Hadron the Collider will be playing with some cool bands this Wednesday, July 7th at 8pm! $6—open bar! It’ll be a fun show for sure!
The Trash Bar
www.thetrashbar.com
256 Grand St. between Driggs and Roebling
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY 11211
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Hadron the Collider at the Trash Bar This Wednesday
Sunday, July 4th, 2010Hadron the Collider Plays the Make Music New York Festival on Monday!
Saturday, June 19th, 2010We were very excited to be chosen to take part in this annual event. Make Music New York is a one day music festival that… well, let’s let the New Yorker describe it:
“An eleven-hour escapade of musical creativity.” – The New Yorker
From the Make Music New York website:
“Make Music New York is a live, free musical celebration across the city that takes place each June 21 — the longest day of the year.
On that day, hundreds of public spaces throughout the five boroughs — sidewalks, parks, community gardens, and more — become impromptu stages for over 1,000 free concerts. Musicians of all ages, creeds, and musical persuasions perform for new audiences, who come out from under their headphones to hear unfamiliar groups risk-free on the first day of summer.”
If you are out and about in Greenpoint on Monday, June 21st at 6PM, come over the McGolrick park to listen to Hadron the Collider and other great bands play for fun and to celebrate the first day of summer!
Something Gonzales
Friday, March 19th, 2010Friday March 19th, 8:30am, on a Southbound E train between 34th and 23rd, someone announced over the dying old man of a public address system that it was something something (couldn’t make out what that guy said) Gonzales’ last day on the job. After 30 years of dedicated service to the MTA, he’s retiring. Congratulations Something Gonzales. I half hoped, pictured in my mind, all of us vacant commuters, in every train car, standing and cheering for Something Gonzales. I pictured this joyful, ridiculous, inspirational commercial in my head. Nobody moved. No one reacted. The moment to celebrate was gone. The reading and staring and thinking and music and thinking some more went on uninterrupted. We don’t expect to make out much of what’s said on those subway PAs. We’ve all been frustrated by that garbled trick. And, on the rare occasion that we do understand, our backpacks are subject to search. So, Something Gonzales goes un-thanked by his passengers. Maybe we were all jealous, all on our way to work again, and on such a beautiful upper 60s day. Enjoy your retirement Something Gonzales. Thanks for the ride.
Physicalims for the Non-Physicalist – II
Friday, March 12th, 2010Psychoneural Identity Theory, or identity theory, posits that any mental event is equal to a neural occurrence, or some physical event, inside the brain. Jaegwon Kim describes two ways to define what an “event” is. Token physicalism views events as discrete “particulars of the world, along with material objects.” (Kim, Philosophy of Mind, Chapter 4, pg. 101) In token physicalism, a specific mental event “kind” also has a specific physical event “kind”. For example, the action of a hammer hitting my hand is painful, and the painfulness is equal to both the pain itself and the firing of C-fibers in my brain. A second way to define an event is with type physicalism, which states that mental event kinds are equal to physical event kinds and vice versa. Therefore, the hammer hitting my hand is painful, and painfulness is the same as the C-fibers firing in my brain. From this example, it can be shown that type physicalism necessitates token physicalism but token physicalism has no need for the specificity offered by type physicalism. In other words, token physicalism doesn’t actually necessarily mean that the pain I’m feeling is the C-fibers firing, like type physicalism does, it only says that for the particular event of pain that I am feeling, there is the pain and there is also the C-fiber firing. This caveat of token physicalism is what opens the door to dualism and is ultimately why it fails the minimum requirements of a physicalist identity description.
Physicalism for the Non Physicalist – I
Sunday, March 7th, 2010It is no great statement to claim that the human intestinal bacteria known as helicobacter pylori doesn’t have mental states. However, under close inspection, h. pylori can be seen moving towards food, i.e., hydrogen produced in the duodenum. It has also been observed moving away from harm, by tunneling into the intestinal wall in order to move to where the acidic levels of the intestines are lower. To the casual observer, this “moving toward food” behavior and “moving away from harm” behavior might be seen as a sort of awareness – a conscious decision made by the bacteria based on the wish to survive. To a trained scientist however, it’s all a matter of physics. Instead of an ephemeral “mind,” there are chemical reactions occurring within the h. pylori that “reward” the bacteria based on environmental stimuli. For each behavior event, there is a corresponding physical event occurring inside the bacteria. (more…)
Time and Rye
Sunday, October 25th, 2009It’s cold and dry. The rye is wet and warm. My hands will be cracking soon and the subway will feel less jungle, more dungeon, full of stone and steel and water dripping from somewhere again. Time between time gets shorter again. It starts and stops. The world spins like an old netflix movie. Sometimes it just doesn’t work. No red envelope, return postage paid, a new one in 3 days. This turnaround takes all year as it brags ownership with wind and rain. The rye stays faithful and the warmly dressed voices sound further away. 10 minutes more, and time starts again. I’ll take my flaming breath with me til we meet again my time.
