#galapagos — Public Fediverse posts
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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.
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DouglasAdams #Experience #HumanBeings #Learning
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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#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.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/27/climate/el-nino-climate-change-coral
#Klimawandel #Korallen #Extremwetter #biodiversity #climatechange #Erdklimasystem
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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
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#DidYouKnow the #Socotra Island in #Yemen ('#Island of Bliss' in #Sanskrit) is known as 'The #Galapagos of the #MiddleEast' & it is estimated that 37% of its 825 plant species do not exist anywhere else in the world. 🤩
The #alien-looking #trees you see here are known as Dragon's Blood because of its crimson sap, used in #medicinal balms and #lipstick.
in 2008 it was recognised as a #UNESCO World Heritage Site & is of 'universal importance because of its #biodiversity with rich and distinct #flora & # fauna'.
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Scientists Discover Healthy #DeepSea #Coral Reef and New #Seamounts in the Galápagos https://schmidtocean.org/healthy-deep-sea-coral-reef-and-new-seamounts-in-the-galapagos/
"#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"
