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Crystal Unclear

11/19/2015

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Earth has different kinds of solids. Some are crystalline, like diamond with its regular arrangement of carbon atoms. The Earth’s crust has more than 2,500 crystalline substances called minerals. Minerals are crystalline because their constituent atoms and molecules align in regular arrangements. Some solids, by contrast, are amorphous, that is, they have no regular arrangement of atoms, like the natural volcanic glass obsidian.

Not all crystalline substances are “crystal clear.” The atomic arrangement and composition determine the “clarity.” Unlike cut diamonds used in jewelry, many mineral crystals are opaque.

Funny how we pick a characteristic to emphasize. You know what I mean. We have the expression “crystal clear,” but, as I just wrote, not all crystals are clear; in fact, more are not clear, and many of those are rather dull and earthy-looking. But we have, at least since the term’s origin in the early nineteenth century, picked a single mineral characteristic of a few clear mineral crystals to apply as an inclusive metaphor for clear thought and understanding.

Do we do the same with people? Do we pick out a single characteristic among many characteristics to use as an inclusive and defining metaphor?  

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Scales

11/18/2015

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Centimeter or inch? Celsius or Fahrenheit? Kilogram or pound? As long as we know the conversion, we can use any scale and communicate with one another. Living in a country that uses the metric system? Living in one with the Imperial system? Doesn’t matter. Just use the formulae for conversions.

In cultural matters we also try to convert scalar units. Sometimes we get the conversion right. Often we get it wrong. What are we actually measuring when we deal with cultural matters?

Cultural scales imply values, and in values conversions often fail. That’s one of the reasons that humans have always been in a pickle, at least that’s a reason from the first division of humans on tribal or generational lines. We can’t convert the value scales very easily. And we run into the same difficulty between any two humans.

If you walk into a paint store or the paint aisle of a Home Depot or Lowe’s, you will see color charts. The hues of paint are very much like the scales of values in each of us, but it’s difficult for us to see that exact hue of value that another sees because, in fact, we do not have those handy paint color charts. Let’s call it the Principle of Scalar Failure.

That lack of a scalar conversion system makes my seeing your values in the same way that you see them. At least, the Principle of Scalar Failure indicates that I won’t be able to place the same unit of appreciation or acceptance on your values that you place on them. Your value unit might be a notch higher or lower or a hue brighter or duller than mine. Or, I might not even be able to discern your scale because I lack both a conversion formula and a series of value gradations like those in the paint store.

One wonders how we ever get along today or how we ever got along in the past. One wonders whether the Principle of Scalar Failure isn’t the source of conflict between cultures. One wonders whether we will ever have the conversion formulae that will eliminate misunderstanding, unite the value units, and bring peace to our species. 

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Ithaca Is Yours

11/17/2015

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Aeolus: “What are you doing here, Odysseus? I thought I sent you on your way to your homeland under a fair wind.”


Odysseus: “Unfaithful friends have been my undoing.”

Aeolus controls winds in Homer’s epic, and Odysseus desperately needs winds blowing toward Ithaca to travel home with his crew after a ten-year war against the Trojans. Kindly, Aeolus puts unfavorable winds in a bag tied with a silver rope so that only the West Wind would drive the ship homeward. As they approach Ithaca, however, Odysseus’ men, believing the bag holds treasure, untie the silver rope and unwittingly release the unfavorable winds that blow them back to the island of Aeolus. Thus, Aeolus’ question, “What are you doing here?” and subsequent refusal to offer further help. Uh oh.

After a bit of rowing, a year or so in the pleasurable company of Circe, and a trip through hell (a.k.a Hades) among other adventures, Odysseus and his men renew their journey. However, the greedy action of the men in releasing the winds and their disobedience leads to their eventual undoing. In the course of trying to sail back to Ithaca, all of Odysseus’ men die in a storm. Uh oh. That leaves The Great Schemer who had devised the Trojan horse alone in his attempt to return to his son, wife, and kingdom. Where’s an Uber driver when you need one?

Happy ending: Odysseus, with a little help from son Telemachus and faithful friends, reclaims what is his. Mostly, however, Odysseus’ successful return is the product of his own wit. He never gives up on his goal. He faces every obstacle with confidence that he can overcome it if not with the help of his men, then with his own ingenuity.

No doubt there are times when you think you have to go through Hades on your way to your goal. Think of Odysseus. Essentially abandoned by helpers, he scrapes, battles, invents, and adapts. You, too, can reach your Ithaca, even when you feel abandoned by fair-weather friends and favorable winds.    
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One Click

11/16/2015

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You avail yourself of every shortcut. After all, you are a very busy person, but even when you are not so busy, you make yourself busy. One click. If you could eliminate just one click per day, you would eliminate 365 clicks in a non-leap year. If you could eliminate two, well, you can do the math. Keep moving. And everyone on the Web knows this. Get them to the product. Get them to the news. Get them to the heart of the site as fast as possible. Save that click.

Slow down. Let’s get existential. There’s joy in clicking. I am my finger that clicks. I am the actual personification of the electromagnetic force. From brain through nerves at the end of the finger, the force connects me to the world and the world to me. I click; therefore, I ….

It’s all about overcoming location. There you are, sitting in front of your desktop, or holding your laptop on the subway or bus or plane, or using your I-Something in an Uber car: Sitting motionless, but simultaneously in motion, simultaneously running through the Web to Ouagadougou while traveling to work. “Gotta get ‘THERE’ before I get ‘There.’” You arrive at busy street-side office building and dusty desert capital. 

Slow down. Enjoy an extra click. Dwell where you are for a change. Ouagadougou will be there in the morning; it’s been there as a capital since 1441 and even earlier as a caravan wayside village.

You won’t, right? The moment you finish this you’ll be off clicking rapidly again. “Gotta get there while I’m still here.”

Okay, I realize what I’m up against, so go ahead. Divide your screens. More clicking to do. To paraphrase Dylan Thomas: The force that through the white mouse drives my travel/Drives my connection to all places and makes me, in a click, an omnipresent electromagnetic god. Off to Ouagadougou. Click.

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Faethm

11/13/2015

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Unless you are a mariner, oceanographer, or marine archaeologist, you probably haven’t used fathom with respect to water. You might, however, have used it with respect to understanding: “I can’t fathom your reason for doing what you did”; “Who could fathom the depths of your depression?”

Fathom is cognate of faethm, an Old English word that implies embracing or enveloping, something akin to what one can do with outstretched arms. The actual measure is standardized in the metric system, but let’s go with six feet, an approximation of measurement from fingertip to fingertip on arms spread wide. In water, depth is measured in fathoms.

In emotions, there is no such precise quantification. Fathoming is what we do when another is suffering. We want to get to the “bottom” of the problem. In doing so, we reach out, ready to embrace. But there’s a catch: To embrace one in depth with arms that span only six feet, we have to enter the water somehow. We have to be down there with the person. That’s not an easy matter for those not dressed in psychological scuba gear.

When we can’t embrace, we echo the familiar, “I can’t fathom…,” expressing our inability to understand the motivation of another. Depression can be deep and therefore, unfathomable for others. We often think in terms of others reaching downward to embrace because those “at depth” often don’t have the energy to reach upward—and with good reason. Being at depth is scary. Pressure increases in the real ocean by one atmosphere for every 33 feet of depth, so going under presents dangers. Those in the depths of depression really do need psychological scuba divers, people equipped properly to go down where they are, outstretch their arms, and help them swim out of the depths.

Yet, there are levels of “depression” that aren’t totally unfathomable by those who swim in the sea of love. From the surface and from fingertip to fingertip, we can reach those who are only one fathom deep. We need to reach out quickly before they sink lower.

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REPOSTED: Venturi and Bernoulli

11/13/2015

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Ever get the feeling that things are closing in on you? Pressure mounting? Confined? Dominated by things from the outside? Take a lesson from physics.

There’s a principle by which airplanes fly, streams flow, fluids move through pipelines, and open sunroofs cool cars. Two guys a long time ago described the principle and put it in the math of physics. In one aspect: Constricting the flow of an inviscid fluid makes it speed up to conserve energy. In another aspect: A fluid speeds up in response to a reduction in pressure. 

Send flowing water through a fat pipe and into a skinny one. The flow will have to increase in the skinny one because of the pressure from the greater volume (or discharge) through the fat pipe behind it. If you don’t have a pipe to see this in action, then observe a small stream that has varying widths and maybe even some small pools along its channel. Where the water is constricted, it will flow faster than where the water ponds. Go to a whitewater stream (or see a video of one). Where’s the whitewater? It is, of course, where there are constrictions formed by boulders or durable rock along the channel sides. You can, to make a pun, bank on it: In narrow channels water speeds up; in wide channels it slows down.

An inviscid fluid is hard to find. Real fluids have some viscosity (a resistance to flow), and that viscosity, coupled with the sides and bottom of a channel, produces a boundary layer that slows the flow of the fluid it contacts. Let’s simplify it: Viscosity toys with energy.  A boundary layer presents an obstruction to flow in the “real” world of even minimally viscous fluids.

Return now to the feeling of pressure building, things closing in, and boundaries squashing you. What’s a person to do? Take a lesson from fluid flow. Pick up the pace. You’ll lower the pressure. For many, this is a hard lesson. The pressure on all sides makes some slow down, giving up the flow of their daily lives in their obsession with the boundary layers of resistance along the periphery of their emotions, actions, and goals. Advice: Don’t stop. Slowing down and yielding to the boundary layer of resistance will impede your flow. You need to get past the constrictions, doing whatever it takes to do so. When you speed up through the tough times, pressure eases.

In practical terms, get or sharpen knowledge or skills. Picture the constrictions in your life as narrowing pipes or stream channels. Envision the whitewater section. The boundary layers are less inhibiting in the middle of the stream. With some practice you will experience an exhilarating ride past the rocks on a temporarily turbulent stream. Yes, you will get a bit wet, but past the constrictions, you will give a shout of joy. You’ll feel the adrenaline rush as you look back at what, at the outset, seemed impossible to accomplish. You might even laugh at what you once perceived to be constrictions. From now on all feelings that things are closing in will give way to the excitement of the ride through the constrictions.  

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Charge of the Light Brigade

11/12/2015

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You have seen such circumstances; you know, the kind of instance that begets the carpenter’s admonition “Measure twice; cut once.” Probably one of the most famous instances of such “cutting” without getting the facts straight is the charge through the “Valley of Death” by 673 English cavalrymen of the Light Brigade during the battle of Balaclava (Ukrainian Балаклава; town for which the knitted ski mask is named) during the Crimean War. The charge became almost instantly famous (or infamous) thanks to the telegraph and to a poem by Tennyson.

Two rival brothers-in-law, the Earl of Lucan and the Earl of Cardigan (for whom the sweater is named), had long been at odds, and both were cavalry officers. During the campaign against the Russians, Cardigan was in charge of the Light Brigade under the command of Lucan. Lucan commanded both the “heavies” and the lightly armed—and swift—light cavalry brigade. Superior to both was First Baron Raglan who issued the order to retake guns and the redoubt captured by the Russians on an adjacent highland.

Raglan’s position during the battle was from a highland west of the North and South Valleys. Raglan sent Captain Louis Nolan to tell Lucan to recapture the guns lost to the Russians, but Lucan could not, from his position, see any such lost weapons. So, when Nolan said he must attack, Lucan asked, “Attack what? What guns, sir?” Nolan waved imprecisely toward what was to become known as the “Valley of Death,” and not toward the redoubts on the adjacent hill where Raglan had meant for them to attack.

Lucan and Cardigan allowed their dislike of each other to influence their field decisions. They also blindly followed an order they misunderstood. The Russians had men and artillery positioned along the sides and at the opposite end of the valley. Cardigan, never known as particularly bright, could see that the Russians had lined the sides and opposite end of the valley with artillery and riflemen, so he questioned the order. Lucan, however, told his brother-in-law, “We have no choice but to obey.”  

Mentally map this. Put yourself in this position. You don’t have exact knowledge of the task; you see potential folly in the task as stated, and you have to obey someone you don’t trust that gives an order with potentially dire consequences. The consequences of that reckless charge? One hundred ten cavalrymen were killed, 129 were wounded, and 32 were captured.

Let’s hope you never have to face confusion that threatens lives. But what of those daily circumstances when you don’t have exact knowledge, you see possible folly in pursuing a course of action, and you can’t trust the prudence of those who present limited options? When in doubt, doubt. Measure twice before cutting. Cardigan did measure twice, but he allowed his brother-in-law to dictate a foregone conclusion to cut without looking at that “second measure.”

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating inaction because of doubt. You don’t have to measure an indefinite number of times, but if that second measure conflicts with the first, then one more check might save you (and possibly others) some grief.    

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Fast Brain, Slow Mind

11/12/2015

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Cells communicate. If they didn’t, you would not be reading this. We don’t fully understand the process, but communication definitely occurs on a molecular level. We can seemingly even increase their ability to communicate, as a study on the use of Omega 3s to help boys named Elliot and Mark seems to show. Elliot and Mark took part in a study conducted in 12 Durham schools as reported by BBC online. Elliott, not doing well in school and addicted to the couch and TV, started to become more intellectually active, even reading all the Harry Potter books and getting better marks in school. The nine-year-old’s reading level “jumped 18 months” over the study period. The study needs some follow up work, but the gist of the research is that DHA helps neurons communicate.

Seems we have mechanisms for communication throughout our bodies. Hormones do that job; proteins or even parts of proteins might be key. Take a study conducted by Bruce Spiegelman and Steven Gygi. A substance called irisin appears to increase in the blood during exercise and might be a key to telling the body to lose weight. Who knows for sure? Well, we don’t at this time, but the study illustrates a point here. We’re pretty complex critters, and different cells and molecules apparently work together, communicating with one another, supposedly for the good of the whole.

NICHD scientist Dr. R. Douglas Fields recently said in reference to a process called myelination, "We can now see another type of communication, in which cells along a neuron’s length can sense the chemical signals the neuron releases." Gosh! How can we keep all this stuff straight? There’s so much to communicating within our bodies we might never fully understand it all, and that makes how we can communicate with other humans even more perplexing. Do we, as our parts seem to do internally, communicate externally for the good of the whole? If so, what do we communicate? Is it wisdom?

Some people seem to have it all together. They are quick-witted and knowledgeable. All their parts seem to work well, but we put most of the emphasis on what their brains can do. They have fast brains. The synapses are efficient, the messenger chemicals all do their jobs, cells cooperate, and nothing seems to inhibit communication within the nervous system. The cells in their bodies all do a good job at funneling messengers wherever they need to go. Some such people also seem to be wise; we know that because they impart their wisdom to us. But then there are other people who seem to be “less put together” yet who are simultaneously wise.

In all this communicating, where does wisdom lie? Is it “in a place”? Surely, it’s not in a cell. Surely, not in messenger molecules. In all cells? In a group of neurons? In the total body? In the mind? Does the mind work as efficiently as the brain? Is wisdom, like the information transferred in the body information du jour? Or is it another form of information to be communicated? And at what speed is wisdom either acquired or transferred? 

If mind is the residence of wisdom, then we can understand how some of us, regardless of efficient, rapidly communicating physical systems in place, seem to act unwisely. History has given us many examples of smart people acting unwisely. With regard to wisdom, it seems possible to have a fast brain and a slow mind.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/articles/intelligenceandmemory/omega_three.shtml 17 September 2014

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150813130018.htm Cell Metabolism, 2015; DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2015.08.001 reported online by Science Daily on August 13, 2015

http://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-videos-show-nih-studies-communication-between-brain-cells

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It's Always All about You

11/11/2015

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Oh! How we love to judge. “Look at her.” “Look at him.” “Don’t turn around now, but after I get up from the table, turn to your right. Not now! I said after I get up.”

Okay, let’s admit it. The indefinite variety of humanity intrigues us, and those we believe that lie outside an “acceptable” (read “enculturated”) range of looks, mannerisms, and behaviors are subject to on-the-spot judgments. Disfigured face? Ridicule. Strange gestures? Ridicule. Affinity for a hobby? Ridicule. We can be a tough audience, sometimes even a gaggle of hecklers. More often, a silent finger-pointing group: We clandestinely judge.

Return to that “indefinite variety of humanity” that intrigues us. Watching people is nearly, if not totally, a universal habit. There are all those other “yous” out there: You know, other members of the same species, more or less symmetrical about a central vertical axis with a head at one end and a butt at the other. Variations of you, aren’t they? Some things held in common. Maybe many things held in common. The familiar is all around us, so that one little difference here or there becomes the focal point.

Maybe when we judge others on their differences, we are just judging ourselves on our sameness. 

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Crater Lake

11/10/2015

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A volcanic feature in southwestern Oregon that attracts numerous visitors is the caldera of Crater Lake. The volcano known as Mount Mazama erupted cataclysmically about 7,700 years ago, blasting itself outward and then collapsing on itself to make a hole that eventually filled with water. The lake is now about 2,000 feet deep and is surrounded by the caldera’s walls that stand well over 1,000 feet above the water. The lake itself is five by six miles and is pierced by Wizard Island, a parasitic volcanic cone that formed in the caldera after the large eruption.

Unless one stands on the rim or walks down to the water, he or she has little concept of the size of the mountain and its interior lake. Pictures of the entire lake are usually aerial ones because of the size of the caldera. For those that stand on the rim of Crater Lake nature quietly announces its power. What kind of energy could have moved so much matter and reduced a mountain by twelve cubic miles of rock (50 cubic kilometers) that it ejected as far as Canada? Mount Mazama’s eruption ranks it among the most powerful volcanic eruptions of the past half million years.

So, why should I go about telling you this? Several reasons. First, humans have inhabited the planet without regard to natural dangers. This they did mostly out of ignorance. Did you, for example, check out the geology of your neighborhood before you moved in? Second, humans have sufficient hubris to believe that whatever bad can happen or did happen probably won’t happen to them. As an example take those who live on the banks or the floodplains of rivers capable of washing away their possessions and loved ones. How many have remained in homes along rivers that previously flooded those dwellings? Or, take the case of Harry Truman, not the president, but the guy who lived on the side of Mt. St. Helens and refused to leave when USGS geologists said he should evacuate. Harry is somewhere beneath a very thick layer of ash. He became one of the eruption’s casualties. Third, humans have a boy-who-cried-wolf state of mind. If a warning isn’t accompanied by exact proof or if it follows an earlier false warning, then it is ineffective. Why bother to listen? That happened in New Orleans even though government officials and the President advised people to flee the city before Hurricane Katrina struck. Some who had the means to leave the city decided to stay. Hey, they had been through big storms before. What could this one do that the others hadn’t done?

The natural beauty of Crater Lake came at a price for many organisms, including humans, that lived within about a 50-mile radius and possibly an even greater circle. Some Native Americans probably died in the blast; certainly a number of animals perished. If you look at a picture of the lake or have the chance to see it in person, think of that moment 7,700 years ago as the eruption started. Would you have fled? We can’t impose on those ancient people the knowledge we now have of volcanoes, but surely the ground started to shake a warning before the grand eruption.

You know this is not your practice life. There are real dangers. Maybe you should pay attention to warnings. Definitely, you should pay attention to your local environment’s potential dangers: Flood, landslide, sinkhole, storm, earthquake, ocean surge, and drought. Some live without regard to dangers, and they survive a disaster or never encounter a catastrophic event. But getting a little knowledge about the place where you live can’t hurt, and it might prevent your suffering property loss, injury, or even death. Fact is: IT can happen to you.

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