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“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.”

— Richard Carlson  (via fyp-psychology)

Heather Nesheim  -  https://www.etsy.com/es/people/heddarsketch  -  https://twitter.com/heddarsketch

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfejEiCHRrt/

Rest in peace, Marie Severin. A visionary artist for Marvel and co-creator of #Spiderwoman, her work shaped comics and inspired millions.

“Spiderwoman” by ayhotte: http://bit.ly/2LG2IGT  

The concept of information as viewed in theoretical physics through statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, and its implications and connections with evolutionary biology. An interesting reading:

How Life (and Death) Spring From Disorder (via WIRED -original story from Quanta Magazine)

Biological systems don’t defy physical laws, of course—but neither do they seem to be predicted by them. In contrast, they are goal-directed: survive and reproduce. We can say that they have a purpose—or what philosophers have traditionally called a teleology—that guides their behavior.

By the same token, physics now lets us predict, starting from the state of the universe a billionth of a second after the Big Bang, what it looks like today. But no one imagines that the appearance of the first primitive cells on Earth led predictably to the human race. Laws do not, it seems, dictate the course of evolution.

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David Kaplan explains how the law of increasing entropy could drive random bits of matter into the stable, orderly structures of life.

Rose and me

JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES: 1.PALEONTOLOGÍA

Young researchers in paleontology. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty- a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.

Bertrand Russell

(via spring-of-mathematics)

Extremely Rare Fossil Turtle - Green River Formation, Rocky Mountains, USA

Fossil turtles from the Green River Formation are extremely rare. This is a well preserved, fifty million-year-old Trionyx softshell turtle in limestone. It was found in the upper layers of the F-1 Green River Formation. The stone also contains 9 small Knightia eocaena and a small Diplomystus dentatus.