People Talk About China’s Pollution, But Isn’t That Just Our Pollution In China? ‘We’ Moved The

People talk about China’s pollution, but isn’t that just our pollution in China? ‘We’ moved the factories over specifically for lax environmental laws and cheap labor. China’s pollution is our pollution.

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2 years ago

Tailor Birds “Sewing” Nests

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3 years ago

This is a free coupon/excuse for you to infodump on the current topic you’re obsessed with. Take some time away from internet discourse and share with us something you find interesting.

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Today I read about Precambrian animals!

The above one is Thectardis, which is an animal so weird we have almost no inclination of how to categorize it. We know it was alive and it was cone shaped. That’s it.

The thing about fossil life from 500+ million years ago is that there often aren’t really any living analogs for it? Many of the animals from that time were sessile, many filter feeders, without much in common with what comes to mind when we think “Animal”—something that moves around and has a brain and thinks. The strata that preserve these animals are very rarely accessible, and these glimpses we have are hard to interpret.

Many of these creatures are known from a single fossil. Many are too weird to interpret or classify even tentatively.

Here’s another organism from that time, Eoandromeda:

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Look at this thing. I can’t explain why, but Eoandromeda makes me feel some kind of deep dread. Like...we don’t know what this thing was. We don’t even know if it was an animal. I look at that shape and I want someone to tell me what that thing is. But we don’t know. We don’t have the words for What That Thing Is.

Imagine something so alien, so divergent from the paths life took to the present day, that we can’t look at it and say “That’s a worm” or “That’s a sponge” or “that’s a jellyfish” or...anything. The words for it literally don’t exist, because nothing like it now exists, and we know nothing about it. We’re not looking at different versions of the same categories of creature we have now. We’re looking at something that is too obscure to have a category. We can guess what it might have looked like. But it is so utterly unlike anything that exists now that we know nothing—except that undeniably, it existed.

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Namacalathus. Be honest, doesn’t this make you scream inside? Or is it just me? This was a real animal that existed. It doesn’t know or give a fuck what a “snail” or “bird” is.

Learning about dinosaurs is DIFFERENT. We know what bones are. We have them! When we say that sauropod dinosaurs ate plants, we can imagine those plants. We can describe dinosaurs as having a “neck” and “claws” and “legs.” And I think that’s comforting because whatever I feel when I look at Namacalathus is not that.

This one invented muscles! Muscles are okay! I have muscles! That should make me feel better, right!

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...Not really! Put it back!

For millions of years these things existed, living their unknowable lives. There was an entire world of these organisms. This was EARTH, our world.

People mostly haven’t heard of these. I think people care less about these strange early creatures because they seem less charismatic, not having brains or doing anything, but I think there is a lot of charisma to the Unknowable Cone Animal, the Dread Spiral, and all the other unsettling animals of the Precambrian.

7 months ago

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird from the Altai Mountains of Siberia, c.400-300 BCE: this figure was crafted with a felt body and reindeer-fur stuffing, all of which remains intact

2,300-Year-Old Plush Bird From The Altai Mountains Of Siberia, C.400-300 BCE: This Figure Was Crafted

This plush bird was sealed within the frozen barrows of Pazyryk, Siberia, for more than two millennia, where a unique microclimate enabled it to be preserved. The permafrost ice lense formation that runs below the barrows provided an insulating layer, preventing the soil from heating during the summer and allowing it to quickly freeze during the winter; these conditions produced a separate microclimate within the stone walls of the barrows themselves, thereby aiding in the preservation of the artifacts inside.

This is just one of the many well-preserved artifacts that have been found at Pazyryk. These artifacts are attributed to the Scythian/Altaic cultures.

Currently housed at the Hermitage Museum.

2 months ago
A photograph of someone holding up a small protest sign at a rally; the sign reads "Vaccines cause adults."

I don't normally post photos or talk about the protest actions I participate in, but I was at the Chicago Stand Up For Science rally on behalf of my job recently and this sign took me out at the knees.

4 years ago

Hmm, maybe

“We never discard our childhood. We never escape it completely. We relive fragments of it through others. We live buried layers through others. We live through others’ projections of the unlived selves.”

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin (1944–1947)

1 month ago

If your life is horrible and you need a new source of meaning and direction.... Do NOT find religion. Learn to identify plants.

7 years ago

لهذا السبب يجدر بك التخلي عن أفكارك القديمة النصف منجزة أو غير المنجزة

"تنظيف حياتك" (أو التخلي عن الأشياء غير الضرورية في حياتك) هي عملية أكبر بكثير من مجرد تحديد الأشياء التي تؤدي أو لا تؤدي إلى الفرح و التسلية. يمكنك أن "تنظف" أمتعتك العاطفية: لقد أظهرت الأبحاث أن التخلي عن الضغينة تجاه شخص ما، على سبيل المثال، يمكن أن يجعلك حرفيا تشعر انك أخف وزنا. يمكنك "تنظيف" عاداتك التنظيمية مثلا، عن طريق تضييق لائحة الأعمال التي عليك إنجازها لتتضمن الامور الاكثر اهمية فقط. وكما كتب (نيك دوغلاس) مؤخرا في مجلة (لاييف هاكر)، يمكنك تنظيف المساحة العقلية التي تكرسها للمشاريع الإبداعية من خلال أن تأخذ بالاعتبار ما يسمى (مفهوم الديون الفكرية)

"الديون الفكرية"، كما يفسر الكاتب، "هي الكومة من الأفكار التي نعود باستمرار لإعادة النظر فيها و التفكير فيها ولكن لا ننجزها، وربما لا نبدأ بانجازها ابدا. يمكن أن يكون كتابا، تطبيق، عمل تجاري، أو أي مشروع ينمو في عقلك ولكن ليس في الواقع. "الديون الفكرية هي الملاحظات التي تكتبها على هاتفك و ترفض حذفها على سبيل المثال" و على الأغلب أن هذه الأشياء تجعلك أقل سعادة. يقول الكاتب:

" يمكن لهذه المشاريع أن تبدو أكثر إثارة من المشاريع التي تقوم بتنفيذها في الواقع، بسبب كل خيبات الأمل والتنازلات التي تأتي مع المشاريع التي تنفذها. كما يقول كاتب السيناريو (كريغ مازن)، "السيناريو الأكثر إثارة في العالم هو السيناريو الذي كنت على وشك كتابته. والكتاب الأقل إثارة هو الذي أنت تكتب في الصفحة 80 منه". وهكذا فإن الديون الفكرية تهدد بوقف المشاريع الحقيقية، أو توقفها لفترة طويلة بحيث تصبح هي الأخرى ديون فكرية أيضا.

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لديك طريقتين لمنع ذلك: يمكنك إما جلب فكرتك إلى الواقع والبدء بتنفيذها، أو يمكنك التخلي عنها.

ولا يتوجب على أي من الخيارين أن يكون جديا و صارما إلى حد كبير.لنقل أنه لديك فكرة نصف منجزة لرواية كنت قد اجلتها أكثر من مرة. البدء بانجازها لا يعني أنه عليك الجلوس في مرة واحدة و كتابة الرواية بأسرها في ليلة واحدة - كما يقول (دوغلاس)، قد تكون قادر على دمج أجزاء من مشروعك غير المنجز في مشروع آخر، أكثر تطورا و منجز بنسبة أكثر. ربما يمكنك نقل الشخصية الرئيسية من الرواية إلى شيء آخر،أو ربما نقل الحبكة لتصبح فكرة مكثفة فرعية في حياة شخص آخر. أو ربما يمكنك تحويلها إلى قطعة من قصة قصيرة.

التخلي عن فكرة ما يمكن أن يكون أكثر متعة من مجرد أن نضع الفكرة في سلة مهملات خيالية في عقلنا و نسيانها. إذا كنت تعرف أنك لن تفعل أي شيء بخصوص الفكرة، يقول دوغلاس، لماذا لا ندعها تجد منزل حيث تجد فرصة للتنفيذ؟ يمكنك الإفراج عن فكرتك إلى "براري شبكة الإنترنت" من أجل أن يلتقطها شخص آخر. أو، أفضل من ذلك، أن تفعل ذلك مع كل افكارك. وإذا كان هناك مشروع حقا لا يمكن أن تتحمل فكرة التخلص منه - حسنا، إذا كان يشعرك بالفرح والتسلية، إذا على الأرجح الوقت قد حان للبدء بتنفيذه.

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Here I share some scientific, artistic, literary and more material that I find interesting and important. I'm 30, studied biology in the University of Damascus. هنا اترجم بعض المقالات و المواد العلمية و الادبية و المواضيع التي اجدها مهمة و مثيرة للاهتمام.عمري 30 سنة,  ادرس علم احياء بجامعة دمشق

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