tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-185062572024-03-05T18:32:13.650-08:00indirect effecthappens.Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-15012944821396355852016-11-04T16:55:00.000-07:002017-07-15T12:18:07.370-07:00Years ago I made the claim genius existed and related to the human face.
I was not saying all geniuses are right. I am quite sure, most are not. For example, Paris Hilton. Just that it is a real biological quality.
Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-15335364447328968532016-07-10T19:35:00.000-07:002016-08-13T15:48:01.758-07:00negative accelerations in Earth's climateCAGW is certainly a least a little bit exaggerated.
A large consensus claims CO2 will cause the Earth to warm, at some climate sensitivity. A smaller consensus also claims positive accelerations will increase this effect, namely: polar amplification, humidity, and methane release.
Less often spoken of are the negative accelerations. I have collected here a few Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-46245740781625432182016-05-24T17:05:00.001-07:002016-05-28T11:49:45.036-07:00A lot of Western liberals have all these guilts
[EDITED 2016-05-25]
Bronze Age, genomic, racial, climatic, personal, synergistic
I am not a reactionary conservative. For example, I support gay marriage.
And also sometimes guilt can be real (or least a path to something real).
This is not a condemnation of liberals, it's just what they feel guilty about.
Now, let's go through the types.
- Bronze Age guilt is when Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-48206802512268365172016-04-28T17:35:00.003-07:002016-05-24T17:58:22.966-07:00What Esker and Noel have in common: planetary formation/buoyancy/atmospheric loss/surface expansionFor years, occasionally I mused on the 'expanding Earth hypothesis' (EEH), as an amateur. It is a fringe idea.
One reason was the continents do seem to fit together as the cover of a smaller Earth. A geologist a hundred years before had blown up a balloon to illustrate the idea, but in the age of computers cartoonist Neal Adams has done the service of animating it.
Don't Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-68718234790751095522016-04-23T15:21:00.000-07:002016-04-25T13:48:56.274-07:00Was the Earth-moon barycenter once outside the Earth?I recently read another 'expanding Earth' hypothesis. Again, from an Australian.:)
Anyway, this one is the most sensible so far.
From memory, with some garnish.
part one
The core hypothesis is that Venus is the norm for terrestrial planets, and that Earth billions of years ago was similar, namely thick atmosphere, very high in CO2, extreme barometric pressure (~90 times Earth), and basicallyHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-82945123005119477412016-04-14T19:42:00.000-07:002016-04-14T19:42:40.057-07:00where you think Life came from - where you think you came fromThese questions are normally grouped separately as questions of evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, and political ideology.
how you think Life originated billions of year ago
how you think your personality formed
what you want society to be like
For the purpose of this post, I look at them as linked.
how did Life start?
abiogenisis, the Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-17324291878590497632016-04-08T15:53:00.005-07:002016-04-08T15:53:59.922-07:00It's 2016FWIW Since I last posted on this blog I have changed some of my opinions.
And why is there no way to tab the first line of paragraphs?
Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-34061432053661062552012-02-25T11:22:00.006-08:002012-02-26T10:01:08.022-08:00NASA surprised to find stretch marks on the moonHere. The moon is not dead!
Last August I posted about the surface of Mars, about a photo then in the news. Following this (seemingly crazy idea) I suggested the lines -supposedly from water- were stretch marks, that the moon had them, too.
A photo from the moon showed up since then:
Of course, astronomers do not consider the moon might be growing.
Note the article includes Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-29032508576112607552011-12-19T08:33:00.000-08:002011-12-19T08:33:54.111-08:00XKCD comes up with a few mnemonics, including one for the solar systemYears ago, right after Pluto was demoted, I created a juvenile new mnemonic for remembering the solar system.
solar system:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
The mnemonic was:
Many vegetarians eat meat, just show up naked.
See, the first letters match.
Finally, someone else, someone actually talented, has taken up this pressing problem. Of course, I refer to the Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-79163862128723896622011-10-31T20:40:00.000-07:002011-10-31T20:46:53.917-07:00study: "autistic facial characteristics identified"Heck, I suggested there was a link between autism and the human face 12 years ago. Originally in my defunct website, later here.
And now there is this. Which seems likely to be trashed, as bigoted or something.
Note how they describe this as "a step toward understanding cause of autism" (sic). What the fuck do they think the cause could possibly be? It's as if they do not understand Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-12755122091530627652011-10-13T16:19:00.000-07:002011-10-13T17:09:33.643-07:00one about politics, again about liars, and about TEDToday, Reddit has a thread about a video called "How to spot a liar".
No commenter in either forum seems to get that in the 21st century the actuality of the liar is waved like a red cape to maneuver dumb animals.
Of course, running through a list of actual liars is called 'brilliant'.
To me the subtext seemed to be: you, the lovely audience, with your fake sciences, fake Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-16163609824988205502011-10-09T17:12:00.000-07:002011-10-31T21:36:41.317-07:00audio podcast - me talking about 3 types of yogaWhich is the most enlightened - to meditate on a mountaintop, go with the flow, or be your face?
An unscholarly comparison of Raja yoga, Kripalu yoga, and a yoga that nurtures personality.Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-75684245345651591132011-09-02T21:25:00.000-07:002011-10-15T17:51:25.109-07:00autism/human face metaphorI wrote the following in the 1990s :
"Those without internal faces - that is, those whose internal face is inaccessible to their original·will - cannot speak.
There is only one true cure - not to force speech out of disconnected face - but rather to produce (with a third eye) the conceived,enlightened face; which can come shimmering up from seeming nothingness like Athena was said to Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-2121196502499294032011-08-06T20:05:00.000-07:002011-08-06T20:05:23.720-07:00the kind of idea that grows on youDoes this look like something that is expanding?
Oh, but that's from water. It has to be. Everyone says so.
Possibly in your mind water on the moon and water on Mars is the same story. Or that, you munched it down: water on both. But since it was there after most of the asteroids hit, just, mirabile dictu, a semi-ancient solar system spritzing of some kind?
Or maybe you think, they are justHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-72726230305953800692011-07-02T20:34:00.000-07:002011-10-09T15:55:42.585-07:00World, get off the lying memeMany believe the world is full of liars.
A couple of years ago a few of these believers made a movie, creating an opposite world.
I guess they thought this would be funny, and would resonate with the irony of the opposite. And maybe even be uplifting. Not to mention educational.
Right?
Well, No. The conceit failed. Despite featuring charismatic and popular stars, The Invention of Lying Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-31743071610638177972011-04-23T16:01:00.000-07:002011-07-02T18:52:31.805-07:00audio podcast update of the Horton Hears a Who postI've been getting a couple of hits a day on my Horton Hears a Who analysis. I have no idea why. So I have done an update. This time it's audio. A podcast, basically.(direct link)The recording is about 14 minutes long, but I don't really get into it until around the 7:30 mark. I apologize for the places in the recording where I ramble. I did it without notes or preparation - nobody is paying me Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-32990114567206372432010-07-20T16:11:00.000-07:002010-07-20T17:12:34.620-07:00The Rise of Passive-Agressive InfrastructureIt is everywhere.Every train station, airport, and highway has it.Packaged consumer goods have it.The famous Windows® operation system has it.It is passive-aggressive infrastructure.Our world now demands of us our time. it constantly says-Look at me!-Listen to me!-Pay attention to this!You might think that the world is simply filling up with needy people, helpless children (of all ages), and Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-82569116436098717002010-05-19T14:48:00.000-07:002010-05-19T15:16:10.678-07:00the Olympics and the love of humanitySomeone at the LATimes asks "Are London's Wenlock and Mandeville the most bizarre Olympics mascots yet?"Victor Hugo, author of Les Miserables, anticipated this somehow, cleverly saying long ago"To love another person is to see the face of God."I am kidding. btw.Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-78421594774188508252010-03-30T15:04:00.000-07:002011-09-02T21:35:33.301-07:00a heaven wish is mixed in with the breath-death wishAbout 5 years ago I gave my opinion on whether the West has a death-wish. I had been spurred on by a Frank Rich column.
About the coverage of the then-recent death of the Pope, Rich said:"What's unsettling is the nastier agenda that lies far less than six feet under the surface. Once the culture of death at its most virulent intersects with politicians in power, it starts to inflict damage on theHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-87082474299197023732010-03-11T19:03:00.000-08:002010-03-11T22:34:16.922-08:00a movie about DeVere as Shakes-speare! Yippee!In just a week or so, principal photography will begin on the first movie ever made about the actual author of Hamlet (& all that other stuff). It will no doubt show up in a few theaters in a few years + quickly end up on high-brow cable.The working title of the movie is Anonymous (a good title for the story, and it might even resonate now, in the internet age).The director is Roland Emmerich, anHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-69003214566156804212009-06-24T07:09:00.000-07:002009-07-04T17:44:20.624-07:00not just 2, not just 3, but 4 ways people relate to truthMy father once told me there were two types of people in the world:- truth-tellers- liarsLater on I learned that there were two other types. One being- bullshittersThese are people who don't care whether the things they say are true or false. They say things for utility-effect only.what about the 4th group?Even today few seem to get that there are also- unconscious fraudsThese are people who careHenryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-22573002627316495252009-01-09T11:06:00.000-08:002009-01-09T11:32:54.792-08:00Paris Hilton, geniusA few years ago, I suggested geniuses were people who had an inability to make a facial expression, and long-term channeled that expression into other behavior.With my usual dense writing, I includedhow to spot geniuseswhy they have a positive impactwhat the face is for normallyWhat I didn't write - but could have - is that this definition expands the set of geniuses surprisingly. There just are Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-3812629171104096952008-11-29T09:29:00.000-08:002008-11-29T09:59:02.034-08:00idea for a book + synth audio feed testI haven't posted in a while. Partly because what I have been thinking about is too political for this blog. If I did write more, it would probably be a huge effort, an anthropology of the last 4 decades of the West: how politics has become fantasy (how the official versions of history are getting faker and faker); And what are the root anthropological causes.I have done a preliminary outline. Of Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-15680339698883650202008-04-28T08:40:00.000-07:002008-04-28T08:51:40.927-07:00a URLcheck out "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus".It's a transcribed speech, highly original, about computers and sitcoms, w nice anecdotes and metaphors.[via Pathologically Polymathic]Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18506257.post-52008899996763783122008-04-18T14:35:00.000-07:002008-04-23T19:23:29.789-07:00the muddle of opposites(click photos for bigger)Long ago, a mental universe like thesewas replaced by one like thesebut now, in the collective unconscious are things like theseIn an upcoming post: why.in case you preferwords to picturesFor ages humanity felt an underlying formality of imagined elements. For instance, Wood + Fire + Earth + Metal + Water[earlier post]Not anymore.The Industrial Revolution changed what Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011180573184498778noreply@blogger.com