Eduard F. Vinyamata

Made in Barcelona, educated in the US. Writer in development. Traveler, bon vivant, geek & taller than you.

[Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻 @andreamatranga]

Narratives are to facts as constellations are to stars.

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

It turns out…

❝…even if a machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.❞ - William H. Pickering, 1910 (https://t.co/wxTEiy0pwh)

[Conor @Conaw]

[[Oh My God]]

[Dale Halvorsen @hfijoey]

WOW. Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole. https://t.co/Uqie1pyALF

[Mark Lynas @mark_lynas]

Nuclear Power Can Save the World https://t.co/xBt48FEJPd

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

There's a library in Norway holding manuscripts of books no one can read until the year 2114. A spruce tree is planted when a new book per year is added; in 100 years the tree will be pulped and the book printed on that pulp. Sweet idea.

https://t.co/08kVXQADvJ

[Alexander Rose @zander]

When I tell a story, and you listen to it, our brains actually synch up. It can be shown in FMRI scans. It shows a level social distributed cognition that we are just beginning to understand. -James Holland Jones @longnow @Interval

[Be the change you want to be @AgBioWorld]

Plants can hear and also make sound! Some plants can hear the sounds of animal pollinators and react by rapidly sweetening their nectar. Others make high-pitched noises that lie beyond the scope of human hearing but can be detected some distance away.

https://t.co/sClgYrFvHp

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

Before screen time 📱
It was paper time 📖

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The value of positive news is not just in reducing media-induced anxiety & depression (though that's a happy by-product) but in reducing fatalism, cynicism & radicalism. Human agency, deployed to enhance human well-being, can succeed. @angushervey https://t.co/ZQNrzqSEic

[Kevin Kelly @kevin2kelly]

The industrial use of science fiction.
https://t.co/q2aKXPtcGD

[Be the change you want to be @AgBioWorld]

Palmitic acid, the major fatty acid in palm oil, can be produced in genetically engineered algae. Technically we could be producing cooking oil in vats soon. However, the idiotic anti-GMO activists have already begun attacking this tech as well

https://t.co/wbu2Zf8xe0

[Eduard F. Vinyamata @Fric]

From: https://t.co/vQGxsSO4oU

[Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience]

"I like to think the most valuable words in investment are, 'It will rot your brain' - because whenever parents say that, that's the next $10B industry."
- @wolfejosh today on the counterintuitive truth that, as Philip K Dick said, #innovation first appears "in the trash stratum"

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

#Map shows various historic ways of dividing East and West. Vague concept that shifts over time. Source: https://t.co/vJ0BsfLbp6

[Joan Mangues @jmangues]

This is what's going on in Barcelona (Catalonia) today. Hundreds of thousands of people are out of the streets claiming the right to be a free Republic, in defense of freedom and human rights and against the spanish government's acts.

[Mark Lynas @mark_lynas]

Turns out there is no science to justify additional safety regulations on GMOs. None. Zilch. https://t.co/jYgmG0rgr4 Scary transgenesis messes less with the genome than boring old conventional breeding. Who knew? Just about all the experts, it seems.

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

A stealthy Harvard startup wants to reverse aging in dogs, and humans could be next https://t.co/HHaLbtqN7U

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Dune. The spice must flow. https://t.co/WjVUX0gfuH