For some months, the sun has been witnessing heightened activity. It has been emitting several powerful solar flares.
But, what are solar flares? The answer is that these are sudden releases of magnetic energy.
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Sonification — When You Go Beyond the Visual Representation Of Data
Communicate and find patterns with sound as your guide. “Sonification — When You Go Beyond the Visual Representation Of Data” is published by Pavle Marinkovic in Towards Data Science.
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Largest Native American cave art revealed by 3D scans
Deep in a damp cave in northern Alabama, archaeologists have made a giant discovery. On a subterranean ceiling just half a meter high, researchers have uncovered the largest cave art discovered in North America: intricate etchings of humanlike figures and a serpent, carved by Native Americans more than 1,000 years ago.
“It’s exemplary and important work,” says Carla Klehm, an archaeologist at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (UAF).
Although the U.S. Southwest is famous for petroglyphs carved into canyons and cliff faces, much of the southeast’s rock art is hidden underground in caves. “Forty years ago, no one would have thought the southeast had much cave art,” says Thomas Pluckhahn, an archaeologist at the University of South Florida who wasn’t involved with the paper. But over the past few decades, archaeologists including the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s Jan Simek have shown that’s not the case.
The Tesseract, Part I
But I am a visionary by the most grounded, neutral definition of the word (and so are you, undoubtedly):
By this definition, a “visionary” is just a person who regularly envisions the future and feels a deep need to design it with care, at times with such compulsive passion that it risks defining one on a core level and consuming one with endless details of a reality which has yet to formally occur.
In my inner midnight rambles, when this archetype is in full moonlit bloom, I envision our little enclave of ultra-talented, idiosyncratic, fun-loving Austin artist family winding up in some kind of post-apocalyptic village together, almost as if we’ve been training our entire lives for this…
It feels as if this ‘apocalypse’ were such a powerful future event that it’s been gravitationally pulling us toward it for decades, and that the closer we get to it, the more we feel the unmistakable velvet touch of the ultraviolet retrocausal torsion wave cast back into the past we call ‘now’—through the Tesseract, that divine instrument of nonlinear timeline coherence and coincidence control—from this inevitable future singularity, allowing it to spark in all our nuclei an unmistakeable sense of purpose-driven directionality and community…
…This is The Tesseract, a newsletter about persistent reoccurring visions of future humans.
An exploration of a persistent vision of future humans.
Godlike Aliens
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Science Fiction often shows us alien civilizations so advanced they are godlike, but how realistic are they, and what would such entities be like?
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Alien Civilizations: Godlike Aliens.
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur.
Episode 341, May 5, 2022
Written, Produced & Narrated by Isaac Arthur.
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