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A MASTER OF INTELLIGENT RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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 The Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker is a master of natural resource management, conservation, symbiosis, and being a good neighbor!summer-sapsuckerOn a walk through the forest you might spot rows of shallow holes in tree bark. In the East, this is the work of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, an enterprising woodpecker that laps up the leaking sap and any trapped insects with its specialized, brush-tipped tongue.

The Yellow-bellied Sapsucker makes two kinds of holes in trees to harvest sap. Round holes extend deep in the tree and are not enlarged. The sapsucker inserts its bill into the hole to probe for sap. Rectangular holes are shallower, and must be maintained continually for the sap to flow. The sapsucker licks the sap from these holes, and eats the cambium of the tree too. New holes usually are made in a line with old holes, or in a new line above the old.

  • The sapwells made by Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers attract hummingbirds, which also feed off the sap flowing from the tree. In some parts of Canada, Ruby-throated Hummingbirds rely so much on sapwells that they time their spring migration with the arrival of sapsuckers. Other birds as well as bats and porcupines also visit sapsucker sapwells.
  • Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers have been found drilling sapwells in more than 1,000 species of trees and woody plants, though they have a strong preference for birches and maples.
  • Sapsuckers tend to choose sick or wounded trees for drilling their wells, and they choose tree species with high sugar concentrations in their sap, such as paper birch, yellow birch, sugar maple, red maple, and hickory. They drill wells for sap throughout the year, on both their breeding and wintering grounds. In addition to sap, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers also eat insects (mostly ants) and spiders, gleaning them from beneath a tree’s bark like other woodpeckers. And at times they perch at the edge of a tree branch and launch after flying insects to capture them in midair, like a flycatcher.

LEARN MORE: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-bellied_sapsucker/lifehistory/ac

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TESLA: SMARTEST MAN ON EARTH

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Nikola Tesla, the greatest inventor who ever lived, commented on Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in a 1934 article published in the :

“I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.”

(New York Hearald Tribune, 11 September 1932)

Tesla was critical of Einstein stating that his theory of relativity was:

“a beggar wrapped in purple whom ignorant people take for a king” and “a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense… the theory wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors…. its exponents are very brilliant men, but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. Not a single one of the relativity propositions has been proved.”

He also commented:

” Supposing that the bodies act upon the surrounding space causing  curving of the same, it appears to my simple mind that the curved spaces  must react on the bodies, and producing the opposite effects,  straightening out the curves. Since action and reaction are coexistent,  it follows that the supposed curvature of space is entirely impossible –  But even if it existed it would not explain the motions of the bodies  as observed. Only the existence of a field of force can account for the  motions of the bodies as observed, and its assumption dispenses with  space curvature. All literature on this subject is futile and destined  to oblivion. So are all attempts to explain the workings of the universe  without recognizing the existence of the ether and the indispensable  function it plays in the phenomena.”

Einstein’s Reply on this :

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right. A single experiment can prove me wrong.”

(New York Times, 11 July 1935, p23, c.8)

It is also rumored that when Einstein was asked how it felt to be the smartest man on Earth, he replied, “I wouldn’t know. Ask Nikola Tesla”.

 

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HOW TO SET AN ELEPHANT FREE

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elephant-painterA fast, easy, simple way to set an elephant free from captivity is to allow them to discover and express their own “inner artist”.  Every sentient being is a “Creator” (including some humans).  Creative ability exists within Everyone.  Enable creativity!  Admire, and encourage every creative impulse and ability within Your Self and others.  We are Creators of Universes!  Anyone who tells you otherwise wants you to be a slave…..

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WHO IS “THEY”?

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The last real president in the US was JFK.  He wrote his own speeches.  “They” killed him because “they” didn’t want us to hear what he had to say.   The question we need to answer is “who is they?”. JFK answers the question in his own words…

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FRAUDULENT “BRAIN” SCIENCE

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An investigation now reveals that as many as 20,000 published scientific papers each year are fraudulent.  Remember the Nazis? They thought they were the Super Race because their brains were bigger and better than the rest of us.  They proved it by trying to kill everyone on the planet who wasn’t a “pure” Aryan.

Writing in Nature, science journalist Colin Macilwain, discusses the shocking fact of how scientific misconduct has become a depressing reality.

“Considerable hard data have emerged on the scale of misconduct. A metastudy (D. Fanelli PLoS ONE 4, e5738; 2009) and a detailed screening of all images in papers accepted by The Journal of Cell Biology (M. Rossner The Scientist 20 (3), 24; 2006) each suggest that roughly 1% of published papers are fraudulent. That would be about 20,000 papers worldwide each year”.

HERE IS A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF FRAUDULENT “PSEUDO-SCIENCE”:

Macilwain writes, “Among some “connectomics” scholars, there is a grand theory: We are our connectomes. Our unique selves – the way we think, act, feel – is etched into the wiring of our brains. Unlike genomes, which never change, connectomes are forever being molded and remolded by life experience.  A human connectome would be the most complicated map the world has ever seen. Yet it could be a reality before the end of the century, if not sooner, thanks to new technologies that “automate the process of seeing smaller,” as Sebastian Seung puts it in his new book, Connectome: How The Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are.  How far should scientists go to find a way to become immortal?  Hayworth looks at the growth of connectomics – especially advances in brain preservation, tissue imaging, and computer simulations of neural networks – and sees something else: a cure for death. In a new paper in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, he argues that mind uploading is an enormous engineering challenge but one that can be accomplished without “radically new science and technologies.”

If you think that YOU and your memories are stored in a piece of meat called a brain, you have a lot bigger problems with your mind than can be solved in another 20,000 fraudulent “scientific” papers!