blackskimmerblog: April 2013

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Towards 100 Non-fiction Books Everyone Should Read
*partial list with mini reviews

*Important science books to go along with a 'humanities' list of "must read" books

ROCKS!
*Tremolite (probably) in Quartzite and Marble, Bartholomew's Cobble, Sheffield, MA
*A Very Busy Outcrop Full Of Ocean Sediments Rt 43 and Geiser Rd Rensselaer Co. NY
*A Rock Full of Minerals I Do Not Know
*This striking Marble outcrop was fun to chance upon!
*go look for calcite it is growing everywhere around you.
*Quartz Veins In Outcrops
*A Lot Happening In This Shale Outcrop. I Don't Understand Much Of It!
*My Third Species Of Calcite Growth, This Time Possibly Grown By a Biofilm Of Algae and Who Knows Who Else!
*New Outcrop and More Surface Mineral Growth
*Shale Outcrop With Some Cool Calcite Deposits

poetry mythology:

*Daily Wow I’m Alive Minute
*Why Do I Do Natural History? (my 3rd exercise, one night, when I had to teach myself to write an essay for an exam)

*The Quiet Winter In The MIddle Of The Whole World
*The Apostrophe's Epistrophe

*100 Billion Generations Strong of Mothers, Molecular Dances...

*Texture of Tales Told From Generation to Generation

*Molecular Zine I wrote on a folded piece of paper once

*Writing Chemistry Poetry is hard! should I keep trying? from whence new locks of flaxen hair...

*fire flies, central park, nyc
*Remembering Creation
*Why Is The Universe So Many Stupendous Numbers
*At Last, Kissed By a Maiden With Golden Hair
*Troy-On-Hudson Unfurles Her Sails
*Hitting Your Thumb While Trying To Hammer In Your Life
*Ancestors of the Summer Meadow
*Hudson Is Calm Now
*dirge for curry the cat
*Swirls Of Sexvines In English and French!
*fluffy milkweed pic came out nice through cell phone
*The windweaving of the minds of crows
*warm stones and silent walks
*On Killing A Mouse
*Bewildered Fox
*Buzzing Sphinx Moth Caterpillar: sketch from my gradeschool nature notebook
*molecular dream journey to the ants in the forest
*Watching Crows Windsurfing
*flesh, wood are breath
*some peculiar honeybees
*years woven into wood
*When I Was Empty Seashells
*Thunderstorms Of Sperm Swim The Well Of Life
*I Plucked a Cell of Me and Filled it With Yolk
*We all start off life like some kind of sea monster crawling out of our mother's vagina
*dancing with the cows of tora
*pied beauty
*the moss and jesus christ
*swirls of sexvines
*just what IS swirls of sexvines?
*The Fountain
*god's vagina
*why is the beating heart love?
*holes in the heart
*he flew to her
*miracles

to be human:

notes towards mythology of the human journey and science
*foundation to the human journey

*Humans good at inventing distinct cultures, but also good at mixing them. Nina Simone Sings Israeli Song. Wild

*Maybe If We Accept What It Means To Be Human, We Can Start To Heal Each Other?

*Ego vs The Weedy Reality Of Biology

*Why We Can Forgive EACH OTHER, Thoughts On Darwin's Day 12 February, 2021

*Ants Don't Wait Around For Bureaucracy or Leaders To Fix Something!
*eve and the two world trees
*evolution and fantasy
*weaning ourselves from mind
*Becoming human: we woke up to rich mental lives and found no mechanisms for them!
*initial cosmic rebellion against flesh
*my childhood journey into Earth
*Braided History of Human Psychology, Biology, Society (old outline from college)
*The Social Insects Created The Amazing Tropical Forests Of This Earth, How Can We Match Their Feat?

*On Vertebrate Mating Dances and Rhythm
*The Problem With Sex - is that it is evolution's way of toying with us
*On Eating Animals
*why people don't like evolution?
*is new mythology being invented today
*Conversation On Narrative Versus Image
*"Fuck!", A Preliminary Analysis

What is a Soul?
*what might we mean by a soul
*what are rainbows, plants and people?
*why do we mistake experience for gods and demons
*what is evil

complexity:

*Science Salon: Origins Of Life In The Universe: Lecture With Experiments! Photos Too

*Why do traveling, reproducing patterns show up in chemistry, systems of differential equations and generalizations of Conway's Game of Life discrete cellular automata?
*My Friend Asked Why Gold Is Found In Concentrated Deposits, Not Homogenously Mixed In All Rock
*Some Random Thoughts On Whether The Abiotic Universe Computes Complex Math Structures

*Shorter Intro To My Complexity Lab Manual (still in preparation)

*I Need To Give This Lecture About Whether Life Spontaneously Arises From Chemistry In The Universe

*Where Does Order and Complexity Come From?
*COMPLEXITY LAB MANUAL (under construction)
*Did Life Originate From Simple Chemistry, Or Is The Universe Always Complex?
*Can We Discover How Life Happened And Is It A Rare Occurance In The Universe?
*Math Puzzle Time: surround three
*Simple Chemistry Makes Mercury Blob Oscillate Into Different Shapes
*complexity lab manual
*The Complexity Lab Manual View Of What Is Life and How Can it Develop Spontaneously From Chemistry
*phase transition as conway life cellular automata becomes more and more asynchronous.
*Afternoon's Notes On The Physics of Snow
*Preliminary Notes On The Geolgy Of Opal Formation

*Where Does the Wealth Of Variety In Chemistry Come From? Math!
*Corn Starch Holes by Merkt, Deegan et. al. , kast55555,
*Are Eyes Like The Monster Finite Simple Groups?
*monday morning musing on complexity and cosmology
*the universe is not grey!
*summary of universe ain't grey
*John Horton Conway's game of life
*Zero One Laws in Random Graphs
*butt simple models of speciation
*renormalization in Conway Life?
*It Snowed Last Night. Snow! What Crazy Stuff That Is!

complexity in biology:
*1) How Many Skills Does a Tiny Honeybee Have
*2) Life is a Dancing Swarm of Molecular Robot Parts
*3) How An Animal Grows From a Single Egg Cell: It's Like a City Growing From One Colonist Stranded On a Lush Tropical Island
*4) How to Think About a Worm Evolving Into a Bird

evolution:

*Once I Explored Are There Crabs Evolving To live Entirely On Land?

*my responses to an survey about evolution

*Loricifera, Cycliophora, Micrognathia: New Phyla Get Me Wondering About Twisty Metazoan Evolution
*Notes On the Species Problem From Futuyma
*Does Natural Selection Act On Honeybee Colonies?
*Evo Devo and Sean Carroll's new book
*What are the origins of life: Despair Of Being a Tiny Dot Stuck to a Random Planet
*On Discovering The Chemical Origins Of Life: Dissecting Nanofilm Fossils Of Chemical Reactions!
*thoughts on the evolution vs creation battle

tora:
*On R. Crumb's "The Book Of Genesis Illustrated
*"On Hebrew Prayer: Organizing Principles and Surprise
*Sketch Of How Women Drive The Story In The Bible
*commentary on b'reishit chs 1-2:3
*yhvh wants us to grow into creative individuals
*Reconciliation of Ruth Leads To Messiah
*hurray for Noah
*Khoshekayim v'khoshekhim: Primordial Darkness vs. Curtain Darkness

what is math and science

*Outline For A Review Of Jim Baggott's excellent book: "Perfect Symmetry: The Accidental Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene "
*How long does it take light to travel around the solar system? Story and Experiments

*Sketch of 50 Activities To Do With Kids At Nature Camp/Summer Camp With Science Activities

*Wow, I Had Started To Write A Math Instruction Book a Long Time Ago... Should I Finnish?

*Outline For a Biology Text (Or Narrative)

*Ode to My Bic 4 Colored Pen and Engineering Analysis

*Or Should I flesh out this story? the Deep Story behind the recent hype on possible life on Venus

*Important science books to go along with a 'humanities' list of "must read" books

*History Of Scientific Discovery In 500 Tweets (in progress)

*Analytic Categories and Theories or Gestalt Feel Of Raw Nature or Both?
*Some More Notes About Why Science Is Remarkable
*Supercolider Rap: Epic Poetry About Cern
*An Example of How Science Works From George W. Corner
*What Is Science, And Why Is It An Important Part Of My Outlook On Life?
*How To Find What The Earth Is Made Of Inside
*epic poem needed about worldwide physics experiment collaborations
*Topics For High School Science (about 1570 terms)
*is physics in a slump this past 30 years?
*science is loving this Earth
*important science experiences for kids (and others who missed them)

*fun math
*so what is art, is it like math?
*is mathematics art?

critters around town

*Ok, I Have Found The Mites!

*Finally Looked Up A Cool New Lichen I Found: Lecanora thysanophora

*A Curious Genus Of Beetle That Likes To Live In Enclosed Biological Structures

*Beavers at Fitzgerald Pond

*Some Critters Around The Neighborhood in June

*testing: tiny wasp

*It IS Cyperus Esculentus, the Nut Sedge

*reviewing sedges and rushes

*Critters On The Porch: Heart Butt Ant and Zebra Jumping Spider

*today's shrooms

*mosses in my new home
*some mosses on wall
*My Fifteenth Aster Species!

fun biology:

*Review of VERY venomous fierce predatory Box Jellies
*Rough Notes on Cuatro Cienegas (Mexico) interesting geological/biological region
*An interesting Ant Plant Mutualism and How I Got Started In The Study of Ants. Vicia and Camponotus/a>
*Life is Matryoshka
*Note About The Deep Biosphere Miles Deep In The Earth's Crust

*Evolution Of Life By Niche

*Are You Glad You Didn't Hatch From An Egg? How we used retroviruses to become mammals

*Correct Protein Function Depends On Sequence and RATE Of Folding. Genes Code For BOTH!

*Once I Explored Are There Crabs Evolving To live Entirely On Land?

*Euplotidium's Spears
*How Life Cycles and Genetics Helps Organisms Survive In a Complex World: kid biology chapter
*34 Different Phyla besides Plants and Animals to Consider For Enigmatic Fossils
*Attempt At Writing "The 100 Most Weirdest Critters On Earth"
*A Quick Crazy Intro To Genes Chromosomes and DNA
*Narration For Cell Wrapping and Copying Video
*males and females but no sex! weird ants:
*Changes In Fetal Circulation At Birth
*On Boundary Crossings In Biology: Red Imported Fire Ant Colony Founding is very weird
*robin poetry
*ribosome dance celebration
*Professor Daniel H. Janzen's cool ecology lecture

miscellaneous science:

*10 wildly different cube sats (very small satelites/space robots) will launch on the Artemis I tomorrow (29Aug)
*You Too Can Explore A Real Asteroid!
*NASA so far succeeding in horrendously complex process of unfolding their new telescope in space

*You Too Can Explore A Real Asteroid!

*We Are Visiting Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Briefly After 20 Years Wait.

*Bringing Back New Moon Rocks Might Help Us Nail Down Timing For Origins Of Life On Earth

*Sketch Of My Harlem Library/Bedford Limestone Story

*Convincing Geologists That The Continents Move (part of history of science in 100 tweets)
*The CONTINENTS Move? How We SLOWLY Came To Be Certain Of This

*Why Does Water Stay In The Straw With Your Thumb Over It?
*When You Drip Milk In Coffee, Which One Splashes Up?
*How Should You Tilt a Bottle To Pour The Liquid Out Fastest?
*Trilipse
*Fractal Triangles
*More References For Newton and God
*What Is Newton Trying To Say Abtout God In His Opticks?
*How to Explore Whether the Universe Is a Loving God (Cosmological Anthropic Principle)
*physics as mysticism in popular culture
*loving stentor

misc:
*Discussion/Mini Review of Kenneth Miller's book "Finding Darwin's God" a disappointment, also disturbing
*oops I got suckered into another questioneer about science and religion!
*Enough Notes To Decide Dawkins' "God Hypothesis" Wasn't Worth Further Reading
*Rembrandt at the American Museum Of Natural History
*Save The Humans
*I Don't Want To Occupy Wall Street, I Want To Occupy Troy, NY, My Home Town!
*Discussion on Jesus as Sacrifice For Our Original Sin
*I Have Seen The Future Of Art, and It Is The Jetsons
*Atheist vs Theist World View
*Saw Kite Runner, Brilliant Sad Movie. So I wondered About Afghanistan again
*What's wrong with driving cars
*flight of the hamsters
*god is a stupid place to start
*example of starting stupidly with god
*what image for the ground of being: king or ecosystem?

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