#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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Patience protects from insult as clothes protect from the cold; if you put on more as it grows colder, it will not harm you; so, too, you should increase your patience in the face of great insults, and they will not reach your spirit.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
Ecuador: named after the equator, home to Amazon, Andes & Galápagos in one nation 🌋 #Ecuador #Galapagos #SouthAmerica #Travel
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
-- Heywood Hale Broun -
#ElNiño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds
Temperature variability since 1984 runs 36.5% higher than preindustrial from 1000 to 1850CE and is 16.2% higher than during 1851-1982. All three intervals are statistically distinct, and the trend only goes up. Those figures, Cole explained, mean that events that once ran a degree or two above normal in the #Galápagos now run three or four.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/el-nino-is-now-stronger-than-at-any-point-in-the-last-1000-years-study-finds/
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
#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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.
-- Marilyn Ferguson -
Auf was für widerliche Ideen Menschen kommen. Eine wollte 32 Meerechsen schmuggeln. Glücklicherweise wurde sie erwischt, und jetzt drohen ihr 3 Jahre Haft (wenn es nach mir ginge dürfte es zwar auch deutlich mehr sein, aber immerhin).
https://www.n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/panorama/Touristin-will-32-Galapagos-Meerechsen-schmuggeln-und-wird-erwischt-id31247457.html
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Just watched last year's #Eden #movie.
It was a fascinating story of relationship dynamics of several "families" on an isolated island. Based on the accounts of real events, to boot. It was expected that there would be some fight for resources, but I was surprised by masterful directing which made the story compelling despite the lack of the real "good guys" to root for.
#JudeLaw #vanessakirby #ronhoward #floreana #galapagos https://youtu.be/V0kUlqgKOIM?is=JOc2O9_-N6Oofgz4 -
Observing a yellow land iguana on volcanic rock, Plaza Island, Galapagos. It rested amidst the sparse, hardy succulent plants, a quiet presence in the sun-drenched landscape of Santa Cruz Island, Ecuador.
https://thelostshepard.com/blog/how-to-get-to-the-galapagos-islands-from-the-usa-by-yourself?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=how-to-get-to-the-galapagos-islands-from-the-usa-by-yourself&utm_content=section#departing-quito-ecuador-to-baltra-island
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Hace una semana volví de un viaje soñado, de una peregrinación biologica. Un viaje que siento que todos los que trabajamos en temas relacionados a la biologia tropical deberíamos de hacer al menos una vez en la vida: Las Islas Galápagos. Muchos meses ahorrando por cumplir un sueño y por fin se logró. Unas fotos de los 11 días allá: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjD2Yhh #Ecuador #Galapagos
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#Avignon #BuenosAires #Argentina #Argentine #Uruguay #Paraguay #Belize #Haiti #Cuba #LaHavane #Montevideo #Venezuela #Honduras #Panama #Ecuador #Equateur #Shetland #Galapagos #USA #UK #Iran
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Certainty is the currency of fundamentalism; but being unwilling to question what you believe isn't a strength, it's a weakness.
-- Neil Carter (patheos.com)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NeilCarter #Certainty #Fundamentalism #Religion
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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
-- Theon of Alexandria (to his daughter Hypatia, c. 400 CE) -
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 -
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-- Alvin Toffler -
The litmus test of openness is simple: How fast does bad news travel upward?
-- Peter Senge -
Inclusion means nothing when "the agency" unilaterally executes extrajudicial assassinations without congressional oversight or public record. #SusanKlopferTruth
"Service before politics" means serving a regime that bombs innocents while pretending to be woke. Service before politics is a #trans analyst weeping while #galapagos #Ecuador fishermen vanish under #CIA #drones. Service before politics becomes silence before the massacre. #Spookwashing 101. #USpolitics
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
-- H. L. Mencken⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HLMencken #Politics #Populism #Stupidity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
What on earth is going on around the Galápagos? A reported covert CIA operation targeting fishing boats, with people missing and innocent civilians killed 😳
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Revelan operación encubierta de la CIA contra pesqueros ecuatorianos
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.telesurtv.net/revelan-operacion-cia-pesqueros-ecuatorianos/
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Covert #CIA program said to be behind mysterious attacks on #Galápagos boats
A surveillance plane flew from El Salvador toward the #FishingBoats before #drones attacked, flight data shows.
#Trump #MafiaState #law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Ecuador #sovereignty #WarCrimes #ExtrajudicialKillings #InternationalLaw #imperialism #geopolitics
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GeorgeBernardShaw #Democracy
⬇ #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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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 -
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
-- Charles Darwin⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CharlesDarwin #Confidence #Ignorance #Knowledge
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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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) -
My theory is that as the world improves, expectations rise even faster, leading to the persistent illusion that the world was better in the past. The only time the illusion is punctured is when a society is successfully digging out of a very big slump.
-- Noah Smith (@Noahpinion)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NoahSmith #Nostalgia #Progress #ThePast
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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Oh, vampirico fringuello che torturi tuo fratello. Volpe astuta tra il pollame; il sangue scorre, quando hai fame
https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=43763#animali #uccelli #onnivori #predatori #ematofagi #parassiti #isole #arcipelaghi #Galapagos #fringuelli #passeriformi #sule #mare #oceano #migrazioni #ecologia #comportamento #biologia #evoluzione #Darwin #classificazione #conservazione #natura #scienza
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Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.
-- Edsger Dijkstra⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdsgerDijkstra #Improvement
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #BartolomeIsland #PinnacleRock #Galapagos
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#Evolution #Biologie #Ornithologie
👉Evolution in nur 10 Jahren👈#SnailKites (#Schneckenbussarde)
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...#Vogelart schon früher auf den #Galápagos beobachtet, den #DarwinFinken bzw. #GalápagosFinken, welche sich von nur einem gemeinsamen Vorfahren aus #Ekuador zu ca. 18* differenzierten Arten von #Tangaren weiterentwickeltenten (mehrfache #AdaptiveRadiation):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinfinken
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin's_finches//
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The fitness landscape of a community of Darwin’s finches
Basically confirms and expands on Darwin's understanding of adaptive radiation in Galapagos finches in real-time. Adaptive radiation is the idea that a population, in an environment with varied unoccupied habitats and resources, can relatively quickly diverge into many new species.
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/article/77/12/2533/7261081
#evolution #birds #darwin #Galapagos #adaptiveradiation #speciation #ecology
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The #GalápagosNationalPark Directorate, in collaboration with the organization #GalápagosConservancy, released the 86 #hatchlings, aged between 5 & 6 years, of the #Chelonoidis #hoodensis #species that is #endemic to #EspañolaIsland in the #Galápagos .
The #animals come from the #CaptiveBreeding center of #SantaCruzIsland - located in the center of the #archipelagohttps://www.laprensalatina.com/86-captive-bred-galapagos-tortoises-released-into-native-habitat/amp/
#GoodNews #nature #wildlife #tortoises #SeaCreatures #MarineBiology #ecology #biodiversity #ProtectTheWild
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The #GalápagosNationalPark Directorate, in collaboration with the organization #GalápagosConservancy, released the 86 #hatchlings, aged between 5 & 6 years, of the #Chelonoidis #hoodensis #species that is #endemic to #EspañolaIsland in the #Galápagos .
The #animals come from the #CaptiveBreeding center of #SantaCruzIsland - located in the center of the #archipelagohttps://www.laprensalatina.com/86-captive-bred-galapagos-tortoises-released-into-native-habitat/amp/
#GoodNews #nature #wildlife #tortoises #SeaCreatures #MarineBiology #ecology #biodiversity #ProtectTheWild
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The #GalápagosNationalPark Directorate, in collaboration with the organization #GalápagosConservancy, released the 86 #hatchlings, aged between 5 & 6 years, of the #Chelonoidis #hoodensis #species that is #endemic to #EspañolaIsland in the #Galápagos .
The #animals come from the #CaptiveBreeding center of #SantaCruzIsland - located in the center of the #archipelagohttps://www.laprensalatina.com/86-captive-bred-galapagos-tortoises-released-into-native-habitat/amp/
#GoodNews #nature #wildlife #tortoises #SeaCreatures #MarineBiology #ecology #biodiversity #ProtectTheWild
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The #GalápagosNationalPark Directorate, in collaboration with the organization #GalápagosConservancy, released the 86 #hatchlings, aged between 5 & 6 years, of the #Chelonoidis #hoodensis #species that is #endemic to #EspañolaIsland in the #Galápagos .
The #animals come from the #CaptiveBreeding center of #SantaCruzIsland - located in the center of the #archipelagohttps://www.laprensalatina.com/86-captive-bred-galapagos-tortoises-released-into-native-habitat/amp/
#GoodNews #nature #wildlife #tortoises #SeaCreatures #MarineBiology #ecology #biodiversity #ProtectTheWild
