Loneliness and trust

One of the key ideas in loneliness research is trust and what they have found is that the more trusting you are as an individual the less likely you are to have problems with loneliness…

The more distrustful you are, one researcher used the word automatic, you will automatically start having more problems with loneliness. And you can take that back to childhood where you can learn a trusting way of being with your care giver or you can learn perhaps that care giver isn’t someone you can fully trust. And if the latter scenario was true for you you’re going to be less and less trusting, not just of your care giver but of the other people you come across in life.

That’s usually referred to as “anxious attatchment” and if that is the situation you’re facing, if you’ve grown up rightly or wrongly thinking that the only person you can truly rely on is yourself, you will definitely be a good candidate for loneliness.
- Emily White

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Education

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

 - Jim Rohn

That's us.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
- Carl Sagan, 1934-1996

The Earth as imaged from the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it exited the solar system in 1990. 
Earth is nearly 4 billion miles away in this image.

Make sense of the stars

We are the scientists, trying to make sense of the stars inside us.
 - Christopher Poindexter

Human females possess a genetic mutation...

At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor – and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
- David Eagleman

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Why we require sleep?

Scientists aren’t really sure why we require sleep. According to one researcher with 50 years of experience in the field, “As far as we know, the only reason we need to sleep is that is really, really solid is because we get sleepy.”

Stonefish.

So, you thought you were scared of spiders…

Meet this ugly bastard – The Stone Fish, it lives in the costal water of Australia.

If this little shit stings you it causes THE WORST PAIN KNOWN TO MAN – Not even childbirth comes close to the pain caused by this nasty little fucker. The pain is so great people have been known to attempt botched self amputations on the affected limb.

Here is what some guy experienced after being scratched on the finger, “ I got spiked on the finger by a Stonefish in Australia… never mind a bee sting… imagine having each knuckle, then the wrist, elbow and shoulder being hit in turn with a sledgehammer over the course of about an hour. Then about an hour later, imagine taking a real kicking to both kidneys for about 45 minutes so that you couldn't stand or straighten up. This was the tiniest of nicks. Got sensation back in my finger after a few days but had recurrent kidney pains periodically for several years afterwards.”

P.S. It frequently leaves the water and can live outside the ocean for up to 24 hours. 

Spider.

Scientists think that a person is never more than 3 feet away from a spider at any given time.