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Chitral Chicks - Journeyman Pictures
December 2004
The women of Chitral in the Hindu Kush in Pakistan are traditionally kept out of sight and out of power. But the arrival of a foreign fashion line is changing everything.
The clothing line, Carvana, is empowering dozens of local women giving them a market for their traditional sewing skills. Many now earn more than their husbands. And it’s not only women benefiting from the work – there’s even a former Taliban member working for Carvana.
Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
![[Image source] What exactly is “redshift”? Redshift is defined as: a shift toward lon](https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqedrn3vaN1qmyxvuo1_1280.jpg "[Image source] What exactly is “redshift”? Redshift is defined as: a shift toward lon")
What exactly is “redshift”?
Redshift is defined as:
a shifttoward longer wavelengths of the spectral lines emitted by a celestial object that is caused by the object moving away from the earth.
If you can understand that, great! But for those of us who cannot, consider the celestial bodies which make up our night sky. Did you think they were still, adamant, everlasting constants? They may seem to stick around forever, but…
Boy, you were wrong. I’ll have you know that stars are born and, at some point, they die. They move, they change. Have you heard about variable stars? Stars undergo changes, sometimes in their luminosity. (We are, indeed, made of the same stuff as stars).
So, stars move. All celestial bodies do, actually. You might have heard about some mysterious, elusive thing called dark energy. Dark energy is thought to be the force that causes the universe to expand at a growing rate. If it is proven to exist, dark energy will be able to explain why redshift occurs.
Maybe you can understand redshift by studying a visual:
These are spectral lines from an object. What do you notice is different in the unshifted, “normal” emission lines from the redshifted and blueshifted lines?
The redshifted line is observed as if everything is “shifted” a bit to the right– towards the red end of the spectrum; whereas the blueshifted line is moved to the left towards the bluer end of the spectrum.
Imagine if you were standing here on earth and some many lightyears away, a hypothetical “alien” was standing on their planet. With this image in mind, consider a galaxy in between the two of you that is moving towards the alien. You would then observe redshift (stretched out wavelength) and the alien would observe blueshift (shortened wavelength).
Here,Symmetry Magazine explains redshift in their “Explain it in 60 seconds” series.
A simple, everyday example of this concept can be observed if you stand in front of a road. As a car (one without a silencer) drives by, the pitch you observe changes. This is known as the Doppler effect. Watch this quick youtube video titled “Example of Dopper Shift using car horn”:
(You may not be able to view it from the dashboard, only by opening this post on the actual blog page. You can watch the video by clicking this link).
Notice how as the car drives past the camera man, the sound changes drastically.
Understanding redshift is important to scientists, especially astronomers and astrophysicists. They must account for this observable difference to make the right conclusions. Redshift is one the concepts which helped scientists determine that celestial bodies are actually moving further away from us at an accelerating rate.
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Fractal Geometry: An Artistic Side of Infinity
Fractal Geometry is beautiful. Clothes are designed from it and you can find fractal calendars for your house. There’s just something about that infinitely endless pattern that intrigues the eye– and brain.
Fractals are “geometric shapes which can be split into parts which are a reduced-size copy of the whole” (source: wikipedia). They demonstrate a property called self-similarity, in which parts of the figure are similar to the greater picture. Theoretically, each fractal can be magnified and should be infinitely self-similar.
One simple fractal which can easily display self-similarity is the Sierpinski Triangle. You can look at the creation of such a fractal:
What do you notice? Each triangle is self similar– they are all equilateral triangles. The side length is half of the original triangle. And what about the area? The area is a quarter of the original triangle. This pattern repeats again, and again.
Two other famous fractals are the Koch Snowflake and the Mandelbrot Set.
The Koch Snowflake looks like:
(source: wikipedia)
It is constructed by going in 1/3 of the of the side of an equilateral triangle and creating another equilateral triangle. You can determine the area of a Koch Snowflake by following this link.
The Mandelbrot set…
… is:
the set of values of c in the complex plane for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the complex quadratic polynomial zn+1 = zn2 + c remains bounded. (source: wikipedia)
It is a popular fractal named after Benoît Mandelbrot. More on creating a Mandelbrot set is found here, as well as additional information.
You can create your own fractals with this fractal generator.
But what makes fractals extraordinary?
Fractals are not simply theoretical creations. They exist aspatterns in nature! Forests can model them, so can clouds and interstellar gas!
Artists are fascinated by them, as well. Consider The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai:
Even graphic artists use fractals to create mountains or ocean waves. You can watch Nova’s episode of Hunting the Hidden Dimensionfor more information.
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A Short Philosophical Aside
The scrupulous 3-dimension world we humans inhabit is in fact biological, not physical, in origin. Its limitations are determined by our specific sensory, motor and mental apparatus and abilities. It only hints at the real world, and while doing so it combines some highly erroneous observations as well. Molluscs and insects and arachnids all have a very different perspective of their environment. We would find discomfort in the world view of an octopus, as we do in the quantum world view.[1][2]
Dimension is a term laymen toss about haphazardly. Mathematicians and physicists have a more precise interpretation concerning dimension. For them, any independent parameter constitutes a separate dimension. But when it comes down to the nitty-gritty, what if anything can truly be separate and independent? Those are both relative terms. Nothing that exists is really fully isolate and independent. That is one of the substratal premises from which mandalic geometry evolves: relationships invariably exist. And relationships can always change. Mandalic geometry therefore is a geometry of process - a spacetime geometry, not one of space alone.
For those who created the primal I Ching relationship was considered a fundamental aspect of reality. When they thought of dimension - - - and they did, in their own way - - - relationships were always involved. Flash-forward a few thousand years - quantum mechanics accomplishes much the same with its view of interacting particles in continual motion, ever-changing, and incessantly forging transient effective links with numerous other particles of similar and different type under the influence of various fields of force.
Kant thought that human concepts and categories determine our view of the world and its laws. He held that inborn features of our minds structure our experiences. Since, in his view, mind shapes and structures experience, at some level of representation all human experience shares certain essential operational features. Among these according to Kant are our concepts relating to space and time, integral to all human experience. The same might be said about our concepts of cause and effect.
Kant further asserts that we never have direct experience of things, referred to in his writings as the noumenal world. All we experience is the phenomenal world that is relayed to us by our senses. Kant views noumena as the thing-in-itself or true reality and phenomena as our experience or perception of that thing, filtered through our senses and reasoning. According to Kant science can be applied only to things that can be observed and studied. The entire world of noumena is beyond the scope and reach of science. As an heir to Enlightenment philosophy Kant respects the value of reason but believes the noumenal world to be beyond its scope and reach. So are we fated then never to experience the noumena directly? Not by a long shot. Kant claims the noumena to be accessible but only by intellectual intuition without the aid of reason.[3]
In the world of phenomena nothing is self-existent. Everything exists by virtue of dependence on something else. Point to something, anything at all, that refutes that view and I’ll tell you you’re out of your mind - and in the noumenal world. What, pray tell, are you doing there and how did you get there anyway? If you can clearly communicate the how I may give it a try myself.[4]
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Notes
[1] The world view granted us by our inherited biologic capacities has been millions of years in the making. Indeed. But that makes it still not a whit truer than had we groped it only yesterday. Evolution seems to have sacrificed a full immersive sense of reality to grant a greater degree of interoperability essential to dealing with vicissitudes of a material world and confer durability within that domain. The quest after true apprehension we feel impelled to pursue is a siren not without danger.
“The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live.”
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
[2] Regarding the origin and transformations of the word “scrupulous”:
Scrupulous and its close relative “scruple” (“an ethical consideration”) come from the Latin noun scrupulus, the diminutive of “scrupus.” “Scrupus” refers to a sharp stone, so scrupulus means “small sharp stone.” “Scrupus” retained its literal meaning but eventually also came to be used with the metaphorical meaning “a source of anxiety or uneasiness,” the way a sharp pebble in one’s shoe would be a source of pain. When the adjective “scrupulous” entered the language in the 15th century, it meant “principled.” Now it also commonly means "painstaking" or “careful.” [Source]
Sad to say, this fascinating word that so successfully wended its way through several related incarnations in a number of different Indo-European languages prior to its appearance in English, c.15th century, appears to be passing out of usage among English speakers in modern times. We will likely be left with the occasional utterance of “scruples” but “scrupulous” itself seems destined for oblivion.
Curiously, my election of the word here was not rationally motivated. As I was framing the thought expressed in the paragraph in my mind, the word just appeared out of nowhere and seemed to insist, “I belong here though you may not yet understand why. You really need a word with my complex heritage of multiple meanings here.” And so I went with it, not fully knowing why. Funny thing about it, my rational mind is quite unable now to come up with any other single word that suits as well.
[3] Kant’s epistemology recognizes three different sources of knowlege: sensory experience, reason, and intuition. He views intuition as independent of the other two and the only one of the three with direct access to the world of noumena. This may present as suspect at first, but then how do we explain things like what Einstein did a century ago? Einstein himself has hinted in his writings at the essential role of intuition and imagination in his thinking.
Clickhere for more slides on Kant’s philosophy by William Parkhurst from Introduction to Philosophy Lecture 13, source of the above slide reproduction.
[4] Our human penchant for categorization inevitably leads to dismemberment of holistic reality into an endless number of manifest objects, many of which we no longer recognize as essentially related.
“People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality.”
-Thích Nhất Hạnh
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“Why should the thirst for knowledge be aroused, only to be disappointed and punished? My volition shrinks from the painful task of recalling my humiliation; yet, like a second Prometheus, I will endure this and worse, if by any means I may arouse in the interiors of Plane and Solid Humanity a spirit of rebellion against the Conceit which would limit our Dimensions to Two or Three or any number short of Infinity.”
~ Edwin Abbott Abbott
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Happy 72nd birthday to the great Tom Waits!
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“My theory is that if you’re going to make a song it’s like packing somebody a lunch. You’ve got to give me weather, a name of a town, you’ve got to give me something to do and something to eat. It helps with the atmosphere. If you want to invite somebody into a song of yours it’s kind of like inviting them into your home, and you have to give them some place to sit down. Because there’s too many songs that are already written that are well furnished. “With a new song you’ve got to use some old tricks.”
There’s a song about everything. And when you think about how songs were written and how they were kept alive before the recording industry, that to me is fascinating. ‘Cause we were all part of writing those songs when it says “Traditional” or “Negro spiritual” or “public domain.” Like all the songs that Alan Lomax collected. Those were songs that were written by all of us. Those were songs that if you learned it, you would change a verse or line. Just like a recipe.
When you got a recipe from your neighbor, or if somebody asked for a recipe, the traditional thing to do was to change one thing about it. You never gave anybody your recipe. No, it’s only a cup and a half of flour, honey instead of sugar, chopped quince instead of apples. And that’s how songs moved along. You would add your verse. Or, it doesn’t apply in this town, in this weather, with that gender. I have to change it to make it fit.”
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It’s finally here: the third episode of DailyVee! This was a fun one. I spent the day in Vegas for CES 2016, and got really hot on Snapchat.
Along the way, I drop some serious knowledge about platform specifics and tactics, so be sure to listen closely for those.
Don’t forget to add me on Snapchat! My handle is @GaryVee.
# 1 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
# 2 1984
# 3 Pride and Prejudice
# 4 The Grapes of Wrath
# 5 To Kill a Mockingbird
# 6 Jane Eyre
# 7 Wuthering Heights
# 8 A Passage to India
# 9 The Lord of The Flies
# 10 Hamlet
# 11 A Bend in the River
# 12 The Great Gatsby
# 13 The Catcher in the Rye
# 14 The Bell Jar
# 15 Brave New World
# 16 The Diary of a Young Girl
# 17 Don Quixote
# 18 The Bible
# 19 The Canterbury Tales
# 20 Ulysses
# 21 The Quiet American
# 22 Birdsong
# 23 Money
# 24 Harry Potter Series
# 25 Moby Dick
# 26 The Wind in the Willows
# 27 His Dark Materials Series
# 28 Anna Karenina
# 29 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
# 30 Rebecca
# 31 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
# 32 On The Road
# 33 Heart of Darkness
# 34 The Way We Live Now
# 35 The Stranger (Algeria)
# 36 The Color Purple
# 37 Life of Pi
# 38 Frankenstein
# 39 The War of the Worlds
# 40 Men Without Women
# 41 Gulliver’s Travels
# 42 A Christmas Carol
# 43 Huckleberry Finn
# 44 Robinson Crusoe
# 45 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
# 46 Catch 22
# 47 The Count of Monte Cristo
# 48 Memoirs of a Geisha
# 49 The Divine Comedy
# 50 The Picture of Dorian Gray
I certainly haven’t figured it out yet. I’m terrible at adulting. I lost everything a few year’s ago and I just have not bothered having the kind of responsibility I had back then. I had my shit together once.
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1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
“Many working for God but not with God”
Leonard RavenHill
