Magic Rocks

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• tacosanonymous@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m an expert on capitalism and everywhere I look I just see pain and ecological destruction.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    99percentinvisible.org/episode/wild-ones-live/

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• Khanzarate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ignorance might be bliss, but knowledge is joy.

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• lemjukes@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Hot damn is that a good book recommendation!

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is basically the entire concept of the podcast 99 Percent Invisible

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• Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

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• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m always noticing things. Interesting things, weird things, funny things. My mom has asked me multiple times, “How do you find so much interesting stuff?”

  All I’ve ever be able to respond with is, “I look around.” She misses a lot around her, my brothers and I even mess with her sometimes by “hiding” things in plain sight around my parents’ house and waiting until she says something.

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• d00phy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That book has been on my list for too long!

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• Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Irish archeologists walking through the countryside with nothing to talk about because farmers keep tearing down their own country’s historical sites (reading Irish archeology books is depressing)

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      The archeology book Im talking about was mentioning they were on a time limit because the farmer who owned the land wanted to tear down the over a thousand year old ruin (maybe even over two thousand) because he wanted the land’s use as farmland. They weren’t able to finish their study of the ruins and its artifacts despite working overtime because they hit their time limit and the farmer had the ancient ruins demolished. That’s just depressing.

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• psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I loved hanging out with an entomologist during the brief time xkcd’s geohashing was popular. Just sharing the love of the insect world they had

  They also taught me how to make a drosophila (fruit fly) trap (cut the to off a soft drink bottle, flip it, tape the two parts together, bait it with wine)

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• dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I missed the colon in that book title at first and was very confused about a book for their mother entitled “on looking eleven…”

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  what’s that feynman quote about science making things more beautiful?

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  • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You’re likely thinking of this quote from a 1981 BBC interview in the series The Pleasure of Finding Things Out:

    “I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say, ‘Look how beautiful it is,’ and I’ll agree. Then he says, ‘I as an artist can see how beautiful this is, but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing.’

    I think he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is … I can appreciate the beauty of a flower.

    At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at a smaller dimension.

    The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting — it means that insects can see the color.

    It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds.

    I don’t understand how it subtracts.”

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• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is a cool story and all but not exactly a meme

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• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  This is my answer to people who are sad that FTL space travel is probably impossible. There are wonders right around you that you don’t even know about. Space will always be there for humanity to explore. We don’t have to be in a rush. Tons to learn about right here. It’s not worth going to space if we leave a burnt cinder of a planet behind us.

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When I started paying closer attention to all the small insects around me, I felt like I was in an alien world. There are so many otherworldly and bizarre looking creatures just outside your door, you just have to get used to looking for them :)

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• shadowwwind@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My library doesn’t have it :(

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    You can usually put in requests and do inter library loans!

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• GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That book sounds wonderful. My local library has it through Libby

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