⚛️ Voici à quoi ressemble réellement la désintégration radioactive... 🤯 À l’intérieur de cette chambre à brouillard hermétiquement fermée, un échantillon d’uranium émet en permanence des particules radioactives. Comme la chambre est remplie d’une vapeur d’alcool sursaturée maintenue à près de -40 °C, les particules émises ionisent les molécules d’air qu’elles traversent. Le résultat est fascinant : la vapeur d’alcool se condense instantanément autour de ces trajectoires ionisées, révélant de minuscules traînées visibles à l’œil nu. Les traces épaisses et courtes correspondent aux particules alpha, massives et chargées, qui traversent l’air en laissant derrière elles une signature bien marquée. Les traces fines et irrégulières sont produites par les électrons bêta, qui se déplacent à très grande vitesse en zigzaguant. Les traînées discrètes et presque fantomatiques sont associées aux rayonnements gamma, extrêmement énergétiques et capables de traverser la matière avec une grande facilité. Ce que vous observez ici est littéralement une fenêtre ouverte sur le monde subatomique, un univers invisible où la matière se transforme en permanence sous nos yeux. ✨

TACOs are "pretty much all wrapped up" They're just not burritos

Someone I know who's lost their memory just remembered not being able to remember anything

I noticed today while reading the big word dictionary a form of logicide going on I slammed the book down with truculence

The fabric of space.

Dual n-back trains working memory: squares flash on a grid while letters play. Hit the keys when the current position or letter matches exactly n steps back. It adapts to get harder as you improve. Free options: Brain Workshop desktop app at brainworkshop.sourceforge.ne… or the web version at dual-n-back.io. 20 minutes daily improves the trained task and working memory capacity. Claims of a 12-point IQ boost exceed most evidence—meta-analyses show small average gains of a few points with mixed transfer to fluid intelligence. Worth trying if you want to build focus and persistence.

Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start and don't stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... Start.

Ralph Waldo Emerson gives some gentle advice to his daughter...

You don’t rise by accident. You rise by decision. Decide who you’re going to become, then burn every bridge that leads back to your old self.

hell of a quote / words to live by "Your playing small does not serve the world..."

BREAKING: NIH ebola expert ARRESTED by the FBI for smuggling deadly pathogens into America from the Congo Vincent Munster was BUSTED at an airport with 113 vials containing monkeypox, chickenpox, and human DNA. 93 of the vials haven't even been tested yet......

“An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue” — Russian Proverb

— Žižek, on not obsessing with psychoanalyzing oneself all the time

Majority of single men over 30 in 2026:

A Chicago philosopher wrote one book in 1940 proving that 95% of the books you have read in your life, you didn't actually read, and Charlie Munger has been telling people to read it for 50 years. His name was Mortimer Adler. He spent 40 years at the University of Chicago, ran the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and built his entire career on one uncomfortable observation about the people around him. Most adults who called themselves well-read had not actually read a book in the real sense even once. They had run their eyes over the pages, registered the words, formed a vague impression, and put it back on the shelf. The book had passed through them without ever entering them. In 1940 he wrote How to Read a Book. It has stayed in print for 86 years. Charlie Munger recommends it. Naval Ravikant recommends it. Fareed Zakaria recommends it. Every serious thinker who builds a career on absorbing information eventually finds their way to this book, and the reason is that Adler had isolated something nobody else was naming clearly. There are four levels of reading. Almost everyone is stuck on the second one. The fourth level is so different from what most people call reading that you have probably never done it in your entire life. Level one is elementary. You learn it as a child. You decode the letters into words and the words into sentences. You finish the sentence and understand roughly what it said. This is reading the way a 7-year-old reads, and almost every adult on earth has stopped developing past this point in some quiet way. Level two is inspectional. This is skimming. You move through a book quickly to figure out what it is broadly about. You read the back cover, scan the table of contents, glance at a few paragraphs, and form an opinion. Most adults who claim to have read 50 books a year are actually doing this. They are inspecting books, not reading them. They walk away with a vague sense of the argument and almost none of the evidence that supports it. Level three is analytical. This is the level Adler said most people have never properly experienced. You take one book and you wrestle with it for as long as it takes. You identify the question the author is trying to answer. You map their argument from front to back. You write your disagreements in the margins. You force yourself to articulate, in your own words, what the author is claiming and why. The point is not to finish the book. The point is to argue with it as if the author were sitting across the table from you. Most people never do this once in their life, because it is exhausting and slow and feels nothing like the reading they were taught as children. Level four is the one almost nobody knows exists. Adler called it syntopical reading. The word means "across topics," and the technique is something closer to running a small private research lab in your own head. You pick a single question that actually matters to you. How does power corrupt people. Why do civilizations collapse. What makes a marriage last. How does a person change their own mind. Then you assemble five or ten or twenty books from different authors, different centuries, different traditions, all of them taking a swing at the same question. You do not read any of them cover to cover. You move between them. You find the chapter in book three that addresses the same question as the chapter in book seven. You force those two authors to argue with each other inside your own head. The book stops being the unit of reading. The question becomes the unit. And the authors become voices in a conversation you are now hosting. This is the level where reading stops being consumption and starts being construction. You are no longer absorbing what someone else thinks. You are building a position of your own out of the friction between people who disagreed. Adler argued that this is the only level of reading where you stop being a passive receiver of other people's ideas and start being someone who can produce ideas of their own. The reason Charlie Munger has been recommending this book for 50 years is that this is exactly how Munger has always thought. He calls it building a latticework of mental models. The technique he is describing is just syntopical reading applied for a lifetime. You take the strongest insight from psychology, the strongest insight from biology, the strongest insight from economics, and you stack them against the same problem until something new falls out the bottom. The reason most people never reach level four is not that it is intellectually difficult. It is that it is logistically uncomfortable. It requires you to keep multiple books open at once. It requires you to take notes that nobody is going to grade. It requires you to abandon the goal of finishing books and replace it with the goal of answering questions. This is also why AI just changed everything Adler was teaching. NotebookLM, Claude, and tools like them let you do syntopical reading at a speed that would have looked like magic to a Chicago philosopher in 1940. You upload 10 books on the same question. You ask the AI to surface every place those authors agree and every place they contradict each other. The technique Adler said almost nobody on earth had reached can now be run on a Sunday afternoon by anyone with a laptop and one good question. The technique was always the unlock. The bottleneck used to be time. The bottleneck is now curiosity. Most people will keep reading the way they always have. A book at a time. Eyes over the pages. No question driving it. No other authors in the room. Adler called that level two for a reason. You are not behind on your reading list. You are behind on the level you are reading at.

New: Joe Rogan gets in serious debate with Harland Williams over why the US should not be at war with Iran: ROGAN: “I don’t like this Iran war thing.” WILLIAMS: “You don’t like the idea of preventing Iran from having a nuclear weapon? That’s a pretty good concept.” ROGAN: “I don’t want Afghanistan 2.0 where we end up being stuck there for 20 years and milk American taxpayers in the process.” WILLIAMS: “We’re preventing a rebel country from getting a bomb that can destroy parts of our planet. I think it’s worth it.” ROGAN: “In theory yes, but the truth is Iran was not close or even capable of having a nuclear weapon.” WILLIAMS: “They were pursuing it though.” ROGAN: “This is Israel’s war. I get why they want this conflict, but I don’t know if it’s a good thing for America.”

It is Time

第一次看到彩虹的诞生，这个摄影师好厉害。

Bro has some work to do before he becomes the "second space company"

you have to move through life and love assuming the answer is yes. assuming people want to see you, help you, hire you, hug you, love you. otherwise, every bid for connection or growth will be laced in fear and desperation. and people can smell that from a mile away.