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April 8, 2021
HOW BIG IS YOUR GENOME?
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(According to Earth “scientists”), genes are the fundamental units of inheritance in living organisms. Together, they hold all the information necessary to reproduce a given organism and to pass on genetic traits to its offspring.
Biologists have long debated what constitutes a gene in molecular terms but one useful definition is a region of DNA that carries that code necessary to make a molecular chain called a polypeptide. These chains link together to form proteins and so are the bricks and mortar out of which all organism are constructed.
Given this crucial role, it is no surprise that an ongoing goal in biology is to work out the total number of protein-coding genes necessary to construct a given organism. Biologists think the yeast genome contains about 5300 coding genes and a nematode worm genome contains about 20,470.
But the number for humans has been the subject of constant revision since biologists first began the task of estimating them in the 1960s. Then, they believed humans could have as many as 2 million protein-coding genes. But by the time the human genome project began in the late 1990s, the highest estimates put the number at 100,000 and the number has continued to shrink.
That’s an interesting result that is partly a reflection of the state of genomics. The human genome is by no means fully defined and biologists are still in the process of refining their gene models and withdrawing genes in the process.
Indeed, in the most recent update of the genome release, geneticists have withdrawn 328 of the 2000 genes that Ezkurdia, Tress and co identify as potentially non-coding.
And on this evidence, the human genome is set to get smaller still. “Our evidence suggests that the final number of true protein coding genes in the reference genome may lie closer to 19,000 than to 20,000.”
Which means that humans have fewer protein-coding genes even than nematode worms.
Geneticists long ago debunked the idea that more complex organisms require more genes. The water flea, for example, has 31,000 genes, the most in any animal, while the organism with the largest genome is thought to be the Paris jabonica, a rare flowering plant native to Japan.
The fact that the human genome is so parsimonious raises an interesting question. What exactly is it about the human genome that gives rise to our staggering complexity, in the brain for example, compared to other animals such as monkeys, worms or even water fleas?
A good answer to that question will win prizes!
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1312.7111 : The Shrinking Human Protein Coding Complement: Are There Fewer Than 20,000
April 7, 2021
1938 WAR OF THE WORLDS RADIO BROADCAST
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THIS IS A “FALSE FLAG” UFO ATTACK INCIDENT CREATED BY ORSON WELLS IN A LIVE BROADCAST ON CBS RADIO IN 1938
The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells‘ novel The War of the Worlds.
The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated “news bulletins”, which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress. Compounding the issue was the fact that the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a ‘sustaining show’ (it ran without commercial breaks), thus adding to the program’s quality of realism. Although there were sensationalist accounts in the press about a supposed panic in response to the broadcast, the precise extent of listener response has been debated.
In the days following the adaptation, however, there was widespread outrage. The program’s news-bulletin format was decried as cruelly deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the perpetrators of the broadcast, but the episode secured Orson Welles’ fame.
LIFE BEGINS WITHIN
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Nothing’s on TV, so read my books
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There’s nothing on TV. So, read one of the GREAT BOOKS listed on this website, written by Lawrence R. Spencer. (You will be a better person. Take my word for it…)
April 6, 2021
SHORES OF THE SOUL
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Khalil Gibran January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American artist and poet. Khalil Gibran was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire (north of modern-day Lebanon). As a young man Khalil emigrated with his family to the United States, where he 
studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero. He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again especially in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.
THOUGHTS ABOUT DEATH BY DEAD PEOPLE BEFORE THEY DIED
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FROM THE PREFACES TO THE BOOK 1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU’RE DEAD: A DEAD PERSON’S GUIDE TO LIVING —
“I wonder if I could have been here before? As I drive up the Roman road the theater seems familiar. Perhaps I headed a legion up that same white road… I passed a chateau in ruins which I possibly helped escalade in the Middle Ages. There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, We are, and We will be.”
— General George S. Patton
“Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.”
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange eons even Death may die.”
— H.P. Lovecraft
April 5, 2021
Radio Interview with Lawrence R. Spencer
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Block Talk Radio Interview with Lawrence R. SpencerDATE OF SHOW: Saturday, 28th June, 2014.
Angeal Rose & AHONU speak with Lawrence Spencer about the implications of his book Alien Interview and more. Mr. Spencer is the author of 9 books. His books explore facts and fantasies of universes, both physical and spiritual, including western history, art, mythology, personal spiritual immortality, logic and science fiction. Our particular interest today is that he is the editor of the book ALIEN INTERVIEW, which includes transcripts, letters and personal notes provided by the late Army Air Force Nurse Matilda McElroy concerning the Roswell UFO crash in 1947. We discuss the Roswell crash and purported dialogues Ms. McElroy had with a surviving alien. Mr. Spencer can be contacted on his book blog at http://www.alieninterview.org/blog
Nuclear Bomb on Nagasaki & Hiroshima
Mr. Spencer started off by describing what happened when the US dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. He talked about how Matilda McElroy got involved in the beginning and more.
We discussed how Matilda McElroy had first hand access to the surviving alien found at the crash site in Roswell, NM.
Euthanasia
Mr. Spencer outlined how Matilda McElroy found out about the alien bases on the Moon, the alien bases in the Himalayan mountains and about her own contract as a ET belonging to the Domain herself. This led to her choice of voluntary self-administered euthanasia near the Hill of Tara in Ireland in the 90′s.
She went into a form of witness protection program after the investigation and how all the material was suppressed and the public was fed a mix of distorted lies and untruths.
Earth as a Prison Planet
We discussed the evidence that led to the Roswell crash in the first place, and then spoke about the Earth as a prison planet. We talked about inhabiting a human body in the whole process of reincarnation. We spoke about the discoveries in Zechariah Sitchen’s work. We talked about the Sumerians and the Egyptians and then about the whole business of sexual reproduction and its impact on humanity to this day. Then we spoke a little about the awakening process of humanity and in the last few minutes, how our origins as self-aware consciousness began and how we are co-creators living the eternal now in the universe.
Norse Mythology for Smart People
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Norse Mythology for Smart People provides reliable, well-documented information on the fascinating mythology and religion of the Norse/Germanic peoples.
Source: Norse Mythology for Smart People – The Ultimate Online Resource for Norse Mythology and Religion
April 4, 2021
INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
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ShapeShifter from Charlex on Vimeo.
