Enfascination 2010 - Revision history

Mother Nature at 20:29, 24 November 2013

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Seth at 05:39, 9 May 2011

2011-05-09T05:39:53Z

Seth at 00:16, 20 April 2011

2011-04-20T00:16:21Z

Seth at 22:25, 18 April 2011

2011-04-18T22:25:55Z

Seth: /* Birdy from Purifying Proteins to Crazy Germans */

2011-04-18T22:21:44Z

‎Birdy from Purifying Proteins to Crazy Germans

Seth at 21:28, 18 April 2011

2011-04-18T21:28:36Z

Seth at 21:23, 18 April 2011

2011-04-18T21:23:06Z

Seth: /* Intermission: Jenett shows us two-minutes of stuff */

2011-03-06T00:52:36Z

‎Intermission: Jenett shows us two-minutes of stuff

Seth: /* Jenett on Motors */

2011-03-06T00:52:04Z

‎Jenett on Motors

Seth: /* Jenett on Motors */

2011-03-06T00:40:09Z

‎Jenett on Motors

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 Refer all grammatical, contextual, and aesthetic complaints to Ronak Shah
-[[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_DawdlingAndIntro%201.mp4|The maybe slightly drawn-out video for the introduction]]
+[[http://enfascination.com/htdocs/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_DawdlingAndIntro%201.mp4 | The maybe slightly drawn-out video for the introduction]]
 There is no food or wine allowed in Woodburn Hall. None.
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 ====Birdy from Purifying Proteins to Crazy Germans====
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_JenettBirdyDevilSounds.mp4  video]
+[http://enfascination.com/htdocs/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_JenettBirdyDevilSounds.mp4  video]
 Wait, no he isn’t. He’s just going to play more backmasking stuff. First up: “Pokemon Rap.” Uh, Satan? That was unconvincing. Next: “Beat it.” Okay, another song about Satan. More convincing. Then: “Baby One More Time.” Britney says, “Sleep with my, I’m not to young.” OH MY GOD. Problems. Afterward: “Hotel California.” It’s about Satan again. Yup, we hear it. Finally: “Another One Bites the Dust.” Apparently it’s fun to smoke marijuana.
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-Allison shows us a [http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AlisonGermanClass.mp4 video] of her exchange student friend Laura from Germany in high school, who sang the Pokemon theme song in German on the last day of school.   Also:
+Allison shows us a [http://enfascination.com/htdocs/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AlisonGermanClass.mp4 video] of her exchange student friend Laura from Germany in high school, who sang the Pokemon theme song in German on the last day of school.   Also:
 Ondine’s Curse: Allison’s older brother was born with centrocongenital hyperventilation syndrome, where you underbreathe when you sleep. The original name was Ondine’s Curse, named after water nymph Ondine who falls in love with a mortal. That’s not okay. So she gives up her immortality to be in love with him, and she tells him, “Your every waking moment will be a testament to our love.” He goes off and sleeps with a nymph. Oopsie. So now he can never go to sleep, or else he will die.
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 Closing statements: Favorite geological word?
 Schist. Holy schist!
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_SethGoodbye.mp4 video]
+[http://enfascination.com/htdocs/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_SethGoodbye.mp4 video]
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 ===Allison is talking about Pokemon!!! And also Germany. And Ondine’s Curse.===
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-Allison shows us a video of her exchange student friend Laura from Germany in high school, who sang the Pokemon theme song in German on the last day of school.
+Allison shows us a [http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AlisonGermanClass.mp4 video] of her exchange student friend Laura from Germany in high school, who sang the Pokemon theme song in German on the last day of school.   Also:
 Ondine’s Curse: Allison’s older brother was born with centrocongenital hyperventilation syndrome, where you underbreathe when you sleep. The original name was Ondine’s Curse, named after water nymph Ondine who falls in love with a mortal. That’s not okay. So she gives up her immortality to be in love with him, and she tells him, “Your every waking moment will be a testament to our love.” He goes off and sleeps with a nymph. Oopsie. So now he can never go to sleep, or else he will die.
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 ===Ben on Geological Vocabulary===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_BenGeologyTerms.mp4  video]
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 Geology words are freaking weird. Check some of these out:

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 ===Jenett on Motors===
 The science club that worked on motors is pretty hip. They made ice cream. They made speakers. So check out this motor they made: when you pass electricity through a coil, you get magnetism! Also magic. We have lots of magic in this room. Jenett shows us a little tiny DIY motor. Cute little guy, ain’t he? She gives it a few revs, and after a few trials that rabbit starts to run. She passes it around. Careful, it’s hot.
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 ===Max on Asyk===
 Also known as: Something to do on a Saturday night?
 Also known as: Who needs marbles?
 Also known as: Green alternative to marbles.
 Also known as: I like to play with bones.
 You play this game with sheep ankle bones. Send him your sheep, if you want. The game is most common in Central Asia, like Turkey or Kyrgyzstan. Each player has a bunch of bones. They make a circle on the ground and set up their bones in a line in the middle. The players pick their favorite bones (usually the heaviest), and start tossing it from a start line, trying to knock the other bones out of the circle. Once you knock them out, you own them. Collect them all!
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 ===Pontus on Animal Sociality===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_PontusAnimalSociality.mp4  video]
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 Dude. Red pandas are way cuter than meerkats.
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 ===Ziona on Bink===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_ZionaBink.mp4  video]
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 Binkley has a lot of nicknames. My favorite is Bink-towners-lee-in-pants? I think that’s what it is. Bink-towner is really nice. I’m not sure about any of this. In his early life he was a runt, a stray, dying of an infection of tail and leg. The poor little thing could fit wholly in her hand. They fed her with a bottle of goat’s milk, and he would feed and feed until he got sick. Aww!!! He has a lot of erratic behavioral issues. He’s kind of bipolar, loving and sweet in one moment, and violent and murderous in the next. He throws tantrums, too. I guess he’s also in a sexual relationship with a much younger cat. Uhhhhhh.

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 ===Jenett on Motors===
 The science club that worked on motors is pretty hip. They made ice cream. They made speakers. So check out this motor they made: when you pass electricity through a coil, you get magnetism! Also magic. We have lots of magic in this room. Jenett shows us a little tiny DIY motor. Cute little guy, ain’t he? She gives it a few revs, and after a few trials that rabbit starts to run. She passes it around. Careful, it’s hot.
 ===Nick on the Bernoulli Principle===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_NickAlexToys.mp4 video]
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 Nick has a t-shirt that says: “Certifiable Mad Genius.” Anywhere that there’s moving air, there is less pressure. That’s the Bernoulli principle. A machination sits on the table, blowing air and things. The guys make it levitate a small ball. Pretty cool—magic again! BUT WAIT: Then they put a tube over the ball. The ball shoots through the tube like a happy boy sitting on a geyser.
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 ===Ronak on Jain Forgiveness===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_RonakJainForgiveness.mp4 video]
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 Ronak’s family is Jain! There are very few of them. They like to look into themselves. Twice a day rituals. Bad Jain Ronak only does one a year- oops. PRATIKRAMANA: Apologizing to every that dies. Imagine overturning a beetle and it died, you need to say you are sorry to the beetle. At the end of the P ceremony, when you become as enlightened as you think you can be you go fast till you keel over (this is so you don’t hurt anything in the path of death). Ronak= covert BADASS. Ronak recognizes every day (oops- once a year) that your atoms are no more important than the atoms of a chair. Think unity of your energy being in union with all other energy.
 ===Nathaniel on how 1 + 1 = 3===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_NateTwoPlusTwoIsFive.mp4  video]
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 Nathaniel dropped out of school because he didn’t like formal education and formal mathematic or really formal anything. Then he got involved in math tutoring. Heh. Maybe he’ll become a math teacher. He’s a math teacher in the context of this talk, I guess. But this is key: If Nathaniel teaches math, Nathaniel is actually teaching magic. Know that. Wikipedia on math: “The study of space, structure, change, and quantity.” Just vague enough to teach magic. So for instance: If you have triplets, 1 (man) + 1 (woman) = 3 (children). Totally legitimate, right? Conclusion: You can teach kids how to do whatever you want under the umbrella of mathematics. That is Nathaniel’s goal. Also: A = infinity. 3 = infinity. Infinity = ☺. These are true, true things. Think about these things.
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 ===Seth on the psychoactive effects of chili peppers===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_SethCapsaicinOnCapsaicin.mp4 partial video]
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 What is capsaicin? “OH MY GOD!!! IT BURNS!!!” Also: capsaicin is the active ingredient in chili peppers. Hotness is measured in the Scovil scale. Recently, the ghost chile was discovered, at one million on the scale. Pepper spray is five million, and pure capsaicin is fifteen million. Holy fucking shit. Seth just ate a fucking ghost chile. Capsaicin hung out exclusively in the New World before 1493. Okay, Seth is having a lot of trouble now. Apparently primates prefer spicy crackers to plain crackers. Seth is now sweating. Capsaicin can be lethal in high doses. Seth is breathing heavily. Capsaicin gets your endorphins going. Seth is having a lot of difficulty talking. Capsaicin can trigger heat and pain reponses. Oh my God, Seth is going to die. TO DIE. I am very worried. I am no longer paying much attention to this talk. I am sorry. I am sorry for Seth. Poor Seth. Poor, noble Seth.

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 Have we heard about back-masking in songs? Not many of us. Jenett has. She shows us that backwards version of “Stairway to Heaven.” The words you might hear: “Oh here’s to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He’ll give those with him 666, there was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.” If she tells you what you’re listening to, then you’ll hear it.
-===Birdy from Purifying Proteins to Crazy Germans===
+====Birdy from Purifying Proteins to Crazy Germans====
 [http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_JenettBirdyDevilSounds.mp4  video]

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 ===Jack on Fordlandia===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_JackFordlandia.mp4  video]
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 Henry Ford tried to make this Utopia called Fordlandia. It didn’t work. Oh, man.
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 ===Allison is talking about Pokemon!!! And also Germany. And Ondine’s Curse.===
 [http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AlisonGermanClass.mp4 video 1]
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AlisonOndinesCurse.mp4 video 2]
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 Allison shows us a video of her exchange student friend Laura from Germany in high school, who sang the Pokemon theme song in German on the last day of school.
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 ===Austin's Two famous gravestones in mathematics history===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AustinTwoFamousGravesInMathHistory.mp4  video]
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 Beautiful chalkboard handwriting, man! Carl Friedrich Gauss had a pretty cool one. You should check out the picture of the signature online. Gauss wanted a seventeen-sided regular polygon to be inscribed on his tombstone, as one of his proudest accomplishments; it inspired him to go into mathematics when he was nineteen. Back in the day, the tools of the day were compasses and straight-edges. Pretty cool things, but you couldn’t do a lot of things, like trisecting an angle. How did Gauss figure it out? Euclid thought of numbers as lengths, like knots in a rope. So how do you add two lengths? Measure out a length with your compass, build a circle with it, use the straight-edge to complete the diameter, and you’ve got the sum of your original two lengths. Gauss proved the possibility of the seventeen-gon with a pretty rigorous step-by-step process.
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 ===Nick on Russian Emblemology===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_NickRussianEmblemology.mp4  video]
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 Emblemology is the classical study of emblems. What’s the difference between emblems and symbols? The symbol of the cross is an emblem for sacrifice and redemption. The symbol for poison is an emblem for the transcience of human life. Got it? Medieval literature is rich with emblems, functioning as a combination of concepts that weave an abstract, spiritual narrative. Heraldry does it, too, with grave results: think about the War of the Roses, where simple dispositional emblems of red and white roses grew to symbolize entire regions and swathes of nationalists.
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 ===Alex's Ways of Bee-ing===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AlexWaysOfBeeing.mp4  video]
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 There are a lot of different bee societies, actually. The stereotype is the eusocial monarchy, with an egg-laying queen bee absolutely ruling over drones. That’s actually false—honeybees have group-decision-making, a legitimate hive mind. But that’s not all. Some bees are communal, like mason bees. They’re like people living together in apartments. They don’t cooperate, but they hang out. Then you’ve got quasi-social bees. They live together and cooperate, but they have their own broods and offspring. How about semi-social bees? These unrelated pals have some division of labor, with some having offspring and others doing the work. Next we have sub-social bees. They’ve got family care, tending the developing larvae and rearing them. Daughters will hang around and help out momma. As far as the eusocial guys go, sometimes you’ve got a foundress queen who starts the monarchy. But when the foundress dies, you’ve got a pseudo-anarchical hive replacing it, sometimes with multiple queens, sometimes with alternating queens.
 ===Daniel on turning cities into villages===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_DannyCommunityAndZoning.mp4  video]
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 Daniel just dumpstered $700 in a box. In the box is a sex toy, and a phone number. Whoever finds the box can call the number and identify the sex toy. That was an ethical decision nightmare. Anyways.

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 ===Jenett on Motors===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_JenettMotor.mp4 video]
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 The science club that worked on motors is pretty hip. They made ice cream. They made speakers. So check out this motor they made: when you pass electricity through a coil, you get magnetism! Also magic. We have lots of magic in this room. Jenett shows us a little tiny DIY motor. Cute little guy, ain’t he? She gives it a few revs, and after a few trials that rabbit starts to run. She passes it around. Careful, it’s hot.
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 ===Conor on Entheogens.===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_ConorEntheogens.mp4  video]
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 What is an entheogen? Well, we don’t know. Conor does. Actually, Wikipedia does: “connecting to the divine within.” That could be psychotropic drugs, for instance. But that could also be meditation, fasting, and other ways of being without doing, of sensing without behaving. The body does not always betray what the mind is thinking. “Psychadelics will do for psychology what the telescope did for astronomy.” Conor wants us to appreciate our potential to transcend into the introspective.
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 ===Devin on electrical music and plural poetries===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_DevinSoundExperience.mp4  video]
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 Being a painter, Devin is interested in poetry. Here is a manifesto from Devin. “Posit: Electronic music can achieve a sense of poetic truth, maintaining a visual/sculptural quality. It has been/is becoming a beautiful, interesting barometer of our era, of our times. 1: Poetry is a different sort of truth. It is not a factual truth, but the expression of that which descriptive language cannot achieve. 2: Poetry is measured by its visual content. Thus: Poetry now, the burgeoning synthesis.” Now Devin plays us some music. Flying Lotus: “Camel.” Then Flying Lotus: “Goldfish.” Mmmmm. Close your eyes and listen.
 ===Alex on The Ultimate Weapon===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AlexNickUltimateWeapon.mp4  video]
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 Do you remember hornets? Those rubber band guns that shoot the ferocious duct tape and staple bullets? Alex is using them today. He almost hits Jenett. Then he knocks over a can. It’s got a pretty big dent in it now. Ouchies. Now Alex uses one with just paper. Ooh. Ouchies. Now Alex uses one with paper and duct tape. Holy hell. Double ouchies. Alex is a ferocious tiger bandit who cannot be tamed. Oh no: TIN FOIL. HOT DAMN OUCHIES.
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 ===Ziona and Shaina on the Most Compressible Meaning===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_ShainaZionaTheMostSuccinctWord.mp4  video]
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 Tons of dying languages are hanging out in the burroughs of New York City. Linguistic historians discovered what is known to be the must succinct word in all known languages. The language is known and spoken by only one man. The word is Mamilapinatapai: The look that is shared between two people who are wanting to act on one thing, but neither of them want to initiate it.
 ===Abbie on Bengime===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_AbbyBengime.mp4  video]
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 Bengime is a language spoken in Mali—we’re listening to a really beautiful song in Bengime. The Dogon people who speak it live in the cliffs, much like the Anasazi. The song is a traditional song sung by the Dogon women. There are about 1500 speakers of Bengime, in about seven tribes. It’s not endangered, but it’s in trouble. And it’s a linguistic isolate, not in the Dogon language family. She determined this by looking at cognates, phonemes, and other aspects of the language, and Abbie has no idea why these people consider themselves to be Dogon when they don’t speak a Dogon language. Abbie is now the only person documenting and describing the language, learning as she goes.

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 ===Intermission: Jenett shows us two-minutes of stuff===
-[http://enfascination.com/forever/enfascination2010/Enfascination2010_JenettBirdyDevilSounds.mp4  video]
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 Have we heard about back-masking in songs? Not many of us. Jenett has. She shows us that backwards version of “Stairway to Heaven.” The words you might hear: “Oh here’s to my sweet Satan. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He’ll give those with him 666, there was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.” If she tells you what you’re listening to, then you’ll hear it.