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