A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608712/a-thorium-salt-reactor-has-fired-up-for-the-first-time-in-four-decades/
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608712/a-thorium-salt-reactor-has-fired-up-for-the-first-time-in-four-decades/
MIT Technology Review
A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades
The road to cleaner, meltdown-proof nuclear power has taken a big step forward.
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Theory in Practice: A Tour of Zaytuna Farm
Take a 20-minute tour of our 66-acre Zaytuna Farm property located in Northern NSW, Australia. Throughout, I explain specific features of the farm, how these things came together, and why the farm was designed as you see it. If some terms aren’t familiar…
" The designer and tester of the project refused the official endorsement of the project by Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki, noting that he did not want to cause trouble for them if an accident occurred."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_(film)
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What is this man training for? I believe, with the JX0122, we have our answer: https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=eYdriEpB6mI
Invidious
What is he training for?
This film is the inspiration for the glider seen above. Released in 1984, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind may very well be the original Solarpunk film.
Forwarded from Alexander Clay Taylor
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.mp4
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
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"After Darwin described the mechanism of evolution by natural selection in the Origin of Species, he had a big problem, and that was the explanation of ornament in nature—those features of the body of animals and plants that function not in furthering the struggle for survival, but in communication with other individuals, and often in the context of mating or ecological interactions.
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What I'm coming to conclude is that this is a big watershed in evolutionary biology, and that there's a distinct process that occurs when we have evolution occurring through a cognitive or mental substrate. That is, when it's about attracting another individual.
I would refer to this area as aesthetic evolution, and the main topic in aesthetic evolution is the origin of beauty."
https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty
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What I'm coming to conclude is that this is a big watershed in evolutionary biology, and that there's a distinct process that occurs when we have evolution occurring through a cognitive or mental substrate. That is, when it's about attracting another individual.
I would refer to this area as aesthetic evolution, and the main topic in aesthetic evolution is the origin of beauty."
https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aesthetic-evolution-and-the-origin-of-beauty