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Does physics eventually, or always, trump biology when outside the edges of "life"? And what chooses the scale of that moment? Ring shakes or exploding trees?
Bob Wulkowicz
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Short and easy answer is all things are ruled by physics.
The God particle chooses!
Check check check it out.
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Before we deteriorate into some sort of natural/God/spin-doctoring, let me first say that I think this is a profoundly important thread.
When we generally come across something new and different, the facts are almost essentially anecdotal. They are commentaries in words, pass-around words spoken at first, and then later written with a likely very narrow audience.
We are that very narrow audience. We are the first encounters with many of the surprises and concerns in these beginning threads. Another reporting group for encounters will be the loggers, who may almost by definition are dealing with older larger trees, but might not be as well-networked in discussions and observations in our various sites.
There is however, one critical distinction in that loggers fell entire trees and do not disassemble, deconstruct, or take them down a little bit of the time because of the surrounding locations. To arborists, this is an inherently hazardous potential.
I have talked repeatedly about nature probably never using averages to determine the positioning, chosen routes or other evolutional directions. There would seem to be no genetic encodings with a practical outcome that so precisely takes a whole and divides it by the sum of its parts--as we do in our little mathematical peculiarities.
We are in fact so preoccupied with this artificial drivel that I have to seemingly endlessly endure a blend of dogma and percentages of one-turd rules and the like that rarely has anything to do with what were talking about.
We are trained to be simplistic--in part because that's how we give away our money to those that think they are entitled to it. We pretend that we search for the simple, i.e., smallest and single solution, as if nature keeps itself in a neatly tight order to protect us from brain freeze.
Well here we are again. Some things are occurring that are outside the familiar and predictable, and trees ain't quite acting in the same ways before they bumped into new conditions.
Some of us are puzzled and concerned--and rightly so. Trees that don't act in the way that we would've thought they will, appear to be hazardous possibilities that will take some time before they catch up with peer review and other considerations.
Right now, I can't be quite as articulate as I would like to be, except to say that these are important “from the field” reports and we should be talking about them seriously.
But again some will ignore, mock and dismiss new information with hardly a glance-about to really consider the issues.
Anyway, I'm about to go off into left field because I have this stupid idea that we should be teaching people to be smarter--and safer--and healthier--and perhaps live out their declining years with a reasonable surrounding of circumstances.
So, let me repeat a little political factoid that Tom Dunlap pointed out to us:
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July 16, 2012
Texas Republican Party Calls For Abstinence Only Sex Ed, Corporal Punishment In Schools
Early this month, Texas Republican delegates met in Fort Worth to approve their 2012 platform, notable parts of which take aim at the state's education system.
In the section titled "Educating Our Children," the document states that "corporal punishment is effective" and recommends teachers be given "more authority" to deal with disciplinary problems.
Additionally, the document states the party opposes mandatory pre-school and kindergarten, saying parents are "best suited to train their children in their early development."
The position causing the most controversy, however, is the statement that they oppose the teaching of "higher order thinking skills" -- a curriculum which strives to encourage critical thinking -- arguing that it might challenge "student's fixed beliefs" and undermine "parental authority."
The party also notes its encouragement of legislation that prevents "non-citizens unlawfully present in the United States" from enrolling in public schools, a stance that federal officials have previously deemed against the law.
In March, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Bloomberg he felt "very, very badly" for Texas students.
"Texas may have the lowest high school graduation rate in the country," Duncan said, according to Bloomberg.
The following weekend, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs gave his own criticism of the state's education system.
"I think when it comes to someone like Rick Perry, [voters are] going to wonder why a place like Texas has one of the worst education systems," Gibbs said on "Meet the Press."
LOOK: Texas Republican Party 2012 Platform:
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Wow, everything is falling apart, trees are exploding, and we are going to be teaching our kids to be more stupid?
Bob Wulkowicz
