Convened by Dr.G., a Renegade Illuminati, convening Thee Temple, for knowledge, whimsy, and inspiration! Everything is true, nothing is forbidden!
Broadcast Thursdays at 89.5 FM KZCT in Vallejo, California, to a worldwide audience.
Introductory track: Covenant - Ritual Noise [youtube.com/watch?v=dnlGEQ1NUsk]
Meandering track: Spacemind - Memory Hole [youtube.com/watch?v=uL0mvPZuklM]
Science & Futurism
[futurism.com] [kurzweilai.net] [eurekalert.org]
* "New mineral discovered, as hard as diamond: Russian scientist" (2018-08-02, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137363843.htm) [peeep.us/2d5ca65f]
* "American researchers transplant bioengineered lungs into pigs without complication" (2018-08-01, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137362266.htm) [peeep.us/724dcdf8]
* "Scientists transplant bioengineered lungs into pigs without complication" (2018-08-02, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e78496a4d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/114bae94]
* "Chinese scientists perform genetic surgery to create first single-chromosome yeast" (2018-08-02, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364399.htm) [peeep.us/053bd0f6], images
- (xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364399_2.htm) [peeep.us/6ce7b960]
- (xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364399_3.htm) [peeep.us/f006b152]
- (xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364399_4.htm) [peeep.us/43a682de], caption: A team member of molecular biologist Qin Zhongjun watches a single chromosome yeast strain through electron microscope at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, east China, July 31, 2018. Brewer's yeast, one-third of whose genome is said to share ancestry with a human's, has 16 chromosomes. However, Chinese scientists have managed to fit nearly all its genetic material into just one chromosome while not affecting the majority of its functions, according to a paper released Thursday on Nature's website. Qin Zhongjun and his team used CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing to create a single chromosome yeast strain, the paper said.
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Space News
[astrobio.net]
* "Scientists propose new way to find alien life" (2018-08-03, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e78516a4d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/9bbed197]
* "Scientists propose new way to find alien life by cosmic UV light" (2018-08-01, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137362354.htm) [peeep.us/0a802ce4]
* "A Century-Old Model for Life’s Origin Gets Significant Substantiation" (2018-07-25, Weizmann Institute of Science, wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/century-old-model-life’s-origin-gets-significant-substantiation) [archive.fo/P7q8z] [begin excerpt]: Based on the computer model they developed, the scientists demonstrated that specific lipid compositions, called “composomes”, can undergo compositional mutations, be subject to natural selection in response to environmental changes, and even undergo Darwinian evolution. Prof. Lancet comments that such an information system, which is based on compositions and not on the sequence of chemical “letters” as in DNA, is reminiscent of the realm of epigenetics, where traits are inherited independent of the DNA sequence. This lends credence to the scientists’ assumption that life could emerge before the advent of DNA and RNA. In their article they in fact delineate a chemical path that leads to the appearance of genetic material in the framework of the oily droplets.
Lancet’s “Lipid World” concept is contingent upon the question of whether there were sufficient oil-like “water hating” molecules in the primordial soup. Here too, the scientists describe a comprehensive literature search, according to which there is a high probability for such molecules to be present on early earth. This conclusion was reinforced by a very recent study showing that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a sub-glacial ocean replete with “water hating” compounds (primordial soup), some of which could form Lipid World-type droplets. Prof. Lancet contends that these findings, along with innovative model-based computations, show that the probability of life’s emergence is relatively high, including the exciting possibility that Enceladus presently harbors some primary lipid-based life forms. [end excerpt]
* "Scientists discover 'rogue planet' outside solar system" (2018-08-05, ews.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d776b6a4d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/63fb06da]
- image caption: Artist's rendition of SIMP J01365663+0933473, which is 20 light years from Earth. /Photo via US National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
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Ancient News
Music for your perusal (via beatport.com) [is.gd/2MzlEd]
* "Chile's rock art llamas divulge secrets of ancient desert culture" (2018-07-31, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d7767544d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/d3d0be23] [begin excerpt]:
Conservationists working in Chile's Atacama Desert want UNESCO to recognize the Taira Valley drawings as a heritage site so they can develop sustainable tourism in the region.
Taira is "a celebration of life," said archaeologist Jose Bereguer, describing the site as "the most complex in South America" because of its astronomical importance as well as the significance to local shepherds.
The rock art was a "shepherd's rite" needed to ask the "deities that governed the skies and the earth" to increase their llama flocks.
First rediscovered by Swedish archaeologist Stig Ryden in 1944, the Taira rock art is between 2,400 and 2,800 years old. [end excerpt]
- image caption: Chilean archaeologist Jose Berenguer is pictured in front of drawings at the Taira Cave on July 21, 2018.
- image caption: Chilean archaeologist Jose Berenguer shows drawings at the Taira Cave.
* "Groundbreaking discovery: Who may have built Stonehenge finally revealed" (2018-08-02, rt.com/uk/434932-scientists-reveal-origins-stonehenge/) [peeep.us/54f0ea02]
* "The glorious history behind China’s military ruins" (2018-07-31, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514f3259544d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/dc5156e5] [begin excerpt]: The Stone City, also known as “Ghost Face City” was originally built during the Chu Kingdom (475-221BC). Located in Nanjing, eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, this ancient fortified city has attracted hundreds of visitors since 1990, when the city official ordered the re-construction of stone city park. [end excerpt]
- image caption: Stone City, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
* "Int'l organization to inspect Myanmar's ancient city for enlisting as world heritage" (2018-08-02, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137363801.htm) [peeep.us/203e00e8]
* "China to restore frescoes of grassland grottoes" (2018-08-01, xinhuanet.com) [xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/01/c_137361328.htm] [peeep.us/cf7d081a]
* " 'Spectacular' ancient public library discovered in Germany Remains of grand building that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls uncovered in central Cologne, dating back to second century AD" (2018-07-31, theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/31/spectacular-ancient-public-library-discovered-in-germany) [peeep.us/1a868470]
* "The Extensive and Sometimes Mythical History of the Chola Empire" (2016-03-29, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/extensive-and-sometimes-mythical-history-chola-empire-005613) [peeep.us/1138caa6]
- image caption: Bronze Chola Statue of Nataraja at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
- image caption: Thanjavur in 1869
* "Pharaoh Ramses’ Anti-Israelite Policy Now Explained" (2018-08-05, ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/israelite-exodus-0010499) [archive.is/pxoNI]
* "This 2,800-Year-Old Stele Tells A Bible Story From A Different Point Of View" (2017-05-17, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/2800-year-old-stele-tells-bible-story-different-point-view-008087) [archive.is/YRpnF]
* "113-yr-old passes away in China's county of longevity" (2018-08-02, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364111.htm) [peeep.us/d8bada3e]
* "Decades-long investigation into Bermuda Triangle finally explains mysterious disappearances" (2018-08-02, rt.com/news/434936-bermuda-triangle-mystery-solved/) [peeep.us/b641950e]
* "The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything" (2018-08-04, by Tim O’Shea, informationclearinghouse.info/49968.htm) [archive.is/SLYEr] [begin excerpt]
Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe glimpsed by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all bonds, all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand – in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched infinite rawness.
Those bonds are much harder to break today, half a century later. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated.
It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public consciousness by a thousand media clips per day. In an effort to save time, I would like to provide just a little background on the handling of information in this country. Once the basic principles are illustrated about how our current system of media control arose historically, the reader might be more apt to question any given story in today’s news.
If everybody believes something, it’s probably wrong. [end excerpt]
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Meandering track: Spacemind - Memory Hole [youtube.com/watch?v=uL0mvPZuklM]
Science & Futurism
[futurism.com] [kurzweilai.net] [eurekalert.org]
* "American researchers transplant bioengineered lungs into pigs without complication" (2018-08-01, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137362266.htm) [peeep.us/724dcdf8]
* "Scientists transplant bioengineered lungs into pigs without complication" (2018-08-02, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e78496a4d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/114bae94]
* "Chinese scientists perform genetic surgery to create first single-chromosome yeast" (2018-08-02, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364399.htm) [peeep.us/053bd0f6], images
- (xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364399_2.htm) [peeep.us/6ce7b960]
- (xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364399_3.htm) [peeep.us/f006b152]
- (xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364399_4.htm) [peeep.us/43a682de], caption: A team member of molecular biologist Qin Zhongjun watches a single chromosome yeast strain through electron microscope at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, east China, July 31, 2018. Brewer's yeast, one-third of whose genome is said to share ancestry with a human's, has 16 chromosomes. However, Chinese scientists have managed to fit nearly all its genetic material into just one chromosome while not affecting the majority of its functions, according to a paper released Thursday on Nature's website. Qin Zhongjun and his team used CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing to create a single chromosome yeast strain, the paper said.
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Space News
[astrobio.net]
* "Scientists propose new way to find alien life" (2018-08-03, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514e78516a4d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/9bbed197]
* "Scientists propose new way to find alien life by cosmic UV light" (2018-08-01, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137362354.htm) [peeep.us/0a802ce4]
* "A Century-Old Model for Life’s Origin Gets Significant Substantiation" (2018-07-25, Weizmann Institute of Science, wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/century-old-model-life’s-origin-gets-significant-substantiation) [archive.fo/P7q8z] [begin excerpt]: Based on the computer model they developed, the scientists demonstrated that specific lipid compositions, called “composomes”, can undergo compositional mutations, be subject to natural selection in response to environmental changes, and even undergo Darwinian evolution. Prof. Lancet comments that such an information system, which is based on compositions and not on the sequence of chemical “letters” as in DNA, is reminiscent of the realm of epigenetics, where traits are inherited independent of the DNA sequence. This lends credence to the scientists’ assumption that life could emerge before the advent of DNA and RNA. In their article they in fact delineate a chemical path that leads to the appearance of genetic material in the framework of the oily droplets.
Lancet’s “Lipid World” concept is contingent upon the question of whether there were sufficient oil-like “water hating” molecules in the primordial soup. Here too, the scientists describe a comprehensive literature search, according to which there is a high probability for such molecules to be present on early earth. This conclusion was reinforced by a very recent study showing that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a sub-glacial ocean replete with “water hating” compounds (primordial soup), some of which could form Lipid World-type droplets. Prof. Lancet contends that these findings, along with innovative model-based computations, show that the probability of life’s emergence is relatively high, including the exciting possibility that Enceladus presently harbors some primary lipid-based life forms. [end excerpt]
* "Scientists discover 'rogue planet' outside solar system" (2018-08-05, ews.cgtn.com/news/3d3d674d776b6a4d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/63fb06da]
- image caption: Artist's rendition of SIMP J01365663+0933473, which is 20 light years from Earth. /Photo via US National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
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Ancient News
Music for your perusal (via beatport.com) [is.gd/2MzlEd]
* "Chile's rock art llamas divulge secrets of ancient desert culture" (2018-07-31, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774d7767544d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/d3d0be23] [begin excerpt]:
Conservationists working in Chile's Atacama Desert want UNESCO to recognize the Taira Valley drawings as a heritage site so they can develop sustainable tourism in the region.
Taira is "a celebration of life," said archaeologist Jose Bereguer, describing the site as "the most complex in South America" because of its astronomical importance as well as the significance to local shepherds.
The rock art was a "shepherd's rite" needed to ask the "deities that governed the skies and the earth" to increase their llama flocks.
First rediscovered by Swedish archaeologist Stig Ryden in 1944, the Taira rock art is between 2,400 and 2,800 years old. [end excerpt]
- image caption: Chilean archaeologist Jose Berenguer is pictured in front of drawings at the Taira Cave on July 21, 2018.
- image caption: Chilean archaeologist Jose Berenguer shows drawings at the Taira Cave.
* "Groundbreaking discovery: Who may have built Stonehenge finally revealed" (2018-08-02, rt.com/uk/434932-scientists-reveal-origins-stonehenge/) [peeep.us/54f0ea02]
* "The glorious history behind China’s military ruins" (2018-07-31, news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d514f3259544d79457a6333566d54/share_p.html) [peeep.us/dc5156e5] [begin excerpt]: The Stone City, also known as “Ghost Face City” was originally built during the Chu Kingdom (475-221BC). Located in Nanjing, eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, this ancient fortified city has attracted hundreds of visitors since 1990, when the city official ordered the re-construction of stone city park. [end excerpt]
- image caption: Stone City, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
* "Int'l organization to inspect Myanmar's ancient city for enlisting as world heritage" (2018-08-02, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137363801.htm) [peeep.us/203e00e8]
* "China to restore frescoes of grassland grottoes" (2018-08-01, xinhuanet.com) [xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/01/c_137361328.htm] [peeep.us/cf7d081a]
* " 'Spectacular' ancient public library discovered in Germany Remains of grand building that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls uncovered in central Cologne, dating back to second century AD" (2018-07-31, theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/31/spectacular-ancient-public-library-discovered-in-germany) [peeep.us/1a868470]
* "The Extensive and Sometimes Mythical History of the Chola Empire" (2016-03-29, ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/extensive-and-sometimes-mythical-history-chola-empire-005613) [peeep.us/1138caa6]
- image caption: Bronze Chola Statue of Nataraja at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
- image caption: Thanjavur in 1869
* "Pharaoh Ramses’ Anti-Israelite Policy Now Explained" (2018-08-05, ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/israelite-exodus-0010499) [archive.is/pxoNI]
* "This 2,800-Year-Old Stele Tells A Bible Story From A Different Point Of View" (2017-05-17, ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/2800-year-old-stele-tells-bible-story-different-point-view-008087) [archive.is/YRpnF]
* "113-yr-old passes away in China's county of longevity" (2018-08-02, xinhuanet.com/english/2018-08/02/c_137364111.htm) [peeep.us/d8bada3e]
* "Decades-long investigation into Bermuda Triangle finally explains mysterious disappearances" (2018-08-02, rt.com/news/434936-bermuda-triangle-mystery-solved/) [peeep.us/b641950e]
* "The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything" (2018-08-04, by Tim O’Shea, informationclearinghouse.info/49968.htm) [archive.is/SLYEr] [begin excerpt]
Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe glimpsed by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all bonds, all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand – in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched infinite rawness.
Those bonds are much harder to break today, half a century later. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated.
It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public consciousness by a thousand media clips per day. In an effort to save time, I would like to provide just a little background on the handling of information in this country. Once the basic principles are illustrated about how our current system of media control arose historically, the reader might be more apt to question any given story in today’s news.
If everybody believes something, it’s probably wrong. [end excerpt]
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