John L. Taylor @johnnylogic@qoto.org

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Taken from SELECTED POEMS by Rumi, Translated by Coleman Barks (Penguin Classics, 2004).

#versethursday, #poetry, #rumi, #mindfulness

I'm taking a break from the Twitter fiasco to appreciate this video of [a baby chimpanzee being reunited with his mother after needing medical aid](https://www.ksn.com/news/local/its-a-boy-sedgwick-county-zoo-welcomes-new-baby-chimpanzee/). Aagh, my heart!

#love, #mother, #animals, #baby

[This](https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/) will likely save you time if you can't help but follow the Twitter dumpster fire.

#twitter, #dumpsterfire, #musk, #schadenfreude

"Just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, there are already lots of galaxies," says Tommaso Treu, an astronomer at the University of California at Los Angeles. "JWST has opened up a new frontier, bringing us closer to understanding how it all began."

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137406917/earliest-galaxy-james-webb-telescope-images

#JWST, #galaxies, #space, #astronomy

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are so full of doubt." – Bertrand Russell, paraphrased from The Triumph of Stupidity”, Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935

https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1592287177542696963

#quote, #quotes, #stupidity, #doubt, #impostorsyndrome

[This](https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy) interview with Sam Bankman-Fried has me gobsmacked. He says all the stuff out loud that he shouldn't. I almost feel bad for his lawyers. Almost.

#FTX, #dumpsterfire

[Bumblebees play](https://www.tiktok.com/@science_is_real/video/7159926229351599406?_t=8XOXzG7xbgM&_r=1)! I shouldn't be too surprised since other insects show the capacity for emotion. Fruit flies apparently get down when being rejected by potential mates and [drink four times more alcohol](https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1215932) than successful ones.

#animals, #emotion, #biology, #play

"Hatred and fear are a mirror; love is a window." - [Guillermo del Toro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGoJaZ-zksI)

#quote, #unexpected, #wisdom

How it is going: https://twitter.com/Cartoonbrains/status/1592233920036315138

#twitter, #badideas

How it started: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592177471654604800

#twitter, #badideas

I recently stumbled into an interesting paper summarizing learning strategies:
> [Teaching the science of learning](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5780548/pdf/41235_2017_Article_87.pdf) The science of learning has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of effective teaching and learning strategies. However, few instructors outside of the field are privy to this research. In this tutorial review, we focus on six specific cognitive strategies that have received robust support from decades of research: spaced practice, interleaving, retrieval practice, elaboration, concrete examples, and dual coding. We describe the basic research behind each strategy and relevant applied research, present examples of existing and suggested implementation, and make recommendations for further research that would broaden the reach of these strategies.

#cognition, #learning, #teaching

I'm giving another server (mstdn.social) a try at the moment, due to qoto being blocked by some of my friend's servers. So far there are some things I like better there (it is not blocked by some of the more safe-space-oriented servers, it is a bit prettier and has some good discovery enablement) and some I don't (no markdown options, a much smaller character limit, generic community). I'm undecided at the moment, but I might migrate in the near future.