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  1. "To achieve a stable flight without the need for fins, the rocket's heavy motor was located at the top, fed by lines from liquid oxygen and gasoline fuel tanks at the bottom."

    Umm, actually, no. That's not how that works. That's what he intended to have happen, and it sounds like common sense, but this is actually the classic #PendulumFallacy of #rocketry:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket#Pendulum_rocket_fallacy

    Date: 2026 March 28
    URL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260328.html
    Title: Robert Goddard and Nell

    (No disrespect intended to Mr. Goddard. He was an epic pioneer, and the very best of us learn by making mistakes and analyzing the outcome to learn from them.)

    #NASA #Astronomy #PictureOfTheDay #KSP #KerbalSpaceProgram

    P.S., thinking about this some days later, I believe the APOD text was referring to the idea of keeping the center of mass ahead of the center of pressure as a means for atmospheric stability, not the self-righting "Pendulum Fallacy." The reason rockets aren't designed like this anymore is that automatic gimballing (and just plain ordinary fins, for that matter) are more than effective to maintain stability, without introducing the complexity of needing to pump fuel upwards against gravity/acceleration.

  2. "To achieve a stable flight without the need for fins, the rocket's heavy motor was located at the top, fed by lines from liquid oxygen and gasoline fuel tanks at the bottom."

    Umm, actually, no. That's not how that works. That's what he intended to have happen, and it sounds like common sense, but this is actually the classic #PendulumFallacy of #rocketry:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket#Pendulum_rocket_fallacy

    Date: 2026 March 28
    URL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260328.html
    Title: Robert Goddard and Nell

    (No disrespect intended to Mr. Goddard. He was an epic pioneer, and the very best of us learn by making mistakes and analyzing the outcome to learn from them.)

    #NASA #Astronomy #PictureOfTheDay #KSP #KerbalSpaceProgram

    P.S., thinking about this some days later, I believe the APOD text was referring to the idea of keeping the center of mass ahead of the center of pressure as a means for atmospheric stability, not the self-righting "Pendulum Fallacy." The reason rockets aren't designed like this anymore is that automatic gimballing (and just plain ordinary fins, for that matter) are more than effective to maintain stability, without introducing the complexity of needing to pump fuel upwards against gravity/acceleration.

  3. "To achieve a stable flight without the need for fins, the rocket's heavy motor was located at the top, fed by lines from liquid oxygen and gasoline fuel tanks at the bottom."

    Umm, actually, no. That's not how that works. That's what he intended to have happen, and it sounds like common sense, but this is actually the classic #PendulumFallacy of #rocketry:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket#Pendulum_rocket_fallacy

    Date: 2026 March 28
    URL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260328.html
    Title: Robert Goddard and Nell

    (No disrespect intended to Mr. Goddard. He was an epic pioneer, and the very best of us learn by making mistakes and analyzing the outcome to learn from them.)

    #NASA #Astronomy #PictureOfTheDay #KSP #KerbalSpaceProgram

    P.S., thinking about this some days later, I believe the APOD text was referring to the idea of keeping the center of mass ahead of the center of pressure as a means for atmospheric stability, not the self-righting "Pendulum Fallacy." The reason rockets aren't designed like this anymore is that automatic gimballing (and just plain ordinary fins, for that matter) are more than effective to maintain stability, without introducing the complexity of needing to pump fuel upwards against gravity/acceleration.

  4. "To achieve a stable flight without the need for fins, the rocket's heavy motor was located at the top, fed by lines from liquid oxygen and gasoline fuel tanks at the bottom."

    Umm, actually, no. That's not how that works. That's what he intended to have happen, and it sounds like common sense, but this is actually the classic #PendulumFallacy of #rocketry:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket#Pendulum_rocket_fallacy

    Date: 2026 March 28
    URL: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260328.html
    Title: Robert Goddard and Nell

    (No disrespect intended to Mr. Goddard. He was an epic pioneer, and the very best of us learn by making mistakes and analyzing the outcome to learn from them.)

    #NASA #Astronomy #PictureOfTheDay #KSP #KerbalSpaceProgram

    P.S., thinking about this some days later, I believe the APOD text was referring to the idea of keeping the center of mass ahead of the center of pressure as a means for atmospheric stability, not the self-righting "Pendulum Fallacy." The reason rockets aren't designed like this anymore is that automatic gimballing (and just plain ordinary fins, for that matter) are more than effective to maintain stability, without introducing the complexity of needing to pump fuel upwards against gravity/acceleration.

  5. Following the US Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais that gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, this Alabama Values briefing provided legal, historical, and present-day context to help make sense of this moment. Panelists unpacked the state-level impact, what’s next, and where community members can tap in.
    #Callais #Alabama
    youtube.com/live/PHXyOaObL7M?s

  6. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    In the life of the artist there need be no hour without its pleasure. I take the author, with whose career I am best acquainted; and it is true he works in a rebellious material, and that the act of writing is cramped and trying both to the eyes and the temper; but remark him in his study, when matter crowds upon him and words are not wanting — in what a continual series of small successes time flows by; with what a sense of power as of one moving mountains, he marshals his petty characters; with what pleasures, both of the ear and eye, he sees his airy structure growing on the page; and how he labours in a craft to which the whole material of his life is tributary, and which opens a door to all his tastes, his loves, his hatreds, and his convictions, so that what he writes is only what he longed to utter. He may have enjoyed many things in this big, tragic playground of the world; but what shall he have enjoyed more fully than a morning of successful work? Suppose it ill paid: the wonder is it should be paid at all. Other men pay, and pay dearly, for pleasures less desirable.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1888-09), “A Letter to a Young Gentleman Who Proposes to Embrace the Career of Art,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 3

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #accomplishment #art #artist #author #creativity #creator #enjoyment #hardwork #inthezone #pleasure #satisfaction #writer #writing

  7. DATE: May 13, 2026 at 10:00AM
    SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG

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    TITLE: The human brain processes the passage of time across three distinct stages

    URL: psypost.org/the-human-brain-pr

    A recent study mapping the human brain reveals that our perception of time does not happen all at once, but rather unfolds across a series of distinct physical processing stages. As visual information travels from the back of the brain to the front, different groups of neurons handle specific parts of the timing process, ultimately creating our subjective experience of how long an event lasts. These findings were published in the journal PLOS Biology.

    For decades, researchers have mapped out a broad network of brain regions that become active when people estimate how much time has passed. Studies involving both animals and humans have shown that certain groups of neurons respond to specific durations of time.

    These specialized cells are often arranged in topographic maps across the brain. In these maps, neurons that prefer similar lengths of time are located physically close to one another on the folded outer layer of the brain, known as the cerebral cortex.

    Despite knowing where these timing regions are located, researchers have struggled to understand exactly how they work together. It has been unclear how a physical feature like the duration of a flashing light is transformed into an abstract feeling of passing time.

    To piece together this puzzle, neuroscientist Valeria Centanino and her colleagues Gianfranco Fortunato and Domenica Bueti at the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy conducted an imaging study. They wanted to track how the properties of time-tracking neurons change as signals move through the brain.

    The researchers recruited thirteen healthy volunteers to perform a visual categorization task. First, the participants were trained to memorize a specific reference duration of half a second, which they would use as a mental benchmark.

    During the main experiment, the volunteers watched a series of blurry, flickering circles appear on a screen. Each circle stayed on the screen for a random amount of time, ranging between two-tenths of a second and eight-tenths of a second.

    After each circle disappeared, the participants pressed a button to indicate whether the shape was visible for a longer or shorter time than their internalized reference. While the volunteers performed this task, the researchers recorded their brain activity using an ultra-high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner.

    Functional magnetic resonance imaging is a technology that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow. When a specific area of the brain works harder, it requires more oxygen, and the scanner tracks the oxygen-rich blood rushing to that region.

    The scanner used in this study operates at a magnetic field strength of seven Tesla. This is much stronger than standard hospital scanners, allowing the team to capture highly detailed images of the brain surface.

    With these detailed images, Centanino and her team modeled the behavior of individual populations of neurons. They looked for unimodal tuning, which happens when a group of brain cells responds most strongly to one specific stimulus and less strongly to anything else.

    The researchers found that the way neurons tuned into time changed depending on their location in the brain. They identified three distinct processing stages that form a hierarchy of time perception.

    The first stage occurs in the occipital visual areas, located at the back of the head where the brain first processes sight. Here, the neurons acted like simple timers that gathered sensory information from the eyes.

    In these visual areas, the brain cells showed a strong preference for the longest durations. Their activity increased steadily the longer the shape stayed on the screen, encoding the physical length of the visual event.

    The second stage takes place in the parietal and premotor regions, which sit near the top and middle of the brain. In these areas, the researchers observed a complete topographic map of time.

    Neurons in these middle regions were tuned to the entire range of presented durations. Some groups of cells responded only to brief flashes, while others responded only to medium or long appearances.

    These specialized cells were neatly organized into clusters based on their preferred durations. This suggests that the parietal and premotor regions are responsible for reading out the specific duration of the visual event, allowing the brain to track exactly how much time just passed.

    The final stage happens in the frontal regions of the brain, including the anterior insula and the rostral supplementary motor area. These areas are heavily involved in complex thought, decision making, and self-awareness.

    In these frontal areas, the neurons did not represent the full range of time. Instead, they showed a strong preference for the middle of the time range, which was close to the half-second reference duration the participants had memorized.

    This central preference represented the boundary that participants used to decide whether a duration was short or long. By tracking the exact time at which participants switched their answers from “shorter” to “longer,” the researchers calculated each person’s unique subjective boundary.

    The activity in these frontal regions matched up perfectly with these subjective boundaries. This indicates that the frontal areas take the raw measurement of time and turn it into a personal, abstract categorization.

    “Our results show that time perception is not a unitary process, but the outcome of multiple processing stages distributed across the cerebral cortex,” the authors wrote. “Each stage contributes differently, from encoding physical duration to constructing the subjective experience of time.”

    To interpret the brain scan data, the research team used a mathematical approach called population receptive field modeling. This technique allowed them to estimate the exact time preference of neurons in tiny sections of the brain.

    By mapping these preferences, the team could see exactly which brain folds contained neurons tuned to brief moments and which contained neurons tuned to longer stretches. They also evaluated how these preferences clustered together physically.

    In the visual areas at the back of the brain, the physical clustering of time-sensitive cells was relatively weak. However, in the parietal and frontal regions, neurons with the exact same time preferences were grouped tightly together.

    This tight grouping implies that organizing time into structured maps becomes more important as the brain moves from simply seeing an event to making a decision about it. The brain physically structures its cells to handle the demands of categorizing information.

    Additionally, the researchers noticed a difference between the left and right sides of the brain in the motor areas, which control physical movement. Because the participants used their right hands to press the response buttons, the motor areas in the left hemisphere showed distinct activity patterns.

    These motor areas consistently showed a preference for the shortest possible durations. The researchers suspect this was a byproduct of the brain preparing to make a physical movement as soon as the shape appeared, rather than a true measurement of passing time.

    Another surprising detail emerged in the supplementary motor area, a part of the brain near the top of the head that helps plan movements. The researchers found a clear split in how the front and back sections of this region handled time.

    The back half of the supplementary motor area contained cells tuned to the entire range of durations, reading out the time like a stopwatch. The front half contained the boundary cells that helped categorize the time as short or long.

    This split within a single brain region had been seen previously in animal studies. Finding it in humans suggests that this specific area might act as a central hub where actual time and subjective time are integrated.

    While this imaging study provides a detailed roadmap of visual time perception, it does have a few limitations. The research focused entirely on the cerebral cortex, which is the brain’s folded outer layer.

    The team did not measure activity in deeper brain structures or the cerebellum, which are also known to play roles in processing time. Future studies will need to look at these deeper regions to see how they interact with the cortical maps.

    The experiment was also restricted to visual time perception. It remains an open question whether the brain uses this exact same pathway to process the duration of sounds or physical touches.

    To fully understand the boundary neurons in the frontal lobe, the researchers suggest conducting experiments that test multiple different reference durations. This would reveal whether the boundary cells physically shift their preferences when the rules of the task change.

    Despite these limitations, the research offers a clearer picture of how a simple flash of light turns into a conscious experience of time. It reveals that our sense of time is a collaborative effort, passed along a specialized assembly line inside the head.

    The study, “Neuronal populations across the cortex underlie discrete, categorical, and subjective representations of visual durations,” was authored by Valeria Centanino, Gianfranco Fortunato, and Domenica Bueti.

    URL: psypost.org/the-human-brain-pr

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  8. [Read in full on NHAM]

    It’s Not OK Computer by inpc

    Review by @ethicalrevolution

    I’m going to begin the review of this four track EP with a few adjectives that came to mind when listening to It’s Not OK Computer: Squelchy, crunchy, dark, deep, harsh, hostile, smooth and spacious.

    The level of production on this release is out of this world. As to be expected you’d suppose from Adrian Sherwood’s sound engineer. A man who has recently toured Japan with Sherwood’s acclaimed release of 2025, and who worked with Brian Eno among others in the production of The Collapse of Everything.

    Building in a somewhat unnerving manner, UK Drill feels like an introduction to a day in any UK town or city where you wake to the already constant hum of the busyness and get injected with more of the various intruding sounds of your surroundings as the day grinds on. Unlike the town/city, however, these sounds are not randomly crashed together but perfectly arranged in their space, combining to make a somewhat meditative soundscape of the harsh, shrill and deep.

    Already released and doing the rounds in the NHAM sections of TIBtv is a video for UK Drill. It includes shots of CCTV cameras superimposed by Keir Starmer. Perhaps a nod to the fact that this UK Drill may well be more a comment on our surveillance state and the level of high alert than it is speaking to the music genre.

    I’m Your Computer I’m Against You is an absolute banger. I can’t believe there’d be anyone who could not relate to it as they inescapably nod and jut their upper body to its beat. We’ve all felt (or perhaps more accurately, all continue to feel) the pain as our mechanical overlords take joy in making our life more difficult than it should be. This track provides a comforting humour in hearing our computers tell us what we always knew they were thinking.

    State Intervention provides another delicious blend of the harsh and the smooth. It feels like we’ve been taken underground here. Somewhere perhaps away from the spying eyes, but maybe to a place not altogether different in its damp, dark and eerie surroundings. Savage.

    Meta Data begins as if Massive Attack have entered the building. It’s a truly triumphant climax to this EP. Possibly my favourite track of the four (although that is subject to change on any given day!) it is captivating whilst maintaining the darkness of the rest of the release. It has a thickness to it that becomes pure arpeggiating gloop, in the best sense of the word.

    Given the title of this EP, It’s Not OK Computer, it would be remiss of me not to mention that inpc (I’m Not Phil Collins) aka Mxtthxw Smyth is himself a radio head in as much that he broadcasts a daily show, spinning records from his shed in between commentary of FACTS alongside his trusty weather gauge, George (meow). It’s called The Kali Mera Show and you can catch it live Monday to Friday at 8am UTC or tune in on demand via Castopod.

  9. Do #premed requirements in the U.S. make sense? Perhaps the problem is that they make cents.

    Rethinking premedical education

    science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

  10. We are now concerned with more radical possibilities.

    A paradigmatic example is topology.

    In modern “analytic topology”, a “space” is defined to be a set of points equipped with a collection of subsets called open,
    which describe how the points vary continuously into each other.
    (Most analytic topologists, being unaware of synthetic topology, would call their subject simply “topology.”)

    By contrast, in synthetic topology we postulate instead an axiomatic theory, on the same ontological level as ZFC,
    whose basic objects are spaces rather than sets.

    Of course, by saying that the basic objects “are” spaces we do not mean that they are sets equipped with open subsets.

    Instead we mean that “space” is an undefined word,
    and the rules of the theory cause these “spaces” to behave more or less like we expect spaces to behave.

    In particular, synthetic spaces have open subsets (or, more accurately, open subspaces),
    but they are not defined by specifying a set together with a collection of open subsets.

    It turns out that synthetic topology, like synthetic set theory (ZFC), is rich enough to encode all of mathematics.

    There is one trivial sense in which this is true:
    among all analytic spaces we find the subclass of indiscrete ones,
    in which the only open subsets are the empty set and the whole space.

    A notion of “indiscrete space” can also be defined in synthetic topology,
    and the collection of such spaces forms a universe of ETCS-like sets
    (we’ll come back to these in later installments).

    Thus we could use them to encode mathematics, entirely ignoring the rest of the synthetic theory of spaces.
    (The same could be said about the discrete spaces,
    in which every subset is open;
    but these are harder (though not impossible) to define and work with synthetically.

    The relation between the discrete and indiscrete spaces,
    and how they sit inside the synthetic theory of spaces,
    is central to the synthetic theory of cohesion,
    which I believe David is going to mention in his chapter about the philosophy of geometry.)

    However, a less boring approach is to construct the objects of mathematics directly as spaces.

    How does this work?
    It turns out that the basic constructions on sets that we use to build (say) the set of real numbers have close analogues that act on spaces.

    Thus, in synthetic topology we can use these constructions to build the space of real numbers directly.

    If our system of synthetic topology is set up well,
    then the resulting space will behave like the analytic space of real numbers
    (the one that is defined by first constructing the mere set of real numbers and then equipping it with the unions of open intervals as its topology).

    The next question is,
    why would we want to do mathematics this way?

    There are a lot of reasons,
    but right now I believe they can be classified into three sorts:
    modularity,
    philosophy, and
    pragmatism.

    (If you can think of other reasons that I’m forgetting, please mention them in the comments!)

    By “#modularity” I mean the same thing as does a programmer:

    even if we believe that spaces are ultimately built analytically out of sets,
    it is often useful to isolate their fundamental properties and work with those abstractly.

    One advantage of this is #generality.
    For instance, any theorem proven in Euclid’s “neutral geometry”
    (i.e. without using the parallel postulate)
    is true not only in the model of ordered pairs of real numbers,
    but also in the various non-Euclidean geometries.

    Similarly, a theorem proven in synthetic topology may be true not only about ordinary topological spaces,
    but also about other variant theories such as topological sheaves, smooth spaces, etc.

    As always in mathematics, if we state only the assumptions we need, our theorems become more general.

    #analytic #synthetic

  11. The Baseball Bandwagon

    The Toronto Blue Jays amazing run to the world series (and their almost win!), created some odd new baseball supporters. We would like to showcase some of them today.

    There are new fans who are fashionistas who might be a bit off on their terminology. “Yes,” said one, “I really am struggling to understand how runs can be good. In fashion a run is a very bad faux pas where you need to bring in brand new stockings.”

    “And I’m wondering about runs batted in,” says a second fashionista. “How can one bat one’s eye and cause even one run? Some of these players are causing multiple runs with one bat of the eye! The carnage in stockings is terrible!”

    Then the original fashionista jumps back in, “But home runs make sense. They are the best of all the runs. The run happens at home. So one can easily switch the stockings with that horrible run for good stockings. No one is the wiser.”

    We even found some medical workers who were new to the game of baseball. We chatted with some personal support workers (PSWs) about baseball.

    “Who thinks that runs are good?” asked one. “They cause a stinky mess that needs to be cleaned, Then again, I’ve heard from a doctor myself, they’re usually not that bad for health as long as the patient stays hydrated.”

    “As for runs batted in,” continues the first PSW, “I find it disgusting that someone would play with their own runs. It makes a horrible mess. Who do you think will have to clean it up? Me.”

    But their friend has a different take on home runs. “Home runs are really better than normal runs. They happen at home so, I , as an in hospital PSW, do not have to clean it up. In fact, home implies that they might even make it to the toilet for this run. Even my in house PSW friends might not mind this one.”

    We talked with a producer at a record label. She said “ I can’t understand how a hit isn’t everything. Sometimes it doesn’t even count on the scoreboard. But for me, a hit means future business. It means a small fortune on its own. It can even mean a good career.”

    We also talked with someone who wouldn’t give his occupation. He said, “I always wondered about bats in baseball. Everyone talks about them but they are very rare at a baseball game. I’ve heard of a seagull getting hit but never a bat. But they (and baseball) become more important in October. I was not surprised that they were mentioning bats a lot on Hallowe’en when the Jays and Dodgers played. But I was a bit puzzled why they kept up the talk on the November 1st game. I mean, honestly. Hasn’t everyone moved on to Christmas by that date?”

    #baseball #bats #Christmas #fashionistas #HalloweEn #hits #HomeRuns #hospital #LADodgers #personalSupportWorkers #producer #PSWs #RBIs #recordLabel #runs #stockings #TheTorontoBlueJays #WorldSeries

  12. Good morning. 🐦🐦🐦

    29 September 2025

    Charlie and I just returned from our Monday Walk. Before we left, I wrote a paragraph about feeling conflicted about going—something about how I don’t have the discipline I used to when it comes to that sort of thing. But I hit the wrong key and lost it. It is Monday, after all.

    We passed the annual parish fair on our walk. It’s just down the street, humming with its usual mix of funnel cakes and brass band bravado. If you didn’t know, Louisiana has parishes instead of counties—a linguistic relic from our French and Spanish colonial past, both deeply Catholic. Back then, parishes marked church jurisdictions. These days, they function just like counties do elsewhere, but the name still carries a bit of ecclesiastical echo.

    I have the nagging sense I’m forgetting something today, though I couldn’t tell you what. 🤔 Then again, if I knew what it was, I wouldn’t be forgetting it, would I? Oh well. It’ll come to me—or it won’t. And if it doesn’t, maybe it wasn’t all that important to begin with.

    “Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.” — Abraham Lincoln

    “Walks. The body advances, while the mind flutters around it like a bird.” — Jules Renard

    “Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.” — Jonah Goldberg

    #photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #wildlife #nature #bird #birds #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography #morning #walk #NorthernCardinal #discipline #parish #count

  13. ❛❛ [Atty Danny] #Sheehan's network has deep roots. Other names connected to this psychological warfare effort include but are not limited to Lue Elizondo, David Grusch, Karl Nell, Steven Greer, Rick Doty, Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ, Willis Harman, Ingo Swann, Uri Geller, Robert Bigelow, Christopher Mellon, Leslie Keane, Brandon Fugal, Ross Coulthart (#NewsNation), Micah Hanks (#TheDebrief), George Knapp, Jacques Vallée ❜❜ + 13 more.

    🔗 America2.news/making-sense-of- 2024 Dec 14

    #UAP #UFOs #drones

  14. Fuck yeah 🤜💥

    "The “#Gett Naked” campaign, led by #activist #AdinaSash, is using anonymous images and public pressure to demand a #religious #divorce for an #agunah and force the issue back onto the community agenda.

    A growing #online #protest campaign is drawing attention to the plight of #agunot#Jewish #women trapped in #marriages because their #husbands refuse to grant them a #religiousdivorce.

    The initiative is led by #socialactivist Adina Sash, who has worked for years in the #UnitedStates on behalf of agunot and women denied a gett. Sash runs the platform collecting and publishing the images and messages sent by participants. Each #woman decides her own level of exposure, according to her boundaries around #modesty and her personal sense of mission."

    ynetnews.com/jewish-world/arti

  15. “What gives you hope that humanity can grow into a deeper sense of belonging?”

    His answer is a powerful reminder that even in fractured times, our capacity for connection, empathy, and shared humanity remains deeply alive.

    Watch this moment from Episode 8 of Belonging: Gender, Sex & Spirituality this Friday, May 15th🎙️

    A conversation about hope, compassion, and the future of our humanity.🌿

    #Belonging #Belonginghappy #Theology #Queerspirituality #LGBTQ+Podcast

  16. “What gives you hope that humanity can grow into a deeper sense of belonging?”

    His answer is a powerful reminder that even in fractured times, our capacity for connection, empathy, and shared humanity remains deeply alive.

    Watch this moment from Episode 8 of Belonging: Gender, Sex & Spirituality this Friday, May 15th🎙️

    A conversation about hope, compassion, and the future of our humanity.🌿

    #Belonging #Belonginghappy #Theology #Queerspirituality #LGBTQ+Podcast

  17. “What gives you hope that humanity can grow into a deeper sense of belonging?”

    His answer is a powerful reminder that even in fractured times, our capacity for connection, empathy, and shared humanity remains deeply alive.

    Watch this moment from Episode 8 of Belonging: Gender, Sex & Spirituality this Friday, May 15th🎙️

    A conversation about hope, compassion, and the future of our humanity.🌿

    #Belonging #Belonginghappy #Theology #Queerspirituality #LGBTQ+Podcast

  18. “What gives you hope that humanity can grow into a deeper sense of belonging?”

    His answer is a powerful reminder that even in fractured times, our capacity for connection, empathy, and shared humanity remains deeply alive.

    Watch this moment from Episode 8 of Belonging: Gender, Sex & Spirituality this Friday, May 15th🎙️

    A conversation about hope, compassion, and the future of our humanity.🌿

    #Belonging #Belonginghappy #Theology #Queerspirituality #LGBTQ+Podcast

  19. “What gives you hope that humanity can grow into a deeper sense of belonging?”

    His answer is a powerful reminder that even in fractured times, our capacity for connection, empathy, and shared humanity remains deeply alive.

    Watch this moment from Episode 8 of Belonging: Gender, Sex & Spirituality this Friday, May 15th🎙️

    A conversation about hope, compassion, and the future of our humanity.🌿

    #Belonging #Belonginghappy #Theology #Queerspirituality #LGBTQ+Podcast

  20. Alien: Isolation 2 Gets Its First Teaser Trailer

    Developer Creative Assembly has released a short teaser trailer for something related to Alien: Isolation. Titled ‘False Sense…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Technology #NintendoSwitch2 #UpcomingReleases
    newsbeep.com/us/607855/

  21. Alien: Isolation 2 Gets Its First Teaser Trailer

    Developer Creative Assembly has released a short teaser trailer for something related to Alien: Isolation. Titled ‘False Sense…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Technology #NintendoSwitch2 #UpcomingReleases
    newsbeep.com/us/607855/

  22. Alien: Isolation 2 Gets Its First Teaser Trailer

    Developer Creative Assembly has released a short teaser trailer for something related to Alien: Isolation. Titled ‘False Sense…
    #NewsBeep #News #Technology #GB #NintendoSwitch2 #UK #UnitedKingdom #UpcomingReleases
    newsbeep.com/uk/552001/

  23. Katherine Legge is an absolute mad lady for wanting to casually attempt The Double (Indy 500 and Coke 600 in the same day) and I'm totally on board with it. I think it'd be neat to have a woman attempt it and her reasoning of "Why Not?" makes sense to me. She races in both series and has the sponsorship to get a ride in both races, so why shouldn't she attempt it?

    #NASCAR #indycar #indy500 #motorsport #motorsports

  24. Katherine Legge is an absolute mad lady for wanting to casually attempt The Double (Indy 500 and Coke 600 in the same day) and I'm totally on board with it. I think it'd be neat to have a woman attempt it and her reasoning of "Why Not?" makes sense to me. She races in both series and has the sponsorship to get a ride in both races, so why shouldn't she attempt it?

    #NASCAR #indycar #indy500 #motorsport #motorsports

  25. Katherine Legge is an absolute mad lady for wanting to casually attempt The Double (Indy 500 and Coke 600 in the same day) and I'm totally on board with it. I think it'd be neat to have a woman attempt it and her reasoning of "Why Not?" makes sense to me. She races in both series and has the sponsorship to get a ride in both races, so why shouldn't she attempt it?

    #NASCAR #indycar #indy500 #motorsport #motorsports

  26. Katherine Legge is an absolute mad lady for wanting to casually attempt The Double (Indy 500 and Coke 600 in the same day) and I'm totally on board with it. I think it'd be neat to have a woman attempt it and her reasoning of "Why Not?" makes sense to me. She races in both series and has the sponsorship to get a ride in both races, so why shouldn't she attempt it?

  27. Katherine Legge is an absolute mad lady for wanting to casually attempt The Double (Indy 500 and Coke 600 in the same day) and I'm totally on board with it. I think it'd be neat to have a woman attempt it and her reasoning of "Why Not?" makes sense to me. She races in both series and has the sponsorship to get a ride in both races, so why shouldn't she attempt it?

    #NASCAR #indycar #indy500 #motorsport #motorsports

  28. The Skipped Group Ride – As I am Leading a Hike Tomorrow

    Reading Time: 2 minutes

    This morning I woke at six with the intention of going for a group ride but I felt myself coughing and feeling low energy. When I checked Garmin Connect it said that I had a bad night of sleep and yet still recommended a 28 minute run or a half hour bike ride. I chose to go for a low intensity run and was done by eight in the morning.

    I skipped the bike ride because tomorrow I am organising a hike, rather than just participating in it. This means that I have to be fresh and energetic.It's not just that I have to be fresh and energetic. It's also that today is going to be hot, which implies that drivers will not be in the healthiest state of mind.

    Today I called it, I decided not to go for that group ride.

    It amuses me that I am nervous today, and about tomorrow. I have organised events in the past and things went well. I have been to dozens of events this year. This isn't a step into the unknown.

    I have done activities with the group, and I have been on bike rides in the region where I am planning to hike. I have not hiked there before so this will be an exploratory hike, at least for me. Having said this, following signs is not complicated.

    Possible Storm

    Originally I came up with this walk proposition a few weeks ago because I saw that it could be a rainy weekend. Tomorrow will be warm but there is a chance of storms. Given that there is a risk of storms I prefer to stay local. This is local, for people in Geneva, and a journey for those who are not.

    When I was cycling at the back of Geneva, more than once, I thought that the region would be nice to walk in. Until today I was opposed to the idea due to the logistics of getting to and from Geneva. This hike is convenient when using trains.

    The Walk in Reverse

    Usually the walk is planned from CERN to La Plaine but I plan to do it from La Plaine to CERN. If the weather changes I prefer to be heading towards Geneva than the other way around. I think that by doing a walk one way, and then doing it in the opposite direction it allows you to experience a walk twice, for the first time.

    And Finally

    Tomorrow I am leading a hike. I decided to rest today, so that tomorrow I am full of energy, and patience. If I find that I enjoy leading hikes then I will no longer have to wait for others to organise events. I will have my own. At this point I am a little nervous and that is normal. I expect that within half an hour of the event starting I will be relaxed.

    I am often nervous the first time I participate in an event, so it makes sense that I would be nervous for this first, despite it not being a first. It's my first time leading this group, not my first time leading an event.

    #cycling #groupRide #hike #organiser #sentiment

  29. The Skipped Group Ride – As I am Leading a Hike Tomorrow

    Reading Time: 2 minutes

    This morning I woke at six with the intention of going for a group ride but I felt myself coughing and feeling low energy. When I checked Garmin Connect it said that I had a bad night of sleep and yet still recommended a 28 minute run or a half hour bike ride. I chose to go for a low intensity run and was done by eight in the morning.

    I skipped the bike ride because tomorrow I am organising a hike, rather than just participating in it. This means that I have to be fresh and energetic.It's not just that I have to be fresh and energetic. It's also that today is going to be hot, which implies that drivers will not be in the healthiest state of mind.

    Today I called it, I decided not to go for that group ride.

    It amuses me that I am nervous today, and about tomorrow. I have organised events in the past and things went well. I have been to dozens of events this year. This isn't a step into the unknown.

    I have done activities with the group, and I have been on bike rides in the region where I am planning to hike. I have not hiked there before so this will be an exploratory hike, at least for me. Having said this, following signs is not complicated.

    Possible Storm

    Originally I came up with this walk proposition a few weeks ago because I saw that it could be a rainy weekend. Tomorrow will be warm but there is a chance of storms. Given that there is a risk of storms I prefer to stay local. This is local, for people in Geneva, and a journey for those who are not.

    When I was cycling at the back of Geneva, more than once, I thought that the region would be nice to walk in. Until today I was opposed to the idea due to the logistics of getting to and from Geneva. This hike is convenient when using trains.

    The Walk in Reverse

    Usually the walk is planned from CERN to La Plaine but I plan to do it from La Plaine to CERN. If the weather changes I prefer to be heading towards Geneva than the other way around. I think that by doing a walk one way, and then doing it in the opposite direction it allows you to experience a walk twice, for the first time.

    And Finally

    Tomorrow I am leading a hike. I decided to rest today, so that tomorrow I am full of energy, and patience. If I find that I enjoy leading hikes then I will no longer have to wait for others to organise events. I will have my own. At this point I am a little nervous and that is normal. I expect that within half an hour of the event starting I will be relaxed.

    I am often nervous the first time I participate in an event, so it makes sense that I would be nervous for this first, despite it not being a first. It's my first time leading this group, not my first time leading an event.

    #cycling #groupRide #hike #organiser #sentiment