-----Original Message-----
From: Gary S. Gevisser [mailto:gsg@sellnext.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 5:22 PM
To: 'John K. Pollard Jr.'
Cc: Devin Standard; Darlene; Po-Li; Jeff
Subject: RE: UCSD-TV
John - I am
trying to listen very carefully to this amazing lecture, halfway thru, going
"back and forth" remember I have never attended a lecture on
chemistry while still battling with the most recent accusation by Mr. GS that I may suffer
from ADD - although I believe Absent Parenting Disease is often misdiagnosed
which brings me back to my Dark Matter communiqués with those yoyos
involved with degenerative diseases.
This UCSD
professor is now talking about fish which has me thinking of this graphic Marie
is tasked with drawing showing this big grouper about to eat a piranha all part
of the "sheer lunacy" clothing line that is one of several income
streams associated with Manager Minute One.
Now the
professor whose image started to morph right at the time he started talking
about mutation my feeling much better hearing him now say, "we have got
through the hard part."
Interesting that this revolution of biology took place in
1944 while my father was just beginning to bomb the crap out of the Nazi
bastards.
My trying to make sense of the following:
"...make no bones about
it... Early in the century Einstein gave up on this business of an ether
pervading the universe and all sorts of fantastic stuff... time being a 4th
dimension and although undoubtedly this revolution was not something that the
person on the street just could swallow with any sense of understanding... the
notion that there are quanta little bundles of energy... nature really does
makes jumps and with the quantum mechanical description of atoms mysterious for
the average person probably for the average chemist ...In contrast the
revolution in biology should be understood by anyone...any 2 people looking at
a revolution will see it differently .. first time it was shown that dna is the
genetic material ...couple of guys getting together jrking off John D.
Rockefeller at 26th and Broadway in New York City a
hop-jump-and-a-scotch from the Rockefeller Institute...change one type of
bacterium into another by supplying the dna of one to the other...Pneumonia
...all living things on this earth are related, and they were right...9 years
later the big event occurred that most people associate with the revLON...
Watson...built a model of how dna is structured and what was fascinating hidden
in that model were 2 facets... it showed how dna worked at the moment and how
it remembered what it was going to do later...Dna is the blueprint u r your
proteins... DNA the thread of life...G... fragile...faithful...spiral
staircase...Biological unity and diversity, all made of the same building
blocks and the diversity... put together differently...G versus a C...Big
versus small, can replicate faithfully and remember...T vs A...photograph
negative and positive all the way down...Mutations are mistakes...4 letters
over and over...Ladder-like symmetry... base pairing rules...Taught in
kindergarten... big opposite small...Blue versus yellow...Replicate faithfully
and remember...Does not separate on its own and come back together...Holy
Trinity...Dna to dna replication....Transcript dna to rna...Translation Decode
rna...Poli-Pollak makes Poli.... U substituted for letter T...Why so
evolutionary...Read backwards... reconstruct the history of life on earth,
really exciting...Mammals, Po-li not being one have similar sequencing...Family
tree...cannot explain how I was able to change Po-li into a cancerous e-coli
enzyme much like a chicken changing into an ostrich...Lesson is the diversity
comes about normally...Kinds of change were different... more distant the
relationship... insertions and deletions...1978...fruit fly buzzing around your
banana..." [sic].
Half the banana I ate for
lunch was bruised.
More importantly perhaps Darlene
Katz with her art-chemistry background may be able to shed some light on these
matters as I now begin to focus on the 2nd half of the lecture, while
thinking about my response to "Mr. Benz's"
[sic] most recent missive which is not to suggest that I have sufficient
evidence to conclude that the fate that awaits Po-li Pollak unless he does a
quick "roundabout turn" will befall Mr. Genz who may in fact have a
sense of humor unlike Po-li and folks like Mr.
Debonair JRK when under pressure.
Thanks again for this terrific material.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: John K. Pollard Jr. [mailto:jkpjkp@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 5:07 PM
To: gsg@sellnext.com
Subject: Re: UCSD-TV
When
the link opens, click on the Russ Doolittle item (first entry) and
another screen will appear giving you a chance to buy it or a "Real
player" icon offering the "Play it now" option. Click on
the little blue icon and it will play if your hardware supports
it.
Otherwise,
open it on some other computer.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 4:07 PM
I am battling to get this
54 minute program to work on my computer. Can you direct Adam Tucker to assist me?
-----Original Message-----
From: John K. Pollard Jr. [mailto:jkpjkp@alum.mit.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 4:25 PM
To: Gary S. Gevisser
Subject: UCSD-TV
Here
is the Millennium lecture by Russ Doolittle in which he develops the
concept that DNA is running everything in a clearly God-like fashion.
Russ
carefully avoids verbalizing that directly but the inference is clear to those
who would listen.
The
54 minute program can be watched directly from this link. In his opening
slide, he recognizes Dr. Ruth Kavenoff and her
dramatic physical observation of DNA. You would be well served to
watch this program.
http://www.ucsd.tv/videos-list.asp?title=&showID=&keyword=dna&category=