Musea E-mail Club #481: The New BIOLOGY issue now out

Dear Musea Reader,

NEW MUSEA. The new issue of Musea #171 for Oct/Nov is now out.(Now celebrating 17 years). It will be available free at the usual Dallas locations by the end of today, Friday, and (thanks to Webmaster, Matthew) it is now posted on musea.us. for everyone with access to read. Also on the website is a new photo on the splash page. Welcome each and everyone to come see it.
The Musea issue is all about BIOLOGY – with an emphasis on looking at life as a split between two different and somewhat separate bio systems – Catabolic and Anabolic. IF – and that’s a big IF – I am correct, there is some real insight into how life works here. I welcome your thoughts.

NEW POEM VIDEO. I have finished my 62nd video. The new one is called “Blossom” and is a short, short, short POEM VIDEO – less than one minute long. You can see it at hunkasaurus.com , my myspace site, or on youtube at, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnoo6WM-dRc

And finally – most of you know that I have some problems with the fairness of the art coverage at NPR, National Public Radio. There will be more on that as time goes on. But in the meantime, IF you listen to NPR you may have heard of Scott Simon who does the Saturday Morning news program. Do you know that while many listeners are asked for donations, that Scott is making a salary of over $300,000.00. I was surprised to say the least. How about you? Want to see more salaries of on air people at NPR? See
http://joshgerstein.blogspot.com/2008/12/npr-salaries-raw-data.html

Take care,
Tom Hendricks
(editor of the 17 year old zine Musea)

http://www.Musea.us (Musea, named as one of the best ZINES by UTNE magazine)
http://www.Hunkasaurus.com ( Music, 4 full CD’s of free Post-Bands Music)
http://www.Musea.wordpress.com (Blog for Musea, Art Contests, Weekly E-mail Messages)

Musea E-mail Club #485 Scorecard for Control of the Arts and Media

The scorecard for control of the arts and media is:

CORPORATIONS everything,

INDIES, less than ever.

Let’s go category by category and see who controls it – Corporate art or Indy art.

Media – Corporate Art. Corporate owns the bulk of tv, and radio. They have way too much influence on the FCC; and NPR, with revenue sharing, won’t give a tough review. Indies can’t get coverage or reviews; and have little coverage on any tv or radio. Indies can rarely even get a radio station on the internet let alone on the air.

Newspapers – Corporate Art. They own all the chains and will only review art by their corporate art advertisers. Hardly any indy art is ever mentioned let alone reviewed. Local art coverage is small to non existent while Hollywood press releases fill the entertainment and business sections.

Film – Corporate Art. They own the theater chains and the movie companies. Indies can make films but they can’t get them in theaters, or on tv.

Broadway – Corporate Art. Broadway is strictly for tourists and filled with large safe corporate productions. Same with touring companies. Indy theater is off off Broadway, at best.

Music – Corporate Art. Four companies control 80% of the business. They’ve kept most indies off the radio so they can’t get sales. They also control ticket services, so its hard for Indie musicians to make more than minimum wage touring.

Publishing – Corporate Art. Bad novels rule, and bookstores demand indies jump through all kinds of hoops to even get on the back rows (example the ISBN number). Seldom do any major bookstores carry any Indy books.

Magazine and Zine Publishing. Corporate Art. The most creative new writing is zines. It best reflects the current generation. It is also blocked from fair reviews, and coverage, and distribution from most magazine distributors. Go to magazine stands and its pure corporate.

Internet – Corporate Art. Indies had the early advantage with every website being equal.That began the only golden age of art of this time. Then corporate art bought up the major spaces like myspace, youtube, search engines etc.; shut down web radio, sued downloaders etc. Indies can be found on search engines, but they are way down the list beyond the paid ad entries. Indies are being squeezed out year by year.

Government – Corporate Art. Conglomerates bypass pesky interfering governments by setting up World Trade Agreements, WTO, that support big business over countries rights, world wide.

The scorecard is not good. Time to bring fairness to the arts for all. Corporate control has ruined not only quality in the arts, but fairness. They have turned our culture into a box of soap. And it’s just as bland. Support a change.

Tom Hendricks

(editor of the 17 year old zine Musea)

Musea Extra : Two New Terms: RED Economy, BLUE Economy

Here are two new terms to consider, the RED ECONOMY and the BLUE ECONOMY.

I think it is time to define the two opposite types of economy, and debate the pros and cons of each.

RED ECONOMY: It is the economy of business interests. It favors  trickle down economic policies.

It suggests that a rising economy is best for all. It favors the economy we have now. It is the economy

that most of the mainstream media talks about.

BLUE ECONOMY: It is the economy of the workers. It is also the economy of those not directly involved

in the economy: children, students, part time employees, or out of work employees, retired citizens,  etc.

It favors trickle up economic policies  or policies other than those of a free market. It does not favor the

economy we have now. It is the economy that the mainstream media seldom talks about.

Musea “It’s My Birthday and I’ll Party if I want to!” Party Message

Reader,
Hey Hey Hey
It’s my birthday

Well how about a party?
Not today but I’ve got something in the works – An ONLINE party with
the whole world invited. Here’s the news – more details as they develop.

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Coming SOON!!!!!

The Worldwide ONLINE CD Release Party for “5th” the fifth CD by Hunkasaurus and His Pet Dog Guitar. Hendricks is the zinester for the 17 year olde zine Musea

Join Hunkasaurus (Tom Hendricks), Pet Dog Guitar, Webmaster Matthew, and anyone from anywhere in the world that’s listening – to hear the new CD … ONLINE, a week before it’s released.

Then while the songs are playing, tell us what you think, or ask questions or just see what others are saying, on my blog.

Stay tuned!!! (October or November for sure ‘09)
Tom Hendricks
(editor of the 17 year old zine Musea)

http://www.Musea.us (Musea, named as one of the best ZINES by UTNE magazine)
http://www.Hunkasaurus.com ( Music, 4 full CD’s of free Post-Bands Music)
http://www.Musea.wordpress.com (Blog for Musea, Art Contests, Weekly E-mail Messages)

Specifics of the Catabolic Anabolic Split – idea

Hi Reader, This e-mail club installment is a follow up to the recent series of posts on biology – specifically the idea that IF we look at life as two main forces of catabolism and anabolism, that can give us real insight*. This post can get a bit technical. But nothing my readers can’t handle.

I start with specifics that support these two premises:

1. Anabolic and Catabolic processes have not blended over 4 billion years, but stayed separate. They have evolved to clear distinct catabolic processes that in many cases would cause real harm if they were blended with anabolic processes.
2. Catabolic processes seem to have evolved to include not only breaking down molecules, but digestion, the immune system, and excreting out waste. Many times these three pathways are related in some way.

Catabolic Specifics:

1. The GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. This tract in animals goes from the mouth to the anus and is for digestion. Note how separate it is from the rest of the body. Excluding the absorption aspect, it is almost completely separate from the rest of the body. Note all the bodies defenses here that protects from antigens. Everything from stomach acids, to spitting out, and excreting out processes.
NOTE: This alimentary tract is separate from anabolic processes (excluding the mostly isolated aspects of absorption). It can involve not only digestion, but protection and parts of the immune system of the animal.

2. LYSOSOMES. These organelles in animal cells not only digest food, but excess or worn out organelles, food particles, engulfed viruses / bacteria, and at the end of the cell’s life they can destroy the entire cell. There is real danger from these, if their membranes break (Tay-Sachs disease, for example).
NOTE: These organelles have to be separate from anabolic processes. They can involve digestion, protection, and / or waste out.

3. VACUOLES. Vesicle in the center of fungi, plants, and some protists, animal and bacterial cells. It is enclosed in a membrane and separate. Vacuoles isolate what’s harmful, store waste, export waste, and in plants carry the poisonous compounds used for protection.
NOTE: These organelles have to be separate from anabolic processes. They involve digestion, protection, and waste out.

4. PHAGOCYTOSIS . The cellular process in protists that engulfs particles in phagocytes and digests them. Note by surrounding the foreign particles it keeps them separate from the rest of the cell. Phagocytosis helps remove waste and ingest pathogens as part of the immune system.
NOTE This cellular process is very separate from the rest of the cell. It involves digestion, protection, and waste out.

5. BACTERIA DIGESTION . Bacteria (and some fungi) digest by excreting enzymes that digest the food outside the cell. Also bacteria excrete toxins that help in protection.
NOTE. The digestive system is outside of the cell and separate from it. It involves digestion, protection, and keeping waste out.

6. IMMUNE SYSTEM. The lymphatic system is separate from the circulatory system. It protects the body, and removes waste. White blood cells are separate from red blood cells.
NOTE The lymphatic system is separate from the rest of the body. It involves protection and waste out.

This shows how anabolic and catabolic processes have evolved along separate pathways over four billion years and that there is little blending of pathways between the two.
And that catabolic processes often overlap between not only breaking down molecules, but digestion, the immune system and excreting out waste.

How difficult is it to imagine that, in response to environmental pressures, an organism could evolve catabolic processes over anabolic processes, or vice versa as needed to better fit the environment.

If natural selection chose more catabolic aspects (digestion, protection, waste out) as the best response for the environment, then they would be stressed in the species. If natural selection chose more anabolic aspects as the best response for the environment, they would be stressed in the species.

Clearly we should expect to find a major division of catabolic and anabolic processes in all life. We should be able to find many novel ways of amplifying the best aspects of catabolic processes, in some species; while others amplifying the best aspects of anabolic processes.

Remember
1. metabolism is catabolism or anabolism
2. the two types of metabolism, even though they are connected, have remained somewhat separate, for evolutionary advantages.
3. the two bolster and support each other through a type of ’symbiotic arms race’ and may be the main driving force in evolution.

Tom Hendricks
(editor of the 16 year old zine Musea)
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/U/UV_origin_of_life.html (UV paper)