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Unbounded Spirit.

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Galileo on Critical Thinking and the Folly of Believing Your Preconceptions

To divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.

In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads.

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Astounding Bird’s-Eye View of Hong Kong’s Colorful Urban Jungle

Photographer Andy Yeung has called Hong Kong home since birth, but it took a trip away to spark the idea for Urban Jungle, his captivating series that captures aerial views of the city’s jam-packed skyline. As he descended on the metropolis on a returning flight, he was struck by the staggering panorama of high-rises crammed up against one another. The bird’s-eye perspective seemed to illustrate how it feels to live in one of the world’s most densely populated environments.   Hong Kong is, in fact, about as crowded as a city can get, with about 68,400 residents per square mile. (For comparison, consider that New York clocks in at a mere 4,500.) Necessarily, that means it’s stuffed with skyscrapers—it has more buildings taller than 500 feet than any other metropolis on earth, many of which Yeung photographed using a drone over the span of two months. Thanks MyModernMet.

Andy Yeung: Website | Facebook | Instagram | 500px

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Cityscape of Hong Kong | Via

In Hong Kong, space has always been at a premium. The small autonomous territory, part of the People’s Republic of China, houses more than 7.3 million residents within just 426 square miles (1,104 sq kilometers)—resulting in one of the highest population densities in the world: 17,150 people per square mile (6,650 people per sq kilometers). In such a limited and popular environment, developers tend to build as tall as possible, leading to a bristling cityscape that has led some to call Hong Kong a concrete forest. Reuters reports that home prices in Hong Kong have risen by 120 percent since 2008, with prices in the luxury market being pushed up by wealthy buyers from mainland China. The market has cooled in recent months as investors wait to see which direction China’s slowing economy will trend.

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Winners of the 2016 World Press Photo Contest

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Víctor Salgado | Tumblr

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The Exquisite Scale of  Jie Ma’s Art

Jie Ma is a digital artist from Shangai, China. He is currently working as Concept Designer and Art Director in the industry of Film and Video Games. Along with his professional career, he has been developing a more personal and intimate work. Without a specific pattern, he has created an own, intriguing and surreal universe. Jie Ma doesn’t give any information about it, just only through his mysterious illustrations. With a perfect sense of composition and an exquisite taste for architecture of large proportions, Jie Ma illustrations get us into an oniric world about a primarily uninhabited society living surrounded by huge scale libraries and floating structures. Txt Via

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Dara Scully - Siamese Twins

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Acacia Johnson - Origins

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As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

Hunter S. Thompson (via devilduck)

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I’m coming back.

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Gravitational waves: discovery hailed as breakthrough of the century

Scientists announce discovery of clear gravitational wave signal, ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein

Physicists have announced the discovery of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime first anticipated by Albert Einstein a century ago.

“We have detected gravitational waves. We did it,” said David Reitze, executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (Ligo), at a press conference in Washington.

The announcement is the climax of a century of speculation, 50 years of trial and error, and 25 years perfecting a set of instruments so sensitive they could identify a distortion in spacetime a thousandth the diameter of one atomic nucleus across a 4km strip of laserbeam and mirror.

The phenomenon was detected by the collision of two black holes. Using the world’s most sophisticated detector, the project scientists listened for 20 thousandths of a second as the two giant black holes, one 35 times the mass of the sun, the other slightly smaller, circled around each other.

At the beginning of the signal, their calculations told them how stars perish: the two objects had begun by circling each other 30 times a second. By the end of the 20 millisecond snatch of data, the two had accelerated to 250 times a second before the final collision and dark merger.

The observation signals the opening of a new window onto the universe.

“This is transformational,” said Professor Alberto Vecchio, of the University of Birmingham, and one of the researchers working on Ligo. “This observation is truly incredible science and marks three milestones for physics: the direct detection of gravitational waves, the first detection of a binary black hole, and the most convincing evidence to date that nature’s black holes are the objects predicted by Einstein’s theory.”

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Leon Ljos

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Environmental problems are not problems for our surroundings, - but in their origins and through their consequences – are thoroughly social problems, problems of people.

Ulrich Beck  (via sociology-of-space)

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Critical thinking without hope is cynicism. Hope without critical thinking is naïveté.

brainpickings https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/hope-cynicism/ (via gregmelander)

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Oxygen is poison. 

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Mike Steirnagle (1984)