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La naturaleza tiene una mística que la razón solo intuye. Por aquí sigo cuentas de una de mi pasiones de la naturaleza desde niño, los animales. Etología.

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Si miras el cielo al amanecer, esta semana podrás ver a Marte salir del hexágono del invierno, donde ha pasado los últimos meses. En su lento movimiento hacia el este, Marte se está acercando a Júpiter, aunque no lo alcanzará hasta mediados de noviembre.

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Blinking together: the modulation of eye blinking in dog–human social contexts https://t.co/Qt1zUC6DL8

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Why smugglers are stealing Kenya’s ants @TheEconomist https://t.co/rWHV7eKOvn

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Mañana día 28 de madrugada podrás ver desde España un eclipse parcial de Luna. Está asociado al total de Sol que vimos el día 12. Aquel coincidió con la Luna nueva, y este lo hace con la Luna llena. El máximo será a las 06:13 hora peninsular. No necesitas protección para verlo.

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When a Cat Licks Another Cat, It’s Not Always a Friendly Gesture. New Study Reveals They May Just Want Their Own Space https://t.co/XnCBYJhCQI

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Avance astronómico de agosto. Este mes podremos ver dos eclipses. El 12 de agosto tendrá lugar un eclipse de Sol que se verá como total en parte de la Península. El día 28 se verá un eclipse parcial de Luna desde toda España. La noche del 12-13 será el máximo de las perseidas.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

A new analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes.

The findings also reveal that local environments greatly shape how birds communicate around the world. Learn more: https://t.co/3oaQ0sKQfJ

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Mismos hechos, narrativas cada vez más incoherentes.

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Escuche a un boxeador que estudiaba a sus rivales antes del combate estando decidido antes de empezar. El verdadero campeón lo automatiza prácticamente todo en el entrenar salvo tal vez el instante ganador. Intuyo que los triunfadores excepcionales automatizan lo que los demás no

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Bruce Lee spent the last 3 years of his life secretly writing a book that argued the entire system of martial arts he had built his fame on was a trap, and then died at 32 before he could decide whether the world was ready to read it.

The book is called Tao of Jeet Kune Do. It is the bestselling martial arts book in history. And almost nobody who quotes it has actually understood what Bruce Lee was warning them about.

The story most people know is the famous one. In 1970, at the peak of his career, Lee suffered a severe back injury during a training session. His doctors told him he might never walk normally again. They ordered him into bed for 6 months.

He was 30 years old, in the best shape of his life, and suddenly unable to throw a single punch.

What people miss is what he did with those 6 months.

He had a library of over 2,500 books in his home. He pulled them onto the bed and started reading. Lao Tzu. Krishnamurti. Alan Watts. Sun Tzu. Eric Hoffer. He filled 7 notebooks with quotes, diagrams, sketches, and his own arguments. He was not writing a fight manual. He was building a case against the entire concept of fight manuals.

The argument is the part almost everyone misses.

Lee had spent his early career mastering Wing Chun, then training in boxing, fencing, judo, and Western wrestling. He was a black belt in nothing because he refused to participate in the ranking systems.

He noticed something nobody around him was willing to say out loud. Every traditional style on earth teaches you a fixed set of responses to fixed situations. Block here. Strike there. Move this foot first. The styles were elegant. They were beautiful. And they were turning their students into robots.

A real fight does not run on a script. The opponent does not stand still while you execute your form. The moment you commit to a pre-rehearsed sequence, you have already lost, because you are responding to a situation that exists in your training instead of the one in front of you. Lee called this crystallization, and he believed it was the disease at the heart of every martial art ever taught.

He invented Jeet Kune Do as the antidote. The name means "way of the intercepting fist," and the central idea was formlessness. Use no way as way. Take what works for your specific body in this specific moment, reject what does not, and never let any of it harden into a system. He wrote the line that would define him. Be water.

Then he watched his own students start to crystallize it.

Within a few years, Jeet Kune Do had its own techniques, its own loyalists, its own dojos. His followers were learning Jeet Kune Do moves the same way the rest of the world learned Karate moves. The thing he had built specifically to destroy the idea of a fixed style was becoming a fixed style. He had created the cage all over again.

In 1970, he shut down his own schools.

Almost nobody talks about this. The man whose name is on the bestselling martial arts book in history closed the institutions teaching his own art, because he had decided that institutionalizing it was the betrayal of the entire point. He kept teaching privately. He stopped trying to make Jeet Kune Do scale.

The line from his notes that captures the whole project is four words long. Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless. Add what is essentially your own. This is not a martial arts instruction. It is a learning method. It says do not copy a master. Do not pledge loyalty to a school. Do not let any single source own your development. Take what works for you, leave what does not, and make the rest yourself.

He hesitated to publish the book for exactly the reason you might guess. He was afraid people would treat his notes the same way they treated every other martial arts text. As gospel. As a sequence to memorize. As another style to crystallize around.

He died on July 20, 1973. He was 32 years old. The notebooks sat in a drawer for two years until his widow Linda Lee, his student Dan Inosanto, and editor Gilbert Johnson decided to publish them. They organized 7 volumes of unfinished thinking into a 200-page book and sent it to the world.

What happened next is the irony Bruce Lee saw coming.

A generation of fighters memorized Tao of Jeet Kune Do as if it were a manual. They quoted "be like water" without ever reading the chapter where he explained that water has no form precisely because it refuses to commit to one. They tattooed his face on their bodies. They built schools certifying Jeet Kune Do instructors. They turned the man who killed styles into a style.

The book is still the bestseller it has always been. The lesson inside it is still ignored by most of the people who buy it. He warned them on the first page. The truth in combat is that there is no truth in combat. The moment you think you have found the answer, you have lost.

The book is not a manual. It is a permission slip to throw away every manual you own.

[nature @Nature]

Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter their profession

https://t.co/hzukofvPYY

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Avance astronómico de mayo. Este mes tendremos dos lunas llenas, una el día 1 y la otra el 31. Al amanecer, se verán Marte y Saturno, y al anochecer Venus, Júpiter y Mercurio a fin de mes. El máximo de la lluvia de meteoros de las eta acuáridas tendrá lugar la noche del 5 al 6.

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@BioTay Más focalizados en menos objetivos, menos temerosos, imagino que preocupa menos la sinceridad o el sincericidio.

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Si es que hay que mantenerse curioso y con instinto de explorar. Sex- and Male-Morph-Specific Variation in Brain Mass and Cell Number Scaling in Solitary Centris pallida (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Bees https://t.co/1EbXmOpfQK

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Una planta blanca ladrona, que roba a una micorriza simbiótica de una planta verde. Al final el Sol. These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how https://t.co/bWUhC83AvP

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Dogs in UK schools – An evaluation of the status quo https://t.co/ni6khZpNZE

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@liliths_coven_ Y yo me encuentro un pez Luna en tierras de Ana. Al final va a estar pasando algo en casa Luna 🙂

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Estas semana al amanecer podrás ver a la Luna menguante cruzar el cielo por el sur. Entre los días 6 y 7 la encontrarás cerca de Antares, y desde la Antártida se verá como una ocultación. Hacia el este, Mercurio sigue muy bajo y difícil de ver por el brillo del alba.

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Mira al oeste tras la puesta de Sol y podrás ver a Venus cada día más alto sobre el horizonte. En esta semana sin Luna, será el objeto más brillante al anochecer. El siguiente es Júpiter, que encontrarás hacia el sur cerca del cénit. Con prismáticos podrás ver sus satélites.

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Que paguen conmigo no significa que pague yo

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Avance astronómico de marzo. La primavera en el hemisferio norte (otoño en el sur) comenzará el día 20 a las 15:46 hora peninsular. Al anochecer se verán Júpiter, Venus y Saturno. Al amanecer, Mercurio en la segunda quincena. La madrugada del domingo 29 adelantaremos los relojes.