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CURIOUS LINK. “Bird et al. and Sasaki et al. have recently proposed the intriguing possibility that the black holes detected by LIGO could be all or part of the cosmological dark matter.“ https://lnkd.in/dTxqzGc View in LinkedIn

TRASH CANS FULL OF GALAXIES: “These giant bubbles were moving away from the supermassive black holes at the galactic centers.That heat map showed a clear pattern of turbulence. Even the smallest eddies here are on an unimaginable scale, large enough to easily swallow our solar system. After all, they're taking place in what amount to dense "trash cans full of galaxies." https://lnkd.in/d_aQyg7 View in LinkedIn

IMPACT WAVES. “Compact relativistic objects are extremely dense as well as relatively small, and pairs can combine together to generate gravitational waves. Hawking determined an upper limit for the gravitational radioactive energy ejected as a result of collision between black holes. Wagoner examined the energy produced by the rotation of neutron stars.” https://lnkd.in/dBkPtJE View in LinkedIn

EO WILSON BIO. “Edward Osborne Wilson (born June 10, 1929), usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. Wilson is considered the most important and outstanding living biologist in the world and on numerous occasions he has been nicknamed "The New Darwin", "Darwin's natural heir" or "The Darwin of the 21st century". His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert.” https://lnkd.in/d7GFY6n View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE focuses on a lovely article by the extraordinary Professor E.O. Wilson, titled “One Giant Leap: How Insects Achieved Altruism and Colonial Life.” This man put the ant on coffee tables all over the world, and changed entomology from a sleepy descriptive backwater largely confined to museums and academics to a dynamic study of social group structures that profoundly impacted many non scholars. This is the David Attenborough of insects. https://lnkd.in/drgWvGT View in LinkedIn

If you look carefully on the right of this path, you can see the faint trace of an old wall, almost erased with time. View in LinkedIn

UNACCEPTABLE. “We cannot make artificial life because we cannot agree on what life is. We cannot find life on Mars because we cannot agree what life represents. This is intolerable for any science. You can take a science in which there are two or three definitions for one thing. But a science in which the most important object has no definition? That’s absolutely unacceptable.” https://lnkd.in/gNSZgDT View in LinkedIn

LARGE STRUCTURED SOCIETIES. “Why has eusociality been so successful? The well-documented answer is that organized groups beat solitaires in competition for resources, and large organized groups beat smaller ones of the same species.” https://lnkd.in/drgWvGT View in LinkedIn