Só me ocorre esta música dos Beatles: They all live in a sinking submarine, sinking submarine, sinking submarine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJSkhebQqI Se queres entender os processos que levam a maioria dos humanos à religião, este vídeo do psiquiatra norte-americano J. Anderson Thomson, a que cheguei através da página que a Fundação Richard Hawkings tem no Facebook, oferece uma excelente explicação.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WePFy-9eBUk Que malha! :)

Simulation of galaxies and gas in the universe. Within the gas in the (blue) filaments connecting the (orange) galaxies lurk rare pockets of pristine gas – vestiges of the Big Bang that have somehow been orphaned from the explosive, polluting deaths of stars, seen here as circular shock waves around some orange points. CREDIT: TNG COLLABORATION [Jim Parsons inserted by me] This is huge! A group of astronomers, led by Fred Robert and Michael Murphy of the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, found a cloud of gas left over from the Big Bang, using the telescope located at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii. A dinosaur from the past.

Quando li este post do Carlos Martins no Aberto até de Madrugada, a minha primeira reação foi partilhar a publicação no Facebook com uma mensagem um pouco agressiva. Algo como: “da série ‘as pessoas são idiotas’”. Acabei por me retrair no comentário, porque não há necessidade de agressividade e ninguém é obrigado a saber tudo, e partilhei a publicação na rede social. Mas, caramba, as pessoas são mesmo estúpidas. Repara só no top10 das passwords mais populares de 2018: ...

Está a circular um rumor que aponta para o fim do Edge, o browser que a Microsoft lançou em 2015 para substituir o Internet Explorer. O mesmo rumo refere que a empresa sediada em Redmond vai criar um novo navegador, agora baseado no Chromium. Sabe mais no meu artigo no Espalha-Factos.

I’ve started reading The Darkening Age, a book by Catherine Nixey about the destruction Christianity brought to the other religions in its early days. This was a recommendation André Esteves made to me on Twitter and I’m glad he did it. I’ve just finished the prologue and was so blown by how it ends that I stopped reading it so I could publish this. Mere decapitation wasn’t enough. More blows fell, scalping Athena, striking the helmet from the goddess’s head, smashing it into pieces. Further blows followed. The statue fell from its pedestal, then the arms and shoulders were chopped off. The body was left on its front in the dirt; the nearby altar was sliced off just above its base. Only then does it seem that these men – these Christians – felt satisfied that their work was done. They melted out once again into the desert. Behind them the temple fell silent. The votive lamps, no longer tended, went out. On the floor, the head of Athena slowly started to be covered by the sands of the Syrian desert. The ‘triumph’ of Christianity had begun. ...

To get the Biker Mice to Earth. That’s true, sheeple, NASA wants illegal aliens in our planet, so they can steal our jobs, rape our wives and all that crazy shit typically written by delusional right-wing folks. Jokes apart, tune in the NASA livestream if you want to watch the landing.

Os deputados portugueses são a grande maravilha da física: possuem propriedades do entrelaçamento quântico, conseguindo estar em dois ou mais locais ao mesmo tempo. Alguém me explica porque andamos a estudar partículas quando podíamos estudar os nossos deputados?

And why I avoid a product if it’s being “promoted” (advertised) by them. An excerpt from Wired: Lotti recalls the investor saying that if she wanted Lashify to succeed, quality didn’t matter, nor did customer satisfaction—only influencers. And they didn’t come cheap. She was told to expect to shell out $50,000 to $70,000 per influencer just to make her company’s name known, an insane amount for a new startup. There was no way around it; that’s just how things worked. ...