A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.
📽: Roger P Hangarter
The Romans saw vultures as sacred. They were the most auspicious bird an augur could see. Plutarch said this was because vultures were pure. They don’t hunt the living, they don’t steal a farmer’s crops. They take only from the dead.
"The lawgiver must establish common gymnastics and hunting for the young, and not allow them to live softly, but train them for war. For young men are naturally prone to form bands and unless directed to noble ends, they will turn to drinking, partying and degeneration."
— Plato
I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind. And therefore, God never wrought miracle, to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it. It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
—Francis Bacon
Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️
@elonmusk Obadiah 1:4 ESV
[4] Though you soar aloft like the eagle,though your nest is set among the stars,from there I will bring you down,declares the Lord.
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Israeli PM Netanyahu:
“I know the cost of war. I lost my brother in battle. I fought terrorists, was wounded freeing hostages, and held a soldier as he died in my arms.
Sometimes war is necessary to stop those who would destroy us. Freedom is precious and it must be protected.”