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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 1h

I sometimes never know why certain neuro pathways light up 🤔

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 9h

Yea science

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 9h

Good morning Laura. So I take it that time is a relative and less strong marker of aging? Feels that way to me. 😁

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 21h

“that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions”

-Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 21h

“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, “
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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 22h

A thousand colorful metaphors maybe. 🤬🤬🤬

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 22h

Probably way off the mark but not sure why but reminds me of:

“The evil that men do lives on after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
-William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar"

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 23h

I've called my rep-R (he's not busy since not working but collecting pay) Asked for him to provide the documentation of the required review process that had to be completed. But I don't expect an answer. I've called my senator-D also. I've called our TV stations also.

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 23h

Also: Section 106: National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...

Section 106: National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

www.gsa.gov

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 23h

I've called my rep-R (he's not busy since not working but collecting pay) Asked for him to provide the documentation of the required review process that had to be completed. But I don't expect an answer. I've called my senator-D also. I've called our TV stations also.

www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...

Section 106: National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

www.gsa.gov

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 1d

I've called my rep (he's not busy since not working but collecting pay) Asked for him to provide the documentation of the required revied process that had to be completed. But I don't expect an answer.

www.gsa.gov/real-estate/...

Section 106: National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act

www.gsa.gov

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 1d

I know, so sad. 😞 Has to fit in a sound bite or meme. Was just tossing that out there.

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 1d

They should read 'Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined', Steven Pinker, 2011... most likely never happen, >800 pages.

He argues with data documenting that violence in the world has declined. Notes paradoxically, our impression of violence has not tracked this decline. Go figure.

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 1d

I'm surprised they have yet to argue "white" is composed of all colors. Newton confirmed it. 🤪

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, astute thought. 🤔 To often we create boxes of our tools that confine our thinking. Thus, the need to step out of the box. You can’t predict the cascade of insights, ideas or discovery that follow from curiosity driven research.

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 2d

🤔 Is there a Feynman diagram that describes the interaction of viral particles n antibodies/ immune system? 🤣😁

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 2d

👍 💉 👍 I’m fully vaccinated also. Our antibody forces are primed n ready. 😃
Need to protect others not just ourselves.

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 3d

👇👇👇👇

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

I hear from informed sources that these #NoKings rallies are more than twice as big as last time, making them easily the largest protests in US history. Thanks to everyone and especially organizers.

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 3d

Umberto Eco understood the reality.😁

I also don’t have to charge a battery to read any of my books.

The KultKommando @kultkommando.bsky.social · 3d

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:
"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.
"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the
'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!
"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 3d

Good Saturday morning from our farm 😃

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 3d

They are curious gentile giants.

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 3d

Not as artistic n beautiful as yours. Does setting turn out posts count? My draft horses helping 😁

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 3d

“In many cases in history, the mad person was deemed mad because they were inconvenient or somehow undesirable to the maintaining of the society’s status quo.”

Still something we as a society struggle to confront n overcome. Good informative read, thanks.

Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 4d

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Mark Dowhy @empiricalcuriosity.bsky.social · 4d

These are beautiful n realistic n artistic. I find it a great insight into the process of how our understanding the anatomy n organ functions evolved. These are from the late 1700s; learn the ‘parts’, then begin to understand function. We’re still learning how it all works. 😃