tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-184479162024-03-13T04:05:39.353-05:00WhoDooWooWeiEncyclopedias . Language . Antipodes . Pattern Proliferation<br>
& Sightings of the Mother of All MysteriesJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-405547754798516372017-09-25T09:00:00.000-05:002017-09-25T09:56:19.155-05:00biological emotions and laughing goldfishLisa Feldman Barrett, psychology professor at Northeastern University, reduces the emotional states of being into four categories, in her book, How Emotions Are Made (Pan Macmillan, 2017). These four proto-emotions are, in essence, the messages your brain derives from your nervous system, the pure biological pulses that ultimately guide our relationship with the world around us:
Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-88899237378075739182017-07-31T16:08:00.002-05:002017-09-25T09:56:35.211-05:00The Need for RootsLabor and human rights activist, Simone Weil, working in London with the French Resistance to the Nazi occupation of France, training towards becoming a Special Operations Executive which would return her to Paris, whilst suffering a bout of tuberculosis which would prove her death, wrote a large book titled, The Need for Roots. It is a wide-spanning work, investigating the common needs of Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-66450623538844928112015-10-17T21:40:00.000-05:002017-09-25T09:19:01.729-05:00Twelve Food GroupsThe nuts and beans and cereals are the Seed. Given no other food, you stand to get along on Seed alone. Your disposition may turn grouchy, however.
One of the great delights of living is Fruits, the many styles of flesh in which nature wraps the Seed. Flowers are included. Most fruit appear only briefly, annually, a gift of the seasons. Spicy, sweet, sometimes bitter. That fruit Eve enjoyed in Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-79391063910678703072014-04-16T23:30:00.000-05:002017-09-25T10:05:00.226-05:00The Blossom of the Eight EmotionsRobert Plutchik created this wheel of emotions in 1980. Each of the eight spokes, or pedals, is an essential emotion, at its most intense near the center, and to lesser degrees, moving out. Opposites lie across the center from each other. The combination of any two, adjacent pedals generates the so-called advanced emotions, requiring some construction.
Consider the implications of the Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-31459314809678937102013-08-27T09:59:00.000-05:002017-09-25T09:57:03.480-05:00The Six Turing Primitives
Computer memory, unengaged, sits motionless, gathering dust like an unused library. Developing means by which to manipulate the contents of computer memory is, in essence, the job of the computer programmer and electronic engineer.
Alan Turing (1912 - 1954), luminary of computer science, reduced the functions of manipulating computer memory into six primitive actions. Using only these Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-73404237575340127962013-05-28T13:47:00.000-05:002017-09-25T09:31:54.120-05:00Seasons of the PlagueMild winters, cool moist springs, and early summers are reportedly the worst times for the Black Death.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-68555222148308211662012-06-28T11:04:00.003-05:002017-09-25T09:41:09.638-05:00Rays of Light
An optical glory at An Teallach, Scotland,
from the wiki commons.
Glory of the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter, at St. Peter's Basilica,
designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the mid-17th Century.
"Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man. It happens to nearly everyone. You can feel it growing or preparing like a fuse burning toward dynamite. It is a feelingJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-11194779740288594022012-06-07T00:09:00.004-05:002017-09-25T09:35:45.679-05:00Measuring RelativelyIf the size of an ounce were to fluctuate from market to market, store to store, as it often did before the standardization efforts of the 18th Century, the unit's utility would diminish, steeply. We would do as well to use "a handful" to measure and trade things. Big handed people would all get a leg up.
By definition, a unit of measurement is a standardized constant.
So it's interesting to Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-4937000327288136142011-03-29T12:55:00.004-05:002011-06-08T21:50:47.799-05:00Of Apples and Other Daily Prescriptions for Perfect Health"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Of course a fool lives by aphorism alone. If this one was written by a true believer or the Fruit Grower's Association, I do not know, but Chiquita Banana has trademarked the line that bananas are quite possibly nature's perfect food.
Houston mail carrier Jeff McKissack was motivated only on his faith in the orange. He built a monument to the fruit. (Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-53428049249515502242010-10-16T22:08:00.009-05:002010-10-18T01:12:19.701-05:00The 64 Arts of KrishnaConfucious had his Six Arts. Roberta Smith identified six forms of contemporary installation art. Krishna has them both beat, more than ten times over, with the Kalā, a Hindu catalog of the 64 arts. As extensive as they come.
The Goddess Meenakshi is the upasana murthi, or Hindu patron deity of the fine arts. Her little parrot knows each of the 64 Kalā and Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-62261974179643583312010-07-08T22:21:00.005-05:002010-07-08T22:36:50.964-05:00rhythmical discharges from subcortial structures
Three different words for three different kinds of gibberish, a simple path to primordial pasts, perhaps a link to the divine:
lalation: "ga ga goo goo gaa ga"
(babytalk)
embolalia: "um...uh...um....errr..."
(meaningless syllables)
glossolalia: "ehbu ondu wan akka rar"
(speaking in tongues, and similar phenomenon)
"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-83109327537009862312010-07-05T12:14:00.001-05:002017-09-25T09:46:22.509-05:00The Nine Roles for Management TeamsBritish administrative researcher and management theorist Meredith Belbin described nine archetypes for the roles played by members of project teams. Belbin's 1981 book, Management Teams, describes this model in depth, and later publications revised it.
A good management team generally contains at least one person for each role; however, there are particular tasks for which other Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-44184162578202000622010-06-07T00:28:00.008-05:002017-09-25T09:52:17.809-05:00Diggers Ranters ConsociatesRepresentative writings from three intentional, nearly-autonomous, common-creed communities of the 17th Century.
DIGGER
The Diggers were perhaps first and foremost a social justice movement in that their membership was comprised of landless common folk determined to work and farm common lands in the English countryside, claiming this was their God-given right, and their only escape from Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-41077498266574224262010-06-01T10:32:00.012-05:002011-01-04T21:29:45.991-06:00Literature encoded in DNAThe J. Craig Venter Institute this year managed to build a complete genome sequence--artificial DNA-- and install it into a bacterial cell. The strand took over operations of its host cell and began reproducing. Many have claimed that this event might be remembered as a major step toward artificial life.
There is something sinister about the entire enterprise, to me at least, but there is one Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-44563844553948361922010-04-13T09:02:00.006-05:002017-09-25T09:54:20.991-05:00Facial hair and high officeWe've conducted a thorough survey, and, of the forty-three men who have served as President of the United States, only five wore beards. That's less that 12 percent. Abraham Lincoln was the first, and the other four were all amongst the seven office holders that consecutively followed him. Another three U.S. Presidents wore moustaches, all during those three decades that followed Lincoln.
OnlyJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-86347386783135770832009-12-24T17:36:00.003-06:002010-10-18T23:47:34.454-05:00of ego and bodyThe ego is ultimately derived from bodily sensations, chiefly those springing from the surface of the body. --Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1936.
People's bodies were my biggest technical problem from the start. --Allan Kaprow, A happening conversation with AK DATA 16/17, 1975.Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-5622023529441547242009-10-28T16:46:00.014-05:002010-01-10T11:22:28.548-06:00Ancient Chinese Animal TaxonomyAncient Chinese science is abundant with five-point taxonomies, based upon an evaluation of and categorization based upon inherent essence, or Qi. In each case, disparate phenomenon are grouped together and considered interrelated because of their similar Qi-based traits, with certain qualities corresponding portably across systems. Zou Yan, a scholar from the 3rd Century BCE, is sometimes Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-71752583096860585702009-10-22T21:28:00.013-05:002010-01-10T11:25:34.889-06:00Eustatic Excursions and Hyposometric IllusionSea level in not a place; it is an ideal that assumes still seas, unmoved by tides, enwrapping a perfectly spherical planet, damping the shores of immobile continents. Neither are the seas' distribution uniform nor our globe near regular. The ocean, you'll see on certain days, makes no distinction between itself and the atmosphere; the horizon is a haze; there is no surface. Our scrutiny is Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-79569357633387298322009-09-07T14:29:00.010-05:002010-10-18T23:50:05.173-05:00Nine Taxonomical UniversalsEach human culture develops its own set of categories and classifications for the natural world. Linnaeus classified the raccoon, for instance, as a bear, placing it in the genus Ursus. The raccoon was later moved to its own genus, Procyon, which means "dog-like" though many people think of them as rodents, more closely associated with a badger, opossom or weasel. Before European contact, some Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-20203750951838067112009-06-05T23:58:00.010-05:002009-07-04T19:52:09.187-05:00Leary's Eight Circuits of ConsciousnessTimothy Leary theorized eight functionally distinct circuits in the nervous and neurological system. I interpret them through Robert Anton Wilson from a site sent by Magoo.Not surprisingly, Leary was quite specific regarding which drugs (and, to be fair, other mind-altering activities) one can take to achieve consciousness of these separate "mind-circuits." Safe bet he was under the influence Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-65605649514523680842009-02-01T22:17:00.006-06:002009-07-18T02:04:24.945-05:00Thirteen Virtues of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin kept a notebook of charts throughout his life in which he recorded his daily transgressions of thirteen virtues. His discipline included the choice of one virtue each week, upon which to focus his energies during his daily business. The record shows that he had trouble when it came to Silence and Order. We know he failed Chastity later in life; and a reputation accompanied byJasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-10646153798279006632008-08-25T21:08:00.010-05:002009-10-22T22:19:37.286-05:00Natural Plastics for DefenseThe beetle, Abax ater, secretes monomeric methyl methacrylate. This material instantly polymerizes, immobilizing the beetle's enemies by encasing them in what is essentially chemically identical to plexiglass.The first plastic invented by humans was cellulose nitrate, the formulation of which was discovered by accident in a chemist's kitchen. The ivory market was one of the first to be Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-55396817452631492372008-06-04T11:45:00.008-05:002008-11-12T21:41:28.167-06:00Enneagram of PersonalityOscar Ichazo, Claudio Naranjo, his student, Robert Ochs, and G. I. Gurdjieff separately offered developments to this model for the nine archetypical forms of human personality. The Enneagram, below, maps these personalities according to their relationships to each other.1. Reformers, Judges, Perfectionists2. Helpers, Givers, Caretakers3. Achievers, Performers, Status Seekers4. Romantics, Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-78304404965337222632007-11-23T17:00:00.002-06:002011-01-04T21:39:51.274-06:00The Eight IntelligencesAccording to education researcher Howard Gardener and those who have followed his lead, each of us is a collection of eight independent intelligences.
Linguistic : sensitivity to the spoken word
Logical-mathematical : capacity to analyze and determine patterns
Musical : performance, composition and appreciation
Bodily-kinesthetic : problem-solving with the body
Spatial : recognition of patterns Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18447916.post-81930627440434588482007-11-23T15:36:00.001-06:002009-07-18T02:12:30.928-05:00Man with a Video CameraA remake side-by-side with the original (Man With a Movie Camera), by Vertov.Dziga Vertov translates to English, "The Humming Top," a nom de guerre chosen by the filmmaker following his early experiments in recording and editing rhythmic sound collages he called the 'Laboratory of Hearing.'Jasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01019311922346086109noreply@blogger.com1