We live in such a PC Sexist moment in history that one cannot even use the proper Latin names for our own species. Perhaps that reflects the degeneration of ritual in Ho-mo Sapiens.
WARNING: The above post may contain thoughts or ideas known to the State of Caliphornia to cause seething rage, confusion, distemper, nausea, perspiration, sphincter release, or cranial implosion to persons who implicitly trust only one news source, or find themselves at either the left or right political extreme. Proceed at your own risk.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
my tea plants are flowering now. It turns out the tea made from the flowers lower ldl, cause weight loss, and lower serum glucose levels.
It is a long paper but here is the summary:
"In conclusion, we have described the actions of new saponins (classified as acylated oleanane-type triterpene oligoglycosides), which were isolated from Japanese, Anhui, Sichun, and Fujian Chaka and Indian Assam Chaka. Biofunctions beneficial for health promotion, such as antihyperlipidemic, antihyperglycemic, antiobesity, and gastroprotective effects in mice and rats, as well as antiallergic, pancreatic lipase inhibitory, and Aβ42 aggregation inhibitory activities (in vitro) of the extract and newly identified saponin constituents (floratheasaponins, chakasaponin, and floraassamsaponins) were revealed. Furthermore, various bioactive flavonol glycosides and epicatechines, etc. were isolated from each Chaka [11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 22], apart from their quantitative analyses reported previously [39, 40]. On the basis of this experimental evidence, a variety of health/functional foods and beverages made of Chaka have been developed recently in Japan and Taiwan."
@First_Warrior said:
The whole Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. Great reads.
The Kydd series and the Bolitho series are also great (but not AS great) once you finish Hornblower. The Bolitho series is a little better written but the Kydd series is from the perspective of a pressed man which is an interesting spin. Between those 2 series it’s 50 books worth though if you get through them all.
"We need others’ help to figure out what and how to think. Many issues are just too complex for us to tackle on our own. They’re often the subject of bewildering and vociferous debate, and it’s not always easy to know whom to turn to as a guide. We have to make difficult decisions about who should influence our thinking. Given these circumstances, it helps to have an idea of the kind of person we should allow to aid our deliberations. That’s where philosophy comes in handy, as it helps us to establish a set of heuristics for whom to trust with our intellectual lives.
Think about any complex issue you’ve recently considered. Perhaps you’ve been thinking through where you land on the antiracism protests, on reopening the economy after the pandemic, or on the presidential election in the United States. You’re almost certainly not considering any of this in an isolated vacuum. You’re depending on others, for better or worse."
A Poem by Elayne Griffin Baker
Bruce shared the following poem by Elayne Griffin Baker accompanied by Stephan Moccio’s “Sea Change” on the latest episode of From My Home To Yours this week on SiriusXM.
There’s no art in this White House.
There’s no literature, no poetry, no music.
There are no pets in this White House, no loyal man’s best friend, no Socks the family cat, no kids’ science fairs.
No time when the president takes off his blue suit red tie uniform and becomes human, except when he puts on his white shirt and khaki pants uniform and hides from the American people to play golf.
There are no images of the First Family enjoying themselves together in a moment of relaxation.
No Obamas on the beach in Hawaii moments, or Bushes fishing in Kennebunkport.
No Reagans on horseback, no Kennedys playing touch football on the Cape.
Where’d that country go?
Where did all the fun, the joy and the expression of love and happiness go?
We used to be the country that did the Ice Bucket Challenge and raised millions for charity.
We used to have a President that calmed and soothed the nation instead dividing it, and a First Lady who planted a garden instead of ripping one out.
We are rudderless and joyless.
We have lost the cultural aspects of society that make America great.
We have lost our mojo, our fun, our happiness, our cheering on of others.
The shared experience of humanity that makes it all worth it.
The challenges and the triumphs that we shared and celebrated.
The unique can-do spirit that America has always been known for.
A Poem by Elayne Griffin Baker
Bruce shared the following poem by Elayne Griffin Baker accompanied by Stephan Moccio’s “Sea Change” on the latest episode of From My Home To Yours this week on SiriusXM.
There’s no art in this White House.
There’s no literature, no poetry, no music.
There are no pets in this White House, no loyal man’s best friend, no Socks the family cat, no kids’ science fairs.
No time when the president takes off his blue suit red tie uniform and becomes human, except when he puts on his white shirt and khaki pants uniform and hides from the American people to play golf.
There are no images of the First Family enjoying themselves together in a moment of relaxation.
No Obamas on the beach in Hawaii moments, or Bushes fishing in Kennebunkport.
No Reagans on horseback, no Kennedys playing touch football on the Cape.
Where’d that country go?
Where did all the fun, the joy and the expression of love and happiness go?
We used to be the country that did the Ice Bucket Challenge and raised millions for charity.
We used to have a President that calmed and soothed the nation instead dividing it, and a First Lady who planted a garden instead of ripping one out.
We are rudderless and joyless.
We have lost the cultural aspects of society that make America great.
We have lost our mojo, our fun, our happiness, our cheering on of others.
The shared experience of humanity that makes it all worth it.
The challenges and the triumphs that we shared and celebrated.
The unique can-do spirit that America has always been known for.
Just play the country song backwards and everything turns out.
The Man Who Couldn’t Cry
Johnny Cash
There once was a man and he couldn't cry
He hadn't cried for years and for years
Napalmed babies, movie love stories
For instance could not produce tears
As a child he had cried as all children will
Then at some point his tear ducts all ran dry
Grew to be a man, it all hit the fan
Things got bad, but he couldn't cry
His dog got ran over, his wife up and left him
After that he got sacked from his job
Lost his arm in the war, was laughed at by a ****
Ah, but still not a sniffle or sob
Well, his novel was refused, and his movie was panned
His big Broadway show was a flop
He got sent off to jail, you guessed it, no bail
Oh, but still not a dribble or a drop
In jail he was beaten, bullied and buggered
And made to make license plates
Water and bread was all he was fed
Not once did a tear stain his face
Doctors were called in, scientists, too
Theologians were last and practically least
They all agreed sure enough, this is no cream puff
Oh, but in fact an insensitive beast
He was taken from the jail and placed in a place
For the insensitive and the insane
He made a lot of friends and he played a lot of chess
And he cried every time it would rain
Once it rained forty days and it rained forty nights
And he cried and he cried and he cried and he cried
On the forty first day, he passed away
He just dehydrated and died
He went up to heaven, located his dog
After that, he rejoined his arm
Below all the critics, they took it all back
Cancer robbed the **** of her charm
His ex-wife died of stretch marks
His ex-employer went broke
The theologians were finally found out
Right down to the ground, the jail house burned down
And the earth suffered perpetual drought
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Two Kinds Of Truth by Michael Connelly. Bosch does it again.
**** neanderthalensis and the evolutionary origins of ritual in **** sapiens
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0424
lol, **** = h o m o
We live in such a PC Sexist moment in history that one cannot even use the proper Latin names for our own species. Perhaps that reflects the degeneration of ritual in Ho-mo Sapiens.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Yeah, it needs to be officially changed. We/they aren't Ho-mo Sapiens, we/they are now Gay-Sapiens. PC FTMFW.
my tea plants are flowering now. It turns out the tea made from the flowers lower ldl, cause weight loss, and lower serum glucose levels.
It is a long paper but here is the summary:
"In conclusion, we have described the actions of new saponins (classified as acylated oleanane-type triterpene oligoglycosides), which were isolated from Japanese, Anhui, Sichun, and Fujian Chaka and Indian Assam Chaka. Biofunctions beneficial for health promotion, such as antihyperlipidemic, antihyperglycemic, antiobesity, and gastroprotective effects in mice and rats, as well as antiallergic, pancreatic lipase inhibitory, and Aβ42 aggregation inhibitory activities (in vitro) of the extract and newly identified saponin constituents (floratheasaponins, chakasaponin, and floraassamsaponins) were revealed. Furthermore, various bioactive flavonol glycosides and epicatechines, etc. were isolated from each Chaka [11, 12, 15, 16, 18, 22], apart from their quantitative analyses reported previously [39, 40]. On the basis of this experimental evidence, a variety of health/functional foods and beverages made of Chaka have been developed recently in Japan and Taiwan."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114335/
The whole Hornblower series by C.S. Forester. Great reads.
The Kydd series and the Bolitho series are also great (but not AS great) once you finish Hornblower. The Bolitho series is a little better written but the Kydd series is from the perspective of a pressed man which is an interesting spin. Between those 2 series it’s 50 books worth though if you get through them all.
Monster by Jonathon Kellerman.
Alex Delaware series
"Memory Man" by Baldacci, the first in the series.
Microbes in the gut could be protective against hazardous radiation exposure
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6516/eaay9097
introduction to an essay on intellectual dependability from: https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-spot-whos-trustworthy-and-whos-not-on-what-matters
Well worth the time to read.
"We need others’ help to figure out what and how to think. Many issues are just too complex for us to tackle on our own. They’re often the subject of bewildering and vociferous debate, and it’s not always easy to know whom to turn to as a guide. We have to make difficult decisions about who should influence our thinking. Given these circumstances, it helps to have an idea of the kind of person we should allow to aid our deliberations. That’s where philosophy comes in handy, as it helps us to establish a set of heuristics for whom to trust with our intellectual lives.
Think about any complex issue you’ve recently considered. Perhaps you’ve been thinking through where you land on the antiracism protests, on reopening the economy after the pandemic, or on the presidential election in the United States. You’re almost certainly not considering any of this in an isolated vacuum. You’re depending on others, for better or worse."
https://brucespringsteen.net/news/2020/elaine-griffin-baker
A Poem by Elayne Griffin Baker
Bruce shared the following poem by Elayne Griffin Baker accompanied by Stephan Moccio’s “Sea Change” on the latest episode of From My Home To Yours this week on SiriusXM.
There’s no art in this White House.
There’s no literature, no poetry, no music.
There are no pets in this White House, no loyal man’s best friend, no Socks the family cat, no kids’ science fairs.
No time when the president takes off his blue suit red tie uniform and becomes human, except when he puts on his white shirt and khaki pants uniform and hides from the American people to play golf.
There are no images of the First Family enjoying themselves together in a moment of relaxation.
No Obamas on the beach in Hawaii moments, or Bushes fishing in Kennebunkport.
No Reagans on horseback, no Kennedys playing touch football on the Cape.
Where’d that country go?
Where did all the fun, the joy and the expression of love and happiness go?
We used to be the country that did the Ice Bucket Challenge and raised millions for charity.
We used to have a President that calmed and soothed the nation instead dividing it, and a First Lady who planted a garden instead of ripping one out.
We are rudderless and joyless.
We have lost the cultural aspects of society that make America great.
We have lost our mojo, our fun, our happiness, our cheering on of others.
The shared experience of humanity that makes it all worth it.
The challenges and the triumphs that we shared and celebrated.
The unique can-do spirit that America has always been known for.
We are lost.
We have lost so much in so short a time.
-Elayne Griffin Baker
We will get all of it back.
Just play the country song backwards and everything turns out.
The Man Who Couldn’t Cry
Johnny Cash
There once was a man and he couldn't cry
He hadn't cried for years and for years
Napalmed babies, movie love stories
For instance could not produce tears
As a child he had cried as all children will
Then at some point his tear ducts all ran dry
Grew to be a man, it all hit the fan
Things got bad, but he couldn't cry
His dog got ran over, his wife up and left him
After that he got sacked from his job
Lost his arm in the war, was laughed at by a ****
Ah, but still not a sniffle or sob
Well, his novel was refused, and his movie was panned
His big Broadway show was a flop
He got sent off to jail, you guessed it, no bail
Oh, but still not a dribble or a drop
In jail he was beaten, bullied and buggered
And made to make license plates
Water and bread was all he was fed
Not once did a tear stain his face
Doctors were called in, scientists, too
Theologians were last and practically least
They all agreed sure enough, this is no cream puff
Oh, but in fact an insensitive beast
He was taken from the jail and placed in a place
For the insensitive and the insane
He made a lot of friends and he played a lot of chess
And he cried every time it would rain
Once it rained forty days and it rained forty nights
And he cried and he cried and he cried and he cried
On the forty first day, he passed away
He just dehydrated and died
He went up to heaven, located his dog
After that, he rejoined his arm
Below all the critics, they took it all back
Cancer robbed the **** of her charm
His ex-wife died of stretch marks
His ex-employer went broke
The theologians were finally found out
Right down to the ground, the jail house burned down
And the earth suffered perpetual drought
Those must be some killer stretch marks.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Just some light reading on properties and functions of P-bodies in mRNA decay and translational repression
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01162
The African Queen by C.S. Forester, a bit different than the movie.
[evol-psych] News: Study explores neural mechanisms behind support for political violence
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-explores-neural-mechanisms-political-violence.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389420325462?via=ihub
"A conservative estimate from our results shows that 54% of species in the core human gut microbiome are sensitive to glyphosate."
This is interesting. Why would a lower first dose followed by a full second dose be more effective than two full doses?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03326-w
Regeneration of the pulmonary vascular endothelium after viral pneumonia requires COUP-TF2
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/48/eabc4493
https://aeon.co/essays/what-does-it-mean-to-consider-yourself-a-disabled-person
https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/exploring-n-acetylcysteine-in-psychiatry
The melatonin metabolite N1‐acetyl‐5‐methoxykynuramine facilitates long‐term object memory in young and aging mice
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpi.12703
Recently resumed my quest to finish reading the Bible. I’ve read all of the New Testament and am working my way through Psalms.
I’m intermittently reading Jordan Peterson’s book 12 Rules For Life an antidote to chaos.
The Outsider by Stephen King. Its hard to put down.
Days of Rage by Brad Taylor.
"Winter Prey" by John Sanford.
100,000,000°
Korean artificial sun sets the new world record of 20-sec-long operation at 100 million degrees
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-korean-artificial-sun-world-sec-long.html
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-primordial-black-holes-dark-multiverse.html