h-hunts are equally evil and brainless. The RUSSIAN_MEDDLING crap is running with the Deepstate and media tailwind, while the BENGHAZI crap was running against the media wind, so got no media coverage.
I'm not R, and I'm CERTAINLY not a hypocrite on this particular issue. Other issues, yes.
I've been HAMMERING on the BENGHAZI crap for exactly five years, starting here. If you type Benghazi in the little search box above the blog, you'll see the sequence. The search misses a few items where I used the GIF without putting the word in text. Near as I can tell from a more detailed archive search, I've hit the BENGHAZI nonsense 24 times in 5 years.
Earliest version of the GIF:
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Saturday, May 05, 2018
This week I'm working on a courseware chapter about the cerebellum. Making animations forces me to (partly!) learn what's going on. In the brainstem and cortex, we have a fairly good sense of how things work, partly because the cortex is divided into visible sections with specific functions. The cerebellum is more mysterious, partly because it's not neatly modular and partly because its function seems to depend on waves and resonance.
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The cortex has folds on its surface that correspond closely to areas of function. You can see the sensory strip, the motor strip, the speech reception area, and so on, as hills or bumps.
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The cerebellum just has uniform unmarked folds, called folia or pages. One folium is lined in green.
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Here's a super-simplified piece of one folium:
The main players are the granule cells (blue) and the Purkinje cells (purple).
Granule cells (blue) are small, simple and NUMEROUS, making up 80% of ALL the neurons in the WHOLE brain. They are scattered densely through the interior of the cerebellum. Each granule cell picks up signals from the input mossy fibers (green). Most of the input is from the body via the spine; some is from eyes, ears, balance mechanisms, and cortex. The output of each granule cell splits into a T-shaped parallel fiber, which runs along the length of the folium. These parallel fibers are densely packed along the surface of the cerebellum.
Purkinje cells (purple) are the receivers. They're BIG and relatively sparse, and gridded in a tight layer underneath the parallel fibers. They pick up signals from the parallel fibers, do something with the signals, and send the processed or sorted signals back down to the spine to drive muscles.
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Given that the granules are known to be resonant senders of modulated pulses, this image is irresistible:
Here the resonant dipole sending antenna (parallel fibers) is producing a tuned signal, and Polistra (Purkinje) is tuning her receiver to pick up this particular sender. In the real world, as in the real cerebellum, there are many sending antennas and many receivers, each seeking out its desired signal.
Pulling the metaphor to the breaking point: Since the transmitting parallel fibers are along the surface of the cerebellum, are they also transmitting externally to other brains? And past the breaking point, power of prayer? These neurons do a whole lot of monostable and astable multivibrator activity. When internal sync is gone, can external input resync?
The researcher behind the study, Jack Grieve at the University of Birmingham, analysed more than 980 million Tweets in total – consisting of 8.9 billion words – posted between October 2013 and November 2014, and spanning 3,075 of the 3,108 US counties.
From this huge dataset, Grieve first identified any terms that were rare at the beginning of the study (occurring less than once per billion words in the last quarter of 2013) but which had then steadily risen in popularity over the course of the following year.
Once again, the greatest creativity appeared to arise in the regions with the largest African American populations.
The author gets EVERYTHING right, unlike most writers or commenters on word formation.
New words and syntax always come from the proles. In England it's the Cockneys, not the nobles. In America it's the blacks, not the Ivy League academics.
Why