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Today’s generation of readers may not realize that some of there favorite rollicking, sinister, dark, courageous or heroic classic stories were written during the pulp fiction era of the early 1900s up to the 1950s.

The pulps literally got its name from the cheap wood pulp paper they were printed on to keep costs down so that people in the depressed economy from the World War II could afford cheap entertainment. It was hugely successful and had a good fifty year run of some of the best stories we’ve had to date.

What is interesting about reading some of these great old classics is that you can fully visualize and experience the culture as it was back then. Before cars we had horse drawn carriages, language of today is quite different from fifty to one hundred years ago and the role of men and women have changed greatly over this time period.

When you read a pulp fiction story you often have the scenario of black and white, such as good against evil, the black hat being the bad guy and the white hat the good guy. It was a no holds bar style of writing that was a new experience for the average reader. It was also a time when new genres of writing appeared which electrified readers and caused somewhat of an addiction to particular characters and stories. Hard boiled detective stories hit the magazine stands as well as macabre pulps, fantasy and science fiction, weird menace, spicy pulps, horror and dark fantasy, westerns, mystery and romance and many other sub-genres. It was also the birth of the super hero which we seem to have an obsession with. Many of the super heroes we see in movies are based on characters created by pulp fiction writers such as super man, batman, the invisible man etc. Today’s novels tend to lean more to small nuances that thread through a story as apposed to the pulps hard knocking fast talking pulps.

Many of pulp fictions heroic characters were flawed with criminal intent and immoral behavior but despite that, we find ourselves drawn into their endearing qualities and route for their eventual success. Case in point: the Sherlock Holmes character (from the early books and movies) was a cocaine addict and had no qualms about lying to police if he felt it would bring him closer to solving a case he was working on but despite his eccentricities, we still cheer when he gets his man!

In September, 2011, a discovery at the CERN particle accelerator appears to have demolished the foundations of Albert Einstein’s world-view, which stated that nothing could move faster than the speed of light. Assuming this to be correct, then the social ramifications of the discovery are so enormous, that the sooner we can repair the damage that an unbalanced scientific ethos has done to civilisation, the better. The fact that eminent scientists have predicted this collapsing of the fixed scientific world-view suggests that we re-examine their published concerns as a matter of urgency.

The Einsteinian world-view claimed that every aspect of 20th Century scientific thinking had to be governed by Einstein’s understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. This law was described by Maria Montessori as a greed energy law, responsible for destructive economic collapses. Montessori was listed in TIME Magazine’s Century of Science as the greatest scientist for 1907. Together with her colleague, the Jesuit priest, Tielhard de Chardin, they modified Einstein’s E=mc squared, in order to balance universal atomic decay with sub atomic creative energies. Their theories related to the research into aesthetics and ethics conducted during the 18th Century by Immanuel Kant.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy lists Immanuel Kant as “one of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western philosophy. His contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics have had a profound impact on almost every philosophical movement that followed him”. The term ‘impact’ suggests the acquisition of learned wisdom from the Classical Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy, refers to the ancient concept of Wisdom through Beauty.

Immanuel Kant and his colleague Hans Christian Oersted, who discovered the electromagnetic field, had considered that such an ethical technology could be derived from the Platonic ‘Science for Ethical Ends’. In 1786 Hans Christian Oersted wrote his famous Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science, based upon Immanuel Kant’s theories. It can be deduced that their concept of ethical technology to make the electric motor a child’s toy by comparison, was associated with their understanding of the properties of their electromagnetic universal ethical purpose.

If you are like most Americans, you are familiar with House, the witty and sardonic doctor on Fox TV. You are probably also familiar with poor Cuddy, boss of House. She is constantly immersed with House in battles of wit and motivation. Cuddy urgently needs RFID, and here are six reasons why:

Instant House Location System
Combine a real-time location system (RTLS) with a RFID tag implanted in House’s cane to let Cuddy know where he is at all times. No longer can he watch his favorite soap operas while hidden in the break room. He will find no sanctuary to play Gameboy (or whatever other gaming system he is promoting this episode) in peace. Wherever he goes, Cuddy can track him.

Limit Vicodin Intake
With RFID, Vicodin could (and very soon will be) tracked at the item level. This allows Cuddy to know when… or, er… how much House is using at any given time.

Automated Patient Reports
While there are few things House doesn’t hate, near the top of the hated list is paperwork. Many RFID systems allow for a variety of automated reports including patient reports. While House would still have paperwork to pass off onto one of his staff (or refuse to do entirely when negotiating with Cuddy), at least the amount of overall paperwork would be reduced, leaving him more time to be cranky and save lives.

Always have the cure
With RFID, custom par levels can be set which prevent shortages. This is extremely necessary as House will often need a specialized something-or-other to cure that one-in-a-billion disease. You must keep everything in stock of at least one. If not, House won’t have the necessary cure on hand to heal the lady with jelly for bones.

Reduced costs
Everyone knows House is one of the most expensive doctors to keep around. He is constantly costing Cuddy money with the constant lawsuits, extended patient stays (often due to the initial diagnosis), and other miscellaneous costs of keeping House around (Vicodin supply for example). With all of these costs, Cuddy could certainly gain from reduced costs on the side. RFID can provide her this cost reduction, so that she can keep House around for just one more season.

This often asked question is asked because written music consists of strange shapes and lines, which we know as sheet music.

Music is written in the way it is, to make reading of it easy and quick. To facilitate this a graphical approach has been chosen as it is easier to understand quickly than the written word.

This form of written music was not how music was originally written. Originally, music was written using a few shapes with written words being used to quantify the shapes, later a few lines were added for specific notes, then, four lines were sometimes used. French composers began using five lines, which became the standard by the seventeenth century and of course remains to this day. So it is true to say that the present form of written music has evolved rather than been invented or decided upon.

Humans are much better at taking action when presented with things graphically rather than when written down. A graphical symbol is instantly recognized and an action can be taken just as quickly. The written word needs to read and interpreted before an action can be decided upon and taken.

Written descriptions of music could never be read, understood, interpreted and then played at sensible speeds. This is recognized in many areas of life. Road signs use graphics rather than words to convey their meaning rapidly to the driver.

For a human being seeing notes on the musical lines graphically is easier than reading words. Notes on lines can be seen as patterns. Patterns can be reproduced on a musical instrument very easily with great speed.

Having a graphical interface allows a wide range of information to be placed on the music paper, which is constantly available to the musician as it is repeated in each section of the

music. This additional information can be the speed the music is to be played at, the key the music is to be played in, the volume the music is to be played at, the mood of the music and a host of other features that the musician needs to assist their playing to ensure that the music sounds as the composer intended it to sound.