What we have learned in the age of relativity is that the problem with the answer is the the. What we have unlearned is the answer.
Are we any happier for having traded the answer for there is no answer?
Are we any closer to the truth?
Uncertainty makes most people uncomfortable. Many would rather be mistaking their opinions for not-knowing. Social media makes that easy. Schools beat not-knowing out of us.
Just got the first edition of the last book my friend Bill Withuhn wrote before his death, published by his family earlier this year. Bill was quite a brilliant mind when it came to steam. He was the head transportation curator for Smithsonian Institute's American History Museum as well as a fully qualified locomotive engineer for many decades.
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” – George Burns
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The genre of "handbook" is kinda fascinating to me. 1 John is considered by some scholars to be a version of an enchiridion rather than other classifications it might be labeled with. It doesn't take the typical form of an ancient letter. How to give guidance and advice for life.
Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot. I will smoke anything, though.
Just reading the title makes my wee brain hurt Edward
“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” – George Burns
reading this morning about how adverse early experiences are sometimes coded epigenetically in one's dna and this song occurred to me. Learning to compensate for one's mind/body unwanted programming is a great challenge; it's so easy to fall down the wrong rabbit hole:
New World Kitchen by Norman Van Aken. Great cook book on Latin American and Caribbean eats. Picked it up at the thrift store. Reading this makes me hungry.
"This study investigated effects of titanium dioxide on gut health in mice and found that titanium dioxide did not change the composition of gut microbiota, but instead it affected bacteria activity and promoted their growth in a form of undesired biofilm.
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Yeah, another thing to look for in the ingredients list. It's in toothpaste, cosmetics, condiments, frostings, sausages, lots of processed foods. France is banning it starting next year. Best to stay away from most processed foods. Most TiO2 in food is non-nano, but it breaks down to sewage treatment plants...
Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) is mostly introduced into the environment as nanoparticles via wastewater treatment plants.[85] Cosmetic pigments including titanium dioxide enter the wastewater when the product is washed off into sinks after cosmetic use. Once in the sewage treatment plants, pigments separate into sewage sludge which can then be released into the soil when injected into the soil or distributed on its surface. 99% of these nanoparticles wind up on land rather than in aquatic environments due to their retention in sewage sludge.[85]In the environment, titanium dioxide nanoparticles have low to negligible solubility and have been shown to be stable once particle aggregates are formed in soil and water surroundings.[85] In the process of dissolution, water-soluble ions typically dissociate from the nanoparticle into solution when thermodynamically unstable. TiO2 dissolution increases when there are higher levels of dissolved organic matter and clay in the soil. However, aggregation is promoted by pH at the isoelectric point of TiO2 (pH = 5.8) which renders it neutral and solution ion concentrations above 4.5 mM.[86][87]
In 2019, France decided to ban the use of titantium dioxide in food from 2020 on.[88]
One Second After by William R. Forstchen. Chilling novel about the effects of a electromagnetic attack on the USA. Takes place in Black Mountain north of Asheville. I know the area well and that made the book compelling. Starting The Last Man by Vince Flynn.
“We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.” ~ Norbert Wiener
"After many intense years of study and Bhavana or mental development, the Buddha, sitting under the Bodhi tree on the night of a full moon, experienced a remarkable insight. He realized that all observable phenomena are dynamic, subject to constant change, to co-rising and ceasing, and that there are no permanent beginning or end states—either physical or mental. Everything changes, thus, there is no fixed ‘essence’ or ultimate nature only a process of becoming which implies impermanence (Anicca). Likewise there is no static, permanent self or soul, only a continuously evolving pattern. This seemingly simple statement has profound implications."
One Second After by William R. Forstchen. Chilling novel about the effects of a electromagnetic attack on the USA. Takes place in Black Mountain north of Asheville. I know the area well and that made the book compelling. Starting The Last Man by Vince Flynn.
Really good novel and heart wrenching @First_Warrior . One year after is also a great sequel. The third book is the third best book in the series, but still pretty good.
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Forgot about this thread. I'm on the third book in the John Wells series, "The Silent Man" by Alex Berenson. The first and second ones were really good, this one is meh. Hoping the next book is better.
Forgot about this thread. I'm on the third book in the John Wells series, "The Silent Man" by Alex Berenson. The first and second ones were really good, this one is meh. Hoping the next book is better.
I was just about to ask if you read anything good lately
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Just got the first edition of the last book my friend Bill Withuhn wrote before his death, published by his family earlier this year. Bill was quite a brilliant mind when it came to steam. He was the head transportation curator for Smithsonian Institute's American History Museum as well as a fully qualified locomotive engineer for many decades.
I like Oliva and Quesada (including Regius) a lot. I will smoke anything, though.
Wool was freaking incredible, I recommend it to everyone.
Microbial Dark Matter Investigations: How Microbial Studies Transform Biological Knowledge and Empirically Sketch a Logic of Scientific Discovery
https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/10/3/707/4840377
A CRISPR/Cas9-based central processing unit to program complex logic computation in human cells
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/15/7214
https://researchfeatures.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Dr-Tania-Roth-University-of-Delaware-Epigenetics.pdf
reading this morning about how adverse early experiences are sometimes coded epigenetically in one's dna and this song occurred to me. Learning to compensate for one's mind/body unwanted programming is a great challenge; it's so easy to fall down the wrong rabbit hole:
White Rabbit by Grace Slick:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00057/full
"This study investigated effects of titanium dioxide on gut health in mice and found that titanium dioxide did not change the composition of gut microbiota, but instead it affected bacteria activity and promoted their growth in a form of undesired biofilm.
Environmental waste introduction[edit]
Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) is mostly introduced into the environment as nanoparticles via wastewater treatment plants.[85] Cosmetic pigments including titanium dioxide enter the wastewater when the product is washed off into sinks after cosmetic use. Once in the sewage treatment plants, pigments separate into sewage sludge which can then be released into the soil when injected into the soil or distributed on its surface. 99% of these nanoparticles wind up on land rather than in aquatic environments due to their retention in sewage sludge.[85]In the environment, titanium dioxide nanoparticles have low to negligible solubility and have been shown to be stable once particle aggregates are formed in soil and water surroundings.[85] In the process of dissolution, water-soluble ions typically dissociate from the nanoparticle into solution when thermodynamically unstable. TiO2 dissolution increases when there are higher levels of dissolved organic matter and clay in the soil. However, aggregation is promoted by pH at the isoelectric point of TiO2 (pH = 5.8) which renders it neutral and solution ion concentrations above 4.5 mM.[86][87]
In 2019, France decided to ban the use of titantium dioxide in food from 2020 on.[88]
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00024/full
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00048/full
http://www.catalyticdrying.com/pdf/shelf-life-of-dry-roasted-almonds.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4554632/