{"query": "The genetic clock — mitochondrial Eve and the molecular reco", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_8a1d7924121c", "title": "The genetic clock — mitochondrial Eve and the molecular record", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Mitochondrial DNA passes only mother to child and never recombines, so it is a clean\nmaternal lineage; the Y chromosome does the same for fathers. Mutations accumulate at a roughly\nsteady rate, so cou"}, {"id": "card_n_d8471389950e", "title": "Tracing the peoples — genes and words, two clocks reading one history", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A people can be traced across DISTANCE and TIME by two records that survive in the body and\nin the mouth: the genome and the language. They are the same method — a molecular clock ticking,\na tree bran"}, {"id": "card_n_770170ab1111", "title": "The linguistic clock — the comparative method dates the dispersal", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The same history is written in the words. The comparative method reconstructs ancestral\ntongues from their daughters (sealed in the language-evolution wing), and glottochronology's\nexponential vocabul"}, {"id": "card_c_3b3121f3e55d", "title": "The genetic clock is read from the genome", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "mtDNA and Y lineages, dated by the molecular clock."}, {"id": "card_n_b10117556d41", "title": "The two clocks — quartz, cesium, and the second", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wrist clock and the world clock. Quartz beats 32,768 times a second; the SI second is\nDEFINED as 9,192,631,770 oscillations of cesium-133's hyperfine transition (since 1967) —\nsealed: the cesium c"}, {"id": "card_n_8a7790228c1d", "title": "Pirkei Avot §avot_05_06: Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight, and these are ...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight, and these are they: [1] the mouth of the earth, [2] the mouth of the well, [3] the mouth of the donkey, [4] the rainbow, [5] the manna, ["}, {"id": "card_n_cfb57dd6b005", "title": "Radioactive decay — the exponential clock of matter", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sealed in-domain: after one half-life exactly half remains; after two, exactly one\nquarter (2^(−2) = 1/4, exact); carbon-14's decay constant is ln2/5730 years = 3.833×10⁻¹²\nper second: https://narrowh"}, {"id": "card_n_2024c1ff59f8", "title": "Augustine, Confessions §aug_conf_07_013: And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest g...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "And Thou, willing first to show me how Thou resistest the proud, but givest grace unto the humble, and by how great an act of Thy mercy Thou hadst traced out to men the way of humility, in that Thy Wo"}, {"id": "card_c_f0e27e5004f3", "title": "The genetic clock instantiates the tracing of peoples", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "The record in the body."}, {"id": "card_c_268b55a98977", "title": "The carbon clock resonates with the capacitor's RC clock", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "One exponential, two substrates — matter's decay and the bench's discharge. RESONANCE: a map-aid, never a proof of unity."}, {"id": "card_n_0a41c0e3298d", "title": "Pheromones — the molecule is the message", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A pheromone is chemistry acting as language: a molecule IS a signal. Sealed: a\n20-component blend encodes 2^20 = 1,048,576 distinguishable messages (~4.3 bits per component),\nand an ant's trail evapor"}, {"id": "card_n_0504c8eaaa65", "title": "Easton: Tree of the knowledge of good and evil", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen. 2, 3). Adam and Eve were forbidden to take of the fruit which grew upon it. But they disobeyed the divine injunction, and so sin"}, {"id": "card_n_0e9a1a53ebf7", "title": "Easton: Cain", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A possession; a spear. (1.) The first-born son of Adam and Eve (Gen. 4). He became a tiller of the ground, as his brother Abel followed the pursuits of pastoral life. He was “a sullen, self-willed, ha"}, {"id": "card_n_3c0550712d94", "title": "Easton: Eve", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Life; living, the name given by Adam to his wife (Gen. 3:20; 4:1). The account of her creation is given in Gen. 2:21, 22. The Creator, by declaring that it was not good for man to be alone, and by cre"}, {"id": "card_n_e58898b8fc38", "title": "The genetic code — a language written in a molecule", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Life stores itself as text: a four-letter alphabet (A, C, G, T), three-letter words, and a\nredundant dictionary. Sealed: 4^3 = 64 codons, 64 - 3 stop = 61 sense codons mapping to just 20\namino acids —"}, {"id": "card_n_e8186ce33d19", "title": "GPS (UHF) — a constellation of clocks at 19 centimeters", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "L1 = 154 × 10.23 MHz = 1575.42 MHz EXACTLY — the whole system is integer multiples of\none 10.23 MHz atomic clock; sealed, with the 19 cm wavelength: https://narrowhighway.com/s/d6211f4efb2518c6de145de"}, {"id": "card_n_9c24074fe17d", "title": "Easton: Day", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Jews reckoned the day from sunset to sunset (Lev. 23:32). It was originally divided into three parts (Ps. 55:17). “The heat of the day” (1 Sam. 11:11; Neh. 7:3) was at our nine o’clock, and “the c"}, {"id": "card_n_cdb747a427d2", "title": "Electronics — the resonant chain, from Ohm's law to the radio wave", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One sealed chain runs the whole bench: Ohm's law (V = I·R), the capacitor's\nexponential clock (one time constant → 63.2% charged), the diode's exponential gate (current\ndoubles every ln2·nVT ≈ 17.9 mV"}, {"id": "card_n_e6fe47a9842d", "title": "Imitation of Christ §imit_03_48: Oh most blessed mansion of the City which is above!", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Oh most blessed mansion of the City which is above! Oh most clear day of eternity which the night obscureth not, but the Supreme Truth ever enlighteneth! Day always joyful, always secure and never cha"}, {"id": "card_n_8fa579adfa24", "title": "Easton: Abel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Heb. Hebhel), a breath, or vanity, the second son of Adam and Eve. He was put to death by his brother Cain (Gen. 4:1-16). Guided by the instruction of their father, the two brothers were trained in t"}]}