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Salutem punctis trianguli?
It certainly can be fun for a while. But beyond any of the perceived singularities, the pathless path - or what Ueshiba calles "the art of peace" - remains the way. Falling in love with strange attractors is fun, but simply focusing on breathing and relaxing is essential.
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How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? Estimate at about 117 billion members of our species
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One of Arthur Rackham’s rare 1917 illustrations for the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm.
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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.
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Is the world’s oldest tree growing in a ravine in Chile? - Conifer is an estimated 5484 years old
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Secret British ‘black propaganda’ campaign targeted cold war enemies
“It’s very clear now that the UK engaged in more black propaganda than historians assume & these efforts were more systemic, ambitious & offensive. Despite official denials, [this] went far beyond merely exposing Soviet disinformation,” said Rory Cormac…”
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Juyong Pass居庸关, one of the 3 greatest mountain passes of the Great Wall, suburb of Peking, 1923-27
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"No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." - Assata Shakur
"Reality Is What You Can Get Away With" - Robert Anton Wilson
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The great conspiracy of the Ornithologists
On a crisp autumn day in 1915, 38 ornithologists gathered in the tiny Swiss village of Zimmerwald. Only, they were not actually bird watchers - that was just a cover. These were socialists from all over Europe, meeting to discuss ways to bring peace to a continent ravaged by WW1.
#Comment: "Ornithologists", "Socialists", and "Peace" are mere words, void of meaning until embodied and put into action.
