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Links to contemporary essays, videos, news items, many written by sociologists, psychologists, neurologists, geneticists and philosophers 🚣🏼♂️🚣🏼♂️☀️🌴🌴🌴
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Amazing: a termite track (top) and an ant track (bottom) • each travelling insect is protected by its own column of soldiers, no fights necessary | 📹 via Mehdi Moussaid
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When the English teacher is on vacation and you request the maths teacher to act as a substitute …🤣… | thank you @advsanjoy !
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Dante Alighieri’s funeral was held in San Francesco Basilica in Ravenna in 1321 • His tomb is located in the annex. The Basilica is built below sea level and at times water floods some areas of it. Fish then swim in, creating a fascinating effect .
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A drone captures data from a surfacing Blue whale | carries a petri dish, collects mucus samples with DNA and hormones !! 🐳 🎯| Feb 2019
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Japan: Intercellular signal transduction during the assembly of slime mould cells • cAMP-sensitive fluorescent probes • signal is transmitted as a spiral wave within the group • amazing • via @kotapub
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Madrid • dancing together in the Gran Vía to Nina Simone . mybabyjustcaresforme
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Immune cells migrating • inside the legs of a drosophila specimen • real-time! 📷 🔬Anna Franz
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Same facts are compatible with any number of different theories .
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‘Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.’. Haruki Murakami.Kafka on the Shore, 2002.
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Macrophages here are grabbing the broken ends of a blood vessel and sticking them back together | 📷 Liu et al - Immunity 16 | via British Society Immunology
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‘It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster not to be found.’. Donald W Winnicott
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‘There are times when a rose is more important than a piece of bread.’. Rainer Maria Rilke
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Emotional: a condor regularly pays a visit to the man who saved its life as a baby 😍 | Srce @evankirstel
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Moscow: head photos are being animated at the Samsung AI lab by Egor Zakharovdl et al | May 2019 |
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‘Our life is also what we have not dared to do … what escaped us.’. Javier Marias
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‘Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.’. Mary Oliver
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USA: in 1980 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin spoke of the depression he experienced shortly after returning to Earth, after walking on the Moon in 1969. ‘I learned that it was OK to not be perfect all the time.’ . BBC Archives
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USA: in Central Park NYC - they’re building field hospitals for coronavirus patients • 📷 Carolyn Ryan • March 29 2020
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‘Our world doesn't need lukewarm souls. It needs burning hearts.’. Albert Camus
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US: When two monkeys were offered unequal pay for the same task . | Classic from Franz de Waal at Yerkes | TedTalks |
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Immune cells migrating • inside the legs of a drosophila specimen • real-time accelerated • amazing 📷 🔬Anna Franz • via Olympus Science
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A ciliate feeding on an individual filament of a cyanobacteria! Photog by Gerd A Günther via @OlympusLifeSci
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‘The work of understanding, unlike the urge to know, requires an endless commitment to the activity of thinking;. it requires one to always be ready to begin again.’. In ‘Hannah Arendt’ by @Samantharhill 📘 2021 .
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Japan: telepresence robots, draped in caps and gowns, took the place of graduating students at Japan's BBT University commencement • tragic • coronavirus times • via @zGuz • April 2020
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Global: population by region through to the year 2100 | Data Source: UN | Chart by @simongerman600
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‘I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.’. Tom Stoppard.The Real Thing
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti opened @CityLightsBooks in 1953. In 1956 he decided to publish Ginsberg’s 1956 poem ‘Howl’ and then later challenge its government censorship in court. 📷 c 1957 standing in front of his shop window featuring banned books. ◽️
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Mitochondria, in purple, create much of the chemical energy for this cell. Nucleus in green | wonderful 📷 by Dylan Burnette, details ▶️ @MAG2ART
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‘Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer . ’. Ursula K Le Guin.The Wave in the Mind
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‘one can never know much about any subject. I would much prefer the following definition: an expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in the subject, and how to avoid them.’ . Werner Heisenberg
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Germany: A nanobot picks up a sperm by the tail and inseminates an egg with it | Inst for Integrative Nanosciences
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Being surrounded with unread books may enrich our lives - in the sense that this is a helpful ongoing reminder of all that we do not know . The Japanese call the practice tsundoku, believing it provides lasting benefits. @bigthink Dec 2022
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‘The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.’. Claude Levi-Strauss
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‘This world is full of conflicts, and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can transcend . embrace the whole mess . and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah’. Leonard Cohen
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‘Between me and the world there is a mist of words, always.’. Oscar Wilde
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Microtubule binding motor proteins seen here, buzzing along inside a hippocamus neuron | 📷 @eva_karasmanis
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‘I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams . ’. D. H. Lawrence
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Psychotherapy is about slowing things down - so that we may begin to see and understand the patterns that otherwise happen quickly, automatically, without our reflection or awareness. Jonathan Shedler
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Undergoing apoptosis, long mitochondria, red, become circular• then mtDNA, green, escapes (process called mitochondrial herniation) via Kile Lab @WEHI_research
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‘Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well being … I have walked myself into my best thoughts . I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it . ’. Soren Kierkegaard.✍🏽 to Jette, 1847
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‘But physically we are made for travelling on foot, to move at a certain pace, and to see things with intimacy.’. Werner Herzog .In conversation with Paul @holdengraber • in @brickliterary
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Global: 1,500 free online courses from top universities | via @openculture • coronavirus times
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‘No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.’. Karl Popper
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‘Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anaesthetise themselves.’. Adam Phillips.Penguin Classics editor of Freud.in conversation with Paul @holdengraber in the @parisreview • Spring 2014
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‘Harmony is the reconciliation of opposites, not the crushing of differences.’. Jean Cocteau
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‘It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen . lightly cope with them’. Aldous Huxley. Quotomania🎙Paul @holdengraber
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Argentina: 🦅 a cattle rancher saved the life of the Condor in Loncopué after it fell from its nest as a young chick • he cared for the bird, then returned it to the wild • the bird sometimes flies back to visit • hugs ❤️
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‘Art is the whisper of history heard above the noise of time.’. Julian Barnes.considering creativity in his fictionalised biography of the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich
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‘After all these years I have observed that beauty, like happiness, is frequent. A day does not pass when we are not, for an instant, in paradise.’. Jorge Luis Borges
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‘I have always admired people who have left behind them an incomprehensible mess.’. Bob Dylan
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‘In certain moments life’s meaning does not matter. Bonds matter.’. Jorge Luis Borges
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‘And more and more my own language appears to me like a veil that must be torn apart to get at the things (or the nothings) behind it . ’. Samuel Beckett .To Axel Kaun 1937
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🎨 Flora, the ancient Roman goddess of youth, of flowers and of the season of Spring • Roman fresco of Cosiddetta Flora from the Villa di Arianna, in Stabiae near Pompeii, 1st century CE
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Sweden: Professor of solid state physics Knut Deppert demos a pair of nanotech pants - are they really stain proof? | U Lund
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Know all the theories.Master all the techniques. But as you touch human soul.Be simply another human soul. Carl Jung.(attributed: a popularised version of his original writing in 1928)
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‘The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake.’. Haruki Murakami
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‘You came, by chance, into my life of which I was not proud, and from that day something began to change. I have breathed better, I have hated things less. I have admired more freely what deserved admiration.’. Albert Camus.✍🏽 to Maria Casarès 1949.
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Neuron migration towards the cortex during brain development • path and speed defined by a radial scaffold of neural stem cells • 🔬📹 from Morgan-Smith et al @eLife • 2014
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Dante Alighieri, Divina Commedia; 📚🎨 C 14th Italy N; f.63r • BL Egerton MS 943; via @BLMedieval | a medieval illustration
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Ancient votive ears were created either as prayers for the healing of a personal ailment, or to act as amplifiers - to help the listening gods hear the prayers of humans | 📷 marble C 4th BCE, Gallery of the Acropolis Slopes, Acropolis, Athens
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‘Humanity today is like a waking dreamer; caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world . We have created a Star Wars civilization, with stone-age emotions, medieval institutions, and God-like technology.’. Edward O Wilson.The Social Conquest of Earth
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Alberto and Annette Giacometti in his Paris studio in 1951 • 📷 by Alexander Liberman - Collection Fondation Giacometti, Paris
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‘I have a strong will to love you for eternity.’. Milan Kundera
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‘More than machinery, we need humanity . More that cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities: life will be violent, and all will be lost.’. Charlie Chaplin.Final speech in ‘The Great Dictator’, 1940
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‘Men believe they are free for the reason that they are aware of their actions, and ignorant of the causes by which they are determined.’. Baruch Spinoza.On the Origin and Nature of Affects
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‘There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.’. Adrienne Rich
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‘That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence.’. John Berger
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Trees can make space for each other at the crowns, yet be so intertwined at the roots that they sometimes die together | C Lariviere | Berlin | April 2020
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‘Contradictory thoughts do not try to eliminate one another, but continue side by side, and often combine to form condensation products, as though no contradiction existed.’. Sigmund Freud.The Interpretation of Dreams
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‘The realization life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning . ’. Albert Camus
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Zebrafish: a larva's brain has ~100,000 individual neurons • Firing in real-time ⬇️ • 📹🔬Dr Philipp Keller
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Arabic origin of our current numbers: it’s based on counting angles
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‘Tenderness . not simply a need for tenderness, also a need to be tender for the other . we go back to the root of any relationship, where need and desire meet.’. Roland Barthes.Fragments of a Lover’s Discourse
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Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward book browsing at the Strand Bookstore, near Hotel Albert, in NYC in 1959 | 📷 Gordon Parks
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‘The task is not to see what has never been seen before, but to think what has never been thought before about what you see every day.’. Erwin Schrödinger.with thanks to @thePiggsBoson
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‘The poets leave hell and again behold the stars . ’. Dante Alighieri • Divine Comedy
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‘How we talk to ourselves is determined by how others, and first of all, our parents, talk to us.’. Lev Vygotsky
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Inner ear. Photo by Dr Sonja Pyott, University of North Carolina
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. James Baldwin
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‘Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.’ . Dorothy Parker .
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‘I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary.’. Saul Bellow
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