Catholic autist new to EA + longtermism. 💫
♥︎Books, politics, science, EvoPsych, nature, history, culture, anime, + the strange/unknown/dark/controversial. 🖤
@cmkosemen Not a specific tweet, but I‘ve loved your work All Tomorrows for a very long time, and I only found out you had Twitter recently. You seem like an amazing person, and I hope you are having a great week.
You might have seen a blobfish as it appears below on the right.
That is actually what it looks like when it's brought to the surface from the extreme pressure in which it lives (60 to 120 times as great as at sea level).
On the left, its normal appearance
Welcome to the spiral hive
where orchids transmute to honey feasts.
Stingless bees will guard the nest
as clouds to wrestle invading beasts
or sentence beetles to their death
that dare to enter the twisting tomb:
mummified in resin and wax,
shriveling to an early doom.
🌀🐝🍯
The same mathematical model that explains how crystals grow on a molecular level, can also explain how a species of stingless bees build honeycombs in spiraling, multi-terraced shapes
Two different spheres of science with an algorithm in common.
These hives are built by bees of the genus Tetragonula, tall nests that spiral clockwise . Each bee consistently follows the same rules in various sections of the hive and a coherent pattern emerges
📸 Tim Heard Elke Haege
@prolifejewess Please know a lot of people care about you. Some people I know (and myself) have went through really negative parts of life before, but a lot of times, the circumstances eventually fade or get resolved, even if they do damage in the present.
Hoping you’ll be okay. ❤️🙏🏼💞
Did you know?
We steadily "dry out" as we age.
A newborn human baby is 75 percent water, adult men are about 60 percent, adult women 55 percent, and elderly people are roughly half
@razibkhan Sabaton has some really good songs about historical battles. I’ve also been listening to The Ocean, Candy Claws, and Appalachian Winter’s songs about Deep Time.
@Grimezsz What I’m wondering is if there’s any correlation between creativity and Neuroticism in the Big 5. I’d think it correlates with Openness and thought it also correlated with Neuroticism, but I’m now more unsure.
@philoshua@NathanpmYoung Also, not to detract from the original question, but I’d appreciate it if anyone gave some tips or account recommendations on how to successfully be a philosopher parent. ^^;
@philoshua@NathanpmYoung I’m not a parent yet, but perhaps teach them that swear words are cliché and teach them more creative or historical insults? Or would they get in trouble for those, too?