seismic quiet: the observer is the observed

Sundays, Christmas, and New Year are when human-generated seismic noise is lowest / source: Science News*

note the seismic quiet of lockdown, quiet as a normal Sunday, with Sundays quieter than New Year’s Day

endless doing – beyond what must be done to be and let be – does endless harm: harm to being thought of as human and to being thought of as not

no being need do more than need be done to be and let be

no one need do more than be and let be, delighting in being* and in doing only what must be done to live and let live with love, compassion, joy, and equanimity


*a link – see a note on notes and links, and see also the observer is the observed*
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barley

whole barley seeds and hulled barley, aka pot barley – image from Wikimedia carousel*

Pearl barley – pot barley further processed to remove some or all of the bran – is  “similar to wheat in its caloric, protein, vitamin and mineral content, though some varieties are higher in lysine.”*

Barley ranks fourth among grains in quantity produced worldwide, behind maize, rice, and wheat.*


*a link – see a note on notes and links

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good advice

“Good advice is a bit like a bowl of [Brussels] sprouts at a dinner party. You don’t always fancy taking some for yourself, but you’re happy to pass it on to others.” —Mark Rice-Oxley

from Melissa Pejrano, Piacenza, Italy:
For a soft decline in population, advance the rights of women. Eliminate forced marriage, have an age of marriage of 18, provide for the education of girls, make sure the workplace is accessible, safe, and comfortable for women, and that they get equal pay for equal work, make available reproductive health services, including birth control, support women who choose not to marry and/or choose not to have children, set up retirement systems so that their children aren’t people’s retirement systems. Women who are self-respecting, socially and financially independent, and able to choose how many children they have, tend to have smaller families than those who aren’t in this fortunate position.*


*a link – see a note on notes and links :: image on Unsplash*
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President Trump – full interview (Axios on HBO)

interview by Jonathan Swan*

contemporary screenshot – live version is updated daily* *

Jonathan Swan: (01:16)
… Over the years, I’ve heard you talk about your adherence to a philosophy called positive thinking. Is this the mantra that if you believe something, if you visualize it, then it will happen?

President Donald J. Trump: (01:29)
To an extent. I also think in terms of the downside. I do. I’ve been given a lot of credit for positive thinking, but I also think about downside because only a fool doesn’t.

Jonathan Swan: (01:40)
To what extent do you think that that positive thinking mindset is suitable to handling the worst pandemic that we’ve seen in a century?

President Donald J. Trump: (01:49)
I think you have to have a positive outlook. Otherwise, you would have nothing without a positive outlook. I think we’ve done an incredible job …*


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nuclear power: just do it


in related news today, Tuesday, 28 July 2020:
The world’s largest nuclear fusion project began its five-year assembly phase on Tuesday in southern France, with the first ultra-hot plasma expected to be generated in late 2025*

meanwhile …

!tw pick a design, build identical copies, electrify everything (@LindsayPB)


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“there’s physics out there that we don’t know about”

from the largest ever 3D map of the universe: Color indicates distance from Earth, ranging from yellow on the near side of the slice to purple on the far side. There are 48,741 galaxies in this picture, only about 3 per cent of the total surveyed. Daniel Eisenstein and SDSS-III

citing Will Percival, director of the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics:
According to the history revealed in the eBOSS map, the expansion of the universe began to accelerate six billion years ago and has continued to get faster ever since.

“That’s just really whacky because if you just have a standard theory that gravity is acting on matter, gravity is an attractive force it pulls things together and it would in general tend to decelerate the universe,” says Percival. “Which means there’s physics out there that we don’t know about.”*

While there are theories, “none of them are really compelling.” According to Percival, the simplest mathematical explanation would be taking Einstein’s cosmological constant equation and change one sign in it to change the universe from static to make it accelerate. Mathematically, it’s a simple thing to do but when it comes to the physics it’s much more difficult to explain.


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Infinite Potential: The Life and Ideas of David Bohm


presented free of charge for a limited time by the Fetzer Memorial Trust and Imagine Films*

The film tells the story of the man Einstein called his “spiritual son” and the Dalai Lama his “science guru.” A brilliant physicist and explorer of consciousness, Bohm’s profound insights into the underlying nature of reality and the profound interconnectedness of the universe and our place within it are truly far-reaching.*

!w2 David Joseph Bohm / 20 December 1917 – 27 October 1992

!? adjectives: implicate, explicate (David Bohm)

we are “amphibian” … living “simultaneously in two worlds” (Aldous Huxley)*

other than in the mind,
nothing is other than what is;
no one is

“The observer is the observed.” —Jiddu Krishnamurti (!?)


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