Gilgamesh

[Adrian Smith @DrAdrianSmith]

1 wing flap from 15 moth species

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This collection of slow motion videos of objects falling in water and cornflour result in spectacular fluid motion effects, with highly unexpected but extremely satisfying geometries and shapes

[📹: https://t.co/1W6R8fajAI]
https://t.co/A20uDiyLP5

[Mind Haste ⚡️ @MindHaste]

you are at your strongest when you are calm.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Study logic and math, because once you've mastered them, you won't fear any book."

@naval

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This is how an Aurora is created.

Credit: Per Byhring/UiO

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Money may not buy happiness, but very often, unhappiness comes from financial worries.

[Naval @naval]

Your success in life depends on your ability to make good decisions. Your happiness depends on your ability to not care about the outcomes.

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

You don’t control the mountain, only the climb.

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Things smartphones have replaced:

[Harrison Schenck @FractionalList]

How to avoid criticism:

- Do nothing important or meaningful

End of list

[Paul Graham @paulg]

One of the things the 20th century taught us, very expensively, is that it's a mistake to appease dictators who invade their neighbors.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"If you can’t be happy with a coffee, you won’t be happy with a yacht."

@naval

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

“No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.” Seneca

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Few practices are more primitive than the banning of books.

[Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ)  @benjancewicz]

This palm tree fell over, refused to die, and curved right back up.

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

You can save a lot of time by letting people “win” the argument.

[Alex Cohen @anothercohen]

Being an adult is just coming to the realization that you can only be good at like 1 or 2 things and it’s totally fine to pay other people to be good at their 1-2 things

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

One of the biggest achievements of humanity: the decline of child mortality during the last 200 years.

(From my @OurWorldInData post on child mortality: https://t.co/EDLIVrAovO)