THE CONFIDENCE LIE WE ALL BELIEVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O49fPiqRNkQ

I saw another video that said that the way to build confidence is to practice.  

For example, I have no confidence to be a public speaker, but if I did it every day then I would build confidence.  I don't think that I would ever be a great public speaker, but I would get better over time.

When you do chess tactics problems tens of thousands of times, you become confident at tactics.

When you study king and pawn endgames for 30 years, you literally become a master at king and pawn endgames.  Even against much higher rated opponents, I feel confident.

America is Literally Not Where I Thought it Was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YavRy_UL0yg

Trees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49BPzqOEUEg

Variations on the Kanon by Pachelbel - George Winston

I saw this piece of music on Facebook with no title.  I am no expert on music, but I really enjoyed this piece.  I wanted to know what it is called.  I found it on YouTube with the title "Variations on the Kanon by Pachelbel".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wAGacczNho

So, being the curious person I am,  I wanted to know what the "Kanon by Pachelbel" meant.    So I found it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_variations_on_Pachelbel%27s_Canon

The first version on this page, "Arranged for violins, harps, and bass", is a piece of music that I have heard many times, as it has been used in TV shows and movies.  Mentally, I hadn't made the connection between the piano solo and this version, but I had previously been curious about where this music came from.  Some of the other versions of this page are interesting.

We Just Discovered 'Alien' Bacteria in Space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAKk0gJ6g8k

The dog clearly prefers my boyfriend!

Cute.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Fc04ILKhuTs

Why Roman Lead Pipes Weren’t Deadly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yZtTEY02ks

Los Pollos Hermanos fried Chicken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEShChb8qE

Los Pollos Hermanos is a fictional restaurant in Breaking Bad.   I translate the name as "The Chicken Brothers".

Self Aware Accountant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGecanSfQ98

How Companies Act Over Time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfBZKErCLiM

why feedback is different across cultures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rcheM69tiU

Magnus Mimics Kramnik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q2vfbXZvsc

How a German Shepherd Helped a Scared Rescued Kitten Feel Loved Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAIJj4u9kHA

Class act when girl hit by ball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1Ea15S_cs

Money Stories You Won’t Believe Are True

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIBSRSRVXVE

Amusing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlVn_tP9EHA

Why USA Built a Giant Wall from Canada to Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-LJaB8y438

Boeing 747

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ3WVAe4H3g

Crazy Things Happening In The World - PART 92

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfi6IXvRmOI

What Actually Causes High Cholesterol? | Dr. Robert Lustig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIB-Up8L04Y

How 1800s Sexism Tricked Us Into Distrusting Intuition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAwx5RMjt0c

Evolution Tells Us We Might Be The Only Intelligent Life in the Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF-CvZgSPCM

I only watched the first 2.5 minutes. He said that we have no evidence of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, as if this were an important part of his argument. Although that statement is technically correct, the distances involved are so vast that it is unlikely we could detect their radio signals—or that they could detect ours.

If we look at the evolution of life on Earth, we see incredible resilience. Once life starts, it finds a way; it adapts.

There are many examples of convergent evolution, where unrelated species independently evolve similar traits. For example, complex eyes evolved multiple times in different lineages, and several unrelated species independently evolved crab-like body plans.

What evolution shows us is that it adapts to incentives. Creatures become faster because they need to. Animals that benefit from greater intelligence evolve it. Only a few species are intelligent, while most are not, for the simple reason that they do not need to be. Intelligence is energetically expensive, and it is often more efficient not to have it.

Once life begins, I think it has the potential to produce intelligence. If we could travel to another world with life, we would likely see an enormous variety of organisms. Some of them would look familiar, because the patterns that work here could also work elsewhere.

Amazing Factory 🏭 work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPNO9yTUg8U

All this machinery feels dangerous to me.

Building a rectangle with four pieces, easy or impossible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otO4TAL9-78

Earth Is Hurtling Towards Something Strange and We Don't Know What It Is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGkF5zrsrYk

Rocky the octopus reaches out to me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh1R8ul-anw

@Radnick0024
1 year ago
Octopus: "Poor fella, born with only 5 arms."

@Shiroiokami947
1 year ago (edited)
It's sad that they have such a short lifespans; they are such intelligent creatures with a lot of personality in their own way.

I saw a neighbor post about a cat outside in the freezing cold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RszHiHcoWyU

Pluribus season 1 wrap-up. Best anti-communism essay since Orwell's 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nD8dr6PkBk

Pan Fried Pizza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wYro4adrw8

I don't know if this is a good idea or not, but it looks good.

Cat Levels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPURP4Smywg