
My Dinosaur,
A breakfast guest..
By a quirk of evolution, I am not on the menu....Today.
🆔 Steller’s Jay
📸 Fujifilm X-H1 | Fujifilm 50-230mm OIS II
🗓️ July 26, 2025


My Dinosaur,
A breakfast guest..
By a quirk of evolution, I am not on the menu....Today.
🆔 Steller’s Jay
📸 Fujifilm X-H1 | Fujifilm 50-230mm OIS II
🗓️ July 26, 2025
Starting off the second day of the CogEvo workshop
https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/
in pretty Rovereto, Italy, is Elizabeth Spelke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Spelke
talkng about "From birds, fish and newborn babies to primary school classrooms: Leveraging developmental cognitive science to improve children's learning of mathematics"
Up now, Simon Laughlin
https://royalsociety.org/people/simon-laughlin-11790/
starting off his presentation on how the "wetware computer" of life - neuronal circuits, processes information.
So far, huge emphasis on external input. Completely missing mentions of spontaneously or endogenously active neurons until now.
Will use this to adjust my presentation tomorrow 😆
Giorgio Vallortigara
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Vallortigara
Kicking off our CogEvo workshop
https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/
in beautifully alpine Rovereto, Italy
A bit further on, the author explains how to start your own "network state";
"Found a startup society. This is simply an online community with aspirations of something greater. Anyone can found one, just like anyone can found a company or cryptocurrency. And the founder’s legitimacy comes from whether people opt to follow them."
#BalajiSrinivasan, 2022
https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-thousand-words
That's not a state of any kind, it's a cult.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #442: Archerfish.
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#archerfish #tropicalfish #fish #aquariumfish #aquaria #animaltooluse #snipers #evolution #strangebuttrue #didyouknow #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
Evolution. Today's cartoon by Mark Winter (Chicane). More cartoons: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/search?query=&sort=created&order=desc
Mass resignation of the editorial board of the Journal of Human #Evolution. #Elsevier has gone bad. Very bad, in fact.
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