Something very harmful and maybe irreversible is happening to human attention in our digital age. Not just distraction or addiction; social media companies are inducing people to give up their autonomy. The power to shape people’s attention is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few companies. It takes a real effort to assert and defend what John Stuart Mill called “the freedom of mind.” There is a possibility that once lost, people who grow up in the digital age will have difficulty in regaining it. This may have far-reaching political consequences.
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A readily accessible natural wonder … which few human eyes have seen.
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Some local tourist promoters and “official” signage falsely claim that marimo live nowhere else.
However, eastern Hokkaido’s Lake Akan is the best place to see them.
Akan has by far the largest known examples of this rare and astonishing algal form…and the lake and its surrounds are beautiful in their own right.
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Its decoration “speaks clearly”, but only in one place, in northern Japan.
Pelican Yoga will reveal all, later this week.
There is a clue today, below.
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Its paradoxical nature is nowhere more spectacularly evident than at Second Valley – a South Australian “secret”…and a geological marvel.
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16.12.2017 was a pleasant South Australian summer day.
At dusk, the sky over Aldinga Bay foreshadowed today’s unpleasantly hot weather.
When I downloaded this image, the cybergods surprised me, twice.
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…with emblematic assistance/assistants from Bremer Bay, in the Deep South…of Western Australia.
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Bark – trees’ skin – resembles humans’ skin, in having a vibrantly alive innermost layer, and a dead outermost one.
However, some healthy trees’ skin-shedding is a much more spectacular (and beautiful) process than is any healthy human’s.
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…is in the other Grampians, in western Victoria, Australia.
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Best viewed after chapter one.
This post’s “stars” are named after terrestrial flowering plants, but sea anemones are carnivorous animals.
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