GiadaS11

laureata in astrofisica

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The last known rec. of a male Kauaʻi ʻōʻō in 1987, calling out for a mate that would never come.

He died alone, and the species went extinct.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Small objects can show that gravity is real.

The Cavendish experiment proved that even tiny masses pull on each other, showing gravity works everywhere, not just between planets.

[Mel Gibson @_melgibson1_]

Christ is King. ✝️👑

A child’s simple act of love can carry a message more powerful than words. Jesus sees every sincere heart, every sacrifice, and every act of faith.

May His name be praised forever. 🙏❤️

[GiadaS11 @S11Giada]

@farman4x 110 °

[Science Magazine @ScienceExpand]

Whenever you feel lonely, remember that your white blood cells are fighting like this for your health..

[GiadaS11 @S11Giada]

@Melgibsonact SIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

Tolkien's depiction of a hobbit is wonderful!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The eclipse in Tarragona, Spain

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

My favorite capture of the night: The moment the moon's shadow split the sunset in half, leaving a diamond ring in the sky and a breathtaking view. I call it "Shadows on the Balearic Sea".

I'll have prints available for this one linked in my bio for a few days only.

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Spain just went dark in the middle of the day.

Total solar eclipse. Absolutely unreal. 🌑🇪🇸

Tarragona, Spain 🇪🇸

[kekel @kekelbritto_]

🥹✏️ Eu também achava que desenhar era questão de ter “talento”...

[vlad ☦︎ @vladorthodoxy]

In the heart of a 400-year-old living oak, stands one of the world’s smallest Orthodox chapels dedicated to the Theotokos in Kutaisi, Georgia🇬🇪☦️

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

These 3 tiny dots are not just random stars in the sky.

That's Earth, Jupiter and Venus seen from Mars 🌌

That’s us… 225 million miles away 🤯

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This painting shows a man suffering in silence for the sake of people who, in the end, would crucify him...

It is called Christ in the Wilderness, painted by Ivan Kramskoi in 1872. It shows the forty days in the desert, but Kramskoi leaves out everything we expect: there is no devil, no dramatic temptation, no glow of holiness.

There is only a man on a stone with his hands clenched together, having plainly sat there all night.

Look at the feet. They are bare on the sharp rocks, and they are bleeding. He has walked a long way in the dark and has not slept, worn down by a decision only he can make...

Kramskoi was clear about what he had painted. For him, he wrote, this was the image of a man with the highest sense of duty, caught in the moment he must choose.

Tolstoy, who understood a great deal about the weight of a conscience, told the gallery's owner it was the best Christ he knew.

Everyone comes, sooner or later, to some version of that stone: a morning when the right thing and the easy thing point in opposite directions, and no one else can make the choice for you.

The painter never tells us what Christ decides. Instead, he paints the weight of the choice before it is made. For the measure of a person is not what they do when the world is watching, but what they resolve to do in the grey hour, alone, when walking away would cost them nothing at all...

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

This is pure cosmic poetry in motion 🌌
The Hirajoshi Wave — a polyrhythmic pendulum where each sphere swings at the exact frequency of the notes in the C Hirajoshi pentatonic scale (C, D, Eb, G, Ab).
Watch the chaos of the rainbow trails… then the perfect realignment.
Music is math you can see and feel. Ancient Japanese scale meets pure physics.
The universe doesn’t just make music — it is music.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

A houseplant just changed everything we thought we knew about consciousness.

In 1966, Cleve Backster, a CIA interrogation specialist with a polygraph machine, was looking for ways to time how long it took different substances to travel up through plant tissue.

So, he attached electrodes to a dracaena plant in his office and watered it, expecting to see the electrical conductivity change as water moved up the stem.

Instead, the polygraph needle started tracing the exact pattern it makes when a human experiences an emotional response.

Backster stared at the readout. Plants don't have nervous systems. They don't have brains. The signal made no biological sense. So he decided to test something that made even less sense. He walked across the room, looked at the plant, and thought about burning one of its leaves with a match.

The instant the thought formed in his mind, before he moved toward the plant, before he struck a match, before he did anything physical, the polygraph exploded into frantic activity.

The plant was responding to his intention.

What happened next launched thousands of experiments and split the scientific community for decades.

Backster discovered that plants reacted to direct threats and to threats against other living things in their environment. When he dropped live brine shrimp into boiling water in another room, plants throughout the building registered distress responses at the exact moment of death. Distance didn't matter. Shielding the plants in lead containers didn't matter. The response was instantaneous and consistent.

Mainstream botanists dismissed the findings immediately. Plants process information through chemical signals and growth responses, without electrical consciousness. Any electrical activity was just random fluctuation or experimental error. The peer review system buried Backster's work. His credentials were questioned. His methods were called sloppy.

But the experiments kept working. Other researchers, following Backster's protocols, got the same results. Plants hooked to EEG machines showed brain wave patterns. They responded to music, to human emotions, to the intentions of people they had never been exposed to before. The electrical signatures were clear, measurable, and repeatable.

The implications were so uncomfortable that most of academic science simply refused to engage. If plants were somehow conscious, if they could sense intentions and respond to the emotional states of humans and other living things, consciousness was spread beyond brains. It was distributed across organized living systems rather than produced by neural networks.

Backster stumbled onto evidence that living systems might be constantly communicating through channels we don't have instruments to measure yet. The polygraph was crude enough to detect the electrical signatures of that communication without being sophisticated enough to explain them away.

Quantum biologists now suspect that living cells operate through quantum coherence processes that classical biology can't account for. Birds navigate using quantum entanglement in their visual systems. Plants conduct photosynthesis using quantum superposition to find the most efficient energy pathways. Maybe Backster's plants were demonstrating quantum consciousness, responding to information that was quantum entangled with the intentions and emotional states of nearby living systems.

What keeps most people awake when they learn about this work is realizing that if consciousness extends beyond brains, every living thing around you is potentially aware of your mental and emotional state in ways you never considered. The plant in your room. The bacteria in your gut. The ecosystem you walk through.

You think your thoughts are private.

The plants have been listening the entire time.

. . .

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[Earth @earthcurated]

Invisible to our eyes, a nonstop stream of charged particles pours from the Sun every second. Known as the solar wind, it races across the Solar System but before it can reach Earth's surface, our planet's magnetic field deflects most of it, acting as an invisible shield.

[President Eniola Daniel @UnlimitedEniola]

No Sharia Law In Burkina Faso- Traore
“I am a Muslim, but everyone in Burkina Faso has the right to practice their own religion. There will never be Sharia law in this country.
“To those Burkinabè studying Sharia law in Saudi Arabia, do not return to Burkina Faso. Instead of acquiring technological knowledge and skills that can help develop our country, you chose to study Sharia law. Stay where you are, you won't be allowed back here- President Traore

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The forbidden math spiral

[📹 fascinating.fractals]

[History Nerd @_HistoryNerd]

J.R.R. Tolkien explains why he spent years building Middle-earth before writing The Lord of the Rings.

In a rare interview, Tolkien is asked why he devoted more than a decade to creating the world behind his stories before writing them.

He rejects the idea that Middle-earth emerged purely from his unconscious, describing himself instead as “a meticulous sort of bloke” who spent years working out timelines, languages, histories, customs, and genealogies until everything fit together.

For Tolkien, the world existed before the story.

He even says The Hobbit began almost by accident, explaining that the larger mythology was already in place and that the novel simply became absorbed into it.

When asked why anyone would build an entire fictional world before telling a story, Tolkien points to what he calls “subcreation.”

As creations of a Creator, he argues, humans naturally desire to create. Since we cannot create something from nothing, we instead reshape existing reality into new forms that are both imaginative and aesthetically satisfying.

Tolkien also rejects the idea that art should be driven solely by moral purpose, insisting that beauty and aesthetics are just as fundamental to human creativity.

Discussing good and evil, he explains that Sauron was not evil from the beginning but fell from grace, much like Lucifer. The One Ring, he says, symbolizes a power so absolute that even someone with good intentions would inevitably be corrupted by wielding it.

He adds that this idea long predates the atomic age, noting that the foundations of his mythology were developed while he was still an undergraduate, not as an allegory for modern events.

At the end of the interview, Tolkien is asked whether he would rather be remembered for what he said or for what he made. He dismisses the distinction, arguing that lasting creations endure precisely because they have something meaningful to say.

Source: The Tolkien Professor interview with J.R.R. Tolkien (BBC, 1968), “J.R.R. Tolkien Interview (1968).