#galapagos — Public Fediverse posts
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Free speech is just free speech. It takes actual humans making the effort to talk to each other to transform speech into something more vital and more valuable.
-- Dahlia Lithwick -
Free speech is just free speech. It takes actual humans making the effort to talk to each other to transform speech into something more vital and more valuable.
-- Dahlia Lithwick -
This tiny, blue #octopus is new to science
Nearly 1,800m beneath surface of #Pacific, an ROV was creeping along slope of a #Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in sediment — an animal no human had seen before.
Researchers have named species Microeledone galapagensis. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, it is also fully grown — a combination that may help it reproduce faster than larger relatives.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-blue-octopus-new-species
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This tiny, blue #octopus is new to science
Nearly 1,800m beneath surface of #Pacific, an ROV was creeping along slope of a #Galápagos seamount when its camera caught a tiny, dark blue octopus perched in sediment — an animal no human had seen before.
Researchers have named species Microeledone galapagensis. Small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, it is also fully grown — a combination that may help it reproduce faster than larger relatives.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-blue-octopus-new-species
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Children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Children #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Children are never good at listening to their elders, but they never fail to imitate them.
-- James Baldwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JamesBaldwin #Children #Life
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraTuchman #Learning #Experience
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BarbaraTuchman #Learning #Experience
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Flock of American flamingos, Isabela Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador
© Tui De Roy/Nature Picture Library
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A soft-feathered booby perched on rough-textured lava rock. #BirdOfTheDay #TantalisingTextures
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A soft-feathered booby perched on rough-textured lava rock. #BirdOfTheDay #TantalisingTextures
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We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
-- Frank Moore Colby -
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
-- W. H. Auden -
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
-- W. H. Auden -
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify... into every corner of our minds.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify... into every corner of our minds.
-- John Maynard Keynes -
Tiny alienlike blue #octopus discovered lurking off the #Galápagos Islands
On an underwater mountainside some 1,773 meters below the #ocean’s surface, they discovered a little blue octopus. On a video of the excursion, the scientists can be heard chuckling and cooing over the creature: “Is that a cute little guy or what,” says one team member, followed by another, “Oh my goodness, that is adorable.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-alien-like-blue-octopus-discovered-lurking-off-the-galapagos-islands/
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Tiny alienlike blue #octopus discovered lurking off the #Galápagos Islands
On an underwater mountainside some 1,773 meters below the #ocean’s surface, they discovered a little blue octopus. On a video of the excursion, the scientists can be heard chuckling and cooing over the creature: “Is that a cute little guy or what,” says one team member, followed by another, “Oh my goodness, that is adorable.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny-alien-like-blue-octopus-discovered-lurking-off-the-galapagos-islands/
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The war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
-- Roland Barthes -
The war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.
-- Roland Barthes -
🌋🌿 What if the “same” #Galápagos islands hide dozens of different #soil “personalities” underground? #CLICCS researcher Nicole Acosta Vásconez and colleagues used Digital Soil Mapping to create 30 m farmland topsoil maps - modeling 51 properties (from 130 sites) with uncertainty. Better choices for fertility & water! https://lnkd.in/eZWxAeAP
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Francis of Assisi⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisofAssisi #Necessity #Possibility
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
-- Francis of Assisi⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrancisofAssisi #Necessity #Possibility
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Choose two: Good, Fast, Cheap.
-- Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WexelblatsSchedulingAlgorithm #Economics #Planning #Programming
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Choose two: Good, Fast, Cheap.
-- Wexelblat's Scheduling Algorithm⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WexelblatsSchedulingAlgorithm #Economics #Planning #Programming
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Given a choice between a complex, difficult-to-understand, disconcerting explanation and a simplistic, comforting one, many prefer simplistic comfort if it's remotely plausible, especially if it involves blaming someone else for their problems.
-- Bob Lewis (Infoworld)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BobLewis #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Given a choice between a complex, difficult-to-understand, disconcerting explanation and a simplistic, comforting one, many prefer simplistic comfort if it's remotely plausible, especially if it involves blaming someone else for their problems.
-- Bob Lewis (Infoworld)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #BobLewis #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose.
-- Richard Feynman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Doubt #TheUnknown #Uncertainty
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose.
-- Richard Feynman⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RichardFeynman #Doubt #TheUnknown #Uncertainty
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Galapagos Bullhead Shark (Heterodontus quoyi) — Fernandina Island
The Galapagos Bullhead Shark, a small and elusive species endemic to the Galápagos Islands, primarily inhabits rocky reefs and prefers cold waters rich in nutrients. Notably nocturnal, it forages for small invertebrates at night. This species, described in 1840, remains under-researched despite its unique ecological role in the region.https://scubahanknyc.com/2026/07/09/galapagos-bullhead-shark-heterodontus-quoyi-fernandina-island/
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The horizon of what may be known is not bounded by what is known.
-- Barbara Mertz (Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs) -
The horizon of what may be known is not bounded by what is known.
-- Barbara Mertz (Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs) -
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
-- John Dewey -
Any genuine teaching will result, if successful, in someone's knowing how to bring about a better condition of things than existed earlier.
-- John Dewey -
Capitalism and democracy do not necessarily go hand in hand. ... Perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business.
-- George Soros -
Capitalism and democracy do not necessarily go hand in hand. ... Perhaps the greatest threat to freedom and democracy in the world today comes from the formation of unholy alliances between government and business.
-- George Soros -
Knowledge gained through experience of plants and animals is not an inferior substitute for proper scientific knowledge; it is the real thing. Direct experience is the only way to build up an understanding that is not only intellectual but intuitive and practical, involving the senses and the heart as well as the rational mind. Scientific investigations can illuminate and enrich this direct practical knowledge, but they are no substitute for it; indeed, they depend on it themselves.
-- Rupert Sheldrake (The Rebirth of Nature)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RupertSheldrake #Experience #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Knowledge gained through experience of plants and animals is not an inferior substitute for proper scientific knowledge; it is the real thing. Direct experience is the only way to build up an understanding that is not only intellectual but intuitive and practical, involving the senses and the heart as well as the rational mind. Scientific investigations can illuminate and enrich this direct practical knowledge, but they are no substitute for it; indeed, they depend on it themselves.
-- Rupert Sheldrake (The Rebirth of Nature)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RupertSheldrake #Experience #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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"Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power."
-- Newton Lee⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NewtonLee #Disinformation #Information #Power
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"Information is power. Disinformation is abuse of power."
-- Newton Lee⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NewtonLee #Disinformation #Information #Power
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Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/
#HackerNews #ParadiseRevisited #Darwin #Galapagos #Travel #Nature #Exploration
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Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/
#HackerNews #ParadiseRevisited #Darwin #Galapagos #Travel #Nature #Exploration
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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-- Robert Frost -
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-- Robert Frost -
More good summer stuff.
14-day gift read
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More good summer stuff.
14-day gift read
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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
-- George Santayana⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeSantayana #Progress
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
-- George Santayana⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeSantayana #Progress
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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The paradox is that as we advance into the future the need for change gets greater and greater (to cope with changes in population, pollution, etc. and to make full use of our new technologies) but the possibility of change gets less and less because everything is already committed.
-- Edward deBono -
The paradox is that as we advance into the future the need for change gets greater and greater (to cope with changes in population, pollution, etc. and to make full use of our new technologies) but the possibility of change gets less and less because everything is already committed.
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Don't solve other people's problems when they can solve them perfectly well themselves. or... If it's their problem, make it their problem.
-- Donald Gause & Gerald Weinberg (Are Your Lights On?)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DonaldGauseGeraldWeinberg #ProblemSolving
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring. We hope to contribute concepts needed by those who conduct such counterfoil research on education—and also to those who seek alternatives to other established service industries.
-- Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society) -
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde