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inflatable sculpture from joshua allen harris...inflatable sculpture from joshua allen harris air bear
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I smell a giant (inflatable) rat!
A small (non-union) firm crafts giant balloons of rats, greedy pigs, and more for parades and picket lines.
By Julie Sloane, Brunswick, Ohio
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We'll just come right out and say it: There's an elephant in the room at David Scherba's factory. Specifically, a 27-foot-tall pachyderm-shaped balloon.
You can't take your eyes off it - and that's the point. Scherba's business, Inflatable Images (inflatableimages.com), is one of the largest manufacturers of nonhelium inflatable advertising in the U.S.
At his facility in Brunswick, Ohio, David Scherba, 50, and his brother Robert, 49, have sewn everything from a 50-foot Vince Lombardi Trophy used in Super Bowl pregame shows to the inflated cartoon characters that decorate floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.
Inflatable Images' giant rat is popular on picket lines.
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Union Rat Banned!?
Lawrence Township NJ has a local ordinance that bans balloon-type advertisements. A state appellate
judge has ruled that this ban also applies to the famous inflatable rat unions use in labor protests.
How is an inflatable demonstration prop the same thing as a balloon-type advertisement?
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Rat dissection (Feb 4-5, 2005), 80 students
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For the vast majority of people, the best thing to do is concentrate on their personal residence when it comes to real estate. Building a portfolio of real estate can be an extremely complex venture, as there are many moving parts to the process.
There are so many variables that come into play. These include location, negotiation skills, liquidity, devotion of management, time commitment, closing costs, insurance, taxes, repairs, etc. Most people would be better served if they focused on their personal residence and looked to maximize the profit through this venue.
If one wants to become successful in investing in real estate, one needs to be very knowledgeable about mortgages. Not just conventional mortgages but interest only, balloons, ARMS, and some other esoteric mortgages that all can be used depending on the needs and wishes of the investor. Rates and points also factor into the equation, as do credit ratings, down payments, etc. Thus, this is not a market that lends itself well to the neophyte.
And nefarious and ill-informed mortgage brokers abound. In my view, the barriers to entry in the mortgage broker business are few. It is easier to become a mortgage broker than a massage therapist. So finding a qualified mortgage banker or broker can make all the difference in the world. I have found that similar to the bond market, where the really big money likes to play.
One of the great plusses of real estate is that it is the only investment that one can make and live in it at the same time. Also, you can watch it on a daily basis.
If one wants to play the real estate market, one can use such vehicles as ETF's, REIT's, and stocks of mortgage companies and builders. Subcategories include aftermarket stocks such as Home Depot and Lowe's. Further down the line there are subgroups such as cement, wiring, and plumbing construction equipment like Cat and Gradall.
Before considering purchasing residential real estate, I suggest an intensive study of the industry and the markets that one wants to be involved in. All real estate is regional. Commercial property can become even more complex. Once again, in my view, caveat emptor.
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Interesting Variant of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, from Philip J. McDonnell
May 27, 2007 Leave a Comment
The Traveler's Dilemma and Prisoner's Dilemma are two examples of cooperative-competitive games. They contain aspects of reward for cooperative behavior and rewards for competitive behavior. In the Traveler's Dilemma game picking a higher number is cooperative play. The player is maximizing the reward to the two-player community. Picking the low Nash Equilibrium is competitive play. The player is maximizing the minimum reward. Naturally as the reward for competitive play increases the number of actual players using competitive strategies increases as well.
There is a strong parallel to the market. If we all buy stocks with all of our money they will go up. The community of investors will all gain. But human nature being what it is we will always be at least somewhat fearful that someone else will sell first and we will be the last to get out. Thus based on a news event or even non-news some will choose the competitive choice to get out early. They seek to avoid the maximum risk of a putative future decline by getting out before the other guy. However the long-term drift strongly indicates that such anti-cooperative behavior is self-defeating and leads to opportunity loss.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Flaws in Clean Water Restoration Act Exposed in Congressional Hearings
From Mike Hardiman comes this roundup of information about recent Congressional hearings on the Clear Water Restoration Act:
Both the United States Senate and House of Representatives recently held hearings on the Oberstar/Feingold Clean Water Restoration Act. These hearings are a clear sign that the environmental community intends to push this controversial legislation to a vote in both houses of Congress sooner rather than later.
The Senate hearing was held on April 9 under the direction of bill co-sponsor Senator Barbara Boxer of California, and the House followed on April 16 with a hearing chaired by the legislation's House sponsor, Representative James Oberstar from Minnesota.
Contrary to the sponsors’ wishes, the two hearings exposed numerous flaws and very strong opposition to HR2421/S1870, the proposal to dramatically expand the federal government's role in land use regulation.
Senate Hearing
The Senate hearing, held by the Environment and Public Works Committee, unveiled several issues to which bill sponsors had difficulty responding.
Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma spoke at length regarding the bill's removal of the phrase "navigable" from the term "navigable waters." He claimed it would lead to a dramatic expansion of federal authority over wetlands from navigable waters to nearly anything that is wet.
Both witnesses and Senators supporting the bill denied that it would be an expansion of power, despite the removal of the key modifying word "navigable." Meanwhile, a witness opposing the bill, rancher Randall Smith, said of removing the word navigable, "it is a dream for litigators" and "it opens up a whole can of worms."
Supporters stated that the bill's purpose is only to clear up confusion generated by a recent Supreme Court decision, known as the Rapanos case, while opponents showed that it was actually a considerable expansion of authority.
Bill supporter Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, a former federal prosecutor and state attorney general, lectured at length witness David Brand, a county engineer from Ohio opposed to the legislation. Whitehouse insisted repeatedly that "we are just picking up where we left off (before the Rapanos decision)."
Brand replied, "No, and repeating that doesn't make it true."
An exasperated Whitehouse responded, "Yes, it does make it true."
Senator David Vitter of Louisiana was opposed to the bill, and stated that he could not think of any kind of water that was not covered by the bill.
Attempting to contradict him, Clinton-era EPA Administrator Carol Browner said puddles were exempt. Vitter asked for a definition of a puddle, and Browner was unable to directly answer the question. Senator Whitehouse unconvincingly chipped in, insisting that "EPA has no interest in chasing puddles."
Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming asked witnesses how the proposed bill benefits ranchers and farmers. Bill supporters did not address the question, while opponents said it would be harmful.
House Hearing
Representative James Oberstar is both the bill sponsor and chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which held its own hearing April 15. This marathon session featured twenty-three witnesses and forty-four congressmen questioning them, resulting in an eleven hour hearing that stretched into late evening.
Oberstar accused the Supreme Court of "legislating from the bench" and said his bill only sought to repeal two court rulings on wetlands from recent years which protected private property, the SWANCC and Rapanos decisions.
This was challenged by congressman John Mica of Florida, who said the Oberstar bill would "fundamentally alter the course of water regulation" and produced a display featuring several hundred organizations opposed to the legislation and a pile of petitions several feet high opposing the bill.
Oberstar said his bill would clear up ambiguity that had been created by the Supreme Court. Mica agreed that there would be no ambiguity under the bill, because there would be no restriction on federal control of all water, since any non-federal or private rights would be overridden.
Congressman John Boozman from Arkansas pointed out that the bill proposes to regulate all "activities" near waters, instead of current law, which says only "discharges" into waters are regulated.
Some members were undecided. Congressman Nick Rahall from West Virginia did not take a position for or against the bill, but said "whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting." After several witnesses complained about both current law and the proposed legislation, Congressman John Salazar from Colorado told them there must be more than complaints, and asked how to make the bill better.
Witness Virginia Albrecht pointed out another major change proposed in the bill, that federal agencies be given the power to regulate "to the limit of constitutional authority." Congresswoman Thelma Drake from Virginia agreed that these are "absolute words" which could fundamentally change federal-state relationships.
Attorney Robert Trout testified that "if this bill passes, it will put my kids through college" because of all the new litigation that will be generated.
Witness Linda Runbeck, a former Minnesota state legislator, said the bill negatively impacts private property rights and hurts families because most of their net worth is tied up in the land they own, which may be sharply devalued by the bill. She also brought up the poll commissioned by the National Center for Public Policy Research, which shows that when the bill is described to them, most Americans stating an opinion do not support it.
Overall, a very thorough airing of opinion was had in the two hearings, and the legislation's many weaknesses were displayed out in the open and for the record. However, the bill's supporters remain determined first to wipe out gains made by property owners in the Supreme Court, and, second, to expand federal authority beyond current law.
Comments to author Mike Hardiman can be sent to info@nationalcenter.org. Mike Hardiman, a Capitol Hill veteran, recently completed a special educational project on the Clean Water Restoration Act for the National Center for Public Policy Research.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
NCPPR Senior Fellow Helps Clear the Air on Clean Water
From David Almasi:
On the heels of congressional hearings in both the House and Senate, the Washington Examiner published a scathing editorial against the proposed Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA). The editorial came after National Center Senior Fellow R.J. Smith had a long conversation with Examiner editorial page editor Quin Hillyer about the April 16 House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the CWRA.
The Examiner editorial read, in part:
With the real estate market already reeling, Congress would be foolish to do anything that would further drive down property values. It would be even worse to do so while also mounting a wholesale assault on private property rights. But that's what would be done by the misnamed Clean Water Restoration Act sponsored by Rep. James Oberstar, D-MN. Oberstar's proposal is so bad it ought to be permanently buried six feet under dry land...
Now comes Oberstar, who is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. He held an April 16 committee hearing on his misnamed bill, which would vastly expand the definition of "waters" covered by stringent regulation to include almost any area, "interstate and intrastate," that ever gets wet. Oberstar set a May 1 deadline for interested parties to respond to hearing testimony.
The National Center for Public Policy Research recently spearheaded a coalition letter of over 50 organizations concerned about the CWRA's threat on private property rights and published a National Policy Analysis paper on the threat the bill poses to hunting and sporting activity.
The full Washington Examiner editorial against the CWRA can be read by clicking here.
To contact author David Almasi directly,
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what >is the meaning of this one is it something you are willing to discuss as facinating ?
Say why dont we make a film of you explaning this remark on the art work above
The Pop artist James Rosenquist's ''F-111'' (1965)
facinating It would be interesting if this was made interactive and you could pull out the
individual images and illuminate the meaning of the thing.
What thing (?) ? not self evidant by this I supose you mean there proximity to eachother
There are many [images] things in a agloromation..
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A Chip for a Neuron
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The MIT Technology Review describes the research behind the first direct electrical interface between
a semiconductor device and an individual mammalian nerve cell:
Context: The neurons of the mammal brain are hard to study, even when they're isolated in the lab. For
more than a decade, scientists have analyzed the large neurons of leeches and snails by linking them
directly to silicon chips that record their electrical activity. But mammalian neurons are smaller, and
though they can be grown on silicon, the resulting signals are typically too weak to yield useful data.
The electrical activity of mammalian brain cells can be read with electrodes, but that can be imprecise
and requires careful preparation steps.
Moritz Voelker and Peter Fromherz at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry have now designed the first
computer chip that can record the firing of mammalian neurons, though so far only in a petri dish.
Methods and Results: As a neuron fires, the voltage across it changes, so a neuron on a chip affects how
transistors underneath it conduct electricity. But in chips with conventional transistor designs, there's
so much naturally occurring noise that it swamps neural signals. So Voelker and Fromherz changed the
geometry of the transistors to suit the electrical properties of living neurons. They buried the conducting
channels of their transistors a few nanometers deeper than usual, making the transistor more sensitive to
the low voltages and firing speeds of neurons. The transistors could detect the signal of an ?individual
rat neuron in a group, without the elaborate sample preparation that ?conventional electrodes require.
What's more, the tran?sistors are significantly smaller than individual neurons and could in principle provide
information on how subsections of a neuron behave.
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The Further Adventures of Matthew Saroff, Itinerant Engineer
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Conformal radar arrays are now being prototyped with an array this large,
resolution could be very good, and it's likely that it might have significant
stealth detection capabilities.
The resolution of a radar is proportional to the size of the antenna, and the
resolution attained here should be sufficient to pick up almost anything.
Conformal radar arrays are now being prototyped (Subscription Required)
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Radars could be mounted on football-field-size plastic sheets
Printed headline: Beyond Big Conformal radar arrays that a year ago were only
concepts are now being prototyped. Large apertures are being designed as skin
to hug the complex curves of aircraft wings and fuselages.
A massive structure under construction by Raytheon will form one side of a
three-football-field-long airship. About six million elements will make up the
6,000-sq.-meter antenna, says Mark Hauhe, a senior fellow working on advanced
radar concept demonstrators.
Third-generation AESA radars may be hundreds of yards long and use electrical
components lithographed to a lightweight plastic-like material that is folded to
form radiating elements.Credit: RAYTHEON CONCEPT
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Pink Elephants: wonderfully surreal 1937 cartoon
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Take 2 shrooms and call me in the morning
Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine Dr. Charles Grob and Marilyn Schiltz PhD with the Institute
of Noetic Sciences discussed new research with hallucinogenic substances from a medical-holistic perspective.
Promising experiments using hallucinogens to treat difficult conditions such as alcoholism were conducted during the
1950s & 60s but were eventually curtailed because the drugs became illegal. However, several new studies have been
approved in the last few years, reported Grob.
Grob has been involved in a experimental trial, treating advanced stage cancer patients with psilocybin. Results have
shown an improvement in the quality of the patients' lives that lasted for up to months after the use of the drug,
he noted. The University of Arizona has also found promising results using psilocybin to treat obsessive-compulsive
disorder. The methodology to evaluate such experiments has improved since the early experiments of the 50s & 60s, he
added.
In addition to the medical findings, Schiltz spoke about the transformative qualities that hallucinogens can bring to
people, opening them up to a broader sense of reality. Many indigenous groups have acquired types of wisdom through
psychoactive plant use, she detailed. Schiltz will be one of the presenters at the upcoming Consciousness in Action
conference.
In another study, the people taking the drug rated the hallucinogenic experience as "stressful" at some times but
"psychologically and spiritually uplifting" - describing encounters with past lives, faraway planets, and communing
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Monday, July 09, 2007
BLACK INTELLIGENCE AND "WHITE" IQ TESTS
I know that conjoining the two terms "IQ" and "black" casts me into the outer darkness as far as most people are concerned but psychometrics is my field of academic specialization so I feel that I have an obligation to tell what is known about the topic concerned. And I often do, because so few others are willing to tell the public all that is known.
Chris Brand has drawn our attention to a strange book recently issued by Stephen Murdoch called IQ: A Smart History of a Failed Idea. Murdoch attacks all use of IQ tests. Since Murdoch appears to have no academic background in psychometrics, the book is a very arrogant one. Murdoch is in effect saying that he can in one fell swoop soar above the combined thinking and research of the hundreds of keen minds who have worked on the IQ concept (which scientists call 'g') over the last century or so. There is however no sign in the book that he has anything to say that has not been carefully considered and dismissed many times in the last 100 years. Rather than soaring, he simply shows his ignorance.
I will therefore mention just one point that even Chris does not refute as well as he might: The claim that because IQ tests are devised by whites they cannot validly be used to test blacks. This claim has of course been the focus of a very large body of research and has resulted in the production of widely-used "culture fair" tests -- i.e. tests that do not depend on any particular educational or linguistic background but which nonetheless provide good predictions of success in many areas of life for many different populations. These tests show the black/white gap to be at least as large as other tests do.
What is often overlooked, however, is that one group of psychologists (McElwain & Kearney) went even further: Rather than construct a test that had NO cultural biases, they constructed a test that WAS biased -- but biased towards blacks rather than towards whites. They included in their test (the Queensland Test or QT) only those items that blacks responded well to and which actually could be shown to be valid predictors of problem solving performance among blacks. In effect, blacks constructed the test themselves -- by providing the responses used to select the individual questions within the test.
But you know what happened, don't you? On a test intrinsically biased against them, whites still greatly outperformed blacks. So there really is an underlying difference between blacks and whites. The difference is not just the result of naively constructed tests. The blacks to which the QT was applied were Australian Aborigines and Melanesians but these groups are very much like people of African ancestry in scoring much below whites on any test that has ever been tried. The QT ended up, in other words, giving results very much like those from culture-fair tests and it is now normally classified as simply another culture-fair test.
A very important point to make here, however, is that general problem-solving ability (which is what IQ tests measure) is not the only ability that is important to survival. A bright smile, an ability to run fast and an ability to get on well with other people are obvious examples of other attributes important to survival. And Australian Aborigines do have some mental attributes that are very well developed indeed. Anybody who knows them well will tell you that they are in general a very friendly and immensely polite and sociable people with an excellent sense of humour -- though alcohol transmogrifies them.
And those who know Aborigines really well will tell you that Aborigines have something else: an absolutely eerie ability to observe, remember and interpret the physical landscape around them. For this reason they were widely used in the early days as "trackers" -- people who could track someone (usually fleeing criminals) down by observing minute marks he had made while walking through the landscape. This greater spatial ability has been recorded academically in the work of Kearins -- and the report by Klekamp et al. (1994) that Australian aboriginals have a larger visual cortex than Caucasians would appear to provide the explanation of the phenomenon.
So any claim that whites are superior to blacks is simply too sweeping. In some ways whites are superior and in other ways blacks are. Which area of superiority is most advantageous will depend on the situation. In situations constructed by whites, blacks often do very poorly. That there is any remedy for that, however, seems most unlikely.
REFERENCES:
McElwain, D. W.& Kearney, G. E. (1973). Intellectual development. In Kearney, G. E., de Lacey, P. R. & Davidson, G. R. (Eds.). The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians (pp. 43-56). Sydney: John Wiley.
Kearins, J. M. (1986). Visual spatial memory in Aboriginal and white Australian children. Australian Journal of Psychology, 38, 203-214
Klekamp, J., Riedel, A., Harper, C., Kretschmann, H. J. (1994). Morphometric study of the postnatal growth of the visual cortex of Australian aborigines and Caucasians. Journal of Brain Research, 35, 541-548.
Ray, J.J. (1972) Are all races equally intelligent? Or: When is knowledge knowledge? J. Human Relations 20, 71-75.
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Francis Bacon Archive Three Studies for Figures
at the Base of a Crucifixion 1944
"Mr Francis Bacon is a very capable artist…But the subject of his pictures are so extraordinary, and, indeed,
so extremely repellent, that it is scarcely possible to consider anything else. His themes are as vivid and
as meaningless as a nightmare… Perhaps the nastiest of his ideas is what seems to be some sort of visceral
specimen, a pale and flabby bag of flesh.”
The Times, November 22nd, 1949.
"The human beings in Bacon's pictures seem half-animal, or half-reptilian. Sometimes they have the whiteness
of death; sometimes they are white and red, like joints of meat... He wants to make the animal come through
the human being; and he wants the paint itself to carry its own implications..."
Francis Bacon: The Observer Profile; The Observer Weekend Review, Sunday, 27th May, 1962.
"Bacon had worked on a triptych in the last years of the War, his traumas put on board with rough strokes.
He admitted to the influence of Picasso’s work in the ‘twenties, but he had gone further in distorting the
organic form that related to the human image. The triptych was to receive some hostility for its ferocity,
one critic writing that Bacon had discovered ‘in the art of painting the felicities of the death warrant
[and] covered the lamp-shades of his immediate predecessors with human skins.’ He did shock, he did strike
for the bowels, the inner nerve."
Andrew Sinclair, Francis Bacon – His Life and Violent Times, Crown Publishing, New York 1993.
"For most people, Bacon causes a shock. He says himself that his work is making images, and these are shock-images.
The meaning of this shock does not refer to something 'sensational' (which is represented), but depends on sensation,
on lines and colours. You are confronted with the intense presence of figures, sometimes solitary figures, sometimes
with several bodies, suspended in a plane, in an eternity of colours... You can sense power and violence in him
along with great charm As soon as he sits more than an hour, he twists in every direction; he really looks like a
Bacon. But his posture is always simple, given a sensation that he might feel."
Gilles Deleuze, Two Regimes of Madness, Texts & Interviews 1975-1995, The MIT Press, 2006.
And so begins the road to the permanent takeover by the Reich wing
They can't win at the ballot box all the time so they're getting us ready for when their glorious leader finally
takes over full time and cancels the election.
"Mr Francis Bacon is a very capable artist…But the subject of his pictures are so extraordinary, and, indeed, so
extremely repellent, that it is scarcely possible to consider anything else. His themes are as vivid and as
meaningless as a nightmare… Perhaps the nastiest of his ideas is what seems to be some sort of visceral specimen,
a pale and flabby bag of flesh.”
The Times, November 22nd, 1949.
CRIMINAL MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS OF THE 1950 & 60'S
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BRUTE NEIGHBORS
By Henry David Thoreau
Note.—The author of this sketch, Henry David Thoreau, who lived from 1817 to 1862, was one of the oddest of American
men of genius. He was educated at Harvard University, but he did not care, in the common phrase, to “turn his learning
to practical account;” that is, save for a short time when he taught school, he did not make it earn his living for him.
His theory was that life and energy were being wasted when a man spent in working more time than he absolutely needed
to in order to provide himself with necessities; and this theory he carried out in his own life. While he lived in
Concord, he did odd jobs at carpentering, surveying, and gardening, and worked for a time at his father’s trade of
pencil making. However, he contended that a man was doing himself an injustice if he kept on at that work after he had
reached the point where he could make no further improvement in his pencils.
From 1845 to 1847 Thoreau lived as a hermit in a hut which he had built on the shore of Walden Pond, and the simple
life he led there gave him plenty of leisure for the things he liked best—the study of nature, the grappling with
philosophical problems, and the society of friends. The result of the two years at Walden Pond was his best book,
Walden, or Life in the Woods, a work which is distinguished for its peculiarly truthful and sympathetic studies of
nature.
Thoreau refused to perform any of the ordinary duties of a citizen; he never voted, he never paid taxes. Once he was
arrested because he refused to pay his taxes, and was thrown into jail; his friends remonstrated with him, but still
he refused to pay. However, when his friends paid the sum he made no objections to accepting his release, nor [261]
did he in the future make any objections when his friends quietly paid his taxes.
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Why do precisely these objects which we behold make a world? Why has man just these species of animals for his neighbors;
as if nothing but a mouse could have filled this crevice? I suspect that Pilpay & Co. have put animals to their best use,
for they are all beasts of burden, in a sense, made to carry some portion of our thoughts.
The mice which haunted my house were not the common ones, which are said to have been introduced into the country, but
a wild native kind not found in the village. I sent one to a distinguished naturalist, and it interested him much. When
I was building, one of these had its nest underneath the house, and before I had laid the second floor, and swept out
the shavings, would come out regularly at lunch time and pick up the crumbs at my feet. It probably had never seen a
man before; and it soon became quite familiar, and would run over my shoes and up my clothes. It could readily ascend
the sides of the room by short impulses, like a squirrel, which it resembled in its motions. At length, as I leaned with
my elbow on the bench one day, it ran up my clothes, and along my sleeve, and round and round the paper which held my
dinner, while I kept the latter close, and dodged and played at bo-peep with it; and when at last I held still a piece
of cheese between my thumb and[262] finger, it came and nibbled it, sitting in my hand, and afterward cleaned its face
and paws, like a fly, and walked away.
A phoebe soon built in my shed, and a robin for protection in a pine which grew against the house. In June the partridge
(Tetrao umbellus), which is so shy a bird, led her brood past my windows, from the woods in the rear to the front of my
house, clucking and calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods. The young
suddenly disperse on your approach, at a signal from the mother, as if a whirlwind had swept them away, and they so
exactly resemble the dried leaves and twigs that many a traveler has placed his foot in the midst of a brood, and heard
the whir of the old bird as she flew off, and her anxious calls and mewing, or seen her trail her wings to attract his
attention, without suspecting their neighborhood. The parent will sometimes roll and spin round before you in such a
dishabille, that you cannot, for a few moments, detect what kind of creature it is. The young squat still and flat,
approach make them run again and betray themselves. You may even tread on them, or have your eyes on them for a minute,
without discovering them. I have held them in my open hand at such a time, and still their only care, obedient to their
mother and their instinct, was to squat there without fear or trembling. So perfect is this instinct, that once, when I
had laid them on the leaves again, and one accidentally fell on its side, it was found with the rest in exactly the[263]
same position ten minutes afterward. They are not callow like the young of most birds, but more perfectly developed and
precocious even than chickens. The remarkably adult yet innocent expression of their open and serene eyes is very memorable.
All intelligence seems reflected in them. They suggest not merely the purity of infancy, but a wisdom clarified by
experience. Such an eye was not born when the bird was, but is coeval with the sky it reflects. The woods do not yield
another such gem. The traveler does not often look into such a limpid well. The ignorant or reckless sportsman often shoots
the parent at such a time, and leaves these innocents to fall a prey to some prowling beast or bird, or gradually mingle
with the decaying leaves which they so much resemble. It is said that when hatched by a hen they will directly disperse
on some alarm, and are so lost, for they never hear the mother’s call which gathers them again. These were my hens and
chickens.
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the
neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live there! He grows to be four feet
long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I formerly saw the raccoon in the
woods behind where my house is built, and probably still heard their whinnering at night. Commonly I rested an hour or
two in the shade at noon, after planting, and ate my lunch, and read a little by a spring which was the source of a swamp
and of a brook, oozing from under Brister’s Hill, half a mile from my field. The approach to this[264] was through a
succession of descending grassy hollows, full of young pitch pines, into a larger wood about the swamp. There, in a very
secluded and shaded spot, under a spreading white pine, there was yet a clean firm sward to sit on. I had dug out the
spring and made a well of clear gray water, where I could dip up a pailful without roiling it, and thither I went for this
purpose almost every day in midsummer, when the pond was warmest. Thither, too, the woodcock led her brood, to probe the
mud for worms, flying but a foot above them down the bank, while they ran in a troop beneath; but at last, spying me, she
would leave her young and circle round and round me, nearer and nearer till within four or five feet, pretending broken
wings and legs, to attract my attention, and get off her young, who would already have taken up their march, with faint
wiry peep, single file through the swamp, as she directed. Or I heard the peep of the young when I could not see the
parent bird. There too the turtledoves sat over the spring, or fluttered from bough to bough of the soft white pines over
my head; or the red squirrel, coursing down the nearest bough, was particularly familiar and inquisitive. You only need
sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
BATTLE OF THE ANTS
I was witness to events of a less peaceful character. One day when I went out to my wood pile, or rather my pile of
stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely
contending with one another. Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on[265] the
chips incessantly. Looking further, I was surprised to find that the chips were covered with such combatants, that it
was not a duellum, but a bellum, a war between two races of ants, the red always pitted against the black, and frequently
two red ones to one black. The legions of these Myrmidons covered all the hills and vales in my wood yard, and the ground
was already strewn with the dead and dying, both red and black. It was the only battle which I have ever witnessed, the
only battlefield I ever trod while the battle was raging; internecine war; the red republicans on the one hand, and the
black imperialists on the other. On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could
hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely. I watched a couple that were fast locked in each other’s embraces,
in a little sunny valley amid the chips, now at noonday prepared to fight till the sun went down, or life went out. The
smaller red champion had fastened himself like a vise to his adversary’s front, and through all the[266] tumblings on
that field never for an instant ceased to gnaw at one of his feelers near the root, having already caused the other to
go by the board; while the stronger black one dashed him from side to side, and, as I saw on looking nearer, had already
divested him of several of his members. They fought with more pertinacity than bulldogs. Neither manifested the least
disposition to retreat. It was evident that their battle-cry was “Conquer or die.” In the meanwhile there came along a
single red ant on the hillside of this valley, evidently full of excitement, who either had despatched his foe, or had
not yet taken part in the battle; probably the latter, for he had lost none of his limbs; whose mother had charged him
to return with his shield or upon it. Or perchance he was some Achilles, who had nourished his wrath apart, and had now
come to avenge or rescue his Patroclus. He saw this unequal combat from afar—for the blacks were nearly twice the size
of the red—he drew near with rapid pace till he stood on his guard within half an inch of the combatants; then, watching
his opportunity, he sprang upon the black warrior, and commenced his operations near the root of his right fore-leg,
leaving the foe to select among his own members; and so there were three united for life, as if a new kind of attraction
had been invented which put all other locks and cements to shame. I should not have wondered by this time to find that
they had their respective musical bands stationed on some eminent chip, and playing their national airs the while, to
excite the slow and cheer the dying combatants. I was myself excited somewhat even as if they had been men. The more
you think of it, the[267] less the difference. And certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least,
if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or
for the patriotism and heroism displayed. For numbers and for carnage it was an Austerlitz or Dresden. Concord Fight!
Two killed on the patriots’ side, and Luther Blanchard wounded! Why, here every ant was a Butterick—“Fire! for God’s
sake, fire!”—and thousands shared the fate of Davis and Hosmer. There was not one hireling there. I have no doubt that
it was a principle they fought for, as much as our ancestors, and not to avoid a three-penny tax on their tea; and the
results of this battle will be as important and memorable to those whom it concerns as those of the battle of Bunker
Hill, at least.
I took up the chip on which the three I have particularly described were struggling, carried it into my house, and placed
it under a tumbler on my window sill, in order to see the issue. Holding a microscope to the first-mentioned red ant, I
saw that, though he was assiduously gnawing at the near fore-leg of his enemy, having severed his remaining feeler, his
own breast was all torn away, exposing what vitals he had there to the jaws of the black warrior, whose breastplate was
apparently too thick for him to pierce; and the dark carbuncles of the sufferer’s eyes shone with ferocity such as war
only could excite. They struggled half an hour longer under the tumbler, and when I looked again the black soldier had
severed the heads of his foes from their bodies, and still living heads were hanging on either side of him like ghastly
trophies[268] at his saddle-bow, still apparently as firmly fastened as ever, and he was endeavoring with feeble struggles,
being without feelers and with only the remnant of a leg, and I know not how many other wounds, to divest himself of them;
which at length, after half an hour more, he accomplished. I raised the glass, and he went off over the window sill in
that crippled state. Whether he finally survived that combat, and spent the remainder of his days in some Hotel des
Invalides, I do not know; but I thought that his industry would not be worth much thereafter. I never learned which
party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feelings excited
and harrowed by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before my door.
Kirby and Spence tell us that the battles of ants have long been celebrated and the date of them recorded, though they
say that Huber is the only modern author who appears to have witnessed them. “Æneas Sylvius,” say they, “after giving a
very circumstantial account of one contested with great obstinacy by a great and small species on the trunk of a pear
tree,” adds that “‘This action was fought in the pontificate of Eugenius the Fourth, in the presence of Nicholas
Pistoriensis, an eminent lawyer, who related the whole history of the battle with the greatest fidelity.’ A similar
engagement between great and small ants is recorded by Olaus Magnus, in which the small ones, being victorious, are said
to have buried the bodies of their own soldiers, and left those of their giant enemies a prey to the birds. This event
happened previous to the[269] expulsion of the tyrant Christiern the Second from Sweden.” The battle which I witnessed
took place in the Presidency of Polk, five years before the passage of Webster’s Fugitive-Slave Bill.
Many a village Bose, fit only to course a mud-turtle in a victualling cellar, sported his heavy quarters in the woods,
without the knowledge of his master, and ineffectually smelled at old fox burrows and woodchucks’ holes; led perchance
by some slight cur which nimbly threaded the wood, and might still inspire a natural terror in its denizens; now far
behind his guide, barking like a canine bull toward some small squirrel which had treed itself for scrutiny, then,
cantering off, bending the bushes with his weight, imagining that he is on the track of some stray member of the jerbilla
family. Once I was surprised to see a cat walking along the stony shore of the pond, for they rarely wander so far from
home. The surprise was mutual. Nevertheless the most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite
at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.
Once, when berrying, I met with a cat with young kittens in the woods, quite wild, and they all, like their mother, had
their backs up and were fiercely spitting at me. A few years before I lived in the woods there was what was called a
“winged cat” in one of the farmhouses in Lincoln nearest the pond, Mr. Gilian Baker’s. When I called to see her in June,
1842, she was gone a-hunting in the woods, as was her wont (I am not sure whether it was a male or female, and so use
the more common pronoun), but her mistress told me that she[270] came into the neighborhood a little more than a year
before, in April, and was finally taken into their house; that she was of a dark brownish gray color, with a white spot
on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted
out along her sides, forming strips ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the
upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off. They gave me a pair of her
“wings,” which I keep still. There is no appearance of a membrane about them. Some thought it was part flying-squirrel or
some other wild animal, which is not impossible, for, according to naturalists, prolific hybrids have been produced by
the union of the marten and domestic cat. This would have been the right kind of cat for me to keep, if I had kept any;
for why should not a poet’s cat be winged as well as his horse?
In the fall the loon (Colymbus glacialis) came, as usual, to moult and bathe in the pond, making the woods ring with his
wild laughter before I had risen. At rumor of his arrival all the Milldam sportsmen are on the alert, in gigs and on
foot, two by two and three by three, with patent rifles and conical balls and spyglasses. They come rustling through the
woods like autumn leaves, at least ten men to one loon. Some station themselves on this side of the pond, some on that,
for the poor bird cannot be omnipresent; if he dive here he must come up there. But now the kind October wind rises,
rustling the leaves and rippling the surface of the water, so that no loon can be heard or seen, though[271] his foes
sweep the pond with spyglasses, and make the woods resound with their discharges. The waves generally rise and dash
angrily, taking sides with all waterfowl, and our sportsmen must beat a retreat to town and shop and unfinished jobs. But
they were too often successful. When I went to get a pail of water early in the morning I frequently saw this stately
bird sailing out of my cove within a few rods. If I endeavored to overtake him in a boat, in order to see how he would
manœuvre, he would dive and be completely lost, so that I did not discover him again sometimes till the latter part of
the day. But I was more than a match for him on the surface. He commonly went off in a rain.
As I was paddling along the north shore one very calm October afternoon, for such days especially they settle on to the
lakes, like the milkweed down, having looked in vain over the pond for a loon, suddenly one, sailing out from the shore
toward the middle a few rods in front of me, set up his wild laugh and betrayed himself. I pursued with a paddle and he
dived, but when he came up I was nearer than before. He dived again, but I miscalculated the direction he would take,
and we were fifty rods apart when he came to the surface this time, for I had helped to widen the interval; and again he
laughed long and loud, and with more reason than before.
WATCHING FOR THE LOON
He manœuvred so cunningly that I could not get within half a dozen rods of him. Each time, when he came to the surface,
turning his head this way and that, he coolly surveyed the water and the land, and apparently chose his course so that
he might come up where there was the widest expanse[272] of water, and at the greatest distance from the boat. It was
surprising how quickly he made up his mind and put his resolve into execution. He led me at once to the widest part of
the pond, and could not be driven from it. While he was thinking one thing in his brain, I was endeavoring to divine his
thought in mine. It was a pretty game,[273] played on the smooth surface of the pond, a man against a loon. Suddenly your
adversary’s checker disappears beneath the board, and the problem is to place yours nearest to where his will appear again.
Sometimes he would come up unexpectedly on the opposite side of me, having apparently passed directly under the boat. So
long-winded was he and so unweariable, that when he had swum furthest he would immediately plunge again, nevertheless; and
then no wit could divine where in the deep pond, beneath the smooth surface, he might be speeding his way like a fish, for
he had time and ability to visit the bottom of the pond in its deepest part.
It is said that loons have been caught in the New York lakes eighty feet beneath the surface, with hooks set for trout—
though Walden is deeper than that. How surprised must the fishes be to see this ungainly visitor from another sphere
speeding his way amid their schools! Yet he appeared to know his course as surely under water as on the surface, and
swam much faster there. Once or twice I saw a ripple where he approached the surface, just put his head out to reconnoitre,
and instantly dived again. I found that it was as well for me to rest on my oars and wait his reappearing as to endeavor
to calculate where he would rise; for again and again, when I was straining my eyes over the surface one way, I would
suddenly be startled by his unearthly laugh behind me. But why, after displaying so much cunning, did he invariably betray
himself the moment he came up by that loud laugh? Did not his white breast enough betray him? He was indeed a silly loon,
I thought. I could commonly[274] hear the splash of the water when he came up, and so also detected him. But after an hour
he seemed as fresh as ever, dived as willingly and swam yet further than at first. It was surprising to see how serenely
he sailed off with unruffled breast when he came to the surface, doing all the work with his webbed feet beneath. His usual
note was this demoniac laughter, yet somewhat like that of a waterfowl; but occasionally, when he had balked me most
successfully and come up a long way off, he uttered a long-drawn unearthly howl, probably more like that of a wolf than
any bird; as when a beast puts his muzzle to the ground and deliberately howls. This was his looming—perhaps the wildest
sound that is ever heard here, making the woods ring far and wide. I concluded that he laughed in derision of my efforts,
confident of his own resources. Though the sky was by this time overcast, the pond was so smooth that I could see where
he broke the surface when I did not hear him. His white breast, the stillness of the air, and the smoothness of the water
were all against him. At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling
on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the
whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with
me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.
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Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
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Yet more evidence that the truth is remarkably un-egalitarian. No wonder Leftists had to kill so many people over the past century - human nature simply wouldn't bend to their ideology!
1. Men like blond bombshells (and women want to look like them)
"Women's desire to look like Barbie—young with small waist, large breasts, long blond hair, and blue eyes—is a direct, realistic, and sensible response to the desire of men to mate with women who look like her. There is evolutionary logic behind each of these features.
Men prefer young women in part because they tend to be healthier than older women. One accurate indicator of health is physical attractiveness; another is hair. Healthy women have lustrous, shiny hair, whereas the hair of sickly people loses its luster. Because hair grows slowly, shoulder-length hair reveals several years of a woman's health status."
2. Humans are naturally polygamous
"The history of western civilization aside, humans are naturally polygamous. Polyandry (a marriage of one woman to many men) is very rare, but polygyny (the marriage of one man to many women) is widely practiced in human societies, even though Judeo-Christian traditions hold that monogamy is the only natural form of marriage. We know that humans have been polygynous throughout most of history because men are taller than women.
Among primate and nonprimate species, the degree of polygyny highly correlates with the degree to which males of a species are larger than females. The more polygynous the species, the greater the size disparity between the sexes. Typically, human males are 10 percent taller and 20 percent heavier than females. This suggests that, throughout history, humans have been mildly polygynous."
3. Most women benefit from polygyny, while most men benefit from monogamy
"When there is resource inequality among men—the case in every human society—most women benefit from polygyny: women can share a wealthy man. Under monogamy, they are stuck with marrying a poorer man.
The only exceptions are extremely desirable women. Under monogamy, they can monopolize the wealthiest men; under polygyny, they must share the men with other, less desirable women. However, the situation is exactly opposite for men. Monogamy guarantees that every man can find a wife. True, less desirable men can marry only less desirable women, but that's much better than not marrying anyone at all."
4. Most suicide bombers are Muslim
"However, polygyny itself is not a sufficient cause of suicide bombing. Societies in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean are much more polygynous than the Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa. And they do have very high levels of violence. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from a long history of continuous civil wars—but not suicide bombings.
The other key ingredient is the promise of 72 virgins waiting in heaven for any martyr in Islam. The prospect of exclusive access to virgins may not be so appealing to anyone who has even one mate on earth, which strict monogamy virtually guarantees. However, the prospect is quite appealing to anyone who faces the bleak reality on earth of being a complete reproductive loser."
5. Having sons reduces the likelihood of divorce
"Since a man's mate value is largely determined by his wealth, status, and power—whereas a woman's is largely determined by her youth and physical attractiveness—the father has to make sure that his son will inherit his wealth, status, and power, regardless of how much or how little of these resources he has. In contrast, there is relatively little that a father (or mother) can do to keep a daughter youthful or make her more physically attractive.
The continued presence of (and investment by) the father is therefore important for the son, but not as crucial for the daughter. The presence of sons thus deters divorce and departure of the father from the family more than the presence of daughters, and this effect tends to be stronger among wealthy families."
6. Beautiful people have more daughters
"The generalized Trivers-Willard hypothesis goes beyond a family's wealth and status: If parents have any traits that they can pass on to their children and that are better for sons than for daughters, then they will have more boys. Conversely, if parents have any traits that they can pass on to their children and that are better for daughters, they will have more girls.
Physical attractiveness, while a universally positive quality, contributes even more to women's reproductive success than to men's. The generalized hypothesis would therefore predict that physically attractive parents should have more daughters than sons. Once again, this is the case. Americans who are rated "very attractive" have a 56 percent chance of having a daughter for their first child, compared with 48 percent for everyone else."
7. What Bill Gates and Paul McCartney have in common with criminals
"Paul McCartney has not written a hit song in years, and now spends much of his time painting. Bill Gates is now a respectable businessman and philanthropist, and is no longer a computer whiz kid. J.D. Salinger now lives as a total recluse and has not published anything in more than three decades. Orson Welles was a mere 26 when he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane.
A single theory can explain the productivity of both creative geniuses and criminals over the life course: Both crime and genius are expressions of young men's competitive desires, whose ultimate function in the ancestral environment would have been to increase reproductive success."
8. The midlife crisis is a myth—sort of
"Many believe that men go through a midlife crisis when they are in middle age. Not quite. Many middle-aged men do go through midlife crises, but it's not because they are middle-aged. It's because their wives are. From the evolutionary psychological perspective, a man's midlife crisis is precipitated by his wife's imminent menopause and end of her reproductive career, and thus his renewed need to attract younger women. Accordingly, a 50-year-old man married to a 25-year-old woman would not go through a midlife crisis, while a 25-year-old man married to a 50-year-old woman would, just like a more typical 50-year-old man married to a 50-year-old woman. It's not his midlife that matters; it's hers. When he buys a shiny-red sports car, he's not trying to regain his youth; he's trying to attract young women to replace his menopausal wife by trumpeting his flash and cash."
9. It's natural for politicians to risk everything for an affair (but only if they're male)
"The question many asked in 1998—"Why on earth would the most powerful man in the world jeopardize his job for an affair with a young woman?"—is, from a Darwinian perspective, a silly one. Betzig's answer would be: "Why not?" Men strive to attain political power, consciously or unconsciously, in order to have reproductive access to a larger number of women. Reproductive access to women is the goal, political office but one means. To ask why the President of the United States would have a sexual encounter with a young woman is like asking why someone who worked very h |
