Arman
@armanic.bsky.social
Necktop owner. Sucker for new perspectives. Interested in empirical reality, but still a naive pragmatist.
Listening to this extraordinary talent Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Just excellent. open.spotify.com/track/7Il5v7...
Savior of the Nations, Come, BWV 659 (Arr. Kanneh-Mason for 4 Cellos)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Hannah Roberts, Ben Davies, Max Ruisi · Song · Song · 2022
open.spotify.com
Congratulations Nick! Finally over a million listeners on Spotify 🥳 Good job.
Quick reminder: all life on Earth, you included, is related to each other. So that tree in your garden is your distant family.
🐈 enough already! Yes I do sometimes adore cats. But will hardly ever interact with a cat post. Get too many of those and try not to encourage the system. To no avail: I have cats flying around everywhere! @bsky.app how do I change the algorithm so I get fewer pets in my feed? 1 cat per week= ok
Little did I know! Sweden and The Netherlands were neighbours overseas (East coast US) for about 17 years till the New England Colonies took over. 🇸🇪 🇳🇱
Das Zeitalter der Hohenstaufen map from 1866 showing central Europe around 1138 — 1255.
Mars, Dust Storm in the South Polar Region Full size 6K & more info: flic.kr/p/2st1Dw8 Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Mission: ESA Mars Express Image created processing data from: psa.esa.int Instrument: HRSC Time: 2022-06-09 Raw Data: HN290_0009 ND + GR + BL
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of humanity. That is what love looks like.” — St. Augustine of Hippo, 416 AD 🙏🏼🌍🕊️
🧠 Compulsion has a wiring diagram Flip one circuit between cortex and hypothalamus in a mouse and it stops caring about anything but nice food. In people, that same connection tracks body weight and binge eating. www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... 🧪 #Neuroscience #SciComm
A cortical-hypothalamic neural circuit for compulsive eating in mice
Leow et al. identify a prefrontal-hypothalamic circuit that drives compulsive eating despite negative consequences. In mice, binge eating reshapes prefrontal neural dynamics into persistent food-seeki...
cell.com
Orgel's Second Law: "Evolution is cleverer than you are." Applies to just about everything that had millions of years to evolve. The universe itself included. Photo: left Francis Crick, right Leslie Orgel.
Wow! Amazing! Also hard not to see Van Gogh.
Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · last wk.NASA 💫has released one of the most detailed visualizations ever created of Earth’s ocean currents. Using data from satellites and advanced ocean models, the map reveals massive rivers of moving water, swirling eddies hundreds of miles wide, and the powerful Gulf Stream carrying warm water
Self portrait of Rembrandt van Rijn, 1659 (cropped view). He is about 53 years old in this masterpiece.
Observation. The human brain, as I understand, is running on a mere 20 watts of power. It is terrible at spotting what is and isn't real, it conserves energy using shortcuts, making us easy prey for lies, conspiracies, and tribalism. 20 watts. No wonder we love shortcuts.
Brothers Richard and Cherry Kearton taking a photograph of a birds nest, around 1897.
Robert Cornelius, possibly the world's first selfie taken in 1839 in Philadelphia.
Ruin a book by changing a word: The Shellfish Gene
Aris Leepvogel, gelukzoeker, klimaatdrammer, woke@leepvogel.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: Philosophical Crime Investigations
1/3 of the content you see may originate from bots, trolls, or coordinated influence operations. Well over 1/2 of overall internet traffic is now generated by non-human bots. Is there life on Mars?
#fulufjallet #sweden Fulufjället National Park, Sweden, yesterday afternoon. Stunning nature around the corner. Feeling blessed!
Good morning! A reminder: all life on earth is one huge family. Looking at this tree never stops to amaze... 👇
"Girl in a Red Kimono" by George Hendrik Breitner (1857–1923), featuring the original portraits of Geesje Kwak, one of Breitner’s most prominent models. In 1895, Geesje emigrated to South Africa, where she tragically died of tuberculosis just a few years later, at only 22 years of age. #breitner
"By the time anyone noticed that single, tantalizing signal in Kepler’s vast dataset, the telescope had been mothballed, decommissioned into a graveyard orbit after running out of fuel." Whoops! 🤦
Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 6mo agoAn exoplanet called HD 137010 b might be the closest thing astronomers have ever seen to “Earth 2.0.” The trouble is that it’s only been seen once—and may never be glimpsed again
