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Tone it down a little, Physalia mikazuki sp. nov.!
This new cryptic species is in the same genus as "Portuguese man-of-war" (Physalia physalis), also called 'bluebottle'.
Their presence near northern Japan suggests concerning climate change-driven marine ecosystem shifts.
This new cryptic species is in the same genus as "Portuguese man-of-war" (Physalia physalis), also called 'bluebottle'.
Their presence near northern Japan suggests concerning climate change-driven marine ecosystem shifts.
November 2, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Tone it down a little, Physalia mikazuki sp. nov.!
This new cryptic species is in the same genus as "Portuguese man-of-war" (Physalia physalis), also called 'bluebottle'.
Their presence near northern Japan suggests concerning climate change-driven marine ecosystem shifts.
This new cryptic species is in the same genus as "Portuguese man-of-war" (Physalia physalis), also called 'bluebottle'.
Their presence near northern Japan suggests concerning climate change-driven marine ecosystem shifts.
A mellow October afternoon in my neck of the woods
October 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A mellow October afternoon in my neck of the woods
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The great German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born #onthisday in 1749. As well as penning novels, poetry, criticism, and dramas, he also wrote various scientific treatises, including his 1810 book Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours): publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD
August 28, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The great German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born #onthisday in 1749. As well as penning novels, poetry, criticism, and dramas, he also wrote various scientific treatises, including his 1810 book Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours): publicdomainreview.org/essay/b... #OTD
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"... ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
#BookSky
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
#BookSky
August 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
"... ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
#BookSky
— Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
#BookSky
Listening to this again.
July 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Listening to this again.
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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.
June 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose.
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"The shock of the divine, the rupture of the immanent order, of the order that I can embrace, of the order which I can hold in my thought, of the order which can become mine, that is the face of the other."
Emmanuel Lévinas, Interview with François Poirié (from Is it Righteous to Be?.)
Emmanuel Lévinas, Interview with François Poirié (from Is it Righteous to Be?.)
June 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"The shock of the divine, the rupture of the immanent order, of the order that I can embrace, of the order which I can hold in my thought, of the order which can become mine, that is the face of the other."
Emmanuel Lévinas, Interview with François Poirié (from Is it Righteous to Be?.)
Emmanuel Lévinas, Interview with François Poirié (from Is it Righteous to Be?.)
Helen Frankenthaler
Rex - 1987 (detail)
Harvard Art Museums
Rex - 1987 (detail)
Harvard Art Museums
June 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Helen Frankenthaler
Rex - 1987 (detail)
Harvard Art Museums
Rex - 1987 (detail)
Harvard Art Museums
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Tsahal sowing the seeds of antisemitism for generations to come. What utter inhumanity!
Tsahal sowing the seeds of antisemitism for generations to come. What utter inhumanity!
Attack dogs: how Europe supplies Israel with brutal canine weapons
Military dogs involved in attacks on Palestinian civilians – including children – are likely to have been exported from European countries, investigation finds
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June 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Tsahal sowing the seeds of antisemitism for generations to come. What utter inhumanity!
Tsahal sowing the seeds of antisemitism for generations to come. What utter inhumanity!
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the US, and there has always been. …Anti-intellectualism has been…nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” ~ Isaac Asimov, 1980
May 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“There is a cult of ignorance in the US, and there has always been. …Anti-intellectualism has been…nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” ~ Isaac Asimov, 1980
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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~Saul Bellow
~Saul Bellow
April 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
~Saul Bellow
~Saul Bellow
Voici le temps des Assassins
Ô mon Bien ! Ô mon Beau ! Fanfare atroce où je ne trébuche point ! Chevalet féerique ! Hourra pour l’œuvre inouïe et pour le corps merveilleux, pour la première fois ! Cela commença sous les rires des enfants, cela finira par eux.
Ô mon Bien ! Ô mon Beau ! Fanfare atroce où je ne trébuche point ! Chevalet féerique ! Hourra pour l’œuvre inouïe et pour le corps merveilleux, pour la première fois ! Cela commença sous les rires des enfants, cela finira par eux.
February 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Voici le temps des Assassins
Ô mon Bien ! Ô mon Beau ! Fanfare atroce où je ne trébuche point ! Chevalet féerique ! Hourra pour l’œuvre inouïe et pour le corps merveilleux, pour la première fois ! Cela commença sous les rires des enfants, cela finira par eux.
Ô mon Bien ! Ô mon Beau ! Fanfare atroce où je ne trébuche point ! Chevalet féerique ! Hourra pour l’œuvre inouïe et pour le corps merveilleux, pour la première fois ! Cela commença sous les rires des enfants, cela finira par eux.
Ai Weiwei - Study of perspective
February 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Ai Weiwei - Study of perspective
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February 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Am 27. Januar 1945, vor 80 Jahren befreiten sowjetische Soldaten die Insassen des KZ Auschwitz|Birkenau. Wir erinnern heute an die Opfer des Holocaust, die erst mit Hass verfolgt und ausgegrenzt, dann sozial vernichtet wurden, ehe sie auf bestialische Weise ermordet wurden.
#Holocaustgedenktag
#Holocaustgedenktag
January 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Am 27. Januar 1945, vor 80 Jahren befreiten sowjetische Soldaten die Insassen des KZ Auschwitz|Birkenau. Wir erinnern heute an die Opfer des Holocaust, die erst mit Hass verfolgt und ausgegrenzt, dann sozial vernichtet wurden, ehe sie auf bestialische Weise ermordet wurden.
#Holocaustgedenktag
#Holocaustgedenktag
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"Scepticism is easy. It takes minimal intellectual effort and emotional work to deny importance to something. It is awfully easy to say ‘I don’t care.’ But the absence of care is also the absence of #science."
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Collaboration, civility and complexity
A time of rising darkness is a portentous phrase. But whilst the focus of 2024 has inevitably and rightly been on university financial sustainability, we have spent less time on another trend which…
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December 27, 2024 at 12:29 PM
"Scepticism is easy. It takes minimal intellectual effort and emotional work to deny importance to something. It is awfully easy to say ‘I don’t care.’ But the absence of care is also the absence of #science."
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Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
December 14, 2024 at 8:32 AM
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
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So. Pretty sweet day. Met a dog on a ferry.
October 4, 2024 at 1:11 AM
So. Pretty sweet day. Met a dog on a ferry.
