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  1. Quelles sont les limites de la science?

    Jean-Philippe Uzan est un cosmologiste français, directeur de recherche au Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Il a obtenu sa thèse en 1998 sous la direction de Nathalie Deruelle, puis obtenu un poste au laboratoire de physique théorique de l'université de Paris XI à Orsay. Il a par la suite été affecté à l'institut d'astrophysique de Paris. Lors de la conférence "The Causal Universe" organisée par le Copernicus Center for Interdisciplinary Studies professeur Uzan a été […]

    dandanjean.com/2026/08/12/quel

  2. A quotation from Terence

    DEMEA: No one has ever plotted out his life’s plan so successfully that he never faces
       New challenges and discoveries brought about by circumstances, the passing of time,
       Or experience itself. Inevitably, you discover you don’t know what you thought you did,
       And the principles we first formed don’t hold up in the face of everyday practice.
     
    [Nunquam ita quisquam bene subducta ratione ad vitam fuit
    Quia res, Ætas usus semper aliquid apportet novi
    Aliquid moneat, ut illa, quæ te scire credas, nescias
    Et, quæ tibi putaris prima, in experiundo ut repudies.]

    Terence (186?-159 BC) African-Roman dramatist [Publius Terentius Afer]
    Adelphoe [Adelphoi; Adelphi; The Brothers], Act 5, sc. 4, l. 855ff (160 BC) [tr. Christenson (2010), Sc. 22]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/terence/85152/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terence #challenge #challenges #change #changeofmind #circumstance #conduct #control #experience #growingup #ignorance #illumination #maturity #passageoftime #presuppositions #principles #reallife #realitycheck #theories #theory

  3. It’s a #difficult time this #holiday #season. Not just for us but I see it in others.

    My cousins are starting to experience more on our mutual side of the family of the degree of fucked up
    #conspiracy #theories, #Trumpsters, #MAGAts. It’s sad but it’s also something you have to move to a safe distance to mourn.

    More directly for me, I have a
    #parent who is getting absorbed into a new role, quickly, as a parent and a #matriarch of a #family that she’s always wanted and no idea if it’s a good idea or good fit for her. I pray that she is happy and not setting herself or those other participants up for #heartbreak later or even further #physchological and #spiritial #damage.

    #undealt with old family #wrongs. This people refuse to #acknowledge or #apologize for. It’s #difficult. It’s #messy. It’s downright fucking #insane sometimes and #catastrophically #costly to #mental #health and #wellbeing.

    Find someone around you that you can
    #unpack with. Go only if you feel you’re confident you can #endure or have a solid #escape #route or #disengagement #strategy.

    Find your
    #allies.

    Merry
    #Xmas and #holiday tide people.

  4. New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (#JWST) reveal for the first time #galaxies with #stellar bars — elongated features of stars stretching from the centers of galaxies into their outer disks — at a time when the #universe was a mere 25% of its present age. The finding of so-called barred galaxies, similar to our #MilkyWay, this early in the universe will require #astrophysicists to refine their #theories of galaxy #evolution.
    #astronomy #astronomyresearch #astronomyatmastodon