Research Notes (NOV 2021)
- (So-far-successful) aural learning project based on anecdotal, experimental, results:
- Headphones (recommend open-back, wired, with an in-line amplifier).
- YouTube subscription (to eliminate ads).
- Firefox (or similar browser which allows simultaneous open tabs).
- Loop a viscerally recognizable, non-lyrical, song in a YouTube Music tab (e.g. Air - La Femme d'Argent).
- Open any want-to-implant lecture/story in a separate tab (e.g. Lao Tzu - Be Like Water).
- Adjust volumes so vocals are recognizable but not dominant.
- Time must forward. Entropy is a logical reason why this is/was/will forever be (don't take the word 'information' too-literally).
- Historically, currently, and forever-in-the future, rational thought/critical thinking skills is a rare activity in humans. Consequently, if you are someone who insists on evidence and your "brain recognizes a functional state which you have labeled 'uncomfortable' since you began the practice of thinking in this manner" whenever you witness -- in others -- signs of irrationality and illogical thoughts, Issac Asimov explains why you are an outlier and how to understand the lack of rationality prevalent in the masses.
- Ponder a foundational supposition: Quantum computers (technology utilizing quantum entanglement) might make it possible to send information backwards in time, in much the same manner as posting an article or video on the internet today is the equivalent of sending information into our future's time-line. (Publishing a hard-copy book has always been communicating with our future selves, but digitization of books make future needle-in-haystack searchs more target-successful. The yet-to-be-discovered task is how-to verify the information sent back in time remained accurate.
- There are recognizable-logical reasons that most mammalian bilateral symmetry (say that fast) has evolved into today's vital organs with either two co-functioning halves in one organ (penis, vagina, tongue, brain), two completely separate organs (eyes, ears, kidneys, lungs, testicles, ovaries) or the rare, single-organ exceptions (liver, heart, skin). Does heart count with four chambers? Is pancreas part of the liver? And where does one's individual bacterial biome fit-fall into this system of constantly growing, partially dead and alive cells we call a body?
- The largest single organism on present-day Earth is either a fungal system or a massive collection of trees comprised of one underground 'root system' and millions of cloned above-ground fruiting bodies (organs). Both are allegedly in the western US and began living long before we (the conquering majority) arrived and took governmental control of the continent from the thousands of indigenous human tribes who were populating the land (albeit without a continent-wide means of communication or government).
- If you find yourself awake after several hours of sleep. Get up! Find out if the right-creative side of your brain is waking you for its own "creative" reasons (you can nap or meditate later). The left-governing side of our brain (once awake) will draw its own, separate, conclusion as to why it is now awake (bladder, cat, noise, thirst, sinus, temperature, etc) and, unless you prime-that-pump with a "pay attention to the night-shift supervisor", it may not consider the thoughts of the right-hemisphere and, instead, guide you to return to sleep.
- The brain's association cortex is where creativity begins. Drawing conclusions which "others are not able to make" from an otherwize unrelated series of slices of information.
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Research Notes (OCT 2021)
- It is possible for the human eye-brain "observe-recognize" loop to continue to function better than at what would be accomplished by guessing, in a laboratory setting, with a series of images flashing at a rate of 13 milliseconds, which is about 20 times faster than MIT scientists expected (as previously reported in earlier scientific papers). 100 milliseconds = 0.10 (1/10th) of a second; 13 milliseconds = 0.013 (13/1000).
- Passage of the US Farm bill of 2018 (HR5485) removed industrial hemp from inclusion in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act. Subsequent research has identified hundreds of different cannabinoids. Currently, the most popular derivative/distillation of CBD is Delta 8 (Delta 10, D9, CBN, and many others are also beginning to flood the market).
- Experiments with women during childbirth revealed that a combination of music and scientific hypnosis therapy (hypnotic analgesia) resulted in a noticeable improvement on both mother and child; reducing labor times, reducing cesareans, eliminating most pain, etc.
- The gut-brain axis is comprised of chemicals and nerves which continually connect the two organs and permit the contents of the intestine (trillions of bacteria) to communicate with the brain using chemicals (like serotonin) to effect/affect mood, pain, etc. To influence one's mood/health/well being a long-term adjustment can be made in the type of food one consumes (increase the consumption of fermented foods and fiber . . . FEED your 'pets' the stuff that keeps them healthy and pay attention to their signals).
- Broca's area of the human brain is where neurons are concentrated on processing our ability to use (and comprehend) language. This area is on the left side of our brain which means that--because of normal mammalian physiology--our right ear is better (comprehension happens quicker) at comprehending spoken (or sung) words.
- Cyanobacteria is the oldest life form on our planet, evidence exists of this blue-green aquatic bacteria 2.1 to 3.5 billion years ago. Our planet coalesced into a ball of lava about 4.5 billion years ago, eventually the planet cooled enough to allow liquid water to exist and an atmosphere of nitrogen formed (oxygen didn't arrive until bacteria excreted it).
Delta Season
Whether yellow shades of orange linger
this year has not yet been herd 'round.
Weather withers or exhilaratingly clings
as fear's rot kisses its irrational ground.
Together apart debating our superstrings
merely a lube to master the spellbound.
Pleasure inculcates a mental growth-ring
nadir/zenith/infinity feel very profound.
Treasure the bacterial "Borg" everything
commandeer life within without sound.
Tether-symbiosis requires no worshiping
pap smears all contain God the Fecund.
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Zabadak!
A 1967 song you have never heard a single note of by a band you have never heard mentioned in your entire life. Mesmerize. Theorize.
To name your band Dave Dee, Dozy, Beakey, Mick & Tich may not have been 50-years-ago-unusual but a name like that would have left gouge marks in the wallpaper both going in as well as after rigor set in and I had to dispose of the polyester ear-worm somehow. Somehow. *tension in my wrists to begin the Ward of Transmittal* Which is why I know I have never heard of these five blokes. Now, now we have.
However, the feat here was to never have any snippet of any one of their song(s) ever hit my eardrums, ever. They must've (all five of em) traveled the world ahead of me paying radio stations to not mention them and not play their songs while I was in range. Yea. That's my theory and I'm stickin with it.
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Wonderfully Obscure Song by Reunion
Occasionally a 'one-hit wonder' becomes a 'classic'. This one never did. I loved this song so much in 1974 that I tried to write it all down and memorize the lyrics—just from repeat radio listening's. Today, a plethora (today's word boys and girls!) of lists are a click away: "Lost One Hit Wonders;" "Classic Golden Oldies;" or "Deep Album Tracks" and this song is almost certainly not on any of them.
Thirteen years later, R.E.M. released It's the End of the World As We Know It (it's time I had some time alone) and the rambling poetic stream of prose, names, situations, and its long staccato-list of ways the world has changed (e.g: ... team reporters baffled, Trumped, tethered, cropped ...) reminded me of Reunion's Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) and my Asperger's re-reminded me to ask those people in my vicinity if they ever remembered it. And I've occasionally asked more and more people ever since then.
Not one person has ever replied 'yes'.
I can't be the last person to remember this song with a smile! (Can I?)
INSTANT INFANT 🚼 The Perfect Baby
✓ All the fun, practically none of the poop
✓ Virtually unlimited attention span!
✓ Cute as a frigging button
✓ Matches most decors!
✓ Quickly measure your partner's wavelength
Like the idea of determining your long-term compatibility with that special someone, but don't want to spoil the prom by bringing up topics which might result in too much honesty too soon? Then take them to an antique store (there's a left turn you didn't see coming)!
Although it doesn't have to be an antique store; it can be anything you enjoy, which you can do together, with them, at the same time. I suggest antiquing because I've always liked the feelings I experience while perusing a well-curated antique mall's smells (musk of library-garage-attic), sounds (mid-century album rock) and the 'new' memories that creep back front-and-center. This is step one.
You've invited them to accompany you to do something you enjoy and they've agreed (if they also like doing this with you, maybe this could become a you-guy's thing). This might also let you know if they're on your wavelength; because if they don't like doing this simple thing that requires no additional skills (which is why you didn't invite them to poker night or scrapbook-club or horseback riding) maybe they are not that specific flavor of unusual you are searching for. This is step two.
You find a never-seen-by-you-before, life-sized, cardboard cut-out, of a crawling infant in a diaper, for sale. You begin to read the marketing points and snort-giggle so forcefully that a significant quantity of snot leaves your nostril and lands on your shirt. You wipe it off but it's still kinda noticeable. This is step three.
What are their reactions? Do they share your sense of humor? Are they cringing at the idea that you're willing to pay twenty dollars for this odd-harmless item (which is obviously going to be displayed in your home in the near future)? Are they at all embarrassed by the booger stain?
Step four is simple. Find someone who already thinks the way you think, and already sees the world similarly to the way you do. Not someone who seems willing to adapt or says they'll, "try to see things your way". And definitely not someone who only prefers your company when you're doing things they like to do.
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