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Well I just learned bees pick up a positive charge while flying. Flowers have adapted to this by cultivating a negative charge, helping their pollen stick to the bees. Bees further adapted by sensing and avoiding neutral flowers, since a different bee probably just landed there.

I'm telling you guys: this book I'm reading is great, just very difficult to succinctly quote.

(Storm in a Teacup)

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How to make popcorn, according to Physics for the Birds

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This one is on my list! Let me know how it goes!

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But there's a limit: to increase the tension in the water to pull it up further, the stomata must get smaller and smaller stomata let in less carbon dioxide so there is less raw material for photosynthesis. [...] Theory suggests that the tallest a tree could possibly grow is 122-130 meters, because beyond that it wouldn't be able to take in enough carbon dioxide to do any actual growing.

–Storm in a Teacup

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But there's a limit: to increase the tension in the water to pull it up further, the stomata must get smaller and smaller stomata let in less carbon dioxide so there is less raw material for photosynthesis. [...] Theory suggests that the tallest a tree could possibly grow is 122-130 meters, because beyond that it wouldn't be able to take in enough carbon dioxide to do any actual growing.

–Storm in a Teacup

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Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

A gentle expansion of your world view, this book will help you see human history in a whole new light. Is Buddhism a religion or an ideology? Is money real, or a part of our collective imagination? Who are we? Who do we want to become?

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Webster's Dictionary defines cliché as: something that has become overly familiar or commonplace. In this essay, I will explain common tropes within middle-school writing...

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Involuntary nirvana: not as much fun as you would think.

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Word of the day:

Inter-subjective reality.

A reality that only exists because we all agree that it does. E.G. The Florida State Government.

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Three main factors prevent people from realizing that the [social] order organizing their lives exists only in their imagination: A) The imagined order is embedded in the material world [...] B) The imagined order shapes our desires [...] C) The imagined order is inter-subjective.

–Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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We believe in a particular order not because it is objectively true, but because believing in it enables us to cooperate effectively and forge a better society. Imagined orders are not evil conspiracies or useless mirages, rather they are the only way large numbers of humans can cooperate effectively.

–Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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The story of the luxury trap carries with it an important lesson: humanity's search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transform the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted. Nobody plotted the agricultural revolution or sought human dependence on serial cultivation. A series of trivial decisions aimed mostly at filling a few stomachs and gaining a little security had the cumulative effect of forcing ancient forages to spend their days carrying water buckets under a scorching sun.

–Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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Reminder that you are deserving of love 💜

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[Modern life] gives us more material resources and longer lives than those enjoyed by any previous generation, but it often makes us feel alienated and depressed. To understand why, evolutionary psychologists argue, we need to delve into the hunter-gatherer world that shaped us, the world that we subconsciously still inhabit.

–Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari

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Like a government diverting money from defense to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons. It's hardly a foregone conclusion that this is a good strategy for survival on the savannah. A chimpanzee can't win an argument with the homosapien, but the ape can rip the man apart like a rag doll.

–Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

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Super Volcanoes by Robin George Andrews

Volcanoes underwater, volcanoes on Mars, volcanoes made from lava, volcanoes made from ammonia: this book has it all. Filled with stories about volcanoes and the people who love and fear them, this book will make you love them as much as Robin does.