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“Near limitless energy is to be found by effectively cannibalizing dead galaxies from other dead universes.”
“See the moon? it hates us.”
―Donald Barthelme, 60 Stories, 1966.
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I was living topside when we met. I was covering my organs in gray cloth and hoping no one noticed.
I wasn’t following fault lines or fractured terrain. My silhouette was stitched thin already.
I knew it could all go wrong.
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The cryosphere is an all-encompassing term for those portions of Earth’s surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost).
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Benign envy versus hostile envy. We reserve this malicious envy for our peers. Relevant comparison standards. Relative dimensions.
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The Icelandic word for “drift whale” translates as “windfall“, since the washed-up carcass provides meat, blubber, fat, and other benefits to the finder.
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In Chile, the caldera of the volcano, Sollipulli is filled with ice.
A glacier erupts.
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During the Renaissance and by early modern times the voices in favor of actual infinity were rather rare.
“The continuum actually consists of infinitely many indivisibles…”
Argues Galileo.
But Plato has two infinities, the great and the small.
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In 1909, one filmmaker, Władysław Starewicz, found that when filming live stag beetles, they tended to stop moving under the hot lights.
To solve this problem, he killed his film subjects and attached wires to their bodies in order to puppeteer them. Dead insects and other animals were frequently used as protagonists in his films.
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Discussion of Warm Diseases published in 1746, divided the manifestations of diseases into four stages.
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Parrondo’s paradox: it is possible to play two losing games alternately to eventually win.
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It’s vehement, it’s mean-spirited, it’s hateful. It’s like a rattlesnake was kissing it almost.
Prose itself reads like a rant. Basically just primer material. Hard to understand. Bombards you with information that is no way persuasive. Again. Childish. Babbling.
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Most virulent forms of jealousy reserved for those who are in same boat as us. Hostile envy gnaws at you, schadenfreude soothes the pain.
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“Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.
― Ovid, Amorum, 16 BC
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
―John Dryden. Absalom and Achitophel, 1681.
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Ice sheets are the greatest potential source of freshwater, holding approximately 77% of the global total.
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“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
―Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young, 1894.
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own…”
―Cicero, Tusculanarum Disputationum, 45 BC.
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