- An extensive study shows that people are more likely to adopt pseudoscientific and misinformed beliefs when they believe them to be more popular.
- These results have important implications for how highlighting social information with ‘likes’ is more likely to spread fake news.
- Study participants were more likely to agree or disagree with a statement after seeing evidence that the belief was more popular than they had expected it to be.
- Some who were on the fence about a controversial issue changed their minds based solely on the number of endorsements the statement received.
a white building with a tree in the front
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- Wisdom
- Benevolence
- Courage
These could be learned through the mastery of the 6 arts: ☕ ceremony, 🪕 music, 🏹 archery, 🐴charioteering, 🖋️ calligraphy and 🧮 math.
International Deadline: November 22, 2025 – Manifest invites artists to submit works of art with no specific theme. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc.. Honoraria… Visit https://t.co/ocMWYj9O9I https://t.co/EmUO7BVIzn
a cactus garden with mountains in the background
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, genre: cityscape, style: Impressionism, tags: summer, streets-and-squares, houses-and-buildings, Tree, Nature, Woody plant, Plant, Grass family, sunlight, Birch, completition: 1902.
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Mmmm - I feel good….
With a ‘Breath of fresh Ayr’
To start your day,
And 'Honest Men'
Along the way,
'Bonnie Lasses'
To help you stay,
Aye, Ayr’s the place,
To be today…
© ali-p 2003
Maurizio Cattelan wins 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie
He will have a solo exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, opening in September 2026.
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What lies over a rainbow...
That catches our soul...
What does the voice in the wind have to say...
To bring you wondering each passing day...
Why does your reflection shimmer in a churning stream...
Making you wonder if life is nothing but a dream...
And perhaps that's all life really is, a dream.
Because things never really stay what they seem.
Like grains of sand...
Slipping through a grasping hand...
You just can't seem to hold onto them.
Like light slowly leaving, and making a room dim.
And if life is nothing but a dream then what shall happen when it dies away.
Fading like a flower when the autum night takes over its summer day.
What shall happen when my dreams end...
Shall another start, and I just mend?
Or perhaps I will give in and just die.
Taking my last breath as a long sigh.
Oh, what shall happen when my dreams depart?
Shall I then just wither away and fall apart?
And gasp a long cry into the nocturnal air as the moon gazes down upon my poor, dying soul.
Watching me wither, and to end all, dying like flames upon a single piece of coal.
Why must it be this way?
Why must I end my day...
Oh, I hope and I so desperatly plead.
That this dream to not let me bleed.
To hold onto me.
And let me see.
My life, my dream...
My reflection... in the stream...
, genre: landscape, style: Romanticism, gallery name: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, US, tags: rivers-and-waterfalls, ruins-and-columns, forests-and-trees, Nature, Sky, Natural landscape, completition: 1845.
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My heart is in your hands. What will you do with it?
I give it freely; I've not had it broken before.
I may not deserve it, but I hope we end together.
We may not make it, but we have to try, right?
How could we sacrifice what we have, something so beautiful.
These are the things dreams are made of, that which we have,
Things sometimes never achieved.
We have.
You tell me you're mine, if I ever want you.
How could you even doubt it?
I never have.
You say you're independent - so am I.
You don't want to be tied down too early.
I'll help you fly.
You say you don't want to spend eternity without me.
What kind of God would do that to us?
Not any God of mine.
Time wasted on meaningless pastimes, without you.
So many things I want you to see, to be with me through.
I can't wait for the day I never leave you, together.
The day we become one, in God's eyes, forever.
Love does not begin to say it all.
Some of the best books I have found are through recommendations. It’s either my bookworm friends or through podcasts of people I admire recommending a book that ends up on my shelf.
Although I refrain from pushing people to read books I have loved, but there are certain books that I can’t shut up about. They have helped me tremendously, and as my way of giving back to the authors, I have recommended some of these books over a hundred times.
