A weekly gathering of things that I found entertaining, informative or thoughtful as I made my way through the digital cave that is the interweb. The spectacular human repository of everything and nothing, and the robot's training ground since the end of the 21st century.
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(1:11) All aware - Panpsychism: The Trippy Theory That Everything From Bananas to Bicycles Are Conscious (https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/panpsychism-the-trippy-theory-that-everything-from-bananas-to-bicycles-are)
(3:05) Art from the sea - Biography of Joseph Conrad (https://www.thoughtco.com/joseph-conrad-4588429)
(4:38) Listen to the beat - What is a normal heart rate? (https://www.livescience.com/42081-normal-heart-rate.html)
(5:19) April 7, 1948 - World Health Organization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization) - Caring collectively
(6:30) More than a box - World-Famous Architects and Their Impact (https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/architecture/10-most-famous-architects.htm)
(7:37) Before bullets - Physics of Archery: The Science Explained (https://untamedscience.com/archery-physics/)
(8:28) Naturally odd - Coolest Animals on the Planet Take Extreme Measures To Survive (https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/g28857063/most-extreme-animals/)
"They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines." Richard Dawkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dawkins)
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6 Apr 2025
Change Happens - Vol. 123
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(1:02) Everything and Nothing - Lao Tzu only wrote a single sentence about Yin and Yang, but it changed philosophy forever (https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/wisdom-daoism-yin-yang-tattoo/)
(2:11) Stretch for life - Ways to improve your mobility (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/feb/05/touch-your-toes-six-fast-easy-ways-to-improve-your-mobility-and-live-a-longer-life)
(3:29) Not guessing - When I lost my intuition (https://aeon.co/essays/for-an-anaesthesiologist-intuition-stands-between-life-and-death)
(4:57) April 4, 1975 - Microsoft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft) - The main reason Linux was needed is founded
(5:57) Competing diversions - A Brief History of Sports (https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-sports-1992447)
(6:48) Spies among - Historical Figures You Probably Didn’t Know Were Spies (https://www.mentalfloss.com/historical-figures-you-probably-didnt-know-were-spies)
(7:37) Ape strong - How Strong is a Gorilla? (https://www.africa-safaris.com/blog-post/how-strong-is-a-gorilla)
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it” Rainer Maria Rilke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainer_Maria_Rilke)
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30 Mar 2025
Change Happens - Vol. 122
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(1:12) Embracing nonsense - The “Nietzsche Thesis”: Why we don’t really care about truth (https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/the-nietzsche-thesis/)
(3:02) In our image - Humanoid Robots in Use Right Now (https://builtin.com/robotics/humanoid-robots)
(4:16) Genius abused - Alan Turing: Creator of modern computing (https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/zhwp7nb)
(5:43) March 27, 1915 - Mary Mallon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon) - Typhoid Mary quarantined for life
(6:50) As yet unknown - Science Mysteries No One Has Figured Out (https://www.rd.com/list/science-mysteries-no-one-has-figured-out/)
(7:32) Winter rain - What is snow? (https://nsidc.org/learn/parts-cryosphere/snow#:~:text=Snow%20is%20precipitation%20that%20forms,going%20through%20the%20liquid%20stage.)
(8:37) Who’s a big lizard? - Komodo Dragon (https://www.twinkl.ca/teaching-wiki/komodo-dragon)
“The greatest danger to our future is apathy.” Jane Goodall
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