Richard

@richard@scholar.social
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Independent researcher. Interested in poetry, space ethics, science fiction, violence studies, the humanities, also ecology and astronomy. Master's from Johns Hopkins. First generation college grad. Disabled. On Mastodon since 2021. May boost photos of birds.

https://www.tilley.earth/

Header: Handmade Stoneware Octopus Tray.
Profile: Handmade Stoneware Bird Bowl

Poemshttps://subspacewagon.systems/
Interdisciplinary Violence Studieshttps://www.towardspostviolencesocieties.com/
Science Fiction and Ethicshttps://www.scifi.global
memos, notes, etc.https://www.tilley.blog
If they could found the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster over Abrahamic religion, I think we can do the same thing with the constitution. Since "constitutionalist" can mean whatever you want it to, then I select that the founding fathers are Kermit the Frog, Ms. Piggy, Big Bird. Barney the Dinosaur, and Elmo. Praise be their vision for America.
Well this is just the sweetest thing.
Scientists Believe They’ve Witnessed ‘Planetary Suicide’ for the First Time

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope suggests a planet in a faraway solar system was consumed by a star by hurling itself into it.

WIRED

The Gateway Arch will go dark starting this week.

"Starting on May 1, the LED lights that illuminate the Arch at night will be turned off to help migrating birds find their way safely."

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/st-louis-gateway-arch-go-dark-this-week-heres-why/63-1728e22b-4ff1-4557-8819-6525a09643e2

#LightPollution #birds

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Constructs built in talking basins – Richard J Tilley

Art in the temper of time – Richard J Tilley

She doesn’t go to the obelisk – Richard J Tilley

I love learning something new. I feel it deep inside my brain, bringing sanity to a destabilized world.

If this is accurate, or even partially accurate, it indicates male aggression is cultural and inherited through social learning.

Testosterone doesn’t do what you think it does, according to surprising new research
https://www.psypost.org/testosterone-doesnt-do-what-you-think-it-does-according-to-surprising-new-research/
"It remains possible that longer-term testosterone changes, different delivery methods, or studies involving women or older populations might yield different results."

Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0018506X24001843?via%3Dihub

Testosterone doesn’t do what you think it does, according to surprising new research

Can a testosterone boost turn you into a risk-taking, competition-loving alpha? Not so fast. Two large studies suggest the hormone has little to no effect on men’s confidence, competitiveness, or risk-taking behavior.

PsyPost Psychology News

🙃 Why Becoming an Author Is Your Next Best Leadership Move
"Your story is your strongest asset. Use it as a tool along your entrepreneurial journey."
https://www.inc.com/entrepreneurs-organization/why-becoming-an-author-is-your-next-best-leadership-move/91179145

The Falsehood of Authorship as Authority
https://www.tilley.blog/the-falsehood-of-authorship-as-authority/
"The gifting of authority [.] is thrown on the backs of anyone fortunate enough to get through the maze of accomplishing a book deal. This is not a promise of authority"

#Author #Authority #ConflictResolution #Leadership #NonFiction #publication #Literature

Why Becoming an Author Is Your Next Best Leadership Move

Your story is your strongest asset. Use it as a tool on your entrepreneurial journey. Here is why every entrepreneur should write a book.

Inc
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New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable

A groundbreaking study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality. Based on a massive dataset of over 50,000 houses in some 1,000 archaeological sites worldwide, the study suggests that economic inequality is not an inevitable result of societal advancement, agriculture, or population...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/study-reveals-inequality-was-never-inevitable/

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@archaeology hahaha, i cant help but laugh at this whole article. like of course they enforced the ideals of inevitable inequality for hundreds of years, so they could sow the panic of lack and excuse enforced inequality like caste and class ..acting all false enlighted "oh, its all up to peoples choices!" naw, rly now?
@JustUs4Pali @archaeology Me pregunto cómo habrán medido las paredes de las casas de la gente más pobre que sólo podía construir con madera, paja o adobe y que por ello no llegaron a nuestros tiempos.
@unosorojo @archaeology 🤭 en serio!!! ...o aquéllos qué migraron de un sitió a otro con postes y pieles... jajaja 😅

Strong Graeber-Wengrow vibes here ... ("The Dawn of Everything")

@archaeology
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/04/study-reveals-inequality-was-never-inevitable/

New study reveals wealth inequality was never inevitable

A recent study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality

Archaeology News Online Magazine
The Affine Wealth Model: An agent-based model of asset exchange that allows for negative-wealth agents and its empirical validation

We present a stochastic, agent-based, binary-transaction Asset-Exchange Model (AEM) for wealth distribution that allows for agents with negative wealth. This model retains certain features of prior AEMs such as redistr…

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@archaeology Si sólo se basan en las casas cuyos restos han llegado a nuestros días, ¿no serían victimas de un sesgo de supervivencia al momento de tomarlas como muestra pues estas habrían sido las construidas con materiales mínimamente duraderos?
@archaeology I'm curious to see that dataset - what "polities" had over 1M people? Fig1C makes it look like some had 100M...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2400698121#fig01
@archaeology That is a very interesting study which does suggest that wealth distribution is possible
@archaeology you only have to look at the Scandinavian countries for evidence of that.
@archaeology Hiya! Your website appears to be a little broken (flickering and constantly reloading!)--is there a reader view of this article?