linkedin post 2021-03-11 05:50:45

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SIZE MATTERS. “Stars having a mass of less than eight solar masses (M⊙) create white dwarfs, whereas stars of greater mass transform into neutron stars or black holes as a result of the collapse. The existence of white dwarfs as well as neutron stars can be detected in our universe, but the presence of black holes is affirmed only through some hypothetical observations.” https://lnkd.in/dBkPtJE View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-03-12 06:41:52

linkedin post 2021-03-12 06:41:52

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BLACK HOLE FORMATION. “Models have shown that rapid collapse of pre-galactic gas (with a mass infall rate above some critical value) in metal-free haloes is a requirement for the formation of a protostellar core that will then form a supermassive star.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-0873-4 View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-03-13 05:56:12

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GREAT SUCCESS. “Thus, while only 2% of known insect species are eusocial, these species compose most of the insect biomass; in one patch of rainforest assayed near Manaus in Amazonian Brazil, they made up over three-fourths of the insect biomass. The eusocial insects, and in particular the ants and termites, tend to dominate the more persistent and defensible parts of terrestrial environments.” https://lnkd.in/drgWvGT View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-03-13 05:54:17

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ADVANCED SOCIAL STRUCTURE. “Eusociality, the care across generations of the off-spring of a reproductive caste by a nonreproductive or less reproductive worker caste, is the most advanced level of social life in the insects. Although the condition is rare in evolution, once attained, it has often been spectacularly successful.” https://lnkd.in/drgWvGT View in LinkedIn
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linkedin post 2021-03-13 05:49:38

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EO WILSON BIO. “Wilson is the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, a lecturer at Duke University, and a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. The Royal Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize, awarded Dr. Wilson the Crafoord Prize, an award designed to cover areas not covered by Nobel Prizes (biology, oceanography, mathematics, astronomy etc.). He is a Humanist Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (for On Human Nature in 1979, and The Ants in 1991) and a New York Times bestselling author for The Social Conquest of Earth, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Meaning of Human Existence.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson View in…
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linkedin post 2021-03-13 05:47:22

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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
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linkedin post 2021-03-13 05:45:18

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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
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