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Tsurezuregusa (徒然草, Essays in Idleness) - collection of essays written by the Japanese monk Yoshida Kenkō between 1330 and 1332.
“It is typical of the unintelligent man to insist on assembling complete sets of everything. Imperfect sets are better.”
“If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino, never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in this world, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.”
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Gazu hyakki tsurezurebukuro (百器徒然袋, "Illustrated Bag of 100 Random Demons") (1805)
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Microbiome-Inspired Green Infrastructure (MIGI)
"Considerations for the microbiome (from the ground up) need to be central in urban ecosystem management. Microbes are foundational to healthy ecosystems yet are rarely considered (apart from human pathogens = <0.0001% of all microbes)"
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Erotica, Aesthetics and Schrodingers Wave Equation - by Arthur I. Miller (PDF)
"Like a great work of literature, quantum theory is open to many different interpretations."
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How few perceive our current moment in history, captured in one quote
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Neural Network of Weakly Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators
- A Neural Network of Weakly Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators with a Global, Time-Dependent Coupling - Theory and Experiment
- A Nanotechnology-Ready Computing Scheme based on a Weakly Coupled Oscillator Network
- Information Processing with Dynamically Coupled Oscillators
- Synchronization in complex oscillator networks and smart grids
- Exotic states in a simple network of nanoelectromechanical oscillators
- Kuramoto model
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"Attention and Relaxation" - Search Results
- A comparison of the effect of attention training and relaxation on responses to pain
- Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
- Effects of Techniques of Receptive Meditation and Relaxation on Attentional Processing
- The role of physiological attention-focusing in the relaxation treatment of sleep disturbance, general tension, and specific stress reaction
- “We Are Talking About Practice”: the Influence of Mindfulness vs. Relaxation Training on Athletes’ Attention and Well-Being over High-Demand Intervals
- Effects of Progressive Relaxation and Classical Music on Measurements of Attention, Relaxation, and Stress Responses
- How Relaxation Can Improve Concentration
- Mindfulness training improves relaxation and attention in elite shooting athletes A single-case study
- How can attention and relaxation be measured through a one channel EEG?
- Meditate to create: the impact of focused-attention and open-monitoring training on convergent and divergent thinking
- The Physiological Response to Drawing and Its Relation to Attention and Relaxation
- Practical Use of Relaxation Techniques, Self-Experience
“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.” — Bill Russell
- A comparison of the effect of attention training and relaxation on responses to pain
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Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward enlightenment, and their return to society to enact wisdom and compassion.
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List of people executed for witchcraft - Last execution in 1782
#Comment: Europeans (and their American brothers) keep claiming moral high ground up to this day ("Democracy! Ethics! Science!" etc.) - after systematically killing "witches" and Indigenous people across the globe for thousands of years, up to very recently. A horrible bad joke that nobody wants to hear.
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$100 Million Solar Geoengineering Research Program Proposed (theguardian)
In a report it recommends funding of $100 million to $200 million over five years to better understand the feasibility of interventions to dim the sun, the risk of harmful unintended consequences and how such technology could be governed in an ethical way.
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Did Myanmar’s military deepfake a minister’s corruption confession? (KrAsia)
Phyo Min Thein, the former chief minister of the Yangon region, appeared on a television network operated by the Myanmar military. He said he offered bribes to Aung San Suu Kyi, the former State Counsellor of Myanmar. But viewers who know the minister said his voice didn’t sound right, and the video quality was craggy, fueling speculation that the clip was generated using deepfake tools.
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WAR IS A RACKET
Ship blocking Suez Canal like 'beached whale' could be stuck for weeks
It is now blocking transit in both directions through one of the world's busiest shipping channels for goods, oil, grain and other products linking Asia and Europe.
The chief scientist at AstraZeneca, Josep Baselga who was developing anti COVID-19 therapies based on his experience in cancer has died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (related: mad cow) – a rare rapidly evolving degenerative neurological disorder. He was roped in by AstraZeneca after a major scandal broke out since he failed to disclose his vast financial ties to various companies in journal articles.
Evidence of UFOs to be revealed by national intelligence in 2021 US bill
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe gave a preview of the classified information that will be released to the public regarding unexplained aerial sightings, in an interview with Fox News on Friday.
Ratcliffe explained that such "sightings" are "talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, and traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom."
Who coined the phrase "The first casualty of War is Truth" ?
