Why cats are crazy for catnip (via wt.social).
The researchers speculate that cat ancestors might have rubbed their bodies against the plants by chance, enjoyed the feeling, and kept doing it. It is not clear, though, whether it was the euphoric response—or the insect-repelling properties of the plant—that kept them rolling.
“We should not trust scientists, as individuals, but we do have good reason to have confidence in the process of which they are a part.”
— Naomi Oreske on Trust in Science.
Disruptive Territory Ostdeutschland: Ostdeutsche Normalität zwischen Devianz und Avantgarde.
Kreative Zerstörung (lies auch: Disruption) scheint in “Ostdeutschland” seit 30 Jahren zum Alltag zu gehören. Perfekte Voraussetzungen also für Tesla, wie auch andere kapitalistische Player (Amazon, Google, RB Leipzig mit dem Unternehmen Red Bull als Hauptstruktur), die den normalen Weg kapitalistischer Produktion nicht gehen und die Regeln von Genehmigung, Arbeiter:innenrechten etc. nicht befolgen wollen?
Wer wird als Frau denn schon geboren
Man wird zur Frau doch erst gemacht.
– Milva, 1979.
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Walking the Tōkaidō from Tokyo to Kyoto over the course of 27 days.
Relevant + especially relaxing: Pizza Toast & Coffee – Kissa Būgen.
Before Pythagoras (…) ‘women played a central role in music – especially the drumming that we have come to associate with trance states.’ However, once Pythagoras hit the scene, everything became about the more male domains of mathematics and logos (reason) – that is, measurement and language, instead of the aulos (a pan-pipe made of reeds) and song.
Moving the Big Boat Did Not Magically Fix the Global Economy (via densediscovery.com).
As the rest of us stare blankly at the stricken container ship, wondering what it might mean for our grocery bills or jobs, predatory traders, hedge funds, huge financial institutions, and the vast industry that has gotten rich off destroying the planet’s climate are watching their bank balances swell.
The misinformation virus.
For conservatives to accept the risk of global warming means to also accept the need for drastic cuts to carbon emissions – an idea utterly at odds with the hierarchical, individualistic values at the core of their identity, which, by rejecting climate change, they seek to protect.
It does not only affect conservatives, oh no.
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