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In this age of Genetic Engineering Scientists can do almost anything .........The only problem is what you would call this ??
A Lemange or An Ormon .......(Macro Monday theme this week is CITRUS. )
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Dans les profondeurs d’un laboratoire extraterrestre de biogenèse à la technologie vertigineusement avancée, baigné d’une lumière cyan et azur provenant d’interfaces holographiques flottantes, une majestueuse fleur de lys blanche génétiquement modifiée est suspendue dans une immense chambre cylindrique en verre renforcé. Chaque pétale immaculé révèle une texture organique d’un réalisme saisissant, couverte de microgouttelettes cristallines reflétant les lumières du laboratoire. Sa tige est reliée à un réseau complexe de câbles biomécaniques translucides transportant une énergie lumineuse bleutée, comme si la plante elle-même était devenue un organisme hybride entre nature et technologie.
À proximité, un scientifique extraterrestre à l’apparence fascinante observe attentivement son œuvre. Son visage aux traits délicatement reptiliens et insectoïdes présente une peau finement texturée parcourue de motifs biologiques complexes. Ses immenses yeux noirs réfléchissent les données holographiques qui flottent devant lui. Vêtu d’une blouse scientifique futuriste d’un blanc immaculé, il manipule des interfaces lumineuses transparentes affichant des séquences ADN, des graphiques énergétiques, des analyses cellulaires et des schémas biomécaniques détaillés.
L’environnement est constitué d’un vaste complexe de recherche interstellaire rempli de serveurs quantiques, de structures métalliques ultra sophistiquées, de conduits énergétiques luminescents et de panneaux holographiques ultra détaillés. Les reflets du verre, les surfaces métalliques brossées, les jeux de lumière volumétrique et les effets de profondeur créent une atmosphère digne des plus grandes productions de science-fiction cinématographique. Chaque détail est rendu avec une précision extrême : textures microscopiques, reflets complexes, ombres réalistes, matériaux photoréalistes, éclairage global avancé, ray tracing intégral, profondeur de champ subtile, particules lumineuses flottantes et ambiance technologique immersive.
L’image évoque une rencontre entre la beauté pure du vivant et l’ingénierie génétique extraterrestre la plus avancée, dans une composition spectaculaire et parfaitement équilibrée. Hyperréalisme absolu, qualité photographique indiscernable d’une véritable prise de vue réalisée dans un laboratoire futuriste extraterrestre, rendu cinématographique de niveau blockbuster, esthétique scientifique avancée, sophistication visuelle extrême, atmosphère mystérieuse et élégante, ultra haute définition 16K, format panoramique 16:9. En bas à droite, une signature discrète en lettres gothiques fines dorées : **Emma L.**
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In the depths of an extraterrestrial biogenesis laboratory powered by incomprehensibly advanced technology, illuminated by a mesmerizing fusion of cyan and electric-blue holographic light, a magnificent genetically engineered white lily is suspended within a colossal transparent containment chamber. Every pristine petal displays breathtaking organic detail, covered with microscopic crystalline droplets that capture and refract the laboratory’s luminous glow. The flower’s elegant stem is connected to an intricate network of translucent biomechanical conduits carrying radiant streams of blue energy, transforming the plant into a seamless fusion of living biology and futuristic technology.
Beside the containment vessel stands an enigmatic alien scientist, carefully studying the extraordinary specimen. Its elongated head, intricate biological textures, and immense glossy black eyes reveal an intelligence far beyond human understanding. Delicate biomechanical patterns flow across its pale skin like living circuitry. Dressed in an immaculate futuristic laboratory coat, the extraterrestrial researcher manipulates floating holographic interfaces displaying DNA sequences, genetic maps, energy-flow diagnostics, molecular analyses, and complex biomechanical schematics.
The surrounding environment is an immense interstellar research facility filled with quantum servers, luminous energy conduits, advanced metallic structures, and countless holographic displays suspended in midair. Every surface reflects the ambient neon glow, creating a rich interplay of light, reflections, and depth. Glass, metal, and organic materials are rendered with astonishing realism. Volumetric lighting, cinematic atmospheric particles, subtle depth of field, global illumination, physically accurate reflections, and full ray tracing combine to create a scene of extraordinary visual immersion.
The image captures the breathtaking union of pure natural beauty and alien genetic engineering at its highest level of sophistication. The laboratory feels alive, as though the boundaries between science, nature, and consciousness have dissolved. Hyperrealistic photography, indistinguishable from a real-world image captured inside an advanced extraterrestrial research station, blockbuster science-fiction cinematography, unparalleled detail, ultra-immersive atmosphere, intricate textures, stunning biological realism, futuristic elegance, ultra-sharp focus, masterpiece composition, 16K ultra-high-definition quality, cinematic 16:9 format. In the bottom-right corner, a discreet signature in thin golden Gothic lettering: **Emma L.**
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I've just completed "Goodly Creature" for the Things To Come show, opening 9 September 2010 at Bold Hype Gallery in NYC. (I'll post the show details shortly.)
Acrylic on texts & diagrams (from various antique sources) on canvas, 18x24" total assembled dimensions (6 6x6" canvases).
I'm blogging about the creation of this project in my new process blog, Curious Art Lab.
curiousartlab.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-assembly-required
SOLD
genetic engineering
could create the perfect race
could create an unknown life-force
that could us exterminate
introducing worker clone
as our subordinated slave
his expertise proficiency
will surely dig our grave
it's so tempting
will biologists resist
when he becomes the creator
will he let us exist
bionic man is jumping
through the television set
he's about to materialise
and guess who's coming next
x ray spex - genetic engineering (germ free adolescents, 1978)
An unidentified flying object (UFO) is any perceived aerial phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained. On investigation, most UFOs are identified as known objects or atmospheric phenomena, while a small number remain unexplained, according Wikipedia.
Science fiction:
if the small number unexplained objects were space ships of aliens, it looks like they have a very high technology, far higher than us. Do their high technologies make them immortal? It depends on them how advance and smart they are.
It might be possible to create almost all the capabilities of a human being with advance science and technology, but the problem is the consciousness. How we get consciousness... Computers are already creating the thinking process. Computers can make a proper decision for us, but not for theirselves. Making decision for theirselves with being aware of their existence is consciousness. It looks like, whatever we do, we can not create consciousness. The difference between computers and us is we are alive. A living organism create consciousness. A proper hardware ( human ) is necessary to run a human-software. It has to have senses, feelings, thinking process ( creates commands ) and data saving mechanism. To create a human like creature, we have to make something alive first, so that it has to have fear from dying and defends itself. It has to feel pain too and has to try to ease the pain. The fear and pain are the dominating factors, noting else is really important than to be alive ( without pain ).
We will see what will happen in the future. An electronic living cell might be possible. If we are able to create a hardware similar to a human, some softwares could be available very easily, just hook up to the internet to get the necessary-information.The answers of the following questions might be available at the time when the hardware is ready: Who are the human? How do they function? How are the humans acting at a certain situation? How do they live? Are they aggressive? Do they kill each other? Do they just think to have a good time, don’t care anything else? How is the level of body produced drugs like serotonin and dopamine? Are they just like a sailing small boat on a very rough sea with no land on sight? Are they like a lost space ship in space? What are the flaws in their software and hardware? How do they walk? What is the meaning of their face impressions?
The creature might not be a biological one, important is the one which is alive. It doesn’t matter how it will be cerated. An electronic one could be the best solution. There is more potential at an electronic one than a biological one. Reactions and development could be very fast, software could be very easy to load ( not like biological one, at which it takes years, a lot schooling ) and it could be reloading possibilities if an information was missing. An electronic one could be immortal so long we keep the copy of the software safe for loading of the replacement of old, outdated hardware. The Hardware can be fixed anytime according the original blue print. Transportation will be very easy too, just send the software and blue print anywhere in space to create another one there, a copy.
Conclusions:
What is clear is we want to live longer, and if possible, we wan’t to live forever. Of course there are remedies. We are the product of chemical, physical, biological and phycological processes. There are no magic there, just science, technology and phycology. These processes can be changed under certain conditions to help us. The big problem is that we accept death. Traditionally, medicine has been focused on extending life, but it doesn’t help us to be immortal or to live a lot longer.
There are some institutions around the world they work on this issue, but it is not enough. Governments should very actively involve about it, creating ministry of longevity will be proper.
The most research is needed at cell level. The very important research areas are genetic engineering, stem-cell technology, cancer research, blood vessel clean up ( psychical and chemical ) and organ manufacturing and transplantation.
if the UFO owners were not smarter than us, their very advance computer technology loaded with the information about science, about technology and particularly about chemical, physical, biological and psychological processes of their body might have solved the problem, made them immortal. If they were smarter than us, they might have solved the problem without a very high technology.
There was only one way the children were going to keep up with the long dogs running on the beach... forced evolution! I had to get the genetic splicer out, but they can now do 40mph too.
The theme for this final week of 2019 is "Evolution". See you in 2020.
More of the Goodly Creature.
I'm blogging about the creation of this project in my new process blog, Curious Art Lab.
curiousartlab.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-assembly-required...
(It's for the Things to Come show at Bold Hype Gallery in NYC opening on 9 September 2010.)
The biopower and biopolitics of the biotechnocracy with its nonexistent bioethics of biotechnology. The vaccine gene therapy, altering DNA, manipulating basic biology with spike protein. We will biohack the proteins and DNA that are central to your biology. Human genetic engineering will lead to artificial intelligence and bioengineering. AI and biotechnology will be the end of the real you. Take the jab, take the biohazard, receive your biopassport. Get your biochip, become a bionerd. Don’t be biosensitive; don’t let the bioink leak from yours eyes as you cry out in joy. We wouldn’t want your embedded biosensors to send out an emergency alert, now would we? Synthetic biology and biological data. 666 and the biosurveillance system. Bio-serfdom: equality for all! Let’s eradicate poverty, let’s make y’all biodigital slaves! If you don’t believe transhumanism is right around the corner, then check out the government website below.
Here is an article on the Canadian government website called: Exploring Biodigital Convergence
horizons.gc.ca/en/2020/02/11/exploring-biodigital-converg...
Here is one for you Americans: In science we trust!
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United Nations, and to the New World Order for which it stands, one post-nation under pseudoscience, divisible, without liberty and justice for all.”
Abort millions of babies…oh wait…now we don’t have enough skilled labour, and who is going to pay taxes to look after our ageing population? We have low birth rates, so let’s bring in large numbers of immigrants. Multiculturalism, let’s make you a melting pot of people. We will erode your culture and values…and who needs borders? The future is tranhumanism! Humans will evolve until there is no race or gender or reproduction…as for culture and borders, they will no longer exist…it’s all part of the plan…divide, conquer, and assimilate into the transhuman revolution. Humans will continue to evolve until they no longer resemble humans. Humans will become extinct. Survival of the fittest! Many will die in this evolution of man and AI, but some will adapt and survive. You will be owned like cattle, and once your purpose is fulfilled, we will get rid of you…like we do to those in the womb today…life isn’t sacred…especially if you aren’t even human…just some sort of parasite. Welcome to the New World Order of transhumanism!
Thankfully we have a Saviour, so things will only go so far. The Mark of the Beast is as far as transhumanism will get. When Jesus returns He will throw all the transhumans into hell. That will be the end of transhumanism. There is no eternal life in transhumanism, except for eternal life in hell.
1 Corinthians 3:18-20 “Stop deceiving yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you need to become a fool to be truly wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, ‘He traps the wise in the snare of their own cleverness.’ And again, ‘The LORD knows the thoughts of the wise; he knows they are worthless.’”
Left hand page of a double spread. This is what Craig is looking at the the page preceeding this one on flickr. Art: Rob "The Riot" Davis.
Words: Mighty Michael Vance and rascal, R. A. Jones.
More from the GM Foods series... No PS here.
Latest part of the series that will be in an upcoming (local) exhibition :)
More from the GM series... more to come ! No PS here.
Possibly will be part of an upcoming (local) exhibition...
Title could also be "Peas in a pod" ?
The Monsanto Company is an American multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is a leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, which it markets under the Roundup brand. Monsanto is also a leading producer of genetically engineered seed.
As one of pioneering companies in applying biotechnology to agriculture, Monsanto also brought into agriculture the standard biotechnology industry business model, in which patent rights play a key role, as patents allow such companies to recoup the expense of biotech research. Monsanto's application of this business model to agriculture, along with a growing movement to create a global, uniform system of plant breeders' rights in the 1980s, came into direct conflict with customary practices of farmers to save, reuse, share and develop plant varieties. Monsanto's role in these changes in agriculture, has made Monsanto controversial, as have its current and former products, which include genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone.
Monsanto is the largest producer of glyphosate herbicides in the United States through its brand Roundup, which is used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses that compete with commercial crops. Monsanto's United States patent on glyphosate expired in 2000. While glyphosate has been associated with birth defects in laboratory animals, possibly by affecting retinoic acid signalling, its impact on humans remains unclear. As of 2009, sales of Roundup herbicides represent about 10% of Monsanto's yearly revenue.
In 1926, when environmental policy was generally governed by local governments, Monsanto founded and incorporated the town of Monsanto, later renamed Sauget, Illinois, to provide a more business friendly environment for one of its chemical plants. For years, the Monsanto plant in Sauget was the nation's largest producer of polychlorinated biphenyls(PCBs), a chemical once used as a common electrical insulator. And although PCBs were banned in the 1970s, they remain in the water along Dead Creek in Sauget. EPA officials referred to Sauget as "one of the most polluted communities in the region" and "a soup of different chemicals"
In 2002, The Washington Post carried a front page report on Monsanto's legacy of environmental damage in Anniston, Alabama related to its legal production of PCBs. Plaintiffs in a pending lawsuit provided documentation showing that the local Monsanto factory knowingly discharged both mercury and PCB-laden waste into local creeks for over 40 years. In a story on January 27, The New York Times reported that during 1969 alone Monsanto had dumped 45 tons of PCBs into Snow Creek, a feeder for Choccolocco Creek which supplies much of the area's drinking water. The company also buried millions of pounds of PCB in open-pit landfills located on hillsides above the plant and surrounding neighborhoods. In August 2003, Solutia and Monsanto agreed to pay plaintiffs $700 million to settle claims by over 20,000 Anniston residents related to PCB contamination.
According to an anonymous 2001 document obtained by the Center for Public Integrity, Monsanto has been identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as being a "potentially responsible party" for 56 contaminated sites (Superfund sites) in the United States. Monsanto has been sued, and has settled, multiple times for damaging the health of its employees or residents near its Superfund sites through pollution and poisoning.
A UK government report showed that 67 chemicals, including Agent Orange derivatives, dioxins and PCBs exclusively made by Monsanto, are leaking from the Brofiscin quarry, near Groesfaen in Wales, an unlined porous quarry that was not authorized to take chemical wastes. It emerged that the groundwater had been polluted since the 1970s. The government was criticised for failing to publish information about the scale and exact nature of this contamination. The UK Environment Agency estimated that it would cost £100m to clean up the site, called "one of the most contaminated" in the UK.
More info on Monsanto's controversial practices here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
I recently cut open a banana to find this - would you eat it? I did, and I can say that bananalamis (or salaminanas) are very tasty, if a little different....
Happy Easter!
More from the GM Foods series. No PS here...
was finally able to re-shoot this, with a healthier looking banana -- and a home-made contraption to hold everything at the right height... :)
Possibly will be part of an upcoming (local) exhibition...
Dried wheat kernels from Sweden. These are about 38 years old! Believe it or not, when I lived on a farm in Sweden I sometimes helped with the harvesting of the wheat by driving a tractor....oh those were days long ago...
INFORMATION ON WHEAT:
Wheat (Triticum spp.), is a worldwide cultivated grass from the Levant region of the Middle East. Globally, after maize, wheat is the second most-produced food among the cereal crops just above rice. Wheat grain is a staple food used to make flour for leavened, flat and steamed breads; cookies, cakes, breakfast cereal, pasta, juice, noodles and couscous; and for fermentation to make beer, alcohol, vodka or biofuel. Wheat is planted to a limited extent as a forage crop for livestock, and the straw can be used as fodder for livestock or as a construction material for roofing thatch. Although wheat supplies much of the world's dietary protein and food supply, as many as one in every 100 to 200 people has Coeliac disease, a condition which results from an immune system response to a protein found in wheat: gluten (based on figures for the United States).
Wheat originated in Southwest Asia in the area known as the Fertile crescent. The genetic relationships between wild and domesticated populations of both einkorn and emmer wheat indicate that the most likely site of domestication is near Diyarbakır in Turkey.
Wild wheats were domesticated as part of the origins of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. Cultivation and repeated harvesting and sowing of the grains of wild grasses led to the domestication of wheat through selection of mutant forms with tough ears that remained intact during harvesting, larger grains, and a tendency for the spikelets to stay on the stalk until harvested. Because of the loss of seed dispersal mechanisms, domesticated wheats have limited capacity to propagate in the wild.
The exact timing of the first appearance of domesticated wheats is currently uncertain, but is either in the PPNA period (9800-8800 cal BC) or the early-mid PPNB (8800-7500 cal BC). Domesticated einkorn and emmer wheat has been identified at three PPNA sites in the northern Levant, Iraq ed-Dubb, Jericho and Tell Aswad, but both the dating and the domesticated status of these cereals is disputed. Domesticated wheats (and other Neolithic founder crops) are unambiguously present at early-mid PPNB sites in the northern Levant, such as Ain Ghazal, Abu Hureyra and Tell Aswad, and in southeast Turkey at Cafer Höyük and Çayönü. As a round figure, it is correct to say that wheats have been domesticated for about 10,000 years.
The cultivation of wheat began to spread beyond the Fertile Crescent during the Neolithic period, reaching the Aegean by 8500 cal BC and the Indian subcontinent by 6000 cal BC. By 5,000 years ago, wheat had reached Ethiopia, Great Britain, Ireland and Spain. A millennium later it reached China. Claims have been made for independent domestication of wheat outside the fertile crescent, but these lack evidence of the presence of wild wheats or of early domesticated wheat.
Three thousand years ago wheat was grown in the southern Oregon peninsula. Agricultural cultivation with horse-drawn plows increased cereal grain production, as did the use of seed drills to replace broadcast sowing in the 18th century. Yields of wheat continued to increase, as new land came under cultivation and with improved agricultural husbandry involving the use of fertilizers, threshing machines and reaping machines, tractor-drawn cultivators and planters, and varieties adapted to intensive cultivation (see green revolution and Norin 10 wheat).
Raw wheat can be powdered into flour; germinated and dried creating malt; crushed and into cracked wheat; parboiled (or steamed), dried, crushed and de-branned into bulgur; or processed into semolina, pasta, or roux. Wheat is a major ingredient in such foods as bread, porridge, crackers, biscuits, Muesli, pancakes, pies, pastries, cakes & cupcakes, cookies, muffins, rolls, doughnuts, gravy, boza (a fermented beverage), and breakfast cereals (e.g. Wheatena, Cream of Wheat, Shredded Wheat, and Wheaties).
100 grams of hard red winter wheat contain about 12.6 grams of protein, 1.5 grams of total fat, 71 grams of carbohydrate (by difference), 12.2 grams of dietary fiber, and 3.2 mg of iron (17% of the daily requirement); the same weight of hard red spring wheat contains about 15.4 grams of protein, 1.9 grams of total fat, 68 grams of carbohydrate (by difference), 12.2 grams of dietary fiber, and 3.6 mg of iron (20% of the daily requirement). Gluten, a protein found in wheat (and other Triticeae), cannot be tolerated by people with celiac disease (an autoimmune disorder in ~1% of Indo-European populations).
Source: Wikipedia
'The Perth Gazette' of January 10, 1851 published a letter from James Drummond - indefatigable botanist and naturalist of Western Australia. He'd composed it under some duress on a journey from Dundaragan to Champion Bay and onwards to the lead mine on the Murchison River (1849-1850) 'but I have not as yet got a sheltered spot to write in'.
Drummond's enthusiasm is contagious. He has for the first time seen 'the large scarlet verticordia' which 'is in my opinion the most beautiful of Australian plants'; suitably it later received the specific name: 'grandis'. After describing its growing habits, Drummond continues: 'even de savage inhabitants of the country, cannibals as they are, admire this plant; on one of the days we were travelling from the Irwin to the Greenough, the natives had intelligence of our approach and twenty or thirty of the young men dressed in their best style, with grease and wilgi and their heads ornamemted with the flowers of this splendid plant, came to meet us in a friendly manner'. Drummond, incidentally, had had a terrible run-in caused according to him by the natives earlier in 1845, which had cost the lives of his son Johnston, also an avid botanist, and a native guide called Kabinger: see my posting of July 18, 2010: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/4804040139/.
Before Drummond's discovery of this Scarlet Featherflower, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) had in 1828 named the genus of that plant 'Verticordia', 'Heart-turner'. And indeed the brightness of our 'grandis' does turn the heart!
More than merely beautiful, Verticordia grandis recently has played an important role in genetic engineering. It's a member of the myrtle family to which also belong economically important plants such as the clove and the guava. They are all prone to a debilitating plant condition called hairy-root disease, caused by a soil bacterium, Agrobacterium rhizogenes. In the mid '90s, scientists were able to genetically transform Verticordia grandis so that it no longer has to be susceptible to that bacterium. Thus strides are made forward to the greater economic viability of these myrtles. Possbily insights from this work will also help in the battle against that disease in The Netherlands, where it has been detected in other plants (e.g. cucumber, tomato, aubergine) since about 1999.
Cartoon by Mike Moreu of Nelson, NZ, in the Nelson Mail on 14 February, 2012.
What Is Genetic Engineering?
Genetic engineering refers to a set of newer technologies that are being used to change the genetic makeup of cells and move genes across species (transgenic or more recently 'cisgenic') boundaries to try to produce novel organisms. The techniques involve highly sophisticated manipulations (including the gene gun) of genetic material and other biologically important chemicals.
Genes are the chemical blueprints that determine an organism's traits. Moving genes from one organism to another transfers those traits or that's the intention. Through genetic engineering, organisms are given new combinations of genes—and therefore new possible combinations of traits—that do not occur in nature and, indeed, cannot be developed by natural means. Such an artificial technology is radically different from traditional plant and animal breeding (hybridization). .
USDA organic code forbids GMOs from any food labeled organic, along with the application of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2HUdG1pYNQ&feature=watch_res...
Food Bill (4.20)
Added: 8.24AM Wednesday January 25, 2012
Source: Breakfast
Green Party MP and New Zealand's Soil and Health Association spokesperson Steffan Browning on the issues...
SOURCE: tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-news/food-bill-politics-video-4700990
Key rejects 'nanny state' criticism
7:03 PM Monday Aug 15, 2011.
NZ Prime Minister John Key, facing "nanny state" criticism of the Government's new welfare policy for young people, says he isn't going to apologise to anyone for intervening in their lives.
This is the central portion of Goodly Creature. As you may already have suspected, he is a creature of multifarious parts. Some are decidedly shroomy.
I'm blogging about the creation of this project in my new process blog, Curious Art Lab.
curiousartlab.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-assembly-required...
(It's for the Things to Come show at Bold Hype Gallery in NYC opening on 9 September.)
When Standard Oil was ordered broken up in 1911, John D. Rockefeller started the Rockefeller Foundation as a way of changing his terrible public image. Rockefeller Holdings did business with the Nazis throughout World War II. They provided oil and gas to the Nazis. Senator Harry Truman told reporters that the company’s actions constituted “treason.” The Rockefeller Foundation funded the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. They also provided large grants to the institute throughout the Hitler era. The Rockefeller Foundation also funded the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity. If you follow the money, the Rockefellers, the Warburgs, and the Harrimans are often found behind the implementation of eugenics and psychiatric mind control. These families worked with the Round Table groups of Cecil Rhodes, who was an operative of the Rothschild family. After Hitler came to power, psychiatric institutes were incorporated into the Nazi system. The Nazis instituted a sterilization law, which was based on the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924. At Auschwitz, many Jews filled out questionnaires from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. After being tortured and killed, some of their body parts were shipped to the same institute.
Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, who is known as the father of experimental psychology, created the first experimental psychology laboratory. This became the model for psychological research around the globe. Jim Keith, who was offed by the CIA, said that Wundt “rejected the moral equation in dealing with mankind—thereby putting man in a test tube [so to speak]—and by doing so opened the door to many of the atrocities that followed in this century, including the horrors of mind control.” Next came along Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, with his discovery of classical conditioning. Pavlov implanted tubes into the cheeks of dogs, so that he could measure saliva levels. The dogs were conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell, because they associated the sound of the bell with food. Then came John Watson, who used classical conditioning on “Little Albert.” Watson conditioned the toddler to fear a white rat. He repeatedly made loud noises when the boy was with the rat, frightening him. Albert was 11 months old when his conditioning began. Watson claimed that he could take any 12 infants and mold them into whatever kind of people he desired by using behavioral techniques. He also stated that “men are built, not born.” Now we get to Burrhus Frederic Skinner, who is called the father of operant conditioning. Skinner was also interested in the works of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov and John Watson. He conducted animal experiments in a “Skinner box.” He used rewards and punishments to shape behaviours. “Through some tinkering, he created the ‘air crib,’ a climate controlled environment for an infant. One of these air cribs resides in the gallery at the Center for the History of Psychology in Akron, Ohio.” His daughter slept and played in this box/crib for the first 2 years of her life. “We see operant conditioning training us everywhere, intentionally or unintentionally.”
The Nazis killed around 300,000 people with disabilities and mental illness in psychiatric hospitals. The United States, under Project Paperclip, brought around 5,000 Nazi scientists into the country. Charles Eliot Perkins, one of America’s leading chemists, said, “I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years’ research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine—any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person, mentally or physically.” The National Toxicology Program of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that there is a connection between fluoride and lowered IQ in children. Yet they don’t know if the dosage of fluoride, which they put in the water, is enough to lower IQ. Oddly enough, after all these years, the government doesn’t know if the amount of fluoride they are using is lowering the IQ of it citizens! A scientific paper titled “Fluoride and Pineal Gland,” found that fluoride accumulates in the pineal gland. The pineal gland undergoes mineralization and accumulates “extremely high concentrations of fluoride,” “making it the most fluoride-saturated organ of the human body.” Fluoride causes oxidative stress. Melatonin, which the pineal gland produces, helps to relieve oxidative stress. Yet melatonin production is reduced in a Pineal Gland that is calcified and saturated with fluoride. Scientific research has found that higher concentrations of fluoride stimulate the process of mineralization. Melatonin also helps to regulate the sleep cycle. It’s easy to see how fluoride could cause a population to have less energy due to the disruption of their sleep cycles caused by lower melatonin levels, thus producing a more lethargic and passive society. It could possibly cause an increase in mental illnesses, neurodegenerative diseases, brain tumors, and strokes. Fluoride also accumulates in other soft tissues such as the aorta, coronary arteries, and placenta. Therefore, fluoride can mineralize both hard and soft tissue.
In Prussia, the first compulsory school system was instituted. Although this educational system greatly improved literacy rates, it also created a dumbed-down style of education. It was criticized for its social control, for its creation of obedient subjects, and for its destruction of free will. The Prussian model of education greatly influenced other educational systems, such as the American educational system. In America, they moved away from phonics to a dumbed-down version of reading called sight-reading (Dick and Jane). This system of “not-teaching-reading was used essentially to disadvantage all but the privileged class.” It was said that if a child could be kept from reading well in the first six or seven years of school, then the damage would be done. This kind of curriculum is supposed to outwardly look academic. Yet it is comprised of units that are either too short for proper and effective learning, or too long and wasteful and inefficient. All who have gone through the public educational system have been given a dumbed-down education. Common Core, No Child Left Behind, and the Three-Cueing System are prime examples of education being increasingly dumbed-down. Modern education is about socializing students, as opposed to teaching them to be true critical thinkers. Yet the ability of children to socialize has declined and so has their literacy.
Dr. G. Brock Chisholm, the first director-general of the World Health Organization, said, “What basic psychological distortion can be found in every civilization of which we know anything? The only psychological force capable of producing these perversions is morality—the concept of right and wrong. The re-interpretation and eventual eradication of the concept of right and wrong are the belated objectives of nearly all psychotherapy.” He also remarked, “To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.”
The CIA desired to create a Manchurian Candidate. Dr. George Estabrooks stated in an interview that to make an effective assassin, one must use hypnosis to create multiple personalities. Estabrooks also said, “I can hypnotize a man without his knowledge or consent into committing treason against the United States.” He also suggested that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby could have been acting through hypnosis. The intelligence community found that hypnosis was more effective with the use of drugs.
The CIA was very interested in LSD. CIA spook, George Hunter White, who would secretly slip LSD into the drinks of johns, stated, “I was a very minor missionary, actually a heretic, but I toiled wholeheartedly in the vineyards because it was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape, and pillage with the sanction and blessing of the All-Highest?” The CIA contacted Dr. Nick Bercel in 1953. They asked him how much LSD it would take for the population of Los Angeles to trip out. Bercel, however, found that chlorinated water neutralized LSD. The CIA, of course, moved on to more potent drugs like 3-Quinuclidinyl Benzilate.
The military and the CIA were also testing Phenylcyclohexyl Piperidine (PCP), also known on the streets as Angel Dust. Since the CIA was behind the push of LSD on the streets, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see how PCP made it onto the streets (how about crack cocaine?). “According to a 1968 FBI memorandum, Jerry Garcia, the leader of the Grateful Dead, was used ‘to channel youth dissent and rebellion into more benign and non-threatening directions.’” “The first member of the Grateful Dead to take LSD, Robert Hunter, did so under the auspices of a ‘government sponsored’ Stanford University drug study.” Michael Hollingshead, who has been linked to British Intelligence, also turned many English rock stars onto LSD. During this time, the CIA created radical student organizations that were run by undercover agents. Indeed, the CIA funded and controlled the National Student Association.
Perry Raymond Russo testified on March 16, 1967, before a New Orleans court. He said that he witnessed David Ferrie, Claw Shaw, and a man named Leon Oswald, plotting to kill John F. Kennedy. Ferrie stated that they would use a triangle cross-fire pattern. Ferrie remarked that one of the three shooters would be a scapegoat for the other two. “On Nov. 22, 1963, Permindex oversaw the successful assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, as EIR has documented in its book Dope Inc.” Permindex was an undercover intelligence assassination bureau, a “network of protected killers whose actions have irreversibly shaped the course of history for the last two decades.” It appears that Permindex, the FBI, and the Defense Intelligence Agency collaborated to kill JFK. It looked to be very well orchestrated, with high level officials in the know. It sounds like JFK’s actions ticked off some very powerful people in Britain, thus his fate was sealed. The assassination seems to have been a joint British and American intelligence operation. Obviously, Lee Harvey Oswald was the patsy.
Trauma-based mind control is extremely effective. It can also be used on the general population. COVID-19 is a prime example: many were conditioned to except authoritarian measures. With some economic trauma, our world will soon accept digital biometric IDs, CBDCs, social credit scores, and universal basic income. From JFK to 9/11, to COVID-19 and onward, to where no man has gone before! So how was American society affected by the murder of JFK? The years following, the crime rate more than doubled. It obviously caused a demoralization of American society. Many people did not believe the official story. An American President was assassinated in public for all to see, yet the information about this heinous act was kept secret (classified). Really!?! “Its purpose was to shock the American consciousness into a near-comatose state for reprogramming.”
In one form of mind control, they will force the subject to repeatedly watch snuff films and other immoral acts. This is to desensitize them. The more desensitized a person becomes, the more immoral a person becomes. The more immoral a person becomes, the more jaded a person becomes. The more jaded a person becomes, the easier they are to manipulate and control. It’s easier to make an immoral person more corrupt. They half-blindly become complicit in the lusts of their own deceit. As the Bible states, they deceive others, while they themselves are being deceived. They have been executing a softer version of this on the public. The entertainment we have been fed has promoted nudity, sex, drugs, and violence. Indeed, society has become willfully ignorant and complicit. Today’s society has been desensitized to the point of accepting eugenics: birth control, abortion, and euthanasia. Today’s society has become so sexually immoral and hedonistic that many are okay with sexually grooming children in schools and libraries. Many in Gen Z have become nihilistic and apathetic, dropping out of life. Many in Gen Alpha can’t read and are addicted to doom scrolling. Society is being conditioned to be a bunch of zombies—blank slates.
Cognitive warfare is a hyper-personalized targeting of an individual, using information and cognitive techniques. It is aided by datamining, data analytics, and artificial intelligence. Cognitive attacks are used to sidestep the conscious mind, which is rational, and instead, they target the hidden emotions of the subconscious. “Psychology often suggests that only about 5–10% of the mind is conscious, while 90–95% operates at the subconscious level.” The goal is to target the subconscious mind, particularly the Amygdala. The Amygdala is part of the limbic system, which “acts as a central hub for sensory integration and emotional processing.” The Amygdala links emotions to memories, learning, and senses. Cognitive warfare is used to alter the perception of reality. It is used to deceive the brain, thus manipulating the decision-making processes. Social media can be used to weaken cognitive abilities. Its content can easily stir up emotions, causing people to react quickly. Social media can be used to datamine personal information. Smart devices can also be used to collect information such as blood pressure, heart rate, and hours of sleep. This information can then be used to target individuals at an opportune time. Like when they are tired or hungry, stressed or angry. Digital spaces create echo chambers, causing individuals to focus on certain narratives. This can create a hivemind effect, which results in polarization and distrust. The fast pace of social media, means there is less time to think. This tends to cause people to follow the narrative without question. They accept whatever seems to line up with their viewpoints or beliefs or their group. This creates lazy thinkers. People then start to delegate their thinking to “influencers,” experts, or artificial intelligence. Those with poor literacy or critical thinking skills are most susceptible. A fragmented society, which lacks social interaction, is also more susceptible to cognitive warfare.
Sirhan Sirhan, who killed Robert F. Kennedy, definitely looks like a CIA tool. If one puts together witness testimonies of Sirhan before the assassination, it becomes obvious that CIA agents were with Sirhan, and that they were running him through the assassination process. “Although the witness could not identify who was talking, she heard the words ‘Kennedy,’ and ‘Get in the car, we have to get him tonight,’ as well as ‘Don’t want to,’ and ‘Afraid.’” Sirhan was seen drawing out a map of the hotel—some kind of floor plan. Dr. Bernard Diamond, a psychiatrist who examined Sirhan under hypnosis, asked him about some weird entries in his notebook. Diamond asked him, “Is this crazy writing?” Sirhan wrote, “YES YES YES.” Diamond asked, “Are you crazy?” Sirhan replied, “NO NO.” Diamond reiterated, “Well, why are you writing crazy?” Sirhan answered back, “PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.” Diamond questioned him, “Practice for what?” Sirhan wrote, “MIND CONTROL MIND CONTROL MIND CONTROL.” Seven years after the assassination, a Psychological Stress Evaluator (PSE)—a device used to detect and measure stress levels through voice analysis—was used to analyze Sirhan’s voice during interviews that he had had with psychologists. An expert in the field said, “I’m convinced that Sirhan wasn’t aware of what he was doing. He was in a hypnotic trance when he pulled the trigger and killed Senator Kennedy... Everything in the PSE charts tells me that someone else was involved in the assassination—and that Sirhan was programmed through hypnosis to kill RFK. What we have here is a real live ‘Manchurian Candidate.’” Dr. John W. Heisse, Jr., president of the International Society of Stress Analysis, stated: “Sirhan kept repeating certain phrases. This clearly revealed he had been programmed to put himself into a trance. This is something he couldn’t have learned by himself. Someone had to show him and teach him how. I believe Sirhan was brainwashed under hypnosis by the constant repetition of words like ‘You are nobody. You’re nothing. The American dream is gone’ until he actually believed them. At that stage someone implanted an idea, ‘Kill RFK,’ and under hypnosis the brainwashed Sirhan accepted it.” Dr. Herbert Spiegel, a hypnotist, remarked, “It’s very possible to distort and change somebody’s mind through a number of hypnotic sessions. It can be described as brainwashing because the mind is cleared of its old emotions and values which are replaced by implanting other suggestions... This technique was probably used with Sirhan. From my own research, I think that Sirhan was subjected to hypnotic treatment.” “As in the case of Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray, Lee Harvey Oswald, David Berkowitz and others, there would be no trial.”
It looks like James Earl Ray, who killed Martin Luther King Jr., was under mind control. David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam (Son of Uncle Sam?) killer, said, “I am on a different wave length than everybody else—programmed to kill.” Mark David Chapman, who killed John Lennon, looks like he may have been under mind control. Timothy McVeigh, who was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing, said that he had been implanted with a microchip and believed that he was under mind control. Many times in the past, when hypnosis and drugs were used for mind control, the person was given a secret microchip implant. Even with today’s Voice-to-Skull technology, some victims are also given a secret microchip implant. “It is likely that most of the mass shooting events are orchestrated by the CIA and FBI, using the techniques developed under the CIA’s MK-Ultra program.”
Remember Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre? Jones established the first People’s Temple in Ukiah, California. Some of his top lieutenants were connected to intelligence agencies. While in Brazil, Jim Jones told his Brazilian neighbours that he was working with Navy Intelligence and that his house and food were supplied by the U.S. Embassy. Jones regularly visited the city of Belo Horizonte, where the headquarters of the CIA was located in Brazil. George Philip Blakey “is reported to have been a CIA operative and to have run mercenaries out of Jonestown, supplying forces to the CIA-backed UNITA in Angola. Blakey is reported to have made the original $650,000 deposit on the land in Guyana that was to become Jonestown.” The Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon also had ties to intelligence. It had 600 front groups. Reverend Moon also purchased the Washington Times.
The Finders group was another American intelligence cult-like group. The Washington City Paper reported that “the Finders constantly walk the streets, following people home and taking extensive notes and pictures.” Law enforcement raided their warehouse and found that the Finders where running an international child trafficking operation. They would respond to news paper ads for babysitters and tutors, so they could gather information. They also collected vast amounts of data on numerous child care organizations. In their warehouse, they had a place where they could produce videos. They were possibly producing pornography. They had a place in the warehouse that seemed to be a training area for children. This area also had jars of urine and feces and what appeared to be an altar.
During the cold war, the Russians and Americans were using low frequencies to bombard the ionosphere. This irradiation of the upper atmosphere is what most likely created the hole in the earth’s ozone layer. The Russians, with their Russian Woodpecker broadcasts, were the first to use this technology. The Americans, however, used frequencies less dangerous than the Russians. The Russians used 10 Hertz, while the Americans used 30 Hertz. This Nikola Tesla technology, which they were using, could also cause earthquakes and hurricanes; it could control the weather (even in space); it could also be used for mind control. The 1974 earthquake in Tangshan, China, was quite possibly caused by the Russians. The New York Times reported that before the first tremor the sky lit up like daylight. The sky became multi-hued—white and red. Tree leaves burned and vegetables scorched. This light was seen approximately 200 miles away. The American’s built HAARP, estimated to be 72,000 times more powerful than the next most powerful radio transmitter. “HAARP broadcasts at the same frequencies as those of the human brain.” HAARP was turned on at the time of the Lytton fire, which burned the town to the ground. During this time, Lytton recorded the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada. The next day, the wildfire started that burned down Lytton. Climate change? Lahaina fire? Drought, flooding, and fires? Directed Energy Weapons? Chemtrails? Agenda 21? Get the people off the land? New World Order agenda? Ultimate control?
The CIA and other intelligence agencies target individuals with Directed Energy Weapons and Voice-to-Skull technology. Voice-to-Skull technology is used to stimulate the Cochlear, which is part of the inner ear. This remotely projects sound into the ear using certain frequencies. The CIA tries to drive their victims crazy. They use verbal abuse to demoralize them. They use piercing frequencies, which cause immense mental anguish. There is no relief from these sounds, which also haunts the targets at night. They use sleep deprivation to break their victims down. They use frequencies that cause intense physical pain. They can fine-tune the torment, in order to make the suffering as unbearable as possible. Today’s technologies can remotely monitor brainwaves, alter brainwaves, alter behavior, project sound into the brain, project pictures into the brain, target organs in the body, and cause pain anywhere in the body. They can also alter DNA, and control bioelectric and biochemical processes. They tap into the victim’s subconscious, using their memories against them. They view a person’s thoughts in real time. They have better access to what is in the victim’s head than the victims themselves. The victims can converse with their antagonists merely by thinking of what they would like to say. They have no privacy; their inner thoughts and their inner dialogue are fully known. They know all that the person has experienced in life, even forgotten memories, because the perpetrators have total access to their brain. These psychopaths can strip them of all their energy, putting them into a zombie-like state. They can make their victims chronically depressed. And the list goes on and on and on! One’s own mind and body can be transformed into a torture chamber, where there is no escape. Microwaves can be used to make people insane. They can turn people into vegetables. They can even kill people.
These targeted individuals are tracked by satellites; there is no escape for them. The government uses GPS Block III satellites, which are manufactured by Lockheed Martin, to track and attack these individuals. Raytheon KTech, with its 2010 sales of $25 billion, and 72,000 employees worldwide, is working on the next generation of these microwave weapons. Raytheon is also upgrading the Operational Control System software for the ground station operators at Schriever Space Force Base. This system controls all of the GPS satellites that track and attack targeted individuals. AT&T is also being used to track and attack United States citizens. 5G anyone? Again, these satellite and cell tower weapons are controlled from Schriever Space Force Base near Colorado Springs.
What kind of mind control will be done under transhumanism, with its use of nanorobotics, nanosensors, genetic engineering, synthetic DNA, and brain-computer interfaces? These technologies will be capable of fully controlling perception, cognition, and actions. It will bring mind control to a whole other level. Mark of the Beast, baby! Eugenics: humans are expendable! Mind control: humans are expendable! Transhumanism: humanity is expendable! Mankind has crossed many lines that should not have been crossed. For this reason, there will be hell to pay. You reap what you sow! The Georgia Guidestones: Maintain humanity below 500 million in perpetual balance with nature.
According to the Bible, the three most foolish groups to walk the earth are these: 1) Those who mated with fallen angels and in turn were destroyed by the flood. 2) Those who take the Mark of the Beast and in turn are destroyed when Christ returns. 3) Those who follow satan at the end of the millennial reign of Christ and in turn are destroyed by fire. These groups get progressively dumber. In our day, we are seeing some of the most wicked and foolish people to ever walk the earth. “Professing to be wise, they became fools.” However, things will get much worse. In the Tribulation Period, the mind controlled zombies will worship the Beast and his AI Image! They will receive Brave New World soma frequencies to their brains.
Matthew 24:21-22 “For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.”
This is just one portion of the piece I'm working on right now... more to come soon!
I'm blogging about the creation of this project in my new process blog, Curious Art Lab.
curiousartlab.blogspot.com/2010/08/some-assembly-required...
(It's for the Things to Come show at Bold Hype Gallery in NYC opening on 9 September.)
More from the GM Foods series...
No PS here.
Also, possibly, a shot to go in an upcoming local exhibition (I haven't decided which photos I want to exhibit ! ) to celebrate 30 years of a local photo club. details on the exhibition to follow...
I wonder how long will it be before this will be introduced as a bouquet of roses... I wouldn't be shocked to learn that it already has.
Biomaterials made of natural self-assembling proteins such as spider silk proteins or collagens have extremely interesting properties: For example, they have high tensile strength and elasticity and are at the same time biodegradable. Self-assembling R16 type proteins, pictured here, are able to form spherical structures.
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The spherical spores produced by the fungus Emericella nidulans are coated in a thin layer of the protein hydrophobin. Hydrophobin ensures that water rolls off the spores. Other fungi, such as mushrooms, also have a layer of hydrophobin on their caps. BASF researchers have succeeded in transferring the gene responsible for hydrophobin production to Escherichia coli bacteria.
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Stu Kauffman just gave a fascinating talk at the Almaden Institute on Complexity.
I would bet that his discussion of cells and genetic signaling networks will also apply to the brain and synaptic networks. The evolution of evolution itself moves up a hierarchy of abstractions to act at the network topology level.
Here are my rough notes from Kauffman’s talk:
Cells are dynamically critical because being critical is the best way to coordinate complex behaviors. (critical meaning the edge between chaos and order)
We have been taught that natural selection is the only source of order. What if there was a law that governs all of biology? It would be profound and would alter our view of biology. There are organizing principles that biology “obeys” because it is selectively useful. It’s like finding one of Newton’s law of motion for cells.
Cells are very complex. Genetic regulatory nets:
Transcriptome in yeast regulates 6500 genes, Humans: 25K
Transcription factor -> promoter or enhancer. Protein signaling cascades.
Transcriptome+protein signaling network is a parallel processing non-linear stochastic dynamical system.
Huge web. Nobody knows structures and dynamics.
Systems biology is trying to look for general laws
10^8000 genome state space.
Percolate: order, all fixed states.
Derrida deconstructionist. Mafia+deconstructionist = make you an offer you can’t understand
Hamming distance. Fan-in of K=2 or less. Take a Random network. Take 60K logic gates at random. Each gate has 2 inputs. The system Behavior is simple. It spontaneously goes to ordered regime. Nearby states converge. Dt = Dt+1 is the critical line.
Being critical is very, very rare. If it exists, it must have been selected for over 3.8B years of evolution.
Why cells should be critical?
Cells must bin past discriminations to future reliable actions
• Order: convergence in state space forgets past distinctions. Info-lossy
• Chaotic: small noise yields divergence in state space trajectories precluding reliable action
• Critical: near parallel flow optimizes capacity to bind past and future
Bacteria: operons for different food and different enzymes
Critical Boolean networks maximize robustness to mutations
Cell types correspond to attractors
Critical networks maximize the probability that such mutations leave all existing attractors intact and occasionally add new attractors.
Thus, critical networks optimize robustness of cell types to mutations and the capacity to evolve new cell types.
Mutual information: correlation between 2 variables. Entropy of variable A + B – joint entropy. Between 0 and 1. 0 = no correlation.
Ways to go from order and chaos. Inputs: order until K=2, peak for criticality.
If k greater than 2, then put lots of 1’s in there. P-bias of .15
Model of floral development shows criticality.
E.Coli: apply random 1500 values on real network; also to Yeast medusa network, 200 regulatory genes in medusa head, rest are regulated 3500 genes (humans 2500 regulating genes in medusa head, 23K regulated). If apply random Boolean functions to the yeast network, why would it be critical? This is about the dynamics of the networks. Cells do thermodynamic work. Work is constrained release of energy in few degrees of freedom, but it takes work to create the constraints. Cells do this, but we don’t have concepts for it in physics.
Hela 48 hourly time point. Affy gene array data. Lempel-Ziv analysis. Cells clearly are not chaotic; they are either ordered or critical (data lie on top of each other)
Avalanche size distribution. Deletion – see how many other genes change. Log-log straight line power law. Slope -1.5 power law (critical branching process). 250 yeast deletions, measure how many alter their activity. Ilya’s work.
NCD: normalized compression distance. Analysis of toll-like receptors on surface of macrophage. Ideal compressor. Take random length n, concatenate 2 of them. Ideal compressor will compress to n. 2 random ones, won’t be able to compress it. The more you can compress, the more similar they are. Regression gives a diagonal line, indicating it is critical. Nature, Dec 2006 Max Planck. Binary and ternary discretization leads to line that is critical. It’s breathtaking.
This is self-organization in nature via natural selection. If this is right, it may be a general law, one of the few laws in biology (e.g., Darwin, a few in ecology and population genetics). We will create life anew in the next 15 years. My bet is that life anywhere in the universe will be critical because it is the best way to coordinate complex behaviors.
Plant samples in the gene bank, part of CIAT's Genetic Resources program, at the institution's headquarters in Colombia.
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“To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee”
(Captain Ahab. Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville/ Also quoted by Khan Noonien Singh. in Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan)
Actor Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (born Mexico City, November 25, 1920) died on January 14th, 2009.
His seventy year career in both the United States of America and Mexico spanned radio, television, movies, and theatre. A champion of U.S/Mexican friendship and active in the cause of raising the profile of latino actors. Montalbán often, during his early career in Hollywood at least, played Asian, Arab and Native American characters, as well as "Latin Lovers", particularly in musicals, where he also showcased his talents as a song and dance man. (Khan Singh? Yes. He. Can! The Powers That Be wanted him to change his name to "Ricky Martin"....a bullet he fortunately dodged!)
To science fiction and fantasy fans he was famous for his roles as Star Trek's villainous Khan Noonien Singh and Fantasy Island's Mr Roarke.
Montalbán played the 20th Century genetically engineered 'superman', Khan, twice, in the 1967 episode of classic Trek, "Space Seed" (written by Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilber, based on a story by Carey Wilber, and directed by Marc Daniels) and fifteen years later in the second Star Trek movie, "The Wrath Of Khan". (Written by Nicholas Meyer and Jack B. Sowards, Directed by Nicholas Meyer) He was Mr Roarke in the Fantasy Island television series from 1977 to 1984. Ironically, Montalbán was replaced in the revival of Fantasy Island by Malcom McDowell, the actor whose character in the film Star Trek: Generations WOULD infamously succeed where Khan failed in bringing about the death of Captain James T. Kirk.
Genre buffs may also recall that Montalbán played the circus owner in Escape From The Planet Of The Apes (1971) and Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes (1972).
Other movies he acted in included The Saracen Blade, Across The Wide Missouri, The Queen of Babylon, Sayonara, Madame X, The Singing Nun, Fiesta, Santa, La Fuga, The Naked Gun, The Kissing Bandit, Cannonball Run II and of course the Spy Kids series. It was during the filming of the 1951 Western, Across The Wide Missouri that Montalbán was reportedly injured in a riding accident, which left him with back and leg pain that would trouble him for the rest of his life, ultimately resulting in him becoming wheelchair bound after an operation in 1993. His disability does not seem to have slowed his career much, as he was still playing an action hero grandfather in a rocket assisted wheelchair in the 21st Century's Spy Kids series!
Apart from a notable roles in The Colbys and Dynasty he also appeared in person or as a voice actor on television in genre shows like Wonder Woman, Kim Possible, Heaven Help Us, Mission Impossible, Freakazoid!, The Man From Uncle, Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command and Dora The Explorer. One of his final roles was playing a genetically Engineered cow in an episode of Family Guy, where he satirised his Khan character.
I first saw Montalbán in The Saracen Blade, and kept spotting him in both movies and television, finally catching up with his Khan role in Star Trek sometime in the 1970s. It became a favourite episode and I was quite chuffed when the actor reprised his role in the second Star Trek movie. Although I was very much impressed by the first Star trek film's mix of upbeat futurism and spectacular special effects I also welcomed the more traditional space opera approach of the second film in the long running series and thought that Khan was a terrific villain, so effectively played by Montalbán exploiting his commanding voice and physical presence (still serious buff in his sixties...and apparently into his seventies as well!).
I saw both films far more times than I did Star Wars, and those first two movies helped consolidate what I expect will be a lifelong love of Star Trek. Happily, Star Trek was also instrumental in helping to give me an enduring interest in general literature, supplementing my passion for science fiction and fantasy. Captain Kirk was always quoting this or that book, which, with the help of Bjos Trimble's Star Trek Concordance I would then dutifully track down and devour. (Trivia note: Ironically, I would later go on to contribute Khan related illustrations, amongst other artwork, to a later edition of the Concordance.)
The Wrath Of Khan, famously, contains a shuttlecraft full of references, from the copy of A Tale of Two Cities that Spock gives as a birthday gift to Kirk, to the ramshackle bookshelf of titles that Chekov discovered in the cargo containers that Khan and his followers made as their home when marooned on the doomed Ceti Alpha V. (Incidentally, Khan's original spaceship was the S.S Botany Bay, a name guaranteed to make any Aussie sit up and take notice..)
The books were chosen for the film to reflect Khan's vengeful, arrogant mindset, and he quotes extensively from that epic Whale's Tail of obsessive revenge, Moby-Dick. There's also a couple of copies of Milton's "Paradise Lost" (qouted in Space Seed), King Lear, Dante's Inferno and a Bible.
I had copies of most of these books from the 1980s and coupled with some Micromachines Star Trek starships (U.S.S Enterprise and the hijacked U.S.S Reliant) I thought these would make an appropriate setting to display the 6 inch Art Asylum Khan Action Figure. There's a couple of books that I left out, such as what looks to be 'mundane' Federation guide to Statutes Governing Commerce and what may be a Complete Works Of Shakespeare. I've never been religious so it's charitable of me to include the Bible, but it seems to me that Khan, if anything, soaked up all the 'wrathful' content ("An eye for an eye"). Setting them up as monolithic steps seemed to work well, and for the base how could I possibly bypass a length of "Soft Corinthian leather...." (To quote one of R.M's automobile commercials)
Photoshop was my ally for eliminating assorted rigging and providing a suitably dark and stormy spacescape as well as creating firey phaser blasts for Khan to smite poor Enterprise, harpooning his nemesis in best Ahabian tradition...
Ricardo Montalbán was, by all accounts, a remarkably chivalrous and unfailingly polite old school gentleman so it does him something of a disservice to memorialise him by referencing the tyrannical Khan.
Still, what a great role for an actor!
And what a great inspiration for the young Trekker that I was back then. I fondly recall writing a long fan story about Khan's adventures on Ceti Alpha V, where he fought and defeated the survivors of a Klingon shipwreck...collecting an old Klingon proverb or two as a trophy. ("Reveng is a dish best served cold"...is actually Sicilian, but what's an attribution amongst enemies!) Little did I know back then that Greg Cox would expand splendidly on the whole Khan saga in his trilogy "The Rise & Fall Of Khan Noonien Singh" or that the supermen/augments would later feature in Star Trek: Enterprise. Vonda McIntyre also did a wonderful job expanding upon the movie script and Khan's character. amongst others, in her sophisticated novelization.
But it all started with Ricardo, and his masterful turn as Khan.....
And it’s hard to choose just one, but it would have to be Bonnie Bassler’s talk on bacterial communication, which just went online.
I had dinner with Bonnie before her talk and was captivated. So much so that I changed seats to talk with her instead of Paul Allen, Bezos, and some other very interesting folks around the table.
There are 10x as many bacterial cells as human cells in and on your body, and 100x as many bacterial genes as human genes. And you depend on them for survival.
“At best you are 10% human, but closer to 1%, depending on which metrics you like.”
It reminded me of Craig Venter’s observation that the bacteria in each of our lungs is genetically unique, evolving in real time in an adaptive dance with our immune system.
How can some bacteria make us sick? At a fraction of the size of a human cell, “bacteria are too small to have an impact on the environment if they simply act as individuals.”
“All bacteria can talk to each other. They make chemical words, they recognize those words, and they turn on group behaviors that are only successful when all of the cells participate in unison.”
“Bacteria always control pathogenicity with quorum sensing.”
They wait until they are concentrated enough before they launch an attack on their host; otherwise they would be wasting energy when sub-threshold.
And to prevent local hot spots emerging in isolation from their more distant peers, each bacteria has a positive feedback loop, dumping more signaling chemicals into the bath once they cross a threshold (this way, the entire population can switch modes in unison, from growth mode to attack mode for example).
Each bacteria has two separate signaling pathways. One receptor is exquisitely unique to each species, and one general to all bacteria (“bacterial Esperanto”). Bacteria can distinguish self from other and can determine their absolute concentration and their concentration relative to other bacteria.
“This is the invention of multi-cellularity. We think bacteria made the rules for how multi-cellular organization works.”
Jam the receptor. Instead of killing the bacteria, which would engendering evolutionary resistance, “what if we could do ‘behavior modifications’ so they can’t talk and don’t know to launch virulence.”
At dinner, I suggested that artificially induced group behaviors may also be interesting in biofilms used for water purification and other non-medical applications.
I was also reminded of my first course on neural networks (Rummelhardt, PDP). After simulating a number of neuronal circuits, early research concluded that the neuron needs a sigmoid function — some non-linear tipping point in its response curve — for learning to occur. The positive feedback loop in bacterial quorum sensing is just such a sigmoid, and may provide clues to the early development of cellular signaling, initially among nearest neighbors in pre-Cambrian blobs, and then across differentiated body plans with the long-span neuronal cells. I’m not thinking of evolutionary subsumption or endobiosis, but a resonant developmental homology in primitive signaling systems.
“When you learn new things about natural science, whenever you read something miraculous, it was done by a child. Everyone on my research team is between 20 and 30 years old. They are the engine that drives scientific discovery in this country.”
You can see why this was my favorite talk. =)
Plant samples in the gene bank, part of CIAT's Genetic Resources program, at the institution's headquarters in Colombia.
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Each genetically modified rice plant in the greenhouses at CropDesign has a barcode and transponder, allowing it to be accurately identified at any time. The rice plants ripen in the greenhouse until they are harvested some of them under ideal conditions. Others are subjected to various stress situations, such as a high salt concentration in the soil or severe drought. Researchers monitor the development of all the plants: they are photographed and measured at regular intervals. The resulting data provide information about the characteristics of the plants and thus about the transported genes. Belgian biotechnology company CropDesign develops Œtraits¹ for the global seed market. A trait is a genetic feature that gives a crop an economically useful characteristic, such as higher yield. Traits are determined by a plant¹s genes. Print free of charge. Copyright by BASF.
Salesman's box for genetically engineered pets.
Just choose how you like your pet to look like, fill in the order form, and three weeks later you get your very own "Perfect Pet" (life length may vary)
he is king of the flowerpot.
and i am going to look under the flowerpot tonight to see if he has produced viable offspring (the last ones died due to the queen of the flowerpot being a lazy mother).
People like pumpkins.
People like cats.
People should love Pumpkats™
It's not fair. I spent billions refining the perfect recipe. I planted millions of seeds and...
...only one Pumpkat™ grew.
This makes me less than splendidly happy. I'll never recoup the research costs...
What happened? Why didn't they grow?
*sobs*
Next year... there's always next year...
I know you'd love to:
Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.
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Documenting the impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda.
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Plant samples in the gene bank at CIAT's Genetic Resources Unit, at the institution's headquarters in Colombia.
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another shot from the GM foods series... more to come.
No PS here.
Possibly will be part of an upcoming (local) exhibition...
Ringiers farbige Kinderbücher / Kinderbuchserie
> Ringgi + Zofi / Spannende Abenteuer in Genikon
von Robi Reinfrank und Röbu Schnieper
Ringier & Co AG / Zürich 1988
ex libris MTP
Plant samples in the gene bank at CIAT's Genetic Resources Unit, at the institution's headquarters in Colombia.
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Plant samples in the gene bank at CIAT's Genetic Resources Unit, at the institution's headquarters in Colombia.
Credit: ©2010CIAT/NeilPalmer
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From the Monsanto Innovation Forum today:
“To support humanity’s needs, we will have to grow more crops in the next fifty years than in the past 10,000 years combined.”
How?
“In 2030, unattended vehicles will do most of the work, driven by imagery and remote sensing, with new inputs like x-rays of root growth under ground.”
“Corn has doubled its yield twice in history. The first came from the mechanization of farming. Then the move from 75 to 150 bushels/acre came from a new age in the science of seeds and fertility. Both of these advances were on an average basis, with one improved crop for all conditions. The average solution loses a lost of potential value, and the next doubling to 300 bushels/acre will take a systems approach for micro-specialization.”
This all makes sense to me, but I have to take issue with one detail on the 2030 vision — I doubt they will be using a Blackberry phone. =)
Monsanto is the largest seed company and the largest gene sequencer on Earth. They turn over their entire seed product line every three years.
In their molecular breeding program, they sample and sequence each individual corn kernel to detect variation across the cob, with a fleet of ten automated machines, each of which can chip one seed/second to look for 10-100 genetic markers per seed. They test the seeds at 7 million plots at 500 sites in 50 countries. In 2012, they moved from daily data collection to every two hours. It becomes a big data problem. They went from 3 to 8 Petabytes of data in 2012.
This year they will introduce drought-tolerant seeds with a transgene from bacteria. The product has been in development for 12 years with a combination of breeding, biotech and agronomics.
They also have had recent success with spraying naked RNAi (a computer-designed gene silencing technology) on crops to attack beetles and herbicide-resistant weeds. The biologics program is also working on the downstream health of bees.
In March, Monsanto will introduce Field Scripts which takes satellite imagery and soil variation data to drive variable rate planters so planting density and depth will be optimized (e.g., you want plant less densely in poor soil and deeper in times of drought). In their 2012 test, they saw a 5-10 bushel/acre benefit from this optimization algorithm, which would translate to $3-6B of value for the U.S. corn market alone.
They currently use UAVs to count stalks and monitor their health plant-by-plant on their research fields. They are the future of farm equipment as well. “Small autonomous vehicles are a win win. The current oversized combines compacts the soil which reduces yield.”
“Agriculture is set to undergo a series of dramatic changes as IT/Big Data intersects with Robotics, Novel Sensors and Life Science innovations.”
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