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A Transformation is often just a change, but the where, when, and how of that change play big roles. A simple transformation may be only a change of mind.   A big transformation may take raw earth into a magnificent tower. The houses of manufacturing are the homes of transformations. The craft of psychoanalysis is the engine of behavior transformation. A scissors may serve as a tool of transformation at the salon. Other transformations pertain to the biological, digital, physical, psychological, political, mathematical, chemical, and evolutionary. Within the human genre, often many steps are in between beginning to end.   The full scope, you ask? We say a T ransformation is an Idea transformed to a Thought transformed to a Plan transformed to a Process transformed to the Results You plan them, experience them, supervise them, and revel in them. Moreover, you enjoy, or fear, and partake in them.   A life without transformations is almost impossible. Just possib

Today’s Biology Lesson.   … from the Quantum World. To me this is all brand new.   Nothing like this was taught when I took biology class. A. You know many birds migrate long distances each year.   What is not well understood is how.   But it is generally assumed they use the earth’s magnetic field – somehow.   This is now explained using modern physics, particularly quantum physics.   It is through the process of quantum entanglement , where two distant photons (light particles) are instantly entangled with each other no matter the distance between them.   Already observed only recently in the physics lab, it is now apparently so in the biology lab for a species of Robin, and the way the photons of light entangle depends on the magnetic field. And this is how the bird chooses its flight direction. BTW, a one-eyed robin could not migrate because it couldn’t get direction information. B. You know smells, and you know not a lot of molecules are needed to stimulate a smell. Be

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Let us not confuse “that which is different” with the loftier concepts of “that which is innovative or creative.” Many are mere expressions of intellectual fraud, as though there isn’t enough fraud going around. Innovation studies – Nowadays there are full university programs offering degrees in innovation. As honey to flies, grants are available is why. Websites are available for all innovators, to infect those without ability with a perception they have it. Innovation studies programs are even available to youngsters aged 10-18.  Mostly, they just train folks about new stuff, though leaving them unable to contribute to it. For example, business innovation is little more than awareness of needs for better products and marketing. In brief, these programs mostly only teach “new” or “different.”  The world so craves new ideas that it invests huge sums to produce what will soon be called innovative nonsense. Futurists are their philosophers. Creative writing – Change the order of

It has been suggested that America is overcoming its digital innocence in face of the dark force of hackers.  Not so.  Before America overcomes its digital innocence, it has another couple of levels of ignorance to descend.  Just a few points. a. Foreign hackers may not be so foreign, only so disguised. b. Contract hacking (Party A against Party B) is ascending. c. Medical records will be the next hackers' bounty. The big score for 2019. d. The availability of data oceans for sale of data already hacked is eminent. e. Corporations (and governments) refuse to fund their IT departments sufficiently to prevent hacking. f. Hacking and how to is fundamentally beyond the experience of congress. Basically, you can't do something unless you know what to do and how to do it. The Hackers' theme is reminiscent from the past. To know know know him Is to spy spy spy on him And I do And I do To be just a little cynical, nothing will be done about hacking until our illeg

Skeleton vs. Luge The Luge is a tiny sled where competitors mounting it feet first and on their backs run down an ice track (same as Toboggan run) at speeds up to about 140 km/hr.   The Skeleton is also a tiny sled where competitors mounting it head first and on their stomachs run down the same track at about the same speeds (130 km/hr). Naturally, there are horrific crashes.  The Luge drivers have their feet smashed up and limp about their whole lives, clearly handicapped and with limited career choices.  On the other hand, the Skeleton drivers smash their heads terribly resulting with lifelong migraines and muddled thinking.  Not quite as handicapped, Skeleton crash victims often go on to successful careers in politics. 

Four Notes A . Globalism is a wonderful idea.   It is like a Utopia.   However, if just one cheater lies among the believers, disaster is the result.   In our world there are at least a half-dozen* cheaters, possibly a half-hundred.   Internally, globalists are forewarned and forearmed, happily willing to crush opposition.   Externally, they are vulnerable and weak. * Not to mention names, but we do serve food artfully placed on one in particular. B . Globally, nationally, and locally, be wary of colleagues who seek only middle level management.   These seek arbitrary power, even if only small. C . There are too many lawyers, we know.  As well, there are too many writers, and way too many bloggers (like me).  In fact, our factories need more workers. I have a plan. D. Your first mistake when hearing some opinion is when you say, “That sounds reasonable.”   Your second is when you buy it.

In this world of political position pieces, there is true sharing on both sides of every issue.  If Party A writer charges Party B player with some outrage, then Party B writer accuses Party A player with the same - and almost with the same words.   Note how "hate" has made the rounds. As well, the concept of "American inability to think in depth," currently swirls around.  As soon as Party A thinks up a new charge, it is adapted and adopted by Party B.   That alone is cause for outrage by those caught in the middle, but another appalling aspect is the virtual lack of originality. Since the respective party bases rarely read what the other guys say, they think it's all unique.  All we get is (a) scandals from the past or present, (b) pseudo-psychological analyses, (c) the three "Cs" (corruption, crimes, conspiracy), and (d) money.  And in endless variations.  Party faithful do like reruns especially when disguised as new stuff.  The two par

On the Google engine for snooping on Chinese citizens linking Internet use to cell phone numbers.   Perhaps now, per the Google CEO on December 11, 2018, this engine may or may not be delivered to the Chinese government.  So what! Do we not realize this engine, now apparently created, can be marketed to anyone, any country, any company, any agency, any party, any billionaire, with only few simple tweeks (aka adjustments)?   Its very existence is not unlike a nuclear bomb.   If deployed, it could destroy millions of lives, level groups and companies, ruin governments, and decimate universities.   China may have been a mere foil for Google to develop such a tool it could itself use – or sell. Do they not already sell customized versions of their search engine to private companies? Yes.   Do they not already sell search data to private merchants or politicians?   Yes. Forget China.   For the power players of the world, let the bidding begin... Logic .   Nonsense you

As a youth I learned you can’t escape death and taxes .   So true for the big two. This ancient list has expanded with three new tough guys living among us.    We also cannot escape scamming, spamming , and scanning . Walk in any city or airport, log on to any computer, or make a call on any phone, and somebody knows about it – and where you are – and what you did – and then tried to sell you something. It may be easier to escape paying taxes than avoid these bad boys.   But just try to escape by dying, and they still gotcha.   This is the 21st, you know. ------------ Pettiness ultimately gains nothing.

Over a century ago, British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli penned ,”There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.”   So true this is I’ve advocated for years my all students should take a Stat course.   We’ve advanced and now it is safe to say there are Lies, damned lists, statistics, and campaign promises. You can tell because whenever a campaign promise is kept, it becomes actual news. Even the official remarks on it as though one finally happened.   A regular flurry of press releases issue forth as if from a snow machine.   Remarkably, every election season most people vote for these promises knowing all the while they will not likely become reality.   Elections, therefore, are the single greatest example of hope by mankind – or are they simply legalized gambling events?    (You bet your future on outcomes you don’t expect. 😊 )

The  carnival  is now a celebration of parties, the name of a cruise ship line, and an annual event at every school.  Where did that delightful term  carnival  come from? And the answer is...  In fact, many suggest it comes from the Italian ( carnevale ) derived from the Latin carnem (meat) and levare (remove), corresponding to English "carnival".  Carnivals are usually celebrated just before  Len t, where the Lenten sacrifice was to give up meat consumption.  (In the olden days most of the peasants sacrificed meat as a way of life because they couldn't afford it.) Now we go to the carnival, celebrating the moment with ribs and steak,  exotic costumes, hot music, wild sex, and of course delightful drink.  Sacrifice is for whom again?

What’s good about the world?   We’re not looking for miracles or final results. We are looking for improvement.   Let’s not look at the world we don’t have now, but look more at the far and recent past where almost nothing was possible, available, accessible, and the like.  Our list does not include everyone everywhere.   Progress is not constant nor uniform.   In some places forward steps come in leaps while in others backward steps seem the rule.   With all we hear daily of riots here, wars there, violence in the streets, intrigue in the palace, assassinations,   subversions, perversions, and all others, we take a pause and consider what we have is far, far beyond the situations of almost all only a century or two ago.       We now live in a world where most people --- Have some civil rights. Have basic schooling. Have machines to make life easier. Have food produced by an agricultural bounty. Have some rights to practice a religion of choice. Are neither s