"Science needs to be lived alongside religion, philosophy, history and aesthetic experiences; alone it can lead to great harm" - Joseph Needham in "Science and Civilization in China
"Science needs to be lived alongside religion, philosophy, history and aesthetic experiences; alone it can lead to great harm" - Joseph Needham in "Science and Civilization in China
This room celebrates my egocentric disregard for other species.
Chinese spacecraft enters Mars’ orbit, joining Arab ship (AP)
A Chinese spacecraft went into orbit around Mars on Wednesday on an expedition to land a rover on the surface and scout for signs of ancient life, authorities announced in a landmark step in the country’s most ambitious deep-space mission yet. The arrival of Tianwen-1 after a journey of seven months and nearly 475 million kilometers is part of an unusual burst of activity at Mars: A spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates swung into orbit around the red planet on Tuesday, and a U.S. rover is set to arrive next week.
The U.A.E.'s Emirates Mars Mission Has Begun Orbiting The Red Planet (CNet)
The United Arab Emirates is now only the fifth country -- and the first Arab country -- to successfully arrive at Mars. The Al Amal (Hope) probe made history Tuesday by entering orbit around the red planet.
There’s a tantalizing sign of a habitable-zone planet in Alpha Centauri (technologyreview)
An international team of astronomers has found signs that a habitable planet may be lurking in Alpha Centauri, a binary star system a mere 4.37 light-years away. It could be one of the closest habitable planet prospects to date, although it’s probably not much like Earth if it exists. What’s Alpha Centauri? It’s the closest star system to our own, comprising three different stars. There are Alpha Centauri A and B, which are sun-like stars that form a tight binary orbit around one another about 4.37 light years away.
Europe's oldest person - a 116-year-old French nun - survives COVID-19 (euronews)
'I didn't even realise I had it'
At Least We Banned Straws
"You have to look outside the device to see the prison"
"All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be the beneficiary?" - Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars
Inside Khajuraho temple at Madhya Pradesh, India 885 AD and 1050 AD
That Winston Churchill is still perceived as a hero by many today is truly peculiar
'I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.' - Winston Churchill
'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using gases against uncivilized tribes. The moral effect should be good... and it would spread a lively terror...' -Winston Churchill, Great Britain's then Colonial Secretary, referring to the Kurds in Iraq, in an official communication, 1921
Xi and Putin Stand Up for Humanity at Davos: Closed vs Open System Ideologies Clash Again - by Matthew Ehret (strategic-culture)
"While the Great Reset Architects are thoroughly committed to closed operating systems which demand computer models be imposed onto the world guiding a zero-growth policy towards total equilibrium and “entropy”, the multipolar alliance led by Xi and Putin are committed to “open system” thinking. [...] Where one is premised on a zero-sum game of win-lose behavior, the other is premised upon a non-zero-sum game of win-win cooperation."
Special Address by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation | DAVOS 2021
Special Address by Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China | DAVOS 2021
Brandolini's law: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Hug somebody
Speaker shrine in Japan that you can Bluetooth your own audio to
“But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.” - Edward Gibbon
"A quick intelligence test, which also indicates the trajectory of your development, is this: If the world seems to be getting bigger and funnier all he time, your intelligence is steadily increasing. If the world seems to be getting nastier, your stupidity is increasing" - Robert Anton Wilson