Beyond flora and fauna: Why it’s time to include fungi in global conservation goals
Stilling the mind's fluctuations is the basis of most practices and qualities we strive to master
Maria Alfie, Lily Pads, 1985, Watercolor on paper
Talking about silence..
Talks/lectures/interviews/texts about any kind of meditative/mindfulness practice are somewhat oxymoronic. Someone talking for hours about the act of being silent truly is comedic. What are alternative ways to share such experiences and exchange insights, in a more embodied way then talking/writing?
Zen on Truth
Bluetooth: Origins of the name
Bluetooth is named after the Danish King Harald 'Bluetooth' Gormsson, who had a dead tooth. The Bluetooth logo uses Viking runes representing the H and B of his name. He united the 10thC Danish tribes, which is why his name got used for a unifying tech.
American geologists looking for oil
TooWrite Abstracts - interesting approach to scientific writing - with Q&A-based, stepwise assembly of structured narratives. First step, fast composition of abstracts and summaries.
I don't need Google...
By combining screams, chimps seem to know 400 ‘words’ - In more than 900 hours of recordings from wild chimpanzees, researchers heard hundreds of unique phrases that could resemble a language.
The World Economic Forum started today, nearby from here. The cryptocratic elite circus, "committed to improving the state of the world", got Switzerland's biggest military deployment ever in peace time to enable the same old boys to play the same old games. The World Gardening Forum would be far more productive.
Related Bullshit Comedy: Forget Burning Man — Psychedelic Shamans Now Heading to Davos
In Summary: Nothing left but money - Art by Leunig
Dragon Orchids - Generative Art by Unlimited Dream Co.
While current generative "text to image" machine learning models give amazing abilities to trained artists and regular people alike, the "text is the one interface to rule them all" notion is deeply flawed.
Joshua Medcalf on Grit
"The irony is that this ‘fake it till you make it’ tactic is the exact opposite of how truly successful people live. They live with authentic vulnerability because they know that the world always connects more with your grit than your shine. They might show up for the shine, but they will stay because of your grit."