[Kzyxtalk] Rendezvous with entropy.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Rendezvous with entropy.

Here's the recording of last night's (Friday 2024-04-19) 7.5-hour Memo 
of the Air: Good Night Radio show on 107.7fm KNYO-LP Fort Bragg (CA) and 
KNYO.org (and, for the first hour, also 89.3fm KAKX Mendocino):
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0589

Coming shows can feature your story or dream or poem or kvetch or 
whatever. Just email it to me. Or include it in a reply to this post. Or 
send me a link to your writing project and I'll take it from there and 
read it on the air.

Besides all that, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a 
fresh batch of dozens of links to not-necessarily-radio-useful but 
worthwhile items I set aside for you while gathering the show together, 
such as:

Onboard the Nautilus things were not as they seemed. “I knew Nemo. Nemo 
was my friend. You’re no Captain Nemo.”
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-1931-voyage-of-the-submarine-nautilus

You can read the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary 
Gentlemen online free, including some of Nemo’s history, here (scroll 
down to Issues). Register, to use the bookmark feature.
https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-League-of-Extraordinary-Gentlemen-1999

I read about how the dairy industry wants everyone to shut up about cows 
getting bird flu now, because the bad publicity and measures to mitigate 
it before it becomes the next pandemic will cost them so much money. 
Pigs too are getting it. And, naturally, chickens get it because they're 
birds. Before, we didn’t have to worry about people getting it, because 
it didn’t affect mammals, but that was then. This reminded me that a 
long time ago I saw something about cows eating chickens. Here’s an 
example of that from 13 years ago, though it’s an odd East Indian 
deer-like sort of cow. And I don’t think it meant to eat the chicken. 
The chicken was so small it might have seemed like a tuft of grass 
wiggling in the breeze. Meanwhile, from an article about the composition 
of livestock feed: “In farming communities, a variety of protein sources 
were readily available, from soybeans or peanuts or cottonseed. Or from 
chicken feces, poultry feathers, cow blood or other parts of pigs, 
horses, fish, cattle and just about any animal part unfit for human 
consumption.” I forget about this kind of thing until I get a bag of 
frozen mystery-meatballs that taste bad enough for even me to notice. 
Even so, they cost more than the consistently good kind (Johnsonville) 
used to cost just a year or two ago. Do they cost more because they 
aren't allowed to feed cattle pulverized chickens and feathers and other 
factory-farm waste anymore? Is that it? And I don't see Johnsonville 
meatballs anywhere I go for groceries anymore. They always tasted good, 
and they were red all the way through, like real meat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXhSyzWxmjc

A Thousand Suns. A new science-fiction series in short bursts.
https://theawesomer.com/a-thousand-suns/737104/

And the shapes of different atoms as revealed in the clairvoyant visions 
of Annie Besant, P.T.S. and Charles W. Leadbeater in 1908. “Based on a 
Yoga principle that one can reduce one’s self-conception to minute 
proportions so that very small objects appear large. The observer then 
simply draws what he sees and his commentary may be taken down by a 
stenographer.” “The atoms were duly grouped according to overall shapes: 
spikes, dumbbell, tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, crossed bases, and 
star. Thus, boron, nitrogen, and vanadium, for example – elements with 
little in common chemically – all “have six funnels opening on the six 
faces of a cube.” Six! That’s a lot of funnels.
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/occult-chemistry/

Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com