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  1. Medicine has suffered the full effects of the scientific outpouring of information. ... As a stopgap measure, medical schools have kept the total number of years constant, but have lengthened the per-week teaching load. Thus medical students at Harvard attend twice as many hours of classes per week as law or business students. Of necessity, this makes medical education a very passive business and deprives the student of the single most important thing he desperately needs to learn while at school -- how to initiate the educational process for himself, later on, when he is a practitioner.
    -- Michael Crichton (Five Patients, 1970)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #MichaelCrichton #MedicalEducation

    #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

  2. #ElNiño-Ereignisse sind in den vergangenen 40 Jahren deutlich stärker ausgefallen als vor der Industrialisierung.

    Forschende rekonstruierten anhand von #Korallen aus den #Galápagos-Inseln die Entwicklung über rund 1.000 Jahre.

    Die Ergebnisse und #Klimamodelle sprechen dafür, dass die jüngste Verstärkung sehr wahrscheinlich mit der menschengemachten #Erderwärmung zusammenhängt.

    edition.cnn.com/2026/08/27/cli

    #Klimawandel #Korallen #Extremwetter #biodiversity #climatechange #Erdklimasystem

  3. 25-Aug-2026
    A near extinct plant in #Galápagos is now recovering
    Once on the brink of silent #extinction, the Galápagos #snapdragon is showing encouraging signs of recovery, thanks to a long-term partnership between the Charles Darwin Foundation and the Galápagos National Park Directorate

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #plants #conservation #ecology

  4. If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
    -- Charles Darwin (Voyage of the Beagle)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #CharlesDarwin #Poverty #SocialJustice

    #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

  5. Scientists Discover Healthy #DeepSea #Coral Reef and New #Seamounts in the Galápagos schmidtocean.org/healthy-deep-

    "#Scientists examining underwater cliff ecosystems onboard #ResearchVessel #Falkor (too) using #ROV #SuBastian, have discovered 2 pristine #CoralReefs in the waters surrounding the #Galápagos. These newly identified #ColdWaterReefs are situated at depths ranging from 370 to 420 meters. The discovery expands our understanding of #DeepReefs within the #GalápagosIslandsMarineReserve"