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Humans have feared the end of humanity and the social decay of the young for millennia.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48018075

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48160892

Why is this old piece of parchment considered to be such a powerful symbol of our rights and freedoms? Narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, this animation takes you back to medieval times, when England under the reign of Bad King John. It asks why Magna Carta was originally created and what it meant to those living in the 13th century.

Author: The British Library

Slippery when wet.

A great 20-minute interview with the DSN Operations Supervisor at Canberra. Talks about the 70m, 8,000 ton antenna and how it operates.

A little bittersweet, but he mentions the DSN communicating with the Mars MAVEN orbiter which was recently declared a loss.

Hyper-Reality presents a provocative and kaleidoscopic new vision of the future, where physical and virtual realities have merged, and the city is saturated in media.

by Keiichi Matsuda

How life emerges from a simple particle motion law: Introducing the Primordial Particle Systems Self-structuring patterns can be observed all over the universe, from galaxies to molecules to living matter, yet their emergence is waiting for full understanding. We discovered a simple motion law for moving and interacting self-propelled particles leading to a self-structuring, self-reproducing and selfsustaining life-like system. The patterns emerging within this system resemble patterns found in living organisms. The emergent cells we found show a distinct life cycle and even create their own ecosystem from scratch. These structures grow and reproduce on their own, show self-driven behavior and interact with each other. Here we analyze the macroscopic properties of the emerging ecology, as well as the microscopic properties of the mechanism that leads to it. Basic properties of the emerging structures (size distributions, longevity) are analyzed as well as their resilience against sensor or actuation noise.

I can't find a download for the mod in progress?