Newsletter - June 23, 2021

Dear brothers and sisters,

We invite you to join us as we show how to enliven your kitchen with wheat grass and Tibetan barley grass. We then start your backyard garden for autumn and winter beginning with Grandpa Admire’s lettuce and ending with Early Purple Kohlrabi. It is a celebration of your ascendancy in these troubled times. You will come through - your Victory Garden proves it. You will  renew, re-generate and redeem this land and bring about the "new birth of freedom “ that Abraham Lincoln prophesied.

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

Brothers and sisters,

We invite you to take us on a tour of your springtime Victory Garden.

Walk with us down the rows of broccoli, kale, chard lettuce, sweet corn and tomatoes. Go ahead, give us a  tour! Put it together in a video.  We'll include in our newsletter.

We will award a Gift Card for $300 for the most emphatic submission.

Send the video or a link to it here

Contest ends on June 30th.

(Wired) In 2014, a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, Canada, named Cohl Furey rented a car and drove six hours south to Pennsylvania State University, eager to talk to a physics professor there named Murat Günaydin. Furey had figured out how to build on a finding of Günaydin’s from 40 years earlier—a largely forgotten result that supported a powerful suspicion about fundamental physics and its relationship to pure math.

The suspicion, harbored by many physicists and mathematicians over the decades but rarely actively pursued, is that the peculiar panoply of forces and particles that comprise reality spring logically from the properties of eight-dimensional numbers called “octonions.”

As numbers go, the familiar real numbers—those found on the number line, like 1, π and -83.777—just get things started. Real numbers can be paired up in a particular way to form “complex numbers,” first studied in 16th-century Italy, that behave like coordinates on a 2-D plane. Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing is like translating and rotating positions around the plane. Complex numbers, suitably paired, form 4-D “quaternions,” discovered in 1843 by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton, who on the spot ecstatically chiseled the formula into Dublin’s Broome Bridge. John Graves, a lawyer friend of Hamilton’s, subsequently showed that pairs of quaternions make octonions: numbers that define coordinates in an abstract 8-D space.

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