Climate Science 100 hour livestream protest against NASA GISS Goddard Climate Center being evicted/funding cut

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcWR6CdJnvQ&list=PLDDEU7mKb6z0RD8V9eXw8TH_qJ1Jtb5u_

This livestream is going strong - and the scientists are pleading for people to call their representatives to get the funding restored.

I wish I wasn't politically burnt out - I got arrested eight times doing civil disobedience and over 30 years ago I argued with my University student friends that instead of going into science they needed to go into policy activism. 

Policy activism relies on begging for funding and it's easy to get burnt out from begging for funding. I achieved some policy changes but I also got my email account deleted - all my saved messages - and a professor/director emailed me saying I would never be published again in the University newspaper. We activists got FBI files, etc. and a private company investigated me as one of twelve top "eco-terrorists" since I was a "habitual" and "multi-sector" activist. I worked at half a dozen nonprofit policy activist places and I organized campaigns and coalitions.

Now it's time for the scientists to become activists without having any choice in the matter.

 From May 28th to June 1st, join meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US for a 💯-hour livestream! We will share our science and show why America's forecasts are worth saving. [Photo: NOAA]

 https://wclivestream.com/

 Currently I click on many petitions a day - probably a dozen on average! But I also realize that the political parties are controlled by corporate PAC "donations." So politicians spend half their time brown-no$ing to corporate PACs for fundraising. In the "GOP" - this has turned into a dictator of Drumpf based on the cover-up of his Epstein collaboration in child rape. So that's how tragic our modern human condition is - truly a spiritual and existential crisis that is increasingly noticeable through the devastation of abrupt global warming and other pollution along with extreme social injustice.

 Yes Basil J. Hiley said in 2012, "No one understands me" in his response to Jack Sarfatti's comment. I noticed this was definitely true when I listened to other scientists responses to Hiley. My understanding of Hiley was solely due to my music-meditation philosophy and training that led me to noncommutativity. Hiley in his final talks was emphasizing "nonlocal time" being noncommutative. That's what I had first emailed him about - I simply said, "You know that time-frequency is noncommutative." hahaha. Something like that - around 2019.
What I like about the work of Bohm-Hiley is that they realized our ecological crisis today is due to the wrong physics and wrong philosophy of science. Bohm-Hiley also realized this meant a dismissal of the paranormal. Hiley then realized this was due to not understanding noncommutativity. I came to precisely the same conclusion but only through my experiential training in music-meditation! hahahahaha.
All the best,
drew

 

Hi Professor Alan Robock: I'm listening to your talk "AOS 405 seminar - March 21, 2022 - Alan Robock" on youtube for UW-Madison where I finished my undergraduate degree in the early 90s. I went there precisely to experience a radical activism populism training based on the Madison WI 60s legacy. I did my first post-secondary year at Hampshire College when I took quantum physics professor Herbert J. Bernstein's class - he worked at M.I.T. also. 

I did policy activism through my master's degree at U of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2000 and I got arrested eight times doing civil disobedience. 

I also studied philosophy of science with my focus eventually being on noncommutativity. I corresponded with quantum physics professor Basil J. Hiley, the collaborator of David Bohm, several times - he also focused on noncommutativity.

Doing policy activism work mainly relied on me begging for donations or shuffling papers or washing dishes or doing data entry. I also volunteered to organize coalitions and campaigns, etc. I worked for half a dozen nonprofits.

I see you supervised many science students!

Glad you were also able to protest at UW-Madison - my activist mentor at Madison did a FOIA request. He said the FBI had 900 pages on a couple dozen of us activists over maybe six years. hahaha. Most of it was all redacted and the FBI then requested the FOIA get retracted since it was too much work to redact all the pages. 

Anyway, that was 30 years ago already. 

I got arrested through Nukewatch out of Luke WI. Maybe you are familiar with them? https://nukewatchinfo.org/ Project ELF finally got shut down but then I got a warrant for my arrest since I had not paid a fine for ten years. So I paid the fine. 

thanks,

drew hempel

 

 

 

Dandelion Tea is a natural fat reducer: Pancreatic lipase enzyme for dietary fat digestion is inhibited!

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5341965/

Dandelion is an amazing medicinal plant. The Terpenes in the root are anti-tumor. I harvested about a pound of dried Dandelion root powder. 3 pounds as fresh root weight! Or 1.5 liters in volume.

I haven't completely dried it and I'm drying at very low temp - so I can preserve the terpenes because terpenes evaporate at low temp (over 70 F. to 100 F.).

I tasted it about an hour ago and definitely a strong terpene taste! Wow - almost as strong as my Tea Tree Oil! I'm very excited. It took me several hours to harvest and cut off the greens and then clean the roots - spray and scrub. Then I threw in the Vitamix blender to turn into powder.

But terpenes are normally extracted with distillation method using steam and condensation of the steam as oil with water mixed together. It happens in 30 minutes as the steam vaporizes the oil but it takes 3 hours to make sure you get all the oil.

So it would be better to probably just cut up the root into slices and not heat it and then just steep it in hot water at 100 F or so - and this will release the oil better than the powder as the "smell" of terpenes MEANS the terpenes are evaporating into the air.

Of course it's medicinal to have terpenes in the air also.

And the leaves of the Dandelion as a tea were tested for blocking fat digestion  - very effective! Green tea also blocks fat digestion. I had no idea. hahahaha.

I will keep harvesting Dandelion - what an amazing food medicine.

 OK drinking my first cup of brewed Dandelion Root Tea - the terpenes are not that strong but I didn't use a lot of tea powder. Also I didn't steep it that long. My experience with tea is that if you let it steep a long time it definitely turns much stronger.

It does actually taste a little bit like coffee but with a definite medicinal terpene taste. hahahahaha. I think I preserved the terpenes well enough for sure.

I am finishing the drying of my DRE - dandelion Root Extract in the refrigerator. I opened the bags up so the evaporation will condense on the side of the frig and not back in the bags - that's the hope.

So far I'm surviving five minutes into drinking the tea. I'm drinking it fast.

 OK I drank another cup this morning. I moved the bags around to dry some more and then I put the DRE powder into little glass jars with metal lids. I distributed out one jar and have a request for another jar - and am keeping the third. I'm curious to see how long it lasts in the frig. 

Meanwhile I have plenty of Dandelion greens and also I blended up the full Dandelion plant as vodka extract - I have a lot of that left. 

 

Music=universal emotions as discrete overtone/undertone noncommutativity (unresolved roughness)

 Mafa individuals in northern Cameroon accurately recognized emotions in Western
music designed to sound happy, sad, and fearful67. Similarly, German, Norwegian, Korean, and Indonesian individuals identified happy and sad instrumental performances by German
musicians68. In another example, Indian, Japanese, and Swedish listeners identified expressed emotions in each other’s traditions, as well as in Western music66,69. Finally, U.S. and rural Cambodian individuals tasked with creating music that expressed emotions like 'sad' or 'happy' created similar melodies70. The findings of these studies suggest broadly shared psychological mechanisms underlying the recognition of expressed emotions in music71.

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cdftm_v1 

 many findings suggest that universal psychological responses to music reflect more general properties of emotion, auditory perception and other human cognitive capacities that evolved for non-musical purposes.

 Well let's not dismiss the spiritual aspects! oops.

 basic emotions (such as happiness and fear) appear to be recognized in music both earlier in development and, in some studies, more reliably within and across cultures relative to non-basic emotions (such as jealousy and solemnity)65,67,69,79,91.

 As we have shown, shared features of human psychology indeed predispose humans to respond to music in similar ways. Such predispositions might result from human-specific adaptations, such as the physical limits of human auditory perception, or they might result from constraints that are shared across species115. Cultural evolution likely exploits these shared psychological predispositions to produce compelling performances, yielding reliable cross-cultural associations between musical form and emotional content66–68 or musical form and behavioural function1,5,119,12

 Nevertheless, all participant groups favoured small integer ratios, indicating that discrete representations of rhythm were universal. As cultural traditions diverge and differences become canalized, music diversifies188–191, but it apparently always retains some universal properties.

 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0244964

Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music

 Correlation between roughness and perceived anger across all groups is in line with previ-
ous research linking roughness to anger in speech perception [46]. This might imply a possible universal in music perception, even if it is early to make any conclusions about this finding.

Evidence for a universal association of auditory roughness with musical stability

 We find an effect of harmonicity—a psychoacoustic property resulting from chords having a spectral structure resembling a single pitched tone (such as produced by human vowel sounds)

 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291642

 the presence of a distinct effect of roughness in even the most musically remote PNG
community suggests a universal, or at least non-arbitrary, association between roughness and instability. 

  fast undulations of loudness (the defining feature of roughness)

  This provides evidence of a non-arbitrary and cross-cultural association between
roughness and dissonance. Such an association may arise because roughness is the result of acoustic elements (frequencies) that cannot be perceptually resolved, creating a sensory confusion that urges resolution. 

the roughness of an acoustic signal is highly dependent on subtle aspects—such as the loudness of every partial —which are not necessarily reflected by conventional musical notation

 Roughness refers to the rapid beating (undulations of loudness) that occurs when an audio signal has frequency components that are close enough that they cannot be separately resolved by the auditory system [21, 22].

https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr366208 

 Our results suggest a common feature of music cognition – discrete rhythm “categories” at small integer ratios. These discrete representations likely stabilize musical systems in the face of cultural transmission

 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rstb.2020.0391

  this capacity originally evolved to aid parent–infant communication
and bonding, and even today plays a role not only in music but also in
IDS [infant directed speech], as well as in some adult-directed speech contexts

 these included the perception of contours (i.e. relational pitch and
time features of music), scales composed of unequal steps, and
a preference for small integer frequency ratios (i.e. consonances,
such as the octave (2 : 1), perfect fifth (3 : 2) and perfect fourth
(4 : 3)) over large integer ratios (dissonances, such as the tritone
(45 : 32)). In addition, Trehub suggested the universality of a
music genre for infants (e.g. lullabies and play songs). In fact,
adults can recognize a lullaby as such, even when they are unfa-
miliar with the musical culture, and can identify with almost
absolute precision when a song was sung to an infant [35–38].

 In fact, IDS is associated with oxytocin levels and other neuropeptides involved
in attachment mechanisms (e.g. [186–188]). Better parent–
infant communication, and particularly mother–infant bond-
ing, could facilitate social learning in infants, allowing them
to acquire the necessary skills to survive [189]. Moreover, a
developmental tool is necessary for language to evolve, and
parent–infant communication is crucial in this aspect (as
seen today in IDS, [190]).
If parent–infant communication promotes infant survival
and development, then selection could have acted on individ-
ual variation in musicality to the benefit of those with better
ability. Moreover, because musicality seems to be at least par-
tially hereditary (see [67,135]), adults with a good level of
musicality could produce offspring better equipped to pro-
cess this information and with the potential of being yet
more successful parents, adding a new level to the selection
pressure for musicality. In fact, there are primate precursors
of guided vocal learning at least in marmoset monkeys
[191–193], providing grounds for selection to act upon

  In a society where basic forms of group chorusing
( proto-songs?) start to appear in the context of social rhyth-
mic and coordinated behaviours, the interaction between
the voice of male adults and women or children would
tend to create octaves and fifths [34], provided there is a per-
ceptual preference for these consonances which in fact does
not seem to be unique to humans (for a review, see [194]).
These group activities would start to promote, not only
social bonding, but also group identity

 Toro JM, Crespo-Bojorque P. 2017 Consonance
processing in the absence of relevant experience:
evidence from nonhuman animals. Comp. Cogn.
Behav. Rev. 12, 33–44. (doi:10.3819/CCBR.2017.
120004)

 https://epe.bac-lac.gc.ca/100/201/300/comparative_cognition/v16/comparative-cognition-and-behavior-reviews.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/CCBR-vol17-Wagner_prepub.pdf?nodisclaimer=1

  the salience of pitch
and human preference to consonance may have their roots
in the harmonic clarity within the human voice (Bowling
& Purves, 2015; Bowling et al., 2018)

  the results from Berg et al. may suggest
that the harmonization would not be an octave as Savage
suggested but a perfect fifth, the second most consonant
interval. This is in line with the finding by Peter et al.
(2015) that women imitate men at an interval of a perfect
fifth. As such, human singing groups may be predisposed
to harmonize at different consonant intervals. This can
create the impression of sounds being merged into being
perceived as one louder, larger sound with richer timbre

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393218302744

 The occurrence in pre-verbal infanthood of preference
for consonance (Masataka 2006; Perani et al. 2010; Schel-
lenberg and Trehub 1996; Trainor et al. 2002; Trainor and
Heinmiller 1998; Trehub 2003; Zentner and Kagan 1996;
1998 but see Platinga and Trehub 2014) as well as percep-
tion of octave equivalence (Demany and Armand 1984)
suggest a potential biological basis of these phenomena.

 Changes in a sequence of consonant intervals are rapidly processed independently of musical expertise, as revealed by a change-related mismatch negativity (MMN, a component of the ERPs triggered by an odd stimulus in a sequence of stimuli) elicited in both musicians and non-musicians. In contrast, changes in a sequence of dissonant intervals elicited a late MMN only in participants with prolonged musical training. These different neural responses might form the basis for the processing advantages observed for consonance over dissonance and provide information about how formal musical training modulates them.

 Prevailing theories ascribe the perception of dissonance to a sensation of roughness that comes from rapid amplitude fluctuations (called “beats”) that are produced by the combination of tones with complex frequency ratios. The more beats contained within a sound, the rougher will be the sound, which leads to an increased perception of dissonance (Helmholtz, 1954, Krumhansl, 1990, Plomp and Levelt, 1965). 

  This pattern of different neural responses might underlie the processing advantages for consonance reported in behavioral studies. Moreover, results from the present study suggest that the processing benefits for consonance might be found already at an early stage of auditory processing and do not depend on attention.

 

 

Global Revolutionary Tantra in the Twin Cities: Five years after the murder of George Floyd

 https://www.academia.edu/129607142/Tantra_in_Twin_Cities_Five_years_after_the_George_Floyd_Uprising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhlUQR5cVHQ 

 

Energy is not conserved because time is not symmetric!

 Over large time scales.... then you notice energy is not conserved

yes but it is also true over very small scales!! oops.

 

Taraxacum varieties aka Dandelion proven to be antitumor, inhibits tumor growth: Preferentially targets Cancer cells

  Studies have shown that extracts from Taraxacum officinale have anti-tumor properties and can inhibit the growth of cancer cells in various types of cancers such as breast, prostate, colon, and liver cancer [1].

https://foodchemistryjournal.com/jfcn/articles/v9s1/jfcn-s1-sham-su-zuha.pdf 

Dandelion contains a variety of phytochemicals, including flavonoids, phenolic acids, ses-
quiterpene lactones, polysaccharides, triterpenoids, and other compounds (Figure 1)

  Dandelion contains several flavonoids, including luteolin, apigenin,
chrysoeriol, and quercetin. Luteolin is a flavone that has been shown to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer properties. Studies have shown that luteolin can reduce
inflammation by inhibiting the production of inflammatory cytokines and enzymes.

 

 The results showed that this extract selectively induced
programmed cell death in more than 95% of colon cancer cells
within 48 hours of treatment, regardless of their p53 status.
In addition, in-vivo studies confirmed the anti-cancer effica-
cy of this extract as oral administration significantly inhibited
the growth of human colon xenograft models by more than
90%. The study also revealed the activation of multiple death
pathways in cancer cells by dandelion root extract treatment,
as indicated by the expression of genes related to programmed
cell death seen in gene expression analyses. Overall, these
findings suggest that the dandelion root extract has promising
potential as an effective treatment for colon cancer, although
further research is needed to confirm its safety and efficacy in
humans [32].

  These findings demonstrate that DRE preferentially kills malignant cells while being harmless to healthy cells.
It is commonly recognized that many chemotherapies have
very serious side effects, mostly because these medications do
not target solely cancer cells and occasionally only work at
extremely large doses.

 dandelion root extract (DRE)

 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/1/80

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378874125000911

 Dandelion contains different sesquiterpenoid and phenolic compounds. The bitter taste of dandelion is mainly imparted by sesquiterpenoids (Figure 2).

 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42177-z

Combined dandelion extract and all-trans retinoic acid induces cytotoxicity in human breast cancer cells

 https://www.wcrj.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/e2361.pdf

 Dandelion root extract's (DRE) antioxidant, antimicrobial, and cytotoxic effects. The Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC–MS) result revealed the presence of bioactive compounds such as P-hydroxybenzoic, chlorogenic acid, vanillic acid, caffeic acid, lupeol, leutolin, apigenin, coumestrol and much more that are present in the DRE extract.

 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0944711322000642