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Echoes gets a regular airing in my house 🙂

I remember playing Echoes from Pink Floyd’s Meddle, some 50+ years ago, with the record arm lifted so it would play on repeat. Around the third time, my father unexpectedly burst into my room shouting at me to turn it off, as it was like Chinese water torture to him.  So obviously I did, but I had remained astounded that the notes of Pink Floyd at…[Read more]

Strega….If the rain becomes persistent and you discover you’ve been staring through the same window for twenty minutes……..

Lovely rainy day here – no need to do anything at all 😉

Thanks Reg!

Have a great week!

Some nights I sneak around the Campus, spray-painting ‘QUALIA’ on the walls of the Psychology Dept block then strike it through.

RTFF

*Governments and legal systems still tend to conceptualize atheism and humanism merely as an absence of religion rather than positive philosophical convictions entitled to equal respect. Freedom of religion or belief doesn’t mean religion plus an exemption for everyone else. The State doesn’t get to decide that theological convictions are…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Progressive Zack Polanski of the Green Party is now calling for state control of media in the wake of the Jason Arday story:

https://x.com/ZackPolanski/status/2089829574356193745?s=20

Fellow Unbelievers:

An even more interesting sidebar story to the Jason Arday story: Racist Eugenicist Nathan Covnas would never have got the attention he got if Jason Arday had not called the police on Times Higher Education Journalist Jack Groves for engaging in simple journalistic inquiry:

I was reported to police over the Arday case. I was…[Read more]

Jake:

I should quickly add that fortunately Nathan Covnas is also not a part of the chain of my treatment. His bedside manner would involve making people “go away.” And much to his own display of stupidity and ignorance, his own bedside manner in other hands would make him “go away.”

Higher Academia is at a truly interesting spot. The big…[Read more]

Jake:

So you are skeptical?

I reserve judgment. Obviously need repetition and consistency before it is a thing. Keep in mind again that the mind clearly plays a role in the placebo effect.

The consistency I rely upon is that no Physician has ever prescribed this treatment to me. If Drs. Mizrachi, Rosencrantz, and Rottum come with greater…[Read more]

So you are skeptical?

I reserve judgment. Obviously need repetition and consistency before it is a thing. Keep in mind again that the mind clearly plays a role in the placebo effect. And state of mind seems to be instrumental in some dying and others living. Hey i get it. If anything FEELS like woo it is…USE YOUR MIND TO HEAL THOSE WOUNDS!

Jake:

Check out this article. Sounds nuts to think that focusing on the pain may induce healing. Instinctively we want diversion or pain relief. But then again fooling the individual thinking they are getting the good stuff sometimes…

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Enco

Check out this article. Sounds nuts to think that focusing on the pain may induce healing. Instinctively we want diversion or pain relief. But then again fooling the individual thinking they are getting the good stuff sometimes helps.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/feel-the-burn-90-of-people-heal-faster-by-focusing-on-their-pain-israeli-study/

Jake:

I finally got to read the article. Though I’m a voracious fan of actual meat and dairy, I am also a fan of coconut milk in desserts, as well as Rice Dream™ and Silk™ Soy. I never got the “Soy-Boy” face because of it and everything else worked well going down afterwards. So I would have no problem with dairy products made from Arabidopsis…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

The ‘Three Musketeers’ reshaping the Middle East
‘All for one, one for all’ pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan seeks to modify security architecture amid global tension
Sophia Yan Senior foreign correspondent.
Henry Bodkin Jerusalem Correspondent.
Ida Simon
Published 18 August 2026 6:00am BST
htt…[Read more]

Reg:

“Disproportionate”? Sorry, I should have specified ‘relative to what’.

Yes, Israel is disproportionately represented in scientific and technological innovation relative to its population and size. I would say that Israel produces more high-level scientific and technological output than you would expect from its population, land area, o…

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“Disproportionate”? Sorry, I should have specified ‘relative to what’.

Yes, Israel is disproportionately represented in scientific and technological innovation relative to its population and size. I would say that Israel produces more high-level scientific and technological output than you would expect from its population, land area, or even it…[Read more]

Reg:

I would have like to have been in the meeting when that idea was first floated. I think Israel’s longstanding advantage has been disproportionately dense networks connecting universities, engineering, medicine, entrepreneurship and venture capital. That produces a cultural environment in which somebody can plausibly say “Can I have some mon…

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I would have like to have been in the meeting when that idea was first floated. I think Israel’s longstanding advantage has been disproportionately dense networks connecting universities, engineering, medicine, entrepreneurship and venture capital. That produces a cultural environment in which somebody can plausibly say “Can I have some money to g…[Read more]

Jake:

Don’t have a cow man.

Zionist ice cream. Zionist cheese. Zionist milk.

I didn’t know Israel had a Bart Simpson and a Forest Gump.😁

They must. They must. They must prove they’re value to justify their existence.

Whew! I thought you were about to break into a girl’s mammarial cheer from Judy Bloom’s Young Adult Fiction. &#x…[Read more]