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The Unfortunate Truth in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

See, human beings are really a lot of tubes. And all living creatures are just tubes. And these tubes have to put things in at one end and let it out at the other.

Then they get clever about it and they develop nerve ganglia on one end of the tube—the eating end—called a head. And that’s got eyes in it, it’s got ears in it, it’s got little organs—antennae and things like this—and that helps you to find things to put in one end so that you can let them out the other.

Well, while you’re doing this, you see, the stuff going through wears the tube out. And so that the show can go on the tubes have complicated ways of making other tubes, who go on doing the same thing. In at one end, out the other. And they say, “Well, that’s terribly serious! That’s awfully important; we’ve got to keep on doing this.”

-Alan Watts

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/tao-of-philosophy-6

Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups in c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

38% support some privatization of Canada Post in c/canada@lemmy.ca

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Isn't that about the same percentage that vote conservative every election?

Spaniards packing water pistols blame impact of mass tourism for housing crunch in c/europe@feddit.org

Running rewires your brain cells—igniting memory-saving genes against alzheimer’s in c/science@lemmy.world

[–] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This was a study on mice using a running wheel and how their brains changed, which they then compared to human brain tissue from people who had Alzheimer.