Rebel Matters 237– Série Pandémique – Do Androids Dream of Electric Love? Another Show with Madge of Yeast Radio.

Overnight Chia. Could be Tasty.

More depressing discussion about the end of the world. The beautiful people of Tik Tok. Boostagrams. Premptive Strikes. Abortion. Building love into robots. Deep talk about the consciousness of biological beings. Trying to simulate life on earth. The impossibility of humans to think in terms of deep time. Retirement. Overnight Chia.

Madge’s Overnight Chia

1/4 cup Chia seeds

1 cup of oat milk

Combine in a dessert glass bowl with

a sprinkle of cinnamon and

a dash of vanilla and maybe some pumpkin spice

Chill Overnight and

Enjoy

Next time on Madge and Ninja : The heat death of the universe.

Errata:
Covelli? I meant Rovelli. And he is not an astrophysicist. He is a theoretical physicist.

This interview was cross posted at Yeast Radio. You can listen here right now:

Hotfrm 237: Do Androids Dream of Electric Love? (177mb 1h17m)

Other Things We Discuss

• Ken Jenning’s Omnibus Project
• William S. Burroughs
• Carlo Rovelli
• Severance – just like work but worse
• Substack – a place to write or otherwise express yourself.
• NaNoWriMo – and write a book. We did.
• Narcissism
• Chemist Lee Cronin on Lex Fridman’s Podcast #269
  “Life on earth is merely an expression of the available chemistry set” – Lee Cronin
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Mmmmmax Headroom
• Euphoria
• Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy – Don’t Panic.

Sir Gawain, the Green Knight, and Queer Theory

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Rebel Matters 231 – Série Pandémique – No It’s Not Censorship

Shelter In Place, Physical Distance, and Wash your Hands Unless Otherwise Instructed

 

Last week a friend sent me a link to a removed YouTube video and the question, “Censorship?”  That sent me on a search for the video by Drs. Erickson and Massihi, two Californian physicians who want sheltering-in-place ended in their state.   The doctors provide unsubstantiated claims about the virus SARS-COV-2 and one even goes as far as suggesting that there will be gun violence about this issue.   This video is full of misinformation, pseudoscience, false hopes and fear-mongering.  You are free to watch it, do your own research and make up your own mind, but I give you this rant in any case on a sunny cool spring day during my lockdown. Let me know what you think.   (Have I ever said how much I love spring in Canada?)

Have a listen: (22m04s 52mb)

 

Show Notes and Links:

This Week in Virology  (Thanks to Okaexa, who alerted me to this site last month)

John Hopkins Medicine Site

What Canada’s Theresa Tam Has To Say About Herd Immunity

What Dr. Kurtsinger Has to Say About the Video

Another Opinion on the Video

The Video Taken Down by YouTube:  Bakersfield Doctors Dispute Need For Stay at Home Order

The Doctors’ medical practice:   Accelerated Urgent Care

If the video has been taken down again on NewTube, Let me know at hotfrm@gmail.com and I’ll give you another source.

Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 223 – Tesla Batteries and The Anthem for Saving the Planet

“Imagine all the people living life in peace.”  Photo taken Sunday September 21 2014.

On Sunday September 21 2014, Special K and I attended the first international People’s Climate March. It was an event held around the world with a special focus on New York City two days before the U.N. Climate Summit was set to begin. It was organized by 350.org an environmental group founded by writer and activist Bill McKibben. 350 represents the parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that scientists say we need to stay at to keep further climate change at bay. Earlier last year there was a point where the parts per million of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere was recorded at 400ppm.

Wikipedia records an estimate of 311,000 people attended the People’s Climate March.    There were numerous staging areas for different groups that started at Central Park West at 59^th street and went as far as 86^th street.   Special K and I ended up joining the designated area for the generational groups at around 66^th street. Among the participants we marched with were families, the elderly, and students.  It was intended to be a peaceful march and it was.   I interviewed several people: One of the peacekeeper volunteers, some students, a carpenter, an urban planner and a TV film editor. Join Special K and I as we take you through the march on that humid cloudy day. Enjoy the show.

Listen up  (36m45s) :

Other things discussed:

Hegemony – “…is the political, economic, or military predominance or control of one state over others.”

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

Tesla Battery – “…shouldn’t the government legislate its use?” – Liam

Deliverance / Dueling Banjos

Imagine by John Lennon

Casa Loma

Jane’s Walk

Taken Sunday September 21 2014

Photo taken Sunday September 21 2014

Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 219 – Artists Interpret Climate Change

Still from “Beekeeping for All” by Myfanwy MacLeod and Janna Levitt at the Royal Ontario Museum January 26 2014

On January 26, Special K and I were scheduled to participate in an event at the Royal Ontario Museum called Carbon 14 – A Day of Dialogue – The Changing Arctic Landscape.  The Arctic government and policy makers are very concerned about the changes they anticpate in the arctic latitudes and have seen over the last several generations.  As a prelude to this, I visited the exhibit Climate is Culture at the museum where I viewed installations inspired by climate change.  My podcast today is a soundscape of my visit to that exhibit.

0-1:09 – Intro

1:09-5:01 –  What is the Polar Vortex?  Andrew Freedman on PBS Newshour from Climate Central

5:01 – 23:54 – Soundscene at the Climate is Culture exhibit

23:54 – 29:30 – Heidi Cullen’s Senate Testimony on Climate Science

29:30 – 31:32 – Outro

Download at:  Hotfrm 219 (59 mb 31:32)

Listen here directly:

Still from “Beekeeping for All” by Myfanwy MacLeod and Janna Levitt at the Royal Ontario Museum January 26 2014

Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 211 – I End With the Bees

The Black Solitary Bee that Sarah Found

In my fourth and final installment of sound and visual art and artists I recorded at the Toronto Electro-Acoustic Symposium this summer, I end with the bees.   After-all  I started the series with bees for Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters number 208.  In this show I learn a lot.  For example – that there are at least 800 varieties of bees in Canada.  Bees evolved from wasps.   And so did ants.  Many of these are solitary bees.  There are many varieties of solitary bees.  These are bees that do not live in hives, but instead burrow into discarded dead stalks and wood. They are not the least bit interested in us, just collecting pollen and nurturing their young to maturity.  I catch up with Sarah Peebles and learn all about one of her prototype  Audio Bee Booths – a habitat she created for solitary bees.   (In the background of this soundscene/interview you can also hear the sound of children playing and airplanes flying overhead.)

One Side of the Audio Bee Booth 2010 Prototype

Listen up:

Or right-click to download:  HotFRM 211 (75mb 40:00)

Equipment used:  Apex 415 for intro.  Zoom H2 and Roland – CS-10EM – Binaural Microphones/Earphones for soundscape and interview.

Another View of Sarah’s Solitary Black Bee

Things I Think Are Weird Today

Empty Bentley Waiting for Mother and Daughter Toronto Davenport Avenue

It’s September 6 and

1. My four o’clocks have germinated again.

2. Some of the trees in the neighbourhood have re-blossomed.

3. The first morning of school was warmer than the first morning of school usually is.

4. A mother and daughter  pair with matching bleach blond perms, were on their way to a TIFF gala in a Bentley convertible.  There were blokes in caps riding in Benz’s.  (We were in a fancy traffic jam).

Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 199 – I Want My Therapeutic Seal

This past summer,  Special K, Dragon, Fly and I went to Ottawa’s Canadian Museum of Civilization.  The highlight of the visit was the exhibit called Japan: Tradition.  Innovation.  The exhibit showcased Japan’s achievements in design.   I wanted to take home everything I saw, including a robotic seal intended for elder care.

Links:  Japan: Tradition and Innovation at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Therapeutic Seal, Museum of Civilization

Listen to the show :

• HotFRM 199 (25MB)

Hot Fossils and Rebel Matters 197 – Water is the Only Thing That Matters or Watermageddon

That’s How Much Water We Have to Use for 7 Billion People

Listen to the show:

• Hotfrm 197 (35mb)
  

On Canada Day this year, July 1st, Special K and I went to Royal Ontario Museum, the ROM to view three separate exhibits. The first is on water, what it is, what it means to us, what it means to everything on the planet and how little of it there actually is. The second was an exhibit of Edward Burtynsky’s photography. A well known local and international photographer, the exhibit showcased some of his more stunning and beautiful pieces. I try to describe his photography as I move through the display. See what you think. The last exhibit is a display of Bollywood showcards and I try to get you interested in the delights and promise of the most popular cinema art form in the world.  Important Links:

The Big Picture Science Podcast

http://www.ec.gc.ca/eau-water/default.asp?lang=en&n=300688DC-1

How Much Usable Water? Really?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_distribution_on_Earth

http://www.allaboutwater.org/water-facts.html

Listen to the show:

Hotfrm 197 (35mb)