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Archaeologists Found an Ancient Fossil That Doubled as a Sacred Roman Amulet
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Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil in Spain, likely from the Roman era.
The trilobite fossil is only the 11th ever found worldwide in an archaeological context, and the first linked to the Romans.
Made into a pendant or bracelet, the wearer likely believed the fossil had magical healing powers.
Archaeologists discovered a trilobite fossil from millions of years ago in a Roman-era dump near what is now Galicia, Spain. And according to the team’s analysis, that fossil had likely been refashioned into an amulet.
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Robert Reich
How to live a moral life in an age of bullies
Friends,
We are living in an age of bullies. Those with power are less constrained today than they have been in my lifetime, since the end of World War II.
The question is: How do we lead moral lives in this era?
Putin launches a horrendous war on Ukraine.
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He usurps the powers of Congress, defies the courts, and prosecutes his enemies.
He and his Republican lackeys cut Medicaid and food stamps — lifelines for poor people, including millions of children — so that the wealthy can get a tax cut.
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We live in times that are normal for some but for others that are not normal. The key word here is NORMAL... as it means different things to different people but that is not to say that these times are good or bad, they are just different from past times.
- We live under the threat of WWIII
- We live under the threat of AI/humanoid robots taking our jobs
- We live under the threat of Socialism taking over our government
- We live under the threat of race riots or a civil war between the wealthy and the poor
- We live under the threat of losing our FREEDOMS
There is a saying that goes something like this: WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE GOT UNTIL IT IS GONE...
Some of us who reach middle age then become senior citizens, then retire know perfectly well what LOSING OUR YOUTH feels like and for many of us it is not much fun to grow old.
Many of us are deep into debt while others are debt free; the latter being a better place to be than the former. But we desperately what to give others the impression that we are financially well off.
Some of us have planned for our retirement while many of us have not and when it comes time to retire, we simply do not have to money to pay our bills, so we either keep working or severely change our lifestyle.
There are also those who have the resources to retire but refuse to do so because they want to see how money they can make before they retire. A few years after you pass away, no one remembers what you did or what it was that you left behind by which to be remembered.
Scientists create a "time crystal" using giant atoms, a concept long thought to be impossible
In 2012, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek asked whether the symmetry that arranges atoms in an ordinary crystal might also break in time, producing a structure that beats forever at its own pace.
More than a decade later, researchers at Tsinghua University, working with theorists from Vienna University of Technology, have watched rubidium vapor settle into just such a rhythm and report their findings.
Prof Thomas Pohl of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at TU Wien, a co‑author of the new paper, says the result brings Wilczek’s vision “very close to reality.”
How a time crystals differ
A time crystal repeats itself in time rather than in space, breaking the uniformity of the clock the way a snowflake breaks the uniformity of a lake.
The persistence of this rhythm, called spontaneous symmetry breaking, means the pattern survives even when no one is forcing it.
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