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Spending Time in Nature Promotes Early Childhood Development (Uni of British Columbia)
Children who live in areas with easy access to greenspaces and natural vegetation showed better overall development than their peers who lived closer to fewer greenspaces.
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Futures Cone
- Possible futures These include the kinds of futures that "might happen" - all the kinds we can imagine (the "warp drive" of Star Trek is a good example), these might also involve transgressions of currently-accepted physical laws or principles.
- Plausible futures These cover those futures which "could happen" according to our current knowledge of how things work. They stem from our current understanding of physical laws, processes, causation, systems of human interaction, etc.
- Probably futures These contain those which are considered "likely to happen". It is a simple linear extension of the present and often called "business-as-usual".
- Preferable futures By contrast, these are concerned with what we "want to" happen; in other words, these futures are largely emotional rather than cognitive, and derive from value judgements. Because values differ between people, this class of futures is quite varied.
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Cultivate your inner gut garden
"The food we eat dictates what kind of inner garden we are growing in our guts. This garden is filled with bugs that determine more about your health and your emotional and mental wellbeing than you ever imagined." - Mark Hyman
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": 🤡 Proof that we are governed by 5 year old boys
The Restaurant "Walliserkanne" in Zermatt, Switzerland has not implemented the governments corona "requirements" for weeks (checking corona-digital-certificates). Now the authorities have reacted by placing a few giant concert blocks in-front of the door of the restaurant. The entire action probably cost millions. The owner was not impressed, and re-opened hours later. The next day, the concert blocks had been converted into a open-air bar, attracting a joyful crowd. Just hours later, the restaurant owners were visited by the police and "punched in the face, kicked with boots, beaten up" and the entire family was taken into police custody.
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Scientists recreated classic origin-of-life experiment and made a new discovery - 1952 Miller-Urey experiment showed organic molecules forming from inorganic precursors.
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"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Lao Tzu
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Today in "the fall of western civilization": 🤡 Leos are most likely to get vaccinated, say Utah officials. Is it written in the stars? (Guardian)
Zuckberg completes his transformation from robot to virtual character.
