{"id":802,"date":"2017-10-20T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/?p=802"},"modified":"2017-10-20T07:59:28","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T14:59:28","slug":"friday-fun-20-oct-2017-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/friday-fun-20-oct-2017-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun! (20-Oct-2017 Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(So, yeah, last week&#8217;s promise of a post <em>tomorrow<\/em> didn&#8217;t quite pan out. Anyway, without further ado&#8230;)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Tcgeyowozs6vt5vd3yutrb56cem?t=Resonant_Expanse_-_Max_Cooper_Tom_Hodge\">Resonant Expanse<\/a>, Max Cooper &#038; Tom Hodge<br \/>\nI love almost everything I&#8217;ve heard by Max Cooper. He takes traditional trance to a whole new level with his use of modulation on minimalist melodies and percussion. This work by he and Tom Hodge is on several of my &#8220;music to think by&#8221; playlists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0038125\">A Preliminary Analysis of Sleep-Like States in the Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis<\/a>, Marcos G. Frank , Robert H. Waldrop, Michelle Dumoulin, Sara Aton, Jean G. Boal.<br \/>\nThe punch line is in the abstract: &#8220;In addition, cuttlefish transiently display a quiescent state with rapid eye movements, changes in body coloration and twitching of the arms, that is possibly analogous to REM sleep.&#8221; Cephalopods and mammals diverged some <i>five hundred million<\/i> years ago &#8212; like, twice as long ago as when dinosaurs and mammals were hanging together. If this holds true, it&#8217;s amazing. I can&#8217;t even really call it convergent evolution, because I&#8217;m not convinced we can articulate what evolutionary pressures would generate the need for REM sleep in such different ecosystems, unless it&#8217;s actually a requirement for brain function. But human and cephalopod brains are very, very different &#8212; the common ancestor was probably something like a sea worm with a brain similar to C. elegans. So there&#8217;s an awful lot of room for <i>divergent<\/i> evolution, which we see in things like the gross structures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway, thinking of cuttlefish and perhaps octopuses dreaming of Max Cooper&#8217;s and Tom Hodge&#8217;s music makes me very, very happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(So, yeah, last week&#8217;s promise of a post tomorrow didn&#8217;t quite pan out. Anyway, without further ado&#8230;) Resonant Expanse, Max Cooper &#038; Tom Hodge I love almost everything I&#8217;ve heard by Max Cooper. He takes traditional trance to a whole new level with his use of modulation on minimalist melodies and percussion. This work by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/friday-fun-20-oct-2017-edition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday Fun! (20-Oct-2017 Edition)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,7,9],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","category-programming","tag-friday-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lothlorien.com\/kf6gpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}