DrmDoc

Didn't Chauvin, the offending officer, provide a very clear and concise statement by holding his knee to the neck of a handcuffed and deceased black man for nearly 3 minutes? What more can he possibly say to clarify or justify something so abhorrent.

I completely agree and if my comments were construed otherwise, you're mistaken. My intend was to convey an opinion that one was likely the progenitor of the other rather than both being somehow synonymous. I've imagined that before early humanity diverged into separate races, we were separate families that became separate tribes that would one day savagely compete for the same resources. I believe racism owes its ancient origins to that savage competition among early humans for survival between families and tribes. It was may way of conveying to Moreno our equal potentials.

Racism likely owes it origins to tribalism emerging from the dawn of the human animal 200,000 years ago in Africa. All of humanity share an equal potential for varying degrees of suspicion and savage hostility towards divergent groups as we vie for the same, singular, and often limited resources. What we witness through Chauvin's actions was an expression of savage indifference towards a fellow human being with whom he saw or felt no kinship and, therefore, no empathy. Although we are all predisposed to behaviors emerging from our savage origins, I believe we equally share a potential to change that predisposition and become something more than the animal we were thousands of years ago.

Although the proof you seek isn't as overt as you perceive, Chauvin was a 19 year police veteran with numerous (18) citizen complaints in a predominantly minority district. This service record suggests that Chauvin was as deaf to the complaints of the minority citizens he was supposed to serve and protect as he was to the pleas of the black man he asphyxiated. Minus his uniform, badge and position on that fateful day, Chauvin was just another white man with an unyielding knee on the neck of a black man. Yes, it was racist!

This is not to suggest that the death of an Asian or Caucasian from police abuse isn't equally egregious, it's just that the distinction of George Floyd's horrifying murder comes after several recent murders and over a century of similar well publicized murders among America's black citizens at the hands of police or similar authorities whose sworn job is to protect and serve those very same citizen. Chauvin's demeanor and expression while compressing Mr. Floyd's neck amid his desperate pleas to breath suggest that Chauvin was well aware of what he was doing. What we saw in that horrible moment in America's recent history was a very public lynching albeit by knee rather than rope.

Science can't prove anything; however, with clearly defined and approved parameters and references in science, I think it can provide a methodology whereby evidence can be investigated or found for the existence of "God or afterlife". Wouldn't a more interesting question be what experiment would we personally designed to provide definitive evidence in science for the existence of god(s)? Then we might at least be aware at which point in our own experience we would begin to suspect or accept the existence of some omnipotent intelligence.

Today I learned about the C.Elegans and how researchers have digitized and inserted its brain into robots. Apparently scientists have mapped the C.Elegans entire connectome, which is the only one they've managed to map completely.

As I understand, microwave ovens employs frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. My presumption have been that to cook food this has primarily involved frequencies of sound. For a novice, such as myself, could you briefly explain how the speed of light and electromagnetic radiation are linked?

Today I learned about Cotard's Syndrome, which is a rare psychosis involving somatic delusions of missing body parts and even a belief that one has died when one clearly remains alive and in good physical health.

Today I learned that those white spots that sometimes appear under our fingernails are call Leukonychia and that certain types may confer serious health conditions from malaria and leprosy to Darier's disease, liver failure, and kidney failure. There are four primary types: Punctata, stratia, longitudanal and totalis.

Today I learned about supernumerary nipples and why some people have them. According to the Wiki and Seeker references, these are the extra breast nipples that form along our embryotic milk lines but regress before birth; however, some do not and can become fully formed nipples and breasts.

Today I learn about "the way to spiritual power through discipline" as practiced by Shugendō monks beginning in the 7th century until outlawed by the Japanese government. Essentially, the practice involved a method of extremely slow suicide called self-mummification, which lasted about 9 years if successful. Ritualized suicide, ultimately religious escapism.

Today I learned more than I though I knew about the smallest levels of reality. I learned that neutrinos are measure in yoctometers (10−24 yotos).

Today I learned that the average life expectancy for humans plateaus at 114.1 years for male and 115.7 years for females. According to a Tilburg and Erasmus University study published in Nature.

Today I learned why getting kicked in the groin hurt so much. The culprit is referred pain, which is our brain's generalized signaling of injury rather than injury of the specific organ involved.

Thankfully, neither do I. Today I learned that American whiskey brand Jack Daniel's owes its founding to Nathan Green, a slave who taught a teenaged Daniel how to distill. According the New York Times, sales of JD brands generate about $3 billion in annual revenue.

For those of you who have interest, here's a SciShow Psych link where you may learn about the 5 distinctive brainwave patterns our brain produces. They are delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma. The video also discusses a study suggesting how gamma wave exposure might influence our brain biology. According to the host, researchers found that mice-with genetically modified light-sensitive neurons--produced "half as many plaques in their visual cortex compared to controls." The implications of this finding in the treatment of Alzheimer could be enormous. Enjoy!

Today I learned about Arthur C. Clarke's The Nine Billion Names of God.

Today I learned about the French Pompeii. According to CNN: The site was apparently covered in ash after a great fire destroyed the town.

Today I learned about Morgan's Wonderland. It's a $32 million San Antonio, TX, theme and water park for special needs children inspired by Morgan and built by her father.

Today I learned that fetal gene expression in the spinal cord, rather than a functional motor cortex, may be the genesis of whether we are right or left-handed. I emphasized may because this study is base on a limited sampling ("five human fetuses).

Today I learned how caffeine keeps us awake. Caffeine is an adenosine antagonist, which is one of the substances produced by the brain's metabolic processes that induce drowsiness. Caffeine works by blocking adenosine receptors, which can cause the emergence of new receptors inducing higher caffeine consumption to block the effects of adenosine. Also, today I learned that an analysis of meta-data shows that human sperm count has been declining since 1973. It's down 59% and is showing no signs of stopping. For some reason, I don't think that decline will have that much of an affect on our population.

Today I learned about the Hyrax. Although you can't tell from the picture, this rodent-like creature is actually more closely related to elephants!

Indeed, the SciShow Psych's host for the link above cautioned that small similarities and shared interests rather than overwhelming genetic similarities could be a fact and referenced limited recent studies (2013 and 2014) suggesting as much.

Today I learned why we are attracted to people who look like us. It seems the attraction could be genetically based because people who share similar genetic traits tend to have more stabile relationships.