INFO DROP: THE FAUCI CONNECTIONS (2020)

Humanism and the invisible college https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/009365093020006001

The invisible college has been shown to be an important part of the information environment in several scientific specialties, but humanists have been thought to work in comparative isolation. This study of 123 scholars of children's literature found an invisible college within a specialty in the humanities. Members were more highly connected than others in the field, more senior, had published more, and were more likely to have their written work listed as influential. More than 50% of all respondents indicated that at least 50% of the time they discussed their work in its early stages, discussed the specific primary sources about which they were planning to write, and found ideas for their scholarship arising out of informal communication.

The Invisible College : The Royal Society, Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science ww.amazon.com/Invisible-College-Society-Freemasonry-Science/dp/0747239770

CORPUS CHRISTI GOES AHEAD WITH CLOUD-SEEDING https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-00806r000100200036-9

The state's Center for Innovative Technology got two boosts Tuesday - the

go-ahead from a number of officials to get summer construction underway as

scheduled and the announcement of a prestigious new tenant.

A group called SPC, which stands for the Software Productivity Consortium, will set up shop in the new CIT.

..CIT President Robert Pry.. SPC comprised of 13 leading aerospace coroporations...Most of the technology developed will serve the defense and intelligence community. Scott Eubanks said the CIT's proximity to the CIA and the Department of Defense was a big factor. The CIT will be located near the Dulles Airport. The companies in the consortium.. Boeing, GTE, General Dynamics, E-Systems, Lockheed, Ford Aerospace, Martin Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, Northrup, Rockwell, Science Applications International Corp, TRW and United Technologies.

What was the devastating 'secret' Isaac Newton mentioned in his letter to Robert Boyle? https://www.inwardquest.com/questions/64496/what-was-the-devastating-secret-isaac-newton-mentioned-in-his-letter-to-robert-boyle

The discovery of Isaac Newton’s secret papers in 1936 had stunned the world by revealing Newton’s all consuming passion for the study of ancient alchemy and mystical wisdom. Newton’s private papers included a handwritten letter to Robert Boyle in which he exhorted Boyle to keep “high silence” regarding the mystical knowledge they had learned. “It cannot be communicated,” Newton wrote, “without immense damage to the world.”

Isaac Newton's Letter to Robert Boyle, on the Cosmic Ether of Space - 1679 http://www.orgonelab.org/newtonletter.htm [archived : http://archive.is/wip/kS6pW]

Below is a letter on the question of the cosmic ether of space, written by Isaac Newton in 1679 to Robert Boyle, a fellow scientist about 15 years older than Newton at the time, and who is remembered with a fame nearly equal to that of Newton. ..The letter below is significant firstly because it is not well-known outside of a few historians. Where it is quoted, significant parts as I have now restored, are often left out.

The letter is significant secondly because of its contents. Newton's early embrace of a tangible and motile ether was heresy not just to the Vatican in his time, but also for the modern departments of physics in nearly every university, where quasi-religious concepts of empty-space, devoid of any tangible qualities are embraced; and nothing can be permitted to challenge them.

The letter clearly shows the young Newton, who wrote this in 1679 when he was 37 years old, had a firm belief and working grasp of the ether of space as a thing of substance and "ponderability", something which participated in the movement and ordering of the planets and universe, as a working force in optics, chemistry and gravitation...

Thirdly, this letter from Newton is significant for its insights into how the ether "adheres" to matter, and may work to bind matter together, to create optical, chemical and gravitational effects. He would later abandon all such ideas, and the world would basically forget about them until the first half of the 20th Century, when scientists such as Dayton Miller, Wilhelm Reich, Giorgio Piccardi and others would detect exactly that kind and form of a cosmic energy force in nature, expressing itself in their experimental results.

Bethlem Royal Hospital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlem_Royal_Hospital

Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff.

The hospital is closely associated with King's College London and, in partnership with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, is a major centre for psychiatric research. It is part of the King's Health Partners academic health science centre and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health.

In 1997, the Bethlem Gallery was established to showcase the work of artists that have experienced mental distress. In 1999, Bethlem Royal Hospital became part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust ("SLaM"), along with the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell, and the merger of mental health services in Lambeth and Lewisham.[

Silviculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silviculture

Silviculture is the practice of controlling the growth, composition/structure, and quality of forests to meet values and needs, specifically timber production... The distinction between forestry and silviculture is that silviculture is applied at the stand-level, while forestry is a broader concept. Adaptive management is common in silviculture, while forestry can include natural/conserved land without stand-level management and treatments being applied.

.The origin of forestry in German-speaking Europe has defined silvicultural systems broadly as high forest (Hochwald), coppice with standards (Mittelwald) and compound coppice, short rotation coppice, and coppice (Niederwald).

Artificial regeneration - With a view to reducing the time needed to produce planting stock, experiments were carried out with white spruce and three other coniferous species from Wisconsin seed in the longer, frost-free growing season in Florida, 125 vs. 265 days in central Wisconsin and northern Florida, respectively

Season of planting > Tree planting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_planting In silviculture the activity is known as reforestation, or afforestation, depending on whether the area being planted has or has not recently been forested.

Seasoning (colonialism) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(colonialism)

Seasoning, or The Seasoning, is the term applied to the period of adjustment that was undertaken by African slaves and European immigrants following their first attack of tropical disease, during the colonisation of the Americas. Malaria was the chief adversary of colonists and slaves. Death rates dramatically differed between regions in the Americas. Those who survived were known as Seasoned, and for slaves, this would command a higher price.

The term has also been applied to a period of preparation that covered adjustment to new sociocultural, labor, and geographic environments.[3] The goal was to erase the slaves' memories prior to slavery so that their history begins and ends with their usefulness to their owners.[4] It usually involved an older slave breaking in new ones using approaches such as less severe forms of punishment (e.g. restriction on food).[3] Other variations involved harsher and more physically forceful procedure.[3] This is demonstrated in the case of slave owners who believed that adaptation must begin at the earliest stage with the immediate removal of the element of subjective resistance by instilling fear and breaking the slave's spirit

Pinn, Anthony B. (2003). Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion. Minneapolis: Fortress Press. pp. 35-36. ISBN 0800636015.

Millet, Kitty (2017). The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 56. ISBN 9781472508263.

Millet, Kitty (2017). The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust: A Comparative History of Persecution. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 181. ISBN 9781472508263.

John Evelyn's Sylva https://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections/to-scrutinize-nature/silviculture/john-evelyns-sylva

The diarist John Evelyn (1620-1706) was a founder member of the Royal Society, who, unlike some of the figures more readily associated with it, envisaged it as a forum for broad humanistic enquiry and public service. He believed that the original intention of the Royal Society, which embraced the application of science to social and economic problems, should be realised. This was the mainspring of Sylva.

He withdrew from the Society as its attention turned more towards ‘pure’ science. Although his interest in silviculture stemmed from different sources than did Nehemiah Grew’s investigations concerning the structure of trees, in the third edition of Sylva in 1679 he acknowledged the microscopical researches of Grew and Hooke on the circulation of sap.

Sylva was at the time of its first publication in 1664 the first treatise in English devoted entirely to silviculture, and was written at the request of several Commissioners of the Navy. It was the first book to be published under the auspices of the Royal Society, and was aimed exclusively at the educated gentry and aristocracy, as its style, replete with classical allusions, indicates. It found enduring popularity among them.

Locke on perception https://kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections/to-scrutinize-nature/wilkins-and-locke/locke-on-perception

The philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1668. Although he was never a particularly active participant, as his scientific interests tended to be purely medical, he was a close associate of other Fellows, such as Wilkins and Boyle.

Locke was not only one of Boyle’s literary executors, but accepted Boyle’s corpuscular theory of matter. This had major implications for Locke’s epistemology. Although Locke does not mention Wilkins by name, his philosophy of language was a refutation of the assumptions on which Wilkins founded his magnum opus. Wilkins had assumed that the essences of things would be available to human perception, and so a direct correspondence between signs and things could be made. Locke thought that if Boyle’s views on matter were followed, it would be impossible for humans to gain a precise idea of the real essence of matter, as its invisibility to the naked eye, and the uncertain powers of microscopy, would create barriers to human perception.

Furthermore, languages did not reflect reality directly, but rather the imposition of human perception on reality. Languages changed in arbitrary and irrational ways, because they were necessarily the result of human custom and society. Any attempt to create a universal language defied the nature of language.