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Interests in mathematics, science, politics. Born on a blue day. Is there intelligent life on Earth?
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"I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy - of course, both those ideas are really the same idea." [Frank Wilczek]

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Stats on trust: Edelman Trust Barometer: https://www.edelman.com/trustbarometer (explains in part the relative success of some countries in beating COVID-19)

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"People don't fail -- they give up trying." [Attr to Elihu Root]

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"The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people." [Cornel West, author and philosopher, b. 1953]

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"If we are going to live so intimately with these [pesticides] eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power." [Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring, her 1962 book]

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"Environmental justice is like an umbrella, and the spokes within the umbrella are made up of things like housing and economic justice, health, and education. If the spokes are broken, then the umbrella is inoperable." [Cheryl Johnson]

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"Real engineers wear mustaches or beards for 'efficiency', not because they're lazy." [Anon]

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"Real engineers consider themselves well dressed if their socks match." [anon]

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"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." [B. F. Skinner]

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"Newton's First Law: Somedays it's better to stay in bed." [anon]

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"The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized." [Rachel Carson marine biologist, author, and environmentalist, 1907-1954]

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."  —Louis Brandeis

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"Every man who is not a monster, mathematician or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other." [George Eliot]

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Ignorance is an evil weed which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.[Beveridge]

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"To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer." [anon]

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"Destroying any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or the use of long range missiles. It only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in the examinations by the students..." [At the entrance gate of a university in South Africa]

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"But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself." [Rachel Carson, marine biologist, author, and environmentalist, 1907-1954]

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Happy Teachers' Day to educators in Hungary!

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"In nature nothing exists alone." [Rachel Carson, 1907-1954, in Silent Spring, her 1962 book which challenged the use of the pesticide DDT]

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"Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe." [Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)]

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"The past must be a springboard, not a sofa." [Harold MacMillan]

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"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." [Einstein]

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Open Syllabus maps the college curriculum across 6 million syllabi. Here's the list of most-used mathematics text books: https://opensyllabus.org/result/field?id=Mathematics

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Today is World No Tobacco Day, an easy way to reduce preventable diseases...

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"A diagram is worth a thousand words." [Dr. Carl E. Linderholm]

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"As are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts." [Marcus Aurelius]

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ICYMI The duplicitous decision: to support a toxic fossil fuel corporation over First Nations custodians, the environment, 1 to 2 million pieces of unique, culturally significant, historically important rock art. Endangered turtles & Pygmy whales. Our one & only overheating biosphere… #auspol 👇👇

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New emissions data is out - and it’s not good news. Carbon pollution is going up, and it’s higher than under Morrison’s Libs. Labor’s approval of new coal and gas like the North West Shelf has consequences for the planet. Two climate tests so far - and Labor’s failed both.

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An easy introduction to radians: https://www.intmath.com/blog/mathematics/radians-an-introduction-4661

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UNESCO continues to struggle with worldwide losses of heritage values due to climate change. Australia argues that rising temperatures are a global problem (i.e. not our fault) - while continuing to export coal and gas for as long as possible.

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"To learn, you must want to be taught." [Proverbs 12:1]

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"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." [Henry Ford]

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Comfort. My @smh @theage cartoon.

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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." [Arthur Conan Doyle, British physician and writer, 1859-1930. Created Sherlock Holmes series.]

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"The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape." [Bono, Irish musician and social activist, b. 1960]

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"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron." [Horace Mann]

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Sarah Hanson-Young fires back at Sarah Ferguson’s question on “where would the energy supply come from” if NWS wasn’t extended “This is not about supply. This is all about profits. In this case the profits of a big co like Woodside at the expense of everybody else’s safety”💥 #abc730

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Meanwhile, 🔥🔥🔥 STOP SUBSIDISING FOSSIL FUELS STOP APPROVING NEW FOSSIL PROJECTS STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS ASAP

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