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VOLCANO WARNING: Panic on Tenerife amid fears huge Mount Teide is about to BLOW

Some 92 microquakes were recorded in Adeje and Vilaflor in the space of four hours, with one measuring more than 1.5 on the Richter scale



I'm not giving much credence to the rumour the seismic swarm has been rectified by fitting a rubber pad between the headboard & wall in Sola's bedroom

I have not even given this a lot of thought and I do not even know if there is a point to this. I think perhaps it is just to stimulate possible postulating. I just started a new book and only on chapter one. It has to do with physics and its link to Eastern Mysticism. The little bit I have read has gotten me thinking a bit. I was fascinated to hear that mathematics is a language of nature, only thing with symbols. Also how our spoken language is only a guide of sorts to efficiently understand one another. It would take way to long to describe every aspect of a tree, or a person. Not to mention, it would be impossible...so we use tree or person to describe that object. This is all we are taught to care about and understand. But what is a person? ...or a tree for that matter. Both are made up of matter and both have this mysterious energy force connected to them.

Okay, this is just about as far as I got with my thinking...lol.

But,

I left the best for last. At least to me it is, there was a saying I read in the book.

"The map is not the territory."

It is like we are taught how to identify and read the map, but we never go seeking for the territory.




...thus, we are being dumbed down.

US Sen. Johnson & A Panel Of Doctors & Scientists Discuss Pandemic Responses.


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....I'm checking on where he obtained his MD-PhD. Twin doctorates, but who's counting? I do digress.
So, your fat little illiterate GNOMOID dwarf, is listening on shortwave to the darkie, VERY darkie, African World Service, of the venerable, ueber leftie BBC, only to behold an interesting story. One of their many usually Trump hating, VERY hating, presentations on the C-19 CHINA virus. And just what do I behold? Au contraire, friends, all.
First, a little tedious scientific background. Recall, that Sweden, God bless all those curvaceous/delicious little blondie tartie backsides, is really the only country largely to have avoided various lock-down procedures, notably also in their schools. And they paid for it, with death rates, mostly at care homes, over 5 times as great as in other Blondie Tartie heavens. And sadly, no evidence, yet, of reliable herd immunity. We know little of the human population response to this novel agent.
But, this news report interviewed several Svenske Biostatisticians and lowly Epidemiologists, who said that the school children were none the worse for the courageous, COUNTRY WIDE, clinical epidemiological, natural, enormous, experimental trial.
Sooooooo,as all you highly edumacated CS number crunching medical experts will know, such evidence is the dream of every clued researcher. We like to call these naturalistic-population wide-trials. Alas, try getting one approved by any medical trials ethics committee. How we resent those snooty, arrogant folks, many who have never used a stethescope, or examined a chest film. But perhaps I'll stop this little sub-rant right here.
Now then, I wish this was BBC TV, and not radio. Why? To see the dejected faces and slumped postures, on the ueber liberal studio, staff when they learned that the science behind the call of our Brilliant and Dazzling President Trump was, scientifically, not too shabby.
Like the faces/slinked over stances, of the TV pols and pundits after midnight, last election. When Hilary had to call our awesome hero to concede. Much to their credit, the BBC kept the spin under wraps. No easy task for those with TD-HD Syndromes.
Now, recall the well documented near TOTAL incompetence of the staff and administrations at US government schools, compared with the star quality staffs in northern Europe. So, as we say in these fields, using such data to generalize results, technically speaking, comes with risks.
But one more promise to be kept. And you know what else always gets written here next, folks.
Ah, to gloat is human. To be correct, divine.

Apparently it's showing up on many sides of the issue. Now reports by a BF of this whack job female Ford, that lots of the important stuff she's been telling the senate and rest of the world, in her harmless, affected, poor me, little girl voice, doesn't go along with how she spoke and acted, when they were an item, some six years ago.

Facts from science.

Right now, in this very moment, we are all traveling through space — and space is only some 62 miles from the surface of our planet. Earth revolves around the sun at around 66,000 miles per hour. That’s pretty quick, but it pales in comparison to the speed of the sun, which orbits the Milky Way in one galactic year (about 225 million Earth years) at about 483,000 miles per hour. Still not fast enough? Well, the Milky Way itself is traveling at an astounding 1.3 million miles per hour.

We are all, therefore, traveling through space at an incredible speed, with everything we know and love held in place by gravity. Space and the wider universe, however, largely remain a mystery. Only in recent decades have we even begun to venture beyond our own atmosphere, beginning in 1961 when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.


Since then, space exploration has progressed rapidly, and humanity becoming a space-faring civilization — at least to other planets in our solar system — is now a real possibility. As Carl Sagan said in the 1980s, “We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”

The concept is mind-boggling and majestic, intimidating and inspiring. It’s no surprise, then, that space has long been the subject of much wonder and speculation in the minds of people from all walks of life. Here are some quotes on the majesty of space, from philosophers, scientists, science fiction writers, astronauts, and beyond. astounding 1.3 million miles per hour.

From US edition of The Conversation (French science publication) ;



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Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down For 14 Generations

SIGNE DEAN27 APRIL 2018

"The most important set of genetic instructions we all get comes from our DNA, passed down through generations. But the environment we live in can make genetic changes, too.

Last year, researchers discovered that these kinds of environmental genetic changes can be passed down for a whopping 14 generations in an animal – the largest span ever observed in a creature, in this case being a dynasty of C. elegans nematodes (roundworms).


To study how long the environment can leave a mark on genetic expression, a team led by scientists from the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) in Spain took genetically engineered nematode worms that carry a transgene for a fluorescent protein. When activated, this gene made the worms glow under ultraviolet light.

Then, they switched things up for the nematodes by changing the temperature of their containers. When the team kept nematodes at 20° Celsius (68° F), they measured low activity of the transgene - which meant the worms hardly glowed at all.

But by moving the worms to a warmer climate of 25° C (77° F), they suddenly lit up like little wormy Christmas trees, which meant the fluorescence gene had become much more active.

Their tropical vacation didn't last long, however. The worms were moved back to cooler temperatures to see what would happen to the activity of the fluorescence gene.

Surprisingly, they continued to glow brightly, suggesting they were retaining an 'environmental memory' of the warmer climate – and that the transgene was still highly active.

Furthermore, that memory was passed onto their offspring for seven brightly-glowing generations, none of whom had experienced the warmer temperatures. The baby worms inherited this epigenetic change through both eggs and sperm."

(due to the character limitation in CS blogs - the remainder of the article can be found at the following link)

Friday night was cold in South Florida. A front passed through in the morning with cold rain and high winds. Temperatures dropped to the 40's (Fahrenheit) and Saturday was clear skies, cold and windy. Sunday morning was also into the 40's.
We tried to get through Friday night without heat and the room temperature was around 68, much too cold for sleeping with 4 blankets. I said, the heater goes on and Saturday night with the thermostat set at 73. It was nice.
What I did notice (different than air conditioning) is the bedrooms were warmer than the living room. It was probably a difference of 4 degrees with the thermostat in the hall in the middle of the apartment. I have the louvers on the vents half way open for the bedrooms and all the way open for the living room.
This is the same adjustment all year round, but the air conditioning in the summer months has the bedrooms comfortable and the living room gets really cold. It's cold enough to have a fan blowing the cold air back toward the hallway to stabilize the overall temperature.

I'm puzzled why there is such a difference between the efficiency between heat and cool...