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

21-Edge

Almaden Quicksilver

Guadalupe Landfill, Dumptruck on the Horizon

When I’m lost at sea, I hear your voice, and it carries me.

Heaven Is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle

19-Orro

Under the Weather

Imagine the horror with which darkness, rain, and wind, fill persons who have lost their way in the night; and who, consequently, have not the pleasant prospect of warm fires, dry cloaths, and other refreshments, to support their minds in struggling with the inclemencies of the weather.

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

18-Alim

Categorical Imperative

Mandelbrot Set

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Imagine first that the present is past, and second, that the past may yet be changed & amended.

Logotherapy by Victor Frankl