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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/science/space/gary-steigman-died-big-bang-astrophysicist.html Dr. Steigman was one of the ringleaders of cosmology in an era in which astronomy and particle physics were merging. It was a time when scientists were asking giant questions about the cosmos — like why there are matter and galaxies — and seeking answers in the relationships between quantum particles, formed when the universe was a split-second old and ablaze with energies beyond the dreams of earthly particle accelerators... According to all the laws of physics, when the universe was born in the Big Bang, elementary particles and their antimatter evil-twin opposites — with opposite charges and spins — should be produced in equal, counterbalancing amounts. But all that astronomers could see in the present-day universe was matter. Where did the antimatter go? Were there antimatter stars and galaxies hiding out there? In his thesis, Dr. Steigman showed that a universe with equal amounts of matter and antimatter would not work. The universe, he concluded, must have become unbalanced in favor of matter in its earliest moments. Cosmologists are still struggling to understand how that happened.... In collaboration with Dr. Schramm and others, Dr. Steigman continued to refine the Big Bang calculations and investigate their potential consequences for the universe. One important result of their calculations was a determination that the amount of atomic matter in the universe fell far short of the amount needed to reverse its expansion and cause it to fall back together some day in a Big Crunch. This contradicted reigning theories that the universe was right on the border between eternal expansion and eventual collapse — a so-called flat universe. In 1980, Dr. Steigman wrote a paper suggesting that huge neutrinos left over from the Big Bang might comprise the missing mass needed to flatten the cosmos. It was one of the first proposals for what became known as dark matter. He, Dr. Turner and Lawrence Krauss, now at Arizona State, went on to write a prophetic paper in 1984 suggesting that all problems in cosmology could be solved by adopting an old idea — invented by Einstein in 1917 and later abandoned by him — known as the cosmological constant, a long-range cosmic repulsion force. In 1999, two teams of astronomers discovered that the universe was expanding faster and faster with time, not slowing down, under the influence of some “dark energy” that appeared to behave exactly like Einstein’s cosmological constant. In 2011, they won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Amazing...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/moon-eating-diet-how-to-live-your-life-according-to-lunar-phases?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam Basically, moon eating takes many of the tenets of clean living that are already trending around the world (eating organic, unprocessed foods that are locally grown or foraged, reviving ancient grains, etc) and adds a layer of timing based on the phases of the moon. The idea is, you eat certain foods at certain times—acknowledging something that the centuries-old civilizations recognized, which is that the human body and our behavior operate on roughly monthly loops like the menstrual cycle. If you are able to grow your own food, even better.

Here's a good summary of the future as planned, full of linkage. https://www.axios.com/computers-merge-with-minds-2380005825.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic No, it's not all bad, and it will get better before it gets worse, I'm sure.

http://mashable.com/2017/04/26/ibm-delivery-drone-patent/#8Awn9wta3aq7

https://www.axios.com/a-long-dispute-in-lithium-ion-batteries-perhaps-worth-billions-of-doll-2380658178.html?utm_medium=linkshare&utm_campaign=organic

Save that one for the joint where Sam Rivers used to play. It's a proven market, if they're not all dead yet.

You want shady, look at the taped-up headphones on some of those covers...

Maybe Disney can buy Mosaic and have animatronic Herbie Nicholses & Tina Brookses greeting vistors at Epcot, Sidney Bechets at Disneyland Paris, and Gerry Mulligans and Bud Shanks at Disneyland Anaheim.

Speaking of Central Time, I know that it used to be that board backup occurred at 3 AM CST, generally, usually, irrc, etc. and could easily slow access for about an hour. Whether or not that's still the case, I don't know.

Stanley Clarke was the Hot New Kid In Town there for a quick minute before RTF took root. He was on a good number of "regular jazz dates" for that relatively brief interval. And I do believe that "Ray Moros" is otherwise AKA "Raymond Morris". Can't say that with absolute certainty though.

Must be a regional thing, maybe? We've had 100,000 watt clear channel down here non-stop. It's been like the WLS of jazz bulletin boards.

Well. good luck to them on that. The kids (ok, "kids") I know who follow this stuff are not looking at/for/towards the ESPN brand for any of that. Then again, it's Disney, Jake. Forget about it.

Sports are sooooo analog. OTOH, there are live streaming, hosted, video game competitions. Yeah, not only can you play multi-player action in real time, you can just watch other people do it. And I hear that not only are there audiences, there are growing audiences. Ain't no way ESPN gets a handle on that action.

Would you happen to know if he was a Mosaic customer?

Sports, teams, news, propaganda, truth, sex, lies, videotape...the Age Of The One True Universal Me is upon us. Relish the New Digital Paradigm and The Freedom to Ignore it provides. What could possibly go wrong?

Exactly! And the that motif keeps coming back and or variated in ways that make it eminently quotable, I think.

My personal chronology heard the opening of Till Eulenspiegel as a ginormous WTF?!?!?! that's about to be Straight. No Chaser!!! I wonder if others with opposite personal chronologies heard it the other way around. Of course, if your personal chronology has intersected only one of these two, and if you're so inclined, check it out. In the right hands, both are a delight (as is true with most things). Now I'm wondering if there are performances of SNC that incorporate quotes from TE. anybody know of any?

RIP. Those of his movies that I liked, I liked a lot.

Joke?

Here's hoping that Cotton McKnight & Pepper Brooks escaped the axe over at The Ocho.

RIP ESPN jobs.

I want all the available Joe Dailey Trio stuff that exists (there's a local gig tape or two as well, correct?), and will pay good money for it. Not bat-shit crazy money, but when I say "want", I say that not unaware that there are real production costs and that this material cannot be offered as a loss-leader, nor as an at-best-break-even item. So...if it's all real in content and not un-realistic in pricing, I'm gonna be all in on it. That trio continues to fascinate me, one of those "whole greater than the sum of its parts" type things. And yes, every time I play the record for bassists and tell them that it's 1963, their jaws drop even further than they were already dropped. Joe Daley himself was a hip cornball, ultimately, but he put together a trio that called him out and held him accountable on both parts of that, and he let that happen for what, a year or two? Really, how often does that happen? Not very, that's how often. Most leaders start feeling a draft pretty quickly and retreat ASAP. Joe Daley appears to have been willing to get cut in the interest of increased self-awareness for as long as he (or his band) could handle it. This is a story that needs to be told, not just for the music, but for the human dynamics involved. Tell it now, and tell it well, please.

OBIT. the film https://twitter.com/OBITthefilm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam

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This is a good'un.