The heart is called Yi [unified power] becuz when intent moves, spirit is agitated; qi is dispersed. Qi is the Mother of spirit; Spirit is the child of qi. The Mother as qi is the horse that guides/conducts the river chariot (yin spirit) in the water (yin jing). Once your mind is away from the lower Elixir Field, your Qi will be led away from it and be consumed. By gathering the Shen into the lower tan tien then the Qi follows it there. Light of eyes descend as Yang fire inner yin qi line
The heavy clay recharge rate is too slow for my water pump to be functional since it's only 1& 1/4" well pipe but I think it might recharge enough in one day to provide a survival amount of water! I pumped about a pint of water out of the 1 &1/4" well pipe. Yes it calculates to .018 cubic feet which is .135 gallons and a pint is .125 gallons - so makes sense!!
A pint of water a day?
https://store.planet-tachyon.com/tachyon-is-changing-everything/
Tachyonization in the above article is attributed to Moray's generator invention....
The Tachyonization process - interview with David Wagner
I bought an "Advanced Tachyon Disk" about 20 years ago - around 2005. I could FEEL a magnetic force emanating from the disk. It is claimed to be a "silica disk" - I had no idea what it was or whether it was just a scam. All I know is that due to my qigong energy training I knew some kind of energy emanated from this disk and I had no idea why.
In 2010 David Wagner got "tachonization" patented by the US Government - but all the patent is - a process of polarized light microscope showing that sodium chloride got transformed from a cubic quartz to an asymmetric sodium structure... David Wagner claims his Tachyonized disks actually cause chlorine to dissipate into the air.
This is fascinating to me because I have wondered about salt versus sodium in terms of energy training. If I have a processed food meal it usually has extra salt and I am required to drink orange juice to neutralize the extra sodium - but I realized the problem is actually the chloride. Why? Both sodium and potassium are positive ions but chlorine is a negative ion.
The significance of U.S. Patent 7,760,357 cannot be overstated. It affirms that Tachyons are real, their effects are measurable, and their energy can be harnessed through a precise and unreplicable process. It validates over 30 years of dedicated work by David Wagner and the team at Advanced Tachyon Technologies.
https://custom.healing-energy.com/pro-patent/
Another fascinating claim of David Wagner is that this is a "permanent" tachyonization - and this is the same "permanent" magnetic negentropic force that emanates from my own pineal gland originating from my heart and stored in my small intestines - the "yuan qi" quantum potential force that is noncommutative.
The engineer William Tiller also claimed that he could store matter with a psychoenergetic negentropic energy. Qigong master Chunyi Lin encourages his "clients" to have water nearby the phone when they get an energy healing and keep the water in the frig - and drink this water regularly to continue the healing.
“We stand at the crossroads of deep intuition and rigorous theory as it merges with today’s Science.” — Prof. David Wagner
The paper "Covariant Quantum Field Theory of Tachyons," published in Physical Review D (2024),
the noncovariant commutation rules, are shown to be a result of misrepresenting the Lorentz group in a too small Hilbert space.
No way!! It's right there.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.00450
Lorentz Covariance – Earlier attempts to integrate Tachyons into quantum theory failed because they did not maintain relativistic consistency. The 2024 study finally solved this, proving that Tachyon fields fit seamlessly into quantum mechanics.
For physicists, the 2024 breakthrough corrected a century-old error and validated tachyons as real, causally compliant particles. For Wagner, Tachyonization™ had already demonstrated these properties experientially for decades.
the energy spectrum is unbounded from below, Lorentz boosts alter an already unstable vacuum and the commutation rules are not covariant with respect to Lorentz boosts.
the Tachyonized products are made by a "dedicated team" - so they get trained as energy healers to MAKE the Tachyonized disks?!!
So Dr. Glen Rein tests "tachyon"....
Tachyonized materials were the only technology that had a neg-entropic effect on the DNA integrity.
This research was done with a Hewlett Packard UV absorption spectrophotometer. The study measured the effects of different frequency devices and photometer. The study measured the effects of different frequency devices and Tachyonized materials on preventing the degeneration of the DNA. Results which show a compression or rewinding of the DNA signify a neg-entropic effect or the prevention of degeneration.
Is this the same study?
An UV Spectrophotometer (from Hewlett Packard) was used to measure the winding and unwinding of DNA. This is a standard biochemical technique based on the absorption of UV light at 260nm. It was demonstrated that DNA in deionized water (20μg/ml) was stable when kept at room temperature for two hours. Absorption values were calculated as a percent change relative to the initial value at the start of a given experiment. Control values (no treatment) gave values around 1.1 %, whereas treated samples varied from 2-10% indicating at least a two-fold effect on the DNA.
Andrija Puharich was the first to make this claim!
In the mid 1980’s a commercial device (Teslar Shielding Device) became available which utilized a mobius coil. The device was based on a patent which used a mobius strip in a crystal oscillator circuit (Puharich, 1984). Anecdotal case reports from electromagnetic sensitive individuals wearing the shielding device suggested it might block adverse effects of power line EM fields. Morley used electro- diagnostic measurements (EAV) with these individuals and demonstrated the shielding device normalized their electrical meridian readings after exposure to powerlines. A more scientific approach was taken by Byrd who observed a decrease in overall amplitude and a shift toward lower frequencies in EEG recordings from individuals wearing the shielding device (Byrd, unpublished observation).
https://store.planet-tachyon.com/tachyon-is-changing-everything/
Then in volume 4, 1991 of Raum & Zeit, Dr. Morton Walker, DPM wrote an article about the emergence of a company that had been successful in re-organizing certain materials. In particular, glass, water, and cloth had been used to become a conduit for Tachyon Energy to pass through. The article stirred the imagination. Dr. Walker associated the life force, Prana, Ch'i , Ki, and Qi, as being the same as Tachyon Energy causing a decrease in entropy by those who used these products. Dr. Walker described several commercial products available in the U.S. for private use. All of these products were developed by an unidentified company by an unnamed scientist in Japan. Even so, the availability for an individual to actually be able to hold an antenna for Tachyon Energy was in itself a godsend.
In a follow-up article published in volume 3, number 2, 1992 of Raum & Zeit, Dr. Walker provided even more encouraging news about certain athletes who had increased their performances most impressively by the use of these little antennas of Tachyon Energy.
Dr. William H. Philpott, M.D., writes most impressively that all our healthy cells have a magnetic charge that attracts and converts Tachyon Energy into biological energy in the form of usable electrons. Furthermore, Dr. Philpott reported that when a cell is in a state of edema, inflammation or disorders of sodium-potassium, the cells are shorted out and therefore incapable of converting free space energy (Tachyon) into biological usable energy.
This seems to correspond with the negentropy philosophy associated with Tachyon Energy.
QFT of tachyons, bears a remarkable resemblance to the two-state vector formal-
ism in non-relativistic quantum mechanics, developed by
Aharonov, Bergmann, and Lebowitz....utilizing states that were prepared both in the past and in the future. As shown in
[1], the quantum theory can be reinterpreted using this
paradigm, which we will adopt to interpret the states of
the twin space F ⊗ F⋆
David Wagner claims he "perfected a process" that creates a "permanent antenna" and is "proprietary."
David Wagner works with Ma Ananda Sarita - a tantric student of Osho
n the Maya, whose ancestors lived in iodine-poor soils, the researchers found strong evidence of genetic changes in iodine metabolism. In parts of South Asia with unusually high magnesium levels, they identified two genes suggesting adaptation to prevent magnesium toxicity. The findings suggest that across continents and millennia, genes responded to the quiet but persistent tug of local geology.
Before agriculture, people already depended on their environment for trace elements. But farming and settlement likely intensified the problem. Soil depletion, monoculture, and new diets amplified shortages and sometimes created surpluses. Over thousands of years, these pressures influenced which gene variants thrived.
“This paper is a first step in understanding which populations might be most at risk,” Rees said. “We hope with more studies, the findings can eventually help inform public health going forward.”
Why It Matters for the Present
Modern human populations are not starting from scratch. Each carries a legacy of past adaptations. As climate change and industrial farming continue to strip soils of nutrients, understanding these inherited vulnerabilities could help predict who is most at risk for deficiency-related disease.
Anthropologists and geneticists are now asking how deep this pattern runs. Did micronutrient pressure shape not just physical health but also cognition or reproductive patterns? Could mineral deficiencies explain aspects of migration, settlement, or even myths about sacred springs and salt? These are open questions, but the Rees team’s data lay a foundation.
ur knowledge of the genetic basis of their biology15,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,63,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104: calcium, chloride, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, phosphorus, potassium, selenium, sodium, and zinc. This includes all trace metals and macrominerals (Table S1), with the exception of fluoride and sulfur, which were omitted due to limited knowledge of their functionally associated genes in humans. For similar reasons, this study does not investigate the role of the 13 essential vitamins in human adaptation.
micronutrients may have been an important selective force driving genetic adaptation in modern humans.
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An excess of iodine, not sodium chloride, is linked to an increased risk of thyroid tumors. Sodium chloride is common table salt, but iodine is only present in fortified versions called iodized salt. A high intake of iodized salt can cause too much iodine, which may promote the development of thyroid cancer and nodules in susceptible individuals
molybdenum show an excess of Relate and FST significant SNPs in many populations (Figure 2), but this appears to be driven by the high number of significant SNPs in two genes, GPHN and MOCS2, in this very small gene set (n = 5). The SNPs in these two genes have high allele frequencies in Yoruba (
these, only the SUMSTAT values of phosphorus in the American Pima population and selenium in the East Asian Xibo-Mongolian population fall in the 1% tail of the background distribution (Table 1).
High rates of goiter, a swelling of the thyroid gland caused by extreme iodine deficiency, is common among contemporary populations across Central America,113,114 indicating iodine deficiency as a pervasive environmental pressure in this region (albeit perhaps exacerbated by socioeconomic inequalities). Given that contemporary populations in this locality likely have substantial recent European and African ancestry, this is not an evaluation of the response to iodine deficiency in the Maya, and it remains possible that this population has evolved genetic adaptations to mediate the risks of dietary iodine deficiency.Interestingly, four iodine-associated candidate genes in the Maya are also candidates in the Mbuti population of Central Africa, three of which are part of the thyroid hormone pathway: THRA (MIM: 190120), THRB (MIM: 190160), and TRIP4115 (the latter identified as a target of positive selection16). Rainforest environments, such as those where the Mbuti live, often have iodine-deficient soils,35,45,116 and it has been previously suggested that this may drive adaptations in local populations.16 Thyroid receptors also play an important role in regulating growth, development, and metabolism,25,117,118 and it is feasible that adaptations in these genes, driven by low dietary iodine, underlie the distinctive short stature of Maya and Mbuti (height < 160 cm113,119).
I honestly never watched the Jerry Springer show.
"The trash wins the day" - after the banned horse bestiality show the ratings finally beat Oprah.
Charlie Kirk was supposedly murdered by people think Kirk essentially committed suicide due to his nonstop promotion of gun violence.
Meanwhile Drumpf is sandwiched in between them.... At some point it has to come full circle.
The Chinese translated instructions say: "horse training machine" and "word horse" cross auxiliary special equipment. I immediately FELT the groin stretch - it felt excellent. This is the opposite of doing squats. Working squat muscles TIGHTENS the adductors. So I think this will be the perfect balance to increasing squat strength. ...And clearly in China this machine is considered part of Horse Stance training for martial arts! Wild.
When I search this I get:
The phase velocity is useless when it comes to transmitting information, as it describes a continuous electromagnetic wave. Any change in that wave, any modulation, would travel at the group velocity, which is less than the vacuum speed of light. (And yes, there are cases when even the group velocity can be greater than the vacuum speed of light but even then, signals won’t travel faster than light in a vacuum.)
This is the claim above of Viktor Toth, a self-professor guru of physics on quora. The problem is he is ignoring noncommutativity that defines the foundation of reality as discrete mathematics. Also the article "Light is Heavy" by Nobel physicist Gerard t' Hooft and Martin van der Mark explains that light indeed has "gravitational mass" due to the inherent 1/2 spin of particles and all particles are made of light. So this "negative frequency" as gravitational mass has been empirically demonstrated in "weak measurement" experiments as being "gravitationally repulsive."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325001931?via%3Dihub
Lombard identified 180 genes associated with attention in Homo sapiens that differ from those in Neanderthals and Denisovans. Eighteen were highly expressed in specific brain regions, including the brainstem, cerebellum, amygdala, basal ganglia, white matter, and thalamus. Many of these regions are typically considered “ancient” brain structures, not the obvious centers of higher cognition. “These subcortical regions, along with the thalamus, are implicated in the evolution of human attention and deserve more focused study,” Lombard argues.
direct genetic influences cannot be ruled out. Based on their genetic archaeology of human cognitive traits, Kaczanowska et al. (2022) suggest that adaptive evolution associated with excitatory neurons and synaptic function, shifted from functional networks for motor control to attention in ancient hominoids by > 19 Ma and hominids by > 7.4 Ma. After our split from the great apes >5 Ma, the hominin ability to control attention continued to go through wide-ranging changes, with extinct hominins likely evolving quantitatively and qualitatively different permutations (Bruner and Colom, 2022; Bruner, 2024). According to Bruner (2024: 7) the complex socio-technical networks “of the genus Homo (especially in H. sapiens) are not possible without an attentional system”.
He says you can just widen the horse stance but start out at the "five step" width and then lower the pelvis below the knees...
I definitely got farther at the end of this side splits vid and I heard this click on my left side as the femur shifted beyond the hip when I rotated my thigh back and my hip forward. Then I was able to get down lower. Very cool stuff.
Contralateral pattern is the secret of Yiquan training and the yin-yang meridians. If you study the book "Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality" you realize that the contralateral pattern relies on asymmetric time-frequency that is nonlocal as quantum potential force from the future. I started out in music and then meditation and energy healing. The nervous system tendon strength stretching mobility core training originates from that contralateral secret. This was figured out by Eddie Oshins working at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and he also taught Wing chun at Stanford - and then he did Neigong research. He realized the secret of mind-body integration is what is called "noncommutativity" in math and physics. I made this same discovery on my own and so I searched down Eddie Oshins since I realized someone else must have made this same discovery. It's the secret of quantum biology as Professor Basil J. Hiley points out in his 2022 book chapter on quantum consciousness - meaning "noncommutativity" as contralateral pattern enabled quantum coherence to self-amplify into the macroscale as mind-body integration. I trained with qigong grandmaster chunyi Lin at Minnesota Spring Forest qigong -he was tested by Mayo Clinic doctor Ann Vincent in "external qi" healing of chronic pain. So for example the outside of the hand is yang and inside is yin while lower body is yin and upper body is yang - this creates the Dirac Dance demonstration of quantum nonlocality as my professor Herbert J. Bernstein demonstrated for his quantum physics class - this is called in Tai Chi the Silk Reeling exercise but it's also found in Wing Chun and Bagua and Yiquan. So for example in Padmasana full lotus meditation you want the left leg on top as that is yang embracing the yin lower body. The left eye is yin qi but yang shen during meditation while the right eye is yang qi but yin shen (spirit). All of Western science is based on symmetric commutative geometry so we lost the secret of an eternal time-frequency that is asymmetric or contralateral. I have a recent peer-reviewed published article that gives more details - in the academic journal "Cosmos and History" december 2024 open access read on "Noncommutativity Music as Biophysics." thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIwKsYaG1TA
A more efficient nervous system....
higher volume is better for both hypertrophy and strength....
As long as you can recover you will get stronger...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDoX4_woDxM
I replied to half a dozen comments of people freaking out about the genetics showing "Australoid phenotype" for people living in Europe 27,000 years ago - call them Cro-Magnons or Gravettians - they were from Africa like Australian aborigines or Melanasians or early native Americans. We're all originally African with African-traits.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05726-0
This ancestry profile survived during the Last Glacial Maximum (25,000 to 19,000 years ago) in human populations from southwestern Europe associated with the Solutrean culture, and with the following Magdalenian culture that re-expanded northeastward after the Last Glacial Maximum. Conversely, we reveal a genetic turnover in southern Europe suggesting a local replacement of human groups around the time of the Last Glacial Maximum, accompanied by a north-to-south dispersal of populations associated with the Epigravettian culture.
This genetic signature is shared among individuals associated with the archaeologically defined Gravettian culture (33–26 ka) in central and southern Europe and seemingly disappeared after the Last Glacial Maximum4 (LGM). However, the genetic profile of contemporaneous Gravettian-associated individuals from western Europe remains unknown, as is their contribution to populations after the LGM. Known to have been the coldest phase of the last Ice Age, the LGM is considered to have caused a demographic decline in large parts of Europe10, with populations retracting to southern latitudes as attested—for example—by the contemporaneity of the Solutrean culture (24–19 ka) in the Iberian peninsula and southern France. Other proposed climatic refugia for human survival during this period are the Italian peninsula, the Balkans and the southeastern European Plain, but the actual genetic contribution of populations from these regions to post-LGM Europeans is highly debated11,12,13.
western and eastern European hunter-gatherers, who were also characterized by marked differences in phenotypically relevant variants.
Consistent with previous findings, none of the analysed groups show the derived allele at SNP rs4988235 on the LCT gene, which is responsible for lactase persistence. As previously hinted37, we find a large frequency variation in alleles related to skin and eye pigmentation among post-LGM hunter-gatherer groups. For the SNP associated with light eye colour (HERC2/OCA2 (rs12913832)), individuals from the Villabruna cluster, Oberkassel cluster, Baltic HG and SHG groups show high frequencies of the derived allele (>90%), which is responsible for the green or blue eye phenotype, whereas Sidelkino cluster, Ukraine HG and Iron Gates HG groups show low occurrence of this allele (10–25%).
Wow so my green hazel eyes are from probably Baltic area genetics? cool. I'm from Dresden area on my dad's said going back to my great-great grandfather maybe? My great-grandfather apprenticed in Sweden at a carpentry factory - I have it written down that either his dad or the dad before came from Dresden area after Napoleon had invaded. 1813.... So he lived probably till 1860s. So that would mean his son traveled to Minnesota...to make my grandfather...
On the basis of the genetic variation of present-day Europeans, this could imply phenotypic differences between post-14 ka hunter-gatherer populations across Europe, with individuals in the Oberkassel cluster [Central Europe] possibly exhibiting darker skin and lighter eyes, and individuals in the Sidelkino cluster possibly lighter skin and darker eye colour [Southwestern Europe].
fascinating.
U.S. trends
- More billionaires: The number of U.S. billionaires rose from 614 in March 2020 to 737 by March 2024.
- Explosion in wealth: Their combined net worth increased by 88% over the same four-year period, jumping from nearly $3 trillion to more than $5.5 trillion.
In early 2020, there were 2,095 billionaires globally. By April 2025, that number had grown to a record 3,028, according to Forbes. Surge in wealth: The combined net worth of billionaires worldwide also soared, reaching $16.1 trillion by April 2025. The charitable organization Oxfam reported in May 2022 that total billionaire wealth had risen by $3.78 trillion since 2020. Pandemic profits: The growth was especially stark during the first two years of the pandemic, fueled by rising stock markets and government stimulus measures that drove up asset prices. This occurred while many working families struggled with inflation and job losses.
Ironically AI tells us the above when 7 AI tech companies now dominate some 35% of Wall Street price speculation!
I got it for $15 cheaper by ordering direct from China instead of from Jeff Bezos....
High performance, I felt the burn right away, it really helps with flexibility and it's easy to use and it's so high end, it works great and It was an amazing value 5 stars and I highly recommend
The space between the seat and the steering wheel is short. I am 185 lb and 5' 11", and I do fit well but I think that it might run small for someone over 200 lbs. At the end of the day, it will still do the job.
I got this to get a my flex back and now my kicks are precise.
gear box in the front broke after a few months of use.
a tiny nut held a gear on the adjusting screw. The nut and adjusting screw was found to be stripped.
cheap metal gears that won't last long I'm seeing metal dust when my daughter uses it.
OK I'm gonna put the below the metal gears before I use it.
Danco™ Silicone Faucet Cartridge Grease - .5 oz
How to tell a male from female Budgie
So the chain pet store (Petsmart) in the western suburb said "it's the day out of its nest" - and it was also my birthday, turning 14.
So a perfect combination. I immediately built an open one-floor Lego house since my bird couldn't fly yet. Louie actually enjoyed hopping around that house as small as it was. Louie hugged my heart on my chest for warmth like a baby coddling (and going through the "babbling phase") as I pet it and then it hopped around its lego house. We bonded as we both matured together.
For its cage I custom built a beautiful circular stand - with 4 long 1 x 1" posts (square) connecting 4 circles - so the wood stand was maybe four feet high and Louie's bird cage then sat in the corner of the room. Later this cage was bought by someone at our garage moving sale (I was away at college at the time). My first parakeet was erroneously placed on the sunbay window where it soon caught a cold (after a couple weeks perishing) - from the cold air by the window. This time I had learned my lesson (or so I thought).
Louie also had a pet penguin that Louie later turned into his love partner - trying to mate with it. But at first Louie had to learn how to fly and sing. Louie then liked to sit on our music book pages on top of the Steinway grand - singing along as it also bent over to take a slice of paper to eat. Our music book pages were lined with perfect half-circles from Louie eating the paper as he sung along to the music.
Louie also took showers with me - sitting on my shoulder but I made sure to keep him out of the main line of water. One favorite game for me was to lie on my bed and call Louie who then would fly out of his cage and up the stairs - a 180 degree turn at a bay window and then another 90 degree turn at the 2nd floor hallway. I could hear his wings loudly fluttering as he finally landed on my shoulder to play with me.
In my pubescence Louie enjoyed cleanly plucking off my zits and then he ate them - kind of creepy but also very convenient for me.
Pubescence pimples, or teenage acne, are a common skin condition caused by increased androgen hormones during puberty, which stimulate sebaceous glands to produce excess oil.
I brought over a soccer friend - I was considered the 2nd best soccer player in 8th grade and he was the first best. Soccer was a big deal at our school since our private high school routinely won state. He realized my bond friendship with Louie was way more important to me than soccer. That was my last year playing soccer. After that I went deep into music just as Louie had learned my music then I wanted to learn the secret of music beyond just human music.
Louie would say "Where's Peter?" - Peter being the name of his plastic penguin on wheels - that Louie was quite openly physical with. Louie also enjoyed entertaining my mom as she cooked dinner - he was given a bowl of water on the counter and he would play in the water. The kitchen would be warm from the oven and he enjoyed being with my mom. My mom said Louie preferred flying up the back stairs - the spiral staircase that had been the "servant's stairs" - he liked that challenge.
There was only one time when I returned from school and I put my hand in the cage for Louie to hop on - he hopped over on his perch, bent over and promptly bit me. That was the only time he ever bit me and I realized he must have been holding a grudge against me for some reason. I have no idea what I did to anger him - but after he bit me then he was fine emotionally with me. He just needed to get that anger out of his system but I'll never know what happened to cause the anger.
What else? Louie had a lot of fun pestering my dad since my dad would return from work to sit in "his chair" next to Louie's cage and bird stand. Louie liked to peck at my dad's watch while Louie also pulled my dad's arm hairs. My dad never got real mad about this but did tell Louie to stop. My dad never left his chair - he kept doing his usual post-work routine of reading mail and journals and having his cocktail.
One time my dad returned from the detached garage - it was winter out but Louie had been secretly stashed on my dad's shoulder! My dad was in his car and turned to leave the garage - realizing Louie was riding on my dad's shoulder! Louie had wondered where dad went every morning! Amazingly Louie stayed on dad's shoulder for the cold walk into the garage and the cold walk back into the house - across the driveway.
Another amazing interaction happened with my mom. Mom was in the kitchen and Louie flew in and he flew back and forth. Mom realized Louie wanted her to follow him. So they went up the spiral staircase together - the backstairs from the kitchen up to the 2nd floor hallway and down to my parent's bedroom. There was another bird that had somehow gotten into the house. Louie refused to go into the bedroom - he stopped at the door.
"Just the way he looked and everything, I knew he wanted me to go look. And sure enough there was a bird."
The bedroom door was open but Louie would not fly into the room - and the other bird had not tried to fly anywhere else - it was confused and not happy. Mom opened the deck door and let the bird out.
One of the things I noticed about Louie is that I could tell he was smiling from the gleam in his eyes. I found that very fascinating. One day Louie was in the kitchen with my mom as she prepared dinner - as usual. He was sitting perched on the oven handle - a wall oven. I was telling my mom how I was going to bring Louie with me to college (of course first I needed to attend high school since I was still in middle school being 14 years old).
I then left the kitchen to go into the dining room but first I had to walk through the breakfast room. As I pushed open the breakfast room door I heard the familiar fluttering sound of Louie's wings and he left to follow me. Only the breakfast room door into the dining room was a swinging door! I turned around to see only Louie's beak on my side of the swinging door and the door slammed shut on his beak.
His beak was left barely hanging off his face and we rushed him to the Vet that was a few blocks away - across the street from my public elementary school. The vet said, "I could save him with surgery but he would be in a lot of pain." The Vet encouraged us to put the bird to sleep and I agreed that it was better than putting Louie through severe pain.
Louie had lived a happy and free life as far as being a pet is concerned - our house was large with two big staircases that he enjoyed navigating - and Louie was his most joyful when singing along to our Steinway grand piano playing. Louie had constant companionship and played with us as much as we played with him. He saw us as equals and we treated him as an equal as well. The only draw back was that I had to constantly pick up his droppings around the house. hahahaha.
What I learned from Louie is that animal intelligence can be just as sophisticated as human intelligence. The research of Dr. Erich Jarvis has now proven that song birds learn to sing cultural in close connection with their ability to move in body synchronization (i.e. dancing). Jarvis, a former professional dancer, emphasizes that the ability to dance is co-evolved with the ability to speak. Not just song birds but convergent evolution that Jarvis calls "the continuum hypothesis" -
A parakeet is not a songbird; it is a member of the parrot order, Psittaciformes. The scientific order for songbirds is Passeriformes
Here is a short vid of a parakeet head-bopping in time to the music beat
So the emphasis of Dr. Erich Jarvis is that vocal learning as language is convergent evolution - he calls this the "continuum hypothesis" - since humans and birds have such a distance ancestry (300 million years ago!!) in terms of both being animals (other vocal learning species include whales, dolphins, crows, zebra finches, canaries). Dr. Erich Jarvis proved that song learning birds also use the songs for voluntary communication - it's cultural communication. Not just instinct. It's voluntary and has to be learned.
The ability to learn language by humans originated also from music learning as Professor Jerome Lewis has emphasized - and it also is closely tied to synchronized body movement. Dr. Rodolfo Llinas' classic neuroscience book - "I of the Vortex" argues that our sense of self as defined by language with left brain dominance is inherently tied to our movement cortex. Dr. Erich Jarvis proved this is also true with song birds - their language singing learning is closely tied to their body dancing ability.
Louie's last day with me proved to me that he loved me and he literally wanted to follow me. Obviously our lives were forced to part paths but our time together was magical - both in our innocence and our courage to share worlds together, emotionally and psychologically. If Louie saw himself in a mirror then he probably thought it was another bird that he was fighting - much like a male Cardinal will peck at a car side mirror. So obviously a sense of a separate ego as defined by left-brain dominant language is not crystallized in birds. Yet the singing origin of language and the bonding that music makes as emotional intelligence for learning is obviously there in song birds just as it is the foundation for knowledge in humans as primates.
Lots of these vocal-learning species of birds, they like to produce various melodies or complex sequences of vocalizations which keep the attention of others of their own species. Sometimes, unfortunately, it keeps the attention of predators. This is why I think vocal learning doesn’t evolve as often as it could, because predators are selecting against evolution of language, so to speak. But nevertheless, I do think it is an artistic form of expression.
https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/15/erich-jarvis-studies-song-bird-stuttering/
But you can’t get them to voluntarily modulate the muscles of the larynx. Only vocal-learning species can do that......
fascinating about the brains of these vocal learning species, including us humans and these birds. We have an extra brain pathway that controls our vocal organs and oral facial musculature for sound production that you do not find in other mammals or other birds like chickens.
Further, that extra brain pathway looks like it evolved out of an existing motor pathway that controls body movement. So spoken language is really a body movement pathway controlling the muscles of the larynx, producing all these interesting cognitive sounds and thoughts and so forth.
Thirdly, once these new brain pathways evolved out of surrounding motor pathways, it created new specializations in genes that control its connections, the interactions between cells in that brain pathway, and how fast that brain pathway can work. Because laryngeal muscles in us humans and syrinx muscles in birds are the fastest firing muscles in the entire body, you need fast firing neurons to control fast firing muscles, and this happened all similarly in birds and in humans.....
What we find is that mutations in those genes that cause speech deficits in humans will also cause vocal learning deficits in the songbirds. What it means is that convergent evolution also leads to convergent health-related disorders. That means we can use these vocal learning birds as animal models for human speech....
. Birds can regenerate neurons in their brains in places where humans can’t. After the neural repair occurs, the stuttering is gone. So the question is, can we figure out how the birds did that in their brain, and then induce new neuron formation in human brains in the same way to repair neurogenic stuttering....Vocal-learning birds can stutter, that’s right. They will stutter with brain lesions in certain areas where the lesions in humans also cause stuttering....
To offset 12 tons of carbon, the required driving time varies significantly, but assuming a typical EV reduces emissions by about 3.6 tons of CO2 per year compared to a gasoline car, you would need to drive approximately 3.3 to 3.4 years to offset 12 tons of carbon, though this figure is a general estimate and depends on the specific EV, driving habits, and electricity source
9000 miles of driving based on 20 mpg:
The total grams of CO2 are divided by the CO2 emissions per gallon to find the total gallons of gasoline consumed.
Greenwashed Gold Rush: The hidden cost of the electric vehicle boomHow Big Banks are fueling a new wave of environmental and human rights abuses
Global sales of electric vehicles currently account for a quarter of all vehicles sold, but before anyone celebrates this as a victory for environmentalism, it’s worth taking a look under the hood of the electric vehicle industry. As critics have already noted, current EV batteries and clean energy technologies, like solar panels and wind turbines, are full of nonrenewable resources that rely on extractive processes that cause major social and environmental harm—namely, minerals like lithium, cobalt, copper, and nickel. Our latest report delves into this burgeoning sector and finds that the same big banks handing out billions to Big Oil and the agribusinesses driving deforestation are also pumping hundreds of billions into a 21st-century gold rush for these so-called “transition minerals,” which are destroying forests, contaminating water, and violating peoples' rights. Between 2016 and 2024, big banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Citi, provided $493 billion in credit to 100 transition mining companies. For a sector where nearly 70% of transition mineral mines overlap Indigenous and peasant lands and 71% are in high-biodiversity regions like Indonesia, Brazil, and the Congo, the social and ecological footprint is massive. Many of these mining companies have an abhorrent human rights record—since 2010, the transition minerals sector has been connected to 835 recorded allegations of abuse, including land grabs and attacks on environmental defenders. So what are banks doing about it? Perhaps unsurprisingly, they’re choosing profit over people and planet. Our report delved into the policies of 30 major banks and investors financing the mining sector and we gave them an average environmental and social policy score of just 22% and 19%, respectively. About as failing of a grade as you can get. While electric cars and “renewable” energy may have lower tailpipe and lifetime emissions than their fossil fuel counterparts, the production of those technologies remains ensconced in structures of social and environmental harm, exacerbated by wealthy institutions exercising minimal oversight over their financing and investment activities to maximize profits at any cost. Low-carbon technologies are a necessary part of our future, but society must reject business-as-usual in the mining and finance sectors. We need strong financial regulations centering human rights, biodiversity, and ecological limits at every stage of the mineral value chain. To build a future powered by clean energy, we must first transform how it is financed—with justice as the foundation, not an afterthought. |
