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.
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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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Jagadish Chandra Bose - The Greatest Scientist of the 19th-20th Centuries
History, Science
And I bet you have never heard of him. The ‘Secret Life of Plants’ by Tomkins and Bird, was my introduction, after graduating college and interested in nature of mind and the mind of nature.
I ventured into the Boston Library, downtown, and found a full 3 feet of his books on plant intelligence. In a nutshell (puniful) plants can absorb, remember our wave field and then transfer it on to another whether plant, man or where ever. The nano-second reaction times in plants systems are not only thousands of times faster than animals, but many are parallel processors, so it can make instant, seemingly, evaluations upon us.
If you think about it, without plants, we wouldn’t be able to breathe oxygen. They do have a different sense of self than we do, and seem to have much less ego to interfere with the business of looking beautiful, and providing food and oxygen for the rest of the animal world. I include all algae, and phytoplankton into this world as well.
Which brings me to a story: I proposed to develop a death watch machine, based on the Clive Baxter brine shrimp experiment (where live brine shrimp were dumped individually into boiling water) and upon reaching the water , a plant next to the tank connected to a GSR (galvanic skin response) device which measures current, would react for each death. The conclusion was that death elicited a EMP, weak but enough for the plant to pick up.
Now instead of my professor, a Case Western Phd in EE, thinking me a nut, he went on to describe the difficulty in rat populations for cancer and other research to determine the exact time of death, without monitoring with film and then the tedious review. They had tried temperature monitors, thinking that the temperature would go down, but in fact the temperature would spike, but rather inexactly because other rats would run around when a death of another occurred (well at least they noticed.)
Unfortunately, I left U. of Ark. in Fayetteville and ventured East to New Hampshire to be with my uncle on the Franklin Farm, 1000 Acres. Then on to Cambridge to work at AS&E, a prototype technician, and then field engineer in reliability. I got to destroy stuff, like transistors and find which part failed first. Hydrogen Fluoride was used carefully, as it would eat glass…. yea tough guy. But it was my own lab, with lots of other cool stuff. Other labs around me were building solar-polar rocket devices and other spacey stuff. Varman Bawdekar was my boss, a great scientist and head of reliability for AS&E.
