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The usual explanation for great music is that it's predictable but not too predictable. But there's more to it, said @frosas.bsky.social at #ALIFE2025. We prefer music when we perceive agency behind it. Improvisation trumps a prepared performance. See paper at www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy.... ⚙️🧫

It is 9/11 in the US and I can think of no better answer to the question, “25 years later, how would we know if terrorism won?” than a quick scroll through X today.

Here in Aotearoa, we already knew the answer to “who matters to David Seymour?”

It.Can.Happen.Here.
#nzpol

What an 85-Year-Long Harvard Study Says Is the Real Key to Happiness We've long used the French word milieu in English, but not with quite the same range of meanings it has back in France.

What an 85-Year-Long Harvard Study Says Is the Real Key to Happiness

YouTube video by Big Think Yuval Noah Harari: How to safeguard your mind in the age of junk information

This all speaks to such basic needs: Stay connected. Cultivate Critical Thinking. Reflect on and Curate information. Update your models. <3

youtu.be/K1OvbwY6GPM?...

Brilliant Article.

In the face of anti-science politics, silence is not without cost More scientific leaders need to speak out about anti-science agendas and threats to academic freedom across the world.

Having the freedom to defend science is a privilege. Those who have it owe it to everyone the world over to make their voices heard

https://go.nature.com/44guILv

The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony This week, Brian Wilson became the last of the Wilson brothers to shuffle off this mortal coil. Dennis, the first of the Wilsons to go, died young in 1983 — but not before offering this memorable asse...

The Genius of Brian Wilson (RIP) and How He Turned “Good Vibrations” Into the Beach Boys’ Pocket Symphony

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Group behind Retraction Watch aims to pinpoint the most influential flawed health data.

The non-profit organization that runs Retraction Watch has launched a project aimed at rounding up flawed and fake medical-research papers and neutralizing their impact on public health.

https://go.nature.com/4jAo08S

nautil.us/why-it-pays-...

Well done, Robbie. #moderndayphilosophers

No nature, no economy: Budget 2025 misses the $133b point Forest & Bird says the Government’s lack of investment in New Zealand’s environment in Budget 2025 is deeply concerning given the importance of the environment to our economy and society.

Budget 2025 is a disaster for our environment. Conservation investment is MIA while 75% of native species face extinction. The Govt is gambling with $133B in natural assets and our economy. This is environmental neglect, not leadership. We demand better.

www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/no...

A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About Despite developing in Asia, as the Chinese form of a religion originally brought over from India and later refined in Japan, Zen Buddhism has long appealed to Westerners as well.

A Japanese Zen Monk Explains What Zen Is Really About

I have been asked often this week if it is safe for whanau of local family here to travel to the states and have stepped into that space honestly, speaking to the risk and truth of what you so aptly called the "erosion of the Rule of Law". Then this article... #firstprinciples

3/3 I took pause after seeing her glowing visage and was reminded that in spite of the divisiveness and power dynamics seemingly eating the future, there is always beauty on offer if you choose to see it. #remainopen #takeawaythestick #donottoverfitthecurve #LTUsonoffer

2/3 Does yours say you are a plebeian or insane (the two interpretations during the Renaissance)? Are you signaling openness or irony? Is it contagious, authentic, or a veneer?

A Rare Smile Captured in a 19th Century Photograph Just look at this photo. Just look at this young girl’s smile. We know her name: O-o-be', according to the Smithsonian. And we know that she was a member of the Kiowa tribe in the Oklahoma Territory. ...

1/3 This is an interesting piece on the evolution of the smile in art over the centuries with a nod to coevolution, specifically of culture and technology, which we see playing out in real time. What type of smile do you have and what does it say about you?
www.openculture.com/2025/03/a-ra...

Engaging with Creative Energy. #movingthroughwithart #makecompost #artinmovement #kaiakindness

When a country prospers for too long, some start to romanticize tariffs, measles, and isolation. Historical memory is very short.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

From Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,”

"you are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice"

That line hit me hard

From Paekakariki Beach at sunset

#schopenhauerandsunset #walkingmeditation #allthatisonofferisallthatis

Was contemplating what a Schopenhauer inspired sketch by me might look like earlier and came across this… too good not to share.

#pandemichaircallback #everyonehasawill #philosophertotakeonajourney #interestingchoice

Opinion | We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives Five years after the start of Covid, we still don’t know the truth.

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We need to do better, as the pandemics won’t stop coming.

This sort of unnecessary smoke screening is an own goal, but also an example of why protecting the right of journalists and citizens to access government records is so important.

#foia #pandemic #H5N1
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

In liberal societies, science challenges assumptions. In authoritarian ones, it justifies them. 🧪 #AcademicSky

Made a friend while hanging out my washing. 😊#insectconsciousness #LTUs #gettingtoknowournewwhare

Autumn Equinox at 6:14pm At precisely 6:14 this evening the Autumn Equinox will occur – and for the next 6 months the sun will spend more…

A beautiful morning on this, the Autumnal Equinox. Let the hygge begin. #snuggleintekohangamarie

www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/autu...

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Save the Begonia House The Friends are asking for donations to help us keep the Begonia House where it should be, in the rose garden and not at the dump.

A worthy cause. 🪷 givealittle.co.nz/cause/save-t...

‘Common Side Effects’ And The Race To Save Invisible Fungi A “mycology thriller” imagines a hidden healing mushroom. In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.

The new animated series “Common Side Effects” is a mycology thriller—a fictional story about a rogue mushroom researcher who finds a ‘shroom that can heal any injury or disease.

In real life, scientists are searching far and wide to map the world’s unseen fungi.

✍️ @emmalgometz.bsky.social

Thich Nhat Hahn 5th precept:
“Be aware of suffering caused by unmindful consumption and look deeply into how you consume foods, sense impressions, volition and consciousness.”

You can’t fight & feed the commodity form at the same time. You are trapped until you realize this.
#resist
#ThichNhatHahn

I tweet, therefore I am: a systematic review on social media use and disorders of the social brain - BMC Psychiatry With rapid technological advances, social media has become an everyday form of human social interactions. For the first time in evolutionary history, people can now interact in virtual spaces where te...

Timely, as Jane and I covered similar ground in the podcast.

bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....