# behav: the self-care hypothesis of the puteketeke bird (great crested grebe, Podiceps cristatus)

<< The Puteketeke bird has been elected as New Zealand's Bird of the Century after John Oliver promoted the bird not just on his show, but around the world. >>

<< It also exhibits some unusual antics, like eating feathers to help it vomit up parasites,  >> AILSA CHANG

️

<< They have a mating dance where they both grab a clump of wet grass and chest bump each other... >> JOHN OLIVER

Kat Lonsdorf, Christopher Intagliata. The Puteketeke bird has been elected as New Zealand's Bird of the Century. npr.org Nov 15, 2023. 

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/15/1213287236/the-puteketeke-bird-has-been-elected-as-new-zealands-bird-of-the-century

L’uccello del secolo della Nuova Zelanda l’ha deciso John Oliver. ilpost.it. Nov 15, 2023. 

https://www.ilpost.it/2023/11/15/john-oliver-uccello-secolo-nuova-zelanda/

the bird: https://youtu.be/98ceB5SPRXI

John Oliver, an interview: https://youtu.be/uVE1hBzHn3s

many thanks to Tammi ( https://www.inkgmr.net/tammi ) for this news. 

Also: Self-perception of health and survival. A 10-year follow-up among Italians aged over sixty. INRCA, Technical Report, Genova, 7 March 1995: 1-19. Minerva Med 1997 Jan-Feb 88:1-2 15-23. [abst] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9093288/

Also: 'behav', 'perception', in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: behaviour, self-care, perceptions

gst: actually and counterintuitively a coherent jump could generate disorder.

AA << consider a quantized version of a model for “random walk in random environment.” (..) For a ring geometry (a chain with periodic boundary condition) it features a delocalization-transition as the bias in increased beyond a critical value, indicating that the relaxation becomes underdamped. Counterintuitively, the effective disorder is enhanced due to coherent hopping. >>

Ben Avnit, Doron Cohen. Quantum walk in stochastic environment. Phys. Rev. E 108, 054111. Nov 7, 2023. 

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.054111

Also:  Voli a casaccio. Notes (quasi-stochastic poetry). Oct 01, 2006.

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2006/10/2066-voli-casaccio.html

Also: 'random', 'transition', 'disorder', 'chaos', in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, walk, random walk, quantum walk, qu-walk, jump, transition, disorder, chaos

# life: a painted texture glimpsed through 25 words

<< If you want to understand the complicated nature of the United States in 2023, ask Americans to define their country themselves. In the past year, the American Communities Project did just that. It visited four different counties and asked passersby to define 25 words, including America, and the responses showed a range of opinions. >>️

<< The media tends to explain the divides in United States in binary terms — red/blue, left/right, urban/rural. News stories discuss war between two conflicting “cultures” in the country. Sometimes included is a third option for “independents” or “centrists.” But look closer and the picture is far more complicated, marked by fault lines that can be hard to see. >>️

Dante Chinni, Ari Pinkus. New Survey Breaks Down America’s Complicated Landscape. American Communities Project/Ipsos. Oct 26, 2023. 

https://www.americancommunities.org/new-survey-breaks-down-americas-complicated-landscape

Also: 

Immediate 'shot', the three second time window in art, music, poems and language processing. FonT. Apr 30, 2021.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2021/04/gst-immediate-shot-three-second-time.html

Effetto Northridge. Notes. Sep 26, 2005.

(quasi-stochastic poetry)

https://inkpi.blogspot.com/2005/09/1887-effetto-northridge.html

Keywords: life, self-perception

# gst: how to create a helix from a straight rod, “twist” or “bend” approaches.

<< There are two independent ways of creating a helix from a straight rod: curl the rod into a circle and then twist the rod all along its length to convert the ring into a helix (“twist” method), or deform the rod into a sine wave and then bend it with a sinusoidal distortion that curls at right angles to the first sine wave (“bend” method). Both procedures produce the same shape, but they generate different internal stresses within the rod, and their implementations require different amounts of energy. >>️

AA << say that their experiments could serve as a model for many physical systems that undergo handedness transitions, including the tendrils of plants, the flagella of microorganisms, and the strands of DNA molecules.  >>

️

David Ehrenstein. Two Experimental Observations of Helix Reversals. Physics 16, s158. Oct 24, 2023.  

https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Physics.16.s158

Paul M. Ryan, Joshua W. Shaevitz,  Charles W. Wolgemuth. Bend or Twist? What Plectonemes Reveal about the Mysterious Motility of Spiroplasma. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 178401. Oct 24, 2023. 

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.178401

Emilien Dilly, Sebastien Neukirch, Julien Derr, Drazen Zanchi. Traveling Perversion as Constant Torque Actuator. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 177201. Oct 24, 2023. 

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.177201

Also: elastic, swim, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, elastic, elastic deformation, swimming

# gst: local elastic properties of strongly disordered matter

<< The local elastic properties of strongly disordered material are investigated using the theory of correlated random matrices. A significant increase in stiffness is shown in the interfacial region, the thickness of which depends on the strength of disorder. It is shown that this effect plays a crucial role in nanocomposites, in which interfacial regions are formed around each nanoparticle. >>️

D. A. Conyuh, A. A. Semenov, Y. M. Beltukov. Effective elastic moduli of composites with a strongly disordered host material. Phys. Rev. E 108, 045004. Oct 20, 2023. 

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.045004

Also: elastic, noise, particle, nano, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: gst, elastic, noise, particle, nano

# life: call for four Parrondo's paradox peacekeeper players

<< US President Joe Biden has said world history is at "an inflection point" as he made the case for a "smart investment" of ... >> Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan.

️

Holly Honderich, Sarah Smith. Biden seeks 'vital' (..) aid for Israel and Ukraine. BBC News, Oct 20, 2023. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67164900

Also: Switch to three players within the Parrondo game. FonT. Jun 11, 2022.

https://flashontrack.blogspot.com/2022/06/gst-switch-to-three-players-within.html

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

Also: "Parrondo"[TIAB], in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Also: Parrondo, in https://arxiv.org/search/?query=Parrondo&searchtype=abstract&abstracts=show&order=-announced_date_first&size=50

Keywords: life, game, Parrondo, Potus, war, nfulaw

# game: noise-induced Parrondo's paradox in discrete-time qu-walks

<< Parrondo's paradox refers to the apparently paradoxical effect whereby two or more dynamics in which a given quantity decreases are combined in such a way that the same quantity increases in the resulting dynamics. >>

AA << show that noise can induce Parrondo's paradox in one-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks with deterministic periodic as well as aperiodic sequences of two-state quantum coins where this paradox does not occur in the absence of noise. >>️

Zbigniew Walczak, Jarosław H. Bauer. Noise-induced Parrondo's paradox in discrete-time quantum walks. Phys. Rev. E 108, 044212. Oct 11, 2023.

https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.108.044212

Also: parrondo, walk, noise, in: https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html

Keywords: games, parrondo, walk, noise