A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way - Astronomers have detected a very unusual variable radio signal from towards the heart of the Milky Way, which is now tantalizing scientists.
Mushroom stones found at the highland Maya archaeological site of Kaminaljuyu
Nomophobia - "An excessive and unreasonable fear of being without a mobile phone, of being beyond phone contact." - "A globally very widespread type of anxiety disorder in the 2020"
"Your brain has too many tabs open..close them" - A thread on overthinking
Brain after sitting quietly - Brain after 20 minute walk
"Ritual cuts through and operates on everything besides the 'head' level" - Aiden Kelly
Pope Francis bows out of climate summit (Axios) - "Pope Francis is no longer planning to attend the UN climate summit that begins in three weeks in Glasgow, Scotland, the Vatican announced Friday." 🤡 Pope Francis launches mass consultation on Church reform (BBC) 🤡
United Nations "Substantiate Development Goals" (SDG) Explained
The separation of food, health, soil & governance is at the core of our current global malaise
Planet of the Apps
“Diseconomies of Scale”: High-tech Versus Low-tech Supply of Eggs - "An egg in the supermarket uses 350 times as much energy as a locally produced egg"
The industrial path results in a dollar cost at the supermarket check-out that is at least twenty times that of the local path if a labour cost is included, and 100 times if one is not. The multiple for energy costs when the industrial total ends at the factory out-gate is about 166 kJ/4.3 kJ = 39/1. A complete account which added the energy costs of waste disposal and transport from the supermarket to the household, etc. might raise the cost for the industrial path to above 1.5 MJ per egg, i.e., to the region of 350 times the energy cost for the alternative path.
Today in "the fall of western civilization": The real pandemic is stupidity