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George Musser @georgemusser.com · 20d

The usual explanation for great music is that it's predictable but not too predictable. But there's more to it, said @frosas.bsky.social at #ALIFE2025. We prefer music when we perceive agency behind it. Improvisation trumps a prepared performance. See paper at www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy.... ⚙️🧫

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · Sep 11

It is 9/11 in the US and I can think of no better answer to the question, “25 years later, how would we know if terrorism won?” than a quick scroll through X today.

Here in Aotearoa, we already knew the answer to “who matters to David Seymour?”

It.Can.Happen.Here.
#nzpol

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Sep 8

What an 85-Year-Long Harvard Study Says Is the Real Key to Happiness

We've long used the French word milieu in English, but not with quite the same range of meanings it has back in France.

www.openculture.com

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Aug 20

This all speaks to such basic needs: Stay connected. Cultivate Critical Thinking. Reflect on and Curate information. Update your models. <3

youtu.be/K1OvbwY6GPM?...

Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information

YouTube video by Big Think

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Aug 18

Brilliant Article.

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 25

Having the freedom to defend science is a privilege. Those who have it owe it to everyone the world over to make their voices heard

https://go.nature.com/44guILv

In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost

More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world.

go.nature.com

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Jun 13

The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony

This week, Brian Wilson became the last of the Wilson brothers to shuffle off this mortal coil. Dennis, the first of the Wilsons to go, died young in 1983 — but not before offering this memorable asse...

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Nature @nature.com · Jun 4

The non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch has launched a project aimed at rounding up flawed and fake medical-research papers and neutralizing their impact on public health.

https://go.nature.com/4jAo08S

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’

Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

go.nature.com

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · May 27

nautil.us/why-it-pays-...

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · May 22

Well done, Robbie. #moderndayphilosophers

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Forest & Bird @forestandbird.bsky.social · May 22

Budget 2025 is a disaster for our environment. Conservation investment is MIA while 75% of native species face extinction. The Govt is gambling with $133B in natural assets and our economy. This is environmental neglect, not leadership. We demand better.

www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no...

No nature, no economy: Budget 2025 misses the $133b point

Forest & Bird says the Government’s lack of investment in New Zealand’s environment in Budget 2025 is deeply concerning given the importance of the environment to our economy and society.

www.forestandbird.org.nz

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · May 6

A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About

Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought over from India and later refined in Japan, Zen Buddhism has long appealed to Westerners as well.

www.openculture.com

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Apr 21

I have been asked often this week if it is safe for whanau of local family here to travel to the states and have stepped into that space honestly, speaking to the risk and truth of what you so aptly called the "erosion of the Rule of Law". Then this article... #firstprinciples

Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Mar 31

3/3 I took pause after seeing her glowing visage and was reminded that in spite of the divisiveness and power dynamics seemingly eating the future, there is always beauty on offer if you choose to see it. #remainopen #takeawaythestick #donottoverfitthecurve #LTUsonoffer

Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Mar 31

2/3 Does yours say you are a plebeian or insane (the two interpretations during the Renaissance)? Are you signaling openness or irony? Is it contagious, authentic, or a veneer?

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Mar 31

1/3 This is an interesting piece on the evolution of the smile in art over the centuries with a nod to coevolution, specifically of culture and technology, which we see playing out in real time. What type of smile do you have and what does it say about you?
www.openculture.com/2025/03/a-ra...

A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph

Just look at this photo. Just look at this young girl’s smile. We know her name: O-o-be', according to the Smithsonian. And we know that she was a member of the Kiowa tribe in the Oklahoma Territory. ...

www.openculture.com

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Mar 31

Engaging with Creative Energy. #movingthroughwithart #makecompost #artinmovement #kaiakindness

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Mar 31

When a country prospers for too long, some start to romanticize tariffs, measles, and isolation. Historical memory is very short.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · Mar 30

From Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,”

"you are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice"

That line hit me hard

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Mar 29

From Paekakariki Beach at sunset

#schopenhauerandsunset #walkingmeditation #allthatisonofferisallthatis

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Jane914 @janecolhoun914.bsky.social · Mar 29

Was contemplating what a Schopenhauer inspired sketch by me might look like earlier and came across this… too good not to share.

#pandemichaircallback #everyonehasawill #philosophertotakeonajourney #interestingchoice

David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · Mar 21

The Will Stuck on Earth. Schopenhauer trying to use hair wings to fly away from brutes and dopes.

Colored pencil drawing of old German guy surrounded by mob of ugly faces. Birds flying in sky and his hair puffs out into wings. He looks upset but resigned

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Splakey @splakey.bsky.social · Mar 24

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We need to do better, as the pandemics won’t stop coming.

This sort of unnecessary smoke screening is an own goal, but also an example of why protecting the right of journalists and citizens to access government records is so important.

#foia #pandemic #H5N1
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...