Physicist Brian Cox reminds us of a truth so profound it’s almost impossible to grasp: we are not just observers of the universe; we are a part of it that has finally woken up.
Every atom in your body; the carbon in your skin, the iron in your blood, the oxygen you breathe; was forged in the intense, ancient furnaces of dying stars. For billions of years, those atoms drifted through the cold void, only to find themselves, by some miracle of cosmic chance, arranged in a pattern that can think, feel, and dream.
As Carl Sagan famously said, we are a way for the cosmos to know itself. We are the means by which a universe of dust and gas suddenly starts writing symphonies, painting masterpieces, and asking where it came from.
It sounds unlikely, perhaps even impossible. But here we are, sitting on a small blue rock, having a conversation about it. And that might be the most extraordinary thing of all.
32 years ago Today, Kris Kremo performed his famous seemingly gravity-defying cigar-box juggling on the Christmas Special for The Generation Game TV show
Монгольский «Джингл белз» завирусился в сети.
Нидерландский диджей Уммет Озкан выпустил монгольскую версию рождественской песни и превратил её в техно. Всего за пару дней количество просмотров перевалило за 500 тысяч.
Заряд новогодним настроением обеспечен.