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Never knew the proton was this weird.

"It often goes unmentioned that protons, the positively charged matter particles at the center of atoms, are part antimatter."

quantamagazine.org/protons-ant

#Physics #Particles #Proton

The Framework Laptop, a modular-upgradeable-customizable laptop. This is great! They should open up a developer kit to allow makers to create plugins and modular gadgets for it.
frame.work/blog/introducing-th

I got no sympathy for Metallica here. I love Metallica, but their stupidity back then in squabbling about copyrights was a turn-off for me.
uproxx.com/edge/metallica-twit

Just watched 'Space Sweepers' --> really good sci-fi! :mechanic:

Darn it. It is much harder to detect 'bullshit philosophy' because we can't do empirical investigation (or fact check) on pseudophilosophy.
That's in contrast with pseudoscience where you can do research or find experimental results.
Also, insidious pseudophilosophy uses obscurity or ambiguity as techniques to sound legit.
Sigh, tough times ahead to detect bullshit around us. psyche.co/ideas/pseudophilosop

Let's hope this is true, and that it really works. Need more evidence than just 30 cases to prove it for sure.
New Israeli Covid drug hailed by scientists as 'huge breakthrough'
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/0

Solving a 100-Year-Old Paradox: Why Cancer Cells switch to a less-efficient way of producing Energy, fermentation.
scitechdaily.com/solving-a-100

@pixelpaperyarn hey just wanted to thank you for your the self.care bots you made. They are truly helpful and vital! Thank you. Thank you.

I christen the word "Fedirati" as the people of the Fediverse. We are the Fedirati!

I've been exploring Electronic music a lot lately. Looking for kindred spirits! :) Check out my playlists, and if you dig my genre please recommend your favorite artists so i can check them out! here's my spotify profile: open.spotify.com/user/metapsyc

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Think humans are really adept and competent? This will shatter it. It's like we're all mentally ill from birth. We can't even trust our own thoughts.

Cognitive bias map. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o

as a follow+up to my previous post, I am now on the hunt for soap nuts . How to Use Soap Nuts as Laundry Detergent
greenmatters.com/p/soap-nuts-l

I also sent this link to my teen kids coz they're fond of taking long showers (despite my incessant scolding) . Hopefully they'll get inspired, and learn, and so on...
Teen Scientist Finds a Low-Tech Way to Recycle Water
discovermagazine.com/environme

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Terracollage, Nature timelapses and ASMR slime videos

Went down the rabbit hole triggered by this toot by @metapsyche.

Roman De Giuli is a German photographer and filmmaker, specialized in practical effects and experimental fluid art. His compositions mainly consist of fluids, powders and colours which are applied on paper to create vivid, three dimensional scenes. High resolution stills and 8K videos are captured with macro lenses to cover tiny areas in enormous reproduction scales. Roman does extensive studies of organic patterns, their behaviour and movement. With the help of music and sound design, he transforms the abstract narrative potential of his hand made visuals to experimental montages with a cinematic character.

These are truly beautiful creations. Captivating to watch. Indeed, it very much resembles timelapses of satellite overpasses/captures of evolutions of regions of out planet Earth.

Now, what came to my mind while watching this was that even though I know this is not real, it still has the same effect on me as if it were real. Which probably says that it’s the motion, the colours and the music which invokes that emotion, not so much what it is. There is something meditative about watching this.

That was the romantic part. The other thought which popped up quickly was realisation that this mesmerizing feeling, that urge to watch more of this stuff is probably the very same emotion today’s children and youngsters have watching ASMR Slime videos which are so popular among youth on Youtube. A parent observing their child watching this weird stuff again and again looks in disbelief and thinks what the heck is going on here?

Well, I think this Terracollage videos are an equivalent of those odd ASMR effect videos. Probably kids watching adults looking at Nature timelapses wonder the same way about how odd the older generation is.

This is beautiful. To me, these are also simulations of satellite views of alien worlds. thisiscolossal.com/2021/01/sat

More on zebra stripes: I actually thought it funny--the theory that Zebra stripes are camouflage, because they actually stand out and catch more attention.
But now I learned that their stripes are defense against flies.

cbc.ca/radio/quirks/feb-23-201

so I just learned that Zebras can raise the hair on their black stripes to aid in cooling .

Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? A Hair-Raising New Theory is 'Clever, Complex And Beautiful'
forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereu

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