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some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures

my psych book:

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Mary Oliver, from Serengeti

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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

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Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life.

— Albert Einstein

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“Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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Mother Earth is neither the first nor the last grade in the School of Life. o

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HiPOD: Defrosting Dunes

This image shows a field a sand dunes in the Martian springtime while the seasonal carbon dioxide frost is sublimating into the air. This sublimation process is not at all uniform, instead creating a pattern of dark spots.

In addition, the inter-dune areas are also striking, with bright frost persisting in the troughs of polygons. Our enhanced-color cutout is centered on a brownish-colored inter-dune area. (Enhanced color cutout is less than 1 km across.)

ID: ESP_082672_1180 date: 16 March 2024 altitude: 252 km

NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona

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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! Sitting Bull

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"The universe's early galaxies were less chaotic and developed much faster than previously thought, according to new research looking back more than ten billion years in time. An international team of astronomers led by Durham University, UK, has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to find evidence of bar formation when the universe was only a few billion years old.

This latest research is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Bars are elongated strips of stars found in disk or spiral galaxies like our Milky Way. As bars develop, they regulate star formation within a galaxy, pushing gas into the galaxy's central region, and their presence tells scientists that galaxies have entered a settled, mature phase.

Previous studies carried out using the Hubble Space Telescope had been able to detect bar forming galaxies up to eight or nine billion years ago. But the increased sensitivity and wavelength range offered by the JWST means researchers have been able to see the phenomenon happening even further back in time. This means that scientists might have to rethink their theories about galaxy evolution in the early stages of the universe's formation."

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"I've certainly become more persuaded that there is more than just the physical reality. I do think it's quite likely that if we do survive, that there's not just one experience that everyone has; that the afterlife may be as varied as life in this world."

Jim Tucker, psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, and author of "Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children who Remember Past Lives."

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To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

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Physicists have just found something no one expected, lurking on the surface of an arsenic crystal. While undertaking a study of quantum topology – the wave-like behavior of particles combined with the mathematics of geometry – a team found a strange hybrid of two quantum states, each describing a different means of current. "This finding was completely unexpected," says physicist M. Zahid Hasan of Princeton University. "Nobody predicted it in theory before its observation."

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Not to be a hopeless romantic, but was anyone going to tell us that 2023 was the year scientists were able to visualize quantum-entangled particles for the first time and they literally look like yin and yang??

Full article published in Nature Photonics here, though I read a lay reader friendly explanation here!