The YOU\:MATTER exhibit at Bradford 2025 reveals Earth’s hidden pulse. Through satellite data, NASA, NOAA, and others track how plants absorb sunlight, carbon flows through the air, and how all life is intricately woven together in the shared, living rhythm of our vibrant planet 🌍🛰️🌿

The AI benchmark of Will Smith eating spaghetti has been met 😬

"People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get."

~Anthony Bourdain

"...it’s not possible for any of us to fight against everything that is happening. We need to pick a lane, and focus on being effective in that lane." -AOC

My lane for the last two weeks:

Warsaw, Poland, employs mussels with sensors fixed to their shells to monitor and shut off the city water supply

When water quality is poor, mussels close themselves off to the toxins, triggering the control system to shut off the water

Over 50 water plants in Poland use this same technique! 🌊

'The Peanut Butter Solution' still haunts me to this day

Depression comes from ruminating the past
Anxiety from imagining the future

Neither past nor future truly exist
They are only stories told by our ego and fear

Only one ever shifting present moment exists
This is where agency lives and peace can be found

We should not hate, but rather we should want for others the same eudaimonia we desire for ourselves.

When one rationally examines the terrible behavior of others, hate isn't a response consistent with virtue, pity is.

"...Not everyone is willing to stick with you when times get tough, so appreciate those who remain by your side when you're at your worst because they are the ones who deserve you at your absolute best."
— Unknown

"When you look for evil in the world, that's all you'll see; when you look for good, you'll find it too"

Confirmation bias?

Maybe, but I'll allow it

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"The truth is, of course, is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time."

~David Bowie

It all boils down to one thing