Comment Playing the world's smallest violin... (Score 1) 98
P.L.O.D.
(Poor Little Oligarchical Dweeb)
To recap, the Gateway Process goes like this:
- Induced state of calm
- Blood pressure lowers
- Circulatory system, skeleton and other organ systems begin to vibrate at 7 — 7.5 cycles per second
- Increased resonance is achieved
- The resulting sound waves matches the electrostatic field of the earth
- The body and earth and other similarly tuned minds become a single energy continuum.
The entire set of declassified reports is available for viewing.
Regression. The compulsive desire to relive a lost past amid the degradation of old age. It's a phenomenon that was famously cited by WS in the 7 stages of man monologue from As You Like It:
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
With most San Franciscans staying at home due to the coronavirus pandemic, she decided to seize an unprecedented opportunity to study how this small, scrappy songbird responded when human noises disappeared.
By recording the species’ calls among the abandoned streets of the Bay Area in the following months, Derryberry and colleagues have revealed that the shutdown dramatically improved the birds’ calls, both in quality and efficiency.
The research, published today in Science, is among the first to scientifically evaluate the effects of the pandemic on urban wildlife. It also adds to a burgeoning field of research into how the barrage of human-made noise has disrupted nature, from ships drowning out whale songs to automobile traffic jamming bat sonar.
...from Tao Te Ching, Ch. 74:
Trying to control the future
is like trying to take the master carpenter's place.
When you handle the master carpenter's tools,
chances are that you'll cut your hand.
Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose.
