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reading Airbnb listings and thinking how I want to be these people when I grow up – and knowing that this will never happen.

astronomyblog:

Mercury
☿

Equatorial Diameter: 4.879 km
Satellites: None
Orbit Distance: 57,909,050 km (0,39 AU)
Orbit Period: 88 Earth days
Surface Temperature: -183 to 427C°

Image credit: Nevan

What counts as genuine consciousness, I will argue, is conscious access-the simple fact that usually, whenever we are awake, whatever we decide to focus on may become conscious. Neither vigilance nor attention alone is sufficient. When we are fully awake and attentive, sometimes we can see an object and describe our perception to others, but sometimes we cannot-perhaps the object was too faint, or it was flashed too briefly to be visible. In the first case, we are said to enjoy conscious access, and in the second we are not (and yet as we shall see, our brain may be processing the information unconsciously).

Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts
(via inthenoosphere)

flashofgod:

David Seymour, Child playing with a broken doll, Naples, Italy, 1948.

What doesn’t kill you makes you stranger

tinfoilparachute:

astronomyblog:

2019 Total Solar Eclipse Event at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile

On 2 July 2019 one of nature’s most impressive phenomena will be visible from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile — a total solar eclipse. As these are very rare — the next one visible from La Silla will occur in 212 years — ESO is organising a campaign of observing and outreach activities on site, allowing the general public to experience this spectacular event. Tickets to participate will be available from 13:00 CEST/07:00 CLT on Friday 13 July 2018.

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This would be so cool to visit

This sold out in exactly one minute, but I managed to snag a ticket. I guess I’m going to Chile?
Do I know anyone there?