This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it late at nigh, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic.
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BREAKING: Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja arrested under the UK Terrorism Act outside Labour Party conference venue.
The legendary musician was arrested after peacefully holding “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on a paper sign on the eve of Labour’s conference.
Scientific evidence that you can indeed get one shotted by psilocybin.
Increases in cognitive flexibility, psychological insight, and well-being seen at one-month.
Dose: 25mg (~ 5g magic mushrooms)
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This is Mr. Jaipal, selling matar kulcha at the same spot for 46 years. Behind the Modern School Barakhamba Road, close to Bengali Market. Among his clients were famous cricketers and NSD trainees. Some still come in luxurious cars. He charges Rs 50 per plate. Please visit him.
It was telecast primetime where I lived at the time, interrupting a TV show I liked to watch on a Lebanese state-run channel.
And even then (i was 14), it felt like a Hollywood production signifying a plot turning point, which in hindsight, it was.
Maybe this is just online, but does anyone else get the feeling that people younger than us think it's rude to suggest you've been through something they won't understand?
I never felt that way as a kid. My dad would talk about atom bomb drills and I'd say "woah, that's
I’m already past those days when they were little. My oldest is 21, my youngest is 13 and almost as tall as her mom.
This video hits hard.
We are trying to make the most of the time we have left with them at home. And there’s no end of joys with them at these ages too. It’s just different.
Our granddaughter is now a reset, and we get to snuggle with her and love her like the days we can’t go back to with our own kids.
🚨 No more sugarcoating. The UN just confirmed the 1.5°C climate limit is effectively dead. We will breach it within years, not decades. We are officially entering a dangerous "overshoot" era. Current policies track us to a lethal 2.6°C.
What does crossing 1.5°C actually mean? It means a massive surge in compounding weather disasters. We aren't just talking about hotter days, as we are looking at abrupt, unpredictable severe droughts, collapsing ice sheets, and extreme floods happening all at once.
It gets worse. Rising sea levels will trigger permanent coastal submersion, threatening to completely swallow island nations. Simultaneously, brutal severe droughts will collapse global crop yields, causing skyrocketing food prices and widespread shortages.
We are completely unprepared.
In case anyone needs it, to have the ‘mubble-fubbles’ (16th century) means to have a fit of despondency or low spirits, such as the end-of-summer blues.
10 mins of the best definition of "life" ever captured on video
eric smith from the santa fe institute lays it out (as a process, not a "thing") in the most profound, succinct way I've ever seen described
you can't possibly understand this and think the process ends w/human civ