Gathering of The Tribes: August 2015

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Aug. 27th GOTT Radio

Gathering of the Tribes radio! [link], A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom! Listen Live! Thursdays, 5 to 6pm with Music, Tribal News and info, convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati with Thee Temple [link], alongside a psychonautical crew affiliated with the Northbay Evolver network [link]. Sponsored by H2C.org, providing holistic medicine for a variety of physical and mental conditions, as provided under Cal. Prop. 215. Tune in at 89.5FM in the northeast San Pablo Bay Area (American Canyon, Benicia, Crockett, Fairfield, Suisun, Vallejo), Smart Phone Tune-in App [link], Desktop U-stream [link], w. chat box [link], Live Mp3 (.pls) stream[link], Netbook / Laptop [link].
Send info, music tracks, events listings etc., to [GOTT.PRODUCTIONS@) Gmail.com]

* "International Year of Light" [archive.is/yMQxQ]

Stranger News
* "Life in VALIS (Accessing the Living Intelligence, Part 2)" (realitysandwich.com) [archive.is/RnsKl]

* "Stripping Off Our Armor: The Accumulating, Paradoxical Power of Wilhelm Reich" (realitysandwich.com) [archive.is/RYUS3]

* "Intracellular microlasers for precise labeling of a trillion individual cells" (2015-08-03, kurzweilai.net/) [archive.is/iXDns]

* "Move over, autonomous AI weapons, there’s a new risk in town: ‘gene drives’ " (2015-08-06, kurzweilai.net) [rchive.is/eMZkG]

* "3D-printed swimming microrobots can sense and remove toxins; Nanoparticles enable them to be self-propelled, chemically powered, and magnetically steered; could also be used for targeted drug delivery" (2015-08-26, University of California, San Diego) [archive.is/OFgE0]

* " ‘Tricorder’-style handheld MouthLab detects patients’ vital signs, rivaling hospital devices; Could be used by people without special training at home or in the field" (2015-08-25, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) [archive.is/9PdXe]

Space News
* "Need for Speed: Star Trek Warp Drive is Within Our Grasp" (2015-08-21, sputniknews.com) [archive.is/m6Dcy] [begin excerpt]: In 1994, Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre suggested a concept of a warp drive; however, later calculations showed such a space ship travelling 10 times the speed of light would require unreachable amounts of energy, a mass-energy equivalent to the planet Jupiter. Later, NASA researchers led by Harold White with the Johnson Space Center claimed that shape adjustment could reduce energy requirements to the equivalent of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, but the results of their experiments have been so far inconclusive. [end excerpt]

Ancient News
* photo [archive.is/AgDNl]: On the flank of Mount Stephen, fist-long trilobite fossils are part of the Burgess Shale, a more than half-billion-year-old formation rich in preserved Cambrian sea life.

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Aug. 20th GOTT Radio

Tribal News
* "Peppermint oil and cinnamon could help treat and heal chronic wounds" (2015-07-08, acs.org) [archive.is/vEgku]

Stranger News
* "Researchers find the organization of the human brain to be nearly ideal" (2015-07-06, northeastern.edu) [archive.is/RXAXW]

* "First images of dolphin brain circuitry hint at how they sense sound" (2015-07-08, esciencecommons.blogspot.de, Emory University) [archive.is/fvfN3], video [youtube.com/watch?v=FWOZXIqOcHM]
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* "US team beats Iranians in Robocup football final" (2015-07-22, AFP Newswire) [archive.is/1rxzb]
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* "Droplets Levitate on a Cushion of Blue Light" (2015-08-11, Applied Physics Letters) [archive.is/BPbfU]

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* "New method of quantum entanglement vastly increases how much information can be carried in a photon" (2015-06-29, newsroom.ucla.edu) [archive.is/TlpTS]

* "The Quantum Middle Man" (2015-07-02, oist.jp) [archive.is/ODBb2] [begin excerpt]: Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have identified a system that could store quantum information for longer times, which is critical for the future of quantum computing. Quantum computing -- which aims to use particles on the atomic scale to make calculations and store the results -- has the potential to solve some key problems much faster than current computers. To make quantum computing a reality, scientists must find a system that remains stable long enough to make the calculations. While this is an extremely short time frame, only thousandths of a second, the particles involved are so small that they are easily influenced by their surroundings. If the motion of the particles is disturbed, even a little, it throws off the whole calculation. Nuclei are promising contenders for quantum memory because they are not easily influenced by their surroundings. However, that also makes them extremely difficult to manipulate. Many quantum physicists have tried with little success. Instead of trying control the nucleus directly, the researchers focused on a “middle man” of sorts – the electrons orbiting the nucleus. The nucleus has a tiny internal magnet, called a “magnetic moment,” and the electrons orbiting around it also have magnetic moments that are about 1,000 times larger. Those magnets interact with each other, which is called the “hyperfine interaction.” Information in quantum computing is conveyed by photons, which are individual particles of light, which also make up other nonvisible electromagnetic waves, such as ultraviolet and microwaves. The information transmitted is actually the quantum state of the photon. The quantum state of the photon needs to be transferred to another particle so it will last long enough for the computation to take place. [end excerpt]

* "Smaller, faster, cheaper" (2015-07-28, ethz.ch) [archive.is/0Oel3] [begin excerpt]:
Transmitting large amounts of data, such as those needed to keep the internet running, requires high-performance modulators that turn electric signals into light signals. Researchers at ETH Zurich have now developed a modulator that is a hundred times smaller than conventional models.
In February 1880 in his laboratory in Washington the American inventor Alexander Graham Bell developed a device which he himself called his greatest achievement, greater even than the telephone: the “photophone”. Bell’s idea to transmit spoken words over large distances using light was the forerunner of a technology without which the modern internet would be unthinkable. Today, huge amounts of data are sent incredibly fast through fibre-optic cables as light pulses. For that purpose they first have to be converted from electrical signals, which are used by computers and telephones, into optical signals. In Bell’s days it was a simple, very thin mirror that turned sound waves into modulated light. Today’s electro-optic modulators are more complicated, but they do have one thing in common with their distant ancestor: at several centimeters they are still rather large, especially when compared with electronic devices that can be as small as a few micrometers.
In a seminal paper in the scientific journal “Nature Photonics”, Juerg Leuthold, professor of photonics and communications at ETH Zurich, and his colleagues now present a novel modulator that is a hundred times smaller and that can, therefore, be easily integrated into electronic circuits. Moreover, the new modulator is considerably cheaper and faster than common models, and it uses far less energy. [end excerpt]
(Photo: Haffner et al. Nature Photonics): Colourized electron microscope image of a micro-modulator made of gold. In the slit in the centre of the picture light is converted into plasmon polaritons, modulated and then re-converted into light pulses.

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* "Key element of human language discovered in bird babble" (2015-06-29, exeter.ac.uk) [archive.is/nGEaJ]. Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study has revealed that babbler birds are also able to communicate in this way.
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* "Dark Plumage Helps Birds Survive on Small Islands" (2015-07-22, The Auk: Ornithological Advances) [archive.is/KR1gt] [begin excerpt]: Animal populations on islands tend to develop weird traits over time, becoming big (like Galapagos tortoises) or small (like extinct dwarf elephants) or losing the ability to fly (like the flightless parrots of New Zealand). One less-studied pattern of evolution on islands is the tendency for animal populations to develop “melanism”—that is, dark or black coloration. J. Albert Uy and Luis Vargas-Castro of the University of Miami found an ideal species to study this phenomenon in the Chestnut-bellied Monarch (Monarcha castaneiventris), a bird found in the Solomon Islands. Most have the chestnut belly suggested by their name, but in the subspecies found in the Russell Islands, a few all-black birds coexist with the chestnut-bellied majority. After visiting 13 islands of varying sizes to survey their Chestnut-bellied Monarch populations, Uy and Vargas-Castro confirm in a new paper published this week in The Auk: Ornithological Advances that island size predicts the frequency of melanic birds, with populations on smaller islands including more dark individuals. [end excerpt]
Photo: A typical Chestnut-bellied Monarch (left) vs. a melanic individual (right). Photo credit: A. Uy

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* "Spiders can sail the oceans like ships" (2015-07-03, UPI Newswire) [archive.is/AUKMi]
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* "Stressed out plants send animal-like signals" (2015-07-29, adelaide.edu.au) [archive.is/AAXky] [begin excerpt]: “We’ve known for a long-time that the animal neurotransmitter GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is produced by plants under stress, for example when they encounter drought, salinity, viruses, acidic soils or extreme temperatures,” says senior author Associate Professor Matthew Gilliham, ARC Future Fellow in the University’s School of Agriculture, Food and Wine. “But it was not known whether GABA was a signal in plants. We’ve discovered that plants bind GABA in a similar way to animals, resulting in electrical signals that ultimately regulate plant growth when a plant is exposed to a stressful environment.” [end excerpt]

Ancient News
* "Study: South Africans used milk-based paint 49,000 years ago" (2015-07-01, UPI Newswire) [archive.is/MLHPI]
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* "TAU Among International Researchers to Discover First Evidence of Farming in Mideast" (2015-07-22, aftau.org) [archive.is/Wez3z]
* "Researchers Identify Plant Cultivation in a 23,000-year-old site in the Galilee, 11,000 Years before Earliest-Known Agriculture" (2015-07-29, biu.ac.il) [archive.is/Tv2qn]

The megalithic mysteries of India [archive.is/kev83]. The following photograph is from the link here [archive.is/PpD9k], and shows the entrance of the VADATHIKA ROCK-CUT CAVES in the Nagarjuna Hills. Bihar.

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Aug. 13th GOTT Radio

Gathering of the Tribes radio! [link], A Liberated Zone on the FM, to enhance alternative culture and cognitive freedom! Listen Live! Thursdays, 5 to 6pm with Music, Tribal News and info, convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati with Thee Temple [link], alongside a psychonautical crew affiliated with the Northbay Evolver network [link]. Sponsored by H2C.org, providing holistic medicine for a variety of physical and mental conditions, as provided under Cal. Prop. 215. Tune in at 89.5FM in the northeast San Pablo Bay Area (American Canyon, Benicia, Crockett, Fairfield, Suisun, Vallejo), Smart Phone Tune-in App [link], Desktop U-stream [link], w. chat box [link], Live Mp3 (.pls) stream[link], Netbook / Laptop [link].
Send info, music tracks, events listings etc., to [GOTT.PRODUCTIONS@) Gmail.com]

InD.I.Y.pendent News
* Berkeley Protest Festival [http://is.gd/kCHIgx], a Festival to Celebrate Protest in Song, Poetry, and Comedy on Saturday, August 15, 2015 from 10 am to 10 pm in Historic Fellowship Hall at 1924 Cedar St, Berkeley, CA

Tribal News
* How to access a million stunning, copyright-free antique illustrations released by the British Library [http://is.gd/yz6X92]

* The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use [http://is.gd/ZGF7kk]

Stranger News
"There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together ... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter." - Max Planck, from a speech Dr. Planck presented in Florence, Italy in 1944, entitled “Das Wesen der Materie” (The Essence/Nature/Character of Matter) Quelle: Archiv zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. Va, Rep. 11 Planck, Nr. 1797: [greggbraden.com/resources]

Dr. Francis William Aston made a promise on 12 December 1922 that, with nuclear energy, "the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dreams of scientific fiction; but the remote possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event the whole of the hydrogen on the earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star." ("Mass spectra and isotopes" Nobel Prize Lecture by Francis William Aston, page 20 [http://is.gd/TGrUBJ] or at [http://is.gd/xZbRf0])

Dr. Kuroda'a, standing in the ruins of Hiroshima in August 1945, said: "I became overwhelmed by the power of nuclear energy. The sight before my eyes was just like the end of the world, but I also felt that the beginning of the world may have been just like this" ("The Origin of the Chemical Elements and the Oklo Phenomenon" book page 2, by P. K. Kuroda, 1982-12 Springer Publishing, [http://is.gd/vlzS3X])

* (2015-08-11, KTVU Channel 2) photo [archive.is/mrye9], explanation [archive.is/1G35D].

Space News
* "Tracking A Mysterious Group of Asteroid Outcasts" (2015-08-03, jpl.nasa.gov) [archive.is/A4xmq] [begin excerpt]: Distributed at the outer edge of the asteroid belt, the Euphrosynes have an unusual orbital path that juts well above the ecliptic, the equator of the solar system. The asteroid after which they are named, Euphrosyne -- for an ancient Greek goddess of mirth -- is about 156 miles (260 kilometers) across and is one of the 10 largest asteroids in the main belt. The 1,400 Euphrosyne asteroids studied by Masiero and his colleagues turned out to be large and dark, with highly inclined and elliptical orbits. There are over 700,000 asteroidal bodies currently known in the main belt that range in size from large boulders to about 60 percent of the diameter of Earth's moon, with many yet to be discovered. A better understanding of the origins and behaviors of these mysterious objects will give researchers a clearer picture of asteroids in general, and in particular the NEOs (Near-Earth Objects) that skirt our home planet's neighborhood. Such studies are important, and potentially critical, to the future of humanity, which is a primary reason JPL and its partners continue to relentlessly track these wanderers within our solar system. To date, U.S. assets have discovered more than 98 percent of the known NEOs.

* Photo from the European Union's newest weather satellite [archive.is/9LHeo]

Ancient News
* "Hidden Secrets of Ancient Egyptian Technology" (2015-05-22, metmuseum.org) [archive.is/HiL5a]

* "Dry Weather Reveals Amazing River With Thousands of Shiva Lingas" (2015-08-09, zonnews.com) [archive.is/rEemx] [begin excerpt]: Recently, due to dry weather, the water level of the Shalmala river in Karnataka receded, revealing the presence of thousands of Shiva Lingas carved throughout the river bed. Because of these uncountable carvings, the place gets the name “Sahasralinga” (thousand Shiva Lingas). [end except]. View photos: 1 [archive.is/UTnFH], 2 [archive.is/SN3Ej], 3 [archive.is/PF4Ce], 4 [archive.is/a8KYO], 5 [archive.is/KsLyL], 6 [archive.is/iJ671], 7 [archive.is/gEM6D], 8 [archive.is/B7ttd], 9 [archive.is/brt3a], 10 [archive.is/NvNJp], 11 [archive.is/XctT0], 12 [archive.is/wwutX], 13 [archive.is/GdaEy], 14 [archive.is/fxbev], 15 [archive.is/QviXR], 16 [archive.is/BBjJN], 17 [archive.is/W3Z6n], 18 [archive.is/vllFD], 19 [archive.is/ykQT5], 20 [archive.is/U8VlI], 21 [archive.is/Xefm6]

* "Secrets of the stones" (2003-03-13, smh.com.au) [archive.is/F7lbF] [begin excerpt]:
Image: A cross-section of a Gunditjmara dwelling made with rocks, peat sods and reeds.
For nearly 8000 years, the Gunditjmara people of western Victoria farmed eels. They modified more than 100 square kilometres of the landscape, constructing artificial ponds across the grassy wetlands and digging channels to interconnect them. They exported their produce and became an important part of the local economy. And then white settlers arrived and all they left of the Gunditjmara's thriving industry were several hundred piles of stones that had formed the foundations to the people's huts.
Since the 1970s, archaeologists have suspected that the stone remains in the Lake Condah region were evidence that the local Aborigines had lived in villages. But it was not until an eight-year research project was carried out by a Flinders University archaeologist, Heather Builth, that the real importance of the remains became clear.
The area was naturally a wetland, but Builth discovered that the Gunditjmara had modified it with weirs, channels and dams to make the landscape eel-friendly. But her research revealed something even more remarkable. The output from these eel farms would have been enormous - she estimates it could have fed up to 10,000 people. Her hunch was that this was more like an ancient fishing industry than a subsistence farm, and she set out to prove it.
She had noticed the landscape was scattered with burnt, hollowed-out trees, often right next to the eel traps. Could the structures have been ancient smokehouses? Builth took soil samples from the base of four trees. When the results came back it was her eureka moment: the samples did contain traces of eel fat. Suddenly the whole picture changed. "The Gunditjmara weren't just catching eels," she says. "Their whole society was based around eels." [end excerpt]
* "Scientist debunks nomadic Aborigine 'myth' " (2007-10-09, theguardian.com) [archive.is/0jfRA] [begin excerpt]

Photo: A picture in Dr Memmot's book shows an Aboriginal man sitting in the doorway of a dome-shaped building.
Before white settlers arrived, Australia's indigenous peoples lived in houses and villages, and used surprisingly sophisticated architecture and design methods to build their shelters, new research has found.
Dwellings were constructed in various styles, depending on the climate. Most common were dome-like structures made of cane reeds with roofs thatched with palm leaves.
Some of the houses were interconnected, allowing native people to interact during long periods spent indoors during the wet season.
The findings, by the anthropologist and architect Dr Paul Memmot, of the University of Queensland, discredits a commonly held view in Australia that Aborigines were completely nomadic before the arrival of Europeans 200 years ago.
The belief was part of the argument used by white settlers to claim that Australia was terra nullius - the Latin term for land that belonged to nobody.