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Morning Origami

Aug 19, 2024 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

With DJ AskTheQuestion

Reaction's Over Super Fast! This Program Will Be a Blast

Morning Origami
7:00 AM
Gen Ken Montgomery - Shortwave Band
Gen Ken Montgomery Shortwave Band Gen Ken Montgomery
Pondfloorsample XI Recordings 1982
7:07 AM
Ursula Mamlok - Stray Birds
Ursula Mamlok Stray Birds
Chamber Works of Ursula Mamlok CRI 2002
7:21 AM
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Faux départ
Maher Shalal Hash Baz Faux départ Maher Shalal Hash Baz
Faux départ Yik Yak 2004
7:24 AM
Set Break: How does the brain decide which neurons store memories?

Only a sparse collection of neurons are "recruited" into a pattern for a particular memory: they call this path an "engram"

Swiss scientists found ways to enhance epigenetic chromatin plasticity such that particular neurons were chosen to store a fearful memory

Then mice could preserve memories for much longer -- or without this plasticity, they forgot much more quickly

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Article: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg998...

Overview: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq849...

7:37 AM
Rafael Manriquez and Friends - Canto por Siempre
Rafael Manriquez and Friends Canto por Siempre
Que Vive el Canto! Songs of Chile Smithsonian Folkways 2008
7:40 AM
Anya Marina - Drop Dead Blues
Anya Marina Drop Dead Blues
Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II Chop Shop/Atlantic 2009
7:43 AM
Pamela Martinez - Tangled Thread Drama
Pamela Martinez Tangled Thread Drama Pamela Martinez
Volume 1 Pamela Martinez 2003
7:48 AM
Set Break: Fitting emission from a "hot Jupiter" exoplanet to figure out where it is hottest!!

Hot Jupiter exoplanets are way too small to see! But we can learn about them by fitting the infrared emission (measured with JWST) they emit to detailed models

By looking at how WASP-43b changed its brightness over its orbit, scientists discovered that the brightest region was not at the equator, but at the part directly facing its sun

They even deduced that clouds exist preferentially on the night-side, not on the day-side!

Figure 2.

Figure 3.

Article: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-82...


8:02 AM
The Martha's Vineyard Ferries - One White Swan
The Martha's Vineyard Ferries One White Swan The Martha's Vineyard Ferries
Mass. Grave Africantape 2013
8:08 AM
Matmos - Collapse of the Fourth Kingdom
Matmos Collapse of the Fourth Kingdom
Plastic Anniversary Thrill Jockey Records 2018
8:13 AM
Janelle Monáe - BabopbyeYa
Janelle Monáe BabopbyeYa Janelle Monáe
The ArchAndroid Bad Boy/Wondaland 2010
8:21 AM
Set Break: Why should we restrict immigration?

Widespread reporting on the Darien Gap has shown the deadly, chaotic mess that immigration into the US has become, due to a collection of "deterrent" policies

photo of crowded line of people wearing backpacks, several carrying a child on their shoulders, one woman with hand to forehead

It is one question whether we can deter immigrants. The other question is should we?

An expansive article by Bryan Caplan argues that there is no good reason to

Bryan Caplan, Why Should We Restrict Immigration, 32 CATO J. 5 (2012).

https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journa...

8:39 AM
Omar Korshid - Laylet Hob
Omar Korshid Laylet Hob
Giant + Guitar WeWantSounds 1974
Reissued 2021
8:42 AM
M.I.A. - Jimmy
M.I.A. Jimmy
Kala XL Recordings 2007
8:47 AM
EMILIO APARICIO MOOG - La Ceremonia
EMILIO APARICIO MOOG La Ceremonia
Expansión Galáctica (Música Electrónica) Mental Experience, Guatemala 2017
8:53 AM
Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:59 AM
Moondog - From One to Nine
Moondog From One to Nine
The Viking of Sixth Avenue Honest Jons 2006
9:05 AM
Mika Miko - Turkey Barnyard Mix
Mika Miko Turkey Barnyard Mix
We Be Xuxa Post Present Medium 2009
9:07 AM
Ginger Brooks Takahashi & Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn - While We Have the Sun
Ginger Brooks Takahashi & Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn While We Have the Sun
Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project K 2003
9:11 AM
Set Break: Ultrafast laser science for watching chemical reactions
9:22 AM
Ibibio Sound Machine - Got to Be Who U Are
Ibibio Sound Machine Got to Be Who U Are Ibibio Sound Machine N
Pull the Rope Merge Records 2024
9:25 AM
Mariah - Shinzo No Tobira (My Life Is Big)
Mariah Shinzo No Tobira (My Life Is Big)
Utakata No Hibi Palto Flats 2015
Orig. 1983
9:32 AM
Set Break: Controversial plant segment: Mugwort, maker of dreams creator of scents, overwhelmer of disturbed land

Mugwort, a controversially medicinal plant , maybe affecting your dreams if you eat it? DO NOT EAT THINGS BECAUSE THE RADIO MENTIONED IT

Mugwort, perturber of ecosystems

Mugwort, general nuisance

Mugwort growing in a lawn


9:41 AM
James Corrigan's Take Time - Deny
James Corrigan's Take Time Deny N
The Lord Don't Run Cimiotti 2024
9:45 AM
Michna - Believe in It Pt. II
Michna Believe in It Pt. II
Thousand Thursday Ghostly International 2015
9:50 AM
Barbara Manning - Everything Happens by Itself
Barbara Manning Everything Happens by Itself
In New Zealand Pehr 2016
9:53 AM
Set Break: Food scarcity in utero can still have lifelong effects

A severe, time-limited famine in 1930s Ukraine could be mapped to increasing prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the 2000s

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn461...

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9:59 AM
Moiré - Casual
Moiré Casual Moiré
No Future Ghostly International 2017
Chat is archived.
Dale Hazelton 7:03:24 AM
good morning. CQ! CQ!
DJ AskTheQuestion 7:09:18 AM
Cheers Dale ! good morning all
DJ AskTheQuestion 7:09:47 AM
My only experience with ham radio was helping my friend slingshot an antenna over tall trees on the top of a mountain in San Francisco
DJ AskTheQuestion 7:10:31 AM
Had to be San Bruno Mountain
Amy Lee 7:39:28 AM
Good morning!
DJ AskTheQuestion 7:39:47 AM
Good morning Amy! Happy start to the week!
Bryon Mollica 7:52:39 AM
Pamela Martinez, thx for introduction
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 8:03:35 AM
Re: hot Jupiter, perhaps weather patterns / convection currents, like the giant red spot redistributing temperatures. Just speculation
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:05:01 AM
I liked that one too Bryon! She has a long history since 2003: https://www.teletextile.org/our-story
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:05:49 AM
@DTO yes, the authors consider that: Finally, high spatial resolution dynamical simulations have produced latitudinal offsets through intense storms (Cho et al. 2021). However, these simulations also produce quasiperiodic variability in their total planetary emission that has yet to be measured in hot Jupiter atmospheres (e.g., Kilpatrick et al. 2020; Murphy et al. 2023). Both eclipses in our observation show similar morphology (Figure 4), suggesting that the planet is not variable at a detectab
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:06:06 AM
detectable level over the duration of one orbit, and MIRI/LRS observations at a different epoch agree. If the latitudinal offset is due to variability, this variability is below current detection limits. Additional observations could place further constraints on the potential for variability.
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 8:08:37 AM
Thanks for the clarification
Guelo <3 8:13:16 AM
Good morning :)
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:13:56 AM
good morning Guelo! Good morning all, even the silent ones, even the driving ones that will never see this :)
Guelo <3 8:14:28 AM
One would hope
alastair 8:36:22 AM
Dear Ask The Question: why are you giving airspace to these extremely wicked ideas?
alastair 8:38:24 AM
I really don't think the Cato Institute is a good source for 'objective' research.
𓀠 ǝɹnɔsqꓳ ǝɥꓕ ǝʌɐꓷ 𓀡 8:39:25 AM
Did the authors consider the capacity of the USA to absorb potentially a billion immigrants?
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:40:17 AM
I knew this could be controversial! Yes the Cato Institute can be biased, but any research on issues like this can come off this way. There is a lot of scholarly work in this area
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:41:24 AM
Say what you will about it but here is at least one passage about a massive influx of population: "Second, a high share of government spending is "nonrival"- government can serve a larger population for little or no extra cost. National defense is the most obvious example. If the population of the U.S. doubled, the current military could still ably defend it. You certainly wouldn't need to double the total defense budget. An even clearer case: if the population of the U.S. doubled overnight...
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:41:46 AM
"... the national debt (not deficit) would remain the same, and the per capita debt would halve. The lesson: Immigrants can pull their own fiscal weight even if their tax bills are well below average."
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:42:29 AM
Alastair, I would love to open the conversation about what part you find wicked, just for my own clarification. I'd be happy to respond here or on air
alastair 8:49:37 AM
I think that this Cato Institute piece is actually tacitly an attempt to justify the policies which you referred to on-air as "abhorrent". I think Bryan Caplan's thesis is misrepresented in the piece itself (something thinkers on the right do a lot, speaking out of both sides of their mouth). I expect the intended thesis, when read by members of the already extremely authoritarian-curious audience, the intended read-between-the-lines thesis is "we could sell these policies of subjugation"
alastair 8:51:10 AM
I also think that speaking about cheapness as a boon for a public policy decision is a big tell: wouldn't a simpler solution to raising the same money be to tax the billionaires? Why do they want us thinking about taxing low income people more instead?
DJ AskTheQuestion 8:52:33 AM
I can definitely see that and fully agree with your latter point. Thank you for providing context and answering here.
alastair 8:53:39 AM
By the way, love the Matmos track
alastair 8:53:47 AM
Just to add some levity to the convo
Amy Lee 8:53:50 AM
Aside from the $$ on national defense, are we factoring in the percentage of people actually joining the military?
DJ AskTheQuestion 9:01:04 AM
I have no idea whether that's included in any of this scholarly work. Of course lots of stories out there about recent immigrants joining the US military. Important to the contra-narrative.
Amy Lee 9:21:57 AM
I absolutely agree it's important to discuss & share ideas & I thank you for doing so & presenting where the info is from.
DJ AskTheQuestion 9:22:47 AM
Thank you for the positivity! I like to talk about things that are interesting but also important, and that's always challenging when those things are inherently political.
Christine 𓅓 9:25:09 AM
Love that Ibibio Sound Machine!
Christine 𓅓 9:25:33 AM
Good morning DJ AskTheQuestion & all ☕️
DJ AskTheQuestion 9:30:34 AM
Good morning Christine, thanks for joining!
Amy Lee 9:34:18 AM
Yup. I rarely discuss politics with people (even if we share the same opinion), because regardless of the topic, I like to know & research where the purported info is coming from.
Amy Lee 9:54:23 AM
Thx for the as always great show!
Christine 𓅓 9:57:19 AM
Cheers, DJ AtQ! Always informative, always good music picks
DJ AskTheQuestion 9:59:47 AM
Thank you to both of you and all the other listeners this morning!