Artemisia

Stephen H. Schneider in What Are you Optimistic About? suggests we should be optimistic about the behaviour of big business.
In the case of a company that is synonomous with GMO I have serious doubts that have been hugelly amplified of late. Their well-known weed-killer, which whichever way you approach it is devasting of living cells and surely does induce cancer and other conditions, so rejected by those familiar with effects in horticulture, has been unsuprisingly put forward -by the company- as a treatment for malaria. They want it to be tested, using intravenous delivery, on children in Africa.
When I think of what companies such as this are doing I am unavoidabley persuaded thay have racialist agenda. How it would get in a business based in (once upon a time in Wrexham which was progenitory, I recall to Yale itself?) St Louis Missouri, Well, I cannot imagine.

So check out Artemisia. Stephen Jones the geneticist, in his book Coral, notes how the apparent sex determinator (at least in humans) and rat-maddener Toxoplasma is closely related to Malaria.

Relusion

I've read Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion this week past. I needed no primer toward atheism.
I do note that "evidence" is the crucial application that Dawkins insists upon in debate on the existence of belief and the exercise of such in action. I don't see that we can let our selves become brow-beaters to the religious without being as bad as some "animal rights" activists are for arguing against the use of animals in experiments and other cruelties they are made to suffer through lack of human ingenuity. We simply need law to protect us (society) from the religious, though to also protect the religious from being able to be open about their - I think there is evidence for - unavoidable relusion.

I`ve read Dawkins, among others on the "popular" Science shelf, since the mid-1980's. More than a decade after beginning that habit I began reading Jacques Derrida. I do think Dawkins has fallen for something that is of symptom throughout his mindings in The God Delusion. Though maybe it is his way of leading others to state from evidence what he dare not?
I got a style of ironic paraphrase on my construction of my range of interests (whilst financially curtailled from sharing to scrutiny) that I know I developed from reading Avital Ronnel. Ronnel in The Test Drive traces the consideration of "evidence" and when I fill in the gaps I conclude that Albert Camus`s The Fall best presents the viral antagonism that Science is turned to by Hierarchies exactly in the way "religious" that is making crypto (not much a secret) Social Darwinism produce a quasi-market condition (why markets fail...). That is to say when, as atheists, we fail to work on the details of the society we have solidarity toward, we contribute to the promotion of a less scruinised use of Science as Law(ful).
I really think Dawkins should be persuaded to read, or read about, Jacques Derrida. He may find he finds something to identify with if he gets us all scrambled by similar basketing as Dawkins obliges in his obvious relish of the Sokal incident.

The God Delusion is valuable conribution to culture, and a rare reflection on the activity of Atheism in face of hostility. However I am concerned that it cannot do enough for our Atheist solidarity becasuse of it's optimistic incursion into the position of "believers". Part of that optimism is that of expected literacy which is also distorted by Dawkins gentleness on the science.

Humans are not that superlative as some of the exceptions amongst their production are, and we all need hold that thought.

Philosophy

I wish that the opening pre-amble monologue of "Wings of Desire" were all the film were (with Ms Kinski only drifting through the landscape).
Now imagine a place that that believed all a person is is the sub-vocal chatter that the under evolved are sensitive (give them wings that they never had a use for). These sensitive types who own quite vocal - due to incontinence of will - noise spews around everyone else.
What happens?

Cuisine without e

Should you not know - Walnuts (and walnut oil) will turn pink in many preparations. Please check for walnut toxicity potentials though.

It isn't a palindrome

Well it is in the sense of "reading" I do. Sure, if there isn't a technical word for a word or picture that holds the same "meaning/s" either way you read it then I'd be suprised. Let's say it's something of synonym and metonym, metronome and metaphor, simile and allegory. Metromomic, it's a moving thing counting time and in this case of physical effects of the erotic. It was much more a humourous remark, a revealing of myself than subterfuge. It's palindromic to me.

Extraordinary sumerazure moment

I have my own favourite palindrome (which is mongrel spelling tho gets to meanings): scopesore/erosepocs.

I have a simple view on Uk immigration as issue (though to be sure detailled points could be picked over): The problem in Britain is the same as in much of Europe. It's an economic dynamism that's sunk - supplanted by the need to keep a civil service from the fossil record? - by a disafavouritism to independent means of income, I believe (it's kind of command economy). What it is does occur within the general set "low-waged" though it's not so much us humble partially skilled persons who do better (and provide vacancies to be filled by others) if we had better financial circumstances (i.e. Basic Income c.f. Samuel Brittan et al (the late Mr Shackle, for instance). It's the small businesses - very small in terms of occupancy of property, number of employees and turnover - that are the preferred use of skills and interests of those persons. They are clamped by all the usual State burdens, and this means as individuals outside their businesses (which support niche activities that should be considered important no matter how trivial or novel) they do not have the means to use other businesses as many who may be considered parasitic white-collared do.
So I do not think immigrants are anything other than someways antagonising because of a very poor attitude toward small business that has the outcome of a rickety establishment trying to maintain antiquated control of human resources.


Some Poems.

River hounds rocks
pelting from tension
to wide tongue shine


The bar code frills story lines
of clamped open tomes
no more entelechial than the human embyro's
gills


Traffic lights to spring
dumb waiting surface, stretching linguistic legs
to feet on the stove, tho reaching back to check the props
(not quite under)in mind : frontier unrest

Far away, so close

I got hit - thru negligence - by a nasty program in the Ubuntu I use offline. So there went the first Rorty essay draft. rumour - confirmed by more than anecdote - makes it difficult to ascribe a single intention to the attack. A rarely act on a single reason myself.

Anyway I've wondered why I didn't feel comfortable with Yahoo, and now I know. The boss, a spirited guy to be sure, likes Sumo. My Sumerazure at Yahoo 360 will be largely abandoned, except for the excellent Launchcast which I'd like to bring in to my other spots on web. I should explain that HAN01 is my rogue sub-genius persona, and sure to bring bad-luck to any that assume it's identity. From here-on han01 will only appear from cielnoir@bigstring.com. Any other han01 are not from this source, as many surely have not been.

Presently I am increasingly shocked by the UK governmemnt deportation policy, which (together with much else in policy) is not only repulsive cultural relativism at it's most right wing, but is also an indicator of the future that the UK population have surrendered to.
Similar fixation of peculiar reasoning is that of the pro-animal experimentation moves. Both courses are not being rejected by European courts (national or EU) so far. Such experiments are worthless acts of cruelty by a scientific tradition that should be defunct. My judgement is similar on the politicians -in the UK cabinet- who got that twisted idea that good for country is encouraging the production of things that fall short of what is needed.

yes, pollutants surely do incur left-handedness/ambidextrousness. I am right -handed, though I like to use my feet (now under exercised) and did teach my left hand to function as well as my right.

Later, adios.