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Wisdom in Space

When issues of public policy are discussed in the outward form of an argument, often the conclusions reached are predetermined by the assumptions and definitions inherent in a particular vision of social processes. Different visions, of course, have different assumptions.... To a remarkable extent, however, empirical evidence is neither sought beforehand nor consulted after a policy has been instituted. Facts may be marshaled for a position already taken, but that is very different from systematically testing opposing theories by evidence. Momentous questions are dealt with essentially as conflicts of vision.
-- Thomas Sowell

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When my mental health is a bit weak, the ocean always makes things better. Yesterday I took the train to Scheveningen, at the Dutch coast, where I enjoyed the sea breeze, put my bare feet in the sand, talked to some people (and a few ravens), waved at smiling babies and collected cool shells. Not a bad way to spend the spring equinox :)
Today, I’m washing the shells and looking at them all closely. They are such marvels 🩵

#VitaminSea #MentalHealth #SpringEquinox #Pagan #ILoveTheOcean #SeaShells #Oysters #Mussels #Shells #Clams #Outdoors #Scheveningen #DutchCoast #SeaSide #DutchNature #CloudPorn #BlueSkies #GetOutside #SunnyDays #SlowLiving #BeachDays #BeachPhotos #NaturesWonders #OceanLife #OceanSoul
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The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans by Cynthia Barnett, 2021

A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans, and ourselves.

A Science Friday Best Science Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year
A Tampa Bay Times Best Book of the Year

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Seashells have been the most coveted and collected of nature’s creations since the dawn of humanity. They were money before coins, jewelry before gems, art before canvas. In The Sound of the Sea , acclaimed environmental author Cynthia Barnett blends cultural history and science to trace our long love affair with seashells and the hidden lives of the mollusks that make them. Spiraling out from the great cities of shell that once rose in North America to the warming waters of the Maldives and the slave castles of Ghana, Barnett has created an unforgettable account of the world’s most iconic seashells. She begins with their childhood wonder, unwinds surprising histories like the origin of Shell Oil as a family business importing exotic shells, and charts what shells and the soft animals that build them are telling scientists about our warming, acidifying seas. From the eerie calls of early shell trumpets to the evolutionary miracle of spines and spires and the modern science of carbon capture inspired by shell, Barnett circles to her central point of listening to nature’s wisdom―and acting on what seashells have to say about taking care of each other and our world. 16 black-and-white illustrations
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The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells by Hans Meinhardt, 4th ed. 2009

For centuries scientists have tried to understand the growth and development of multicellular organisms. More recently, with the help of mathematical models and computerized simulations, they have discovered algorithmic patterns and models that seem to describe the dynamic processes in which organisms grow, reproduce, and respond to external factors

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In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated book, Hans Meinhardt explains and illustrates these structural growth patterns in the case of sea shells. The book delightfully conveys the intuitive appeal and the "touch of magic" in this research. A diskette packaged with the book contains a program that allows the reader to run the simulations on a PC. New patterns can be generated interactively to provide an insight into the process of biological pattern formation.
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