Amazing video of planets in motion. https://bgr.com/science/remarkable-footage-shows-planets-circling-a-star-133-light-years-from-earth/
Gordon
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Professor, Historian, ultrarunner, photographer, dad. Writing about bike messengers in SF. San Francisco is my adopted city. #firstgen
These are the dumbest people. Awfully gullible too. https://news.yahoo.com/damar-hamlin-body-double-conspiracy-214838259.html
Jackie GardinaThis simple but powerful statement from a law school applicant explains why diversity is so important in higher education. The applicant is describing leaving home and attending college:
"Nothing had forced me to look at what I believed until I was no longer surrounded by people who believed the same."
Shae M PuckettYeah I’ll be even more extreme and say if you’re subscribing to Ivory and /not/ paying your instance admins at least as much, you need to fix that right fucking now.
Stuart 
It did teach me that a bunch of libertarian men are all in favour of lower regulation until you use that lack of regulation to behave cooperatively to help each other.
ErikaIf you are in San Francisco, consider shopping at Rainbow Grocery. They were hit by flooding and could use the support.
It is a worker-owned collective and has a lot of great stuff. The cheese department and bulk spices alone are worth the trip.
Casey NewtonOn the cover of New York magazine this week: the Goons' first 90 days running Twitter. By @zoeschiffer, me and @alexeheath https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji
Robert Roy BrittTibetan monks have more gut microbes said to reduce #anxiety and #depression, a small new study finds, suggesting #meditation might be responsible.
“Collectively, several bacteria enriched in the meditation group [have been] associated with the alleviation of mental illness, suggesting that meditation can influence certain bacteria that may have a role in mental health,” the researchers conclude.
Speculative but interesting, & meditation is indeed good for the mind.
Alteration of faecal microbiota balance related to long-term deep meditation
Background Advancements in research have confirmed that gut microbiota can influence health through the microbiota–gut–brain axis. Meditation, as an inner mental exercise, can positively impact the regulation of an individual’s physical and mental health. However, few studies have comprehensively investigated faecal microbiota following long-term (several years) deep meditation. Therefore, we propose that long-term meditation may regulate gut microbiota homeostasis and, in turn, affect physical and mental health. Aims To investigate the effects of long-term deep meditation on the gut microbiome structure. Methods To examine the intestinal flora, 16S rRNA gene sequencing was performed on faecal samples of 56 Tibetan Buddhist monks and neighbouring residents. Based on the sequencing data, linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSe) was employed to identify differential intestinal microbial communities between the two groups. Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States (PICRUSt) analysis was used to predict the function of faecal microbiota. In addition, we evaluated biochemical indices in the plasma. Results The α-diversity indices of the meditation and control groups differed significantly. At the genus level, Prevotella and Bacteroides were significantly enriched in the meditation group. According to the LEfSe analysis, two beneficial bacterial genera ( Megamonas and Faecalibacterium ) were significantly enriched in the meditation group. Functional predictive analysis further showed that several pathways—including glycan biosynthesis, metabolism and lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis—were significantly enriched in the meditation group. Moreover, plasma levels of clinical risk factors were significantly decreased in the meditation group, including total cholesterol and apolipoprotein B. Conclusions Long-term traditional Tibetan Buddhist meditation may positively impact physical and mental health. We confirmed that the gut microbiota composition differed between the monks and control subjects. The microbiota enriched in monks was associated with a reduced risk of anxiety, depression and cardiovascular disease and could enhance immune function. Overall, these results suggest that meditation plays a positive role in psychosomatic conditions and well-being. Data are avaliable upon reasonable request.
@tootleapp just downloaded your app. Looks great. One issue: when I try to add a second account the app takes me back to the first account timeline after I try to enter the instance domain. Am I doing something wrong?
I don’t know if anyone else feels this way, but these early days of mastodon remind me of when we first discovered Twitter; searching for follows, exploring this new world, and feeling excited about connection.