Category Archives: Development

03-Cast

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What does it mean?

Found this diagram in some library book.

Termite Castle Culture: Swarms of termites build castle-like structures without supervision or a centralized plan. Working independently without communication or a leader, they proceed using environmental cues.

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2012: As we drove south on the Mulligan Hwy in Australia and got down on the valley floor, we must have passed thousands of little termite castles.

Unfortunately, my environmental cues were not strong enough to make me stop the car and take a picture of any of those many interesting insect homes. Not one closeup photo; sad.

Mulligan Highway
Everlasting Impressions of Australia
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MMXXII

Do a search on Google and you’ll find that MMXXII.com‘s place on page 6 is no longer preceeded, on page 3, by MMXXII.io (which no longer exists).

Thomas Hobbes’s describes life as “nasty, brutish, and short,” Keltner believes evolution has given Homo sapiens emotions like gratitude, joy, amusement, and compassion because they help us survive and build cooperative, ethical societies.

Dacher Keltner on the Science of Awe by Mark Leviton

04-Anur

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To the Moon

Korea Aerospace Research Institute of South Korea is exploring the moon with Danuri.

This Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter is tasked with surveying lunar resources such as water ice, uranium, helium-3, silicon, and aluminium, and will produce a topographic map to help select future lunar landing sites.

Ballistic Lunar Transfer

Mission is scheduled to be launched today, 4 August 2022, on a Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

rocketlaunch.live <- look for video from 2022

29-Rowt

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Daunting

“You are old, Father William,” the young man said, “and your hair has become very white; and yet you incessantly stand on your head – do you think, at your age, it is right?”

In my youth,” Father William replied to his son, “I feared it might injure the brain; but now that I’m perfectly sure I have none, why, I do it again and again.”

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1865)