“All the best things I did at Apple came from (a) not having money, and (b) not having done it before, ever.” Woz (Apple)*.

It is round about 7 years ago now that we started working intensively on building up the brand biestmilch.com and it is 4 years now that we began consequently telling »the other story« about regulatory principles of our body, about phenomena of balance that are beyond mainstream biology.

Today we tried to implement a video conference between Germany and Australia. The plan was to do an audiovisual documentary on the whole process. We failed to do so because the connection to Sydney was too slow, the delay between the US and Australia finally added up to 400msec, much too long a time to build up solid video stream. I had to send all my guests home. You can imagine how frustrating it was. Especially, if you try to be innovative and compensate for ideas your shortage of money.

In situations like this a sentence like the one of Steve Wozniak* can be encouraging at least for one day disasterous like ours.

Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in 1975 with a "Blue Box".

Steve Wozniak  a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist for the past three decades. He is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Wheels of Zeus (wOz), helped shape the computing industry with his design of Apple's first line of products the Apple I and II and influenced the popular Macintosh.

Pulp Fcition has always been inspiring for me and my work.
Here two different version of the "What does Marsellus Wallace Look Like" scene in the Pulp Fiction movie, portrayed using nothing but typography.

From Infoaesthetics

Time and again I run into Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), especially the subject is anti-aging. Athletes take it, especially then when they are afraid of getting old. They of course hide completely under the surface and only rarely pop up.
I am currently working on the aging process because biestmilch is a substance that deserves attention in this respect. Searching the subject I came along DHEA again. I picked it up because I think there are still a lot of people out there who believe in this stuff.  

DHEA a homone used in anti-aging and sports with very doubtful effects

DHEA is steroid hormone made primarily by the adrenal gland that is also used as a drug.
The adrenal gland sits like a hood on top of the kidneys - the rind produces steroid hormones and the pulp produces catecholamines (e.g. adrenaline). It is used by the body to make both androgens (e.g. testosterone) and estrogens (male and female sex hormones, respectively). The only profitable use of DHEA has been prooved in states of adrenal deficencies, supplementation of DHEA if reduced in elderly people did not proove any efficacy up to now.

Pure DHEA is not available in Germany. If officially imported a medical prescription is needed. There are of course channels to get it via the internet, but only on your own responsibility. No liabilities.

Those taking it should keep in mind:

• Taking DHEA as a drug has not been shown to enhance gains in muscle size or strength produced with strength training alone and thus has little or no benefit for use in athletics.

• In women, taking DHEA as a drug increases testosterone leading to insulin resistance, acne, and masculinizing effects (turns you into a dude - baldness on the either side, facial hair and increased body hair on the other, lowering of voice, etc.)

• It was classified as an anabolic steroid in 2004 in the US, making it a controlled substance. Previously DHEA was sold legally in the US as a nutritional supplement in health food stores. Currently it is sold illegally as a nutritional supplement in health food stores.

source:

drugs and poison
mayoclinic.com/health/dhea
Brown GA, Vukovich M, King DS: Testosterone prohormone supplements. Med Sci Sports Exerc. Aug;38(8):1451-61,2006

Today I stumbled upon this amazing work by Kevin Boyack, Dick Klavans and Bradford Paley. Those of you who know me also know that I love maps. Even though I have to admit that they may sometimes be more confusing than clarifying. As I am used to deal with paradigms, theories, papers and authors I really like this work. For others who don't it might be only a beautiful picture without any meaning, and for some a piece of art. The image considers merely quantitative relations. Even though, a high power of connectivity says a lot about the currents of scientific discourses.
 

The "Map of Science" is constructed by sorting roughly 800,000 scientific papers (shown as white dots) into 776 different scientific paradigms (red circular nodes) based on how often the papers were cited together by authors of other papers. Links (curved lines) were made between the paradigms that shared common members, then treated as rubber bands, holding similar paradigms nearer one another when a physical simulation had every paradigm repel every other: thus the layout derives directly from the data. Larger paradigms have more papers. Labels list common words unique to each paradigm.

Since long time I came down with a serious flu again. The flu is currently spreading epidemically in Germany. Many of you may acccuse the mild winter that made it easy for the viruses to spread. And they may be right. This argument is nowadays consequently followed by the discussion on global warming that is dominating media reports for months now. I don't want to comment on this because this is a tricky complex issue. And regulars' table discussions do not lead anywhere except eating time or kill time.

Back to what I really wanted to comment on today. Because of being sick, I used my time to read an article from ORION MAGAZINE, USA about biodiversity, very interesting. I want to give you some figures that will jolt you!

During the last decades nature protection movements all over the world achieved a lot. Nature reservations larger than the size of Africa got established, just to give you an idea that is more than 19 million sqkm worldwide.
But there is another very shocking figure that goes along with these accomplishments. A minimum of 5 million refugees, some sources even talk about several tenth of millions of people who have been deprived of their land. The people expelled from their territories are nature tribes that were intergral part of these areas. Their knowledge about nature was indispensable. To them we primarily owed the maintenance of biodiversity. They knew how cultivate the soil. It was never their intention to destroy what they were living on. People like the Massai, the Aborigines, tribes in India or Thailand have been driven into misery and came close to extinction to protect nature. Those tribes never saw themselves apart from nature. They never made this absurd difference between man and nature as we did.

And the irony of the whole story is that 90% of biodiversity are anyway found outside nature reservation areas.

Thus, it is not only Shell or Chevron-Texaco etc. occupying land all over the world to exploit nature's resources incurring misery on people, it is also Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, World Wild Life Fund etc.. Very sad. We need to learn our lessons fast. Or is it too late already?

Source: Courrier International, Orion Magazine