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Abuse is facilitated and exacerbated by the material and social conditions surrounding it and breaking out of the cycle of abuse requires a conscious effort to acknowledge the conditions leading to it and a willingness to reconcile with who you are before and after it: FALSE ❌

Richard Dawkins is not a scientist whose contribution to science is the "selfish gene" theory. Dawkins is a popularizer that we can credit for the "selfish gene" as a sort of poetic conceit that he uses to explain the essentially mathematical ideas of neodarwinism, in particular Hamilton and Trivers's work explaining animal altruism.

Stephen Hawking was a scientist whose contributions were the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems and Hawking radiation. He'd be a key part of the history of the study of black holes if he never wrote any books for the public.

Goyō Hashiguchi, Scalloping Hair, 1920

Woodblock print

Hashiguchi Goyō produced only 15 woodblock prints during his lifetime

tagged by @muldxr—thx pal! i inevitably have probably forgotten something very important, but alas, it is what it is. i'm too braindead from work travel, if you see this, pls consider yourself tagged.

“I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars.” -Jorge Luis Borges

For 100 years, scientists thought these red markings were natural—now researchers say they’re ancient art

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago. Image credit: George H. Nash et al.

For 100 years, scientists thought these red markings were natural—now researchers say they’re ancient art

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago. Image credit: George H. Nash et al.