This is the NIO book's call on Monday, October 23rd, 2023, and we were just talking about Swift Dynamics and the phenomenon that is Taylor Swift, but we have a NIO book to catch up on. And if we do so briefly, that's okay too. Stuart, do you have any new thoughts since you've had some time to ponder and reflect? Yeah. I mean, my only thought is that let's get, you know, I want to get this book out. You know, I don't have any particular details about how or what or, you know, and what we ought to do with it exactly, but it's kind of a representation of my life's work.  It's time to be an activist for peace.   So maybe I've got something that'll grab people and maybe not, but that's where I want my head to be and the work I do to be and, you know, maybe this will grab some people. People pointed out to me that David Brooks is just publishing right now a new book. He's kind of gone deeply into, like, how humans and society work. It sounds like it might be an interesting feeder for you or something to go look at. I'll put a link to the title in the chat. But this is brand new. A couple of weeks ago, he spoke here in Portland and I went to see him. People couldn't make it. But I went to listen in and he was really interesting. He was raised in the opposite kind of Jewish household to the one many people think of as boisterous or harping and lots of, you know, whatever. He was like, we were like the Jewish but act British, totally repressed. And he spent his whole career trying to like unlock himself and figure out how immunity works and all these other things. It's very interesting watching him explore these things out loud in public. Yeah, he's he's he's a really interesting guy. His authenticity is, you know, there it is on his sleeve in terms of his capacity for self reflection and, you know, especially coming from someone who held himself out as reasonably conservative for many, many years. And I read I read I don't know if it was a review of the book or a recent column of his but I did read something of his while I was while I was away and was impressed by that. In related news, I have three volunteers to scan Klaus's book to basically give it not a deep read and not a line in it but just a hey what's going to make this an actual book. And so we're in conversation. I don't know that any of them can make this call. I was hoping they might, but that's that's kind of in progress. So we may want to do you want some readers for your draft or were where are you in the path. Absolutely. I mean, I've had some readers of not probably the current version, but I've had some things, you know, in the past for some of my musings, and and I've gotten some positive feedback. But as it as it in its current configuration, I'd love some thoughts and thoughts. Good and probably a good idea there is for you to point me to your favorite version they should look at and I can put that in front of the people who volunteered so far. Let's see if they want to want to give it a look as well. It's up on the Google. It's up on the Google Drive. That's the that's the that's the one Jerry and my my apologies. I'm in process of getting a new computer. My computer the short the short story is one of the texts at Apple kind of talked me into wiping it completely clean, which which since I use outlook for Mac, I have all of my emails and all of my files are in the cloud.  And that's why I had to ask you for the the link this morning. I just I just pasted a link that I think is my most recent version of your manuscript. But I want to make sure if you can compare the URL or something. And so you're still on your recently scrubbed, but not replaced computers. What you're saying?  It's really funny I went to the Apple store yesterday and the tech, you know, put my my my MacBook Pro on the counter and said, wow, this is wobbly. Your computer is is swollen in some way. I said, so what does that mean? Tech technologically, she said, well, you know, it probably is not not operating efficiently.  And I'll tell you to tech folks, the short story. So I went online and there appears to be they've upgraded MacBook Pros from 13, 15 inch to 14, 16, but they're still selling a 13 inch with an M2 processor, whatever that whatever that means, which is probably more than good enough for me, my machine itself is eight years old.  Small things, Pete probably knows a lot more than I do. At some point a couple of years ago on my previous Mac, it wasn't shutting properly. And I didn't think very much of it, but there was like a quarter inch gap, which just wasn't closing.  You need to like hurry up and get to get to the Apple store because it could be it could actually be dangerous. Yeah.  Just as part of this. So hard. Yeah, that's what they said to me. It's part of that. And that worked well, except with such an old machine, it then got really slow. For me, the slowness showed up on the brain, not in word processing. And if what you're doing mostly is word processing and you're not editing videos, you don't necessarily need processor speed because the M2 is a fantastic, beautiful, magical device. Yeah. So that's that's that's what I'm going to do. And rather than go to, you know, a 14, which is like two thousand dollars, the M the 13 inch with an M2 is it starts at like a thousand dollars, which is 700 bucks more than a new battery.  Yeah, you'll be happy. You'll be happy with a new one like that. Yeah. Sorry. And I have a quote, Rube Goldberg rigged docking station, you know, where I'm talking to you from with a with a large monitor. Excellent. Do you have to like, do you have to like put toast in the toaster to start the Rube Goldberg Contraption? No, no, that's good.  Right. It sounds like you sounds like great fun. So one of the things that's in front of us and a good reason to talk to Pete because he's here is that when we are happy with manuscripts from you and Klaus and maybe me, although the thing I'm about to describe isn't necessary for me because I'm writing in chunks is to nuggetize your books to go through the Neo books process. And Pete, your feedback is like really useful here because this seems like like a long digression or an excursion to do something that could be done straight from Google Docs straight into an export to be an EPUB. But a piece of the Neo books project is to have nuggets that live as separate pieces. And if you're doing a piece about how we might be in relationship and about how to solve conflict and all that, the nuggets might be extremely useful as wiki pages, roughly, that live in community and are changeable and updatable. So that's the reason to break up a large manuscript into nuggets. So that would kind of be next. Yeah, absolutely. You know, three nuggets in the book, I mean, three, three nuggets, three broad nuggets, one.  I haven't learned that one yet. Yeah. Pete, thoughts about process, things, anything around that? By the way, just Pete, before you jump in, I actually talked to a few people about, you know, what we did with with Klaus's book, with chat GPT, because I thought it was just so beautiful, you know, how we used it and what what what the what the response was. Any feedback? Did they? Yeah, everybody thought it was, wow, that's really interesting as a use of, you know, chat GPT. And these were this was a bunch of educators, educational leaders, K-1 through 12 at a DEIV conference in Nairobi that has the most extraordinarily beautiful English-speaking school. Yeah. That's cool. I think language, conversational and writing engines like chat GPT are going to be increasingly important. And also frustrating when they get used poorly. So I think that's going to happen a lot. And then a lot of I think there's going to be some, you know, there'll be some backlash because of that. Another another interesting data point is a area that reader that looked over what class has got so far is like, wow, this chat GPT stuff. And this is somebody who really loves chat GPT. This chat GPT language is hash. It's junk. It's really poorly written. And I've talked to a few people about I think I know what that person means because chat GPT will just write stuff and it writes pretty good stuff. It's not, and what it does is actually magical. It feels magical almost every time I'm using it, but it's also not. I guess in my use of chat GPT, I've noticed that you want to rewrite a lot of what it says. So it's great for ideating. It's great for expanding your vision. It's great for even coming up with terms of phrases that you wouldn't have come up with. And maybe the output isn't exactly the one. I kind of wonder, I wonder maybe Klaus just wasn't sensitive enough otherwise or actually, I think he got so much out of it and it was doing such an amazing job and that he accomplished something that he could not have otherwise. There's another step there too, which is to go, okay, now I've got these ideas out and they're written a certain way and maybe I need to finish that a little bit. I don't know if that's finishing by hand. I think, I know when I write stuff in concert with Chat GPT, I talked to Jordan Sukut, actually the same thing. He does a lot of writing with Chat GPT, but you write with Chat GPT or you let it write a chunk and you go, okay, well, I like this part and this part. Can you rephrase these things or how would you change the way that's set up? So it's like a writing assistant and that's a really good one. I don't think it's quite a writer yet, finished stuff.  In other words, if you're not a writer, you're very, very happy to accept what it puts out. If you're a writer and you enjoy the process of the iteration of writing, then it doesn't bother you to use that as a starting point and you're happy. That's a great observation. I think also there's another thing. If you're an editor or a publisher, it's taken some particular editorial path or non-editorial path, I mean, it's just making stuff up kind of, which you might or might not be happy with then you might wanna get more into the, to go back to nuggets and also to mix in something else, Jerry. We had a short discussion with Bentley on Mattermost about his idea, which I ended up saying he wanted to talk about in the context of taking care of an aged parent, he wanted to talk about how you keep yourself or your loved ones healthy and the whole process of that, which is a big kettle of fish. He said, is this a new book? And I ended up saying back to him, it sounds to me like a reference wiki, reference encyclopedia and a set of new books. And I think there's, so, I think there's something to that. I think maybe there's a larger information system that new books have a big chunk of, but aren't the complete thing. I think you want a reference encyclopedia. I think at the other, complete other end of it, maybe you want a chat system with the author or the text itself. Now you can do a chat with the text itself with a bot. So maybe, and maybe new books is some wedge of that, but around the new book idea and interleaved with that nugget idea, there's probably other chunks, I think. I love that idea, Pete, of interaction with the author. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it's one thing for others to add, annotate, what have you, but the idea of being able to contact the author is just, I think it's super. Yep. And the other readers. And people who, it would even be awesome to be able to be interactive with skeptics or people with different viewpoints or things like that. Oh yeah. Sorry, go ahead. I was just gonna say that's a big interest of mine. Keep going. I'm inspired to tell a short story, a very short story, an experience I had earlier today where we were talking about the tech... Is it about the farmer and the horse? No, it's not about the farmer and the horse. And it's... The farmer's daughter. Just kidding. And it's not about my plumbing adventures either. Thank goodness. The... It illuminated something for me that I think we all kind of know, but never it was a bolt of lightning like, wow, that's a really big effect. This was in the context of Pro's Fusion where we're trying to figure out how to have a more capable collaborative writing experience using some simple tools, that come from the programming world. And so I was talking with one of the, essentially one of the students, like, okay, so remind me again why we're trying to do this thing because he got rubbed into it by a colleague. So he wasn't the one who was like, oh my God, I need to learn this Pro's Fusion stuff. It was another friend of his who he's been on writing projects with. He said, oh my God, we gotta learn this collaborative writing stuff and you're gonna join me. So the person who was really interested wasn't there. So I got to talk directly to somebody who was interested but still wondering, okay, so why are we doing this? And I'm like, okay, so in truth, if you're one person, you don't need a collaborative writing ecosystem. If you're like two or three people and you're writing 10,000 words, that's 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 words, Google Docs is actually gonna be easier probably than the thing that we're talking about. But if you wanna write 20,000 words with 10 people or 100,000 words with, God knows how many people or a million words, then Google Docs is going to be really painful, really fast. And so what we're aiming to do is to write like a six-member team writing 100,000 words, 200,000 words, 500,000 words. That's kind of where we're aiming. And my assertion is that the techniques we've kind of assembled won't, like it will easily scale to that level of complexity without any problem, unlike Google Docs. So then we talked a little bit about, so do we have a project that big that we wanna do? And the answer is no. Do we have a team of people that need to do that project but didn't know how to do it yet? And it's like, well, no. So what we identified was kind of a chicken and egg situation where the thing I'm thinking that we can do together has never really been something that you would consider to be possible. So it's like, I mean, it's been done, the OED or Encyclopedia Britannica or I think there was even some dictionary that was like some massive thing that was, but normal people wouldn't go, I wanna be on a eight-person team writing half a million words this year. And because that's like, and I'm like, okay, I've got Microsoft Word, I've got notepad, I've got Google Docs, none of those are gonna be able to do that thing. I don't see a way to do that, so I can't even think of doing it. And similarly, because there isn't a project like that, we don't have a bunch of writers who sit around going, I don't know what the project is, but I know that I wanna be part of that kind of team. And so it occurs to me, the reason I'm telling this story is it occurs to me that Neo Books is probably kind of hunting around with a vision of something that it could do that's gonna be different than anything we can imagine. And that thing that you can't imagine and you can't even describe and you don't have people to do it with because there isn't such a thing in the world already is kind of where Neo Books is out to. Thanks, Pete. Sort of to paraphrase what you were saying just to see if I'm understanding it properly. The things you're considering writing don't rise to the complexity of needing more complicated tools than Google Docs, let's say. So why, why? And that fits really nicely with the project that Bentley was talking about matter most and also I think Stuart that you're trying to do with your book, which is that there's a body of research, insight and knowledge that should exist in the world that some pieces of which could be manifest as books but which are more broadly useful and which could easily turn into a largeish project of great complexity if only the medium lent itself to that but instead the conventional mainstream media world we have spits out books which are inert and don't connect the audience to contributors audiences or potential other authors, right? That whole thing. And just to add to that, Jerry and the books that that mainstream media, the inert books are spitting out. Sorry, April, nobody reads them. No, the president of Barrett Kohler knows this as a result of research. He publishes this thing every year the 10 awful truths about the publishing world but the statistic is amazing about how many people buy books and never read them or read the first couple of pages.  So if you compare we're actually kind of inventing what I think is a much more utile vehicle. If you compare the viewership of a Sam Harris podcast with a bestselling book, like The Mind Boggles and then if you go compare those numbers to how many viewers are watching CBS News, Evening News these days, right? There's still this incredible disequilibrium, like people using new media or their numbers are just through the roof. And then April and I wanted to talk to you about Taylor Swift a while last night but also Mr. Beast and a couple other phenomena. And I'm like, have you seen what Mr. Beast is doing on YouTube? And April wasn't really aware of him but he's a phenomenon. He basically create, he intentionally creates a massive audience called the audience.  There's a really nice video of him donating a thousand eye surgeries, cataract surgeries, which are inexpensive to do, et cetera, and restore sight, right? And in the video, this is a little bit of a plot spoiler in the video, he occasionally shows up to a patient who's just had their eyesight restored who is already very perfectly happy and opens a briefcase and says, here's $10,000 for you. And there's this very, very interesting massive audience thing going on around that. And somewhere in the mid space of a book that 10,000 people read and this crazy media sweepstakes thing, there's got to be a fruitful experimentation, investigation and co-creation of useful media that make the world better, no? And I think that's what we're trying to do. Well, let's do it. Yeah. Okay. I like it. What else did we talk about here and now with the three of us? Hey, did you, did you, I feel like I kind of talked at your question, but maybe not answered it. And did you, were you wondering specifically about publishing stuff or? I was sort of looking down the road a little bit and thinking like what we're gonna need next in order to think about it myself, queue it up, get the ball rolling lightly. That's all I was doing.  So I'm grateful for that. We talked kind of about nuggets and stuff too. I guess I think it's really important that people use tools that they're fluent with. So, and then at the other end of it, at the meat grinding end, you do actually wanna start talking about file formats and publication mechanisms and stuff like that. And we'll get there. Yeah. So I just had this little brain fart about co-opting the traditional publishing industry. In terms of real utility, real collaborative utility in the world today. When I, and it was interesting, I think it was 2008, I co-authored a book called Collaboration 2.0 with David Coleman. And there were some folks from Silicon Valley talking about making it a living book. Because they thought it was important enough to do that. And it never happened, partly because my collaborative partner was a really difficult guy. And that's all I'll say, who I didn't really wanna work with anymore at all. This was getting to resolution? No, this is a book called Collaboration 2.0. Oh, right, gotcha. Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Yeah. Yeah. So let's let that percolate in each of our heads because I think if we take more seriously the idea that we're doing something to upend traditional publishing models and create some new way of communicating through wisdom, I think new ideas will show up for us. And maybe we should probably not, but maybe we should approach Steve Piercinanti, basically the senior editor at Baird Kehler and say, hey, Steve, would you be interested in an experiment? And I think that going to a publisher and asking that question is probably like a suicide mission. It's not good, but he might actually be like, I've been thinking about this and how might this work? So I'm still in touch and friendly with Pete with him, you know, whenever I want, I have access, but also to some people on the board and their short responses, if they could find some other vehicles. And they would try them? I think that they would. That's interesting. As long as there is some revenue model attached to it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because they had a great run, but publishing is a tough business if you're in it to make money. It's so weird because here's Taylor Swift publishing and minting money. And here's Mr. Beast publishing. Yeah, tons of media comes out of his shop. Tons, tons of highly polished now. Oh, one of the really interesting things about Mr. Beast is that he hacked everything he could learn about how to get an audience on YouTube. He basically went in and did a B testing. He listened to everybody's videos. He watched and critiqued. He just kept iterating and testing, iterating and testing until he cracked the code. So his videos would go viral and it paid off like enormously, but a lot of his early work was just how to hack the algorithms, which I'm not suggesting we try to do, but that's how he broke through to build his weird new and different model. So yeah. The breakout success is the one end of the bell curve doesn't mean that it's easy to publish in music or on YouTube. It also doesn't mean that they're going to be in many Mr. Beast so that there might be that much room at the top of the curve. But is there a mesa or a plateau next to them that is comfortable? Because the amount of money both of those individuals are moving around is boggling, like seriously boggling. The amount of money a human needs to be happy having made a living and maybe having published a book because authors these days don't make money from publishing books. They make money from other things the book may cause for them, right? April's business model is not to make a living from the book it's to make a living consulting and speaking on what the book says. Yeah, book is a big business card. It's a business card for sure however you wanna hold it. It's a sad demotion, is it not? Yep, it is. It's like being fieldstrip of your rank, which apparently doesn't happen that often. Yeah. There are a couple of famous ones. Right, but you do it as a labor of love. I mean I remember writing and saying I don't care if this ever gets published. I'm learning so much in getting it out and getting it down and refining language and clarifying thinking. Yep. Cool. Pete I learned another shortcut for the Sonoma video things, which is this is the way to get, oh come on. Yeah. The laser light show effect. I don't know if you've seen all these, but this is, when you get your new machine you will also probably get, because they will install it on all the new machines, you'll get Mac OS 13, whatever, which is Sonoma. If I do a hard Sonoma, it's busy watching the screen and it won't do it for you because it's not a Zoom feature, it's a Mac OS feature. But whenever you buy your computer you will get these things bundled in because all of a sudden, like I didn't have to turn it on. Like I ran the OS upgrade and suddenly got these new new play towards, anyway. Anything else you wanna talk about here? Shall we wrap our call a little bit early? Yeah. Like we're good? No, I'm still jet lagged. Yeah, thanks for jumping on the call. But really, really glad to see you and hear from your adventures and all that. Oh, and the other thing, the only thing that I didn't mention in my check-in was meditating with the animals on Safari. I was just kind of blown away by how close these guides took you to dangerous beasts, to leopards and lions and you're five yards away and they're trying to get an angle. And it's not like you're in a cage. It's not in a cage. No, you're in a very modified land rover with eight seats and there you are and there's a lion right there or the elephant is walking behind you. Cool. Yeah, it's very good. I've done one day of Safari in my life, April and I went to Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania, which was beautiful. It was really, like it's an impact crater. I don't think it's a volcanic crater. We're good. And you descend the lip and basically any creature born inside there is likely to just live its entire life only inside that crater. Well, here you are, watching a leopard drag an impala up a tree because if it doesn't drag it up a tree, somebody's gonna steal it. And then you've got all of these hyenas, waiting at the base of the tree for scrap.  It's nature. The food chain viewed up close and personal. Oh yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, it's cool. Cool. Okay. Thanks all. Enjoy. See you around. More soon. Thank you. All right, bye.


Today we brought our Bravleys out here to get our equipment all tested out, get it up to speed, kind of run it through a wear-and-tear test on firing the equipment and running the tracks in this terrain and the, you know, the temperature of the climate to make sure everything's working properly. So when it's taken downrange it will work for us. It's crucial for our readiness when we make our final movements for this deployment here. We need to be able to rely on our equipment to do what it needs to do and if we are not 100% confident in the accuracy of our equipment and the state of our equipment that it's going to run. It's going to shoot the way we need it to. It's going to move the way we need it to. If we are not 100% on that it's going to just take away from the mission and our capabilities.


I realized I never actually made an introduction for this video so, you know, plan with me for January in the middle of January. Let's just dive right into the video. There are a January plan with me. Now I've been following my channel for a while. You may have noticed that last year I attempted to do plan with me and then I quickly abandoned them. I think I did like a January one and a February one and that was it. But this year, 2024 is our year of planning and being on top of everything so I really want to add plan with me to my channel and I also want to add like book reviews to my channel and yoga meditation videos. That's a lot for 2024. Hopefully we'll get it all done. Also I want to tell you guys I was thinking of kind of doing different upload days besides like from Sunday and Wednesday just because on Sundays I also have my Dula training and I teach yoga in person at 4Power Studio and it just seems like I'm doing too much work on Sundays and when I have an upload on Sundays I'm really tempted to work on Fridays and Saturdays to like edit it and get it up for you guys so I am thinking about changing my upload schedule in the new year. This coffee also was sent to me by Javi. I believe that's how you pronounce it. They're like this coffee concentrate company and it actually tastes really good. I do want like a flavor or something with it but I think when I go to my workout today I'm going to pick up like flavored soy milk or oat milk and hopefully that will do the trick.  So I'm going to start my screen recording and let's dive into my new notion. I'm pretty excited about it. Again I got this from Juna Hong and I just updated it to make it black girl version and just like all of my vision boards and things I'm manifesting for this year so I'd love to get to 5000 subscribers on YouTube in 2024. I feel relieved because my goal for last year was 1000 and we didn't hit it but I believe in us we still have faith. And then I just added pictures of my family so this is like me and my brothers. These are like locations I want to go to when I really get friends. Nikki moved to Brazil so I'd love to visit her in Brazil this year. Friends and family on my birthday. YouTube of course. I would love to go back to Paris. Paris was on my board for last year and I didn't go but I didn't make it to London so you know it'll happen one day when it's meant to happen. Romance, relationships, success, it's a hot day because why not. Octopus is this is one of the best octopus that I had in the United States. Greece was actually where I've had the best octopus in my life but like I love octopus so I would love to get more into that. So let's go into January and just kind of get some of these things going. I mean I don't know do you guys want to check out my yearly goals? I feel like a year is way too big to have a goal but these are some of the goals that I have for this year and I think I'm honestly going to make a separate video just talking about life after grad school and kind of like what I envision happening for myself. As you guys can see here I have like nine to five because I do think I'm going to have to get a job until I can get some things kind of up and going for my podcast and my YouTube channel and like all that fun stuff and then just some reminders like the universe is right to make your dreams happen and yeah so I have like learned pianos singing lessons here become conversational in Spanish because I'm actually going to a Spanish speaking country in February and my Spanish is very good for why or why I don't speak Spanish a lot. So my Spanish is how do you say slow like it just takes me a while to understand Spanish and also to speak in Spanish so I want to come a little bit more conversational I want to start budgeting stuff I want to get a therapist just going through all my personal goals right now journal once a week one first date per month which dating apps are set up is a struggle talking fitness there's just some other things I want to do so handstand phone angel split I also want to say really on top of my iron supplements career YouTube rebrand I'm actually already working on that so I'm really excited for that I want to put my podcast get into the HG program I set up the question mark because it's not really in my hands like I did everything I could do and so now I just have to let go and wait and see launch my Dula business which I will be certified in April and market yoga Dula and coaching because I do want to start offering like live coaching in addition to Dula stuff in April again and then also graduating because I graduated nice so we'll go more into you kind of like my career and stuff in a separate video but those are kind of like what I'm thinking about right now when it comes to my goals love it's really big for me like I definitely want to get into a relationship I just don't know when that's going to happen or what that's going to look like but I'm really hoping it happens in 2024 if not I'll survive so my calendar I don't really use this that much and then this is honestly still in 2023 from December and as you can see Virginia where I haven't anything for you to get but hopefully I'll have that number this week we're here my camera's gonna die so let me switch out the battery that's been charging and then we'll pick this up okay so I really like this section the monthly goals and reflection so I have the three categories career I want to have a new YouTube rating so that's just kind of everything that falls under there and that's all being worked out I'm ready I'm really excited to show you guys I also want to film three podcast episodes I've been talking about this podcast for a very very very very very long time so hopefully I can get that done in January and then applied to 10 jobs I've actually already applied to three so we're heading in the right direction there I hope I can beat this because when it comes to landing corporate nine to five jobs it's really just a numbers game like the more you apply the better your chances are so 10 is like my goal but I hope I get a little bit more than 10 and personal I want to get a therapist again so I want to interview 33 therapists have not even begun that speak 30 minutes of Spanish per day but it's only January 4th so we have some time we have some we have some goals journal once a week I've been really good with that actually actually journal twice so far budget for January I also have been good at that and it's so hard I think I also want to make like videos about money in graduate school so if you're interested in that we may comment below but yeah budgeting when you're living off the student loans is like a mind fuck not gonna lie and then I want to find a piano teacher and figure out Columbia financial aid which kind of goes hand-in-hand and we'll talk about that in a different video and then health and fitness class pass which I started my free month already so I'm really excited about that and then just getting back to going to sleep earlier like I did not go to sleep early last night but I did the night before and I woke up at 6 30 like the next day so I'm like if I get to sleep on time I can wake up on time so I just need to have the self-discipline to do that and then this is an end month reflection which obviously is the beginning of January so we're not doing that now weekly check-in which I've honestly just been using this as like my to-do list so so from last week I kind of did that checking in I just feel really excited about the possibilities of the new year and new possibilities I'm applying to two nine to five jobs actually five to three so I think that posting to YouTube videos don't know if that's gonna happen getting back to work out and meal planning and then solidifying my financial aid for the spring which is actually really high in my priorities as you can see kind of down here and I just still haven't done it yet I actually sent them an email in December and having heard back so I just think I need to send them another email and then finding like what I'm working on this week to get closer to my goals just find a new healthy routine understanding what my life looks like for 2024 because my life is just going to change so much this year with me graduating and stuff and I also was really excited I got a Brooklyn library card I have some stuff for the ones I need to do but yeah filming my January coming with me gonna work that complete because we're doing it now this says captured and planner but honestly I'm just gonna change this to complete because I've just been using this as like to do this from being completely honest and yeah and then at the end I have my vision board nice and big and beautiful and I just really really love it random journal entries I honestly don't like journaling on digital stuff so I have a physical journal that I use and yeah I don't think I'm gonna be using the section too much YouTube posting dates I still need to do that I have like two videos that I want to do actually three but I usually post like eight videos a month so I need to spend some time planning and brainstorming that and there are so many requests that I've gotten and I have not been good at keeping up with them so if you've asked for a video in like the last month six months yesterday please leave it again down below in the comment section so I can actually start kind of keeping up with them knowledge management such a great skill to have still working on it right now YouTube brain dump this is probably where I should keep the videos you guys request so hopefully I'll start doing focus hub which is actually one of my favorite parts of this planning template like thank you so so much for making this because this makes it so easy I don't really do any of these like YouTube videos or playlists that are on the bottom here but I literally like as you can see from finals my psychology of sexualized violence outline presentation final paper studying for my nutrition exam and then like my passives like I knock this all out utilizing this hub so I really enjoy it this is for my podcast whenever we get rolling on it as you can see like these are kind of scripts that I made but I actually did record my introduction at my outro I think the biggest roadblock for me right now is that I just don't know how to upload stuff onto like Apple podcasts and Spotify and that truly is the biggest roadblock like if I was just doing it on YouTube I probably would have launched it already but it's just so hard to do things that you don't know how to do it's so hard to do things that you don't know how to do yeah so once I actually figure out how to upload audio onto the like podcast streaming services we are going to be on and popping but until I take the time to actually do that it's gonna be a journey also these are some of the episodes that I'm thinking of again if you have any episode ideas leave me a comment below but yeah so how to start meditation practice have a man best your dream life tips for new yoga teachers like I'm really excited about this stuff 80-20 lifestyle is something that Jenna does about like food and nutrition I'm actually really really into nutrition I took a nutrition class last semester you guys weren't aware so I already eat pretty healthy I don't really drink that much I don't really think this really applies to me but I do really want to start recording some recipes that I love in a digital format because I literally spent like three hours yesterday looking for this recipe that I made before so I think I'll probably turn that this into that like this into just like a recipe hub versus like meal planning and tracking my stuff because I already kind of do that intuitively quite well there you know it's still looking for a therapist so nothing there books and media hub I have really enjoyed this tab so I have all these books that I wanted to read here and then I just finished Verity by calling Hoover gave it like literally five stars it's so so good and I do think I want to do a book review on my channel about it so stay tuned for that content trackers which is honestly my favorite favorite part so I have been using originally something created by Alexis Eldridge so she originally created this tracker I've been using it when I moved myself into this new notion template I brought it with me because I really like it and I typically tracked my YouTube the most I don't really track anything else so if we go into our oh it's right here so my YouTube growth so for January I was at 867 subscribers I have somehow lost two subscribers but would have you it happens but what I love because I've been tracking it for so long I can literally filter anyway I'm gonna have to figure this out for the next video because my camera is gonna die and I don't want it to take forever but as you can see here and January this year had 867 and then January of last year it had 464 so I'm really excited just to see the growth year over year now that we've been doing this for so long so yeah that is it I haven't really created a goal for growth for next month so actually we will go into monthly goals I don't remember the last time I did this okay in August so let's say for January my subscriber goal we're at 865 right now because I lost two subscribers um let's do like 900 solid watch time 29 and then use 45,000 like a hundred and 45,000 I think that's fine all right cool yeah and my camera's gonna die so we're gonna wrap this up here but I really hope you guys enjoyed this play with me I didn't want to get into my physical planer but this camera's gonna die in any moment so hopefully in February I can introduce you guys to this I really love these planers this is actually from a plan called plum paper that has me in a chokehold darling because you can customize like literally everything about it and then you have these like cute little sections that I haven't used for like monthly planning and monthly reflections that I also haven't used but hopefully 2024 it'll be the year of planning and you guys can help keep me accountable I love you guys so much again my name is Nika make sure you subscribe and I will see you guys in the next video oh also I'll keep my link for the hobby copy which is actually really good and the description box below and a link for a plum paper planer whatever if you want that and the link for Jenna's notion template yeah wow that was a night full make sure you subscribe if you haven't already and I'll see you guys in 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Now only three players in the history of the PBA tour have 40 or greater. The other two are Walter W. Williams Jr. and Earl Anthony. And now Norm Duke with number 40. I hit something. Oh no problem Norm. Kendra listening to you. Mollie Ball listening to you. And you are a champion yet again. For the 40th time Norm is going to make that little walk and grab another trophy. After all he's endured in this championship match it's Tackett who controls his own destiny. Steps up in the 10th. A strike for the win. Not surprising former player of the year and runner up back to back years for that honor. A great match came down to the 10th brand E.J. Tackett. It's a nice touch in the 10th and carries all 10. The lead has dwindled to one. You see that six pin go to the side. Well that's I'm Robin cut the 10 out. That's always a good sign for a right hander. Kick saving a beauty on the 10 on that right lane. Now he needs to duplicate it two more times right here in the 10th frame. Two strikes two pins he moves on. Blanchard with a spare here for Mollie. Blanchard needs two and nine to win by one. There's one. What a shot. What a shot. Nine for the win. Must get nine. Way wide right. Mollie moves on. Big nasty sitting down. Goes to the round of 16. Unbelievable after two pure shots he was sad pin. Look at Mollie. Nobody more surprised than him. All she needs eight again. I'm seeing this as being a little reminiscent of match number one where it's the heater Ricky. Captures the one elusive event. High score of the evening. The 246 claims the title. Get it Liz you deserved it. That's five in a row for Jacob. Butchruff written off after he whipped the seven pin in the six. Remember that frame. Oh to close. He's got a 227. He sits down. The legend steps up. No Monty strike spare to win by one. If he doesn't strike on this ball. If he goes nine spare strike will have a tie. Motion. Came out of that man's body after that shot. He needs a strike or a spare. For history. Arya Hugo back home in New South Wales. Stand up. Get ready to cheer on dad. You love seeing all these people here rooting for you. But let's take a look at the monitor up here because if I'm not mistaken we have some people in Australia. Watching you live. Your hometown watching you right now. Make history. It's very emotional. I miss them dearly. And I wish that was sitting in front row. Thank you.  I love you guys much.from that style for hooking up the big screen. I'm just. I love you guys very much. That's really all I can say. Jason Bielmonti congratulations. I'm making history. Your 11th major win.


Okay, well, it's 10 o'clock second life time or 12 my time. I'm in Texas Do anyone happen to know why as we get started is anyone happen to know why? second life is in Pacific standard time or West Coast time or whatever you want to call you can you can write it there as I'm doing but any case welcome to The science circle and welcome back to record members and I love to see Yeah, yeah, so actually I was born there. They think but you're right Linden labs in other words back when second life was started. They never thought that maybe oh So never never thought that perhaps This would be Come as big as it does same thing with Facebook and other things so They just decided to use their time and that's where it is Linden labs and the designer of Second life. Okay, so as I mentioned before please if that's questions comment comment on what I said Other people's questions share links Well, they think it is okay, so and you know engage in what we discussed today we're just talking earlier about Learning to do this in other words learning to interact with each other besides face-to-face and What it allows us to do I'm sure there's people from around the world here today Welcome welcome. I see a lot of new names. Okay, so This is the third in a series of kind of opening sessions when I'm kind of feeling out Exploring the idea of a regular permanent class. Yeah, there you go. Okay, and Exploring science in second life in future sessions. We'll talk about science in the news Is it sites in second life to demonstrate science talk about science behind our science circle? presentations which by the way if you're interested in some in the past we've got both a little mini theaters a kind of international education center here that's over on in one of the corners and then also at our Website you'll see a presentation from the past. We've been doing this for about 12 years And in this particular section, I'd like to explore the concept of time Now time is kind of dear to all of us and I've been fascinated with the topic for over 50 years Since I learned about relativity and how time and space are not absolute So let's take a look at what we're doing. Yeah, very timely subject. Okay, so happy new year or is it? Okay, so how come we have So how come we have two new years We had one just a couple weeks ago Actually landed about or lasted for about 15 days Then we've got one that was a couple months ago. Yeah, you're the rat Yeah, so it really depends on your perspective of time and your system for measuring and stuff like that And so we're going to take a little bit look at that today.  Okay, so any case I'd like to explore this isn't a comprehensive Exploration of time. I mean that's a lot more than our But I'd like to explore kind of three areas namely how we think of time and space the physical scientific basis of time in other words how we Reference time and then how we measure it in other words It's kind of an abstraction of the notion of time beyond the physical References, I think therefore. Yeah, if you're lucky as I tell people if you're lucky you grow old Okay, so what I'd like you to do is let me put the this Video link here, so it's easier to get to and instead of having to type all that stuff, but this is a Video that link. Let's take a second to do it. It's about Wow three minutes to do it click on that and then go see what the difficulty of talking about time is so About thirty one million five hundred thirty six thousand seconds ago. I was tasked to write a piece about time time A broad topic to say the least but because of my competitive nature I agreed to let the pin go into system overload still this broke Bro When speaking about time, where do I begin? Do I start from the beginning? I mean do I begin with the big bang Magellan or the Mayans? Should I speak about pendulums or the space time continuum? I mean, how do I begin to describe something so vast so infinite as time? And is it truly infinite or does it have a finite in exactly how and when did it all begin? Did it all start with this cosmic bubble that would expand and give birth to time as we know it? Is it more or less complex than that? Have our attempts to measure it only taught us the surface of what it is I mean Oscillating atoms gave us the clue of what time it is but neglected to mention what time is Still you must admit we've come so far from crystals pendulums and sundials Spinning planets and rotation around a star boy that took a while I feel I've been here a speller too longer than I intended to come on. Let's continue Let's move forward and ride this arrow of time through beautiful entropy. Yes indeed, please believe it gets messy I mean our concept of time isn't so orderly is it? Especially when even the way we experience time is only a perception and an illusion Cybar is chronophobia a legitimate fear never mind that let me double back sides If it's true that everything that has happened is happening and will happen already exists at once Then wouldn't time itself tell us that both my perception and your perception of it though different or real imagine that time But quantitative and relative and according to my watch ain't got moments to waste and if there are multiple realities that exist at this given Moment then theoretically not only am I out of time, but I have plenty of it. How confusing wait Let me take some time here slow down here. Give me some time here. Yeah Give me a second. Give me a minute. Give me an hour Our time is not ours Let me be brief because in the end you don't need to fully understand what time is in order to see the beauty of measuring it It's more than defining a second so that when the clocks ticking it has atomic precision its standardization It's measurements of duration its discovery in the search for new applications see today is understanding our location for global Navigation and tomorrow well only time would tell Well, if you're done with the video it's by the National Institute of Standards and Technologies and it kind of covers a lot of the aspects of time It's a good little video that covers most of stuff of talking with today and Yeah Exactly share those sorts of things like the physical nature of time etc. Like that And I've had other people share other things too Here again, my I really like it when we do Interact a lot of interactivity in these presentations here Okay, so let's take a look at what? kind of the philosophy of time is it Fixed the relative is it linear cyclical is it real or a mental construct? And so well, it's fixed in that we can define it in the video is talking about he had a CZ and Adam in there I'm not sure okay, so any case it's fixed in that we can define it precisely relative to characteristics of physical objects like the moon or Sun or the frequency of electromagnetic radiation But helium and I mean excuse me a CZ madam or objects we create like clocks But it's relative if we try to measure it those same characteristics under acceleration or strong gravity or Objects and moving really fast relative to us How many people have ever experienced? I'm slowing down during a crisis if you've lived long enough. I bet you you have anybody out there or Read a book recently about why we dream and so in dreaming Okay, but also in dreaming We may only dream for minutes, but it seems like a much longer time in other words. They found that actually in dreams It's not a one-to-one ratio as far as time goes Okay, what about it being linear or cyclical part of that's cultural in It may seem linear if we kind of think of time as progressing towards something or away from the past or if we consider that each repetition of events or patterns is not Exactly the same or if you've ever tried to return to the past and found that you haven't yeah You completely lose track of time. Yeah, I kind of concentrate on stuff. I've had several instances where Time I only knew that seconds actually really occurred But it sure slowed down and I had to make some really quick decisions In it for life and death purposes But time can also seem cyclical because we sense patterns That repeat in nature and I'll talk more about the patterns here in a minute when we talk about how times measured Okay, so it's time real or is it a mental construct? Well, it's real in that things are real and change is real, but if nothing actually Happened in other words, we just sat here with time really Exist would could you sense time? Well, certainly things inside you There's no such thing as everything just coming to a halt because the chemical reactions inside you all of that would continue moving so you'd continue aging even if you were in a place where Everything had kind of slowed down and become static and you couldn't sense it moving But time is also a construct and we kind of define it as a fourth dimension and such so In actuality, it's true for all of that And Thanks, thanks for sharing tagline any anyone else has kind of an experience that let me know Well, same thing with space space and time are related when we talk about time being a fourth dimension Okay, yeah, I'll have to take a look at that Okay, when we so space What's interesting to me is as I study some of these things is What continues to surprise me and the same thing as surprises me when we have these presentations in second life is Commonalities these days we seem to be so much in these silos of them versus us at least in the United States Remembering that we have much more common than our differences Throughout the world is something important and the more I study the more I find about this So in earlier years, we were a lot closer to the earth and we kind of looked around and Wondered about what lay beyond and what our part was in it. And so in very early days thousands of years ago We kind of thought of the earth As flat because if you're standing in one spot, it appears to be so and those types of concepts were in Both very early Chinese culture as well as early Greek and other cultures We've learned of course, that's not the case, but also the concepts of early of many layers in worlds that we Could not yet experience Discworld. Yeah. Well, there's also a Good book out on stuff like flat world. I don't know. That's no older book Etc. Where there's one dimension rather than two interesting stuff Ranging world. I haven't seen that one Okay, but in case the concept of many layers in other worlds where we believe, you know, that we would go when we died I'd also mirrored our earthly hierarchy. You can see that that was In more than one religion that that was true. Okay, so time and space are Both in common Concepts and some differences. Okay, so let's take a look at their philosophy of time when we take a look at a philosophy of time Obviously it's gone back many years in other words and one of the things in common Throughout cultures is this idea of cycles of of ages of the world and so for example you The ring series, okay So you can find it in in the Vedas for cycles of creation deterioration and then destruction for world ages in the Mayan World and in other cultures. Now. What I'd like you to do is also take a look at This video it's a and this is the last video. I think I'd like you to look at for today. Is Is this one this is my in philosophy of creation and time before They encountered the mile, excuse me, but the European world in other words, this is written in codex and stuff like that Tell me if you see any differences. Okay. I'm gonna give you the YouTube thing and it takes about three minutes So please take a look at this and then come on back and we'll Talk. Oh, hey, that's better than some of the I'd rather be made in some of the other Theories but notice what's similar in other words at least similar to a lot of Western creation stories is That it said all is stillness and there was water And then separated the earth and sky and levels of the upper world and underworld and humans created from mud Which was the very first one by the way and then destroyed in a flood and there were brothers All the different types of things that are and then they became the Sun and the moon and stuff So very similar and so this this story before that did not have European influence it kind of makes you wonder whether some of these stories go back long enough to have been You know, maybe tens or hundreds of thousands of years So that they became common throughout the world as people migrated out of African beyond That's like I said, it's always interesting to me that to find that they're Yeah, thank you So in case to find the similarities in what we think hey, you'll also notice that even back in the early Greek days in in Europe area that the they knew that the earth was round and Aristarchus and Made a case that the Sun was at the center of it all so our Misconceptions of the Middle Ages and stuff are incorrect a bit. Let's take a look at that time period Now, there were people knew and and certainly People like Columbus and stuff knew that the world were round because otherwise why sail West trying to reach the Indies And so it just that does anyone happen to know because I've read an account of why Columbus misjudged The distance Yes, exactly. There you go. Excellent. Good. Yeah, he thought it was smaller And what I've read is actually and I haven't found it yet if anybody actually finds it Let me know but this this references in some of the books that were not included in other words that included perhaps in the Catholic Bible but not in Reformation Bibles that and some other books That were written they kind of alluded to the world being smaller by about a third So he actually thought that by sailing West you could reach the Indies sooner It's just that no one knew of course about the Pacific Ocean except for the people to live there and That sort of thing. Yeah, the apocrypha was the name of the That group of books, but if anybody actually finds a reference of why Columbus thought it was Smaller, I'd love to know that. Okay, so moving on. Let's take a look then at the Middle Ages and what people thought about time there And one of the things is you'll notice that Well, exactly and for Mel Kenzie there there was a longitude. This is kind of skipping ahead, but there was a longitude prize In in fact, there was a good movie called longitude a good book called longitude That talks about that longitude prize, which was worth about say ten million dollars today for the first chronometer That was actually accurate enough to Measure time on a rolling ship to within the fifth of a second per Day, it was very good and see actually measure your longitude latitude is easy because of the stars longitude is far harder Not to measure. Okay Yeah, very on you With these interesting thing Yeah, it was everybody did. I mean because they had measured it here again. I only have a certain amount of time to present this but They had measured for example going down into Egypt and finding a well that was quite vertical and then measuring it on certain times of the The middle of the day and finding what the angle was and they were good within about two percent of the actual Distance around the the earth. So they knew, you know, they knew long ago about how big the earth was and it was Fear and stuff and people didn't forget that stuff. They knew about it You know, they knew about it in the Middle Ages, too Okay, so any case let's take a look at the Ptolemy Ptolemy solar system because it has a lot to do with our current calendar But we did or not and to other calendars around the world And so here we see Ptolemy wearing a crown like a king and instead of the world with the Sun at the center and The earth in orbit Basically, you're looking at the Ptolemy system He preferred an imperfect earth at the center and then the perfect heavens above and so When the Roman Empire collapsed ancient Greek and Egyptian texts were preserved in the Muslim world and in far corners of Europe like the Ireland and then of course India and China had their own texts plus their own waxing and waning of civilizations and such and and in some cases except for like the Silk Road and others who like Marco Polo and stuff sometimes ideas to centuries or even a thousand years to go to Traverse but through encounters with the not so friendly encounters with the Muslim world the ancient idea or the ideas of the ancients were rediscovered in Europe and And Unfortunately became kind of dogma in the church when something becomes dogma and something become near religious It's very difficult to change a way of thinking the idea of Geocentrism in other words the earth at the center and circular orbits and such like that It was very difficult to change people's minds about that So any case this philosophy of time is a Well, it was based on some science In other words, you're talking about people a thousand years later basing their thoughts on someone in the 100s ad Who thought about the the system, but here again, why didn't they based on you know, Aristophanes that oh the sun's in the center so in other words, it's kind of Yeah, it's kind of science that you want except rather than Talking of in other words rather than kind of measuring it yourself and figuring out how things really work Okay, but this is a rich area that we can explore On its own presentation really but there's a couple things I'd like to take a look at first One is the idea But one of the things the reason I wanted to do about the Ptolemaic system because it's actually embedded in the Western calendar and several Calendars today even though we know that it the Sun isn't the solar system. We'll be come back to that in just a second So any case let's take a look at light what's called light or life expectancy if you're really young you usually don't think about this stuff But if you're not as young Time is starts to become a resource Yeah, as a matter of fact, yeah, they yeah scientific math At least the way we do it today had not yet be developed It was kind of developed though the last couple centuries particularly the 1800s and then in some in the 1700s even before So any case with the idea of life expectancy You could take almost any country and it will look something like this, of course in some countries. There's a lot more mortality early as The red line here, which is from 1950 in the United States Ludes to and then kind of if you can live past 20 You can probably live for a while and then there's a time when it there's a Greater percentage of people who die and then it kind of falls over rapidly it all depends on what country in stuff You're in and so in this particular one when somebody says life expectancy. What do they mean? This is kind of a concept of time that's bandied around that a little bit and I think it's misunderstood is that If you look at the the lines right there, if you're born in around 1950 then 80% will live past age 57 But by the time you get to 68 that that's the the mean Which means that 50% of people will have died by age 68 and that 50% of people will live beyond that But only 20% will live beyond 83 or so now if you happen to be Looking at social security, which here again, you have to be a little older to think about that Yeah, it's the mean versus the median Or the median excuse me Yeah, versus in other ways that got eye of average versus Oh Well good, excellent yeah, as a matter of fact, yeah, my dad's nearing that too and They just had you know, you have to be a little older than definitely bucking the curve In other words, if you look at the curve, they're definitely okay So but for social security, for example, people for people who live to 68 What they say in the social security? Oh, I'm sorry Boo, maybe somebody can help our visitor. Okay, so What they're saying is that the average age of death is 85 But what they really are not saying is that a lot of people will die a long time before 85 So in other words, it depends on Your perspective, okay, in other words of what time is in there Now the other thing of time and I'd like to ask you is what are the types of things that you heard about time? And then I'm gonna move to the next section here is that for example time is money. Why would people say? That when I was young it seems like okay, tell me if anybody else agrees but in my life anyway it seems like if you and a lot of time you didn't have any money and Then if you had a lot of money, you didn't have any time because you're busy making the money So you kind of have to find happy medium in between But so I so when I was in high school, I was thinking about time because I didn't have any money I was thinking about money and so I was saying well what I found what I thought about was money Well now yes, but that you know when you So any case what I was thinking about was the reason time is money is because you could actually Make everything yourself and of course people did and people still do around the world But the thing is you'd have to learn about how to make it you'd have to make it yourself So essentially money is time or time is money because you can just go out give some people some pieces of paper or Online and you get something that would also would take you a lot of time to make or a lot of time to figure out how to make So that's so time is money in that regard and then of course money is power if you want stuff In other words if you allow it to be so I was thinking think about what other types of things you think about for time But let's go on to the next section, which is essentially well That's a very good point and that's kind of in other words Do we find at times actually a matter of orderly passage of events or? Whatever in other words the idea is let's take a look at that part right now in other words a scientific or physical basis of time and One of the things that we're really good at and really is required for survival is seeing patterns In other words, we have to be able to see patterns to know where food is to know where Places that you want to avoid or what might happen when we encounter others or stuff so in other words we look for patterns even when they don't exist and So it's how we make sense of the world and predict what's coming next and stuff which helps our survival It's also how we measure time and so we kind of see patterns sometimes where they exist sometimes where they don't And so let's kind of take a look at how time How we measured time and what was behind it now you may have to zoom in on this one It's got a lot of information on here, but essentially what you've got is let's take a look at internal time In other words if we were in a cave, which was a famous experiment long ago When people they actually put people in cave and anybody happened to know it was an experiment back in the 1930s I believe where they had people in a cave for months and they might happen to know what happened then Yeah Yeah, thank you for the comments. There's always some interesting things there But basically we did have they yeah, they they lost days But not so much as you'd think because their sleep patterns changed, but it was still it was just a little bit more than 24 hours So they found out that we do have this pattern that we keep it was just not exactly 24 hours, which is kind of interesting Yeah, probably around there. I don't have the exact dates with it But you also notice that it's not just when we go to sleep. By the way, let me let me bring that up The reason we go to sleep is there's two things going on There is a chemical called a denicine Denicine kind of the moment we wake up this stuff kind of starts dripping into our system and what it does is it's the one that will eventually put us to sleep and What caffeine does is it? inhibits the sites where denicine would connect and so it is as if We're not Continuing to be come to more tired and tired. The problem is is that once the caffeine Runs out more or less in our system, which by the way takes quite a while the half life of caffeine I think it's six or eight hours. So if you have a cup late in the afternoon, you might not be able to sleep as well But what happens when the caffeine runs out is essentially you crash kind of like Sugar crash and stuff like that too and you and because denicine continues to drip now melatonin you might recognize is not The same as a denicine what melatonin is it's kind of the day and night thing and so what happens is it's Lighty it's daylight more lighty lighty lighty lighty and then all of a sudden it becomes desk And that's the cue in your body for to release melatonin, which basically says oh, it's night. We should go to sleep Yeah, yeah Well, thank you for coming and I understand very Much how first life has a draw and so thank you very much But you can see this again on the website in other words. It's being recorded. Okay You can catch the rest of it. So any case in circadian rhythms, you'll see that the rest of our body here Has various times when it's good So for you guys that want to say need stuff that Darkness is important for our health exactly Melatonin is secreted in the darkness and it's the one so it's a combination of denicine and then melatonin That will help you to get a good sleep. So if you really want a good sleep, by the way, it's go outside for the before it gets dark and You know sit there watch the sunset whatever and then it'll trigger your body into this circadian rhythm going oh, hey I'm I'm seeing it in other words sitting inside At a computer watching second life all day is Anything inside is probably not the best way to get your sister keep your system in check and have a good sleep If you do stuff that's requires fast reaction time or good coordination or muscular efficiency notice that that's in the afternoon and Well, no, no, no, I reckon everything in moderation. I recognize Second life, but in other words sitting at a computer with blue lights Is not the greatest thing to do all day in other words We are natural creatures. And so we need that sunlight and so go out and Remember that the world is out there and stuff. Okay. The other thing you'll notice is the When we go to sleep, you'll notice that there's a hypnogram down there a bottom left of the slide Which basically shows our sleep patterns and we go into these hour and a half cycles during the night At the very beginning. Yeah, I know daylight savings time Working nights Travel will all mess everything up And then you have to get back and sink again. So in any case when we go to sleep, you'll notice that There are one and a half hour cycles and the very first ones you get this really deep sleep Which essentially if you read about sleep, I'm going to do a presentation on sleep It's very fast, but whatever it kind of flushes things out And then you have and then you go into REM sleep where you're associating new ideas Let things go and stuff. It's very interesting Well, you're right and it seems to in other words I know when I was in the military that even when I was on a ship that there were certain Um Cycles of uh that I could feel in my in my body going on as far as when I was alert or not And such like that And that's a good thing to know now we talked a little while ago about climate change and we did from time to time But here's one of the things that actually plants and animals Um, they have their own cycles and one of the reasons why climate change can be a problem Is essentially in migratory births. Let's take that. Okay. They have evolved over time They don't just go like hey g it's spring break. Let's go on up or or it's summer vacation. Let's go on You know migrate. Uh, they did it for particular purposes and that was because of the availability of food temperature Habitats all that stuff.  So in other words, that's part of what happens all these related cycles in for climate change Yeah, uh marine environments as well here again, this is a is a subject which could easily occupy Uh several presentations and I'm just kind of touching on some of these maybe it'll give you an idea for a presentation, but um This disruption is happening all the time when you get these cycles out of Oh Sync with each other Okay, the other thing about measuring stuff and the reason why we have to have calendars and stuff is none Is is it's not like in the old days where they thought that the heavens were perfect and round circles and stuff. I mean the earth's orbit is a little bit elliptical We have a tilt to the earth All these sorts of things that that happen. And so If you actually try to measure all this you're going to be And measure it precisely you're going to be very frustrating because as for example The uh and and by the way it doesn't stay the same over time In other words the tilt of the earth has Over 41 000 years has gone from 22 degrees up to 24 and a half degrees. We happen to be at 23 and a half and increasing right now I think um the kind of elliptic Elliptical shape of the uh earth's uh orbit around the sun Change is also it goes from almost nothing to quite uh More than it does right now The moon is the moon by the way is receding at 38 millimeters per year away from the earth So essentially Our hours back in the dinosaur days or a little bit beyond that it was about 23 and a half or 23 hours in day Yeah, there you go. Exactly. What dye said you can you can swip swatch that Flip that around and see you know how many hours in a day By taking that equation just making you know and it's well proved. Absolutely. So there's almost nothing that is and then our uh So everything so another word is actually basing time on objects out there in the solar system is kind of Not going to give you some very good answers when you're talking about parts of a second Let's take a look at the the mars. What about people living on mars? Uh, what if we had What if we were on mars instead of earth? Well, it's by coincidence that there's the earth's Or excuse me marz's Goes around and in just a little bit longer than the same time as the than the uh earth does in other words In 24 and a half earth hours called a soul if anyone watched the movie the marsham You'll remember the word soul on there. That's the mars day But would we even have months because the month is essentially designed on the moons orbit in the case of Mars you've got bubbles and demos which are One of them goes around three times a day And loses six feet per century by the way in distance It's getting closer and closer to Mars and it's going to impact in about 59 years. So if you're around, uh, put that on your calendar Or it could break up into a ring system and uh, so it depends on where you live as to What you could use For timing system, but now by the way, I'm going to show you A bit that actually there's calendar systems that you have used jupiter and venus as well Okay Well, yeah scissor g but the head of you is something So what they really probably yeah, I know and it had to do with earth day So somebody made it up long goes and you know, some of these are confusing. Okay, so let's take a look now as to in other words since some of these are not very steady And they knew that long ago. Let's take a look at some calendar systems Because essentially colors of your systems are an abstraction of time. In other words, they're not they're they're kind of loosely based on time But they're an abstract and so let's take a look in particular. There's three calendar systems I want to take a look at there's lots of them by the way. Uh, there's about 40 of them at least But let's take a look at the one that's used in the western world and particularly in Economics and stuff that is the gregorian or julian calendar and chinese calendar mind Okay, so here are the calendar systems in the world. There's quite a few of them. There's about 40 of them There's about six in common use and you can see You can see that there are Basically secular calendars in other words ones used in civil societies and then ones used in religion At religious societies. There's indigenous calendars also And so you've got and then also ones like for example the and please Somebody correct me if I because I probably mispronounce the but the he's re or the the islamic calendar That's based of course Since the time of the prophet muhammad You've got one in india Which basically it's the year 1942 thailand Very old year and then in japan and also in korea Based on and people used to do it in other places is based on the year Of the emperor or the rain the person that's raining That sort of thing. So for example, there was a new emperor in japan And so it's kind of the first year started last august I believe and so it's the first year of the calendar there now By the way, for you guys old enough to remember y2k anybody remember y2k y2k Okay Yep, okay. So one of the reasons japan did not have as much problems Why not today? As uh, hey, there's quite a few people anybody can't have many people we got today. That's kind of a nice number there. Um, in case of reason japan didn't have as many problems as in other people that have been gone gone by the gurgorian calendar where the year was 2000 was a lot of the Systems were based on the japanese calendar. So it wasn't the year 2000 only the year 2000 for nations whose computers and technology was based On the gurgorian calendar. So what do we mean by the gurgorian calendar and some of the other ways we face? Well, let's first take a look at kind of the Precision of time Uh, somebody mentioned back earlier about longitude and about being able to time it Well long ago, of course, you know, they have sundials and sundials are really great for local time But if you were to actually measure them over a year Their accuracy is only about is is only as accurate as because we've got these elliptical orbits and stuff So they're not terribly Accurate over a long time. So then you had okay, here's another name. I'm not quite sure how it's pronounced. Maybe Uh, somebody can hoigen clock there was Uh, mechanical clock and then harrison's marine chronometer. That's the one that they finally he got a big prize Um, which was worth about 10 million us dollars today Uh that you could actually be on a rolling ship that would account for motion, etc And it was one where you could um, yeah, exactly Um, one fifth second per day. That was pretty nice Now we actually measured the second by the cycles or the frequency and radiation emitted by One electron falling to a lower orbit in a season 133 atom, which is a non radioactive version of Thesium that's our current measurement of what a second is And then if you wanted to have clocks, which we have and wanted to get them more accurate you've got for example Atomic clock, which is in 1967 was the first one. It was accurate to three 30 billions of a second But in this last year They developed a quantum clock that was a good to one second every 33 billion years That's pretty darn accurate and the actual year if you look at that equation on the bottom If you look at it what it basically is saying As we talked about it is that uh, it changes based on um Um, and that's why we have like leap seconds and stuff Yeah, uh, and you're right and we could talk about the Tropical year versus sidereal year versus the So, yeah, uh, and it all depends on whether you're referencing the Um stars in the background or you're referencing where it actually returns In orbits and all that good stuff like that. So yeah, that gets very complicated too now Here's an interesting thing for you guys that may not know Is how come we call the days of the week the way we do And so this actually dates back to the tall nake system and you'll find this on several different calendars around the world and it was because Yeah, equinox versus business fix started exactly. Okay, so uh, but then you'd know, okay so in any case back in the old days if you actually look at the uh way we thought, um The planets were in relationship to the sun and the earth It was actually we thought uh, that there's the earth and then the moon's closer and then mercury venus the sun mars Jupiter and Saturn And they also thought that hey, these are heavenly bodies and they're made by the gods or god and so Uh, they rule things on earth This is still a part of astrology astrology, not astronomy, but astrology around the world today And so if you actually look at the first hour and you say, okay The first hour is ruled by set the second one by Jupiter third by mars sun venus mercury moon And if you follow that, I've got it there through the 24 hours then this in the next day the, um It's the sun that rules the first hour and then the second third day it's the moon and then there's mars mercury jupyter venus and so Uh, if you look at a if you look at what the days of the week are in a latin based language Like spanish or italian or french or whatever you'll see that it's based on mars and mercury and Jupiter and venus it's much more obvious, but in english it's tuesday wednesday Thursday and friday so what's actually happening is Since english is based on germanic language is that they substituted the Germanic or norse gods, yeah so you've Got two god of war as instead of mars and odin or wolden Instead of mercury and for for thursday thursday and then fria Uh for friday Yes So the so the idea in any case is that this is marvelous conglomeration of things that are from a couple thousand years ago before Renaissance time period of how we thought this all this looked About gods and goddesses. Yes. So, yeah, is is woldens or wolden state But it's the it's the idea of wolden or odin Which by the way, this is even earlier because they thought thor was basically more important than odin at that time But whatever that's everything. So in other words, this is a combination of astronomy astrology gods and goddesses roman system germanic system modern day And it's really quite something and by the way if you want a copy of these i'll have a copy of some of these presentations and stuff On this island. Well both scientific but also Methodological and and all that stuff. It's it's culture. It's human culture just rather fascinating Okay, so now let's take a look at some of the differences in the way they do the Days of the week around the world Here again a lot of stuff crammed in that one slide. You might want to take a look at it, but there it is by the way Miss are definitely a treasure of knowledge. In fact, actually well on on barrigan. Yeah, it's it's um Miss are definitely a treasure of knowledge. Let me take just one here again. I've got about eight minutes here, but in the northwest california, there is a legend Of two gods, which were basically the volcanoes Having a battle and one of them one and the other kind of blew its top Okay, well if they actually looked back at the time period what they found was there were two it was the volcano that became crater lake and Mount Shasta that they found about 12 000 years ago that they erupted and one of them became Crater lake and so essentially you're talking about myths that had a Definite grain of truth because they had been handed down over centuries Uh as gods and you know gods fighting but essentially it was two volcanoes and they're able to trace it geologically to confirm that I thought you know those sorts of things are very A fascinating or the idea of say Noah's Ark And the there's a there's a thought that uh it could be the black sea Where it had water from the Mediterranean basically going into the black sea in other words a lot of these very old types of actual real Events that became mytho mytholite the mythologian lines Um became part of mythology. Okay, so any case uh internationally the first day of the week is monday I mean it's iso 86 oh one But if you're nipple we'll we'll yeah that okay, so in some places in the world sunday is the first day of the week In the middle east it's often saturday Please correct me if i'm wrong. I mean if you know if i'm not correct I research this stuff I'm certainly no expert on in on parts of it and then on friday in the mall dyes For some reason that's the first day of the week and then there's different week links In the soviet union, uh, it was a five-day work week in the 1930s. Uh the roman, uh calendar had an eight-day week and the french revolution they tried a ten-day week So, you know how long the week is it varies and then um you've got Some cultures, uh instead of using kind of mythological names, uh, or gods and goddesses They mark the days of the week with numbers And then in east asia you have some of the uh elements in other words sun moon fire water wood Metal gold earth those are the actual names of the days of the week So it's very fascinating when you look at that and then when does the day of the week or when does the day of the year start? Well in the julian gregorian calendar, it's the first of january, but in europe in the middle ages it was basically around easter time or the the uh vernal equinox or in some cases in september and of course it depends on what In what religion and what calendar do you use it can be Any number of times around the year because in their lunar calendars rather than solar or solar lunar calendars So it's very fascinating. In other words, I think one thing to take into consideration is first of all we have a lot in common, but There's nothing really absolute and the more you learn about these things the more you learn about the Really fascinating differences Uh, and how we end up with what we have today Um So one of the one of the more fascinating things if you use the gregorian calendar in other words the one that says this is the air 2020 and it's february 8th or the 8th of february is if you look at how that here again This is one where you need a mic microphone A magnifying glass to see the slide you might have to zoom in But these will be made available. I'll have them available And so in any case if you look back at that calendar There were one time first of all What was the original basis of calendars and in other words if you look back at the calendar is only 10 months Was it okay? Well, that's good to know. Okay, but the um There was originally they they Could care less about winter because you couldn't grow in other words their agricultural calendars or religious calendars So winter so for example in the old days there was only 10 months in the calendar and They just kind of ignored winter because you couldn't grow anything during winter and that's where why you have like september October december december because if you actually look at the prefixes you've got seven eight nine ten And so they added a couple of months, which was january and february, but back then they only had 29 each each uh They only had 29 or 31 days each um Mars on I mean, uh, excuse me march only had 23 days Whatever that was long long long ago before julia Caesar and then julia Caesar. Yeah, exactly Excuse me, and then of course went went to harvest and stuff later on And then when to plant certain things and stuff and then of course when to celebrate and so it became Partly agriculture partly religious partly market partly cultural all those good things and so in the julian calendar you had basically uh, julia Caesar asked his astronomers to Make it a little bit better A calendar and so they had uh Days like we have today except they added a leap year the problem with with only adding a leap year was by 1500 years later they were off by 10 days and so Uh pub gregory the 12th at that time goes Okay for anyone listening and and who cares that that happened to be listening to the pope is that um Yesterday was october 4th and tomorrow's october 15th So you're not going to find anyone Say italy or stuff like that ever born between october 4th and october 15th because it didn't exist And then later on because england Didn't go with that calendar in the english system. They didn't change Yeah gregorian exactly they didn't change until 1752 which essentially by them it was off by 12 days So they basically said okay, it's september 2nd and then tomorrow's september 14th So you're not going to find anybody in england for example That was born between september 12th and or 2nd and 14 because it didn't exist Uh interesting stuff like that now. Let's take a look at another I may go over by a couple minutes if you need to leave I mean oh by the way for anyone that's actually interested and I won't go through all the Mashinations of this but this is how to calculate easter Um And what easter in other words it's actually based on as it says is what there's not A full moon. It's what it's based on a cycles from even earlier than that But basically it's the full moon honor after the vernal equinox etc etc etc And so you can Yeah, uh, the this equation was made a little while ago, but which is fine I had to work it out for this year which is April 12th And so we're just fine and then take a look at this one What's very fascinating is this is the we just have the year the raptor asian new year That one is a 60 year cycle Which dates back a long time period and basically actually the one of the 12 year cycles is based on jupiter's orbit um And so you also you also have yin and yin So for example the 10 names of the week had to do with growing wood and cut wood in other words yang and yin or Uh fire and earth and metal and water And then you had the 12 earthly branches which were like the zodiac And they were yin and yang symbols like the rats yang and ox is yin and tigers yang and rabbits yin And so it's very fascinating. I've got a um If you look at it, that's kind of a cyclical uh calendar And so let me go I'm almost done here and then the last one here that I wanted to take a look at was the mayan calendar Now what's fascinating again is the common?  It's just it's based on this one's based on venus instead of jupiter And so you've got a 52 year cycle where Venus which is the patron of war Uh, that's uh, yes, because the mayan and the aztec essentially the aztecs adopted a lot of the mayan Religion and calendars and stuff if you read about where the aztecs came from they came from up north near the border from uh, they believed they came from a cave up north and then the mayan system had been around for a very long time and then there was one That was in between That had been but whatever the the Culture in that area is very fascinating if you study some of that and what who adopted what so the mayan calendar was also the aztec calendar Uh, time is a rolling wheel Well, if you look at this you'll see that this is also a rolling wheel In other words, this is the chinese calendar and you'll see that it's the same kind of idea um So you got the mayan calendar. By the way I have Overlapped two things there one that shows the days Uh, in other words the two cycles the 260 day cycle and 365 day cycle and then also fruit flies I'll take your word for it Okay, but the actual calendar you might recognize the one in the center. That's about 13 feet in diameter It's a big one. I saw it in the archaeological museum of the city And so I kind of overlapped two things out of the um, the web there to show you the whole thing but the idea there was there there was um They actually worked on a basic base 20 numbering system and so you had both a civic cycle and a sacred cycle And it's kind of very complicated. However comma and I'll leave you with this idea is that their calendar Was twice as accurate as our current Gregorian calendar. It was accurate to about 13 seconds per year compared to 27 seconds per year for the Gregorian calendar. So here again This was just kind of an introduction to some of the things having to do with time the philosophy We measure the scientific basis of it and each one of these could be Yes, uh, each one of these could be Tolkien Okay, middleer. Okay. So any case Each one of these could be a lecture and it's I mean a presentation in its own Thank you very much for being an animated audience. Thank you for coming today I will make a lot of these available so you can touch and get copies of them before the virtual world's base What is it? Best practices of education all that good stuff like that And that's my presentation today. Thank you very much for coming Appreciate it any Comments remarks. Yeah, it's a fun talk I like to do fun talks. I like to do ones where you can kind of think about stuff and then go back and do your own research and as shantel uh mentioned we've got Darwin day coming up on the 12th and we've got another presentation next week. It's always fun and exciting here A science circle There you go. Yay Okay, uh, some really good ones if you haven't seen uh deli as Presentation on fire and rain and wildfire and all that stuff that should be really interesting And then the darwin day one if you look at online about what that's about Those are very fascinating ones. So Welcome everybody to join us this next week. Hey, thank you all for coming


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