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The massive mola mola, also known as a sunfish, holds the title of the world's largest bony fish.
The heaviest recorded mola mola tipped the scales at an incredible 5,070 lbs (2,300 kg).
These ocean giants can produce up to 300 million eggs at once—more than any other vertebrate—and they spawn multiple times throughout their lives.
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The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals Its Secrets by Michael Blastland explores the unpredictability and complexity of the world, emphasizing the limits of human understanding and the role of hidden factors in shaping outcomes. Here are 10 key lessons from the book:
1. Embrace Uncertainty: The world is filled with unknowns that even the most rigorous methods can’t always predict. Recognizing the limits of our knowledge helps prevent overconfidence.
2. Complexity is Often Invisible: Many factors that affect outcomes are hidden or difficult to measure, meaning we often only see part of the picture. This “hidden half” can significantly impact results.
3. Correlation is Not Causation: Just because two things are related doesn’t mean one causes the other. Identifying true causation requires looking beyond surface correlations.
4. Models Have Limits: While models and statistics can help us understand certain trends, they can’t account for all variables. Relying too heavily on models can lead to false confidence.
5. Humility in Knowledge: Blastland argues for intellectual humility, stressing that accepting what we don’t know can lead to better, more open-minded decision-making.
6. Variability is Unavoidable: In complex systems, outcomes vary widely, often for reasons we can’t fully understand. Trying to eliminate variability can lead to oversimplification.
7. Avoid Over-Simplification: Attempting to reduce complex situations to a few factors often overlooks important nuances. Embracing complexity leads to more realistic expectations.
8. Small Factors Can Have Large Impacts: Sometimes, seemingly minor or unobservable factors play crucial roles in outcomes. Recognizing this can lead to better problem-solving approaches.
9. Be Skeptical of Certainty: In fields ranging from economics to social sciences, anyone claiming absolute certainty is likely overlooking hidden factors. A healthy skepticism of simple answers is essential.
10. Constant Learning and Adaptation: Understanding the hidden half requires ongoing learning and adaptability, as there will always be new complexities and surprises to uncover.
These lessons advocate for a balanced approach to knowledge, urging us to question, remain humble, and appreciate the unseen complexities that shape our world.
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Rollerball (1975)
1975 science fiction film that describes a dystopian future, where a private company controls everything. A future that no longer seems so distant.
In 2018, Jonathan E. is the team captain and veteran star of the Houston Rollerball team. Mr. Bartholomew, chairman of the Energy Corporation - one of a series of corporations that now govern society - and team sponsor, offers Jonathan a lavish retirement package if Jonathan will announce his retirement during an upcoming television special detailing his career. Jonathan refuses, and requests to see his former wife Ella, who had been taken from him some years earlier by a corporate executive who wanted her for himself.
Jonathan goes to a library, where he finds that all books have been digitized and edited to suit the corporations, and are now stored on supercomputers at large protected corporate locations. Jonathan's friend and former coach Cletus, now an Energy executive, warns him that the Executive Committee is afraid of him, though he cannot find out why.
Rollerball soon degrades into senseless violence as the rules are changed to force Jonathan out. The semi-final match between Houston and Tokyo is played with no penalties and limited substitutions in the hope Jonathan will be injured and forced out. The brutality of the match kills several players and leaves Jonathan's best friend and teammate Moonpie in a coma, though Houston wins the game.
In a teleconference, the Executive Committee decides that the final match will be played with no penalties, no substitutions, and no time limit in the hope that Jonathan will be killed during the game. Jonathan's popularity and longevity as a player threaten the underlying agenda of Rollerball: to demonstrate the futility of individualism.
Jonathan makes his way to Geneva to access the world's repository of all human knowledge, a central supercomputer known as "Zero," only to find its memory corrupted. Afterwards, Jonathan receives a visit from his former wife Ella, who has been sent to convince him to retire and to make it clear that the coming game will be "to the death". Jonathan realizes his wife's visit was set up by the Executives, and erases a long-cherished movie of the two of them, stating, "I just wanted you on my side." Jonathan decides that despite the dangers, he will play in the championship game against New York.
The final match devolves into a brutal gladiatorial fight. Jonathan is soon the only player left on the track for Houston, while a skater and a biker remain from New York. After a violent struggle in front of Mr. Bartholomew's box, Jonathan kills the skater and takes the ball. The biker charges, and Jonathan knocks him off the bike and pins the biker down. He raises the ball over his head, then pauses. Refusing to kill his fallen opponent, Jonathan gets to his feet and makes his way to the goal, slamming the ball home and scoring the game's only point. Jonathan then takes a victory lap as the crowd chants his name, first softly, then slowly rising to a roar while Mr. Bartholomew hastily exits the stands.
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Star Wars, original theatrical edition, Tom Jung, 1977.
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Hoba: The World's Largest Meteorite
In 1920, a farmer was plowing a field near Grootfontein, Namibia when his plow suddenly screeched to a halt.
Curious about what he had run into, he dug in the soil to find a large piece of metal. The large metal mass quickly attracted the attention of scientists and others, who identified it as a meteorite and removed the soil around it. Although excavated, the meteorite has not been moved from its location of discovery because of its great weight. However, many pieces have been removed for scientific study and through vandalism.
This 66-ton iron meteorite is considered as the largest single meteorite ever found and the largest piece of iron ever found near Earth's surface. It is tabular in shape and about nine feet long, nine feet wide and about three feet thick. It was given the name "Hoba" because it was discovered on a farm named "Hoba West."
Hoba is thought to have fallen to Earth about 80,000 years ago. It is composed of about 84% iron, 16% nickel, and trace amounts of cobalt and other metals. An abundance of iron oxides in the soil around the meteorite suggests that it was much larger than 66 tons when it landed and has suffered significant losses from oxidation.
It is surprising that this meteorite is not surrounded by a crater. Objects of this size should punch through the atmosphere at a very high rate of speed and hit Earth with enough force to blast a significant crater. No crater is present around the site of the meteorite. This suggests that it fell to earth at a lower rate of speed than expected. Some scientists believe that the flat shape of the object may be responsible for its low velocity at impact.
The Namibian government has declared the meteorite and the site where it rests as a national monument.
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René Magritte
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René Magritte 21.11.1898 - 15.08.1967
René Magritte (born November 21, 1898, Lessines, Belgium—died August 15, 1967, Brussels) was a Belgian artist, one of the most prominent Surrealist painters, whose bizarre flights of fancy blended horror, peril, comedy, and mystery.
His works were characterized by particular symbols—the female torso, the bourgeois “little man,” the bowler hat, the apple, the castle, the rock, the window, and other ordinary objects, which were often set in unusual or unsettling situations.
Magritte’s father was a tailor, and his mother was a milliner who drowned herself in the River Sambre when Magritte was about 14 years old. Thereafter, he and his two brothers were raised by his grandmother. As a teenager, he met Georgette Berger, who would become his wife nearly 10 years later.
After studying at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts (1916–18), Magritte became a designer for a wallpaper factory and then did sketches for advertisements. In 1922 he saw a reproduction of Giorgio de Chirico’s painting The Song of Love (1914), an evocative and haunting juxtaposition of odd elements (a classical bust and a rubber glove among them) in a dreamlike architectural space.
The work had a great influence on Magritte’s artistic approach. For the next few years he developed a singular style that comprised carefully rendered everyday objects often placed in enigmatic juxtapositions.
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November 17, 1971: A Nod's as Good as a Wink... To a Blind Horse
A Nod's as Good as a Wink... To a Blind Horse is the third album by British rock group Faces, and their second album of 1971. Bolstered by lead singer Rod Stewart's recent solo success with "Maggie May", it was their most successful album worldwide, peaking at No. 6 in the US, and reaching No. 2 in the UK.
It also contains their biggest US hit, the swaggering "Stay with Me" (No. 6 in the UK, No. 17 in the US), and the album itself would be certified gold by the RIAA in 1972.
https://www.musicthisday.com/lists/albums/50-albums-from-1971-you-must-hear-before-you-die
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To discover peace and fulfillment through creativity is to build an impenetrable fortress of contentment, regardless of external conditions.
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Music in so many ways gives resonance to our being, each genre carries specific vibration and frequency which shapes energy within, each genre is different state of emotional expression, as we well know how music creates shapes of various patterns so does in that way affect our being.
Birds do not tell each other "oohhh shut up Willie, you cant sing!" They just sing... They sing through the radiance of their being, they just are within each moment. Each being can express their heart through their own vocal cords, it is opening of the heart, it is surrender to the moment of truth, nakedness in our own essence.
Focusing our energy through heart and mind which gives emotion to each letter, expression of fine woven threads, carefully shaped with intent.
So keep your music of experience going, let it guide you through the instument of your being.
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Talk to the Hand: Finger Counting and Hand Diagrams in the Middle Ages
By Irene O’Daly
In the absence of computers and calculators, a highly elaborate system of finger-counting and gestural sign-language developed in the Middle Ages for representing numbers and facilitating conceptual reasoning.
These are often represented graphically in medieval manuscripts and provide an insight into teaching and learning practices in this period.
One of the most significant figures in the development of this tradition was the Northumbrian monk Bede (673/74-735) who wrote an important text on the calculation of time entitled De Temporum Ratione (725). Along with a series of calendar tables traditionally appended to it, the text often included a representation of Bede’s system of finger calculation, an elaborate version of learning to count from one to ten using one’s fingers. In this fourteenth-century version from Italy, the hand gestures are demonstrated by a series of figures, each labelled with a number.
Note that the final figure in the middle row switches to using his right hand to represent the number 100 (Roman numeral C) – numbers from 1-99 were indicated by the left hand, from 100 up the right hand was used and the hands could be used to demonstrate numbers up to 9,999.
There was even an indication for 1 million – the hands were clasped together with the fingers interlaced
Quoted from, and rest of the text in, https://medievalfragments.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/talk-to-the-hand-finger-counting-and-hand-diagrams-in-the-middle-ages/
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The Great Pyramid of Cholula Mexico
The Great Pyramid of Cholula, also known as Tlachihualtepetl (Nahuatl for "constructed mountain"), is a complex located in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico. It is the largest archaeological site of a pyramid (temple) in the world, as well as the largest pyramid by volume known to exist in the world today.
The Cholula pyramid is of great importance, since due to its dimensions it is considered the largest in the world in base; Its large volume is the result of the superimposition of other pyramids, since the old pyramid was covered in its entirety to make way for a new construction, which caused the base to grow until reaching more than 400 meters over time. long per side, 66 high and about 4.5 million cubic meters that it holds.
The construction of this temple began in the 2nd century BC. and it is believed that it ended between 900 and 1100 AD. When the Spanish arrived it was abandoned and had the appearance, which it still has today, of a small hill. It was Father Motolinia who discovered that it was an ancient teocalli.
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So, that's the Christmas Tree 🎄 sorted for this year.
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"Killing Yourself to Live" is a track from Black Sabbath's 1975 album 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath', known for its heavy riffs and introspective lyrics.
The song, written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, and Geezer Butler, is often interpreted as a critique of the self-destructive nature of fame and the pressures of the rock star lifestyle.
It explores themes of internal conflict, the consequences of overindulgence, and the realization that fame and success don't necessarily bring happiness or fulfillment.
The track is a prime example of Black Sabbath's ability to blend personal reflection with their signature heavy metal sound, showcasing Iommi's powerful guitar work and Osbourne's distinctive vocals.
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"If it doesn't come from you, don't do it. If you don't feel it, don't say it. It's that simple. Anything that doesn't flow from within is unnecessary weight. Life only makes sense in authenticity, in the truth of every step. Each day is a unique gift, so choose what you love, express what you feel, and live intensely, as if tomorrow is not promised. There's no room to be a version of you isn't true."
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