History

Most people don't realize that over the past 60 years, it's been the activist left, not the religious right, that has most vigorously sought to undermine evolution-based scientific research — at least any that involved the human brain or sex differences. https://t.co/EqechtUwfB

— i/o (@monitoringbias) May 11, 2023

 

An Insight

We have too many policies that were started on the assumption they help the environment, but when we find out they're counterproductive we somehow can't reverse them. Making biofuel out of corn is one example. Plastic recycling is another:https://t.co/OEP8wOQfny

— Jim Meigs (@jamesbmeigs) May 11, 2023

 

I see wonderful things

Cloud iridescence is a colorful optical phenomenon that occurs in a cloud & appears in the general proximity of the Sun or Moon. This one was spotted over Ribeirao Claro, Brazil

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— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 11, 2023

 

Offbeat Humor

Nature is absolutely amazing.🥰 pic.twitter.com/6tsjFWaOvK

— Amazing Nature (@AmazingNature00) May 12, 2023

 

Offbeat Humor

 

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Offbeat Humor

 

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Data Talks

It's actually even more extreme than that.

14 and 15 year-old boys track and field records — records that fall well short of those set by high school boys three years older than they are — beat the world records set by adult women. https://t.co/N6JJJL2kG2 pic.twitter.com/WnBfiNQ1tY

— i/o (@monitoringbias) May 11, 2023

 

Excavation of Olive Mount, from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831 by Henry Pyall (British, 1795–1833) after Thomas Talbot Bury (British, 1809–1877)

Excavation of Olive Mount, from Bury's Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1831 by Henry Pyall  (British, 1795–1833) after Thomas Talbot Bury  (British, 1809–1877)

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Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are

From Poetry and American Memory by Robert Pinsky.  The subheading is The poet laureate reflects on what makes the American people "a people"—and what our poetry can teach us about the "fragile, heroic enterprise of remembering."

Re-creation is not memory but spectacle—and spectacle may stand for the body of the past but not its soul.

The, later:

Deciding to remember, and what to remember, is how we decide who we are.

Suffering is universal but victimhood is optional.

From Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world’s most successful people by Polina Marinova Pompliano.  

EDITH EVA EGER, Psychologist and Holocaust survivor

    

 “Suffering is universal,” Holocaust survivor Edith Eva Eger writes in her memoir The Choice. “But victimhood is optional.”

We’re all likely to be victimized in some way throughout the course of our lives. At some point, we will suffer some kind of affliction or abuse, “caused by circumstances or people over which we have little or no control. “This is victimization,” she writes. “It comes from the outside. It’s the neighborhood bully, the boss who rages, the spouse who hits, the lover who cheats, the discriminatory law, the accident that lands you in the hospital."

On the flipside, victimhood comes from the inside. No one can make you a victim but you. “We become victims not because of what happens to us but when we choose to hold on to our victimization. We develop a victim’s mind—a way of thinking and being that is rigid, blaming, pessimistic, stuck in the past, unforgiving, punitive, and without healthy limits or boundaries. We become our own jailers when we choose the confines of the victim’s mind.”

   

If you don’t give in to victimhood, you can develop a kind of mental resilience that will carry you through the most difficult situations.