Let's stop deforesting the Earth! Save the neem tree, protect mangroves, kelp forest and coral reefs.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080917/full/news.2008.1114.html
um, no, adik, i didn't get a haircut, i just buka topi je :p
[I've always liked this classic rock song, I've seen all good people by Yes]
Didja notice the vocal refrain of John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance" mixed in? tight!
oops! http://stickgal.blogspot.com/
mariposa: metamorphosis
award video: who sees t' day?
*randomness*
Wood, bamboo, bone, stone have grain patterns (cellular fiber matrix) that vary from linear to spiral. Spiral patterns are harder to split linearly lengthwise, and are usually cut with a saw.
Eg. Wood/Stone/Bone cutting: splitting vs sawing
A plank is split following the grain orientation, producing some splints/splinters, and then often smoothly planed;
while a board is sawn in any orientation, producing some powdery sawdust, and then often smoothly sanded.
word derivatives: 2D fiber -> 3D fabric | 2D mat -> 3D matrix
I intended to write a bit more, but it's rather technical.
in two dimensions (with added colors), looks like butterflies, but in three dimension, it's hominid pelvis configurations, from Lovejoy, 2005, fig. 5
...attention: this post is considered veiled...
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She and her rainforest ancestors: hanging, standing or sitting while plucking/tree climbing/bipedal wading/quadrupedal walking on knuckles and feet but no swimming/diving/back-floating. Note the huge biceps/triceps and long arms but short legs, and long fingers-toes but short palm-sole and hyper-erect ear pinnae, lack of subcutaneous fat, hyper-trophic muscles, very short achilles tendon.
11 yr old female
She and our seashore ancestors: standing, sitting or mid-dive while plucking/cliff climbing and bipedal shoreside beachcombing wading and walking and running/swimming/diving/back-floating. Note the long legs but short arms, long flat palm-sole (paddle-like) but short toes, slightly erect ear pinnae and long hydrodynamic scalp hair, subcutaneous fat, (comparatively) atrophic muscles, very long achilles tendon. [Note: wearing high-heeled shoes daily causes shrinkage of the achilles tendon, best to combine with barefoot walking and stretching]
10 yr old female
Newborn infant: mother grips branch, eats birth mucus and afterbirth (same as deer), infant no fat layer, face emerges ventrally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfVnFJDjUyQ
Newborn infant: mother immersed, does not eat mucus or afterbirth (same as dolphin), infant SC fat layer, face emerges dorsally. (midway through and end of video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyL1Hak2xwY
labour progression and birth of human, bipedal-linear pelvic structure requires newborn to rotate on axis, no other primate does this. The afterbirth remains viable and continues to pump blood and oxygen for a minute after birth, allowing extended full submersion of infant. This may indicate that the human ancestral condition was a slow birth, semi-immersed in warm water.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3aPusn8Hj5o
One way to flip a breech baby?: handstand (vertical diving posture) in water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQvDXy-6Kzs&mode=related&search
Hominid pelvis structure and bipedalism (but lacks semi-aquatic information)
http://www.wannabe-anthropologist.com/wba_writing_pelvis.php
Human vs chimp pelvic structure, birth process
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/resources/clarifications/HumanBirth.html#
Pregnant mums swimming, diving, back-floating: (big tummies, Spanish vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l80jkfQK_uA&feature=related
380,000,000 year old mother placoderm giving birth, umbilical cord present internal.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/materpiscis_attenboroughi.php
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(I've no idea why I put this here, rather than in the arc.)
Dirty diapers and the beginnings of life
[Random selections from Carl Zimmer's blog The Loom]
"If you type in "Escherichia coli" into PubMed, the search engine for the National Library of Medicine, you get 253,128 scientific papers. Today millions of diabetics get their insulin from E. coli that carry human insulin genes.
So you might think there must have been some eminently rational plan to select E. coli to become the creature science knows best. But there wasn't. It was discovered by Theodor Escherich, a pediatrician. In 1885 he delivered a lecture announcing the discovery of a rod-shaped microbe in the diapers of healthy babies. He was struck by how fast it grew on all sorts of food--milk, potatoes, blood. Scientists in the early 1900s used it to study metabolism, but they also used a lot of other bacteria. It was one among many.
As the French E. coli biologist Jacques Monod declared, what is true for E. coli is true for the elephant (regarding reproduction)".
Larry Moran at Sandwalk blog: Carl Zimmer is among the very best—possibly the best—of the modern science writers. His new book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life is going to be on sale May 6, 2008. I was mildly disappointed to see Carl repeat a common myth about DNA replication in E. coli on page 29.
http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/05/dna-replication-in-e-coli-problem.html
http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/04/buy-this-book.html
Larry: Here's the problem. How can E. coli divide faster than it can replicate it's chromosome?
Me: (Probably completely wrong, since it's purely guessing) light-dark cycle as a factor in replication timing, ability to speed up dependent on if light-dark cycle is speeded up? The thing is, of course the light-dark cycle (diurnal-nocturnal, day-night) can't directly affect the gut bacteria, since they are inside the body. But is there a clock which synchronizes the GI tract according to a) body temp = activity, b) glandular secretion / biochemical stimulation via the eyes, skin, transparent fingernails etc.? Well I just wanted to throw that in at his blog comments.
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080522/full/news.2008.848.html
Here's Larry's solution: http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2008/05/dna-replication-in-e-coli-solution.html?showComment=1210535040000
It seems to me to be a tidal phenomenon, waves of replication of DNA daughters, making new ones before the old ones have fully separated, in the same way waves at the seashore will overlap one another. Well, that's cool, tidal is cooler than temporal clocks, possibly being subjective to solunar effects hypothetically. I'd like to know the wavelength and frequency of these waves, and compare to heart rate and oceanic waves, might be a correlation there.
Carl's post-operative articles at his blog, the loom, scroll down to see his top 5 questions about E coli and his book Microcosm:
http://scienceblogs.com/loom/
and his honest admission of his booboo: "Meanwhile, Larry Moran is going over the book with a fine-tooth comb and catching at least one mistake. Ouch. I knew I should have been more careful about how fast chromosomes replicate. Something to fix in the next printing..."
coolness for any biofreaks, right? hehe. Nature rules people's stools! ahaks.
omg hilarious answers to this Brit's interrogation. Brilliance + Ignorance.
Q. What is the religion of Israel?
A. "Diaperhead?" [DD: WHAT????]
Q. What is a mosque?
A. "Some kind of animal?" [DD: alamak, mina ta paham soalan tu?? bukan nyamuk aise]
Q. Where is France?
A. (pointing to Australia) "here, south" [DD: hmm give up]
In east Asian countries, many ladies get eyelid surgery, to make extra fold.
http://www.drmeronk.com/asian/asian-eyelid-photos.html
In Thailand, Indonesia many ladies have surgery to make bigger nose.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/1101020805/story.html
In Iran, many ladies have surgery to make smaller nose.
http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2008/04/nose_jobs_in_iran.php
In Britain, other cosmetic surgeries are common, in US botox too.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/05/1212258982021.html
European hymen surgery
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/world/europe/11virgin.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&hp
Female circumcision surgery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_cutting
I hadn't heard of this cosmetic non-surgical botox technique for reducing the protruding north Chinese 'square jaw' to a smoother cheek profile as in pic.
http://www.mirandaplasticsurgery.com/botox_for_jaw_reduction.html?gclid=CMDGlIfbhJQCFSMYagod1DE_XA
Different shapes and sizes. Plastic surgery to correct physical problems is one thing, but if only to make copies of famous people's noses is a bit ridiculous I think. But what do I know, I'm just a guy. Like I said to a friend, a girl is never more beautiful than when she is naked and leaving her mums tummy to join us. There is no makeup necessary, just a breath of fresh air and a little crying. Is she a hollywood model? No, she's a chubby wrinkly little mess, with a funny shaped skull and toothless and almost bald, some vernix and lanugo. Beautiful, eh? :) yup.
insyallah, i will be blessed too with a gift like that. alhamdulillah. peace be with you.
This post is just to follow that last one.
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Yes, one of those days.
Life is in a haze.
How many more?
Does anyone keep score?
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Today is simply a very nice sunny day. :)
A note on Keith Ellison, first American born sunni Muslim in congress in USA, represents the City of Minneapolis in my home state of Minnesota. He is a lawyer, his wife is a teacher, 4 children, supports for president Barack Obama, who spent 2 years in Indonesia during childhood (munkin dia bercakap bicara bahasa).
From Querencia, a Navajo silversmith crafted this bolo tie.
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Happy 42 birthday Singapore! August 9 2007
http://www.ndp.org.sg/multimedia/webcast/index.html
Botany 101 metaphor
Coconuts can't grow if cracked from the outside. Coconuts can grow if the root inside can penetrate out through the shell, away from the light, down into the dark soil, stabilizing position (representing basal trust network stability, parental bond, security, daily nutritional foundation), only then can the stem grow up (representing freedom, independence, choices, responsibilities).
The stem (and branches-leaves-etc.) all have to grow up away from the shell, towards the light/energy source.
The leaves grow towards the light, but then, they point outwards (away from the stem, which is the structural support) so the horizontal leaf surface absorb maximum light.
This is like reaching out to friends... They can't give light, but can reflect it and also help slow the gusts of storm winds. However they also compete (need their own space to grow), so one can't overextend too far, or the stem will weaken (too dependent on other people weakens self-discipline, slows growth).
Sometimes the wind blows hard or the water level in the soil drops or rises, these are life's challenges. Every night, darkness allows sleep (rest & restore inside).
Don't worry about cracking the "shell", that happens naturally as you grow both deeper and higher. :) [well, this just popped up, don't really know if it's right]
