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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk
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To celebrate St. Nicholas Day in December, volunteers in Kharkov, Ukraine, arranged a show for 50 children, part of which was a musical performance with a soap bubble generator. Pulitzer Prize-winning @AssociatedPress photographer Evgeny Maloletka was there to capture the moment. "Sometimes we take photos instinctively, knowing that a good photo might come out," he writes. "Children are the flowers of life. They are happy in spite of the horror they experience, living next to the front line. There is joy in their eyes, and pain in their hearts. They cannot yet fully understand what is happening to them, but they are clearly older than other children who have not seen war."

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#Photography #Photos #Ukraine #UkraineWar #Culture

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Flipboard Culture Desk
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How important is beauty to scientists? Most conversations about this revolve around the things we can see or hear, like photos from the James Webb Space Telescope, or the way physicists perceive some equations as elegant. Sociologists Bridget Ritz and Brandon Vaidyanathan spoke to thousands of scientists about the subject, and discovered they're also motivated by a third kind of beauty: The aesthetic experience of understanding itself. "In our surveys and interviews, when asked where they find beauty in their work, scientists regularly pointed to times when they grasped the hidden order, inner logic or causal mechanisms of natural phenomena," write Ritz and Vaidyanathan for Aeon. "These moments, one UK physicist told us, are ‘like looking into the face of God for non-religious people – how you can look at something and think, oh my God, that’s how things actually work, that’s how things are!’"

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#Beauty #Science #Research #Physics #CellPhotography #Aesthetics #Philosophy

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Erin Kissane
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“It’s a story about a small, dingy sector of the world economic machine, where the gears are not turned by anything so tangible as commerce, but a shambolic, deathless spirit. Nothing gets made here, and nothing, not even a company with no purpose or product, ever dies.”

https://defector.com/a-comprehensive-and-maddening-history-of-color-star-would-be-titans-of-just-about-anything?giftLink=8ae3694f2dfc1cfacfc72b553c073162&utm_campaign=defector&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

All-time banger about the ghostly machinery of global capitalism

Edit: LOL not by Clive, but *Chris* Thompson. Sorry, this is how my brain is all the time now.

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Javier PĂ©rez Belmonte boosted
CTXT
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Amigues, hemos renunciado a permanecer en X porque nos estaba saliendo un sarpullido por todo el cuerpo, pero la broma nos va a salir cara. Allí teníamos una comunidad de 200.000 personas y, aunque sabemos que el algoritmo nos jugaba a la contra, no podemos evitar sentir vértigo ante lo que se nos viene ahora fuera de aquello.

Echadnos un cable, por favor. PodĂ©is compartir nuestro contenido, seguirnos en nuestras redes o, si os apetece, suscribiros aquĂ­. 👇

https://agora.ctxt.es/suscripciones/

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Silke JĂ€ger boosted
700Sachen
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> 1. Das Argument „Deutschland hat einen höheren Krankenstand als alle anderen LĂ€nder und der ist durch die telefonische Krankmeldung gestiegen“ ist schonmal nicht empirisch sauber zu validieren. Es gibt keine einheitliche Erhebung der KrankenstĂ€nde ĂŒber die LĂ€nder und auch keine gute Vergleichsbasis innerhalb von Deutschland ĂŒber die Zeit. Das wurde schon vor Monaten vorgebracht und gilt auch weiterhin. https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/kontext/krankenstand-krankmeldung-100.html

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