There are things that are random. As an example the shuffle mode on a CD or MP3 player. They repeat but in an unpredictable way. Think of this, if something is totally random in order, that is to say that a sequence of events never repeats, that is predictable, not random. Words can explain ideas. "Principle is absolute." MBE

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Destructive Relationships

Two crabs in a bucket. When one tries to get out, he does so by hooking a limb over the top of the bucket. As he pulls himself upward, the crab below grabs one of the climbing’s appendages and pulls him back down. Then the puller tries to get out and the other pulls him down. Both have the same objective, to get out of the bucket. Common motives do not always make for a common success. "Not all relationships are good."

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Brotherly Advantage

A flock of geese fly in a "V". This formation allows a swap-off of the leader as is done in bicycling (Watch Tour de France) . One goose leads until 50% tired then rotates to the back of the "V", and a goose behind him/her takes his/her place until he/she hits 50%. According to KPOA (Maui radio), this gives the flock a 71% further flying distance as compared to a single goose. Too, if a particular goose is weak or sick, two other geese break off and fly with the weak one to offer protection and guidance. "Brotherly love is advantageous." Find it when healthy. When sick, it is too late.

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Slow Thinking

A frog is put in a bucket of tepid water. He/she is comfortable and does not try to jump out. Same frog is dropped into a buck of very hot water. He/she hits the surface of the very hot water and immediately jumps out. Same frog is put in cool water that is slowly heated, say a few degrees every 1/2 hour. The frog adjusts to the new temperature until the water is so hot that the frog is cooked. "Incremental indifference mesmerize us."

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My friend J taught me that there are three food groups that make for a tasty meal: sweets, salts, fats. The fats make one fat but are very tasty, well not really tasty but strongly desired. Here is something that may please dieters no end.

Let us say we are making ice-cream. We need sugar, salt, and fat. Well no more. It is an interesting thing about fat. What fat does is give a melty texture like in a good chocolate bar -- that slow malleable texture that wallows in our mouth. Well, a student (lost the web address) has made tinny bubbles that last a year. So what you say. Well in place of fat, you add these micro bubbles to a food, like our ice-cream. The bubbles give the fat texture without fat. You bite into the ice-cream, and it suckculates and molds to your teeth like regular fat-made ice-cream. Bubble additives can be used in million of products like peanut butter, butter, milk, etc. So now we can use sugar substitutes, salt stays, and fat substitutes. Pretty soon we will be eating salt bars that taste like ice-cream, sweet, salty and fatty that have no fat and no sugar. By the way, the student that made these 1 year soap bubbles did so in a home blender. Smart lady. Watch for fat free foods.

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Order and routine make a cat, or dog, and most animals secure. Cats and dogs check rooms and people for their regularity and predictability. Change something, and adjustments are required once the flash of fear subsides. Change enough things often enough and the cat or dog often flees. But regularity is an interesting thing sort of like "randomness" that can be inverted. The dog with Hondo was regular in moving from place to place, so staying in one place would break the comforting routine of moving around for Hondo’s "dog". Different strokes for different folks. Change is difficult. "Order, even if it is regular disorder brings security." Boy oh boy. First, random predictability and now routine unpredictability. Might this just be a Mars/Venus thing?

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Think of this, long before humans had GPS (Global Positioning Systems), cats who had been taken hundreds of miles, say on a trip, and then been unintentionally left behind, have found their way home just as if they had a GPS in their pocket. (Silly, cats don’t have pockets.) But consider this. In the brain of the cat there is a bioprocessor that records the earth’s magnetic field of the home location. Each day as the cat moves about, the bioprocess records the deviations from the "home magnetic" position and practices finding "home". When hundreds of miles away, the magnetic position is different than the "home" position. Each step of the cat either aligns with the recorded "home" position or deviates more from the "home" position. The cat merely walks to bring his path closer to the "home" magnetic position. How is that for an explanation for something scientists have not been able to figure? Hopefully, you heard it here first so as to have reason to read these e-mails. By the way, this would be a good doctoral thesis – do call me if such is begun. Thank you.