Scientists have documented five major mass extinction events in Earth’s history. Are we entering the sixth phase? Live Science has more on this unsettling notion, including why many researchers say yes. If you’re thinking of humans “clearing habitats, exterminating species and changing the climate,” you’re on the right path. https://flip.it/847-f0 #Science#Earth#Humans#Extinction
Someone posted about how AI art seems “soulless” perhaps because it doesn’t do anything to help you connect with the person/artist who created it. I think I agree with that view. As an artist I crave that connection with people... I sold a bunch of prints last week and it was amazing having someone see something I created and having some feeling of liking it because we have some shared experience and that is the connection thing. More of that please.
We all need to vent after a bad day, right? It’s the equivalent of releasing steam from a pressure cooker, it’s long been believed. Researchers at Ohio State University, however, found “not a shred of scientific evidence” to support catharsis theory, as it’s called. In fact, venting might increase anger. Science Alert has more, including effective methods of managing your rage. https://flip.it/2GK2Gq #Science#Health#Anger#AngerManagement#Behavior#Humans
Thirty years after the first exoplanets were discovered, hundreds of additional exoplanets have been identified within the “habitable zone,” a place where liquid water and maybe even life may exist. The MIT Press Reader asks, could a self-sustaining starship carry humans to distant worlds? https://flip.it/0q093h #Science#Space#SolarSystem#Planets#Humans#SpaceExploration
When did humans start wearing clothes? The evidence used to answer this question comes from a few main sources, including bones bearing evidence of skinning, sewing needles and awls, and lice. Biologists estimated that anatomically modern #humans started regularly wearing simple #clothes around 170,000 years ago, during the second-to-last #ice age. Different human groups probably started and stopped wearing clothes many times throughout #history. https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/when-did-humans-start-wearing-clothes#science
If humans are indeed the most evolved species, why do so many of us suffer from developmental or genetic diseases? Phys.org explains why, unlike our ape ancestors, humans are still paying the price for losing our tails. https://flip.it/DX01o9 #Science#Humans#Biology#Evolution
hello, man of the new millennium, 21st century. Have you been able to realize yourself? was it able to achieve what the 19th-century science fiction #writers wrote? Look at yourself, man. You live in a house that is not your (a mortgage), drive a car that does not belong to you (debt), you get #money that depreciates before you buy anything, you have finished your studies but still haven't paid 40,000 tuition fees and most likely won't pay in the next 5 years. You can't afford to live the way you want and your home is no longer your fortress. You're alone. You don't belong to yourself.
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If I understood the author of that blog was disappointed that we were wasting too much effort on ensuring the safety of our lives while we could spend it on something else and he didn't like that he couldn't change that. He also doubts whether we are “imitating” humans.
I in my post tried to say that yes, we are animals, #humans we have needs, but we are artificially limited in their implementation and we should remember this and never use the “services” of those who deliberately and cynically limited us (bankers, politicians, presidents, some international organizations, huge #megacities with inflated prices for rooms). that is, I have the purpose in my post not to question our desire for something as the meaning of life, but to say that you can change and realize something (not to buy a small room in a “metropolis” but buy a house in a smaller city, promote the #economy without banks, grow food, not to vote in national elections, not to take debts on uni, look for alternatives etc.)
Here's a graph of the growth in human population globally over the past 2024 years. I updated it this morning for a first-year lecture. On it I mark the years my grandparents and parents were born, when I was born, and when my teenage daughter was born.
I still find it hard to grasp just how quickly and massively the human population has exploded. There's 6 billion(!!!) more people on the planet today than when my grandparents were born.
Humans are very good at anthropomorphising things. That is, giving them human characteristics, like ourselves. We do it with animals—see just about any cartoon—and we even do it with our own planet…
It’s come to this. W/ #Earth at its hottest point in recorded history, & #humans doing far from enough to stop its overheating, a small but growing number of #astronomers & #physicists are proposing a potential fix that could have leaped from the pages of science fiction: The equivalent of a giant beach umbrella, floating in outer #space.
…By examining the chemical composition of their (#SeaSponges’) skeletons, which the creatures built up steadily over centuries, the researchers have pieced together a new history of those earliest decades of #warming. And it points to a startling conclusion: #Humans have raised #GlobalTemperatures by a total of about 1.7°C, or 3.1°F, not 1.2°C, the most commonly used value.
No matter how many ways we create to communicate, humans will always find a way to drive each other crazy with it. At work I have to culturally know who will answer an actual telephone and who would rather die, who keeps their calendar online up to date and who is a conscientious objector to sharing calendars, who will answer a teams call whenever, and who believes all calls must be scheduled 3 weeks in advance. Who answers quickest on text and who never looks at their personal phone.
Unraveling the Mystery of Human Taillessness: A Genetic Perspective (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Humans, despite their numerous remarkable traits, lack a feature common to most vertebrates - a tail. The reason behind this absence has long been a
Slime Mold-Powered Smart Watches See Humans Fall In Love With The Goo (hackaday.com)
Humans are very good at anthropomorphising things. That is, giving them human characteristics, like ourselves. We do it with animals—see just about any cartoon—and we even do it with our own planet…