Thinking about the New Year

 poor georgie’s almanack: 

Thinking about the New Year.  

There are two kinds problems in the world today, the imaginary and the real. 

Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.  

Complicit (look it up)

 poor georgie’s almanack: 

Rs and Ds Stone-WALL-ing highlights the most basic problem in America’s national politics. 

There is no middle. 

For ten years Rs said no to just about everything Ds proposed. 

Now Ds do same as each party cements its base. 

Thus, each side is complicit.

The same thing but different

poor georgie’s science almanack: 

Energy #1 in +/- 30 seconds.  

Everything in our universe seems to be exactly the same thing … but different.  

We and everything around us are just bunches of energy rearranged differently … from two-year-old sons, to two-billion-year-old suns.

reminder

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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”  
George Washington Carver.

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth??

poor georgie’s almanack: science in +/- 30 seconds.  

Stem Cells.

Every tiny thing in our bodies exchanges information with other small things around it. 

In a womb, a sperm and egg fuse into one entity with information from the mom and dad’s body. 

That teensy new entity then looks for a contractor to build a baby, using the parents’ information (DNA) as a blueprint. 

Nearby stem cells are like handy-men who can do various tasks and are pretty good at it. One is “hired” to start making a tooth, another an eye, etc. 

Sometimes they interpret the blueprint differently. 

Washington National’s star pitcher, Max Scherzer, for example got one blue eye and one brown eye.  

brain pain

poor georgie’s almanack:  

Message from my brain after watching news channels for several hours. 

YOU HAVE EXCEEDED THE LIMITS OF MY MEDICATIONS.

Step on it

poor georgie’s almanack: 

Science in +/- 30 seconds. 

New numbers for your daily Fitbit. 

Earth orbits the Sun at about 67,000 MPH (18.5 miles a second). Our solar system (the Sun, planets, moons and other smaller stuff) speeds about 515,000 MPH around the center of our galaxy (The Milky Way) which shoots through space at about 1.3 million MPH.

Hugs?

 Dec 2, 2018

poor georgie’s almanack  Science in +/- 30 seconds

Tea leaves and teenagers, cobras, and cats … we all share much of the same DNA. 

Thus, we all are more-or-less family.

 Rats and bats may be my relatives, but I can’t get myself to love them. Trees, however, I could hug. 

Learning is golden

 

 poor georgie’s almanack:  Science (+/- 30 seconds) 

Most people are surprised to learn that skin is their biggest organ.