciated like ‘Comparative Electro-Physiology’, 1907 and about 750 pages. Chapter 25 is titled ‘Absorption of Food by Plant and Ascent of Sap’.
Also ‘Response in the Living and Non Living’ and the most famous ‘Researches on Irritability of Plants’, where he shows how plants can absorb waveforms electric from animals, store them and project them hence.
I don’t think that Scot, Higgs has much on these Boses. I’m no longer conCERNed with or without Higgs. It may as well be a Hickie.
And you can download J. Bose’s books from Google.
Home Chemistry: Bose-Einstein Condensate
History, Science, BEC, Chemistry, UncommonSense, Humor
So in 16 years since discovery and 10 years from being awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics, we don’t have this subject taught in schools. The 5th state of matter, you know the one on the opposite side from Plasma (4th).
I haven’t checked curricula, but I believe Physics might do well by teaching on a Temperature not Time scale. I know it’s neat that Archimedes focused many mirrors on the sails of invading Roman ships (a kind of crude Fresnel lens effect), but kids were frying ants at 5years old with magnifying lenses, so where’s the big whoop, except torturing ants and enemies.
Would love to hear this argument with Sheldon, ‘Bazinga’.
Music, History, Parenting
Here’s a little music of Alkan’s to relax with. Imagine you are on a gondola on the byways of Venice…or maybe just trying to get some music to relax you or your children before dream time… Barcorolle Opus 65 No. 6 should do it.
