𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧 Scientists say the Moon's tidal pull and melting ice are lengthening Earth's day by tiny fractions. The shift is minuscule for people but matters for precise timekeeping and rotation forecasts. Read more:

Earth is a max-difficulty escape room. The universe offered a slim hint at escape, then drowned it in noise. The aperture is short. Recording every finding on Earth counts for nothing if we spend it crowning ourselves geniuses rather than combining our efforts to crack the puzzle before the door closes.

Earth is just one of about 100 billion planets in our galaxy, which is just one of about two trillion galaxies in the universe. And our lifetimes are only about 1/3,000 of humanity's existence, which itself is only 1/20,000 of the Earth's existence. In other words, we are unbelievably tiny and short-lived and no matter what we accomplish, our impact will be insignificant. At the same time, we instinctually want to matter and to evolve, and we can matter a tiny bit--and it's all those tiny bits that add up to drive the evolution of the universe. #principleoftheday#