Lew Ashwal of U. Witwatersrand died this week. Over decades, his scholarship helped shape modern thinking on magmatic processes and global crustal evolution (from Grant Bybee).

I remember Lew very patiently helping a young geochemist (myself) understand why mountains made of anorthosite were such a difficult and interesting problem to solve.

#Wits #UniversityOfTheWitwatersrand #Anorthosite #Geochemistry #CrustalStructure #KaapvaalCraton

Noisy little blue penguins nest under Coromandel home, leaving couple at wits’ end

The penguins would come and nest under their deck and it was a delight for them and their…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #at #blue #coromandel #couple #end #home #kirkbymcleod #leaving #libby #little #nest #NewZealand #noisy #NZ #penguins #under #wits
https://www.newsbeep.com/248440/

Napier pigeon house leaves neighbours at ‘wits’ end’, council says there’s nothing it can do

The council says it cannot take action “as the birds are nesting of their own volition” and “there…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #at #can #council #do #end #freeranging #home #house #it #large #leaves #living #napier #neighbours #NewZealand #next #nothing #NZ #pigeon #pigeons #population #says #their #them #theres #with #wits
https://www.newsbeep.com/91305/

My phone just blocked a spam SMS, and when I looked, it was from the political f*$#wits who are singlehandedly supporting advertising currently.

I hope they don't realise that phones are automagically blocking their spam 🤪

#Auspol

A quotation from Tepper, Sheri:

«
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.
»

Sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/tepper-sheri/73233/

#quote #quotes #quotation #challenge #conflict #creativity #imagination #survival #wits

A quotation from Euripides:

«
Alas, how right the ancient saying is:
We, who are old, are nothing else but noise
And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go,
And have no wits, although we think us wise.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/euripides/68620/

#quote #quotation #quotes #dementia #elderly #henoed #mind #oldage #shadows #wits