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  1. Sciences as Merely Palliative

    “All the sciences, be they natural or social sciences, can help humanity only partially because they can only help one alleviate the symptoms, and that, too, only temporarily because as long the disease called ignorance festers inside, it will keep producing some new symptom or the other to which the scientists have to keep responding anew. What is that ignorance? Think and find out.”

    #Ignorance #NaturalSciences #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes #Science #SciencesAsAPalliative #SocialSciences
  2. Sciences as Merely Palliative


    “All the sciences, be they natural or social sciences, can help humanity only partially because they can only help one alleviate the symptoms, and that, too, only temporarily because as long the disease called ignorance festers inside, it will keep producing some new symptom or the other to which the scientists have to keep responding anew. What is that ignorance? Think and find out.”

    #Ignorance #NaturalSciences #QuotableQuotes #Quotations #Quote #Quotes #Science #SciencesAsAPalliative #SocialSciences
  3. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: Taking the collection into the future. “The aim is to safeguard the historically accumulated collection in the long term, to digitise it and to make it accessible worldwide. Until now, many objects have been stored in old cupboards and were only documented or available digitally to a limited extent. Through conservation measures, structured data collection and […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/museum-fur-naturkunde-berlin-taking-the-collection-into-the-future/
  4. Museum für Naturkunde Berlin: Taking the collection into the future. “The aim is to safeguard the historically accumulated collection in the long term, to digitise it and to make it accessible worldwide. Until now, many objects have been stored in old cupboards and were only documented or available digitally to a limited extent. Through conservation measures, structured data collection and […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/23/museum-fur-naturkunde-berlin-taking-the-collection-into-the-future/
  5. The Guardian: A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone. “Today, however, the future of the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature is under threat. Earlier this year the Smithsonian Institution, which has faced severe funding cuts under the Trump administration, stopped hosting the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/18/a-bonanza-for-fans-of-the-natural-world-the-digital-library-sharing-64m-pages-of-scientific-knowledge-with-everyone-the-guardian/
  6. The Guardian: A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone. “Today, however, the future of the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature is under threat. Earlier this year the Smithsonian Institution, which has faced severe funding cuts under the Trump administration, stopped hosting the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/18/a-bonanza-for-fans-of-the-natural-world-the-digital-library-sharing-64m-pages-of-scientific-knowledge-with-everyone-the-guardian/
  7. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: AI and digitisation transform fight against global extinction, landmark report reveals. “In a seismic shift since Kew’s inaugural State of the World’s report ten years ago, the sixth State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report, published 16 June 2026, brings together expertise from over 400 scientists across 40 countries to explore how new technology is […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/17/royal-botanic-gardens-ai-and-digitisation-transform-fight-against-global-extinction-landmark-report-reveals/
  8. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew: AI and digitisation transform fight against global extinction, landmark report reveals. “In a seismic shift since Kew’s inaugural State of the World’s report ten years ago, the sixth State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report, published 16 June 2026, brings together expertise from over 400 scientists across 40 countries to explore how new technology is […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/17/royal-botanic-gardens-ai-and-digitisation-transform-fight-against-global-extinction-landmark-report-reveals/
  9. UC Davis: Training Naturalists Behind Prison Walls. “Akestrel swoops to grab a smaller bird on the wing and eats it, right in front of a group of men in the garden at California Health Care Facility, or CHCF, a prison in Stockton, where the garden has become both a thriving ecosystem and a science classroom for people incarcerated there. As the feathers fly, UC Davis researcher Laci Gerhart […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/19/uc-davis-training-naturalists-behind-prison-walls/
  10. UC Davis: Training Naturalists Behind Prison Walls. “Akestrel swoops to grab a smaller bird on the wing and eats it, right in front of a group of men in the garden at California Health Care Facility, or CHCF, a prison in Stockton, where the garden has become both a thriving ecosystem and a science classroom for people incarcerated there. As the feathers fly, UC Davis researcher Laci Gerhart […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/19/uc-davis-training-naturalists-behind-prison-walls/
  11. The latest QS World #UniversityRankings by Subject place us among the world’s top 20 universities in #engineering & technology, as well as #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/261445 👏

    #QSWUR

    📷A.Heddergott

  12. The latest QS World #UniversityRankings by Subject place us among the world’s top 20 universities in #engineering & technology, as well as #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/261445 👏

    #QSWUR

    📷A.Heddergott

  13. University of North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill study shows AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections. “A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately determine the locations where plant specimens were originally collected, a process known as georeferencing. This […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/05/university-of-north-carolina-unc-chapel-hill-study-shows-ai-can-dramatically-speed-up-digitizing-natural-history-collections-2/
  14. University of North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill study shows AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections. “A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately determine the locations where plant specimens were originally collected, a process known as georeferencing. This […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/05/university-of-north-carolina-unc-chapel-hill-study-shows-ai-can-dramatically-speed-up-digitizing-natural-history-collections-2/
  15. Making sense of the world in 14 Maps

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    Making sense of the world in 14 Maps

    These maps will help you put the present state of affairs in the world into perspective.

    by Mihai Andrei, January 13, 2015 – Updated on April 29, 2023

    in Features, Geography

    Each color has 1 billion people

    This is the world divided into seven sections – each with approximately 1 billion people. That’s right, both the Americas and Australia together have just as much population as that red strip in South-East Asia or the orange bit in and around India. But if you think this is a shock…

    This may surprise you

    Population on Earth is not distributed evenly, to put it mildly. India and South-East Asia are very densely populated, so more people live inside that circle than outside it. That’s also where most of the world’s population growth is happening. Also, it’s not just population that is divided unequally…

    The world’s income levels

    As you can see, we still live in a segregated world — economically. The rich areas are in Europe (except for the eastern part), the US (and likely Canada), Japan, Australia and some parts of Arabia. Africa is still predominantly extremely poor, while Eastern Europe, South America and some parts of Asia are still in a transition phase. Financial and social inequality is still a problem for mankind.

    Countries with which England has never fought (in white)

    The biggest colonial empire in the world, Great Britain has left their mark on mankind and made a lot of enemies along the way. As it turns out… they fought with almost everybody. Sweden gets an honorable mention for being so close to England and yet not fighting the Brits.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Making sense of the world in 14 Maps

    Tags: Geography, Making Sense, Map, Maps, Natural Sciences, Perspective, Seeing, The World, Understanding
    #Geography #MakingSense #Map #Maps #NaturalSciences #Perspective #Seeing #TheWorld #Understanding
  16. Making sense of the world in 14 Maps

    HomeFeaturesNatural SciencesGeography

    Making sense of the world in 14 Maps

    These maps will help you put the present state of affairs in the world into perspective.

    by Mihai Andrei, January 13, 2015 – Updated on April 29, 2023

    in Features, Geography

    Each color has 1 billion people

    This is the world divided into seven sections – each with approximately 1 billion people. That’s right, both the Americas and Australia together have just as much population as that red strip in South-East Asia or the orange bit in and around India. But if you think this is a shock…

    This may surprise you

    Population on Earth is not distributed evenly, to put it mildly. India and South-East Asia are very densely populated, so more people live inside that circle than outside it. That’s also where most of the world’s population growth is happening. Also, it’s not just population that is divided unequally…

    The world’s income levels

    As you can see, we still live in a segregated world — economically. The rich areas are in Europe (except for the eastern part), the US (and likely Canada), Japan, Australia and some parts of Arabia. Africa is still predominantly extremely poor, while Eastern Europe, South America and some parts of Asia are still in a transition phase. Financial and social inequality is still a problem for mankind.

    Countries with which England has never fought (in white)

    The biggest colonial empire in the world, Great Britain has left their mark on mankind and made a lot of enemies along the way. As it turns out… they fought with almost everybody. Sweden gets an honorable mention for being so close to England and yet not fighting the Brits.

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Making sense of the world in 14 Maps

    Tags: Geography, Making Sense, Map, Maps, Natural Sciences, Perspective, Seeing, The World, Understanding
    #Geography #MakingSense #Map #Maps #NaturalSciences #Perspective #Seeing #TheWorld #Understanding