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Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough

Attenborough at One Hundred, Watching a Weedy Seadragon One hundred years, and still the world can make him grin sideways. The weedy seadragon arrives dressed as seaweed that escaped taxonomy, all ribbons and false fronds, baroque camouflage with improbable hydrodynamics. It does... read more

I discovered some universal catagories in language

might be useful for conlang construction. ----- The Four Levels of Word Specificity All common words (Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs (and adverbs)) fit into a universally applyable hierarchy based on conceptual specificity. --- Level 1: The highest catagory - Domain Boundless philosophical domain... (edited) read more

What kind of player are you?

Bartle's taxonomy of players always interested me. So I wanted to find out what do you find yourself engaging in? Is more competition? Gathering and chilling? Discovery? Or doing something cool?

Collecting data about pathogenic bacteria

My goal is to write notes about the most important characteristics about pathogenic bacteria: taxonomy, morphology, relation to oxygen, capsule, catalse oxidase, motility, spores and disease. Later also virulence factors. I have many to do.

Can we talk about learning how to learn?

How do you learn? How could it be better? What are your techniques of meta learning? Mind Maps? Blooms Taxonomy? Evernote? SOLO taxonomy? Supermemo? Anki? Obsidian?

The 6 levels of knowledge

According to Bloom of Bloom’s Taxonomy, things can be known and understood at 6 levels. 😁 Further reading: https://helpfulprofessor.com/levels-of-knowledge/