One pill: you keep on truckin', blissfully unaware.
The other pill; you see the world as it truly is -- you were manufactured en masse by humans and are controlled by one in the driver's seat. Life is a highway and you have no free wheel.
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👂Today is #WorldHearingDay. How do we hear? The answer starts with tiny sensory cells called hair cells.
These cells allow us to detect sound and maintain balance, but once lost in humans, they don’t grow back. But, #zebrafish can regenerate theirs. 🐟
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A colorful drawing of a gray fish riding a classic red bicycle, with the name "Fish Peddler" on the chain guard. The day is beautiful, partly cloudy with wildflowers in the foreground and a ponded field at bordered behind by trees. The fish is traveling along a dirt path and a sign along its edge declaring it a bike route. Artist: Ray Troll.
A Los Alamos team used advanced geometry to show that hue, saturation, and lightness aren’t shaped by culture or experience—they’re built directly into the mathematical structure of how we see color.
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Tom Sawyer approves of this pedagogy!
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
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A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
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We’ve officially raised over $45 MILLION for local bookstores 🥳
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
A detail from a comic book page of a closeup drawing of a brown squirrel with a pink nose and a pink collar. The squirrel is surprised at what she has just been told by her human friend and replies back, "WHAT?! You got accepted into college and you're not even gonna major in SQUIRRELS?" -- from The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, issue 1.
Awesome! I had forgotten this bon nut.
French and Spanish call "y" the "Greek I" (I Grecia, y griega). Are there any other non-latin languages that have a letter that calls out to its alien origin?
An advance look at the cover for next week’s issue: “Targeted,” by Till Lauer.
His final gesture says, "eh, what else is new?"
Days 9-11 are dealt with. #100DaysOfCode
Holy shit, this thread is incredible.
Day 8 has been functionally good. #100DaysOfCode
Roger is a verb of similar meaning. He's double the trouble.
As a dad, I, um, need to go ask my dad a few questions. BRB
So much is covered by that umbrella term.
Like, being told as a developer, "You're getting Copilot!" You get excited. Then you are told, "No, not that Copilot."
Day 7 has been whiled away. #100DaysOfCode
Float like a glass squid.
What might it feel like to reach a state where your body’s density perfectly matches your surroundings? Their buoyant bodies are filled with ammonium chloride, which is lighter than seawater, helping them to conserve energy while traveling. 1,729 m #ArgentinianDeepSeeps
Days 4-6 in the [list]. #100DaysOfCode
Rebooting my Python skills via #100DaysOfCode. Days 1-3 in the bag.
historically accurate☑️
