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" Meeting with the Giants " // Ā© Anaelle šŗ
Music: Ā© D-Sleeves - Ride With Me
Writing agent Jonny Geller gives advice to young writers.Ā
The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest
Most immortals become the angsty āeveryone I have ever loved is goneā kind of immortal. You, on the other hand, instead took it upon yourself to be a loving presence to entire generations of your chosen family, because they are descended from someone you once loved long ago.
isn't this Frieren
do it scared do it stupid do it alone etc etc but donāt do it hungry. eat a snack first
One of my favorite thing Iāve learned about animals studies is that you should avoid using colorful leg bands when youāre banding birds because you can accidentally completely skew the data because female birds prefer males with colorful bands
Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double
So like you can completely frick up the natural reproduction of a group of birds by giving a guy a bracelet so stylish that females CANNOT resist him
Me, putting a red bracelet on the leg of a male red wing blackbird: ON GOD we gonna get u some pussy bro
I remember reading a study where researchers realized that female birds of a certain species preferred males with a darker breast. So they created what they literally called a āSuper-Sexy Maleā by catching a male and coloring his chest with a marker. They then ran dna tests on the eggs in the area.
Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.
After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mateās eggs were 100% his.
This is just insane to me. Just imagine youāre living your bird life when suddenly somebody scribbles on Daveās chest and the ladies canāt stop throwing themselves at them. Itās stupid that we theoretically can wreck this kind of havoc on an ecosystem.
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25 Years of Exploring the Universe with NASA's Chandra Xray Observatory
Illustration of the Chandra telescope in orbit around Earth. Credit: NASA/CXC & J. Vaughan
On July 23, 1999, the space shuttle Columbia launched into orbit carrying NASAās Chandra X-ray Observatory. August 26 marked 25 years since Chandra released its first images.
These were the first of more than 25,000 observations Chandra has taken. This year, as NASA celebrates the 25th anniversary of this telescope and the incredible data it has provided, weāre taking a peek at some of its most memorable moments.
We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening.
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āIf you feel safe in the area that youāre working in, youāre not working in the right area⦠When you donāt feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, youāre just about in the right place to do something exciting.ā
ā David Bowie on creativity and his advice to artists
How you wait is who you are, and everything depends on your sense of an ending.
Adam Phillips on the psychology of waiting, the art of withstanding absence, and how to get better at missing loved ones
I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of the time.
James Baldwin, born 100 years ago today, on how to live through your darkest hour.
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How you wait is who you are, and everything depends on your sense of an ending.
Adam Phillips on the psychology of waiting, the art of withstanding absence, and how to get better at missing loved ones
Youāve probably seen that post floating around Tumblr a while ago:
my favorite thing iāve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like āthe eight winds cannot move meā blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes āFARTā (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says āwow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lakeā
So I got curious, and I did some research, and apparently, the poet was Su Dongpo, also known as Su Shi (8 January 1037 ā 24 August 1101), and he wasnāt just a poet - he was a writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and a statesman of the Song dynasty.
That particular event happened while he was assigned to an official post at Guazhuo, and the āfriend who lived across the lakeā was actually Chan master Foyin, who was the master of a temple on the mountain on the opposite shore.
A translation of the poem Su Dongpo sent to master Foyin:
āBowing with my highest respect To the deva of devas Whose fine light illuminates the whole universe, The eight winds cannot move me, For I am sitting upright on the golden purple lotus blossom.ā
Foyin wrote āPiā on the poem (āfartā, but also ānonsenseā), and sent it back, and the rest is history.
He (Su) also wrote this absolute banger of a poem, which I often think back on in these benighted times:
[Image ID: this contains the text of the poem āOn the Birth of a Sonā by Su Dongpo, also transliterated as Su Tung-Po. The translator is Arthur Waley. The text reads: āFamilies when a child is born / Hope it will turn out intelligent. / I, through intelligence / Having wrecked my whole life, / Only hope that the baby will prove / Ignorant and stupid. / Then heāll be happy all his days / And grow into a cabinet minister.ā]
my favorite thing iāve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was likeĀ āthe eight winds cannot move meā blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes āFARTā (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend saysĀ āwow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lakeā
i googled this bc i desperately wanted this to be real, and guess whatā¦it is.
the dudeās name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:
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(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)
on which his friend wroteĀ āę¾å±ā (fart, literally), and you know the rest.
(hereās a chinese source for the skeptics)
this is even funnier because just writingĀ āfartā out of the blue sounds really stupid and random in english, but in chinese, fart (fang pi) is used as a common reply to, well, people talking out of their ass. kind of like how weād useĀ ābullshitā in context.
ITāS BACK AND IT GOT BETTER
this is so great they should make more movies i don't have to watch