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https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto

by Paul Cantrell (@inthehands@inthehands)

#Education #Curiosity #Liberation

10 Fascinating Facts About Accidental Medical Discoveries
Over the past 200 years, revolutionary advancements in medicine have allowed us to combat some of the deadliest diseases and improve public health. Better hygiene, healthier lifestyles, and medical advancements have significantly increased life expectancy worldwide. These breakthroughs were led by visionary doctors who overcame monumental odds through curiosity, genius, and determination. The insatiable curiosity […]
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I want to present the twtxt feed from Python Valencia: https://twtxt.python-valencia.es/
Technical curiosity: It is generated using n8n, using the official rss.
#welcome

10 Historical Events That Shaped the English Language
Words, like people, have stories to tell. Languages, like nations, have their histories. They have their peculiarities and quirks that can be traced back to some circumstance in their journey from our ancestors to us. The English language is replete with these curiosities. Inconsistent spelling and pronunciation are just two weird things about English that […]

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@wbknl@twtxt.net are you still in Russia? It could be hard mailing anything to there these days. I read your “russia is eternally cold”, and became curious. Patagonia is the only place I know on South America that it has rounded mountains, though they can be anywhere. Originally from Chile, or Argentina? My curiosity doesn’t need feeding, by the way. It’s all good if it doesn’t. :-)

It’s been seven years since my father passed, taken from us far too soon at the age of 51. I was only 18 then, and while time has softened some of the pain, his influence remains a constant part of me. He was a person full of curiosity and passion, qualities I feel he passed down to me in his own way. ⌘ Read more

How To Foster Curiosity In Children #neildegrassetyson href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23startalk”>#startalk** ⌘ Read more

10 Essential Tips for New Mac Users
New Mac users who are transitioning to the Apple ecosystem from the world of Windows PC’s may experience a mix of curiosity, excitement, and even confusion, as they get to know their new operating system. Fortunately, the Mac is not only exceptionally powerful, it’s also very easy to use, and quite intuitive. For new Mac … Read More ⌘ Read more

Cosmic Queries – Cosmological Curiosities with Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more

So… Just out of curiosity (again), back of paper napkin math. Based on Vultr pricing, running my infra in the “Cloud”™ would cost me upwards of $1300 per month. That’s about ~10x more than my current power bill for my entire household 😅 (10 VMs of around ~4 vCPUS and 4-6GB of RAM each + 10TB of storage on the NAS)

Peter Saint-Andre: Cultivating Curiosity
In my drive to hold fewer opinions (or at least hold them less strongly), for a while I tried to cultivate a healthy skepticism about things I believe - for instance, by attempting to question one opinion every week. This didn’t work, at least for me, because it felt too negative. Instead, now I’m working to cultivate curiosity. Here are a few thoughts on the process…. ⌘ Read more

‘Trump filed a lawsuit Monday in DC District Court against the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection and the National Archives in an effort to keep records from his presidency secret by claiming executive privilege.’ — CNN Politics

That only increases one’s curiosity about what’s in them.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life. Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off | Hacker News

Babies love putting things in their mouths: dirt, insects, bits of grass, their own poo. They have no sense of fear or self-preservation, and come up with endlessly creative ways to place themselves in mortal peril. Once they learn to talk, their constant experimentation with the world transcends the physical to the philosophical. They want to know everything. They are bottomless pits of curiosity, with very little in the way of attention span or self-discipline. Your typical two-year-old can only concentrate on a task for six minutes at a time. Young children are not self-aware enough to feel much in the way of shame, or embarrassment. Nothing is off-limits. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

I don’t buy this at all. All the political radicals I know have incredibly elaborate meta-cognition and constantly-shifting meta-justifications, because you don’t become radical without curiosity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/radicals-dont-evaluate-their-mistakes-very-effectively/

There be monsters: from cabinets of curiosity to demons within | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/there-be-monsters-from-cabinets-of-curiosity-to-demons-within