Equatorial atmospheric air currents

Lungs of the world http://scienceblogs.com/bioephemera/2008/09/the_lungs_of_the_world.php

7?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/16/egypt.septuplets.birth.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText?iref=werecommend

The father wanted required a son. (agrarian sociodynamic tribal patriarchy)

He had 3 daughters.

So his wife took fertility drugs,

and now he has 6 daughters...

and 6,666,666,666 kin.

http://somethinguniqueforall.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-many-kids-will-you-have-it-all.html

Ampang Medikal = Amateur Medikal?

"jangkitan jaundice dimata"?

Is jaundice an eye infection? Of course not, it's a liver condition. The symptoms include yellow-orange skin tone & sclerae (white portion of the eyes) from accumulation of bilirubin pigment. My mother had jaundice when going through her cancer treatment, there was no "eye infection".

http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec10/ch135/ch135b.html

Ampang Medical, an attempted copycat of Grey's Anatomy, based in Malaysia, obviously needs professional medical advisors aboard. Nobody needs false medical information on public television, especially kampong folk that might think Ampang Medical is actually representing real doctors and hospitals.

'Ampang Medikal', Please seek medical help immediately. STAT. Good luck!

h/t bakawali

Invisible cloak?

Little Red Invisible Riding Hood



honey_wheres_my_supersuit




Cultural perceptions: East & West

Holistic vs Analytical Eyes-mouth vs nose (Hat tip to Ed Yong)



Geophysics of ice cream


"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
- Albert Einstein, scientist (1879 - 1955)
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Kwiz Kampong Dunia

[The city and country name are at top, quickly click where you think they belong]

This Traveler IQ challenge compares your geographical knowledge against the World's First Travel Blog's other 2,924,506 travelers who have taken this challenge as of Monday, August 11, 2008 at 12:57AM GMT. (TravelPod is part of the TripAdvisor Media Network)

Wei, susah! I got travel IQ: 113 and level 10. Make sure your mouse is very smooth and double click if it doesn't register your guess. Small islands are not visible, so it's hard to know where they are located, like Palau, Micronesia. Just try it now, it's fun. Here's the one for Asia, I got 122 pts IQ, not so good hahaha. ta pe, fun je.

This Traveler IQ challenge compares your geographical knowledge against the World's First Travel Blog's other 2,924,641 travelers who have taken this challenge as of Monday, August 11, 2008 at 01:45AM GMT. (TravelPod is a TripAdvisor Media Network member)

oh yeah

New canvas baseball hat from libby: RBSC Royal Bangkok Sports Club
(I hung up the daffodil hat on the wall.)


"bonobo flutter" from the album "Dial M for Monkey"

Bonobos (pygmy chimps) wade bipedally in shallow water, but do not swim.
Humans swim, dive, backfloat.



Orangutan mother wading, infant clings to fur, no skin fat, lar. air sac, no swim-dive-backfloat

Bonobo mother wading, infant clings to fur, no skin fat, lar. air sac, no swim-dive-backfloat

gorilla mother wading, infant on grass, no skin fat, lar. air sac, no swim-dive-backfloat

human mother with infant, skin with fat not fur, no air sac, yes swim-dive-backfloat
(Human babies have both buoyant insulative WAT white skin fat and (vascularized) inter-scapular self-warming BAT brown fat like most young mammals; while bird chicks, reptile young and piglets have no BAT, so require sunlight, downy nest or shivering for warmth. I don't think human infants shiver when cold, but not sure.)

See these videos, note that the large bellies are not from fat, but from stomach full of plant leaves, which digest slowly. Gorillas in forest opening; the ending show a mother cradling infant in arm while wading

Social Disclaimer: Perhatian! Dilarang mandi tanpa pakaian. Attention! Bathing in public without clothing is not advised. (But also, don't bathe with overly loose bulky clothing, such as a burqa; a burkini is preferable, or other attire more suitable for water.)

Salam selam daripada daud di nor calif, kampong kuala walu wiki, dunia kita. One life 2 share.

Pre-pupal pupils' pseudo-pupils

______ wiggle worm ______________ "sleeping, do not disturb" __________ so colorful ! __________

ramarama ~ dan ~ mariposa ~ y ~ papillon ~ et ~ butterfly ~ ramaramadanmariposaypapillonetbutterfly!

Don Garlick's article on 'smart' pre-pupae: pupal-memories

Train a caterpillar (ulat) to avoid bright light, then metamorphic transformation (kepompong), then the moth (kupu) avoids bright light too. Metamorphosis from crawling worm (caterpillar) to encased pupae (cocoon/chrysalis) to flying adult (moth/butterfly), most of the body cells die, liquify, re-solidify and reform inside the cocoon to adult.

http://www.all-creatures.org/pica/glf-caterpillar-spbushst.html
Amazing mimicry, the obvious 'eyes' are not actual eyes, but protruding fake "reflecting" pupillary eyespots, the orange 'mouth' is actually the head. The six true small forelegs tuck beneath the 'jaw' during the pose position, while the large false feet along the abdomen propel not by complex leg musculature but by subcutaneous abdominal rippling, a simple neural activity. Scientific evolutionary evidence for artistic elegant design via natural selection process. Alhamdulillah.

So what did YOU do this week?

~~~~~*~~~~~~ I asked a girl to marry me.~~~~~~*~~~~~~




(twice.)


yah, edited this one too, malu


Keep holding on ~ Avril Lavigne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbynwp9km0g

You're not alone Together we stand I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand
When it gets cold And it feels like the end There's no place to go
You know I won't give in No I won't give in

Keep holding on 'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through
Just stay strong 'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you
There's nothing you could say Nothing you could do
There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on 'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

So far away I wish you were here Before it's too late, this could all disappear
Before the doors close And it comes to an end With you by my side I will fight and defend
I'll fight and defend Yeah, yeah

Keep holding on 'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through
Just stay strong 'Cause you know I'm here for you, I'm here for you
There's nothing you could say Nothing you could do
There's no other way when it comes to the truth
So keep holding on 'Cause you know we'll make it through, we'll make it through

Hear me when I say, when I say I believe
Nothing's gonna change, nothing's gonna change destiny
Whatever's meant to be will work out perfectly

http://www.metrolyrics.com/keep-holding-on-lyrics-avril-lavigne.html

(i dunno wot to do, nak kawen, ta de instruction manual pulak)

The Great American Soda Pop Controversy

http://popvssoda.com:2998/
Gene expression: Razib's map

In USA, some people call soft drink like Pepsi as 'pop', others as 'soda', others call it Coke (even if it's Pepsi or Root Beer).

This reminded me of coconut in Malaysia, some call it 'nyiur' (probable shared origin of the English word 'nut' and Latin word 'nux'), others call it 'kelapa', some 'kopyor'. It would be neat to see that mapped out like above.

In US, also, the word for the upturned water faucet for drinking is 'water fountain' in some areas, 'bubbler' in others.

basketree

virtual pool (sape takut air, bole mandi disini)

past leads the future

past precedes future action... but does not control it.

the wheel of life keeps turning

5 pillars are the spokes in the wheel of life

hmm, this post is frustrating because...?


ok, now i realized why...it's a drizzly day since yesterday, no sunshine or stars, just drizzle and clouds.

Kinetic Sculpture Festival is here again!

Kinetic coffee 2004













[katak] croak slough
http://www.kineticuniverse.com/
http://kineticgrandchampionship.com/
[Features live streaming on internet during the race saturday-monday]
http://www.kineticuniverse.com/KUI-pix/index.html

"For the Glory!" Hobart Brown, the glorious founder. The 40th annual race, this week. "NO petrol engines were used in this event" me, the humble nor calif. All Kinetic Sculpture Races provide healthy challenges to their pedaling competitors over 40 miles of: * Sand * Mud * Water * Pavement ^ people pedal together power ^

While other races may only last one or two days, the Grand Championship course is long and grueling, subjecting the racers and their machines to extreme stresses; some planned, others not. But not to worry, the racers are in top shape or as the Hobart Brown, the Glorious Founder says, "If you aren't in top shape when you start, you will be when you finish." "Kinetic Sculpture Racing is human powered engineering and art all wrapped up in the most imaginative racing machines you've ever seen!"

I'll be walking down to watch it as they cross the bridge to downtown Eureka Calif. and then the next morning as they go into the water of Humboldt Bay (Kuala Walu Wiki).

Protecting the herd, the flock, the school, the team

Imagination: *MUTHU & INTERVIEWER - FINAL PART*

Interviewer : "Just imagine you're in the 20th floor of a building and
it's on fire. How will you escape?"

Muthu: "It's simple.. I will just stop my imagination. "

[copied from a mirian duckie's blog]
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Religion and imagination
http://scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts/2008/05/religion_and_imagination.php
Category: Evolution • Philosophy of Science • Religion • Social evolution
Posted on: May 5, 2008 10:04 PM, by John S. Wilkins

Blogging on Peer-Reviewed ResearchIn a piece reported on in New Scientist, Maurice Bloch has proposed another basis for religion: imagination. Because we can project ourselves and imagine the "transcendental" relation in social and personal relationships, we can imagine that there are agents not visible or present, he claims. The paper is also a good historical review of theories of religion, and makes the point that "religion" is not well defined as a topic of investigation of explanation.

Like many others, Bloch infers that religion is a byproduct of things that were evolutionarily adaptive, such as cognitive skills. His critics also think there are other aspects of evolved psychology that apply here, like "theory of mind", or the ability to infer that others have minds like our own, which underwrites the tendency to see agency in natural processes:

Chris Frith of University College London, a co-organiser of a "Sapient Mind" meeting in Cambridge last September, thinks Bloch is right, but that "theory of mind" – the ability to recognise that other people or creatures exist, and think for themselves – might be as important as evolution of imagination.

"As soon as you have theory of mind, you have the possibility of deceiving others, or being deceived," he says. This, in turn, generates a sense of fairness and unfairness, which could lead to moral codes and the possibility of an unseen "enforcer" - God – who can see and punish all wrong-doers.

A recent paper [pdf] by Shariff and Norenzayan claims that humans who believe they are being watched in their social transactions are (marginally) more likely to cooperate rather than cheat; another argument is made by Barbara King, that religion derives from the faculty of empathy that social apes must have. There are a plethora of explanations of "religion".

"But it seems to me that we need to be more careful in our choice of explananda. These different explanations explain different things. A principled division of things to be accounted for would resolve much confusion. As it happens, I'm proposing just that in a talk I'm giving at Sydney Uni Philosophy Department tomorrow at 3 - if you are in town, come by and hear me."

EARTHQUAKE!! [Earth-dance]

EARTHQUAKE!! Moderate earthquake rocks northern California

* A magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook northern California on Tuesday
* The quake hit shortly after 8 p.m. (11 p.m. ET)
* There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

(CNN) -- A magnitude 5.2 earthquake shook a rural part of northern California on Tuesday evening, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The moderate quake hit shortly after 8 p.m. (11 p.m. ET) about 11 miles east-southeast of Willow Creek, which is about 190 miles northwest of Sacramento.
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Yup, we got hit by a little quake. I thought it was a 5.1, but it was a 5.2.
Felt like surfing a medium wave. We had a smaller one yesterday, just a hiccup. Willow Creek (home of sasquatch/bigfoot) is a few miles from here.

Now I am repainting the ceiling and gallery walls. Always something to do... scraping, then sweeping, then spackling, then priming, then painting...

update: ok priming the ceiling & window sills all done, and painted all the cube pedestals "old whisper white" color (kind of yellow-pink ivory shade) and spot painted the table and cabinets. Looks lots better than before, definitely. Katy & the ladies are hanging their artworks now for the Gold show. No more quakes for a while hopefully, insyAllah. Shilpa stopped by, namascar. Ok. Had coffee at McD. So what's next? diary entry? nothing. journal? nada. nuther day. nanti tido.

water balls & bubbles

[Not sure if the videos are working properly today]

Drinking tea with chopsticks on ISS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7obLT4s2-HA&feature=PlayList&p=1CD69623D2AD01AA&index=7

Mana boleh buat teh tarikh? Tak boleh, ek?

Water is spherical (not formless), in space station, water forms balls.

Here is a wave in a water ball, and water droplets inside a bubble inside a water sphere:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaHLwla2WiI

Video: Pure H2O & CO2 inside a H2O skin, at ISS in microgravity



Some of the lines of Siddhidas Mahaju(N.S.987-N.S.1050) read as follows

सज्जन मनुष्या संगतनं मूर्ख नापं भिना वै पलेला लपते ल वंसा म्वति थें ल सना वै

which states that even a moron can improve with the company of good people just as a drop of water appears like a pearl when it descends upon the leaves of a lotus plant.

Traix, vehicle of the future?

http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/the-man-the-machine-and-the-critical-power/
http://criticalmass.wikia.com/wiki/Budapest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Path_%28book%29



Electric or air supplementary power? See this air car:
http://paddyk.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/blades-air-and-automobiles/

See the 3rd paragraph at this link, about the electric "killacycle" & video. 0 to 60 mph (88km/h) in 1 second! 175 lbs of lithium ion batteries is much more than Traix would use.
http://www.adventuresofgreg.com/HPB/2007/09/nextfest-success.html


My Solution: Design concept vehicle Traix.

Traix: 1/2 pedal, 1/2 electric bike-car (2 wheeled) in which the harder you pedal, the more juice the battery provides, aerodynamic, links to others on the road via a push-button latch-hook, to form a "train" of say 20 - 100 vehicles on a highway, so everybody cruises aerodynamically with moderate leg power with optimal cardio-vascular aerobic action. At a desired exit, small "bus" of 10 vehicles splits off as a group and goes to neighborhood, then splits apart again into "solo" vehicles, solos park in tight space or carried inside the home. Very good for commutes, not for hauling big heavy stuff (but 2 linked side-by-side could pull a packed tent trailer easily).

Traix fights the poor health problem in the developed world: obesity-diabetes-hardened arteries from lack of aerobic exercise (due in part to oil addicted auto culture reliant on petroleum powered vehicles).

Traix fights the bad pollution problem in the developed and developing world: air pollution and various auto emissions, dirty waters, global warming, oily wars.

Traix avoids the dangers of riding bicycles in auto traffic in cities and highways, by keeping many riders in a unitary mass, in line, rather than all over the road, yet allows easy quick detachment at "bus stops".

Traix recharges via solar panels or home electric plug in, combines a motorcycle battery with a capacitor system for both slow and high speed.

Traix quickly adjusts for optimum aerodynamics as solo, duo or bus/train configuration, and provides both carbonfiber/bamboo shell with protective safety foam surrounding the hull, with umbrella-like top.

Traix really is the sensible option. Blue water, green forests, clean air, good healthy quick non-polluting transport.

Financial investment required for further development. Traix project cannot proceed without funding, contact me via email for more info.

[Traix Design by DDeden Designs]

my link

http://www.hometownlocator.com/City/Belvedere-Tiburon-California.cfm

It's funny, according to my site meter, my location is Belvedere Tiburon, California, an extremely wealthy community on a peninsula at the mouth of the San Francisco Bay. Doesn't it seem like I must be very rich? Hahaha, I'm probably the poorest American that the visitors to this site will ever "meet", since I have nothing at all. Even my clothes are not mine. When I lost someone (a girl I fell in love with), I lost my life's hopes and dreams. Now nothing left, except research human biology influence of ancestral seashore living. What a disaster. I have my mind still in good condition, but I feel lonely and loony, because I don't accept other people's particular fairy tales as reality, preferring simple honest scientific truth, a student of nature. Although I'm definitely a naturalist, I'm no atheist. Although I favor evolution as the best scientific explanation of life on earth, I accept the ideology of creation metaphorically. So, desu ne. aje.