Shopping Amazon + Heavy Metal = A Guy With The Geiger Counter

[shopping on Amazon and Aliexpress] +
[watching videos on heavy metals in food]=

this nuclear scientist in Ukraine checking everything for radiation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaG606eTAyY

Home DIY + Fukushima = Chermobyl Electro Urbex

[Watching DIY about home electricity] + 

[videos about Fukushima and Chernobyl] 

=  this video by urban explorer/electrician hooking up electricity in abandoned apartments around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station:

https://youtu.be/CsSjUSRFik4

Foxy sciencespeak: Mitochondria cells and DNA cellular level. Benzene is bad, so is benzoate.

I was asked about this writer's view of sodium benzoate, http://www.naturalnews.com/033726_sodium_benzoate_cancer.html

I like the gems from the article:

"mitochondria cells"

"DNA cellular level"

mitochondria are in the same cell with nucleus, but within the cell there is no other cells of any kind. All cells have mitochondria.

there is no such a thing as a DNA cellular, or non-cellular level. There are no levels. There is the nucleus, with the father-mother DNA information, and there is mitochondria, with maternal DNA only.

fun!

I don't think there's any more danger than eating it in berries. The heating process would not destroy this, as any stable aromatic ring compound. It would form another organic salt within the mass of the food.

I've read this article and recognize the amateur logic from years ago.

Any acid getting into our bodies reacts naturally with the abundance of sodium, calcium, and potassium, and is transported to the tissues, and used as needed. The amount over the natural demand gets into bloodstream and taken up by liver, which acts like a chemical reactor. The article should have informed readers of that correctly, while describing kidneys as the filter.

"Sodium benzoate chokes out your body's nutrients at the DNA cellular level by depriving mitochondria cells of oxygen,"

Another crude vested interest misinformation, or ignorance. At the DNA level there's no function of nutrition. It is strictly genetic programming, for growth, or cellular upkeep.

The only object capable of depriving anything of oxygen is cyanide or carbon monoxide.

Mitochondria does possess DNA, which is coded with exclusively maternal information, and as DNA has zero role in nutrition, power production, etc. The article is totally oblivious of the Krebs cycle.

The liver would more likely metabolize a benzoic salt in building amino acids, or something else useful, as needed. It would not be converted back to benzene. It is benzene from environmental pollution that would get metabolized into benzoic salt. In large amounts, benzene would overwhelm the liver, causing production of random organic molecules that would foul up the genetic coding.

The article is written with good will and intuition and guess, but does not bring references to scientific trials, as Dr. Adkins did in his book.

Meet The Big Four Weed Killers

Roundup, Atrizine, Resicore, and Status. These herbicide make sure that (broadleaf weeds and grasses, especially) we have plenty of vegetables at a reasonable price, and there is still plenty of veggies left to export.

Roundup is Glyphosate:

This herbicide's PO3H group with the NH part may easily cause errors in the phosphate rich environment of the DNA-RNA and its transcription. Nucleotides have the same PO3 terminus:

But I still have to find research papers studying this effect. 

Hopefully this chemical's water solubility means it could be washed nearly completely, and if there are any residues managing to enter an organism, then ultimately the error checking RNA mechanisms would overcome it, as they overcome these challenges daily.

Atrazine:

One positive thing going for this herbicide is that many bacteria easily though slowly biodegrade it.

The molecule itself once it reaches the cellular nucleus might be mistaken for a pyrimidine, a crucial part of the DNA and RNA code. The Chloride atom may easily wreak havoc with transcription.

by BruceBlausen

Let's hope our chromosomes have a good programs running all the time and check our genetic code for errors.

Resicore 

It is something new, designed by Dow Chemicals to counteract herbicide resistance, and is comprised of three unique herbicides, which have interesting commercial names (from this Iowa State University paper):

Acetochlor, a.k.a.Surpass

In plants it inhibits enzyme that builds, or elongates fatty acids. This process is a crucial to all life animal or vegetable.

Mesotrione, a.k.a. Callisto, 

This molecule is a somewhat natural inhibitor of an enzyme that builds carotene, which protects chlorophyll from being degraded by sunlight.

Any damage to the production of this enyzme (4-Hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase, HPPD) can be linked to one of the oldest known inherited metabolic disorders known as alkaptonuria in humans.

Alkaptonuria is a rare inherited genetic disorder in which the body cannot process the amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine, which occur in protein.

It is possible to imagine that the molecule once inside the cellular nucleus, might have its acidic SO2 group pose as the acidic PO3 group of nucleotides. The rest of the molecule presents enough capability to obstruct the DNA/RNA transcriptions by both its spatial dimensions and interatomic affinities for the correct nucleobases. 

and sometimes substitued by Flumetsulam, a.k.a. Python, which is

the molecule already resembles these building blocks of genetic material

and looks as if Guanine is coupled to any of the pyrimidines, U, T or C.Except the herbicide molecule does not need to fix itself into the nucleotide's place in the DNA helix. it might just float there, obstructing transcription, and preventing either growth, or promoting death outright.

and, 

Clopyralid, a.k.a. Stinger

It is particularly damaging to peas, tomatoes and sunflowers and can render potatoes, lettuce and spinach inedible. Being a benzoic acid due to the -OOH group, it is rendered rather water soluble, and neutral to mammal organisms, but theoretically having the -N- nitrogen in the ring, it is a pyridinecarboxylic acid, and again theoretically, could masquerade is pyrimidine, which it does in many plants, and does it successfully.

The fourth biggie is Status, 

It is a mixture of sodium salt of Diflufenzopyr, 

Diflufenzopyr is an auxin-transport inhibitor that can increase the phytotoxicity of certain auxin-mimicking herbicides such as Dicamba (see below) on broadleaf species. Auxin is a plant hormone which causes the elongation of cells in shoots and is involved in regulating plant growth. Auxin is produced in the apex of growing stems.
Being in the Sodium (Na+) salt state, it is relatively water soluble, and should be easily broken up by the gut bacteria, or jsut ignored and passed through human body. Theoretically, the overall structure of this molecule resembles a guanidine-pyrimidine pair.

and Dicamba. 

The OOH is what makes the molecule a carboxylic acid, just like Chlopyralid, and water-soluble too. The herbicide is very selective and efficient. It has not been shown to affect mammals. The only controversy it did cause what transferring to and poisoning compost, which instead of fertilizing tomato gardens, killed them off.
To comment on possible interaction with human metabolism, the molecule is most likely to be treated as a benzoic acid, which is also found in cranberries, accept the Chloride groups and the methoxy group (-OCH3) theoretically would steer it down the PCB disassembly pathway.

These last two herbicides should present no danger as long as vegetables are washed with plenty of water.

Gaza+Nimrod+Washington=An Airplane

[reading about an explosion in Gaza, blow up]+[ reading about the Biblical Nimrod]+[checking out a a Google Map of Washington DC] =  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Nimrod_MRA4).

This discovery in the kitchen

Out of all glassware coming out of China, maybe this one is not Chinese, because it is sturdy. Even its looks suggest bountiful glass. Blink Max, it says on the bottom, and I have never seen or heard about it before. I do not even know how it got here.

This Is The Crux of Religion Of FRAO and Health Business Charlatans.

The Free Radical craze and the worship of Anti Oxidants has become the bread and butter of the health concern charlatancy. The key word of the FRAO religion is still "theory" started by pre-web sitting in public libraries, and then reading each other's web cobweb fantasy science sites.

All the talk can still be boiled down to the fact that every biochemical in the living cell has a free radical phase, and maybe several such phases, as it arrives at its final destination of the Krebs cycle, or a cell building block. For example, intermediate molecules that form cell wall, hemoglobin, lipids, all go through a split second long stage of being a free radical.

Free radicals swimming free in a body means the body is dead. The acidity-basicity of a living organism is precise. Even a small amount of any free radical means that a healthy organism will have plenty of the buffer system to absorb it, just like any spike of acid or base, without any need for the health charlatancy's concepts of body defense, friendly substances, good herbs, etc.

The buffer system of a living organism is the ever present, major three or four acids: phosphoric, carbonic, acetic, and citric, with their corresponding electrolytes. IV drips always use any of these safely, other than saline, which does not participate in metabolism.

Anti oxidants can't just always be ready to hang around and immediately neutralize free radicals. Anti oxidants are different molecules, and can't have the 100% functionality in the insane soup of a living organism, balanced at a specific acidity, and having a unique organic makeup, i.e., proteins being anionic and cationic, lipids being unfriendly to water-soluble molecules.

To add to the soup are the white blood cells, which are self-defense amoebas, which hunt for any material that triggered the body's alarm as having a foreign surface.

So the general public is overdosing on vitamin c, a prime antioxidant, but it is not active in every part of the body, or cell, or won't even get to all cells. Because if there's too much of it, the natural buffer chemistry kicks in and the vitamin c is made harmless, but still theoretically available to perform as a vitamin.
Same goes for vitamin E. It is oil-soluble. It is very safe to remember that it would function in a lipid process or material of a cell. It will not be floating around in the watery soup, just waiting for the always water-soluble free radical.

Carcinogenic events don't necessarily start with free radicals, as the religion claims. A strong, high frequency radiation (starting with UV, which damages skin, then the penetrating X-rays, gamma rays, and neutron radiation) does it by forcing logical errors in DNA operations, which nearly always involve RNA, and rely on specific enzymes to perform copy-paste and error checking functions. Only nuclear explosions, nuclear contamination, ingestion would produce free radicals, in the genetic material included, but that means a significant damage on the scale of a Chernobyl cleanup and staff exposure, and that means most of metabolism is in damaged, and imminent death.

Errors in the DNA operations most of the time happen without sub molecular damage. It would mean that a molecule might be mistaken for the DNA base pairs A-T, G-C, the zipper like teeth of the dna's zipper-like helix, or might block the pairing. The molecule could be naphthalene, benzene, or nicotine, etc. The radiation may change a change in a copy-paste enzyme's protein chain, like cap a site with a hydrogen instead of a -CH3, or -CH3 instead of -NH2. Same might be done to any of the base pairs.

Another intellectually dishonest silence is about the lymphatic system, and about the shedding of body materials. Contrary to the charlatans' language of cleaning body, or blood, it is theoretically impossible to do by means of any chemical. The body is a precisely tuned chemical soup. Any chemical or biochemical intrusion means death.
The real cleaning is done by the lymphatic system. One of the ABC's of self-cleaning is capping an old mass of protein, or a cell with glucose, or some other biochemical in the body. The capped mass is naturally ducted to and by the lymphatic system, to other locales, or, engulfed by a white blood cell, like a macrophage, or discarded. The glucose capped old hemoglobin has been measured in blood tests(HbA1c) for quite some time. But the intellectual dishonest charlatans overlooked this, or it was beyond them, being a step too far ahead of their rationale.

If anything is shed inside intestines then it is digested, or eaten by the friendly bacteria, or expelled in the toilet.
If cells are shed outside the body, then they are dandruff, chaff, and are washed off in the shower.
Nothing just sheds off inside the body the way the charlatans claim.

So any guru of the FRAO is a fraud, or a liar, or a thief. I don't know why they would not be.

Street music technology exposed.

I thought these stone pianos were a feat in cast concrete acoustics. They have rich resonant sound and any passerby is welcome to play. On a sunny afternoon of June 20 I stumbled on one of them being installed, and this turned out to be a regular electronic keyboard connected to a sound generator, amplifier and powered up by an average battery.

A Swan Lake In Ukraine

[watching clips of the Swan Lake ballet]+

[watching the pancake festival in the town of Korosten]+

[having a Kasten in my contacts] =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taETEHuePI4

Double Yesha

(wacthing articulate gun pro vids)+

(visiting literary sites) + 

(search for "boutique agriculture in Yesha) =

top Google search result: Yosha Gunasekeras JD means all these attractive college women.

Jack Reacher+Russia+Railroads

[Jack Reacher subject searches] + 
[watching travel videos] + 
[watching documentaries on Russia] + 
[reading Wikipedia natural science articles] = 
this Russian guy on the loose in the American Southwest: 
https://youtu.be/lVApCacHHBs

Gadgets+Lawyers

[Gadget craftsmanship]+

[watching vids on security]+

[having lawyers in my contacts] = 

The Lockpicking Lawyer vs. the hotdog lock:

https://youtu.be/J01h-rf8VEs

How Flaky Can Detox Ideas Get

Flaky detox ideas: what the alternative quacks forget is the existence of the lymphatic system. This is what cleans body, removes shed cells, unwelcome biological molecules, own white blood cells that ate viruses and bacteria, blood glucose bound old hemoglobin and other materials. All of that flows to the spleen, the true detox center. Any other detox approach is lethal. Body pH is precise. Anything changing it will cause serious malfunction. Liver has no refuse storage department, it is like a molecular assembly site. Unnecessary water soluble materials and light waste get filtered out by the kidneys. Some out from the skin.

If liver is presented with any new molecule - always getting to the liver through the portal vein - it starts taking it apart into known biological materials, like acetyl COA, fatty acids, glycerides, vitamin building blocks, and makes new molecules, and sends whatever necessary into blood stream for the muscles.

Reading up on the quack detox ideas sound like they have done nothing, not centuries of white coat research.

They did quick rationalizing or back pedaling when it comes to the lymphatic system, and there is a separate field of quacky recommendation. In the spirit of the well known century long blood letting, the quacks make claim that the botanicals, also peddled to the unsuspecting people as liver detox, exist also as lymph drainers. Of course, they do not elaborate on where the drainage occurs, and since when they have had the time to do research on this, and on how many impressively many people. This is disgusting. When you hear science reduced to the word "drainer," maybe it's money down the drain.

Question: Acidic drink interacting with the plastic bottle.

Would you expect any chemical interaction, BTW, when apple-cider vinegar sits inside the plastic bottle they sell it in (versus glass) -- could acid leach anything from the plastic bottle?

If it is ldpe, or hdpe, then the worst case scenario would be ethylene, which either would evaporate, as it does from apples, or oxidize into ethanol. Which would be quickly worked into to the AcetylCoA, one of the main sprockets of the Krebs cycle. But the polymer is very durable, and it takes sunlight UV and high heat to break it.

if polypropylene, then it would be a propylene, eventually evaporating, or becoming isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol), or acetone, which would evaporate, or remain within the body's native acetone content.

the cola bottle material, PETE, is very durable, and is highly resistant to chemicals, especially weak food acids. Acetic acid in vinegar is nothing compared to concentrated main acids.

To summarize, whatever monomer leaching into food would be somewhat below the biologically relevant concentration.

Breaking Bad Chemistry

So sad that the imagination of visual arts trivializes the evil and mixes it with science.

Stumbled on a two clips from the Breaking Bad series, capturing my memories of work in chem labs, human resources and the importance of coffee therefor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ83kt4a2-A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RVwaHkkPyw

How about that home-made soap?

to make skin-friendly soap is hard. Vegetable or animal source fat differs from batch to batch. Differing composition due to source and amount of vegetable matter, animals, type of animals. A chemist has to get a sample of the bulk mix of all rendered fat in the reaction vat, hopefully more than 1000 gallons. 

Titrate the sample with sodium caustic, which in the industry is about 55% solution. Or caustic potash, 45% solution. Scale up the amount of the caustic, add to the vat on the low amount side. Watch the consistency, take pH. No possibility for sodium or potassium-based soap to attain the gentleness of baby shampoos. Once the fat-caustic based soap is used for washing, the fatty acid does its job of suspending the soiling matter, uncoupling from the +OH hydroxide ion, since the pH of tap water is different from the soap's optimal pH, and the +OH ion contributes to the excess of alkalinity of water, and all together attacks skin.

Ionic soaps which are more friendly to the skin use weaker bases, like amines, and the resultant acid-base is more natural to the tap water pH. 

But non-ionic soaps are still the best. Labelling still can't be interpreted as chemically correct. "Non-soap" may mean non-ionic, or non-ionic surfactant, or it could mean cationic surfactant, in either case it's a high-tech product optimized for right pH in the wash. 

Last time i checked the Fa brand soapless soap was the best. Other than baby soaps.

Country Music+Food:

(emailing about country music)+(searching for info on food)+(reading about Judaism) =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Rj6Rn29rY

How I spot scrape blogs and scraped news traps

Someone like Dr. Mercola or "associated" with another name or an institution.

Text has no reference footnotes, but hyperlinks to explanation of most basic concepts, mouseover - same site, or another associate advertising site.

General reference to sensationalized names of materials, findings, fears.

Text broken up by ads, which have wording similar to the text.

The end of the text is too far on the bottom.

The end of paragraphs has contextually related click bait lists, also heavily on the concern side.

The end of the "article" has a battery of thumbnails to other sites, click bait, no other reason to be on the page.

When googled, the headline or a paragraph turns up on another site, with the same non-scientific name, but official enough to impress the consumers of the concern topic. Excatly why it's called a scrape blog.

The name of the site is smoke and mirrors, like the shopping baggie fear (chemicals in shopping bags migrating into food therein) :

Medicalnewsdaily

BuzzFeed, buzznews

Healthviewmedia

Lancetworld etc (piggy back on the lancet's name)

Greenworldhere

Mindbodygreen

Enviroreports etc

Nutrigreenweb

Nutritionletter

all have .net or .com, or

Mayoclin.**

Sugar Chemicals + Art Supplies

[searching for chemical info on sugars] + [searching for art supplies for girls]=

The Barley-Ukraine-Russia Algorithm

The algorithm at it again:
(sending Pics of barley)+(gardening,farming)+(discussing Ukraine)=barley farming in Ukraine heartland

https://youtu.be/C5GDuQt6t2w

The Paul Harrell algorithm

[reading and searching Reacher books ] +
[ checking out California pronunciation videos] = 
This Oregon based, crisp-talking, intelligent, ex-Army MP-type gun expert, Paul Harrell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJRQnSq79EI

Selfiecopter and Arduino

Belatedly posting: the guy (Mark Rober) stumbled on the simple secret used on Youtube for earning money by being an advertising associate. In the selfiecopter fake it is all about links to the motor and electronics purchasing. The ultimate truth is no longer important, the money is in the non-obvious combination of half-truths in media, ideas, presentation and hardware.




This is a sort of a high pop science. The miniaturization and electronic control is hi tech. They used Arduino printed circuit, and it is the center piece of  electronics part of Israel's matriculation exams. Extremely hard. But nice to see it being used so comfortably in the video.

Deduced statistics fit for the news

Just about anyone nowadays has access to government statistics.
It is enough to avail oneself of an online graphics generator and plot just about anything and make just about any correlation that is sensational enough, and then publish it as a news graphic. Also thanks to tylervigen.com.
How about this:
"Our science reporter found that science, space and technology causes people to commit suicide."

"Our sources confirm that crude imports from Norway caused fatal collisions between cars and trains. The good news: the trend is declining."

"Our investigative team found that nuclear energy generated by the US causes people to drown in their own swimming pool!"

the no longer secret, ghostly NOLA base.

Some of the buildings on the base were the most off-limits facilities in Louisiana, besides those at Barksdale AFB. Now these strictly classified buildings are abandoned and explored by professionals (The Proper People.)
https://youtu.be/5kTdT_gUu6Y
Something queasy about the formerly busiest spaces being empty and unimportant.

American vs Soviet school reading, thoughts on.

Looking back retroactively,  I see that the USSR reading was too narrow minded and encyclopedic. The US reading was very open.

American school reading
(https://photos.app.goo.gl/CU3orsqEGp17aSnv8)

I imagined what the kids did in their free time. The USSR kids played less, and were less socialized. The American kids read imaginative material, even the theatricized geography lessons.

Then you look at the outcome. The US reading included the Victorian tales of conniving princesses, but that prepared children some basic skills ind dealing with social life. The USSR life and economy was based on the stories of the Russian suffering through the lesson of theoretical communism. The super smart USSR reading was powerless in the face of the American mindgame of nuclear strategy and star wars. The mindset cannot fathom the business savvy of the game and the culture of golf. Cannot educate itself out of the oil-gas revenue addiction and rescue the economy.

The Ivan reading book was written at the peak of the perceived fear of the USSR's missile and military, when the US really had the advantage and also in strategic bombers. B-52s still flying, Soviet bombers all broken up long time ago. etc etc

Plane spotters spot a Concordsky

case in point: this clip about Russian plane spotters and aviation fans booking a flight around Moscow on the noisiest plane (Tu-134) that otherwise has genius features. So noisy it got banned at Euro airports.

They also landed at an airport housing a Soviet Tu-144, a Concorde equivalent that was also banned. The planes had the most powerful engines, which cannot be retrofitted, replaced, etc. and preclude all the chances of reinstating the planes that are otherwise the smartest and most innovative in a narrow-minded way. The point: the USSR was so bent on proving its intellect that they did not see far enough into the future, no strategic thinking, no multipurpose features, no parts interchangeable with anything else, no more parts available, all tailor made, one-time, one-model design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap5gVB3FZ7c

Reference Shelves of a Synagogue, Mapped.

A reference shelf of the Pinto Synagogue, mapped
Akiva Eiger, Harosh, Tzitz Eliezer, Badei Hashulchan, Shaagas Aryeh, Hasam Sofer, Nodeh BiYehuda, Avnei Nezer:

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Nuclear close calls and the moments the CPUSSR was genuinely concerned

and then there were regular Wednesday PolitInform briefs by the school's Communist Party representative, in our case the deputy principal. She told us about the US unable to control its nuclear weapons and bombers, suffering incidents. We smirked, assuming creative propaganda, in hindsight the Soviets' sore feelings about aviation. But the Party propaganda was correct about the incidents, which I easily checked. This is serious stuff in addition to the nuclear weapon testing, releasing contamination.

• 1956 B-47 disappearance
• 1958 Mars Bluff B-47 nuclear weapon loss incident
• 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision  <<<<<<<!!!!!!
• 1961 Yuba City B-52 crash
• 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash
• 1964 Savage Mountain B-52 crash
• 1964 Bunker Hill AFB runway accident
• 1965 Philippine Sea A-4 incident
• 1966 Palomares B-52 crash^{[6]  <<<<<<<<<!!!!!!!!}
• 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash <<<<<<<<!!!!!!

DNA testing is minimized through a filter of DNA statistics.

Identical twin sisters test popular DNA ancestry kits and get differing results

Another way to put it, testing companies use haplotype statistics to report results. Also to avoid being too specific (therefore "Baltic") and to sound politically correct or inclusive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/aj5dkr/_/eetppen?context=1000