#phys

what does morality mean to you (how do you determine what is right and wrong)?

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Hm, you see my line of morality I try and stay in a the gray because black and white doesn’t really exist. Think of murder for example, some people immediately are against it without hearing anything. But the story could have been out of self defense or other circumstances.

Morality isn’t just one thing to me, it’s a whole story that I would need to hear before classifying when the blurred line is drawn. Is it moral to hit someone? No, but they were a stranger trying to touch me.

ೃ⁀➷19th April

it was a sort of rest day today. had a lot of errands to run so i didn't have much time for studying, but still managed to get some work done. i also had to take meds for my allergies which make me very drowsy so i ended up napping a lot too oops. but overall it was a good day!

hours studied: 3

4/?

jkdsdjklfj I finally finished!! :,DD

Scientists have discovered six new species of frog the size of a thumbnail in the forests of Mexico, with one earning the distinction of Mexico's smallest frog.

All six species are smaller than a British 1p coin—around 15mm long—when fully grown. Adult males of the tiniest of these species, named Craugastor candelariensis, grow to only 13mm.

The newly discovered species are known as 'direct-developing' frogs: rather than hatching from eggs into tadpoles like most frogs, they emerge from the eggs as perfect miniature frogs. And they're so small that they're right at the bottom of the forest food chain.

The discovery, by researchers at the University of Cambridge, London's Natural History Museum, and the University of Texas at Arlington, is published in the journal Herpetological Monographs.

"Until now these new species have gone unnoticed because they're small and brown and look really similar to other frogs," said Tom Jameson, a researcher at the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology and University Museum of Zoology, who led the study.

The study involved gathering almost 500 frog specimens from museums around the world, which had been collected in Mexico, and using new methods to categorize the relationships between them.

The new species have been named Craugastor bitonium, Craugastor candelariensis, Craugastor cueyatl, Craugastor polaclavus, Craugastor portilloensis, and Craugastor rubinus. Jameson is particularly pleased with the name cueyatl—it means 'frog' in the indigenous language, Nahuatl, spoken in the Valley of Mexico where this species was found.

"We chose the name cueyatl to honor the rich human history of the Valley of Mexico, and the local people who have probably known these frogs far longer than we have," he said.

Known as 'micro-endemics', some of the newly discovered frogs may occur only in one small area, such as a hilltop in a certain part of Mexico. This makes them incredibly vulnerable.

"We named Craugastor rubinus after the garnet mines in the hillside where they're found," said Jameson. "Sadly, it will only take the expansion of one mine and these frogs could be gone.”

Fig. 2. A "Mozart performance alphabet" (cluster prototypes) computed by segmentation, mean and variance normalization, and clustering, from performances of MOZART piano sonatas by six pianists (Daniel Barenboim, Roland Batik, Vladimir Horowitz, Maria João Pires, András Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida). To indicate directionality, dots mark the end points of segments. Shaded regions indicate the variance within a cluster.

from Computational Models of Expressive Music Performance: The State of the Art, article by GERHARD WIDMER and WERNER GOEBL