Author Archives: Gary

About Gary

I write and maintain code for various websites as both a professional and a hobbyist developer, and have used computer technology for most of my life.

29-Leap

Overestimate

People often misjudge their abilities. Those with less than average abilities overestimate their true abilities. Those with higher don’t realize how much higher. Stupid people are too stupid to know how stupid they are. Some smart people wrongly assume that most others can do what they can.

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Kahneman

25-Trix

Mitochondria

<- 3-D drawing • microscopic photo ->

Mitochondria supply the energy in the cell.

Heart muscle cells have the most mitochondria, thousands per cell.

High-intensity interval training in aerobic exercises such as biking and walking cause cells to make more proteins for their energy-producing mitochondria, effectively stopping aging at the cellular level.

What would happen if all the mitochondria in your body released all their energy at once?

24-Mare

LUNAR DATA

Moon has Stories to Tell

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Click on the image to enlarge, look closely at the bottom; just left of center is newly named Monet’s Fault.

23-Dice

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Ground Zeros

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well.

They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness & power & beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier for them to see that something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow.

When the world was in darkness & wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it.

But when the world became bright with reason & riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.

Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they – this garden Earth, civilized & knowing, to be torn apart again that Man might hope again in wretched darkness.

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

22-Wind

Seepage

reality <—> imagination

There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca

Feedback mechanisms as anticipatory anxiety trigger symptoms which in turn, reinforce the phobia. Paradoxical intention consists of a reversal of attitude. Fear is replaced by a paradoxical wish to experience the anxiety fully, and the wind is taken out of the sails. ~Logotherapy by Victor Frankl

from 3 years ago