Ivan Miyingo Quintus✨

Author | Digital Creator | Graphics Designer | Music Producer | Pharmacist | Student of Philosophy | Since 1995.

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A good breakfast is one that supplies plenty of protein, complex carbohydrates and healthy fats.

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[Ivan Miyingo Quintus✨ @IMQuintus]

🌲🌳🌴We are all branches on the exact same tree.

The Tree of Life shows that every living thing on Earth shares a common ancestor.

By looking into our DNA via the Ship of the Imagination, we find a molecular signature linking us to oak trees, butterflies, and bacteria.

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Nature does its editing through natural selection.

When a random genetic mutation altered the fur pigment of a brown bear, it found an accidental advantage in the blinding snow.

Survival of the fittest scaled that mutation into an entirely new species: the Polar Bear.

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��We didn't just discover dogs; we sculpted them. Evolution isn't always slow and hidden.

By choosing the friendliest wolves over thousands of years, humans used artificial selection to rewrite genetic code, transforming wild apex predators into our loyal best friends.

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Curiosity isn't just an interest; it's a cosmic responsibility.

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If the 13.8 billion-year history of the universe were compressed into a single calendar year, Jesus was born at 11:59:56 PM on December 31st.

All of recorded human history takes up only the final 14 seconds of the cosmic year.

We are brand new newcomers to reality.

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What is our true place in reality.?

Cosmology gives us our exact cosmic mailing address: Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Observable Universe.

We are a tiny fraction of a fraction, drifting in a vast, beautifully infinite cosmic dark.

[Ivan Miyingo Quintus✨ @IMQuintus]

What is our true place in reality?

Cosmology gives us our exact cosmic mailing address: Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo Supercluster, Observable Universe.

We are a tiny fraction of a fraction, drifting in a vast, beautifully infinite cosmic dark.

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Science is a superpower that requires no magic.

The "Ship of the Imagination" from Cosmos teaches us that human curiosity, paired with the scientific method, lets us travel across billions of light-years and look back at the dawn of time itself.

Never stop questioning.

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You are physically made of exploded stars.

The iron in your blood, the calcium in your teeth, and the carbon in your DNA were forged in the hearts of dying stars billions of years ago.

As Carl Sagan said, we are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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Our entire written human history fits into the final seconds of the cosmic calendar.

If the 13.8 billion-year life of the universe were compressed into a single year, everything we’ve ever done happened on December 31st at 11:59 PM.

We are newcomers to the cosmos.

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Global warming happens when greenhouse gases—like carbon dioxide—trap solar heat in the atmosphere.

Sunlight passes through the air to warm Earth, but these gases block the heat from escaping back into space, creating a warming greenhouse effect that alters our climate.

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Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth's climate system.

It is observed since the pre-industrial period due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning.

This increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, driving climate change.

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Coal formed 300 million years ago when dead plants and trees fell into oxygen-poor, swampy wetlands.

Unable to fully rot, this organic matter piled up into peat.

Over years, layers of dirt and rock buried the peat, compressing it under heat and pressure into carbon-rich coal.

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It triggered global warming and ocean deoxygenation,

directly causing the Permian-Triassic extinction ("The Great Dying"), which wiped out 96% of marine life and 70% of land species.

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The historic volcanic eruption that created the Siberian Traps occurred around 252 million years ago.

Lasting for roughly two million years, this massive flood basalt event released catastrophic amounts of greenhouse gases.

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Earth’s "Big Five" mass extinctions wiped out most of our planet's historic biodiversity:

Glaciation killed 85% of marine life.
Devonian: Toxic dead zones suffocated 75% of species.
Permian: Volcanic "Great Dying" erased 96% of life.
Cretaceous: Asteroid killed the dinosaurs.

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The Joggins Fossil Cliffs in Nova Scotia are a UNESCO World Heritage Site famed as the "Coal Age Galápagos."

Its 15-km shoreline exposes the world’s most complete record of 300-million-year-old Carboniferous rainforests, with standing fossil trees and early reptile tracks.

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Lignin is a complex organic polymer that acts as the ultimate structural glue in trees.

By cementing cell walls together alongside cellulose, it provides the rigid, woody strength needed to defy gravity, grow hundreds of feet tall, and resist decay.

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Trees grow upwards using negative gravitropism, a process guided by the hormone auxin.

A stem tilts, auxin accumulates on its lower side, causing those cells to elongate faster.

This differential growth physically bends the plant, forcing it to shoot straight up toward light.

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Trees defy gravity through capillary action, root pressure, and transpiration.

As water evaporates from leaves, it pulls a continuous chain of water molecules all the way up from the roots.

This process is made possible by the strong cohesive and adhesive properties of water.