Notes: game on...on the radio...Dodgers and Cardinals...Angels in Arizona with a night off...top of 2nd...two out...Cardinals up...grounder...beat the throw...Aristotle and D'Arcy Thompson...Cardinals make out...to bottom of 2nd...think the Dodgers dropped out of first...and are in a dog fight to get to the playoffs...D'backs in first...Rockies a half game out...Dodger's 2.5 back...and the Giants, my pick for NL West, far back...Angels play the D'backs tomorrow...and Rockies in upcoming home stand...and Astros too...who are at top AL West...Angels looking at ten games against contenders...oh...Cardinals with a run in first...Cardinals 1-0...Dodgers make out...to top of 3rd...
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Aristotle (384–322 BC) studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, remaining there for some 17 years.
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In the History of Animals, Aristotle sets out to investigate the existing facts (Greek "hoti", what), prior to establishing their causes (Greek "dioti", why).[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Animals
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if I remember right, Aristotle was Alexander the Great's tutor...
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Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
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Cardinals make out...to bottom of 3rd...I may have this wrong, but it looks to be that it wasn't until the 1500s that authors began to write zoology books comparable to Aristotle's, and even then they were much influenced by it...oh, wanted to take a passing look at Plato's academy...
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The Akademia was a school outside the city walls of ancient Athens. It was located in or beside a grove of olive trees dedicated to the goddess Athena[2], which was on the site even before Cimon enclosed the precincts with a wall.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_Academy
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a collective 'hmmph' from the Homeridae under the Dodona Oak!...mystery schools...
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The Mysteries were thus schools in which all religious functions were closed to the uninitiated and for which the inner workings of the school were kept secret from the general public.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries
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hardly an archaic thing...hard pressed to think of a modern religion or some such that the general public can just wander into and look around...Hollywood so often uses Catholic churches for sets, that one wonders if they are one in the same mystery religion!...consider military sets and props, and one about has it...tourists visit mystery sites all the time...but come away just as mystified by them as before the mysteries drew them...Aristotle was lifting a veil on things with his History of Animals...and his works likely the texts for mystery schools down through the centuries...Hollywood deals in illusionary magic...well, a clip on how computer animations are made, blue screens and such, dispels some of the illusion...but movies are still a magic lantern show...and the narratives' underpinnings as mysterious as anything the ancients painted on their temple walls...a gathering of scriptwriters and production crews not unlike a Greek 'school' gathered under the olive trees...no surprise Giger's illustrations for movieAliens were derived from ancient Egyptian mysteries, see previous post two days back or so, this post ninety third in a series...see previous...and derived, it seems, from a phytoplankton...
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In the darkness of the deep sea, the tiny crustacean Phronima lurks. Phronima are terrifying: they kill plankton, eat their insides and ride around the ocean in the planktons’ cold, dead husks. Later, after Phornima lay their eggs in these husks, their babies come bursting out of their victims’ bodies to begin the cycle anew.
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maybe just an anecdotal rumor!...Cardinals get another run...Cardinals 2-0...happened on that bit about Giger looking at google images of diatoms...stepped to that wondering about moon craters...stepped to that wondering about cymatics, Napoleon and Chlandi...stepped to that from wondering about drops of water...and, and while looking at diatoms, sighted D'Arcy Thompson's famous milk drop pic...and thought, I need to fill a bucket with milk...and tap it...lol...that D'Arcy pic had to be subliminal underneath my water drop musings...big fan of On Growth and Form, D'Arcy's should be famous book...D'Arcy has always been known among scholars, and was taken up by an eclectic bunch of artists...it wasn't until the "New Age' came about that his ideas were popularized...but even then, and still, his efforts are muted and muffled and more or less, I dunno, without emphasis in schools...public schools...general education...D'Arcy's drop in milk is maybe where education should begin!...given milk is our first interest!...
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Using a mass of examples, Thompson pointed out correlations between biological forms and mechanical phenomena. He showed the similarity in the forms of jellyfish and the forms of drops of liquid falling into viscous fluid,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth_Thompson
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/dvdy.24381
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from post two days back:
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http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2018/08/otinotes81818.html
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noted the Moche Mural of the Myths has figures with crowns on them that look like a water drop hitting water...they really look like a milk drop hitting milk!...the Mural is full of images that look like stars and such...and these maybe be seaside creatures...starfish, sea anemones...Moche, like Aristotole, took note of what was in their shore/lagoon...the whole mural looks a bit like the diatom collages popular in Victorian times...
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Almost immediately, the British filmmaker had two questions. First, how did these 19th-century artists manage to assemble diatoms, each just microns long, into dazzling shapes invisible to the naked eye? And secondly, is anyone still working in this medium?
Killip’s search for answers led him to Klaus Kemp, the only living practicioner. He spent an afternoon with the eccentric Englishman, cameras rolling, and produced the documentary, seen above, called “The Diatomist.” The short film was released this week.
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Killip’s search for answers led him to Klaus Kemp, the only living practicioner. He spent an afternoon with the eccentric Englishman, cameras rolling, and produced the documentary, seen above, called “The Diatomist.” The short film was released this week.
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These Kaleidoscopic Masterpieces Are Invisible to the Naked Eye | Short Film Showcase
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxkbSk--EUY
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bottom of 5th...Cardinals 3-0...thing about the water in the bucket, is the bucket...with cymatics, it's the chlandi plate, its shape...I've tried to imagine water in a sphere...a hard ball container...one must get cymatic shapes tapping such in 3-D...somewhere on web likely such...no luck with that yet...there's a mystery to why all the craters on the moon look to be direct hits...there's a few oblong ones...indicating an oblique strike...but the rest all perfectly round...lots of sites and youtubes going on about this...explanation seems to be the meteor coming in vaporizes, the heat liquefies the surface, and, the whole thing much like a water drop plop...after everything solidifies, there's a mountainous ring, and sometimes a little mountain in the middle where the molten magma rebounded upwards...I haven't found that explanation...made it up!...with the bucket, the ripples rebound from the sides, and so the patterns...sometimes are found hexagonal craters...this must have something to do with devil's post pile like hexagons found in remains of volcanoes...I've seen these at Mammoth's post pile...the magma pool made from the vaporized meteor must have like a circular shore line...where it interfaces with the surround cold rock landscape...and some kind of interaction makes the hexagon craters...these aren't very distinct...but the Mysterion Hoagland has a whole take on them...to top of 6th...
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If you look again at many of the “craters,” you can see that they are, in fact, deformed hexagons (below).
http://www.enterprisemission.com/moon2.htm
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to bottom of 6th...well, on the fly, I'd say Hoagland is right to note the hexagons...all the airless moons seem to have them though...not distinctively so...and, as I'm thinking, they are artifacts of what happens to molten things when they solidify on an airless world...and not much gravity in moon Iapetus' case...the whole moon may have transited from a molten state to it's present look very quickly...where the mysterious wall comes from...I dunno...kind of like Hoagland's notion Iapetus is a 900 mile long space ship...Arthur C. Clarke ran with such a notion in his story Rama...
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Rendezvous with Rama is a science fiction novel by British writer Arthur C. Clarke first published in 1973. Set in the 2130s, the story involves a 50-kilometre (31 mi) cylindrical alien starship that enters the Solar System.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendezvous_with_Rama
Clarke didn't think to give it a rocky moon like exterior...oh...Dodgers got some runs,, in the 5th?...Cardinals 3-2...bottom of 6th...iron filings can 'lift the veil' on what the magnetic field between two magnets looks like...a prisum likewise with a beam a light...splitting it into the rainbow colors...water drops do this in Nature...a stone thrown in a still pond reveals the properties of ripples, the refraction from the shore line adding to the display...chlandi plates show the cymatic patterns made from vibrations/sound...oscilloscopes show radio waves...there's a famous Daniel story in the Bible...
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The narrative of Bel (14:1–22) ridicules the worship of idols. In it, the king asks Daniel, "You do not think Bel is a living god? Do you not see how much he eats and drinks every day?"[6] to which Daniel answers that the idol is made of clay covered by bronze and thus cannot eat or drink. Enraged, the king then demands that the seventy priests of Bel show him who consumes the offerings made to the idol. The priests then challenge the king to set the offerings as usual (which were "twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine") and then seal the entrance to the temple with his ring: if Bel does not consume the offerings, the priests are to be sentenced to death; otherwise, Daniel is to be killed.
Daniel then uncovers the ruse (by scattering ashes over the floor of the temple in the presence of the king after the priests have left) and shows that the "sacred" meal of Bel is actually consumed at night by the priests and their wives and children, who enter through a secret door when the temple's doors are sealed.
The next morning, Daniel calls attention to the footprints on the temple floor; the priests of Bel are then arrested and, confessing their deed, reveal the secret passage that they used to sneak inside the temple. They, their wives and children are put to death, and Daniel is permitted to destroy the idol of Bel and the temple. This version has been cited as an ancestor of the "locked-room mystery"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bel_and_the_Dragon
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Dodgers made out...Cardinals made out...to bottom of 7th...the 'seal ring' a curio...it 'encrypts' much as the hollow bulla sealed the clay accounting balls inside it...and those numbers, 70...12,40,6...likely have some import...for goodness sake, how old is this story?...'Persian Period'...which is contemporary with Aristotle...Alexander goes on to conquer the Persians...
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Daniel slays the dragon by baking pitch, fat, and hair (trichas) to make cakes (mazas, barley-cakes) that cause the dragon to burst open upon consumption. In other variants, other ingredients serve the purpose: in a form known to the Midrash, straw was fed in which nails were hidden,[9] or skins of camels were filled with hot coals,[10] or in the Alexander cycle of Romances it was Alexander the Great who overcame the dragon by feeding it poison and tar.
same wiki...
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Holmes also uses footprint analysis to identify culprits throughout his fictional career, from the very first story to the 57th story (The Lion’s Mane published in 1926). Fully 29 of the 60 stories include footprint evidence.
https://blog.oup.com/2013/09/six-methods-forensic-detection-sherlock-holmes/
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an annoyance to JFK buffs is that the footprints on the sixth floor weren't preserved...maybe it was just my annoyance...anyway, that must have a name...making the invisible visible with a kind of 'ruse'...Holmes in tvshowElementary is always setting up some kind of trap...a cloud chamber 'traps' the paths of electrons...I don't know how far back detective deductive reasoning goes back...Aristotle possessed it...and it was probably part of the Mystery Schools curriculum!...which lands it in Egypt...
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The earliest traditions which later analysis would label as forms of Western esotericism emerged in the Eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity, where Hermetism, Gnosticism, and Neoplatonism developed as schools of thought distinct from what became mainstream Christianity.
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This was a milieu in which there was a mix of religious and intellectual traditions from Greece, Egypt, the Levant, Babylon, and Persia, and in which globalisation, urbanisation, and multiculturalism were bringing about socio-cultural change.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism#Late_Antiquity
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'milieu' is another way of saying these ancient cultures were knit together...there was a mileu, I reason, that goes back much further than Rome...just read a bit about Minoan bull jumping and Harappan/Indus Valley bull jumping...Dodgers picking up runs...
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Ritual leaping over bulls is a motif of Middle Bronze Age figurative art, notably of Minoan Crete, but also found in Hittite Anatolia, the Levant, Bactria and the Indus Valley.[2] It is often interpreted as a depiction of a rite performed in connection with bull worship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-leaping
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My interest in the Minoan civilization of Crete was sparked when I noted a conspicuous parallel between the Indus and Minoan cultures – that of the popularity of the sport of bull-leaping. Indus seals from c.2600 BCE onwards show acrobats leaping over a bull, while in Cretan art bull-leaping appears at the beginning of the Late Bronze Age in c.1700 BCE.
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One of the most notable characteristics of the Minoan palaces of the Neopalatial Period was their highly-sophisticated water management techniques, which are astonishingly similar to those found in the Indus Valley cities from c.3000 BCE.
http://www.bibhudevmisra.com/2017/03/indus-valley-cultural-elements-in.html
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to bottom of 8th...Dodgers 3-3...the Sumerians had extensive irrigation and aqueduct works...for sometime to set these all beside the Andeans'...Puig up pinch hitting...infield hit...and on Thera...Akrotiri...
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Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek: [akroˈtiri]) is a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption about 1627 BC and buried in volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of fine frescoes and many objects and artworks.
The settlement has been suggested as a possible inspiration for Plato's story of Atlantis. The site has been excavated since 1967.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akrotiri_(Santorini)#/media/File:Akrotiri-greece-feve.jpg
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Arthur Evans recognized that depictions of bulls and bull-handling had a long tradition represented by copious instances in multi-media art, not only at Knossos, and other sites on Crete, but also in the Aegean and on mainland Greece, with a tradition even more ancient in Egypt and the Middle East. At Knossos he distinguished between "bull-grappling scenes" or "'cow-boy' feats in the open" and "Circus Sports." The cowboy scenes depict the catching and handling of wild cattle, represented by animal icons very like the aurochs from which kine were domesticated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull-Leaping_Fresco
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aurochs for sometime!...have a quote from D'Arcy before game wraps up...Puig gets to third on passed ball or something...Turner up...pitching change...don't know what Turner did...W?...Machado up...Machado is a cool player...
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Still, as a responsible member of the community he was called on in various ways, and in 1892, he joined his first government commission, formed to investigate a plague of voles in Scotland (conclusions included: “Don’t shoot hawks and owls that eat voles,” and “it’s probably not a good idea to set loose a ‘virus’ to infect the voles”).
It’s an interesting exercise—trying to fit together clues to deduce just what modern bird some passage in classical Greek literature was talking about. Often Thompson succeeds, sometimes by using natural history; sometimes by thinking about mythology or about configurations of things like constellations named for birds. But sometimes Thompson just has to describe something as “a remarkable bird, of three varieties, of which one croaks like a frog, one bleats like a goat, and the third barks like a dog”—and he doesn’t know the modern equivalent.
https://www.wired.com/story/darcy-wentworth-thompson-on-growth-and-form/
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that's a really great story/bio of D'Arcy...author relates how he happened on D'Arcy...Dodgers leave Puig on third...to top of 9th...woops...Cardinals home run...Cardinals 4-3...woops, they did it again...back to back home runs!...eesh...Cardinals 5-3...
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On Growth and Form has never really become mainstream in biology—or any other field. (It didn’t help that by the 1930s, biology was firmly going off in the direction of biochemistry and later molecular biology.) So how have people found out about On Growth and Form?
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But how did I first become aware of Thompson, and On Growth and Form? My first hypothesis today was that it was in 1977, from the historical notes of Benoit Mandelbrot’s Fractals book (yes, Thompson had actually used the term “self-similar,” though only in connection with spirals). Then I thought perhaps it might have been around 1980, from the references to Alan Turing’s 1952 paper on the chemical basis of morphogenesis. I wondered if perhaps it was from hearing about catastrophe theory, and the work of René Thom, in the mid-1970s. But my best guess as of now is that it was actually around 1978, from a little book called Patterns in Nature, by a certain Peter S. Stevens, that heavily references On Growth and Form, and that I happened across in a bookstore.
https://www.wired.com/story/darcy-wentworth-thompson-on-growth-and-form/
author's stepping stones...Turing is new to me, and for tomorrowmorrow, but I too followed those self same steps about...link to google images page patterns in nature book...Cardinals make out...to bottom of 9th...nowadays, the web is choc a bloc full of patterns in nature sites and youtubes and all...back in the day, I sort of snuck into New Age bookstore looking for archaeological books, which it had, and noted the sacred geometry and Nature books, which seemed a bit strange...and still do...such the prejudice inculcated in our educations!...Kemp up...but I started bringing them home...lead off walk...I was at the cashier in the Golden Bough bookstore once...it was over in Anaheim, near 39, and a fellow comes in, a warlock I can only presume, and asks for a book on hold behind the cashier, big thick thing...and says to the cashier...'Does it work?'...'Yep.' the cashier said, and rung up the sale...I dunno...I still creep out in New Age bookstores...went about to them recently looking for minerals...got to naming my Black Deck Tale Black Dragons after minerals...I'm not a New Age sort, though a fan of tvshowCharmed!...:)...Kemp had a lead off walk...where is he, and the Dodgers?...I don't do tattoos...or crystals...incense...have a whole post in works about incense in Old and New World...but as Hollywood well knows, stories from the realm of folklore have a charm...folklore is often where the ancient Mystereon's mysteries are preserved...modern Andean weavers have the old skills...two out...1-1...2-1 to Grandolph...might have that name spelled wrong...drop the 'r'...lol...3-2...K...Dodgers digging a whole...'a bitter pill to swallow'...Cardinals 5-3...
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