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A deep (very deep!) Mandelbrot set
This amazing five minute video illustrates the Mandelbrot set; an infinite geometric figure (a fractal). Obviously the video doesn’t delve into the entire set — if it were to do that, it would take a bit longer to watch than … Continue reading
Winners create history
Those who cannot learn from history are destined to repeat it. (– various attributions) Great quote. But learning from the past can be tricky… While thumbing through a copy of New Scientist I came across a reference to a German … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, memetics, People, Phlyarology, Science
Tagged Colossus, ENIAC, Flowers, Turing, WWII, Z3, Zuse
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Exploring the deep and beyond for Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day, folks! Today is special, as it marks the fiftieth anniversary of Earth Day. To celebrate this event, I want to point you to a couple of thingies… Recently, Kavita Ramial introduced me to a deep dive (10 … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, art, Education, Environment, Science
Tagged DON'T PANIC, Douglas Adams, Earth, Earth Day, sea, Space, Starstuff, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Vangelis
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The case for optimism on climate change
March, 2016: This video may be four years old, but it still shows promise…. (25 mins) November, 2018: Trump is on the scene now — but can he stop a steamroller? (6 mins) April 2020: Coronavirus and climate change (51 … Continue reading
This is NOT natural
Originally posted on Open Mind:
This graph should be on every billboard in the U.S. Paleo from PAGES2K: https://figshare.com/collections/Global_mean_temperature_reconstructions_over_the_Common_Era/4507043 combined with the surface temperature from Cowtan & Way http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~kdc3/papers/coverage2013/had4_krig_std.temp
What Big Oil knew about climate change
This fifteen minute video details what the oil industry has known, for decades, about how its activities would affect the planet — and what they did about it. Their activities were profoundly successful, as evidenced by the multitudes who are, … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Economics, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, memetics, People, Phlyarology, Science
Tagged deniers, Exxon
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What you believe can affect your appetite
I learnt a new word today: ‘ghrelin‘. It’s a hormone produced by the stomach that regulates hunger. If you have more ghrelin in your system, you’ll tend to feel hungry; if you have less of it, then you’ll tend to … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Education, Health, illusion, Phlyarology, Science
Tagged belief, choice, ghrelin, hunger, perception, weight gain
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Wake up! Your house is on fire!
Originally posted on Bobbing Around:
This is the message of Tim Flannery’s inspiring essay in The Conversation today. Anyone who denies the climate catastrophe, anyone who stands in the way of emergency action, is a mass murderer on a scale…
How to tell at a glance if the Moon is waxing or waning
Do you know how to tell at a glance whether the Moon is waxing or waning? Well, if you don’t, I’ll tell you how to do it — but first, an interlude: So… I just need you to focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Education, Environment, memetics, Science, Strategy
Tagged moon, waning, wax off, Wax on, waxing
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A marble: floating in the middle of nothing
The Long Slow Goodbye Our world is dying. We are killing it. We pride ourselves on our adaptability, Yet we are locked in an anachronistic worldview: One that deludes us into believing That what once was will ever be. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, art, Core thought, Education, Environment, Poetry, Science
Tagged arrogance, Carl Sagan, Earth, ignorance, solar system
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