“And it is so simple… The one thing is — love thy neighbor as thyself — that is the one thing. That is all, nothing else is needed. You will instantly find how to live”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#meaningoflife #dostoyevsky #BooksSky
🔬 New insights from gut-immune-brain research 🌟
A study with our network's @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social uncovers a "hidden” gut bacterial group found in higher levels in healthy people.
Could this be key to microbiome health and future probiotic innovation? 🌍🦠
www.newscientist.com/article/2514...
Is there is a microbial fingerprint of autism? By analyzing oral microbes, researchers can predict whether or not a child will develop autism with 80 percent accuracy.
scottcanderson.substack.com/p/autism-inf...
“That the compassionate Jane Clemens could be trained to regard slavery as a humane system instead of a monstrosity would serve as an object lesson for Mark Twain in the terrifying power of environment to shape and distort human behavior.”
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
#BooksSky #truth
Terrifying.
I made this mandala a while ago but the beauty of the snow falling today inspired me to post it now.
#artsky #mandala
www.mandalavis.com/post/19
The sifted sugar snow settles softly
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"Death is the moment when somebody comes and says: You know those three things that you've always thought of? They're not true. You're not permanent, you're not the most important thing and you're not separate." George Saunders
#BooksSky #ThoughtfulReads #Kindness #GeorgeSaunders
I love Cape Cod in the fall. Peace, beauty and soup. 😆🐚
Ray Bradbury says “don’t think”. He says to focus on practicing and improving your skill and let that be the end goal. He says: “If you do, I think you might easily find a new definition for Work. And the word is LOVE.”
#booksky
#dowhatyoulove
#lovewhatyoudo
Big update to mandalavis.com ! For my newest mandala I improved the zooming: two finger pinch, mouse wheel. And, I added the first part of editing the mandala. Choose a shape, color, position... #interactions #mandala #datavisualization
www.mandalavis.com/post/18
Beautiful night at the beach. 🌊🌅🔥
I started mandalavis.com in JavaScript to create some interactive graphics. Now I’m starting work on the back end business logic in python. Oh how I’ve missed you python. ❤️❤️❤️
Bookish friends are great because you can be all "read this, it will absolutely crush your soul and tear your beating heart into a million little pieces and you will literally never recover from it" and they'll be like omg yaaaasssss
A mandala for Mother’s Day
www.mandalavis.com/post/16
www.mandalavis.com
#mothersday
#art
#mandalaart
#datavisualization
My latest mandala is data driven and interactive.
www.mandalavis.com/post/15
"'Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?'
'Wouldn't it be great if it did?' I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering."
Paul Kalanithi When Breath Becomes Air
I'm loving this incredible memoir.
#stoicism #booksky
“Damage from gut bacteria may play a role in the rise in colon cancer in young adults”
#microbiome
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Fun with SVG curves! I love the new shape I added. It wasn’t easy to get it exactly right but it looks joyful to me. #joy #art #dataart #mandalaart
www.mandalavis.com/post/12
Might eating #yoghurt help you live longer? ...
| #microbes | #bacteria | #health | #microbiome | #bifidobacterium | Via @theguardian.com
Added a new shape that I call a potted plant. The mandala I made for it was really light. I liked it but I added a big dark wave to the perimeter to give it more intensity. Starting to consider how intensity could be a #datavis parameter.
#dataart #mandalaart #art
www.mandalavis.com/post/11
Try out the interactions on my newest mandala.
They're still a little shaky, but they're getting there!
I added a new shape that's an arc lined with dots. Making it involved some fun with geometry.
www.mandalavis.com#mandala8
#dataart #mandala
I added a mandala that is a random combination of the shapes I've added so far. It's interesting to keep refreshing the page. Different combinations of shapes really feel different. Give it a try! #dataart #impermanence
www.mandalavis.com#mandalarandom
I added a wave shape to my toolbox and created this mandala. It was inspired by a mosaic that I saw in Florida.
#dataart #mandala
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www.mandalavis.com/#mandala7
Moving away from drawing lines and towards drawing filled shapes organized in layers. This will help interaction functionality so users can interact with shapes as data objects.
www.mandalavis.com/#mandala6
