Category: January

Now researchers are closing in on that feat with OpenWorm, so named be­cause its source code is available to any­one with a computer and the creature in question is the microscopic roundworm C. elegans. Translucent and easy to raise, the thousand-celled nematode fills petri dishes in labs all over the world and is probably the best understood multi cel­lular organism in science. It was the first to have its genome sequenced and to have a map made of its neural circuitry.

One goal of OpenWorm is to unlock secrets of animal behavior–the magic of how neurons talk to one another. You might, for instance, get a vivid picture of how the presence of a new chemical triggers a chain of bio­physical events, including exactly which of the worm’s 10,000-odd synapses fire in what sequence, and what behavior ensues. Such insight is a step toward figuring out how biological processes of vastly greater complexity operate.

The simulation now has a “body” capable of wormlike movements and a nervous system. Once the two sys­tems are unified, months or years from now, anybody from grade schoolers to biologists could then experiment on worms right in their web browsers. The potential, Larson says, is “practi­cally limitless.”

Why do people chose one religion over another? I don’t believe in a deity and look objectively at religion as I do internet browsers. They’re both means to an end. A browser connects you to the internet in the same way a religion connects you to God, or so it seems. (Is that a halo on the Internet Explorer logo?) Most people are given a browser with their operating system and stick with it for life. Is it the same with religion? Are people born into a religion? and do they stick with that same religion for their entire lives? After all, God is God no matter how you spell it or worship it. It’s too bad religions don’t practice that.

Sexy, soulful, hot tunes. No loser songs on this CD and very highly recommended. There are other CDs, country, with the same name and I can’t speak to those. Make sure Samantha Fish is on the CD if you want this one. Here is the first cut that I thought was “just okay” from the CD I just bought–a blues-rocking tune “Bitch” but lacking the soul of others. Audio

What a way to start 2015. I just discovered British blues musician Dani Wilde. Janis Joplin is reincarnated and now she’s prettier and plays a mean guitar. Blues that oozes soul. She smoulders blues classic “I’d Rather Go Blind” too. Pure and mellow intensity on “Love Hurts” and “Loving you” check them out! Video

I write this because I just made it up with the knowledge that conspiracy theorists will believe anything but the truth. Lets see how long it will take them to retell this make-believe farce as truth. How long do you think it will take?

1. President Bush kissing the Saudi Arabian Prince on the lips and walking hand in hand with him thru the Rose garden while the Prince allowed women to be treated like cattle and was caught before that funneling money to the terrorist that have been killing our troops.

The Prince didn’t visit the White House as much as Sharpton but his actions were rewarded with a loving kiss from an American President on White House property.

A disgrace. That’s it

And (drum roll please) … … Antarctic sea has also broken a record high for that day.

But wait, there’s more: Since October 1996 there has been no global warming at all. November’s RSS (remote sensing satellite feed) temperature plot pushes up the period without any global warming from 18 years 1 month to 18 years 2 months (indeed, very nearly 18 years 3 months). Link

According to the U.S. Geological survey glacial melt has slowed in Glacier National Park in Montana.  In May of 2013 it was revealed that new computer modeling has shown that glacial ice melt in Greenland has slowed.

The “Little Ice Age” ended either late in the 18th century or in the early 20th century. It’s ending coincided with increasing solar activity which peaked in about 1985, and has been declining since. There is substantial evidence that increasing solar activity yields increasing warmth on earth.

Even though over the last decade or so we have been experiencing a “solar maximum”, a period of the highest activity on the sun, this event has been one of the weakest on record. Some scientist are convinced that is the reason that there has been little or no global climate change in the recent past.  Many are convinced that we are about to enter a period of “solar minimum.”  Over the next decade or so it is anticipated that the suns energy output will diminish even further.

The Maunder Minimum, was a 50-year period in which there were no sunspots between about 1650 and 1700 A.D. The Little Ice Age in Europe coincided with the Maunder Minimum and has long been thought to have been associated the minimal energy output of the sun during that period. Link

Another solar minimum was called the Dalton Minimum. It was a period from 1780-1840 wherein staggering cold gripped the world. Link

The low solar activity during the Dalton Minimum had a significant effect on climate and ocean heat content.

Recent studies of certain isotopes in ice cores, has determined how active the sun has been over thousands of years. Analysis of that data shows that solar activity is falling more rapidly than at any time in 10k years.

There is growing certainty that a repeat of the Dalton solar minimum is “more likely than not” to occur according to a key researcher.

The researcher believes that we are already seeing a change in our climate – witness the colder winters and poor summers of recent years – and that over the next few decades there could be a slide to a new Maunder minimum.  I suggest you read the link for further info. Link