There is nothing more amazing than a fresh hot cup of coffee, especially on a cold winter morning. I wake up early, not because I am a morning person, but because my dogs , the ones that sleep with me, are pawing at my face, whining to be let out into the back garden to... Continue Reading →
Non-gods OK so that title sounds stupid as hell, but I couldn't figure out how to convey the idea of immortality without all the mumbo jumbo of a godhood designation. When you rifle through the huge number of dust clogged pantheons of gods and goddesses out there that are being venerated to this very day,... Continue Reading →
Last time I touched upon the night sky, I spoke about the Vietnamese constellations and the various shapes that we saw when we looked up into the sky. Today, I'm going to switch back to more familiar ground, the western constellations that we are familiar with, to address a situation that has been unfolding at... Continue Reading →
Hehehe. Between the time I wrote the last posting, 2030 and the New Me, there has been a bit of a change. The timeline has shifted another decade. Looks like it's a moving target, but that's to be expected. Google co-founder Larry Page said "...if we can survive until the 2040s, we can “live long enough... Continue Reading →
(Continued from Organic Alchemistry 7: Garden of Eden)Modern-day CRISPR BabiesYep. You heard me right. I said MODERN-DAY CRISPR BABIES...as opposed to ANCIENT-DAY CRISPR BABIES. (Lookie that, I made up another word). It's not as if this sort of genetic tinkering hasn't been done throughout the musty ages of a distant past (see Organic Alchemistry 7:... Continue Reading →
I found out something recently that was, to me, a huge revelation. I have MISSING sesamoid bones in my big toes. Let me hasten to assure you, it's not due to my clumsy nature that caused me to misplace them somewhere. I was just never born with them. I was told by my podiatrist that... Continue Reading →
(Continued from Old Dude's Rice Innuendo 1) Four years ago, Old Dude told me not to forget the rice origins so I could understand the past. I took his advice seriously and dug around until I found the studies for ancient rice, listing Oryza rufipogon as the most likely suspect for the domestication of rice.... Continue Reading →
Today, I am going to talk about nothing. Literally--NOTHING. In fact, I have a lot to say about nothing. Since Taoism has a lot to say about NOTHING, I'll start with Chapter 14 of the Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin Tao Te Ching: Chapter 14 Look at it, it cannot be seenIt is... Continue Reading →
(Continued from Organic Alchemistry 6: Lulus of the World) 300,000 years It sure took us awhile to figure it out---300,000 years ago to be exact, but we did it. We managed to figure out how it all happened, and even more impressively, how to replicate that godly feat (more on this later). I think our... Continue Reading →
(Continued from 4D (Part 2) Hole in the Wall) I love pastries--just as much as I hate math. Anyone who knows me, even in passing, would agree that this is the truth. However, these exigent emotions of epic inverse proportion has just been summarily breached, thanks in no small part by three cool dudes who... Continue Reading →
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