Erwin Schmidt

@Schmidt_Erwin

"Almost anything can be interesting once. Only a few things ever become endlessly fascinating."

Vrijeme pridruživanja: ožujak 2013.

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  1. 24. pro 2019.

    Thomas Suddendorf: "it remains unclear whether non-human animals represent temporal junctures at all. The emergence of these representations may have been a prime mover in human evolution."

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    18. pro 2019.

    An old photo of the ziggurat at Ur in southern Iraq during the course of excavations there in the 1920s. It was constructed during the reign of Ur-Nammu ~2100 BCE and restored by a handful of subsequent kings. The people ascending the steps give an idea of its immense scale

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    18. pro 2019.

    Like all anglerfish species the monkfish has a modified fin ray, the esca, movable in all directions; this is used as a lure to attract other fish, which the monkfish then seize with their enormous jaws, devouring them whole [gif: ]

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    I love this one! Map shows the most common last names per country across the world. Source:

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    21. pro 2019.

    Boats on a Canal, Moonlight Andreas Achenbach 1815-1910

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    7. pro 2019.

    The story of "Old Tom", the leader of a pod of killer whales which helped the whalers by herding baleen whales into Twofold Bay in exchange of the tongues and lips of the kills, being possibly one of the most important examples of humans-animal cooperation

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    These trends cry out for explanation. Gambling was overwhelmingly main vice in 1960, yet by 1990 it had almost disappeared. & why were illegal drugs so unpopular 1930-1960?

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    4. pro 2019.

    An original take on transport safety. There are 3 main ways you can measure risk of fatality of a certain mode of travel: this is deaths per billion typical journeys taken [source of the chart: ] [Source of the data, UK 1990–2000: ]

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    2. pro 2019.

    Saturn's moon Tethys (1,076 km wide) imaged by in front of Saturn on December 3, 2005. North is to the left in this view, the rings are seen on edge along the side.

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    4. pro 2019.

    The spectacular secret treasures that have been growing beneath Mexico for 500,000 years: a cave with crystals up to 11 meters in lenght and a weight up to 55 tons

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    It took me a long time to realize that the world's main problem re info & knowledge is not to get some pioneer to learn each currently-unknown X, but to get the rest of the world to enough believe (e.g., act on) each X that someone already knows.

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    22. stu 2019.

    just like you to apologize for the one good thing you've done

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    19. stu 2019.

    This is an animated representation of all the multi-planet systems discovered in the Milky Way galaxy by NASA Kepler Space Telescope as of October 30, 2018. The systems are shown together at the same scale as our Solar System (dashed lines)

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  15. 22. stu 2019.

    Randolph M. Nesse: "A vast swath of life is taken up by judging, being judged, and getting prepared for being judged in the mating competition."

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    Wow, this is impressive: Kids playing table tennis 🏓

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  17. 31. lis 2019.

    "... males must suffer extraordinary mortality." 2/2

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  18. 31. lis 2019.

    Frans de Waal: "Bonobo societies include equal numbers of males and females, whereas chimp societies often include twice as many females as males. Since both species have a one-to-one sex ratio at birth, and since there are no roaming males outside the community, chimp ..." 1/2

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  19. 30. lis 2019.
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  20. 30. lis 2019.

    Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe: "The calculation that I did for Hans [H. Bethe], using the orthodox theory, took me several months of work and several hundred sheets of paper. Dick [R. Feynman] could get the same answer, calculating on a blackboard, in half an hour."

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