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Poetic Linnaeus
‘Poets are born, not made. I was not born a poet, but a botanist instead, so I offer the fruit of the little harvest which God has vouchsafed me.‘― Carolus Linnaeus
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A bit of common sense
‘Let all reasoning be silent when experience gainsays its conclusion.‘― William Harvey
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Daredevil
Watched the Daredevil movie again recently. It came out 20 years ago in 2003 but visually it didn’t lose any of its flair and it doesn’t look 20 years old at all. It is more or less non stop action from start to finish so the story is a little thin and the character development limited. But as an introduction to the character it is OK and although Daredevil is a less famous super hero compared to others I personally like him much. He is a bit of a mix between Batman and Superman with superhuman senses and a daytime…
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Preserve your health
‘Strive to preserve your health, and in this you will the better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.‘― Leonardo da Vinci
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The Bourne Ultimatum
The third Jason Bourne movie of the original trilogy. It picks up the story where we left it at the end of the Bourne Supremacy. It actually goes back a bit in time showing how Jason Bourne manages to escape in Russia after having visited the daughter of his first victim, Vladimir Nesky. When a reporter from the Guardian newspaper publishes a series of articles about the Treadstone program and its successor Blackbriar Jason Bourne wants to meet him. The CIA don’t want the secrets to come out and the reporter gets assassinated during his meeting with Bourne. From then…
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The Bourne Supremacy
This is the second Jason Bourne movie. It picks up the story where we left it in the Bourne Identity. We find Jason Bourne living with Marie in Goa in India. But then a mysterious killer appears first in Berlin killing a CIA operative and then in Goa to kill Jason. He believes he succeeds but actually kills Marie instead. Jason, believing the it was the CIA comes back to Europe to hunt the assassin down. He also ends up in Berlin and discovers new pieces of his past in the process. The movie is a tense cat and mouse…
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Wisdom
In 2002 the American biologist Chandler Robbins discovered a ringed Albatross on the Midway islands. The ring had number Z333 and it turned out to be a bird he had ringed himself half a century before in 1956. At the time of ringing the Albatross was at least 5 years old, making the bird older than 50 years in 2002. Until then biologists thought the maximum age of an Albatross was about 40 years. The bird was christened Wisdom as it had managed to survive for so many years. Wisdom has since generated many new insights. It is the oldest…
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