# behav: the sophisticated dance of the sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora)

<< Spontaneous movement to music occurs in every human culture and is a foundation of dance. This response to music is absent in most species (including monkeys), yet it occurs in parrots, perhaps because they (like humans, and unlike monkeys) are vocal learners whose brains contain strong auditory–motor connections, conferring sophisticated audiomotor processing abilities. >>

AA << report that a sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita eleonora) responds to music with remarkably diverse spontaneous movements employing a variety of body parts, and suggest why parrots share this response with humans.  >>

R. Joanne Jao Keehn, John R. Iversen, et al. Spontaneity and diversity of movement to music are not uniquely human. Current Biology. Volume 29, Issue 13, PR621-R622. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.035. Jul 08, 2019.   https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30604-9  

Ed Yong. Not a Human, but a Dancer. What Snowball the parrot’s spontaneous moves teach us about ourselves. Jul 8, 2019   https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/what-snowball-dancing-parrot-tells-us-about-dance/593428/   

Also

"Dance", in "Notes"

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=dance

"Dance", in "FonT"

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=dance

# gst: apropos of dances, drops that dance following snake- and ouroboros-shaped trajectories on lubricated surfaces.

<< Recently, (AA) observed a curious breath figure pattern when water condenses on solid surfaces coated with a thin lubricant oil film. Water drops of various sizes, ranging from tens of microns to several millimetres, start to perform a self-avoiding, serpentinelike dance. As the drop moves, it consumes smaller droplets along its path, converting interfacial energy into kinetic energy to sustain its motion. These self-avoiding drops preferentially avoid crossing their own paths as well as the paths of other drops; they can only intersect their previous paths once sufficient recondensation has occurred. This self-avoiding behavior arises because the previous path (..) contains little to no water content to fuel self-propulsion, so the drops continually seek areas with higher local water content. >>️

<< This intricate serpentine dance is driven by short-range interactions between droplets, mediated by overlapping menisci, similar to the Cheerios effect. Remarkably, long-range order spontaneously emerges from these short-range interactions, with the collective motion exhibiting self-similarity—breath figure patterns appear roughly similar across different scales. >>

<< The serpentine motions of the drops, which can span distances many times their diameters, eventually deplete the local lubricant film, causing a transition from serpentine to circular motion. This circular motion can be seen as a unique form of serpentine motion occurring in lubricant-poor regions. As the drops move, they continually redistribute the lubricant across the substrate, leading to a dynamic interplay between serpentine and circular motions. This ongoing redistribution can be visualized by illuminating the surface with diffused white light and capturing the resulting interference patterns with a digital camera. Variations in lubricant thickness produce different hues, creating a vibrant, colorful canvas and an intricate dance floor for the condensing drops. >>️

<< The phenomenon described in (AA) paper represents a fascinating example of active matter driven by condensation, rather than the more commonly observed chemical reactions or Marangoni effects. >>

Marcus Lin, Fauzia Wardani, Dan Daniel. Dancing drops on lubricated surfaces. Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, 110504. Nov 22, 2024.

https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.110504

Marcus Lin, Solomon Adera, Joanna Aizenberg, Yao Xi, Dan Daniel. V0030: Serpents and Ouroboros: Emergent collective motion of condensate droplets. 76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. Nov 19-21, 2023.

https://gfm.aps.org/meetings/dfd-2023/64ff56f3199e4c1bbe725834

Also: drop, droplet, droploid, dance, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, drop, droplet, droploid, dance

# gst: apropos of transitions, a perpetual dance between states of meta-stability and chaos (in brain).

img: https://wp.technologyreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Radio_image_15.jpeg?fit=2160,1214

<< Hello! Today: new research is shining a light on how our brains flit between states of stability and chaos, depending on what we’re doing. >>

<< Our brains exist in a state somewhere between stability and chaos as they help us make sense of the world, according to recordings of brain activity taken from volunteers over the course of a week. >>

<< As we go from reading a book to chatting with a friend, for example, our brains shift from one semi-stable state to another—but only after chaotically zipping through multiple other states in a pattern that looks completely random. >>

<< Understanding how our brains restore some degree of stability after chaos could help us work out how to treat disorders at either end of this spectrum. Too much chaos is probably what happens when a person has a seizure, whereas too much stability might leave a person comatose. >>

Jessica Hamzelou. Neuroscientists listened in on people’s brains for a week. They found order and chaos. Rhiannon Williams. MIT Download. Feb 8, 2023.

https://mailchi.mp/technologyreview.com/mass-market-military-drones-have-changed-the-way-wars-are-fought-839014

<< The team (Avniel Ghuman, Maxwell Wang, et al.) found some surprising patterns in brain activity over the course of the week. Specific brain networks seemed to communicate with each other in what looked like a “dance,” with one region appearing to “listen” while the other “spoke,” say the researchers, who presented their findings at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego last year. >>

Jessica Hamzelou. MIT Tech Rev. Feb 7, 2023. 

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/07/1067951/brains-week-order-chaos

Also 

keyword 'danza' in Notes

(quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=danza

keyword 'dance' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=dance

keyword 'cervello' | 'brain' in Notes

(quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=cervello

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=brain

keyword 'brain' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=brain

keyword 'chaos' | 'chaotic' in Font

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=chaos

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=chaotic

keyword 'caos' | 'caotico' in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=caos

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=caotico

<< Amico, qualunque  cosa suonerai . . . >>  Jelly Roll Morton. cit.: 2113 - soniche a ramulo. Jan 28, 2007

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2007/01/2113-soniche-ramulo.html

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=jelly+roll

Keywords: gst, brain, transition, chaos, dance

# gst: vortex-pair dance and oscillation

       Fig. 4

This AA study << focuses on fundamental dynamics of vortex-pair fields, specifically known as vortex-pair beams (VPBs) in optics. VPBs have gained increasing attention due to their unique properties, including vortex attraction and repulsion. Here, (AA)  explore the dynamics of pure-phase VPBs (PPVPBs) and observe intriguing helical and intertwined behaviors of vortices, resembling a vortex-pair dance. >>

They << uncover the oscillation property of the intervortex distance for PPVPBs in free space. The observed dancing and oscillation phenomena are intricately tied to the initial intervortex distance and can be explained well in the hydrodynamic picture. Notably, the vortex dancing and oscillation alter the process of vortex-pair annihilation, extending the survival range for opposite vortices. >>

<< This discovery enhances our understanding of vortex interactions and sheds light on the intricate dynamics of both vortex-vortex and vortex-antivortex interactions. >>

Dadong Liu, Lai Chen, Li-Gang Wang. Observation of vortex-pair dance and oscillation. arXiv: 2412.06634v1 [physics.optics]. Dec 9, 2024.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06634

Also: vortex, dance, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, vortex, dance 

# life: Banksy, Banksy type dancers

<< Graffiti of a woman in a leotard doing a handstand is seen on the wall of a destroyed building in Borodyanka on Friday in Kyiv Region, Ukraine. Banksy later confirmed on their Instagram account that this piece was their work. Ed Ram/Getty Images >>️

<< Other new murals with a similar style have been spotted in the area and are suspected to have been created by Banksy, but the British artist has not publicly claimed credit. >>

Ashley Ahn. A new Banksy mural adorns a destroyed building in Ukraine. Nov 12, 2022. 10:56 AM ET.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136274009/banksy-ukraine-gymnast

https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck1bqL6MsMu/

Also

(-) 'danza' in Notes

(quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=danza

(-) 'dance' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=dance

(-) 'vladimir' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=vladimir

Keywords: life, art, arts, paintings, music, jazz, dance, dancer

# life: a proposito di bizzarri scenari, qui una transizione 'a gradino' di ipotetico scenario22

Congo Square, New Orleans (img from web).  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Square

Una senz'altro immaginifica transizione di un sistema anch'esso senz'altro immaginifico "3vs3 palle" 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2022/10/life-proposito-di-bizzarri-scenari-qui.html

qui potrebbe verificarsi una improvvisa mutazione "3vs3" verso un sistema auto- riconfigurato in "4vs2" palle.

(-) In prima approx il sistema destrogiro "4palle", sebbene caotico,  quasisticastico, potrebbe dimostrare chance di creativa stabilizzazione, anche a medio-lungo termine, anche grazie a non del tutto improbabili episodi di drammatiche funzionali fagocitosi (e.g. nelle forme predatorie del cannibalismo/ auto- cannibalismo, anche orgiastico estremo) al proprio interno.

(-) Il sistema levogiro "2palle" potrebbe invece lui medesimo risultare vincente sull'altro destrogiro nel caso riuscisse nell'im.probabile stabilizzazione,  ristrutturazione funzionale - dimostrando pubblicamente non banali capacità di risoluzione/ reimpostazione di problemi - perciò animandosi in modalità attrattive, coagulative su una parte significativa del 50% di quelle moltitudini verosimilmente costituite da entità fluttuanti nella solitaria condizione di pulviscoli erratici in emarginata sublimazione.

L'immagini, senz'altro campate in aria purtuttavia intriganti:  'episodi di drammatiche funzionali fagocitosi', 'cannibalismo, auto-cannibalismo anche orgiastico estremo' e 'solitaria condizione di pulviscoli erratici in emarginata sublimazione' meriterebbero una serie di poetiche, quasistocastiche perfino

https://inkpi.blogspot.com

ma mi astengo.

# life: a proposito di bizzarri scenari, qui un ipotetico scenario22 dipinto dal reale ... FonT.  Oct 17,  2022.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2022/10/life-proposito-di-bizzarri-scenari-qui.html

Also

<< Tornando all'analogia con la fisica, il potere, come l'energia, muta continuamente di forma >>. In: Onda anti rumore. Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry). April 21, 2005.

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/04/1644b-onda-anti-rumore.html

keyword 'dance' | 'dancing' in FonT

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=dance

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=dancing

keyword 'danza' | 'danzant*' in Notes

(quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=danza

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=danzante

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=danzanti

Keywords: life, gst, Congo Square, danza, dance, jazz, Jelly Roll, transition, three-body

# life: 27 proteins to confine a world to a (complex 3D) virus dance

<< The novel coronavirus sweeping the globe packs 27 proteins, each adopting a unique, often incredibly complex 3D structure. 

Each protein is part of the molecular toolkit that the virus uses to infect, replicate, and spread. >>

Tom Rickey. Scientists Take Aim at the Coronavirus Toolkit. PNNL. Mar 31, 2020.

https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/scientists-take-aim-coronavirus-toolkit

https://phys.org/news/2020-04-scientists-aim-coronavirus-toolkit.html

Also 

keyword 'dance' in FonT 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=dance

Also (quasi-stochastic poetry)

Catalisi d'astrattivo Tao. FonT.  Jan 22, 2005.

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/01/1808-catalisi-dastrattivo-tao.html

# life: oops! It would appear that Mr. Donald intends to open hunt for Academics as well ... maybe these people are penniless immigrants too?

<< A prominent US scientific society altered its website to remove references to diversity and equity ― terms targeted by the administration of US President Donald Trump. Articles about scientists who are members of under-represented groups also temporarily vanished from the site, although they have since reappeared. >>

<< In an e-mail, ASM (Am Soc for Microbiol) president Theresa Koehler told Nature that the organization had followed legal advice to review all of its webpages, in the hope of protecting its federally funded programmes. >>️

Humberto Basilio. ‘We are a target’: scientific society under pressure after Trump DEI crackdown. Nature. doi: 10.1038/ d41586-025-00372-0. Feb 7, 2025. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00372-0

Also: A new exception within the FDA Cures Act Informed Consent, the intriguing concept of 'Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations'. FonT. Feb 1, 2024. 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2024/02/life-new-exception-within-fda-cures-act.html 

Also: ️<< You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians. >> Miles Davis. https://www.azquotes.com/quote/527910 

https://x.com/SVG__Collection/status/1886745080066695455

Also: oops, Mr. Donald, forms of power, virus, sars* covid* (aka 1or2achoos), dance, are you ready for all this, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, oops, Mr. Donald, forms of power, acad, virus, sars, covid, 1or2achoos, dance, are you ready for all this

# life: apropos of singular bizarre synchronies and extreme syntheses

(●) Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, et al. Back to the Beginning. Birmingham Villa Park. Saturday Doors: 12:00

https://www.livenation.co.uk/back-to-the-beginning-tickets-adp1561055

(●) << Learn 2 chords and then get a good lawyer before learning the 3rd. >>. Tony Iommi

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1522713 

Also: Ozzy, in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=ozzy

Also: music, jazz, dance, three balls, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, music, jazz, dance, three balls, Ozzy

# behav: locomotion-dependent auditory gating to the parietal cortex guides multisensory decisions

<< Decision-making in mammals fundamentally relies on integrating multiple sensory inputs, with conflicting information resolved flexibly based on a dominant sensory modality. However, the neural mechanisms underlying state-dependent changes in sensory dominance remain poorly understood. >>

 AA << study demonstrates that locomotion in mice shifts auditory-dominant decisions toward visual dominance during audiovisual conflicts. Using circuit-specific calcium imaging and optogenetic manipulations, (They) found that weakened visual representation in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) leads to auditory-dominant decisions in stationary mice. >>

<< Prolonged locomotion, however, promotes visual dominance by inhibiting auditory cortical neurons projecting to the PPC (ACPPC). This shift is mediated by secondary motor cortical neurons projecting to the auditory cortex (M2AC), which specifically inhibit ACPPC neurons without affecting auditory cortical projections to the striatum (ACSTR). >>

AA << findings reveal the neural circuit mechanisms underlying auditory gating to the association cortex depending on locomotion states, providing insights into the state-dependent changes in sensory dominance during multisensory decision-making. >>️

Ilsong Choi, Seung-Hee Lee. Locomotion-dependent auditory gating to the parietal cortex guides multisensory decisions. biorxiv. doi: 10.1101/ 2024.02.14.580296. Jan 24, 2025.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.14.580296v2

Also: Inchingolo G. Cultural transitions and epidemiology. Proceedings of the 13th Scientific Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association - IEA, Sydney, Australia, Sept 26--29, 1993: 129. Med Hypotheses 1994; 43(4): 201-206. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7838001/     Inchingolo G. Placebo effects via deterministic chaos during traditional dances. Genova, 7 Marzo 1995: abstract. Proceedings of the 6th Congress of the International Association of Biomedical Gerontology - IABG, (Part 1, Oriental Medicine), Makuhari, Japan, August 20-26, 1995. INRCA, Technical Report, Genova, 18 August 1995: 1-26. https://www.inkgmr.net/papers.html 

Also: behav, dance, transition, brain, sound, ethno, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: behavior, dance, transition, brain, sound, ethno

# s-chem: solar fuels, a catalytic "dance" to drive

AA << have identified a rapid electronic process that could aid the water-splitting reaction in cobalt-containing catalysts. Cobalt catalysts are relatively inexpensive and could replace more expensive precious metal catalysts in the production of clean energy, most notably solar fuels >>

Chemical "dance" of cobalt catalysis could  pave way to solar fuels. June  3,  2017

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-06-chemical-cobalt-catalysis-pave-solar.html

Casey N. Brodsky, Ryan  G. Hadt, et al. In situ characterization of cofacial Co(IV) centers in CoO cubane: modeling the high-valent active site in oxygen-evolving catalysts.  PNAS (2017) vol. 114 no. 15  pp. 3855–3860 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1701816114

http://m.pnas.org/content/114/15/3855

# life: dear Mr. Donald, fuzzy evidence should be sharper, sooner or later, by Nature

       Nature | 637 | 16 Jan 2025 | 517

<< Mr President-elect, science is a self-correcting process in which bad actors and wrong ideas sooner or later get rooted out and fuzzy evidence becomes sharper. That is the joy and the beauty of the method that has made the modern world what it is. >>️

Editorial. Dear Donald Trump: A letter from Nature on how to make science thrive. Nature 637, 517. Jan 15, 2025.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00050-1

Also: Mr. Donald, forms of power, virus, sars* covid* (aka 1or2achoos), dance, are you ready for all this, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Also: A new exception within the FDA Cures Act Informed Consent, the intriguing concept of 'Minimal Risk Clinical Investigations'. FonT. Feb 1, 2024. 

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2024/02/life-new-exception-within-fda-cures-act.html 

Also: 'acad' in FonT https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/search?q=acad    in Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry) https://inkpi.blogspot.com/search?q=acad 

Keywords: life, Mr. Donald, forms of power, virus, sars, covid, 1or2achoos, acad, dance, are you ready

# s-brain: nanobot, lovers vs dangerous: "can you dance with me?"

<< He predicts that by the 2030s, humans will be using nanobots capable of tapping into our neocortex and connecting us directly to the world around us. However, he admitted that computers won't take over us until they learn to love and laugh. >> Ray Kurzweil

<< Artificial  intelligence  has  the  potential  to  be  as  dangerous  to  mankind  as  nuclear  weapons >> Stuart  Russell

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3483592/Nanobot-implants-God-like-intelligence-machines-won-t-overtake-learn-love-scientist-claims.html

2087 - il pseudomotore di Shostakovich
wednesday, november 15, 2006

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2006/11/2087-il-pseudomotore-di-shostakovich.html

<< Can  I  dance  with  you >> The Troggs.  With A Girl Like You. (1967), live.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W1v4LzIlw5M

# s-dance: actually, they don't write ...

<< “If people in the literary world groan,” Mr. Engdahl (Horace Engdahl) added, “one must remind them that the gods don’t write, they dance and they sing.” >>

Joe Coscarelli. Bob Dylan Sends Warm Words but Skips Nobel Prize Ceremonies. Dec. 10, 2016.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/arts/bob-dylan-skips-nobel-prize-ceremonies.html

# gst: noise as endogenous control

<< Systems biology faces the monumental task of synthesizing vast amounts of molecular facts into a cohesive whole. While it is recognized that stochasticity is ubiquitous in the cell, with noise playing a role in gene expression, differentiation, and switching (..), it is still commonly argued that the cell functions in spite of the noisy cellular environment. >>️

<< Stochastic systems have a control-theoretic interpretation in which noise plays the role of endogenous control. In the weak-noise limit, relevant at low temperatures or in large populations, control is optimal and an exact mathematical mapping from noise to control is described, where the maximizing the probability of a state becomes the control objective. >>

<< In Langevin dynamics noise is identified directly with control, while in general Markov jump processes, which include chemical reaction networks and electronic circuits, (AA) use the Doi-Zel'dovich-Grassberger-Goldenfeld-Peliti path integral to identify the `response' or `tilt' field π as control, which is proportional to the noise in the semiclassical limit. This solves the longstanding problem of interpreting π. >>

AA << illustrate the mapping on multistable chemical reaction networks and systems with unstable fixed points. The noise-control mapping builds intuition for otherwise puzzling phenomena of stochastic systems: why the probability is generically a non-smooth function of state out of thermal equilibrium; why biological mechanisms can work better in the presence of noise; and how agentic behavior emerges naturally without recourse to mysticism. >>

Eric De Giuli. Noise equals endogenous control. arXiv: 2503.15670v2 [q-bio.MN]. Mar 24, 2025.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15670

Also: noise, disorder & fluctuations, transition, dance, jazz, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: gst, noise, disorder, transition, ethno, crosstalk, gossip, misinformation, fake news, dance, jazz

# n-music-dance: bamboula!

<< African American Cultural Dance is most often developed in social and communal spaces. >>

https://twitter.com/NMAAHC/status/726111401672990720

<< How will u celebrate #JazzDay? >>

https://twitter.com/MontreuxJazz/status/725444592720613376

FonT: bamboula! (quasistocastica.... http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2006/12/2105-bamboula.html

2105-bamboula

N. sull' infrastrutturale abaco //
filante //
superfilante in sbilanciamento di fase //
pell' aerosol di nembi //
col tornio //
l' aciclico tornio dall' aculei per mute //
a balze in semifrase //

# s-behav: the intricate performance (dancing and singing) of a jumping spider

AA << present behavioral and neurophysiological evidence that [Jumping spiders (Salticidae)]  perceive and respond to airborne acoustic stimuli, even when the distance between the animal and the sound source is relatively large (∼3 m) and with stimulus amplitudes at the position of the spider of ∼65 dB sound pressure level (SPL) >>

<< Behavioral experiments with the jumping spider Phidippus audax reveal that these animals respond to low-frequency sounds (80 Hz; 65 dB SPL) by freezing—a common anti-predatory behavior characteristic of an acoustic startle response >>

<< Neurophysiological recordings from auditory-sensitive neural units in the brains of these jumping spiders showed responses to low-frequency tones (80 Hz at ∼65 dB SPL)—recordings that also represent the first record of acoustically responsive neural units in the jumping spider brain.  Responses persisted even when the distances between spider and stimulus source exceeded 3 m and under anechoic conditions. >>

Paul S. Shamble, Gil Menda, et al.
Airborne Acoustic Perception by a Jumping Spider. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.041 Publ. Oct. 13, 2016

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)30985-X

Jaymi Heimbuch. Jumping spider males dance and sing ... Oct. 4, 2016.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/jumping-spider-males-dance-and-sing-yes-sing-woo-their-mates

FonT: sarebbe interessante valutare se e quanto tempo prima la struttura neuroacustica del Phidippus audax sia in grado di percepire e discriminare le basse freq dei movimenti  tellurici profondi che successivamente manifesteranno  macro episodi di superficie (earthquake).

also:

Richard A. Lovett. Scientists Seek Foolproof Signal to Predict Earthquakes. National Geographic News. Jan. 5, 2013

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/01/04-earthquakees-defy-prediction-efforts/

Vanessa Bates Ramirez. Earthquakes Will Be as Predictable as Hurricanes Thanks to AI. Sep 27, 2016

http://singularityhub.com/2016/09/27/earthquakes-will-be-as-predictable-as-hurricanes-thanks-to-ai

# life: They woke up in a body bag, by Van.

<< 'We woke up in a body bag': Van Jones makes stunning admission about why Trump steamrolled the establishment. >>️

Van Jones, << a former Obama adviser who had several weeks to get over his election-night despair, was particularly candid about how President-elect Donald Trump was able to electorally crush ... >>

️

<< After suggesting that the liberal political establishment is "all screwed up" and detached from the electorate and its wants and needs, Jones likened the media's predictions in the lead-up to the election to the ancient practice whereby a haruspex would read omens from animal entrails. >>️

<< 'We look like idiots.' >> Van Jones.

️

Joseph MacKinnon. 'We woke up in a body bag'. Blaze Media LLC. Dec 16, 2024. 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/we-woke-up-in-a-body-bag-van-jones-makes-stunning-admission-about-why-trump-steamrolled-the-establishment 

Chris Cillizza. Van Jones is the most honest man in politics. Dec 13, 2024. 

https://youtu.be/ZKd8ZM-TJU4

Also: Mr. Donald, RAG-time, dance, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: life, ethno, dance, Donald, POTUS, POTUSrace, RAG-time

# s-behav: the beetle Carabaeus lamarcki, dancer and sky analyzer

<< beetles  use  the  light  of  the  Milky  Way  to  navigate  in  the  world >>

<< when  the  beetles  dance  on  top  of  a  ball  of dung,  they  simultaneously  take  a  photograph  -  a  snapshot  -  of  how  celestial  bodies  are  positioned. Then  they  know  where  they  are  going  and  roll  off  with  their  ball  of  dung  in  a  straight  line  across  the savannah >>

When dung beetles dance, they photograph the firmament. Lund  University, 12 May 2016.

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=164092&CultureCode=en

<< This is a dung beetle (Carabaeus lamarcki) dancing on top of its ball while reading the sky >> image, caption.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160512125422.htm

Basil el Jundi, James J. Foster, et al. A  Snapshot-Based  Mechanism  for Celestial  Orientation. Current  Biology, 2016, in press.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.030

FonT: l'immagine della blatta sulla sua pallina di sterco che danza e contemporaneamente, attraverso la danza, fotografa la volta celeste per orientarsi e' davvero suggestiva, poetica; mi ricorda un'altra immagine:

<< ... trasformati in uno scarabeo stercorario gigante >>

di Salman Rushdie ("I romanzi e la vita [..] Il mito di Proteo". La Rep., 16/06/2006, pp. 48-9) dalla quale avevo composto una breve rima (quasistocastica):

2022 - si risvegliano stercorari
Saturday, June 17, 2006

http://inkpi.blogspot.it/2006/06/2022-si-risvegliano-stercorari.html

# gst: apropos of the structure of natural codes, a RNA folding knot (origami-style) dance

 << Every second, a myriad of shapeless strands of RNA fold, origami-style, into intricate structures inside living cells. Now, for the first time, researchers can watch a data-driven video of this folding as RNA molecules are made by the cellular machinery. >> 

<< as the RNA strand grows, it twists, forming knot-like structures. But as more RNA building blocks are added to the strand, the knots unravel, allowing the molecule’s structure to emerge. >> 

Ground-breaking films show RNA’s complex curves take shape. Experimental data and predictive algorithms combine to reveal the essential biomolecule’s shape-shifting.

Nature. Jan 19, 2021. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00126-8

AA << model the folding of an RNA called SRP, an ancient RNA found in all kingdoms of life. The molecule is well-known for its signature hairpin shape. When watching the videos, the researchers discovered that the molecule ties itself into a knot and unties itself very quickly. Then it suddenly flips into the correct hairpin-like structure using an elegant folding pathway called toehold mediated strand displacement. >>

<< To the best of our knowledge, this has never been seen in nature, (..) We think the RNA has evolved to untie itself from knots because if knots persist, it can render the RNA nonfunctional. The structure is so essential to life that it had to evolve to find a way to get out of a knot. >> Julius Lucks. 

Amanda Morris. New Videos Show RNA as it's Never Been Seen. First-ever data-driven movies illuminate RNA's mysterious folding process.  McCormick School of Engineering. Jan 15, 2021.

https://www.mccormick.northwestern.edu/news/articles/2021/01/new-videos-show-rna-as-its-never-been-seen.html 

https://youtu.be/2XTi9LG9NnU

Angela M Yu, Paul M. Gasper, et al. Computationally reconstructing cotranscriptional RNA folding from experimental data reveals rearrangement of non-native folding intermediates. Molecular Cell. doi: 10.1016/ j.molcel.2020.12.017

Jan 15, 2021. 

https://www.cell.com/molecular-cell/fulltext/S1097-2765(20)30936-9