Mightiest of Guns
You see the Sunday bird swinging low
The fever in your brain only grows
and The Murder Boys are running down the street
You can see ‘em through the window from your seat
Hear the sound of the mightiest of guns
And the shadows go like ghosts across your road
Oh take the world and burn it in a spoon
A mercy ship to sail you off to sleep
To where the crimson angels swim the deep
There’s no hiding from the mightiest of guns
With every breath you drink in the night
You won’t give up your blue without a fight
And looking at the sky there is no pain
See the stars all falling down like burning rain
They were fired by the mightiest of guns
Tomorrow I’ll be out of my mind
The bear will dance and the organ will grind
And I’m laughing ’cause I know there ain’t no sin
All the world on the head of a pin
Turning fast beneath the mightiest of guns
Turning fast beneath the mightiest of guns
-Aa Bondy
Interesting Juxtaposition
A team led by Michael Costanzo at the University of Toronto, Canada, has produced a map of all of the interactions between the genes in a yeast cell. Yeast cells are useful models for scientists working on genetic diseases and discovering new drugs. The map is published in the journal Science.
Map of the individual router connections in the internet circa 2003
For the Scientist Poets and the Poet Scientists
“Pientist Scoets”
some poets dont want to examine and explain
because they think that people can connect to their brain.
unconscious thought broadcast a specific frequency
must connect to the correct receiver sequences.
Your art is beautiful don’t get me wrong
And I realize how difficult it is to write a good song.
But don’t deny the potential untapped
When an artist or poet is scientifically daft
Now Im not debating logic over rhyme
Because that is a battle that shouldn’t be defined
For both are important parts of reality
And we must keep looking for forms of commonality
If all scientists could write songs
Wouldn’t the “academics” and the “masses” finally get along?
At least on an unconscious emotional level
so as not to see every scientist as “the devil”
And if all the poets understood the intricate beauty of nature
Wouldn’t they have more creative routes to explore?
For if they truly understood the beauty of the golden mean
They would see it everywhere, even in dream
We need some scientists to be able to rhyme
And some poets to be able to understand Quine
For the world would be that much more interesting
If we could sit and communicate about a common thing
Assuming we can’t work together is delusional
The two categories are definitely not mutually excludible
http://www.firstscience.com/site/poems.asp
On Judge Jones’ Darwin bicentennial talk at Rutgers about the Dover case
I have judge Jones on the record saying that the waves of creationist challenges are not over and that his case was the third wave, the first being the Scopes trial and the second I forget at the moment. He said that these challenges will keep arising because people are in general uninformed about evolution and joked about how there is no “stupidity clause in the constitution”
Everyone in the room laughed…but I didn’t think this was an issue that should be taken lightly.
He went on to say that he is unsure of the future of this debate because the current supreme court is still not in complete agreement on this issue (ahem justice Scullia)…
My issue is with the lawmakers, judges, and lawyers in this country. While I understand that there “is no stupidity clause in the constitution” that applies to the general public, I find it DEEPLY DISCONCERTING that lawmakers think the privilege of scientific ignorance applies to them.
Shouldn’t it be required that lawmakers have some kind of basic science literacy and understanding?
If they make practical decisions based on how the world operates and science is a major part of our understanding of the world, it would seem to me that they should at least know that global warming is real and humans didn’t live with dinosaurs.
If the laws of man govern scientists, why don’t the laws of nature govern lawmakers’ decisions?
(PS I’m sick of anti-evolutionists attacking Darwin. They must first realize that the origin of species was published 150 years ago and that evolution is so much more developed and factually supported now)
(PPS: I have this entire talk on mp3 if anyone wants it email me at Erumdo@gmail.com)
First Demo Uploaded on Zshare. Check it OUT!
I am Posting this old set to demo some of my stuff. More will be coming soon I hope. I’m Still trying to strike a balance between working and running around Italy/Europe.
To Download this set Just click the link.
Being a Lefty Helped Barack Obama Win The Election!
So i was watching a news clip about Obama ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay and I noticed something interesting. Barack Obama is left handed!
I thought that was interesting and it made me recall something about lefties being smarter than righties…
So I turned to Wikipedia. Lo and behold! Here is what I found.
- Left-handedness and politics
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Though constituting less than 10 percent of the general population, five of the last seven U.S presidents have been left-handed: Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Barack Obama’s opponent in the 2008 election, John McCain, is also left-handed.
- Left-handedness and intelligence
- In his book Right-Hand, Left-Hand,[34] Chris McManus of University College London argues that the proportion of left-handers is rising and left-handed people as a group have historically produced an above-average quota of high achievers. He says that left-handers’ brains are structured differently in a way that widens their range of abilities, and the genes that determine left-handedness also govern development of the language centres of the brain.
- McManus also says that the increase in the 20th century of people identifying as left-handed could produce a corresponding intellectual advance and a leap in the number of mathematical, sporting, or artistic geniuses.
- In 2006, researchers at Lafayette College and Johns Hopkins University in a study found that left-handed men are 15 percent richer than right-handed men for those who attended college, and 26 percent richer if they graduated. The wage difference is still unexplainable and does not appear to apply to women.[35]
- Possible effects in humans on thinking
- There are many theories on how being left-handed affects the way a person thinks. One theory divides left- and right-handed thinkers into two camps: visual simultaneous vs. linear sequential.[45][46][47][48]
According to this theory, right-handed people are thought to process information using a “linear sequential” method in which one thread must complete its processing before the next thread can be started.
Left-handed persons are thought to process information using a “visual simultaneous” method in which several threads can be processed simultaneously. Another way to view this is such: Suppose there were one thousand pieces of popcorn and one of them was colored blue. Right-handed people—using the linear sequential processing style—would look at the popcorn one at a time until they encountered the blue one. The left-handed person would spread out the pieces of popcorn and look at all of them to find the one that was blue. A side effect of these differing styles of processing is that right-handers need to complete one task before they can start the next. Left-handers, by contrast, are capable and comfortable switching between tasks. This seems to suggest that left-handed people have an excellent ability to multi-task, and anecdotal evidence that they are more creative may stem from this ability to multi-task.
Right-handed people process information using “analysis“, which is the method of solving a problem by breaking it down to its pieces and analyzing the pieces one at a time. By contrast, left-handed people process information using “synthesis“, which is the method of solving a problem by looking at the whole and trying to use pattern-matching to solve the problem.[48]
The hypothesis that left-handed people are predisposed to visual-based thought has been validated by a variety of evidence. In the 2004 book Brains That Work a Little Bit Differently[49], researchers Allen D. Bragdon and David Gamon, Ph.D., briefly described some of the current research on handedness and its significance. “Handedness researchers Coren and Clare Porac have shown that left-handed university students are more likely to major in visually-based, as opposed to language-based subjects. Another sample of 103 art students found anastounding 47 percent were left- or mixed-handed.” [page 76]
Ultimately, being left-handed is not an all-or-nothing situation. The processing styles operate on a continuum where some people are more visual-simultaneous and others are more linear-sequential.
- There are many theories on how being left-handed affects the way a person thinks. One theory divides left- and right-handed thinkers into two camps: visual simultaneous vs. linear sequential.[45][46][47][48]
(all info is from Wikipedia)
So any other lefties out there? I would love to know if you guys also process things visually and simultaneously. Let me know!
Ninja Turtle Dog
Should this be considered animal cruelty? Idk you tell me. I think its very borderline.
Why I want to become a doctor (first draft)
Trying to put into words what I feel is not so easy…when it comes to such important things.
Why do you want to be a doctor? they ask.
Thats like asking me what is the meaning of life?
In 500 words or less, please explain to me the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
Thanks.
Anyway, This is my baby-step towards writing my medical school admissions essay. Let me know what you think so far. NOTE:::that it is not meant to be complete…its only a thought so far…I am going to add things later.
“I was raised to believe that one should care about what is happening in the world and that they should do something about it. Unfortunately, I find that our current society does not share this perspective. Such was not always the case in America. If you look at our history it was never considered odd for neighborly consideration and mutual concern to be a common thing. The egocentricity of our generation has grown excessive in my opinion. Thankfully, I have been able to view the world with a more objective filter about what is valuable in life. I was never encouraged by my parents to view economic prosperity as the Holy Grail to happiness. They had always encouraged me to find something that I was passionate about; that I could commit my professional life to. (How European of them!)
I recently began to notice a recurring method towards achieving happiness for many accomplished people that I admire. It involves finding a cause which is greater than oneself and then committing one’s life to it. Whether it is religion, patriotism, education, art, etc. does not matter. This quest for something greater than oneself is similar to what my parents had always suggested for me. My renunciation of this extreme egocentrism around me has led me to become a strong advocate of public service and civic mindedness. Maybe it came from the socialistic side of my heritage. Or my more resent resolve to make the world a better place (resulting from my recent experiences)
In either case, I know that there are many ways to pursue social goals and achieve the betterment of society. However, Medicine is different than many of these other fields because the physician is actively effecting a change, as opposed to working towards or attempting to incite a change. With medicine one is profoundly and tangibly bettering the lives of the human beings around them every day, without exception. I consider this to be one of the most beautiful and rewarding things about medicine. And it is this beauty behind the underlying the values of the craft that draws me to it. It is something that I would love do and experience every day.
For me it is not about the craft or biology per. se; but rather about the moral fortitude and ethical good of the work that this craft would enable me to perform.”
