Welcome to the Wuhan gift that keeps on giving. This manufactured virus, most assuredly a product of gain-of-function research, is here with us forever. Regular vaccinations will help lessen the severity, but we'll be dealing with some variant ad infinitum until the end of time. After all the root i...

Here's to celebrating a New Year where: I can get back on that book I promised the late Vicki (chef) that I would finish. ... My knee will shut up and cooperate. ... Glenn will get over his Climate Change Religion. <Tweak!!> ... The world won't end in spite of (because of??) regime change in the U.S...

Bill: "This is an interesting thought but a loaded question. It presumes something that isn't [yet] commonly accepted." It's actually not a loaded question. It's just a question. Well you used the name of an era that isn't yet a consensus. And it isn't yet a consensus because we really do...

and that red herring WSJ blog entry you posted that does not add anything to a discussion of the actual science behind climate change. Oh my; the professor doth condescend! :lol: If Glenn publishes a lot, he should know several things. 1) Negative results (e.g. that hockey stick thingie doesn't wor...

What are your collective thoughts on the idea of an Anthropocene Era? Are we caretakers or impotent victims of the changes around us? Are we the gardeners or the weeds? This is an interesting thought but a loaded question. It presumes something that isn't [yet] commonly accepted. The Anthropocene i...

Here's my second installment. Any time someone tells you that something is "settled science", you know that they're full of it. "Settled science" is an oxymoron. Science is largely a process by which we investigate the universe around us. Science is *not* dogma. Mixing science an...

First... CLIMATE CHANGES!!! In my office here behind me is some petrified whale bone. It's anywhere from 20 to 40 million years old. Do you know where I got it? On a fossil-hunting expedition along the James River in-between Williamsburg and Newport News. Every time there's a storm, the rain washes ...

Greetings, Hoshin!

There are many moving parts to this discussion. I will spend a little time on each with a post dedicated just to it.

The isolated vertebrate brainstem can produce not only the normal breathing rhythm, but also sighs and gasps. All three patterns may involve the same neural circuit. Although breathing seems simple and effortless, until recently little was known about the neural circuitry underlying this essential ...

WSJ wrote:On each side of the brain stem, a florescent-green marker illuminates the network of 200 neurons that control the sighing reflex. PHOTO: KRASNOW LAB/STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Back when there was a lot more activity on these forums and the greater Uechi Ryu community was in search of its identity, we were having what I will refer to as "Breathing Wars". These fights were in the same league as the "Chi Wars", which thankfully science has pretty much put...

Sorry to hear about Doug Marshall. If it's the person I'm thinking of, he was a very nice man. "Fajing" is something I've slowly come to appreciate as I've spent so many years practicing/teaching martial arts while also having a career in biomedical research. Over time many of these "...

Greetings, Bruce! Yes... I remember the Wu style Tai Chi class. It was an unusual style, and had a very long form. Rad and I both also did Yang style, which we learned in the Northern VA area from Robert Smith. The UVa club no longer exists and I never taught at U of R. *I* do however have a club in...

A great intellectual, martial artist, writer, and friend passed away peacefully yesterday, on Christmas Eve. David Finkelstein did so shortly after the passing of his longtime companion Evelyn. If you believe in heaven, they're now together forever. My first Uechi Ryu instructor was the late Rad Smi...

If you cannot see your art within this man's art, then you need to keep looking.

..... A glimpse of Joint locks , Breaks and Manipulations

Thanks to Dr. King - a Goju/judo/aikido/special forces guy - for seeking me out (to learn Uechi) and subsequently opening my eyes.

- Bill