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OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction WHY IS COAL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS Why is coal black? Coal is fossilized lignin-rich plant tissues on the way to graphite, so it is worth observing what makes graphite black. Graphite absorbs across the entire visible and near infrared ranges, having a nearly wavelength-independent transmission of 1-πα per layer, where α=1/137 is the fine structure constant. THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY IS OIL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS The black color is not the result of light scattering by the nanoaggregates, it comes from electronic absorption; filtering of the fluorescence also appears to be unimportant. The most striking fact is that the optical absorption decays exponentially to 2.2 um; this featureless Urbach tail is typical of amorphous semiconductors, butcrude oil
SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS The 'cockleshells' were instruments of torture attached to the genitals. The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole, Countess ofSalisbury did
OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction WHY IS COAL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS Why is coal black? Coal is fossilized lignin-rich plant tissues on the way to graphite, so it is worth observing what makes graphite black. Graphite absorbs across the entire visible and near infrared ranges, having a nearly wavelength-independent transmission of 1-πα per layer, where α=1/137 is the fine structure constant. THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY IS OIL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS The black color is not the result of light scattering by the nanoaggregates, it comes from electronic absorption; filtering of the fluorescence also appears to be unimportant. The most striking fact is that the optical absorption decays exponentially to 2.2 um; this featureless Urbach tail is typical of amorphous semiconductors, butcrude oil
SHKROBIUS - PROFILE
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: WHY DO THE PINES SMELL OF PINE? THE GRAND ISOPRENOID The pines smell of terpene pinene. Why do the forest trees produce these volatile terpenes (aka volatile organic compounds, VOCs)? This is a major operation. The trees transform up to 10% of the C they bind into these VOCs that are permanently lost. This is comparable to the amount of carbon that HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned HOW TO KILL AN APHID WITH SPLENDOR: SHKROBIUS Readability. Log in. No account? Create an account "THE MOST ABUNDANT ORGANIC MOLECULE IS...": SHKROBIUS The answer is unknown. As far as we can tell this molecule (or, more correctly, a group of closely related molecules) is everywhere across the Galaxy, and it captures 10% of all cosmic carbon (organic and inorganic). What is it, no one has a clue, 87 years after the first observation. There are more than 100 theories trying to explain the ON IGNORANCE: SHKROBIUS In the imagination of the masses, the unknown begins far away in the abode of the exotica and speculation. This impression is nurtured. Bookstores carry hundreds of popular science books on string theory, cosmology, climate change, evolution, and the wonderful human brain. Other topics are banished to a minute fraction of such books. WHY WE DO NOT EAT FROGS...: SHKROBIUS Bon Appétit. The possible answer is that once in a while eating frogs does result in really bad consequences, even for the French. Before we turn to the main story, let us remember a few things about “Spanish flies” and a lactone cantharidin that is the active chemical in Spanish flies. Surprisingly, the French come again and again in the MY AMERICANA. WHITE VS. WHITE: SHKROBIUS My Americana. White vs. White. Until 1967, the Southern states in the US had anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting marriages between the whites and the "colored" races. In the 20th century, the extramarital sex (aka "nighttime cohabitation") itself was a misdemeanor, whereas marriage (recognized by WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY DO GIRLS SCREAM?: SHKROBIUS There was a Young Lady of Russia, Who screamed so that no one could hush her; Her screams were extreme,-- No one heard such a scream As was screamed by that Lady from Russia. Last week I took a roller coaster ride. As the train entered the loop, the girls began screaming at the top of their lungs. SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS The 'cockleshells' were instruments of torture attached to the genitals. The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole, Countess ofSalisbury did
OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction WHY IS COAL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS Why is coal black? Coal is fossilized lignin-rich plant tissues on the way to graphite, so it is worth observing what makes graphite black. Graphite absorbs across the entire visible and near infrared ranges, having a nearly wavelength-independent transmission of 1-πα per layer, where α=1/137 is the fine structure constant. THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY IS OIL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS The black color is not the result of light scattering by the nanoaggregates, it comes from electronic absorption; filtering of the fluorescence also appears to be unimportant. The most striking fact is that the optical absorption decays exponentially to 2.2 um; this featureless Urbach tail is typical of amorphous semiconductors, butcrude oil
SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS The 'cockleshells' were instruments of torture attached to the genitals. The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole, Countess ofSalisbury did
OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction WHY IS COAL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS Why is coal black? Coal is fossilized lignin-rich plant tissues on the way to graphite, so it is worth observing what makes graphite black. Graphite absorbs across the entire visible and near infrared ranges, having a nearly wavelength-independent transmission of 1-πα per layer, where α=1/137 is the fine structure constant. THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY IS OIL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS The black color is not the result of light scattering by the nanoaggregates, it comes from electronic absorption; filtering of the fluorescence also appears to be unimportant. The most striking fact is that the optical absorption decays exponentially to 2.2 um; this featureless Urbach tail is typical of amorphous semiconductors, butcrude oil
SHKROBIUS - PROFILE
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: WHY DO THE PINES SMELL OF PINE? THE GRAND ISOPRENOID The pines smell of terpene pinene. Why do the forest trees produce these volatile terpenes (aka volatile organic compounds, VOCs)? This is a major operation. The trees transform up to 10% of the C they bind into these VOCs that are permanently lost. This is comparable to the amount of carbon that HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned HOW TO KILL AN APHID WITH SPLENDOR: SHKROBIUS Readability. Log in. No account? Create an account "THE MOST ABUNDANT ORGANIC MOLECULE IS...": SHKROBIUS The answer is unknown. As far as we can tell this molecule (or, more correctly, a group of closely related molecules) is everywhere across the Galaxy, and it captures 10% of all cosmic carbon (organic and inorganic). What is it, no one has a clue, 87 years after the first observation. There are more than 100 theories trying to explain the ON IGNORANCE: SHKROBIUS In the imagination of the masses, the unknown begins far away in the abode of the exotica and speculation. This impression is nurtured. Bookstores carry hundreds of popular science books on string theory, cosmology, climate change, evolution, and the wonderful human brain. Other topics are banished to a minute fraction of such books. WHY WE DO NOT EAT FROGS...: SHKROBIUS Bon Appétit. The possible answer is that once in a while eating frogs does result in really bad consequences, even for the French. Before we turn to the main story, let us remember a few things about “Spanish flies” and a lactone cantharidin that is the active chemical in Spanish flies. Surprisingly, the French come again and again in the MY AMERICANA. WHITE VS. WHITE: SHKROBIUS My Americana. White vs. White. Until 1967, the Southern states in the US had anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting marriages between the whites and the "colored" races. In the 20th century, the extramarital sex (aka "nighttime cohabitation") itself was a misdemeanor, whereas marriage (recognized by WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY DO GIRLS SCREAM?: SHKROBIUS There was a Young Lady of Russia, Who screamed so that no one could hush her; Her screams were extreme,-- No one heard such a scream As was screamed by that Lady from Russia. Last week I took a roller coaster ride. As the train entered the loop, the girls began screaming at the top of their lungs. SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS The 'cockleshells' were instruments of torture attached to the genitals. The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole, Countess ofSalisbury did
OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! MENO 86-87: HYPOTHETICAL GEOMETRY.: SHKROBIUS Meno 86-87: Hypothetical geometry. Meno is a Socratic dialog in which Plato develops his theory of knowledge. Bisecting this dialog, there is a mysterious passage introducing the "hypothetical method:" Socrates: We are to consider what sort of thing it is of which we do not yet know what it is! Whether virtue comes by teaching or someother way
INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY IS COAL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS Why is coal black? Coal is fossilized lignin-rich plant tissues on the way to graphite, so it is worth observing what makes graphite black. Graphite absorbs across the entire visible and near infrared ranges, having a nearly wavelength-independent transmission of 1-πα per layer, where α=1/137 is the fine structure constant. SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS The 'cockleshells' were instruments of torture attached to the genitals. The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole, Countess ofSalisbury did
OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! MENO 86-87: HYPOTHETICAL GEOMETRY.: SHKROBIUS Meno 86-87: Hypothetical geometry. Meno is a Socratic dialog in which Plato develops his theory of knowledge. Bisecting this dialog, there is a mysterious passage introducing the "hypothetical method:" Socrates: We are to consider what sort of thing it is of which we do not yet know what it is! Whether virtue comes by teaching or someother way
INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY IS COAL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS Why is coal black? Coal is fossilized lignin-rich plant tissues on the way to graphite, so it is worth observing what makes graphite black. Graphite absorbs across the entire visible and near infrared ranges, having a nearly wavelength-independent transmission of 1-πα per layer, where α=1/137 is the fine structure constant.SHKROBIUS - PROFILE
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY DO THE PINES SMELL OF PINE? THE GRAND ISOPRENOID The pines smell of terpene pinene. Why do the forest trees produce these volatile terpenes (aka volatile organic compounds, VOCs)? This is a major operation. The trees transform up to 10% of the C they bind into these VOCs that are permanently lost. This is comparable to the amount of carbon that HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned "THE MOST ABUNDANT ORGANIC MOLECULE IS...": SHKROBIUS The answer is unknown. As far as we can tell this molecule (or, more correctly, a group of closely related molecules) is everywhere across the Galaxy, and it captures 10% of all cosmic carbon (organic and inorganic). What is it, no one has a clue, 87 years after the first observation. There are more than 100 theories trying to explain the ON BELTS, PANTS AND LOGIC: SHKROBIUS Comments to the previous post informed me that it was illogical of Paleolithic men to walk on freezing ground without shoes. I can't agree more, but logic is not the strongest point of our species. Consider the simplest thing: a belt in the trousers. Incidentally, belt is the second accessory for MY AMERICANA. WHITE VS. WHITE: SHKROBIUS My Americana. White vs. White. Until 1967, the Southern states in the US had anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting marriages between the whites and the "colored" races. In the 20th century, the extramarital sex (aka "nighttime cohabitation") itself was a misdemeanor, whereas marriage (recognized by WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY CAN'T I STICK MY TONGUE OUT?: SHKROBIUS The typical tetrapods sticking their tongues out. One of the most bizarre parts of human body is a tongue. Unlike other appendages, tongue is rarely said to be a thing of great elegance and beauty. We are told not to show it in public (unlike our teeth which we do show in public, though their WHY DO GIRLS SCREAM?: SHKROBIUS There was a Young Lady of Russia, Who screamed so that no one could hush her; Her screams were extreme,-- No one heard such a scream As was screamed by that Lady from Russia. Last week I took a roller coaster ride. As the train entered the loop, the girls began screaming at the top of their lungs. SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS The 'cockleshells' were instruments of torture attached to the genitals. The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole, Countess ofSalisbury did
OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! MENO 86-87: HYPOTHETICAL GEOMETRY.: SHKROBIUS Meno 86-87: Hypothetical geometry. Meno is a Socratic dialog in which Plato develops his theory of knowledge. Bisecting this dialog, there is a mysterious passage introducing the "hypothetical method:" Socrates: We are to consider what sort of thing it is of which we do not yet know what it is! Whether virtue comes by teaching or someother way
INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY IS COAL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS Why is coal black? Coal is fossilized lignin-rich plant tissues on the way to graphite, so it is worth observing what makes graphite black. Graphite absorbs across the entire visible and near infrared ranges, having a nearly wavelength-independent transmission of 1-πα per layer, where α=1/137 is the fine structure constant. SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS The 'cockleshells' were instruments of torture attached to the genitals. The 'maids' were a device to behead people called the Maiden. Beheading a victim was fraught with problems. It could take up to 11 blows to actually sever the head, the victim often resisted and had to be chased around the scaffold. Margaret Pole, Countess ofSalisbury did
OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! MENO 86-87: HYPOTHETICAL GEOMETRY.: SHKROBIUS Meno 86-87: Hypothetical geometry. Meno is a Socratic dialog in which Plato develops his theory of knowledge. Bisecting this dialog, there is a mysterious passage introducing the "hypothetical method:" Socrates: We are to consider what sort of thing it is of which we do not yet know what it is! Whether virtue comes by teaching or someother way
INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY IS COAL BLACK?: SHKROBIUS Why is coal black? Coal is fossilized lignin-rich plant tissues on the way to graphite, so it is worth observing what makes graphite black. Graphite absorbs across the entire visible and near infrared ranges, having a nearly wavelength-independent transmission of 1-πα per layer, where α=1/137 is the fine structure constant.SHKROBIUS - PROFILE
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). WHY DO THE PINES SMELL OF PINE? THE GRAND ISOPRENOID The pines smell of terpene pinene. Why do the forest trees produce these volatile terpenes (aka volatile organic compounds, VOCs)? This is a major operation. The trees transform up to 10% of the C they bind into these VOCs that are permanently lost. This is comparable to the amount of carbon that HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned "THE MOST ABUNDANT ORGANIC MOLECULE IS...": SHKROBIUS The answer is unknown. As far as we can tell this molecule (or, more correctly, a group of closely related molecules) is everywhere across the Galaxy, and it captures 10% of all cosmic carbon (organic and inorganic). What is it, no one has a clue, 87 years after the first observation. There are more than 100 theories trying to explain the ON BELTS, PANTS AND LOGIC: SHKROBIUS Comments to the previous post informed me that it was illogical of Paleolithic men to walk on freezing ground without shoes. I can't agree more, but logic is not the strongest point of our species. Consider the simplest thing: a belt in the trousers. Incidentally, belt is the second accessory for MY AMERICANA. WHITE VS. WHITE: SHKROBIUS My Americana. White vs. White. Until 1967, the Southern states in the US had anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting marriages between the whites and the "colored" races. In the 20th century, the extramarital sex (aka "nighttime cohabitation") itself was a misdemeanor, whereas marriage (recognized by WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & WHY CAN'T I STICK MY TONGUE OUT?: SHKROBIUS The typical tetrapods sticking their tongues out. One of the most bizarre parts of human body is a tongue. Unlike other appendages, tongue is rarely said to be a thing of great elegance and beauty. We are told not to show it in public (unlike our teeth which we do show in public, though their WHY DO GIRLS SCREAM?: SHKROBIUS There was a Young Lady of Russia, Who screamed so that no one could hush her; Her screams were extreme,-- No one heard such a scream As was screamed by that Lady from Russia. Last week I took a roller coaster ride. As the train entered the loop, the girls began screaming at the top of their lungs.SHKROBIUS - PROFILE
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS During the recent discussions, I've heard the argument that only physical abuse that causes an average man to shudder is torture. This argument grossly over-estimates the capacity of our fellow human beings to shudder. How about a simple experiment: I tell OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction MENO 86-87: HYPOTHETICAL GEOMETRY.: SHKROBIUS Meno 86-87: Hypothetical geometry. Meno is a Socratic dialog in which Plato develops his theory of knowledge. Bisecting this dialog, there is a mysterious passage introducing the "hypothetical method:" Socrates: We are to consider what sort of thing it is of which we do not yet know what it is! Whether virtue comes by teaching or someother way
THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE FLOWERS BEAUTIFUL, ACCORDING TO DAVID DEUTSCH10 MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERSBEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN PICTURESMOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERSMOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS IN THE WORLDWORLD S MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS PICTURES Flowers are beautiful because the union of symmetry and color is difficult to achieve, and it is guided by the complex internal logic/mechanism making this schievement possible (that makes only this combination perfect for, e.g., interspecies signalling); the same is true about Mozart's music.SHKROBIUS - PROFILE
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS During the recent discussions, I've heard the argument that only physical abuse that causes an average man to shudder is torture. This argument grossly over-estimates the capacity of our fellow human beings to shudder. How about a simple experiment: I tell OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction MENO 86-87: HYPOTHETICAL GEOMETRY.: SHKROBIUS Meno 86-87: Hypothetical geometry. Meno is a Socratic dialog in which Plato develops his theory of knowledge. Bisecting this dialog, there is a mysterious passage introducing the "hypothetical method:" Socrates: We are to consider what sort of thing it is of which we do not yet know what it is! Whether virtue comes by teaching or someother way
THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE FLOWERS BEAUTIFUL, ACCORDING TO DAVID DEUTSCH10 MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERSBEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN PICTURESMOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERSMOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS IN THE WORLDWORLD S MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS PICTURES Flowers are beautiful because the union of symmetry and color is difficult to achieve, and it is guided by the complex internal logic/mechanism making this schievement possible (that makes only this combination perfect for, e.g., interspecies signalling); the same is true about Mozart's music. 2. THE INVENTION OF THE SMILE: SHKROBIUS Shithole countries. Нашел познавательную карту - плотность свободнооблегчающихся (akaopen defecation):
KANTIAN TORTURE: SHKROBIUS As part of his categorical imperative, Kant asserted that humans should always be treated as an end and never as a means. Kant would therefore object to torturing the ticking bomb terrorist because this would violate the terrorist’s autonomy, the basis of human dignity,for
WHY ARE FLOWERS BEAUTIFUL, ACCORDING TO DAVID DEUTSCH Flowers are beautiful because the union of symmetry and color is difficult to achieve, and it is guided by the complex internal logic/mechanism making this schievement possible (that makes only this combination perfect for, e.g., interspecies signalling); the same is true about Mozart's music. ON BELTS, PANTS AND LOGIC: SHKROBIUS Comments to the previous post informed me that it was illogical of Paleolithic men to walk on freezing ground without shoes. I can't agree more, but logic is not the strongest point of our species. Consider the simplest thing: a belt in the trousers. Incidentally, belt is the second accessory for WHY DO WE COOK FOOD?: SHKROBIUS for eta_ta Why do we cook? How did cooking begin? Cooked food tastes better, but that is cultural bias and long culinary tradition. Unseasoned meat roasted over open fire isn't yammy. The nutrition value of most kinds of food, especially fruits and WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS A possible explanation is that flatter pebbles are less easily rolled down the beach back into the sea by the surf, so they tend to stay on the beach. As these asymmetric pebbles tend to stay on their flat side, these sides get eroded more by impact of the sand and small rocks, increasing flatness in time (Lorang & OBSERVATIONS ON THE FEELING OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND SUBLIME The sublime is a feeling of the superiority of reason over the senses and imagination that are overwhelmed by greatness. Natural things are sublime only when those do not serve an end. This excludes all life forms as having biological function. Day is beautiful, night is sublime. Roses are beautiful, storms are sublime. L & R: LENI RIEFENSTAHL VS. LOTTE REINIGER: SHKROBIUS Silhouette animations of Lotte Reiniger are, without doubt, among the very best animated movies of all time. Her degree of sophistication, expressiveness, ingenuity, the sense of music and rhythm, boldness in choosing her subjects are without a parallel, even by the standards ofearly animation,
FLORENTINES IN HELL: SHKROBIUS Some time ago I wrote a post about . Some time ago I wrote a post about "homosexual culture" of the late medieval Florence. WHY DO GIRLS SCREAM?: SHKROBIUS There was a Young Lady of Russia, Who screamed so that no one could hush her; Her screams were extreme,-- No one heard such a scream As was screamed by that Lady from Russia. Last week I took a roller coaster ride. As the train entered the loop, the girls began screaming at the top of their lungs.SHKROBIUS - PROFILE
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS During the recent discussions, I've heard the argument that only physical abuse that causes an average man to shudder is torture. This argument grossly over-estimates the capacity of our fellow human beings to shudder. How about a simple experiment: I tell OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS My journal enters the 2011 season, which is likely to be its last season. By tradition, the first post of the season is on a nursery rhyme. Jack and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As MENO 86-87: HYPOTHETICAL GEOMETRY.: SHKROBIUS Meno is a Socratic dialog in which Plato develops his theory of knowledge. Bisecting this dialog, there is a mysterious passage introducing the "hypothetical method:" Socrates: We are to consider what sort of thing it is of which we do not yet know what it is! Whether virtue comes by teaching or THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS I confess that I was not able to resist the temptation and ended up reading "The Da Vinci Code," by Dan Brown. It turned out to be a frightfully stupid and boring book, and yet I found something interesting buried in it. It is only four lines, yet it is still better than nothing. It is the WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS Why does an orange have rind? A lot of fruit do not have peel. It is not clear, what exactly is it for: even succulent berries and fruit like plums and peaches do quite well with the thinnest of skins. A fruit with leathery peel containing volatile oils and fluid-filled carpels is a feature of HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS For obscure reasons, Hava Nashira is a great hit with children choirs in Chicago. After listening to it for the twentieth time (my son sings in a choir) it suddenly downed upon me that this hymn does not sound like a Hebrew song, its lyrics disregarding. It turns out that it wasone of the first
INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING ramblerID ; We will log you in after post ; We will log you in after post ; We will log you in after post ; We will log you in after post ; We will log you in after post WHY ARE FLOWERS BEAUTIFUL, ACCORDING TO DAVID DEUTSCH10 MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERSBEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN PICTURESMOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERSMOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS IN THE WORLDWORLD S MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS PICTURES In his new book "The Beginning of Infinity," David Deutsch, among many other topics, discusses the question of the beauty of flowers, which is a subject close to my heart. ItSHKROBIUS - PROFILE
All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see All discord, harmony not understood, All partial evil, universal good: SILVER BELLS AND COCKLESHELLS: SHKROBIUS During the recent discussions, I've heard the argument that only physical abuse that causes an average man to shudder is torture. This argument grossly over-estimates the capacity of our fellow human beings to shudder. How about a simple experiment: I tell OLD DAME DOB: SHKROBIUS To fetch a pail of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, And Jill came tumbling after. Up Jack got, and home did trot, As fast as he could caper, To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob. With vinegar and brown paper. In the 18th century editions, Jill was spelled Gill. The canonical explanation of this rhyme is the doomed deficit reduction MENO 86-87: HYPOTHETICAL GEOMETRY.: SHKROBIUS Meno 86-87: Hypothetical geometry. Meno is a Socratic dialog in which Plato develops his theory of knowledge. Bisecting this dialog, there is a mysterious passage introducing the "hypothetical method:" Socrates: We are to consider what sort of thing it is of which we do not yet know what it is! Whether virtue comes by teaching or someother way
THE DA VINCI CODE DECIPHERED: SHKROBIUS The the poem faithfully reproduces the beginning of The Triumph of Dullness, by Alexander Pope: In vain, in vain,--- the all-composing hour. Resistless falls: the Muse obeys the power. She comes! she comes! the sable throne behold. Of Night primeval, and of Chaos old! WHY DO ORANGES HAVE THEIR PEEL?: SHKROBIUS The most basal of citrus fruits tend to have thicker rinds, and it seems that such rinds are ancestral. An unknown proto-citrus fruit, perhaps on a tropical island, has developed thick, waxy peel around the flesh, for reasons unknown. Perhaps the animal for which it was designed is long gone. Or maybe (given its island origin) it wassomething
INVENTION OF MELANCHOLY: SHKROBIUS Изобретение фотографии. Есть сотни книг по истории и изобретении фотографии, но я ни разу не встречал в них связного рассказа, как она все же была изобретена. WHY ARE OUR BUILDINGS RECTANGULAR? 1. THE OVAL BEGINNING The first rectangular buildings had appeared quite suddenly around 7500 BC; before that only circular, oval, and irregular dwellings and temples are found. By 7000-6000 BC, such buildings become commonplace in the Near East, Europe, and Asia. The rectangular layout for towns and villages appears around the same time (7500-7000 BC). HAVA NASHIRA, SHIR HALLELUIA: SHKROBIUS The liquor itself suffered the similar reversal of fate, its secret being lost during the ravages of the French Revolution. It is said to be rediscovered in 1863, but there are no means of checking the claim of authenticity. Hava Nashira is the product of German Reformist Jews who somehow rediscovered this forgotten canon turned jingle turned WHY ARE FLOWERS BEAUTIFUL, ACCORDING TO DAVID DEUTSCH10 MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERSBEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN PICTURESMOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERSMOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS IN THE WORLDWORLD S MOST BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS PICTURES Flowers are beautiful because the union of symmetry and color is difficult to achieve, and it is guided by the complex internal logic/mechanism making this schievement possible (that makes only this combination perfect for, e.g., interspecies signalling); the same is true about Mozart's music. 2. THE INVENTION OF THE SMILE: SHKROBIUS Shithole countries. Нашел познавательную карту - плотность свободнооблегчающихся (akaopen defecation):
WHY ARE FLOWERS BEAUTIFUL, ACCORDING TO DAVID DEUTSCH In his new book "The Beginning of Infinity," David Deutsch, among many other topics, discusses the question of the beauty of flowers, which is a subject close to my heart. It KANTIAN TORTURE: SHKROBIUS I thought that Kantian deontology is the only secular ethics system that absolutely prohibits torture. This point is frequently made by the modern apologists of torture, e.g. ON BELTS, PANTS AND LOGIC: SHKROBIUS Comments to the previous post informed me that it was illogical of Paleolithic men to walk on freezing ground without shoes. I can't agree more, but logic is not the strongest point of our species. Consider the simplest thing: a belt in the trousers. Incidentally, belt is the second accessory for WHY ARE THE BEACH PEBBLES ROUND?: SHKROBIUS Are they round? Why are they flattened? Aristotle (Mechanica, Question 15 ; authorship in question) proposed that erosion is faster farther from the center where larger impulses can be more readily delivered. Is that why? The answer seems to be obvious: water and sand polishsmall rocks into
WHY DO WE COOK FOOD?: SHKROBIUS for eta_ta Why do we cook? How did cooking begin? Cooked food tastes better, but that is cultural bias and long culinary tradition. Unseasoned meat roasted over open fire isn't yammy. The nutrition value of most kinds of food, especially fruits and L & R: LENI RIEFENSTAHL VS. LOTTE REINIGER: SHKROBIUS Silhouette animations of Lotte Reiniger are, without doubt, among the very best animated movies of all time. Her degree of sophistication, expressiveness, ingenuity, the sense of music and rhythm, boldness in choosing her subjects are without a parallel, even by the standards ofearly animation,
FLORENTINES IN HELL: SHKROBIUS Some time ago I wrote a post about . Some time ago I wrote a post about "homosexual culture" of the late medieval Florence. OBSERVATIONS ON THE FEELING OF THE BEAUTIFUL AND SUBLIME Is Nature beautiful or sublime? This question, which preoccupied the best minds of the 18th century, undeservedly fell out of favor these days. Kant defines the feelings of the beautiful as "occasion a pleasant sensation that is joyous," while feelings of the sublime "arouse enjoyment with horror." WHY DO GIRLS SCREAM?: SHKROBIUS There was a Young Lady of Russia, Who screamed so that no one could hush her; Her screams were extreme,-- No one heard such a scream As was screamed by that Lady from Russia. Last week I took a roller coaster ride. As the train entered the loop, the girls began screaming at the top of their lungs.__ __
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13th-Jan-2030 01:37 pm - ContentsSHKROBIUS
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.(Bacon)
( ДАВНО КРУГОМ МЕНЯ О НЕМ УМОЛКНУЛСЛУХ COLLAPSE
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14th-Oct-2018 08:09 pm - Канадские загадкиSHKROBIUS
Гостил у сына в Монреале и увидел в местной газете неизвестную мне загадку (они ее binaire называют). Пишут, она возникла в Японии, оттуда перекинулась в Бельгию-Голландию, оттуда во Францию, теперь попала в Квебек, но дальше по континенту пока почему-то не пошла. Есть квадрат 2Nx2N; в каждой строке и столбце N единиц и N нулей, все строки и столбцы уникальны, и в них не может быть более, чем два одинаковых символа подряд. Большинство символов стирают, и надо восстановить таблицу. Тутпримеры
http://www.binarypuzzle.com/ Расторопные европейские математики уже навели теорию, как решать такиезагадки
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11786-017-0322-4.pdf Сам я ничего лучше, чем backtrack-based search (= б/м тупой перебор) не придумал. По-моему, предложенное решение с переложением на язык полиномов и использование базиса Гребнера оченьизящно.
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Давно не ездил по Канаде: все вспоминал любимое стихотворение _Sweet maiden of Passamaquoddy, Shall we seek for communion of souls Where the deep Mississippi meanders, Or the distant Saskatchewan rolls? Ah, no! in New Brunswick we'll find it - A sweetly sequestered nook - Where the swift gliding Skoodoowabskooksis Unites with the Skoodoowabskook. Meduxnakik's waters are bluer; Nepisiguit's pools are more black; More green is the bright Oromocto, And browner the Peticodiac. But colours more radiant, in Autumn, I see when I'm casting my hook, In the waves of the Skoodoowabskooksis, Or perhaps in the Skoodoowabskook._etc.
http://www.heirloomsreunited.com/2010/08/poem-maiden-of-quoddy-by-james-de-mille.html Почему в викторианские времена была обсессия с непроизносимыми индейскими названиями? Я еще там понимаю про Чикаго в Иллиное, но ведь там такие села, что о них сломал язык бы даже гордый Гайвата, бесполезны ему б были рукавицы минджикэвон и тяжелый томагаук + дубинка поггэвогон...***
К слову о географии, подумал - "над Канадой небо синее, меж берез дожди косые // хоть похоже на Россию, только все же не Россия" - докудова, интересно, добрался автор песни, чтоб такое написать на трезвую голову? Проверил - оказалось, Галифакс. Где ж в России похожие места-то?* 54 comments
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13th-Oct-2018 02:25 pm - Индийский желтыйSHKROBIUS
Мне нечего стыдиться: мои Тернеры висят в Лондоне, Нью-Йорке, Париже, Берлине, Вене. Я прочел все, написанное о его живописи, - а это сотни полотен и акварелей, - я объездил все коллекции, где выставлены эскизы, а их десятки тысяч. За двадцать лет я скопировал, наверно, полста его картин. У меня целая библиотека; я слежу за новинками, и моя лаборатория оборудована не хуже, чем любая университетская. Я пишу немного - одно-два полотна в год - но это настоящие шедевры, и то, что их написал не Тернер, а я - печальное недоразумение, вот и все. Если бы Тернер жил дольше, он бы их непременнонаписал.
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Гром разразился среди ясного неба, - как буря на море, которую любил рисовать Тернер. Помните пожар здания парламента - столб огня над рекой? Или рассвет над кораблем невольников? Или ангела, вылетающего из солнца? Что между ними общего? Эту краску увидели на индийских миниатюрах, но никто не знал, откуда брался пигмент - пиури, который англичане прозвали "индийским желтым". Пигмент можно было купить у перекупщиков, но он был так редок и проходил через так много рук, что никто не мог установить его происхождение. Тернер обожал его, и "индийский желтый" у него повсюду. В 1880-х годах один лондонский ботаник нанял некоего мистера Мухараджи выяснить, наконец, происхождение загадочного пигмента. Это заняло время, но сметливый мистер Мухараджи раскопал истину. Пигмент делали в одной из древень в провинции Бихар. Специально отобранных коров кормили манговыми листьями; пигмент был выпаренной мочой этих коров. Листья манго содержат то же едкое вещество, что ядовитый плющ, и коровы заболевали и умирали в мучениях, потому пигмент был так редок. История несчастных коров наделала много шума, и в Англии поднялась кaмпания по запрету; спрос изчез, и его перестали делать. Сегодня сохранились только редкие образцы, которых не добыть ни за какую цену. Заводчики подобрали по цвету другой пигмент, тартразин, который тоже прозвали "индийским желтым". Названия перепутались, и про "индийский желтый"забыли.
Мои Тернеры были нарисованы тартразином. Я не знал о разнице; не знали о ней и искусствоведы. "Индийский желтый" опознают по спектру. Из-за давней ошибки какого-то разгильдяя, эталонный спектр "индийского желтого", которым все пользовались при экспертизе, был не настоящего пигмента, а тартразина - даже хваленые знатоки принимали один пигмент за другой. Пару лет назад какой-то дока нашел баночку "индийского желтого" и обнаружил ошибку. Мистер Мухараджи оказался прав - пигмент действительно добывалииз мочи.
Теперь только дело времени, когда моих Тернеров снимут с музейных стен.***
Я купил ранчо в Пуэрто-Рико, на котором росло с десяток манговых деревьев. Стоило больших денег звукоизолировать и оборудовать хлев, но что оставалось делать? По семейным преданиям прадедушка был какое-то время ковбоем в Техасе. Вряд ли прадеду доводилось скармливать манговые листья своим буренкам. Первая подохла от голода, так и не взяв их в рот. Рев этой голодной коровы до сих пор стоит у меня в ушах. Я подкупил ветеринара сделать разрез в боку второй коровы, и через трубку залил взвесь листьев прямо ей в желудок. Корова околела в ту же ночь, даже не помочившись. Я пытался смешивать листья с сеном, я добавлял экстракт в молоко, я выписал за сумасшедшие деньги корову из Бихара. Я угробил целое стадо, не добыв ни грамма пигмента. Моча давала коричневую массу мерзейшего оттенка. Я перепробовал все, абсолютно все. Я проклял мистера Мухараджи, ботаников, химиков, искусствоведов, и всех с ними. Соседи стали подозревать неладное, и пришлось сжечь хлев, чтобы замести следы. Я начал присматривать другуюферму.
Ураган прошел аккурат по дому. Балка придавила мне ноги, и я был беспомощен, мыча от непосильной боли. Когда меня нашли, я был едва жив. Под наркозом я увидел белую корову с женским лицом, от нее сладко пахло мороженым. Она назвалась Нандини - исполняющей желания. Что ты хочешь? - спросила Нандини. - Браме пришлось разрушить твой дом, чтобы ты перестал истязать моих дочерей. Зачем ты не давал им травы? Я рассказал Нандини про мистера Мухараджи. - Сахиб, - сокрушенно вздохнула Нандини, - Мистер Мухараджи никогда не был в Бихаре, свой отчет он написал в калькуттском борделе. Отдай мне ноги, чтобы больше не творить зло, и я научу тебя, как делать "индийскийжелтый".
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Мастерскую пришлось переоборудовать под коляску, чтобы я мог подъезжать к мольберту, а другую половину занимают брусья, где я учусь ходить на протезах. Рядом с брусьями стоит ящик с пахучими маленькими манго, которые мне присылают из глухой деревни у подножия Гималаев. Сначала трудно было жить на одних манго, но сейчас не 19-й век, и моя полка уставлена витаминными банками. Пигмента получается мало, но много и не нужно: сколько я упариваю на спиртовке, столько и уходит за день. Еще неделя-другая и мой новый Тернер будет закончен: белая корова, выбегающая в бурю из охваченного огнем хлева. * Tags:гений и злодейство* 34 comments
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3rd-Oct-2018 05:33 pm - ШтуковинаSHKROBIUS
Спасибо, что зашли в лавку. Я Шмидт, слышали про такого? Всю жизнь строгал да клеил, теперь, увы, глаза не те. В мастерской хозяйничает сын, а я иногда сделаю какую-нибудь штуковину, заработать на табачок-с. Не угодно ли взглянуть? Тут целая история... Когда я был моложе, записал; сейчас прочту.***
В ту весну я сидел без работы. Мы проели материалы, книги, инструменты, мебель. Лица детей побледнели: первые следы голода. Мы мечтали вырваться из Парижа, но в городских предместьях творилось то же самое; побег был бы самоубийственным. Оставалaсь настройкa и починка инструментов, но у кого тогда было желание музицировать? Я впал в апатию. В дверь опустевшей мастерской постучали - на пороге стояли три господина с революционными кокардами на шляпах; за их спинами переминались гвардейцы с испитыми физиономиями. Один из господ, явно главенствующий в компании, назвался доктором Жозефом Гильотеном из Бордо, а двое других представились гражданами Пьером-Луи Редером и Антуаном Луи из Меца. Д-р Гильотен без проволочек объявил, что они члены Учредительного Собрания и хотели бы заказать механическое устройство деликатного свойства и большой государственной важности. Я предложил им пройти в мастерскую. Гвардейцы остались снаружи. Как водится у такого рода господ, они сразу поинтересовались, как я - подданный иностранной державы - отношусь к великой Революции? Я заверил их, что не испытываю добрых чувств к тиранам, и лишь то обстоятельство, что я чужеземец, не дает мне возможности стать горячим патриотом новой Франции. Редер тут же спросил, что я думаю о врагах Франции, не заслуживают ли они безусловной и немедленной смерти? - На это я заметил, что такой вопрос лучше задать нашим добрым парижским санкюлотам. (К тому времени подобные вопросы задавали мне несколько раз на день, и ответы вылетали автоматически, как брикеты из заднего отверстия механической утки, которую я смастерил для госпожи П-р). Д-р Гильотен, вполне удовлетворенный ответами, провозгласил, что, невзирая на мое иноземное подданство, я тоже могу поучаствовать в святом деле смывания нечистой крови с полей отечества. Франция, - с ударением сказал он, - страна братства и равенства, порвавшая с произволом монархов, разрушившая застенки Бастилии и выпустившая узников тирании. Казнь ненавистников свободы должна быть быстрой, но немучительной: молниеносное движение, подобное росчерку пера Марата. Мы не желаем распалять страсти толпы, мы не желаем создавать мучеников из негодяев, предавших народ. Французский народ, которому дробили кости, французский народ, который душили веревками королевские палачи - наш благородный народ желает равенства всех сословий как в жизни, так и в смерти, и поручил нам создать машину для отрубания голов предателям и клятвопреступникам. Готов ли я помочьнароду?
Стараясь быть спокойным, я ответил доктору, что в действии двух машин имеется существенное различие: клавикорды создают совершенную мелодию, а их машина отделяет головы от туловищ. Военный инженер или даже мясник были бы более полезны предприятию. Господа засмеялись, и гражданин Луи признался, что не ждал от меня другого ответа. - Мой друг, - промолвил он, - хотя мясник может стать революционером, революционер - не мясник, а пророк, взывающий к лучшему в человеке. Убийство - побочное, неглавное действие машины. Наша машина - инструмент правосудия, через которое само Провидение играет финальной аккорд над погубленной душой предателя. Как клавесин играет чистую ноту, никого не оставлящую равнодушным, так машина производит ноту сурового, неотвратимого возмездия, вызывающую резонанс в каждом сердце, будь оно полно добродетели или ненависти. Эта машина на долгие века станет символом нашей великой Революции, и она не может быть изделием инженера и ремесленника, а только плодом вдохновения художника, знакомого с музами. И, чтобы я лучше понял замысел, они покажут мне чертеж. При этих словах гражданин Ремер открыл кожанную сумку и развернул рулон бумаги на верстаке. Взглянув на чертеж, я понял, почему комитет обратился ко мне: машина в точности воспроизводила ударный механизм пианофорте, только молоточек с фетром был заменен на стальной диск. Палач наступал на рычаг, и диск обрушивался острым лезвием снизу на несчастного, чья шея была зажата деревянной колодкой. Я подумал: никто не будет слушать мои инструменты и столетия после таких аккордов. Я разглядывал чертеж минут десять, перед тем как сослаться на трудности в добыче необходимых материалов. Лицо д-ра Гильотена изобразило сочувствие. - Шмидт, в материалах у Вас не будет недостатка, и Вас щедро вознаградят за труды, - заверил меня он. - У нас не всегда есть возможность остановить толпу, осаждающую дом шпиона, - добавил гражданин Луи. - Вы уже третий мастер, с которым мы беседуем, и Ваши предшественники - те, на ком будет испытана машина, когда Вы ее закончите. Мы еще раз спрашиваем: готовы ли Вы сделать машину? - заключилРедер.
- Революция не забудет бескорыстной помощи в тяжелую минуту - закончил д-р Гильотен, когда я кивнул. - Денег в кошельке должно на первое время хватить. Гвардейцы будут следить, чтобы у Вас не было недостатка в еде и материалах; выходить наружу Вам без надобности. Если испытания пройдут успешно, Вас сопроводят до границ. Доброй ночи, Шмидт. Гвардейцы расселись на ящиках и запыхтели трубками. Я дал им золотой, и мы первый раз за три месяца поужинали. От еды и вина закружилась голова: я не пил спиртного больше года. Мне приснилaсь деревня, где я вырос. Крестьяне шли на сенокос; у девушек были цветы в волосах, они пели. Солнце только недавно взошло, и трава была мокрой: такую косить проще всего. Стальные полосы колыхались над головами, и я увидел, как луч солнца выглянул из-под лезвия. Неожиданно оно полетело вниз, разрезая воздух, и то же произошло с остальными. Все закончилось в секунду. Тела лежали на траве, и отделенные от туловищ головы с недоумением взирали на кровавые шеи. Я увидел фигуру в черном одеянии; в руке она держала косу. Деревянная рукоятка ударила о землю, тела подобрали головы с травы, и процессия медленно потянулась за черной фигурой. Я пошел за ними, но фигура резко остановила меня жестом. Проснувшись, я послал гвардейца в Ассамблею. Господа были немало удивлены видеть меня столь скоро, но, когда я показал чертеж, их лицапросияли.
- Я рад, сколь высокое мастерство Вы принесли с собою, Шмидт - провозгласил д-р Гильотен, - Как точно уловили Вы, что эпитафией отступнику должен быть не аккорд, а нотное ребро: острая коса Смерти, незримо обрушивающaяся на шею нечестивца. Шуршание веревки, свист воздуха, утренняя роса, лучи восходящего солнца на фоне столбов, низвергание сверкающего лезвия, быстрого как ангел возмездия, посланного из небесных сфер, - я потрясен тем, что Вы, иностранец, так точно уловили суть нашего заказа. Шмидт - Вы мастер и художник, и мне жаль, что человечество не узнает имя истинного творца этого замечательного механизма.***
Любители платят мне хорошие деньги, но Вы мне понравились, и я сделаю Вам скиду. Это точная копия в миниатюре. Сюда Вы кладете сигару: так, а теперь дергаете за веревочку. * Tags:гений и злодейство* 20 comments
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30th-Sep-2018 02:28 pm - На злобу дняSHKROBIUS
Пять лет назад я рассказывал про француженку, которая заболела параноей на почве гадских американцев, зажимающих европейскихученых
https://shkrobius.livejournal.com/381022.html Поскольку она предсказуемо писала безумные отзывы на американские статьи и гранты, эта больная женщина стала самым популярным ревьюером по ее профилю в химических журналах и нескольких агенствах. Достаточно было отклонить просьбу на рецензию с предложением альтернативного кандидата, чтобы сильно задержать/завернуть любую статью/заявку без того, чтобы самому пачкать руки. Доказывай потом, что не верблюд. В итоге практически все в этой области попали под обстрел и могут рассказать колоритнейшиеистории.
Когда говорят, что это-де демократы тире грязные политиканы пользуются столь низкопробными способами - использованием нездоровых людей для политических выгод, я сразу вспоминаю этот эпизод. Этим занимались мои собственные коллеги - при первой открывшейся возможности и из-за грошовых выгод. Здоровой эта женщина (кстати, прекрасный химик) не была никому нужна; заболев шизофренией, она оказалась остро востребованной. Единственная разница в том, что использование было анонимным.***
История имеет хороший конец. В какой-то момент ее начали лечить и... вылечили. Я с ней встретился полтора года назад в Сан Франциско на конгрессе, и мы мило побеседовали; обсуждали возможности совместных работ. Она оставила самое приятное впечатление.* 17 comments
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30th-Sep-2018 12:32 pm - Безальтернативнаяистория
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Видел на шоссе рекламу нового сезона https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle_(TV_series) Для первого сезона они выпустили плакаты со Статуей свободы, делающей зиг хайль кораблям (там Америка оккупирована Германией и Японией после атомной бомбардировки Вашингтона) и свастиками по всему Нью-Йорку. Отменный был скандал. У нас почти все альтернативные истории либо об этом, либо о победе конфедератов над янки. Судьба победившей Конфедерации незавидна: отсталость, бедность, рабство чуть ли не до конца 20-го века, кромешный фашизм - и все это на фоне бурного прогресса в САСШ. Вероятно, по причине избитости сюжета в самой известной книжке такого рода https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_Jubilee все наоборот. Рабство в Конфедерции отменяeтся генералом Ли сразу после окончания Гражданской войны. От САСШ остается узкая полоса вдоль канадской границы. Жизнь там в середине 20-го века напоминает нынешнюю Гватемалу. Конфедерация же превращается в панамериканскую империю. Ее центр находится уже не в Америке, а в Мехико-Сити.***
Я прочел роман, когда только приехал в Америку, и фантазия казалась безумной. Чем дольше я живу в Америке, тем менее так кажется. Рабы после войны стали архаизмом из-за механизациии и низкой производительности; в Бразилии и на Кубе рабство было отменено декретами сверху. Война с Мексикой и совместная экспансия до Панамы (а то и далее) представляются закономерными. Такая экпансия как минимум решила бы проблему, что делать со вчерашними рабами. В Америке, всегда были сильны антикатолические настроения, но их центр находился в Новой Англии, а не на Юге. Америка присоединила Луизиану, Пуэрто Рико; в нее эмигрировало немало католиков с Юга. Сплав Юга с Латинской Америкой изменил бы характер обоих, получился бы этакий супер-ТексМекс. Стену сегодня строили бы через Мейсон-Дикси линию, и не для мигрантов с юга. Целая историческая судьба была потеряна для континента. Пожалуй, во многих аспектах она была бы предпочтительнее нынешней. Столько стона стоит про синие и красные штаты, но они б/м повторяют установившееся деление, которое проявит себя в любом раскладе. Даже если сбудутся мечты о пролетарской революции в Америке, нет сомнений, по какой географической линии будет идти борьба большевиков с троцкистско-зиновьевской оппозицией. PS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed https://fencingbearatprayer.blogspot.com/2016/02/founding-freedoms-four-square.html* 71 comments
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27th-Sep-2018 07:42 pm - Воспаление гиппокампаSHKROBIUS
Послушал утром сенатские прения по радио, напомнило незабвеннуюклассику:
...Ж е л а т е л ь н о у з н а т ь, не соблаговолит ли новый кандидат в губернаторы разъяснить тем из своих сограждан, которые отваживаются голосовать за него, одно любопытное обстоятельство: правда ли, что у его товарищей по бараку в Монтане то и дело пропадали разные мелкие вещи, которые неизменно обнаруживались то в карманах мистера Твена, либо в его "чемодане" (старой газете, в которую он заворачивал свои пожитки). Правда ли, что товарищи были вынуждены наконец, для собственной же пользы мистера Твена, сделать ему дружеское внушение, вымазать дёгтем, вывалять в перьях, и пронести по улицам верхом на шесте, а затем посоветовать поскорей очистить занимаемое им в лагере помещение и навсегда забыть туда дорогу? Что ответит на это мистер Марк Твен? ...К л е в е т н и к у л и ч ё н ! Майкл О`Фланаган - эсквайр из Файв-Пойнтса, мистер Снаб Рифферти и мистер Кэтти Маллиган с Уотер-стрит под присягой дали показания, свидетельствующие, что наглое утверждение мистера Твена, будто покойный дед нашего достойного кандидата мистера Блэнка был повешен за грабёж на большой дороге, является подлой и нелепой, ни на чём не основанной клеветой. Каждому порядочному человеку станет грустно на душе. При виде того, как ради достижения политических успехов некоторые люди пускаются на любые гнусные уловки, оскверняют гробницы и чернят честные имена усопших. При мысли о том горе, которое эта мерзкая ложь причинила ни в чём не повинным родным и друзьям покойного, мы почти готовы посоветовать оскорблённой и разгневанной публике тотчас же учинить грозную расправу над клеветником. Впрочем, нет! Пусть терзается угрызениями совести! (Хотя, если наши сограждане, ослеплённые яростью, в пылу гнева нанесут ему телесные увечья, совершенно очевидно, что никакие присяжные не решатся их обвинить и никакой суд не решится присудить к наказанию участников этого дела.) http://magazines.russ.ru/slovo/2010/66/tv7.html https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Twain_Running_Governor.pdf* Tags:politics
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23rd-Sep-2018 12:56 pm - ЗлоязычиеSHKROBIUS
На праздниках я собрался с духом и прочел трактат "Хафец хаим" о злоязычии. См. англ. перевод https://torah.org/series/halashon/ (я нашел русский перевод, но он очень вольный). Трактат оказался исключительной ясности и актуальности. Под влиянием книги, а так же недавнего жж скандала, затрагивающего знакомых, я решил более активно пресекать злоязычие в этом журнале. Это означает стирание комментариев, замораживание веток, и в некоторых случаях - бан с предупреждениями или без. Я вижу его развращающее влияние, в.т.ч. и на меня самого. Правдивость злоязычия является не облегчающим, а отягчающим обстоятельством. Если Вы не можете ответить на комментарий, но не извещены, что забанены, это означает подобного рода чистку, и я прошу прощения за доставленное неудобство.***
Трактат я читал на фоне политического скандала в Америке, который иллюстрируют последствия нарушения законов о злоязычии. Второзаконие 19:15 учит, что "недостаточно одного свидетеля против кого-либо в какой-нибудь вине и в каком-нибудь преступлении и в каком-нибудь грехе, которым он согрешит: при словах двух свидетелей, или при словах трех свидетелей состоится дело." Одиночное публичное обвинение, независимо от того, является оно правдивым или ложным, является безусловным примеромзлословия,
https://torah.org/learning/halashon-intrcomm/ имеющего своей целью очернение ответчика. Такое заявление морально эквивалентно нарушению трех из десяти заповедей и должно рассматриваться соотв. образом.* Tags:lj
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23rd-Sep-2018 11:47 am - Научная грамотностьSHKROBIUS
В последнем номере Physics Today https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/PT.3.4019 статья с незнакомыми мне примерами в стиле "научной грамотности". Два из них понравились. Задача 1. Если посмотреть на поверхность листа, расстояния между устьицами гораздо больше, чем размеры устьиц. Если посмотреть на химические рецепторы на поверхности клетки, расстояния между ними гораздо больше, чем размеры рецептора. Кажется, что большая плотность устьиц и рецепторов должна давать преимущество, но это не так. Почему? Задача 2. Ничего не зная о механизме движения, как из биений жгутика спрематозоида установить, создается его волнообразное движение "моторчиком" в клетке или самимжгутиком?
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9th-Sep-2018 05:17 pm - Hенадежное копированиеSHKROBIUS
Два года назад я рассуждал, почему с химической точки зрения вполне очевидно, что биополимеры, ответственные за хранение/копирование информации (нуклеиновые кислоты) и метаболизм (белки) должны быть разными (к ним предъявляются слишком разные требования) https://shkrobius.livejournal.com/576657.html?thread=10477201#t10477201 Втч я предложил, что надежность копирования прото-нуклеиновых кислот с самого начала д. б. > 1е-4, т.к. иначе возникнут ошибки в структуре почти всех белковых комплексов (требующих примерно столько нуклеотидов для кодирования), и машинерия клетки не сможет надежно работать. Меня тут же спросили, почему? - и я не смог дать полностью удовлетворительногоответа.
Я обсуждал этот вопрос с молбиологами, но беседы не "пошли". Химику и молбиологу особенно трудно представить обратную ситуацию, т.к. ДНК и ДНК полимераза специально подобраны, чтобы ошибки копирования были < 1е-6. Так можно обсуждать, как жили бы люди, если бы у них ноги были длиной с милю. Если бы у них были такие ноги, то они бы не жили; конец обсуждения.***
С тех пор у меня появились некоторые соображения. Исходная точка рассуждения - аналогия с передачей информации в ненадежных системах коммуникации. Проблема решается дроблением потока информации на небольшие куски и подсчетом контрольных сумм, хешированием и т. д. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum Если блок передан с ошибкой, его передают его еще раз, пока не получают точную копию. Это расточительно, но что делать... Вопрос в том, как превратить эту аналогию в реалии репликации генома. В случае частых ошибок копирование всего генома целиком безнадежно, но можно (по аналогии) копировать его ген за геном и проверять каждый ген отдельно. Точность копирования гена можно определить его транскрипцией, синтезом энзима и проверкой энзима на функциональность. Если энзим функционален - значит кодирующий участок воспроизведен удовлетворительно. К сожалению, невозможно соорудить универсальную "проверялку" функциональности, и потому задача кажется безнадежной. Я вспомнил, что в любом геноме (включая наш собственный) http://www.pnas.org/content/107/12/5429 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/07/03/rspb.2010.1052 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping_gene есть немало участков, одновременно кодирующих два белка из-за сдвинутой рамки считывания. Это свойством можно воспользоваться, чтобы сделать биологический аналог контрольной суммы. "Контролем" функционального белка служит белок, синтезированный из той же последовательности, но со сдвинутой рамкой. Если второй (контрольный) белок нефункционален, нефункционален и первый белок. Остается придумать универсальную функцию контрольного белка - но эта функция очевидна из самой задачи. Репликационная система может работать так. Рядом с каждым кодирующим участком находится некодирующая последовательность. "Контрольный" белок кодирующего участка уникально связывается с этим регуляционным участком. По факту связи между ними можно установить, что репликация регуляционного участка и кодирующей последовательности (для функционального и "контрольного" белка) были успешны. Мы знаем, что материнские последовательности безошибочны. Полимераза создает новые последовательности на основе комплементарных материнских цепочек, и они сразу транскрибируются в два белка. "Контрольные" белки каждой последовательности садятся на регулирующие участки, и служат промотерами дальнейшей репликации. Если промотер не связался с своим участком, геликазы убирают новые цепочки и репликация повторяется, пока не образуется функциональный промотер. Такая репликация продолжается от одной кодирующей последовательности к другой. Эта репликации далека от того, что существует сегодня, хотя она содержит в себе многие элементы ныне существующей системы. Природа не пошла по пути "контрольных сумм", т.к. гораздо проще повысить надежность полимераз. Зачем же себе такое воображать? Подобной системе может не быть альтернативы, если энзиматические и информационные функции не полностью разделены. Наверно, химически ненадежная репликация в клетке возможна, хотя она сложна и неэффективна, так как ее необходимо сделать надежной на системном уровне. Я не думаю, что проблема тут в недостатке моего воображения; это объективно трудно.* 33 comments
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