Friday, September 7, 2007
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Madness
National Geographic was on with Naked Science and story of global warming...the increasing hurricanes the scariest part.
But the big thing, which no ones mentioning, is that the Gulf Stream may shoot straight up past Greenland and defreeze the North Pole, and throw Europe into a deep freeze...I've head the remarkable notion that during an Ice Age there is no ice at the North Pole because of this.
But I dont know, just a casual thought...
Then a show about Claus Fuchs, the atom spy.
There's a disconnect all through are culture between what we do and the consequences. I've been thinking on how celebraties really dont know their audience, somewhat like I really dont know all the tourists hearabouts. It's kinda depressing to see so many people and not know them, and the ones I do become acquainted with are gone in a moment. Co workers too....that's the worst. This time of year is full of goodbyes.
If the Atom scientists had lived awhile in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, had family there, and friends, and pets, and memories, would they have been so industrious to make the bomb? And why in the world did they give the things nicknames??
It's mad.
But the big thing, which no ones mentioning, is that the Gulf Stream may shoot straight up past Greenland and defreeze the North Pole, and throw Europe into a deep freeze...I've head the remarkable notion that during an Ice Age there is no ice at the North Pole because of this.
But I dont know, just a casual thought...
Then a show about Claus Fuchs, the atom spy.
There's a disconnect all through are culture between what we do and the consequences. I've been thinking on how celebraties really dont know their audience, somewhat like I really dont know all the tourists hearabouts. It's kinda depressing to see so many people and not know them, and the ones I do become acquainted with are gone in a moment. Co workers too....that's the worst. This time of year is full of goodbyes.
If the Atom scientists had lived awhile in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, had family there, and friends, and pets, and memories, would they have been so industrious to make the bomb? And why in the world did they give the things nicknames??
It's mad.
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
September 6, 2007
Divulgationism
quote from wikipedia site about Jacques-Yves Cousteau:
His work also created a new kind of scientific communication, criticised at the time by some academics. The so-called "divulgationism," a simple way of sharing scientific concepts, was soon employed in other disciplines and became one of the most important characteristics of modern TV broadcasting.
unquote
That word caught my eye last night when The Global Dimming show on PBS was playing...lemegoolook for it...no, the only sites using it are Cousteau ones...this from JanCousteau..
quote
He co-developed the aqualung, was on the forefront of marine conservation and
created a new kind of scientific communication called “divulgationism”—a new and
simple way of sharing scientific concepts through story. Though it was criticized at the
time by scientists, it became a cornerstone of modern broadcasting, nonfiction
television, in particular.
unquote
Basically what TV documentaries do is dumb (dim?)down scientific jargon so the general populace can follow it. Just for the fun of confusion in the old big used book store I'd sit on a stool and read technical texts...and wonder, these are tough enough to write, but how in the world are they edited?
Some docs, thinking of ufos and the war ones, try to smarten up things by throwing in jargon...dont know what that's called.
Cousteau is one of my heros, and they dont repeat his shows...the ones his sons and others do now are technically far superior, but Cousteau's were really charming.
I'll grab a pic of Calypso...the goddess. From here:
His work also created a new kind of scientific communication, criticised at the time by some academics. The so-called "divulgationism," a simple way of sharing scientific concepts, was soon employed in other disciplines and became one of the most important characteristics of modern TV broadcasting.
unquote
That word caught my eye last night when The Global Dimming show on PBS was playing...lemegoolook for it...no, the only sites using it are Cousteau ones...this from JanCousteau..
quote
He co-developed the aqualung, was on the forefront of marine conservation and
created a new kind of scientific communication called “divulgationism”—a new and
simple way of sharing scientific concepts through story. Though it was criticized at the
time by scientists, it became a cornerstone of modern broadcasting, nonfiction
television, in particular.
unquote
Basically what TV documentaries do is dumb (dim?)down scientific jargon so the general populace can follow it. Just for the fun of confusion in the old big used book store I'd sit on a stool and read technical texts...and wonder, these are tough enough to write, but how in the world are they edited?
Some docs, thinking of ufos and the war ones, try to smarten up things by throwing in jargon...dont know what that's called.
Cousteau is one of my heros, and they dont repeat his shows...the ones his sons and others do now are technically far superior, but Cousteau's were really charming.
I'll grab a pic of Calypso...the goddess. From here:
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
September 5, 2007
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Global Dimming
Well, PBS has a documentary on called Global Dimming.
I've said it myself, back in a GEnie post, this twenty years ago now!, that...The Earth is drying out.
Which is ironic, insomuch as the surface is mostly covered by the oceans.
But anyway, the pollution is dimming the sun's rays causing less evaportion over the ocean which means less rain fall.
The film has a monster movie sount track!!
Now, somehow the storyteller ties this all in with jet's vapor trails...lessee what this one says...
Friends of mine were camped out by Saddleback lake the night of 911, and found the quiet remarkable--no jets. The park is under the major flight ways. Slow to go to sleep camping, I watch them go by...sometimes they look like ufos.
Well, the temp went up 2 degree F. in the three days after 911 because the jets were grounded...that's the story.
Earlier PBS has a panel on talking about whether the surge in Iraq was working. I thought they'd be fine bunch to sit down beside the Larry King ufo panel of last night!!
Oh, the dimming story has lost me...
I've said it myself, back in a GEnie post, this twenty years ago now!, that...The Earth is drying out.
Which is ironic, insomuch as the surface is mostly covered by the oceans.
But anyway, the pollution is dimming the sun's rays causing less evaportion over the ocean which means less rain fall.
The film has a monster movie sount track!!
Now, somehow the storyteller ties this all in with jet's vapor trails...lessee what this one says...
Friends of mine were camped out by Saddleback lake the night of 911, and found the quiet remarkable--no jets. The park is under the major flight ways. Slow to go to sleep camping, I watch them go by...sometimes they look like ufos.
Well, the temp went up 2 degree F. in the three days after 911 because the jets were grounded...that's the story.
Earlier PBS has a panel on talking about whether the surge in Iraq was working. I thought they'd be fine bunch to sit down beside the Larry King ufo panel of last night!!
Oh, the dimming story has lost me...
Lambert Dome, Tuolumne is the pic...a bit underexposed!
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
September 4, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
Empires of the Future
“Empires of the future
Will be empires of the mind."
Winston Churchill
“There’s no alternative…”
Will be empires of the mind."
Winston Churchill
“There’s no alternative…”
Quotes from photo journalist Robert Capland's documentary about our foreign…what…legion..on PBS.
No alternative to America being all over the world with military help to keep order. And that’s always been the effort of the Navy, to preserve the freedom of the high seas. And the Yangtze Patrol.
And that’s the story being told. PBS was on with show about the new American empire. And it’s an empire in the sense that we train and assist other nations to keep the peace inside their nations.
There was a flashing pop up ad in my mailbox from Wal Mart…and it hurt my eyes and made me feel uncomfortable.
Which reminds me of a new weapon developed that flashed lights…they showed it on local news briefly, and it hurt my eyes and made me feel uncomfortable.
Frank Capra made a film after the victory in Europe in WW2 called “Why We Fight” I think, and it’s purpose was to prepare the soldiers in the winding down European war to fight in the one still raging in the Pacific.
Maybe I can find a site for that…(wikipedia has a Why We Fight site, and links to Capra's movies...
Story telling is strained to the limit in war, and from the looks of things…there’s always going to be war.
At Tuolumne I was happy to take pics and video of a deer feeding by the river. Reviewing the video I noticed when the doe turned her head she has a growth on her nose. There’s more on her flanks. I don’t know what it is…but I see sometimes injured and dying animals…and it’s immeasurably sad.
No alternative to America being all over the world with military help to keep order. And that’s always been the effort of the Navy, to preserve the freedom of the high seas. And the Yangtze Patrol.
And that’s the story being told. PBS was on with show about the new American empire. And it’s an empire in the sense that we train and assist other nations to keep the peace inside their nations.
There was a flashing pop up ad in my mailbox from Wal Mart…and it hurt my eyes and made me feel uncomfortable.
Which reminds me of a new weapon developed that flashed lights…they showed it on local news briefly, and it hurt my eyes and made me feel uncomfortable.
Frank Capra made a film after the victory in Europe in WW2 called “Why We Fight” I think, and it’s purpose was to prepare the soldiers in the winding down European war to fight in the one still raging in the Pacific.
Maybe I can find a site for that…(wikipedia has a Why We Fight site, and links to Capra's movies...
Story telling is strained to the limit in war, and from the looks of things…there’s always going to be war.
At Tuolumne I was happy to take pics and video of a deer feeding by the river. Reviewing the video I noticed when the doe turned her head she has a growth on her nose. There’s more on her flanks. I don’t know what it is…but I see sometimes injured and dying animals…and it’s immeasurably sad.
A few moments later the falcon perched in a nearby tree while I was sitting there at the bridge to Parson's Lodge.
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
Sept. 3, 2007
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
Sept. 3, 2007
Storytelling
Well, I thought some more on these storytelling notions.
A movie was on, Pierce Bronsman, Salma Hyack...jewel thieves in paradise.
UFOs on Larry King...
The Scientific Principle has it...well, let me go get wiki's take...while they're talking about empirical principle!!
Couldn't find a good wiki, but this will do..
quote
The scientific principle operates in the context of objective reality, which basically means two things:
1. The assumption that the observer and observed are completely separate.
2. The assumption that if many observers look at the same thing, it will still look/be the same thing.
unquote
A problem is that no sooner than we perceive something than it is made into a story...that's what we do...
The quarrel between the evolutionists and the creationist is a conflict of two stories. There's no way around that. And neither can claim to be truer.
This isn't to say one should abandon all hope! in a kinda you can believe what you want world! No, you must be very determined and careful in what you believe, as that is your story.
Propagandist are always up to no good, as they are basically lying, luring folk into false stories.
Well, Larry has a panel and they are quarreling over the Phoenix Lights.
Woody Harrelson dupes Bronsman in the jewel thief movie.
"Confabulation of Different Memories"
True believers...
Buzz Aldrin coming on...I'm supposed to be packing up for a hike...oh, it's late again...I'll try to do it in the morning. I cant think this late this tired, and if I scurry around it will make me less sleepy, and then I wont sleep!! I'll set the alarm...
A movie was on, Pierce Bronsman, Salma Hyack...jewel thieves in paradise.
UFOs on Larry King...
The Scientific Principle has it...well, let me go get wiki's take...while they're talking about empirical principle!!
Couldn't find a good wiki, but this will do..
quote
The scientific principle operates in the context of objective reality, which basically means two things:
1. The assumption that the observer and observed are completely separate.
2. The assumption that if many observers look at the same thing, it will still look/be the same thing.
unquote
A problem is that no sooner than we perceive something than it is made into a story...that's what we do...
The quarrel between the evolutionists and the creationist is a conflict of two stories. There's no way around that. And neither can claim to be truer.
This isn't to say one should abandon all hope! in a kinda you can believe what you want world! No, you must be very determined and careful in what you believe, as that is your story.
Propagandist are always up to no good, as they are basically lying, luring folk into false stories.
Well, Larry has a panel and they are quarreling over the Phoenix Lights.
Woody Harrelson dupes Bronsman in the jewel thief movie.
"Confabulation of Different Memories"
True believers...
Buzz Aldrin coming on...I'm supposed to be packing up for a hike...oh, it's late again...I'll try to do it in the morning. I cant think this late this tired, and if I scurry around it will make me less sleepy, and then I wont sleep!! I'll set the alarm...
a poem...
America went to the moon,
And we'll go back,
With Buzz Aldrin,
Or Buzz Lightyear,
Either way, it's certain.
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
Sept. 2, 2007
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
Sept. 2, 2007
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Migration
To continue yesterday's thoughts...
The web isn't quite a collective conscious, insomuch it isn't conscious (though monitors might give it that quality!), but it is a collective storehouse of our stories.
And I realized that's what we are in our heads, stories.
That movie, The Never Ending Story, had it that a story in a book came to life...the kid reading it entered the story.
And I think we have a hard time reconciling our stories with reality. We live in a realm of make believe.
I'm part of the American story, and Christian story, and of course my own personal story, and it's all a story, a story come to life.
The old tribes all had their own Genesis story, a story about where people came from. And there's the Bible's...and here the protestations begin insomuch as the faithful insist the Bible's story isn't just a story but the truth and real.
We're saturated with story telling!! Alias is on, a grim megalomania hunt.
Our stories interplay with reality. When the Israeli's took back the Wailing Wall, the soldiers broke into tears. This was because they were moved experiencing an episode in the story of Israel.
The web isn't quite a collective conscious, insomuch it isn't conscious (though monitors might give it that quality!), but it is a collective storehouse of our stories.
And I realized that's what we are in our heads, stories.
That movie, The Never Ending Story, had it that a story in a book came to life...the kid reading it entered the story.
And I think we have a hard time reconciling our stories with reality. We live in a realm of make believe.
I'm part of the American story, and Christian story, and of course my own personal story, and it's all a story, a story come to life.
The old tribes all had their own Genesis story, a story about where people came from. And there's the Bible's...and here the protestations begin insomuch as the faithful insist the Bible's story isn't just a story but the truth and real.
We're saturated with story telling!! Alias is on, a grim megalomania hunt.
Our stories interplay with reality. When the Israeli's took back the Wailing Wall, the soldiers broke into tears. This was because they were moved experiencing an episode in the story of Israel.
The Arabs have their story too.
At the end of WW2 a story was made that had the United Nations reigning in the nations conflicts. I dont know, it still may be unfolding. One of the first tellers of this story was Cordell Hull, and some others of the JFK cast.
JFK is a story, it weaves in and out of reality...
Sloan's getting the mind treatment, hallucinating under interrogation!
I thought a lot about this today, our dependency on story, on story telling, seeing ourselves in a story.
"All the world's a stage..."
It might be the trouble with Iraq and Afghanistan and the Middle East is that no one can come up with a good story for it all...
Seeing it all as an unfolding of an Armegeddon story, while it gives ideas for Hollywood, is grim. And the movies enfold back into our minds these stories and we role play with the expectation that reality is part of the story. The shaping of reality, building temples, bombing temples, is OUR doing, our acting out these stories inside our minds.
CNN last night with The Anivl of God doc. told a story. Reality happend, and is the source of ideas for the story, but the story isn't real. To use the story to make more "reality", more battles, leads to a loop, a back and forth zig zag between story and reality.
There's a movie about bird's migrating. Migration is their story, and each individual has it's own story. Great movie.
Each species has it's story. And they interplay with reality, which would be the passing seasons.
Our reality is no longer the seasons....in fact, in the City's world, it's all story.
Grave's has this poem, To Juan at the Winter Solstice, which begins...
There is one story, and one story only...
The image of Geese migrating is a good fit for that, the migration as the one story.
I watched the Dirty Job episode again about the Yukon Geese!!
At the end of WW2 a story was made that had the United Nations reigning in the nations conflicts. I dont know, it still may be unfolding. One of the first tellers of this story was Cordell Hull, and some others of the JFK cast.
JFK is a story, it weaves in and out of reality...
Sloan's getting the mind treatment, hallucinating under interrogation!
I thought a lot about this today, our dependency on story, on story telling, seeing ourselves in a story.
"All the world's a stage..."
It might be the trouble with Iraq and Afghanistan and the Middle East is that no one can come up with a good story for it all...
Seeing it all as an unfolding of an Armegeddon story, while it gives ideas for Hollywood, is grim. And the movies enfold back into our minds these stories and we role play with the expectation that reality is part of the story. The shaping of reality, building temples, bombing temples, is OUR doing, our acting out these stories inside our minds.
CNN last night with The Anivl of God doc. told a story. Reality happend, and is the source of ideas for the story, but the story isn't real. To use the story to make more "reality", more battles, leads to a loop, a back and forth zig zag between story and reality.
There's a movie about bird's migrating. Migration is their story, and each individual has it's own story. Great movie.
Each species has it's story. And they interplay with reality, which would be the passing seasons.
Our reality is no longer the seasons....in fact, in the City's world, it's all story.
Grave's has this poem, To Juan at the Winter Solstice, which begins...
There is one story, and one story only...
The image of Geese migrating is a good fit for that, the migration as the one story.
I watched the Dirty Job episode again about the Yukon Geese!!
from As You Like It by Shakespeare...
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
DavidDavid
Tree in the Door
September 1, 2007
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