Майкл Бламлейн - Longer

Until his recent retirement, Dr. Blumlein taught and practiced medicine at the University of California in San Francisco.

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The Movement of Mountains

Decodings (screenplay)

The Brains of Rats

X, Y

The Healer

The Roberts

What the Doctor Ordered

All I Ever Dreamed

Thoreau’s Microscope

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Colonel Ellison S. Onizuka

In his vaulting, early years Cav had written a textbook in the form of an epic poem—rhyming no less—an energetic, unruly saga entitled A Human Ecology. Reaction was not, suffice to say, uniformly positive, but when is it ever? Gunjita is actually misquoting him slightly. The lines read: Our bodies sing / With music applaudable, / Sweet Lachetic strings / Perfectly pitched, but inaudible.

From Smells, Bells, a far-reaching survey of scent, sensitivity, syntactical stressors, societal sensitization, subliminal sequestration, and so forth. A startlingly significant, statistically sound study, based on her groundbreaking research. Single-handedly, she raised the science of olfaction from the dark ages of genetics and epigenetics into the enlightened era of perigenetics (a word first coined by Blumlein more than a century earlier in his classic study of nested personalities and genomics, Success ). A complete reimagining of the nosology of the nose and the nasal apparatus could scarcely do less.

From “The Valley,” by Los Lobos.

Actually, a constellation of genes involved in the regulation of neural and neuroendocrine systems, principally the oxytocin system, that contribute to altruistic behavior. CrB in honor of Hamilton’s groundbreaking formula: C < r x B, describing the evolutionary advantage of social behavior, where C represents the costs to the acting individual, B the benefits to the recipient, and r the relatedness between actor and recipient.

From Naturalist, by E. O. Wilson.

From The Peregrine, by J. A. Baker.

Robert Fairchild and Julian Taborz’s brainchild accounted for 38 percent of the global market in responsive sheathing material. Current data compiled and reported by Blumlein et al, in The Roberts: A Twenty-Year Follow-Up.

A word of apocryphal origin. 1. An acronym for Hybrid Usable Body in Idiosyncratic Encephaloid State; alternatively, HUman Boosted Inhalation Experiment; 2. An insult, a slur; 3. A tribute, an accolade, an expression of esteem, as in “She hubied herself for the cause”; 4. Brainless and stupid; 5. An anagram for SHIEBU, goddess of perfume and good deeds; 6. A portmanteau of “hubris” and “boobie.”

From The Blind Seer of Ambon, by W. S. Merwin.

From The Western Fruit-Growers’ Association Handbook, chapter 7, “Preventing Spoilage.”

From one of Ruby’s, aka Kleptomania’s, performances, for which she dressed as a white Leghorn hen. Gunjita was in the audience. She had been invited by her colleague and friend, Bjorn Mickelson, who was dating Ruby at the time. For Gunjita, it was love at first sight. The spectacle of a beaked and feathered grown woman strutting around and mouthing off had her rolling in the aisle. An eye-popping, mind-blowing, life-altering experience.

From Who and What Can Hurt Us: Rebuttal to Arguments against HUBIE Research, by 1URTH Press.STYLES: loosen

From the manual: Choosing Long Life: What to Expect, chapter 11, “The Final Days.”

From A Heaven of Words, by Glenway Wescott.

From “Comin’ Thru,” by Chali 2na.