arteteco @arteteco@qoto.org

tonight I was feeling a bit blue, so I went out on my bicycle to do some #geocaching.
Now, when you go out to find caches, you basically need your mobile and a pen. 2 things. I managed to forget 50% of them.

No pen, no fun.

Then woah, I see a supermarket, still open! I get in and look for a pen. Nothing. I asked the workers there, who started laughing. I guess not many people look for pen late at night, so we laughed together!
They were out of pens, but we had a nice chat, and they gave me a beautiful pink pen for present. It's the personal pen of one of the workers.

It was a nice night.

I love humans when they are bros

I found my first 2 caches today! #geocaching

That's what #nuclear #engineers think about #biology

View of Capri from Montenuovo, near Naples #italy

I'm so lucky to live near many beautiful places

Naples, Marechiaro, air is so clear that feels like looking at the landscape in HD

One of the best #book I read in a long time: The Mating Mind, by Geoffrey Miller

George Miller is a professor of Evolutionary Psychology, and the main thesis in this book is that our astonishing mental capacities come (mostly) from sexual selection.

In order to prove that, Miller takes the reader in a trip around the history of the theory of evolution, especially of sexual selection of course, and I tell you: I've done multiple exams on Evolution, Miller is the one who really gave me a good idea of how, how much, when and what sexual selection is all about.

It's packed with juicy, easy to chew paragraphs like how we think the courting worked in the paleolithic, what are the current hypothesis about the origin of the mind, why Wallace was after all a creationist (he denied sexual selection and thought the soul was given to us by a god), and so on. And in some moments I laughed hard, the guy has a razor-sharp humor.

The case he makes lacks evidence here and there, by his own admission, but frankly I'm sold on this hypothesis now.

I totally recommend it, a beautiful read

#psychology #evolution #biology

Today was the first walk in the nature with friends after the long lockdown. I felt quite depressed lately, I was psychologically proved, but a single day around made my mood so much better!

I'll post some pictures to make you part of it, #plants #animals and #ecology

The habitat was either #mediterranean forest, dominated by Quercus ilex with some human planted pines, or sand dune #habitat, which is a beautiful and fragile ecosystem that I think should deserve more attention.
More details in the caption of every pic.

If you feel down, go for a walk in a park, take pictures of weird plants and animals, open a bit to how marvellous this living things are and feel free to tag me

Now, that's an interesting #psychology study.

A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder.

DM me if you want the PDF and don't have access to ResearchGate or anything

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/proposal-to-classify-happiness-as-a-psychiatric-disorder/98D0933E2287B957BC253348AB6FA6A8

First things first

#meme #OC #ornithology

Haunyte with meionite in a calcareous geode from the Monte Somma (which is the complex of the Vesuvio, which you may know better).
Naples university mineralogical museum

#mineral #geology #mineralogy