"She describes it as 'peace privilege,' approaching the world from a stability that allows for simplifications. There’s always a lot of denial going on when trauma interrupts our safe outlook on life. We know that people in general don’t want to see horror except in comfortable contexts (like fiction) so seeing human beings systematically torturing, … Continue reading Peace Privilege
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Laurie Anderson – Language Is A Virus (From Outer Space)
Current Challenges in Cryogenics & Human Hibernation
The NIAC Torpor Habitat for Human Stasis provides a current state of the art and avenues of necessary research. It's a top-line introduction that is interesting throughout.
From the Edge of the Universe to the Inside of a Proton
"But we should count ourselves lucky; there have not always been 62 orders of magnitude of universe to explore, and there won’t always be. As Scharf explained, 'If you turn the clock back far enough to the Big Bang, obviously there was a time when the number of scales that were causally connected were fewer, … Continue reading From the Edge of the Universe to the Inside of a Proton
Janus 2:1 Spiral Density Wave, Saturn’s B Ring
Get more information on this Cassini image, or better yet, check out the last 20 minutes of the probe's existence from Cassini Mission Control in this video.
