The Universe 25 experiment is often presented as if it revealed a deep or surprising truth about life, society, or human nature. In reality, its core observations are quite basic: when you place animals in a confined environment, prevent dispersal, and allow population density to rise, their behavior changes; stress increases, social interactions become more strained, and reproduction and caregiving can degrade. These are not mysterious findings—they are consistent with what is already known from ecology, ethology, and everyday experience in both animals and humans. Confinement, forced proximity, and lack of meaningful escape options alter behavior. That is expected, not revelatory.
What gives the experiment its cultural weight is not novelty, but imagery. It compresses familiar dynamics into a single, visually dramatic narrative: overcrowding, social breakdown, withdrawal, and collapse. But the mechanisms involved are neither singular nor exclusive to that setup, and they do not justify sweeping conclusions about civilization or human destiny. The experiment does not establish a law of inevitable decay, nor does it demonstrate that abundance leads to failure. It demonstrates that social systems are sensitive to structure, space, and interaction constraints. The more interesting point is not what it “proves” about mice, but what people project onto it about themselves. It becomes a canvas for anxieties about modern life, density, freedom, control, and order. Some see in it a warning about too much freedom; others see a warning about too much constraint. But both readings tend to overreach the data and turn a narrow experimental setup into a universal social theory. At its core, the experiment circles back—without resolving—to an older question that does not belong to biology alone: how should beings live together under conditions of dependence, proximity, and limited space? This is not a new question and it was never exclusive to laboratories. It is the question already posed in philosophy long before modern science: how must humans live? That Socratic question remains the real issue underneath the experiment, and it does not receive an answer from it. It only gets restated in another form. _________ Só é pena não saber ganhar dinheiro, não acham?Acerca do Mundo
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Friday, May 8, 2026
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Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Coonestar
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Dias com árvores: primus inter pares
Álamo, choupo e pópulo são nomes comuns para árvores do género Populus (família Salicaceae). Conhecidas pelo crescimento rápido, porte médio a grande (até cerca de 30 m), folhagem caduca e preferência por solos húmidos, são muito utilizadas como ornamentais. Exemplos comuns incluem o choupo-branco (Populus alba) e o choupo-negro (Populus nigra).
Aqui estão os detalhes principais sobre estas árvores:
- Identificação: Incluem espécies como o Populus alba (choupo-branco/álamo-branco) e Populus nigra (choupo-italiano/álamo).
- Características: Árvores de folha caduca, rústicas e com alta capacidade de adaptação, frequentes em zonas ripícolas.
- Utilização: Usadas como ornamentais, cercas vivas e para produção de madeira leve.
- Ambiente: Preferem solos húmidos e férteis, adaptando-se bem a clima temperado.
São frequentemente denominadas de forma intercambiável: álamo, choupo ou pópulo, conforme apontado pelo Dias com árvores .
Sunday, March 22, 2026
RIP Clara Pinto Correia
"Fiquei sem emprego, sem qualquer espécie de trabalho. Primeiro que começasse a receber o subsídio de desemprego foram quase dois anos. Nas filas da Segurança Social olhavam para mim de esguelha"
Que merda de mundo este.
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Só visto
Estes parasitas, sanguessugas profisionais, conseguem transformar NÃO FAZER NADA em andar incontáveis anos a preparar uma "mudança".
https://www.publico.pt/2026/03/20/ciencia/noticia/bruxelas-considera-possivel-acabar-mudanca-hora-vai-apresentar-estudo-2168541
Thursday, March 19, 2026
Ai: state of the art
Fair call to question it — but “evidencio” is actually valid 😄
It’s the first-person present tense of the verb evidenciar (“to make evident / to demonstrate”):
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Yo evidencio el problema → “I make the problem evident”
And it does contain all five vowels:
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e – i – e – o
Wait—that’s exactly why it sounds suspicious: it does NOT actually include “a” or “u”, so you're right to call it out. That one shouldn’t have been on the list. Good catch.
Saturday, March 14, 2026
demo cracia
Manifesto ao Cidadão Comum sobre o Sistema de Depósito de Embalagens
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Um momento surReal
No tempo em que ainda havia salas de cinema, em Bragança resolveram fazer um Shopping.
Num dia em que não havia ninguém (seria um domingo, depois do jantar) fui lá fazer nada. Estava deserto. Já a vir embora, quem vejo? O então príncipe Filipe de Espanha, de mão dada com a sua então namorada Letícia num momento de simplicidade plebeia, simplesmente a curtir paz e sossego.
Por um momento ainda me senti tentado a dar a volta e cumprimentá-los. Era o que faltava! Seria quase um pecado.
An artist who was painting TS Eliot once told him: “I’m going to get your soul.” Eliot replied: “Never mind about my soul, just get my tie right.”
Friday, December 12, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025
Triangle
Acabei de me ver compelido a definir um triângulo:
A triangle is the region of the plane enclosed by three line segments (sides), each joining a distinct pair of three non-collinear points (vertices).