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A Sixth Sense: Sharks and Electricity
Sharks exhibit an incredible sensitivity to their watery environment, including an extra sensory advantage: the ability to detect tiny electric signals. This "sixth sense" can help them locate meals, identify mates, and even, we believe, navigate the oceans. Hundreds of "electrosensors" sit embedded within a shark's head; in concert, they can discern changes as small as a billionth of a single volt. This talk brings together physics, chemistry, and biology to reveal how a creature can "see" the world electrically. Our speaker is Dr. Brandon Brown, Professor and Chair in the Physics Department at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Brown's Wonderfest presentation was recorded by Eric Yao on December 9, 2019, at HopMonk Tavern in Novato, California.
Biophysicist Adrianus Kalmijn Dies at 88
His work revealed that sharks use an electromagnetic sense to navigate and detect prey.
Adrianus Kalmijn: The Electric and Magnetic Sense of Sharks, SkaS, and Rays (1974)
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Everyday objects can run artificial intelligence programs - Nontraditional hardware could help neural networks operate faster and more efficiently than computer chips. (paper)
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An interview with Cleve Backster, who's seminal work on primary perception was ahead of its time.
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Plants 'talk to' each other through their roots
Plants use their roots to “listen in” on their neighbours, according to research that adds to evidence that plants have their own unique forms of communication. The study found that plants in a crowded environment secrete chemicals into the soil that prompt their neighbours to grow more aggressively, presumably to avoid being left in the shade.
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Experiments suggests archerfish can differentiate between numbers
The researchers placed the fish in a tank of water and then placed a pair of disks over the top of it. The disks were marked with different numbers of dots. The researchers taught the fish to spit a stream of water at disks with a certain number of dots on them, such as six. They then showed the fish a series of disk pairs with different numbers of dots on them. They found that the fish would only spit at the disks with the number of dots that they had been trained to recognize. The researchers also tried changing the number of dots the fish had to choose from and found that the fish were still able to target the right disk.
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Without microbes, no other forms of life would be possible. But what does it mean to be with microbes? With Microbes sets microbes and the multiple ways they exist around, in and on humans at center stage. In this book, 24 social scientists and artists attune to microbes and describe their complicated relationships with humans and other beings. The book shows the multiplicity of these relationships and their dynamism, through detailed ethnographies of the relationships between humans, animals, plants, and microbes.
"bringing microbes into the focus of what it means to be human.. a reconsideration of the dichotomy between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’...an emphasis on community rather than immunity"
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Nature's Psyops
Imagine if in the past 2 years the "elites" instead of running a giant pro-fear, pro-control, pro-pharma-mafia psyops, would of put all that time and energy into promoting nature and its many benefits. Imagine a massive global psyops promoting the cultivation of medicinal plants, mushrooms and mind-body-nature practices, such as forrest bathing, qigong and yoga. Goverment mandated ginger booster smoothies, healthy diets and stress reduction programs. What would the outcomes have been for the public's physical and mental health & well-being?
In some sense, Humanity should be thankful for the horrendous Covid psyops, as it has brought an extremely destructive cultural undercurrent to the surface: The wide-spread belief that humans are essentially just complicated machines which can be "fixed" exclusively through "magic" pharmaceutical pills, administered by scientific "experts". This is the single biggest bullshit story and self-perpetuating lie of the past 250 years, which is starting to self-destruct.
#Ideas #Nature #Health #Culture #FFHCI #Mindbody #Cryptocracy #Politics #Economics
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
"Man has always assumed that he is more intelligent than dolphins because he has achieved so much--the wheel, New York, wars and so on -- while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But, conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man -- for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams
