The completion of satellite missions is something that is marked like the death of an old friend among space techs. The Galileo probe, which has travelled around Jupiter for more than ten years and contributed huge amounts of knowledge about the planet is about to be sent plunging into Jupiter’s atmosphere. THis itself isn’t news perhaps, but what really caught my eye about this story was the consideration and planning that went into HOW to destroy Galileo. As quoted in this article, NASA has decided to burn up Galileo to protect life that may exist on one of it’s moons: …
I’ve been suffering from a tension headache over the last few days. Headaches are not something I usually get, so it’s been a little unusual to have one. In searching out some of the causes of headache pain, I discovered that human beings seems to take great pleasure in representing headaches visually. There is a whole sub-genre of visual art produced by migraine sufferers that is some of the most harrowing and despair filled imagery you will see anywhere. How headaches are represented is fascinating. Headache art and graphics combine a number of elements to give one the sense of …
Article: Breathing is Meaning In an analysis of the physical components necessary for sound production – power source, oscillator, resonator – breath occupies the most active place in human vocal production: it is the energy impulse that excites the vibration in the vocal folds and the resulting resonance in the body – starting, continuing, and stopping it. Because of the living and therefore infinitely changeable quality of the particular actions and structures that are responsible for this sound vibration, the way in which the human body breathes impacts the voice a great deal, much as the hands of a good …
Happy New Year. We are poised on the edge of the millennium – ruin behind us, no map before us, the taste of fear sharp on our tongues. Yet we will leap. The exercise of imagining is an act of creation. The act of creation is an exercise of will. All this is political. And possible. Bread. A Clean Sky. Active peace. A woman’s voice singing somewhere, melody drifting like smoke from the cookfires. The army disbanded, the harvest abundant. The wound healed, the child wanted, the prisoner freed, the body’s integrity honored, the lover returned. The magical skill that …
Entropy Gradient Reversals – Faster Horses! Sigh Consulting. Man, what a racket. Why didn’t I figure this out years ago? But I almost feel unclean for doing it. I almost feel guilty. Not for taking their money. That’s just manifest destiny. No, sometimes I feel terrible because I think maybe I really am helping these clueless fuckers to rape the rest of us. Giving them some empty-headed motivational excuse to weld all that avarice into an effective weapon that will make us all salivate for spiffier software or snappier net connections or the latest breakfast cereal breakthrough. But what have …