Sunday, June 28, 2020
Phobos: The Doomed Moon of Mars
Love weird shit out in space? Never heard of Phobos? You're welcome!
Alternate visualizations of the periodic table
Yeah, this is really just an extended commercial, but it never dawned on me before how malleable the periodic table itself is (or could be) and the reexamination was rewarding.
The Official Narrative of Tate Murders Doesn't Add Up
When he gets to Terry Melcher's testimony, this really becomes creepy. Makes you reevaluate the popular version of the story. CIA conspiracy? Uh...well...not ready to go that far, but there is definitely something weird about the whole trial if his discoveries are accurate.
Christopher Hitchens on Bill Clinton (1999)
As Hitchens talks, replace the words 'Bill Clinton' with 'Donald Trump'...dude, spooky how he uses Clinton to predict what came after.
David Baltimore -- Introduction to Viruses
Wait...if viruses can only replicate by hijacking cells, a precarious form of reproduction, wouldn't that suggest that for every virus we know about there must be....I dunno....millions...that are never successful (or yet to be successful)? Where do they come from? Are they simply mutations that can transfer between species? Why would nature produce something that is so unsuccessful and yet periodically so devastating? Also, wouldn't a vaccine work the same way (meaning rarely) and at similar rates to a virus? Feels like Humanity should be studying these a lot more than we apparently do.
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Bill Murray as Rodney Dangerfield’s Psychiatrist
I have no idea where this came from--but this is why God invented the internet!
The 2010 San Diego Chargers
Amazing how a handful of plays kept this team from being remembered as one of the greatest of all time. Good analysis.
Mahavishnu Orchestra Live in France (8.23.72)
Not for everyone but at its best it is some glorious furious noise.
Mark Osborne -- 'More'
I thought I put this up on this blog before but if so, I can't find it. Well, here it is again. Still rocks.
Les Paul & Mary Ford -- 'No Place Like Home'
Dude, is Mary Ford not the most underappreciated guitarist of all time?
SNL -- Coronavirus Cold Open
This is from March 1...remember when Covid-19 was just a joke? And three months later I've already forgotten all these people even existed.
Paganini in gypsy jazz style
Violin from Romania, guitars from Nashville and Brazil, going gypsy style on Paganini. Effortless badassery is a musical trait from all over the world throughout time.
A black man undercover in the alt-right | Theo E.J. Wilson
Interesting. Devolves into self-promotion by the end but he has some good observations and his journey is intriguing.
5 Alternative Explanations for the Redshift we Observe
I always thought spectroscopy was at best misunderstood and at worst a total fraud. When 'science' is nothing more than observation from a massive distance, then how could anyone truly know what is the correct answer? No one does, meaning the cause of red shifts is not known nor will it ever be and pretending otherwise is just fooling yourself. If you want to fool yourself, go right ahead, but when the powers that be are expending all the resources on their own pet projects rather than engaging in real examination, then collectively we're getting hoodwinked by soothsayers rather than receiving worthwhile scientific input.
If this sounds anti-science or unenlightened, hey, I'm just echoing Edwin Hubble himself: "Yet the reason for the redshift remained unclear. Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Catholic priest and physicist, predicted on theoretical grounds based on Einstein's equations for general relativity the redshift-distance relation, and published observational support for it, two years before the discovery of Hubble's law.[42] However, many cosmologists and astronomers (including Hubble himself) failed to recognize the work of Lemaître; Hubble remained doubtful about Lemaître's interpretation for his entire life." (thus spake Wikipedia)
Mainstream science refuses to give up its grip on Einstein's general relativity to the point where it has concocted dark energy/dark matter--a theoretical proposition based on nothing more than math--to account for 85% of the entire universe. I can't help thinking if Einstein were alive today, he would've ditched these theories long ago if they needed an 85% correction to make them relevant! But, I'm just a guy that watches too much You Tube.
Richard Carrier -- The Sciences in Ancient Greece & Rome
Science is an ongoing process. (That said, the sound here does kinda suck, can't help feeling that ancient Rome had better acoustics)
THE SPHINX (1933)- Full movie
Lionel Atwill has recently become one of my favorite actors. Love this guy!
The Love Theme from 'Mighty Peking Man'
This movie becomes rather boring the third act but the first hour or so is magnificent!
Bret Weinstein w/ Joe Rogan on The Problem with America’s Lab Mice and Why it Should Matter to You
An observation about both Bret Weinstein and his brother Eric: they're smart guys but their collective persecution complex makes them kinda hard to take, as if the world is supposed to simply acknowledge their brilliance at all times and get to genuflectin'. I understand their basic complaints about the crushing conformity of the intelligentsia and the elites in general--and I suspect they're right--but the way they run screaming from any critique at all is more than a little off-putting.
That said, Bret's observation here that the lack of variation in the mice used in lab experiments might basically nullify all the experimentation of the last several decades (at least in the USA) is, uh, kinda eye-opening and probably worth of deeper investigation. Thank god Joe Rogan is there to save us. (ha!)
Killer Mike (w/ El-P) -- Butane (Champion's Anthem)
I think I put this up back in the day but, oh well, deserves another listen.
The 1,000,000th take on The Shining
Did you realize that roughly half of the videos on You Tube are about The Shining? (I made that up but I wouldn't be surprised if that's true) This one is perhaps the most interesting of them all: Stephen King hated this movie because it's all about him and removes the buffers to his own self-critique he put into the novel thus making him looking like a pure wifebeating child-hater. Uh, this theory kind works, I think.
The Unusual Earth Orbit Circling Above Our Ancient Past | Roger G. Gilbe...
Weird and almost certainly pointless but interesting nonetheless (which pretty much sums up Ted Talks, in general, I'd say).
Charles Lindberg Takes Off
Fun fact: that is a Fox Studio movie camera shooting this footage, making this basically the very beginning of Fox News. Kinda perfect, right? Charles Lindbergh in his rickety-ass plane on a scary looking takeoff that then became pseudo-patriotic agitprop is kinda what Fox News still embodies to this day, no?
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