âWeâre really bad judges of what is possible based on what weâre experiencing in a particular moment,â she said. âNothing major that has mattered for health came quickly or easily.â
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âWeâre really bad judges of what is possible based on what weâre experiencing in a particular moment,â she said. âNothing major that has mattered for health came quickly or easily.â
Why America Became Numb to COVID Deaths - The Atlantic

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About 40,000 Americans are killed by guns every year, but instead of preventing these deaths, âwe have organized ourselves around the inevitability of gun violence,â Sonali Rajan of Columbia Universityâs Teachers College said on Twitter.
Why America Became Numb to COVID Deaths - The Atlantic
Lightning is born when humid air is pushed high into the atmosphere during a storm, leading the water vapor inside a cloud to freeze into tiny particles of ice. The ice particles collide with each other, generating a strong negative charge at the base of the cloud that is attracted to the positive charge of the ground below. When the negative charge is strong enough to overpower the insulating properties of the air, it explodes as lightning. As a bolt shoots down toward the ground, it heats the air around it to about 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit â four times hotter than the surface of the sun â causing a shock wave heard as thunder.
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Their goal was to better understand humanity's impact during the Anthropocene by totting up the weight of all inanimate human-made objects on Earth. As part of their calculations, they found that concrete accounts for around half of all human-made things â the single biggest category of anthropogenic material. And if its rate of growth continues, it will overtake the total weight of Earth's biomass sometime around 2040.
Concrete: The material that's 'too vast to imagine' - BBC Future
Lying down is really good Lying down is wonderful Lying down is the right thing to do Lie down so you wonât fall anymore Lying down means never falling down.
These Chinese Millennials Are âChilling,â and Beijing Isnât Happy - The New York Times

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But there are reportedly over 10,000 red foxes in London, because urban expansion has destroyed their habitat over the years. In order to survive, the foxes moved into the city and learned to live around humans.
The Elemental Strangeness of Foxes: In pursuit of Londonâs wildlife by Zito Madu
Santana: When I listened to the lyrics and heard, âItâs a hot one,â those lyrics are outside of time and gravity. I thought we had entered a place of immortality. But with all respect to Rob, I said, âIâm having a little challenge believing you that what youâre singing is true.â
âThe more I think about [any theory], the less plausible it becomes,â says Chalmers. âOne starts as a materialist, then turns into a dualist, then a panpsychist, then an idealist,â he adds, echoing his paper on the subject. Idealism holds that physical matter does not exist at all and conscious experience is the only thing there is. From that perspective, panpsychism is quite moderate.
The Idea That Everything From Spoons to Stones is Conscious is Gaining Academic Credibility
MillĂĄn distilled his work down to a simple maxim: âWater begets water, soil is the womb, vegetation is the midwife.â
âOur Biggest Challenge? Lack of Imaginationâ: The Scientists Turning the Desert Green
For many cultures with roots in ancient Cahokia, "water is this barrier between the world of the living and the world of the dead," Pauketat said. Sprawling across a landscape that combines solid earth with patches of swamp, Cahokia may have served as a kind of spiritual crossroads.
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But towering, earthen mounds there hint at the legacy of the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico. A cosmopolitan whir of language, art and spiritual ferment, Cahokia's population may have swelled to 30,000 people at its 1050 AD peak, making it larger, at the time, than Paris.
BBC - Travel - The US' lost, ancient megacity
Time even passes at different rates from place to place, Rovelli notes. On a mountaintop, time passes faster than at sea level. Similarly, the hands of a clock on the floor will move slightly slower than the hands of a clock on a tabletop.
This Physicistâs Ideas of Time Will Blow Your Mind
In fact, Rovelli explains, there are actually no things at all. Instead, the universe is made up of countless events. Even what might seem like a thingâa stone, sayâis really an event taking place at a rate we canât register. The stone is in a continual state of transformation, and on a long enough timeline, even it is fleeting, destined to take on some other form.
This Physicistâs Ideas of Time Will Blow Your Mind
 âA wise man, the wonder of his age, taught his disciples from a seemingly inexhaustible store of wisdom. He attributed all his knowledge to a thick tome which was kept in a place of honour in his room. The sage would allow nobody to open the volume. When he died, those who had surrounded him, regarding themselves as his heirs, ran to open the book, anxious to possess what it contained. They were surprised, confused and disappointed when they found that there was writing on only one page. They became even more bewildered and then annoyed when they tried to penetrate the meaning of the phrase which met their eyes. It was: "When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.â
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Usually, phylogenetic analysis is used to show how organisms evolved. In this case, researchers used strategies created by evolutionary biologists to trace the roots of 275 fairy tales through complex trees of language, population and culture.
Fairy Tales Could Be Older Than You Ever Imagined

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Historians believe that Harriet Tubman, an avid naturalist, used the Barred Owlâs call as a signal for people seeking to use the Underground Railroad. Depending on the call she used, freedom-seekers would know whether it was okay to come out of hiding.
10 Fun Facts About the Barred Owl | Audubon
A dystopia that actually has COLOR? And characters that look like theyâll have actual bonds with each other, giving you something to root for? Sign me the fuck up.
Okay, but this totally undersells it. Itâs goofy as hell, absolutely fun, and will explode your heart with Found Family Feels.
Key highlights not mentioned above:
The âadorable robot?â Sheâs trans, and saving up for modifications. (Warning for casual misgendering a few times, but when they focus on it itâs so sweet and validating omg?)
SO GODDAMN MUCH FOUND FAMILY
A little girl who will melt your heart and then reconstruct it because she wants you to be safe.
You will want Captain Jang to step on you at precisely 1:06:11 (-1:10:56).
The villain is an Elon Musk type who is so unhesitatingly evil that it gives him monstrous special effects.
Seriously itâs so good go watch it
Loved this film.