From December 12th in Great Hills Park the top picture shows the backlit leaf of a greenbrier vine (Smilax bona-nox) with a small insect on it. And from January 17th at Chalk Ridge Falls Park in Belton, look at the still-green leaves on the otherwise dry and impenetrable tangle this species often forms when it hangs from trees it has climbed. (At least one other kind of vine is mixed in.)
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No matter how effectively a false belief flaunts the believer's mental prowess or loyalty to the tribe, it's still false, and should be punished by the cold, hard facts of the world. As the novelist Philip K. Dick wrote, reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
So much of our reasoning seems tailored to winning arguments that some cognitive scientists, like Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, believe it is the adaptive function of reasoning. We evolved not as intuitive scientists but as intuitive lawyers.
— Steven Pinker, Rationality, 2021
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
— Upton Sinclair, 1934. Quote Investigator traces earlier incarnations of the thought.
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