May 23

Sportin’ Life … a legend

Yesterday a book review in The Washington Post reminded me of this from April 10, 2016. poor georgie’s almanack John W. Bubbles As a young show business press agent in Chicago around 1960 I promoted an interesting “B List” of world-renowned performers visiting The Windy City. …

Entertainment

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Jan 24

WHY A ROCK … A STAR … A ROCK STAR … AND YOU, ARE THE SAME THING BUT DIFFERENT

poor georgie’s almanack Clue 12 of 12 … The conclusions. The is a very short adult version. A longer version, written for teens in simple language and with pictures, is attached. Nearly 14 billion Earth Years ago an amazingly hot blob of Energy instantly expanded. Today that is known as…

People

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Jan 23

Your decision vs. mine.

poor georgie’s almanack Clue 11 of 12 Think of approaching a stoplight as it is turns from green to yellow. You are driving a car in the lane next to mine at the same speed. I decide to stop. You speed past the light before it turns red. We have…

Astronomy

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Jan 22

It still is the same thing but different.

poor georgie’s almanack But, how does it remain the same thing but different? Clue 10 of 12. About 45 years ago I wrote a report and organized hearings for The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee titled, ‘The New World Information Order.’ …

Universe

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It still is the same thing but different.

Jan 21

A different Rosetta Stone?

Clue 9 of 12. In 1799, near the Egyptian city named Rosetta, soldiers found a large stone. Carved onto it were three messages. Two in forms of Greek and one in Hieroglyphics, a forgotten Egyptian language that used pictures and symbols. After the Greek was translated, someone figured out…

Humanity

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Jan 20

Universal Building Blocks

poor georgie’s almanack This is the eighth of 12 clues for solving a Big puzzle. Common wisdom in the science community is that everything in our body and everything in our universe arose nearly 14 billion years ago in the very hot mili-second that started The Big Bang. That event…

Lego

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Jan 18

What’s in a wave? A surfer said, ‘Life is a wave. Catch it.’

What’s in a wave? A surfer said, ‘Life is a wave. Catch it.’ poor georgie’s almanack Of course, it sounds silly when we learn that everything is made up of waves, or that waves are full of information. Even rocks. For a human rocks are very tightly packed waves. For an atom, a rock probably is like living in a towering apartment building. We evolved to understand the messages in a few of the waves.

Physics

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What’s in a wave? A surfer said, ‘Life is a wave. Catch it.’

poor georgie’s almanack

Of course, it sounds silly when we learn that everything is made up of waves, or that waves are full of information.

Even rocks. For a human rocks are very tightly packed waves.

For an atom, a rock probably is like living in a towering apartment building.

We evolved to understand the messages in a few of the waves.

Rough seas often means a storm nearby. Sirens mean danger. Plucked guitar strings are music. Rainbows are colors.

Humans are beginning to build translators. Today, my favorite is the X-Ray machine that lets us see like Superman.

Jan 18

THERE IS MORE T EVERYTHING THAN MEETS THE EYE

THERE IS MORE T EVERYTHING THAN MEETS THE EYE It sure looks like our bodies, and all animal activities on Earth, and even gigantic galaxies like our Milky Way, are run by bureaucracies. Everything. For example, the odd little things in atoms, called ‘quarks,’ are organized to decide what kind of particle they will build. In animals, atoms build cells, which build molecules, which build systems … like the blood or nerve systems.

Astronomy

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THERE IS MORE T EVERYTHING THAN MEETS THE EYE

It sure looks like our bodies, and all animal activities on Earth, and even gigantic galaxies like our Milky Way, are run by bureaucracies. Everything.

For example, the odd little things in atoms, called ‘quarks,’ are organized to decide what kind of particle they will build. In animals, atoms build cells, which build molecules, which build systems … like the blood or nerve systems.

The systems usually work quietly running our bodies. They make a million little decisions a minute. Sometimes the brain makes final big decisions.

Thus, just like our optic system, there is more to everything than meets the eye.

To be continued tomorrow.

Or see: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:2228cea8-647e-4304-9fc9-cac63a08794f

Jan 17

Ups and Downs of Cosmic Communications?

The unscientific explanation of ‘entanglement’ is when one of those itty-bitty things that are part of an atom suddenly points down, it’s opposite twin hundreds or millions of miles away, instantly points up. Meanwhile, twin sisters in the attic and basement seem to know what the other is thinking. Several researchers claim to have proved the concept. That’s a form of cosmic communicating. But how?

Cosmology

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Ups and Downs of Cosmic Communications?

Meanwhile, twin sisters in the attic and basement seem to know what the other is thinking.

Several researchers claim to have proved the concept.

That’s a form of cosmic communicating. But how?

More tomorrow.

Or see: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:2228cea8-647e-4304-9fc9-cac63a08794f

Jan 15

They think. Should you?

poor georgie’s almanack Maybe every living thing thinks. Cells in our bodies do communicate with other cells. (Hey guys! We gotta kill that cancer cell over there.) Trees communicate with other trees (really). Sunflowers know to tilt to the moving sun. Fish, Gnus, and starlings swarm together to intimidate attackers. How do they communicate? More tomorrow. Yes, these posts are going somewhere. Or: https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:2228cea8-647e-4304-9fc9-cac63a08794f

Psychology

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