š„¾ We found a variety of beautiful mushrooms (some of them very smelly) on our first autumn walk in the forest.
Hi @manton, love the new version of the micro.blog app, but Iām unable to log in to my Wordpress site since the last update. Is this a bug or is there a new procedure I may have missed..? Also, now I also have a hosted micro.blog account, I would love to be able to switch accounts on a post by post basis. Any plans for that in the near future?
āI wanted to put it all together under one roof so people could see how these things are inevitably connected and how it all shares one crystal clarity: that growth must come to an end.ā
Vaclav Smil on his book Growth, in a great interview with The Guardian
How sleep makes the brain forget things
āResearch does indeed show that, in order to remember what is important, we need to forget what isnāt important.ā
And the war of the blackest blacks continuesā¦
āMIT engineers report today that they have cooked up a material that is 10 times blacker than anything that has previously been reported.ā
Intriguing video by BBC Ideas: What Would Michel Foucault Think of Social Media, Fake News & Our Post Truth World? via: openculture.com
Great news for Utrechtās creative industry.
Utrecht wil investeren in innovatieve locatie voor film- en beeldcultuur āDe Machinerieā
A short visit with my daughter to the Abstractionpark 7090 at Gaudeamus Muziekweek
Another piece of our own puzzle. Rare 3.8-million-year-old skull recasts origins of iconic āLucyā fossil
Bootcamp with students of the new bachelor Crossover Creativity at HKU Utrecht.
š„ Canāt wait for āEl Caminoā!
DĆ¢mboviČa, Romania
The Departed ā ā ā
āIāve seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.ā
Operation Night Watch begins today. Not your average restoration:
āImaging techniques, including macro-XRF and RIS, will help determine its current condition, and macro X-ray fluorescence scans will analyze the chemical make-up of the paint literally millimeter by millimeter.ā
Jim Jarmusch: āIām for the survival of beauty. Iām for the mystery of lifeā
āAccording to Lorenz, the same visual cues can arouse us to equally intense caregiving when we encounter them in exaggerated and distilled form in animals, such as birds and puppies, and even in dummy models, such as teddy bears.ā
āFor the 2019 film, it would take between 60 and 160 hours just to render a single frame.ā
Toy Story 4ā Closeups Show How Much Pixar Has Perfected Its Craft In 24 Years
āAfter decades of rightwing dominance, a transatlantic movement of leftwing economists is building a practical alternative to neoliberalism.ā
The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism
Some true gems to be found here! WARP take over NTS radio with 100 hours of Eno, FlyLo, Autechre...
Plants are the oldest sensors in the world. Could they be the future of computers?
Some postmodern thoughts for the weekend. So much to comprehend!
āNo other idea from the humanities had so massive, if murky, an influenceā
You will be dearly missed, mr. Rebennack... Mama Roux - Gris Gris (1968)