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@paddyemanuel

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Author. #Potato #botanist , #philosopher and #historian (these last 3 all amateur). Royal Society of New Zealand . Writing book about potatoes.

Miraflores, Peru + Waiheke, NZ
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Exercise Enhances Cognitive Function: Executive Functions: Exercise improves executive functions such as attention, problem-solving, and decision-making. These cognitive processes are essential for goal-oriented behavior. Mood and Anxiety: Physical activity has a significant
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@JamesLucasIT I went to #machupicchu last week it was amazing
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Diary of missionary traveling from London to South Pacific in 1799. The writer´s thoughts yes are tricky to read but are similar to some of my own. people have not changed much in 200 years. #missionary #HistoricalFiction #Nightshade
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@KirstinMills sorry to her this. fire-cracker til the end is the way to do it!
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@SoVeryBritish I thought this was where the great fire of London started?? oh no that was pudding lane. pudding. so many sides to pudding
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@archi_tradition New York. If you can afford it. And that’s a big if
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@TheFigen_ true story. I thought that was Joe Biden
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For me the beach provides the backbone of the creative process. #writerslift #writers #nightshade #authorcommunity #authors
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valid!
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@StoniAstley there must be blood
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@mumumouse2 how do you find all of this? it is so impressive! have you thought about expanding the cause? this contrived stuff is why I left academics
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@ryjodo I too have noticed this. The unapologetic thing is new too. I think a small amount of social accountability has gone out the window. Sad, but some people think they don´t need other people quite as much
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Camus’s ‘Limpid, upright mind’ is probably best seen in the Plague. #Camus #readercommunity a car accident what a waste drive safe everyone
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@amwilson_opera Brave decisions are the best decisions! To not put up with whatever happened shows character. Rare character. Good luck 🍀
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@xBrenda19 Well done! I stopped drinking three years ago. I think it took about a year to not have any inkling whatsoever
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@jonathanbfine agree. and the seventeenth a close second.
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All of this political stuff . It almost seeems the world neglected the international day of the potato . Thank you, Solanum tuberosum and all your relatives. #nightshade #potato #dayofthepotato #botany #writers
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@TheBookshopMan he repels at the label but #thebaroquecycle is historical fiction. and a masterpiece
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Valid!
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Herman Melville: “Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.”
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#Writerslift #author #ShamelessSelfpromoSaturday #links , #art , #blogs #potato ¨John Love tells me they worship them. The natives worship yams I mean. ¨ Banks shook his head, amused at the audacity of the preposterous notion. ¨What nonsense,¨ Banks replied with
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Working on illustrations in hiatus between edits #Spud #botany #nightshade #writers
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1799 diary of a missionary voyage: London bound for South Pacific. here are Cool drawings . my distant relative wrote this! has inspired a large creative effort on my part (I´m an ¨academic¨ MD!), and to join this site (never used until this month) and connect with inspiring
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#translators ! Compare these two. One is brilliant, possibly as good as #dostoevsky ´s Russian intended. The other is like chatGPT. robotic and meh. #readercommunity
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Look, science is going through a rough patch. It’s true . all theories seem on the table
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¨The Atom¨ Historic events painted by #HieronymusBosch . Generator: Automatic1111 WebUI on RunDiffusion Prompt: [Event] painted by Hieronymus Bosch.
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Say what you like. Here is an example of someone fully invested in their career. OK ¨invested¨ may be a loaded word for some, but what I mean is he must love his job, to be doing it this long. I know many countries have mandatory retirement ages. They see his kind of zest for his
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Professor Anthony Fauci ForMemRS becomes a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. He was a key advisor to seven Presidents on global HIV/AIDS issues and on preparedness against emerging infectious disease threats, and served as the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.
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@aliner well said. if you are fortunate to have the opportunity to embrace your parents. do it as often as possible. losing one or both is a type of grief that is hard to explain. but worse if you reflect that you consciously spent less time with them than was possible
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All I am saying is ‘give Pokémon a chance’ #StopTheViolence
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@John_Attridge i´m going to go out on a limb here and say Steinbeck .
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@ryanhasbadtaste Catcher in the Rye. hated at 12. worse now at 47. and I´m a book nut who prob agrees with themes. but the book? ugh
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@PhysInHistory Yes. I remember enjoying it. And I’m a physics fan but hardly an expert (first year of university only)
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Bertrand Russell said you read books to show off or to enjoy. These were much more of the latter. Best immersive reading experience of my life ! #proust #writer #reader
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“Here is a book so dull that a whirling dervish could read himself to sleep with it. If you were to recite even a single page in the open air, birds would fall out of the sky and dogs drop dead.” ― Clive James #bookreview #authorcommunity
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Machu Picchu is magnificent
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More peer-reviewed papers need to be retracted. There is no perfect system for vetting science but retractions are too rare #fakenews #Alzheimers
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Editor: You didn't stop for a second and think "honey is amazing for Alzheimer's?!". ....Anyway, lots of back and forth between the authors and sleuths here
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For me the best thing about scientific research is the collaboration, the teamwork. Finding new things, yes is a thrill and of course the goal. When a project is led well, everyone brings their experience to build and discover. Satisfying. V happy to see this one come out today
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@StoniAstley the other thing I´ve noticed. authors often see similarities in the work of others that their readers do not.
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“¨It is raised for us. Our arrival, expected. ¨ Gregory said, pointing to the top of a cerro. On it the immense flag followed the shifting breeze, signaling the regional authority knew we were arriving. The flapping flag symbolized the Spanish were sharpening their pencils and
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@Helenreflects I revere academics in the humanities. us over here in the life sciences have it so much easier. but of course your field is more interesting, which is why I am trying to pretend to belong to it!
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every author relishes the box opening!
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Suck on this, silicon circuits!
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Timelapse footage of neurons making new connections. This is what your thoughts probably look like, quite literally.
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With editors. Finally! Will get much needed smashing to bits ! Currently thinking #booker #prize ! Tomorrow it’ll be ‘please retract! It’s crap!” #fiction #botany #missionary #pirates
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@M_Cobbett71 @HandsVitamin @kerryholme30196 i´m less than certain what this posts means, but I´ll take it!
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Well this is well said
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Fine phrensy vs Stale tropes and cold rodomontade
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@APoetForThePyre aiming for such a specific word count to begin is asking for trouble. risks stretching the crap and squeezing the gold
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Mind blowing
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i´m sure what he is say is true. I mean he says ¨I do honestly believe¨ before continuing with a weird word salad
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How confused is he?
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@joe_stajduhar it´s a feeling I am fortunate to know. Some people are OK with debt. I´m not one of them! Canadian homeowners are like NZ homeowners. Getting free from the banks is no mean feat congrats + open the good stuff
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Dostoevsky’s letter to Natalia Dmitrievna Fonvizina. He could have written ‘Nat, here’s the thing. I got blind faith, innit.’ #Dostoevsky #readercommunity #missionary
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@leon_metlay haha. an excellent point. never! it basically says: ¨do it. Now!
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The Mower BY PHILIP LARKIN The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found    A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,    Killed. It had been in the long grass. I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.    Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world    Unmendably. Burial was no help:
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@razzz_med congrats . Your (mom?) has cool hair!
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@RemyAttig You have the coolest dept! Never leave! Oh wait you’re tenured, you’ll never have to 💪🏻
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¨Abandoning the first mate was an awful prospect on an ethical, human, and maritime level. But particularly abhorrent from a Christian perspective. Un-Christian in fact. Could this be evidence, dear Reader that I am not so unusual, and many men hide the sacred secret of
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@jflWrites important variable is prestige. If it is a reputable company/organization running the contest, zero would be fine.
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@Helenreflects Stay strong, Helen.
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@Shteyngart Had a good meal first
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Ok X . Just one more because it’s sorta kinda brilliant #poetry #modernartist #writers
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Frozen sections . Decisions decisions. Ugh #breastcancer #pathology #gangster
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@AFB16 the first one. (brick wall behind). stunning eyes. expression: intellect . clear winner
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balance is so key! in this very moment, I realized how chapter three needed to end. #author #writerslife #balance
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@a_pirmohamed sometimes it is just difficult to believe the spinelessness of groups
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@GJFrameAuthor lovely. ¨Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.¨ David Bowie
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@dennismhogan @ce_tracey oh in my view H is massively under appreciated. considering what he did. He was Leonardo level and the average kid doesn´t know who H is
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As a side note, I don´t know how you can explain D not seeing a Dr about a sore liver. he may have been rejecting utilitarianism, expressing free will like many a Russian free will @nutjob of the time. but a 1800s Russian hepatologist? no thanks!
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@nick_andrws i´d suggest coffee. but it may need something stronger
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@nickfshort beautiful city
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1799 illustrations of rural Paraguay. #evangelical #missionary failed trip to the Pacific from London takes a unwanted but fascinating turn. #potato #botany #writercommunity #authorlife
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potato heaven ! #botany #writer Bog Oranges, Irish Apples, #andes #climate tropical glaciers #peru
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@StoniAstley It just comes out .
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I predict these will be revered in the future more than today . An absolute masterpiece to rival the greatest literature in history. Quicksilver on kindle so didn’t make the photo. #thebaroquecycle #nealstephenson
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In 1677 Spinoza argued that all things, both animate and inanimate, possess a certain degree of consciousness or mental activity, albeit to varying degrees. He believed that everything in the universe, from rocks and plants to animals and humans, participates in the divine
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i do like the tuft cells
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Happy #TuftTuesday ! I think tuft cells are the prettiest intestinal cells. #pathart #sciart #histoart #microscopy #intestine
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@Jason @jack if the dude can rid this place of weird bots, that'll prob be enough. weird bots. freakish!
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Strangely helpful but depressing all at the same time, he admonished
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@ProfRScolyerMIA @MelanomaAus @syd_health @SydneyLHD @CPC_usyd great to see you staying strong and brave, Richard. best wishes for a speedy post op recovery.
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"I can't help but wonder if you—perhaps even I—don't know a hell of a lot more about practically every subject than Solomon ever did," Daniel said. Isaac Newton said nothing for a moment, but something about his silhouette looked wounded, or sad. "It's right there in the Bible,
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On Philip Larkin: "[Larkin] himself is well aware that there are happier ways of viewing life. It's just that he is incapable of sharing them, except for fleeting moments - and the fleeting moments do not accumulate, whereas the times in between them do."
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@MirandaFrance1 this cover is a magnet.! got to get it!
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@mumumouse2 this came up recently with a colleague. if someone moves jobs, how does it change conflicts etc. unclear. In this case it is possible the private and public universities are branches of same umbrella?
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so few nowadays successfully cross fields like Ricketts. It´s a pity, such a #Renaissance trait often brings new light to stale problems.
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Marine biologist, ecologist and philosopher Ed Ricketts died OTD in 1948. He co-authored Sea of Cortez with John Steinbeck and inspired the character Doc in Cannery Row. He influenced Joseph Campbell, who corresponded with him about Finnegans Wake.
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@Matt_Pinner nice spot
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@victoriamoul fascinating!
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@AfterDinnerCon I wish! My second draft it like a new novel
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