Monday, November 2, 2026

MusiLanguage gets a big boost! Bird songs = human language acoustic patterns!

 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr9983

 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.15.603339v1.full.pdf

 We first document acoustic patterns that were widely shared across passerines and similar to music universals (e.g., small pitch intervals), highlighting the role of shared vocal production mechanisms in these patterns. 

The patterns include small pitch intervals, regular and predictable rhythms, and phrase-final elongation, in which the last utterance in a phrase tends to be longer than the others.

The study, which compared bird vocalizations with a global collection of human speech and songs, could be used to better understand the mechanisms of vocal production and auditory processing across species, the researchers said.

 https://phys.org/news/2026-10-birds-humans-fundamental-song-speech.html

"We propose that shared acoustic patterns among birds and humans may be due to common vocal production mechanisms or biases," said Logan James, first author and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology. "For example, birds and humans are unlikely to dramatically change pitch from one note to the next ('small pitch intervals') because it is difficult to do. Phrase-final elongation in birds and humans could be due to breathing patterns when we vocalize."

This study is the first to compare vocal patterning in birdsong that includes both species of birds that learn their songs and species whose songs are innate.

Saturday, October 31, 2026

Happy Halloween 2026!!

 

we got a literal "Trailer Load" full of kids - so good thing I made a big scary Jack O' Lantern!

MST3K mod censors me for referring to child rape crime as being political yet 6 refs to Iran-Contra Affair by MST3K!

 Sorta like the Iran-Contra Affair.

https://www.annotatedmst.com/episodes/23/The_Robot_vs._the_Aztec_Mummy 

Of course Josh started it since he refused to go along with the Corporate Sellout of MST3K. Josh was an independent Free-Improv comedian on the show and he kept it that way. That's why Josh was kept as an underpaid intern maxing out at $25 per show despite Josh being a co-creator of the show with Joel...

https://www.annotatedmst.com/episodes/52/Master_Ninja_II 

 “They call themselves freedom fighters.” The contras?

https://www.annotatedmst.com/episodes/74/Girls_Town 

 Again, I don’t recall.
An imitation of President Ronald Reagan,

https://www.annotatedmst.com/episodes/83/Red_Zone_Cuba 

 We’ve got the gravel pit till noon, and then the Sandinistas are scheduled.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a socialist political party in Nicaragua, w

https://www.annotatedmst.com/episodes/96/parts%3A_the_clonus_horror 

 Gonna be a bigger problem than Billy Carter. –Mistakes were made, brothers were killed.
See note on Billy Carter, above. “Mistakes were made” is a commonly used dodge by politicians to acknowledge error without pinning blame on any specific person: the passive construction suggests that no one actually made the mistakes; they just materialized out of thin air. President Ronald Reagan famously used the phrase during the Iran-contra scandal in 1986, but the earliest use I was able to find was by Richard Nixon’s press secretary, Ron Ziegler, in 1973, apologizing for his attacks on Washington Post stories about the Watergate scandal.

 https://www.reddit.com/r/MST3K/comments/18o0uji/whats_an_obscure_riff_that_flew_past_you_until/

For years, I liked the riff in Cave Dwellers “Lisa Foster? I’d shoot Donald Regan to prove my love for Lisa Foster!”

I THOUGHT it was just an off-version of Ronald Reagan to go with Lisa (instead of Jodie) Foster.

Recently while watching a video about the Iran-Contra Affair, I was shocked to realize Donald Regan was a real person! The writers didn’t just make up a funny name, that was Reagan’s Chief of Staff!

Snuck this past the censors!!

@stevemaas7046​​A dictator promising peace and prosperity? Where have I heard that before?
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885​​to quote Josh of ep. 102: "Sort of like the Iran-Contra Affair"
@Rhonda1969​​1930s Germany
@stevemaas7046​​and...
@adinocc2042​​🦧- I am an Orangutan and I disapprove of this story!
@Rhonda1969​​🇺🇸
@Rhonda1969​​Steve these are depressing times
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885​​or to quote Episode 324: “They call themselves freedom fighters.” The contras?
@Rhonda1969​​And terrifying


 

The Vanguard of Love, Peace, Happiness: Chambers Brothers 1960s music to save the whole world

 Playlist of the Chambers Brothers - a radical integrationist gospel funk hippy band

The Time Has Come Today - you hear it and think it's a white southern rock band!! 

 the Kent State massacre shutdown the Chambers Brothers - and the manager stole everything and went to Canada!

 Time Has Come Today: Rock and Roll Diaries 1967 - 2007 a new 2024 memoir!

Did Harold Bronson have any ties to the group though?

 

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

International Co-operators Day seven-banded rainbow flag for 1936 Minnesota parade festival

  seven-banded rainbow flag was officially adopted by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) in 1925—following a proposal by French cooperator Charles Gide—and was prominently flown during International Co-operators' Day celebrations in 1936 as a symbol of global unity, peace, and cooperation

https://www.sacha-coop.ca/international-co-op-symbol 

Minnesota had the most cooperatives of any state in the U.S.


 
  • Red - courage to stand together

  • Orange - hope for the future 

  • Yellow - warmth, friendship and concern for others

  • Green -  growth in co-operatives and individually, as we learn more about ourselves and others

  • Sky Blue - unlimited horizons and possibilities  

  • Dark Blue - hard work and perseverance

  • Violet - respect for others

     https://www.ica.coop/en

     

    https://www.sacha-coop.ca/international-co-op-symbol

  • Tuesday, October 27, 2026

    Justin Martyr took Lamentations to mean Pneuma (Logos Breath Holy Spirit) of Christ: Professor Marian Hillar

     

    In Lamentations 4:20, the prophet Jeremiah refers to King Zedekiah, the last ruling king of Judah before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. [1, 2, 3]
    The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, Was caught in their pits, Of whom we said, “Under his shadow We shall live among the nations.”
     
    Key Details of Lamentations 4:20