//////////WUTHERING HEIGHTS
///////////SOLAR GRADIENT--GULF STREAM
/////////////////SOLITARY NEIGHBOUR
///////////////////GRADIENT WORLD VS HISTORICAL CONTINGENCY
//////////////////Life is a terrible and beautiful process deeply tied to energy, a process that creates improbable structures as it destroys gradients
///////////////In every instance considered natural selection will so operate as to increase the total mass of the organic system, to increase the rate of circulation of matter through the system, and to increase the total energy flux through the system, so long as it is presented an unutilized residue of matter and available energy [exergy] . . . Evolution in these circumstances proceeds in such a direction as to make the total energy flux through the system a maximum compatible with the constraints.
////////////////////Organisms may be seen as connectable nodes that transform the environment as they mediate energetic flows. An airborne retrovirus that quickly destroyed the human population would terrify us. Quickly growing systems—ones that through evolution, technology, or both, tap into previously unrecognized or untapped gradients—may spread like wildfire. But, like raging flames, they rob themselves of their own resources. Slow growers, by contrast, display an innate ingenuity; they make up in longevity and cunning what they lack in rapid gradient destruction, dissipation, and entropy production. They gratify nature not instantly but enduringly. There are many ways to skin a cat, whether Schrödinger's new cat of the role thermodynamics plays in living systems or Blake's feline of energy and fearful symmetry.
//////////////////.....Its a Makkar society as Winston churchill sail when we leave Rascals will decend to rule this land which is quite true.
//////////////SX MAINTAINS OUR FORM OF THERMODYNAMIC DYSEQBM
//////////////////A deep-sea hot spring and its associated fauna. Oceanic hot springs are located along spreading midocean ridges that encircle the Earth. Hot magma and sulfur-rich hot water emanate from some of these spreading axes and flow into the deep, lightless cold water of the ocean floor. Extensive ecosystems are associated with the hot springs and are not fed by energy from the sun but by chemosynthetic reactions. Many believe these systems are the cauldron of early life.
////////////////"Darwin," exulted Katchalsky, "was therefore aware that a physico-chemical evolution preceded the biological and it is this evolution which may escape the criticism of the antithesis." Life's origin from inanimate things was a big idea, one Darwin himself was barely ready for. But there it was, made scientifically plausible again by the idea of evolution. One is reminded of Mary Shelley's gothic portrayal of the Frankenstein monster's electrical animation, of Michelangelo's heavenly father touching Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. There is something magical, incredible about the instantaneous energizing of life. And these are still Western notions, based on history and the notion that time and separate identity is real. But in Eastern philosophy, Hinduism for example, the world, Brahman, is alive: you are not born into it but come out of it, like fruit on a tree, the Atman or self sometimes realizing its true nature before dying and being reborn—or escaping rebirth—in an eternal game of hide-and-seek.
////////////////A Broken Hip Raises Your Risk of Dying
Older people who break a hip have nearly a 25 percent chance of dying in the next five years, a Canadian study has found.
////////////////WAR IS DIPLOMACY CONDUCTED BY OTHER MEANS
//////////////People With Lots Of Working Memory Are Not Easily Distracted (August 8, 2009) -- "That blasted siren. I can't focus." That reaction to undesired distraction may signal a person's low working-memory capacity, according to a new study. Based on a study of 84 students divided into four separate experiments, researchers found that students with high memory storage capacity were clearly better able to ignore distractions and stay focused on their assigned tasks. ... > full story
MY FATHER-TKGM
///////////////////No Need To Tighten Your Belt: Credit Crunch Will Worsen Obesity Epidemic (August 7, 2009) -- Levels of debt have been associated with an increased risk of being fat. Researchers blame the trend on the high price of healthy food, and a tendency for people worried by debt to comfort eat. ... > full story
////////////////ENERGY FLOW THRU ECOSYSTEM-FOOD CYCLE WITH DISSIPATION OF HEAT
/////////////////LEAKY ECOSYSTEMS
////////////////NOTHING IN LF IS TO BE FEARED,ITS ONLY TO BE UNDERSTOOD-MARIE CURIE
///////////////////TWITCHY OR CAUTIOUS
//////////////ADULT ORGANISMS BEHAVE LIKE ECOSYSTEMS
/////////////////REGRESS UNDER STRESS
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Ecosystems regress under stress
/////////////On a planetary level, humans resemble a pioneer species. In a few generations, we have multiplied prolifically. The rapid growth resembles the high-entropy phase of a new ecosystem. But if we are truly the r species of a global ecosystem, we do not know what that ecosystem is—it has not existed on Earth before. Becoming stewards of the Earth is a noble calling. But the more rapidly a species proliferates, the higher the probability that viruses, bacteria, fungi, and animals will treat that species as a succulent gradient to be devoured. This moderates the lopsided growth of one part of the system at the expense of the rest. A peak global ecosystem would seem to entail greater species diversity and higher global ecosystem efficiency than we see at present. It would also seem to involve fewer humans.
///////////////////All individual organisms are bounded by structures of their own making. A tree is enclosed by bark, mammals are encapsulated by hairy skin, and gram-negative bacterial cells have walls enclosed in membranes. Ecosystems also have boundaries. A mature ecosystem leaks very little nutrients and water. Like a cell, it synthesizes its transparent outer membrane itself.
/////////////////Mind Dump
This is one of the best things you can do, both for your sanity and your productivity. Periodically sit down with a pen and paper (or computer, or a napkin), and write down everything in your head. Things you need to do, things that are bothering you, things you want to know; whatever it is, get it all out of your head. It’ll free your brain to think about other things and give you an idea of what, exactly, is on your mind. You can mind dump anywhere, and you’ll always feel better having done it
//////////////////Mass-Trash
Go through your stuff, ignore everything you want to keep, and simply have a throwing-away party. I do this with digital files all the time, but it works equally well in your home or office; just get rid of stuff. Usually, what takes the longest is figuring out what to do with the stuff we still want. So don’t do that. Just get rid of everything else, and marvel in how much less junk you’ve got to deal with now.
CHILDHOOD PURGE-NBJBN-NBJ CRSS-1975-1993
////////////////A POEM AS LOVELY AS A TREE-KILMER
////////////Those who envisage a fundamental link between the thermodynamic arrow of energy dissipation and the biological arrow of the greening earth make up a small minority, and stand well outside the main stream of contemporary biological science. But if their vision is true, it reveals that deep continuity between physics and biology, the ultimate wellspring of life.”
Franklin M. Harold
//////////////////the evolution of species is pushed—or sucked—in the direction taken by succession, in what has been called increasing maturity... evolution should conform to the same trend manifest in succession. Succession is in progress everywhere and evolution follows, encased in succession's frame.”
Ramón Margalef
///////////////////Evolution emerged, providing a new way to degrade energy.
//////////////////THERMO-DARWINIAN MEDICINE
//////////////////HUMAN MORTY INCR MONOTONICALLY BETN 30-90
/////////////////HUMAN THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEM
////////////////As, in ecology, organisms able to garner more resources for their maintenance and growth tend to prosper, so, too, economic profits tend to accrue preferentially to those operators best able to commandeer materials and resources to maintain or expand their own operations: that "money makes money" is not only a truism of capitalism but a reflection of the growth process typical of nonequilibrium systems. Such systems increase their differentiation and complexity vis-à-vis the outside world by funneling resources into their own expansion as they target, use, and sometimes use up the gradient differences that drive energy flow. In addition, because human beings are nature's premier known symbol manipulators, the economic equivalent to biomass or metabolic energy—money—can be made by systematically reducing "merely symbolic" price differentials.
/////////////////that life's purposeful nature, broadly understood, has thermodynamic origins.
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