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Dark Matter
Here are a few quotes from articles circulating on the World Wide Web. “Dark Matter is … invisible stuff that makes up the majority of the universe.” {I don’t believe that for one minute. It isn’t the majority. It’s a little too broad a bucket, duh, it’s the universe! It’ll be proven, I predict.} “It is the Standard Model of Particles that explains dark matter.” “Its presence is [detected or] inferred based on its gravitational pull.” “Standard model is only part of a wider framework to explain the universe.” “Its some kind of material that has mass but doesn’t interact with light.” There is DARK matter but also… There is…
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Grateful
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Planting
The oregano plant on my desk is beginning to get green. There are new small baby leaves and a shoot that is really too long, indicative of not enough light, that has stretched toward the lamp with new larger leaves. This means the roots are doing their thing. I’ll be able to cut it back, use the leaves, and still retain this plant. I’m excited about it. The St. John’s wort that sits in a coke bottle full of water is also showing many white roots all through the bottle. It is ready for dirt now I bet, though I’ll leave it in the bottle so that I can see…
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A fungus among us. Year two, same tree
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The Whole Person
“We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man. … “The house in which the spirit dwells; grows, develops instincts and tastes and emotions and intellectual capacities, but I myself, the true Agatha, am the same. I do not know the whole Agatha. The whole Agatha, so I believe, is known only to God.” Agatha Christie
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Type
Bigger type is easier to read. That was extremely small type on that lady’s monitor at the mall. There were so many people there and they seemed content to stand in line for things. The dragonflies. There must have been 10 of them in that parking lot hovering and then dive bombing each other. It was so neat to see them fly straight up in the air like an arrow only to come back and hover as if sitting on the air over seeing the cars. May they eat ALL the mosquitoes in the city!
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Recognized Voice
It occurs to me that it is a recognized voice, unexpected from its origin. Poison. Instead of the curse words that surface and shouldn’t be said, I wonder how I should respond with more description. I need a peacock to suck out the poison so that it’s feather plumes can transform it into beautiful colors. May the pen in my hand blot out the stink that arises from the pile that arrived in my text box with an invisible cloak wrapped about it. May I spill enough ink on pages to purge the ugliness and turn it into the light and beauty that is only sometimes glimpsed in this place…
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There’s Always More to the Story…
…physicists said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a key to understanding why there is diversity and life in the universe. That possibility is particularly exciting to physicists, as it could point the way to new, deeper ideas, beyond the Standard Model, about the nature of reality. For now, some physicists are simply calling it a “Higgslike” particle. Peter Higgs, the University of Edinburgh theorist for whom the boson is named, entered the meeting to a sustained ovation. According to the Standard Model, the Higgs boson is the only manifestation of an invisible force field, a cosmic molasses…
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Humans have not yet…
“A scientific observer is unequipped to be neutral unless he studies brain evolution in the human species and the brain evolution of other species. Until an observer has learned the structure of his own central nervous system and how it operates, where it came from, and compares it to that of other species, he cannot adequately understand his relative position on the planet Earth.” “As we show in more detail elsewhere in this book, the Cetacea have demonstrated a capacity to survive far longer than we have on this planet. Insofar as can be determined by paleontological evidence, the cetaceans have had large brains equal to and larger than ours…
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A Can of Tuna
She looks at the can of tuna that she can’t bring herself to eat. “Why?” she asks herself inwardly. It’s incredibly good to eat, this. The omega 3’s alone are a huge component missing from much of the food we all eat. It comes in high levels with this powerful food. It is the same for seaweed used for skin cleansing, tightening and for food and yet our pollution still finds it. It has changed everything. For so long, we didn’t even know what a terrible thing mercury was or that it causes cancer in humans. Now that we know, we avoid it in thermometers. Thanks to the digital age,…
