The Principle of Suffering / Alan Watts

"The Universe is essentially a game, and the only response that you can make to it is to do battle, or, you may say, no it isn't really a mess,   somehow all this suffering amounts to something in the end, it creates energies, there is no system in which somebody tortures, and somebody else is tortured. In my view of the world, the creator and the creature are one, and all being, are the masks and the plays of the central self through all forms, through all of us, endlessly..." 

This ultraviolet Hubble movie shows the ring aurora on Jupiter and the silhouette and shadow of its moon Europa. You can also see the magnetic footprint of Io, just ahead of the aurora.

diatoms - california academy of sciences geology

1. Biddulphia deodora -  Miocene, ph#000058D,scale bar = 10 µm

2. Actinoptychus chenevierei - holotype, Cretaceous, ph#000677D, scale bar = 10 µm

3. Lithodesmium margaritaceum - Cretaceous, ph#000865D, scale bar = 10 µm

4. Aulacodiscus currus - holotype, Eocene, ph#001088D, scale bar = 10 µm

5. Triceratium diversum - holotype, Eocene, ph#001131D, scale bar = 10 µm

6. Triceratium swastika - Cretaceous, ph#000956D, scale bar = 10 µm