Today I’ve emptied another box of paper. Only 70 or so more to go. Takes around 12 hours per box?

Lack of balance or symmetry.

See: Lucifer’s Legacy - Frank Close

“Book Description
For many centuries, scientists have investigated the ‘fearful symmetry’ that seemed to underlie the Universe. But increasingly, it looks as though life is the result of cosmic asymmetry, and scientists are now preparing to uncover the asymmetries at the heart of the Big Bang. This book follows the trail, from subtle asymmetries in nature to the mysterious Higgs boson that scientists now believe may hold the key to the birth of the Universe itself.”

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What really happens when a mirror forms a reflection

Different appearance of sky - north and south hemispheres.

The molecules of life are left handed?

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Also: Murray Gell-Mann - evidence that the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts in physics - complexity.

Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics

Started a worldwide yoga movement.

Sarjevo, August 1994

Serbs and Muslims exchanged their dead. It could be said that  the dead marked out their territory? Dig up the dead enemy and that land is no longer the enemies’ ?

Apparently in 2000 or so David Bowie’s wife Iman followed an “ancient African custom” and held another woman’s baby for a day - to aid her chances of getting pregnant.

MI5 planned to kill a useless German spy who sent his bosses fictious information because they felt his lies could distract the Germans from the false information they were feeding to the Germans.

Twenty-five years ago next week, James Fenton found himself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary events of the 20th century. Here, the poet and former Independent journalist recalls how, as a 26-year-old freelance reporter, he witnessed the chaotic and terrifying final act of the Vietnam War. Friday, 21 April 2000

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/the-fall-of-saigon-720619.html

The first ever fossilised dinosaur heart has been discovered by scientists in the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/720871.stm

Dr Michael Stoskopf is an expert on the comparative anatomy of mammals, reptiles and birds, and helped to produce the 3-D composite images of Willo’s chest cavity.

“Willo’s ventricles and aorta indicate it had completely separate pulmonary and body circulation systems, which suggests it had a metabolic rate higher than we generally see in living reptiles,” he said.

Legendary treasure of Alexander the Great may have been found
Independent, The (London), Apr 21, 2000 by Steve Connor

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000421/ai_n14305795

In a shallow lagoon off Marsala lies the vanished Phoenician island-city of Motya.

Have you been there? Tell me about it, please.

Ideas

Take one magic mushroom…

A chance finding by a young chemistry student has electrified both the scientific and medical worlds. Will highly toxic fungi prove to be a cure for cancer?

By Sanjida O’Connell
Friday, 17 March 2000

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/take-one-magic-mushroom-723916.html

Obituary: Terence McKenna
Independent, The (London), Apr 15, 2000 by Alix Sharkey

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000415/ai_n14300579

McKenna claimed that human self-awareness is the result of psychedelic serendipity. His 1992 book Food of the Gods argues that the accidental ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms triggered sentience in foraging, omnivorous apes and led them - us - to put rockets on the moon in the evolutionary wink of an eye.

However the nature of his death - suddenly, relatively young, and from glioblastoma multiforma, a rare form of cerebral cancer - will hardly further his cause.

Ciceronian

www.sas.upenn.edu/cwic/docs/so2.doc

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peroration
[pe‐rŏ‐ray‐shŭn], the conclusion of a formal speech (or written argument), in which the previous points are summed up in a forceful appeal to the audience; or any formal and impassioned speech, in its entirety.

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Ciceronian structure prepares the audience to be as receptive as possible to the speaker’s thesis, which is not given until the middle of the speech, and to assent to the speaker’s conclusion or call to action, which is reserved for the end of the speech. Below is a minimal version of the structure. As with any organizational structure, the elements listed below should be moved, modified or abandoned as is necessary for the creation of a convincing argument.

Exordium: introduce the topic; define ethos, logos and pathos appeals (or appeals of credibility, reason and emotion). Demonstrate that the topic affects the audience directly

Partition: introduce the major sub-topics of the presentation (this is a “preview”)

Narration: give important and non-controversial background information

Confirmation: cite sources and authorities

Refutation/Concession: minimize resistance by dispelling opposing arguments or by demonstrating that they do not apply to the topic of the presentation. One might also think of this part of the speech as an attempt to establish a common understanding with the audience by conceding their viewpoint, before presenting the argument

Definition: define the THESIS of the argument, and define important terms used in the thesis

Evidence/Digression: present evidence/examples in support of the thesis

Prolepsis/Anticipation: respond to possible rebuttals to evidence/examples

Peroration: climax of speech; appeal to the audience to affirm the thesis of the speech and therefore affirm a specific course of action or belief

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. B. F. Skinner