Phil Rutter

May 23, 2020

• Twin Ponds - Illinois - shear + grapple for harvesting the hazelnut rods a bush at a time.
• Mable - STEAM Engine Days - people bring steam engines from 6 states away
• Now there is schism between science and non-science.
• Dogs have a sense of fairness - if one dog gets more attention, other dogs would get pissed. But - every person knows it already. Scientists thought they had it original. Scientists are pissed because republicans are contemptuous. Legally - scientists are wrong. How do you know if an idea is new? It's in the law. Law says: if idea is not known to one skilled in the art, then it's a new idea. Republicans knew it. So they think scientists are contemptible. With COVID - same arguments apply. Scientists must pull their socks up. Scientists are publishing shit information.
• Science has not figured this one out.
• Lawyers pull your license. Doctors pull your license. Scientists don't have a license and nobody polices the scientists. There is incompetent scientists gallore. National Academy of Scientist. No wonder the republicans don't trust it.
• Find something in your room that science didn't put it there. Everything there is a technology.
• https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/growing-hybrid-hazelnuts/
• Science should have a license. PhD means nothing any more. Tremendous amount of PhDs who don't have a right to a bachelor's.
• Science is a religion today. Too many fake scientists. Solving this could be important to the election.
• Science is tribal, too. If you are against global warming and vaccines, you're a republican.
• People get lost in definitions quickly on collapsitarian literature.
• New Zealand wind power - Antarctic - high winds year round.
• Education - started in 11th century - to say the king is right. And astrology. Now astrology is called economics.
• New School - hard to get it, easy to get out. Everyone gets same pay. After 3 years, you go through review - formal acceptance. You are faculty. But you need 90% acceptance by others. And everyone knows it when they get their foot in the door.
• This addresses: ex. a Princeton professor. The New School is prestigious. You are not competing for money, but a scholar. But what is the funding model?
• Example: Oberlin - students were work-study, and professors, too. Learning and labor. Initially was a religious community. Seminary moved to Vanderbilt. College existed before the town did by about 20 years. Oberlin is the first in the USA to a woman and a black person. And is partly responsible for the civil war - as it was a stop on the underground railroad. The students and profesors took back the black person who was a visiting person from another country. Studnets build houses and grow tomatoes.
• Explosive cladding - compress graphite into diamonds - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion_welding
• Boron nitride, diamnod - explosion cladding or printing (powder metallurgy) - 50% more hard than natural diamond.

May 16, 2020 Notes

• Cold hardiness and EFB - if you add another species.
• There is no such thing as a 'gene'
• Money and people - needed to transfer knowledge
• Zen students dealt with obnoxious students constantly
• Wuxing state -
• Phil is rereading Alan Watts
• Goal of Zen is to achieve no mind state.
• Mindfulness movement - needs these stones.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongshi - these go for a good amount. Also little stones. Sparkly stuff at Phil's place.
• China - Tung dynasty - miniature fountain on their desk was in fashion. Chinese scholar's rocks.
• Dolostone - calcium magnesium carbonate - 50/50.
• Limestone - silicon dioxide
• Fossil business, gem shows - etc. Fossils are big biz. Ordovician 450M year ago - at Phil's place.
• Bluejays and nuts - they make nuts disappear. Blujays must go into tree. Hawks kill bluejays in bush. Bluejays process whole bush at the same time.
• Empty Shells under bushes - that is what mice do. Oberlin planting free of mice?
• Deer mice - hawks and owls. Keep it mowed.
• Crow hunting - sneak up on a flock mobbing an owl. Owl decoy + shotgun, or just shotgun
• Crows are smart - major problem for the hazels.
• https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/seniorsymp/2019/panel_12/2/
• Oberlin college planting - is still going.
• Transplant by root core
• PhD + 3 Masters + 2 assistants for each. Identify and cull shit, increase the good stuff.
• Olive pickers - are bigger - so maybe a better choice
• Twin Ponds - Illinois - another planting 80 mi north of Twin Ponds
• Chainsaw + carbide blade for coppicing
• Bill Hunt owns the machine -
• Twin ponds project at Michigan - guy took the harvester machine
• 2000 lb / acre ar e current yield from Illinois place, 45% efficient - as rest ripened sooner or later
• Chronic Wasting Disease - hotspot in Phil's area - [1] - By phil - 100% of data shows pryons transfer. Mink, cats, cows, mice, hamsters, and gerbils. It successfully transfers. Maybe bovine thing is the same thing - Mad Cow Disease. Neighbors may be crazy from Mad Cow.
• Brandon is working for a robotics company - [2]
• Meg Rutter - got published - [3]
• 2 categories of hired men - (1) move the hay and save money to get land; (2) never saved and never saved for getting their farm
• Managing people - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder - Phil cut his millenials
• Now shifting to COVID
• Phil is a polymath, so am I
• Feels 104 before coffee and meds
• 71 years old