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Death: A Free Online Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable

https://www.openculture.com/2024/09/death-a-free-online-philosophy-course-from-yale-helps.html

Death: A Free Online Philosophy Course from Yale Helps You Grapple with the Inescapable

It pays to think intelligently about the inevitable. And this course taught by Yale professor Shelly Kagan does just that, taking a rich, philosophical look at death. Here's how the course description reads: There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact?

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tilmanzens 22h ago

@BKG Der Fuchstanz im Taunus!

(War schon über 10 Jahre nicht mehr dort und ich habe ihn noch nie von oben gesehen, aber trotzdem wirkt der Ort vertraut...)

tilmanzens 3d ago

Nancy Gleason Photography 5d ago

I never get tired of riding the ferries across Puget Sound. I usually stay in my car, and sometimes even get lucky with the view from the car deck. I found this scene looking northward on the Edmonds-Kingston run.

#FindARainbowDay #Seattle #PNW #rainbow

tilmanzens 4d ago

Steve Carter 5d ago

Liathach. (Out of interest, three and a bit times the height of The Shard).

tilmanzens 5d ago

Information Is Beautiful 5d ago

Do any of these sound familiar?? You may have developed a tech-induced mental or behaviour disorder. Here’s our list of 30+ we’ve theorised might exist. See if you agree :)
https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/intermental/

tilmanzens 5d ago

Chris Rowan 5d ago

Fossil worms in the Ediacaran! Newly described fossil deposit in China suggests some continuity of the fossil record between the late Ediacaran and the Cambrian.

#geology #paleontology #fossils

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/new-fossil-deposits-show-complex-animal-groups-predating-the-cambrian/

New fossil deposits show complex animal groups predating the Cambrian

Collection of fossils includes Ediacaran, Cambrian species, suggesting a transition.

Ars Technica

tilmanzens 6d ago

Teach Honest History 6d ago

Here is a great blue #heron with a full-body shadow, not in water, but pure quartz! (I hope I'm not mistaken here). Occoquan, Virginia, USA 1-APR-2026. ( 38.687, -77.265 ). #geologist comments welcome. #birds #geology #photography #naturephotography #birdphotography

tilmanzens 6d ago

Alexander Oestreicher 6d ago

Hi everyone!

After a few years break from conventional social media, here to see if I enjoy this more.

I am a PhD student in cosmology. When not at my desk you can probably find me in the local climbing gym, cooking some vegan food, reading, playing boardgames or spending time outside doing more climbing, hiking, bike packing.

Might use this account for talking about science, hobbies or both.

Originally from Germany currently living in Denmark.

#introduction

tilmanzens Mar 30

Mario Sixtus 🇭🇰馬六 Mar 30

Die Einstürzen Neubauten spielen am 1.4. ein kostenloses Online-Konzert auf ihrem YouTube-Kanal. Nicht, dass Ihr sagt, Ihr hättet das nicht gewusst!
https://youtube.com/@neubautenorg

Einstürzende Neubauten

More than any other group, Einstürzende Neubauten embody industrial music in its most literal sense. The German band helped pioneer the genre with an avant-garde mix of white-noise guitar drones, abrasive vocals, and a clanging, rhythmic din produced by a percussion section consisting of construction materials, power tools, broken glass, and various metal objects. Taking Luigi Russolo's Futurist manifesto, The Art of Noises, to its logical extreme, the group began assaulting their audience's senses in the early '80s, attacking the stage with jackhammers and occasionally causing property damage. Neubauten's radical performances and recordings attracted controversy, but their anarchic spirit and sheer innovation inspired countless musicians (particularly Henry Rollins and Ministry's Al Jourgensen, both of whom infamously sport tattoos of the band's petroglyph-like logo).

YouTube

tilmanzens Mar 30

Zoom Earth Mar 30

Wow! A 1000-mile wall of Saharan dust is currently sweeping across northwest Africa 💨 See here: https://zoom.earth/maps/satellite/#view=25.287,-9.342,6z/date=2026-03-30,17:20