- Food for thought: Listen to these words of Staretz Zosimus in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov: “At some thoughts one stands perplexed, above all at the sight of human sin, and wonders whether to combat it by force or by humble love. Always decide ‘I will combat it by humble love.’ If you resolve on that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world. Loving humility is a terrible force: it is the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.”
- This is a staggering stat: "The process of creating Bitcoin to spend or trade consumes around 91 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, more than is used by Finland, a nation of about 5.5 million.”
- Mathematical shape of an egg.
- The earth and the moon via APOD.
- https://xkcd.com/2511/
- Another unbelievable photo from APOD My bucket list includes see the northern lights.
- Scary: In 2019, 19 of Facebook’s top 20 pages for American Christians were run by Eastern European troll farms overseas, internal documents leaked to MIT Technology Review reveal. The data shows the vast spread of Facebook misinformation is largely powered by coordinated efforts among foreign professionals working together to spread provocative content in the U.S. This was from Scot McKnight’s meanderings.
- The bat nebula from APOD.
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There is no doubt that the apocalypse is upon us.