Michael Cervieri
@ronaut
Pondering bees and trees along the CT-RI border. Writing children’s stories.
Michael Cervieri
michael.cervieri.com
"On land, multicellular life stays pretty close to the surface. But every depth of the ocean is inhabited, in numbers that we are just beginning to appreciate...
"...Comparing the inhabitable terrain of the ocean to that of the land yields a startling statistic: The ocean represents something very close to 99 percent of the biosphere. Spread out as
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This truck was on the train track at my local Amtrak station today. It has rail wheels in place of its truck wheels. Even the back three sets that look like regular wheels are truck wheels surrounding rail wheels so it can drive on or off track as needed.
Wheat did it by manipulating Homo sapiens to its advantage. This ape had been living a fairly comfortable life hunting and gathering until about 10,000 years ago, but then began to invest more and more effort in cultivating wheat. Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking c
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Journalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of legitimate public debate. - Peter Beinart
I saw a Linus LTT video about how normies won't use mastodon and thought, that's fine. Most of the places I grew up on using the web weren't used by normies either, and they were great. -@mainframed767@infosec.exchange
I took this photo in LA a few years ago. I always liked the absurdity of it. One of those thinking outside of the box, or the bun, or the hot dog type of things.
The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them. - The Woodcutter and the Trees
What I’m trying to say is that instead of thinking of the Earth as just another planet and life as ubiquitous in the universe, the truth is that Earth is not just another planet. The Earth is a very rare oasis that has supported life for at least three and a half billion years, which allowed for life to change and adapt to different environments th
... See moreI built and sold a business that allowed me to retire at age 44. It was called Data Storage, Inc., information, knowledge, and records management is my jam.
10 Years ago I gave a speech about the half life of knowledge to a bunch of MBA aspirants at a university business school. This is the Twitter synopsis. ___LINEB... See more
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