February 2010
44 posts
January 2010
64 posts
“She had become a perfect statue of herself.”
– E. O. Wilson: Trailhead : The New Yorker
“There are currently 1,500 languages gathered around the campfire of the...”
– Wade Davis (The Wayfinders)
“Asik looked up at the moon and casually asked if it was true that people had...”
– Wade Davis (The Wayfinders pg. 202)
“Culture is not trivial”
– Wade Davis (The Wayfinders pg.199)
“Western science and efficiency has made a major contribution to minor needs.”
– Wade Davis (The Wayfinders pg.183)
“In the West, time is like gold. You save it, you lose it, you waste it, or you...”
– Stephen Hugh-Jones (Barasana on wikipedia)
“If you can read the ocean, if you can see the island in your mind, you will...”
– Wade Davis (The Wayfinders pg.61)
“Our entire existential experience over the past 50,000 years may be distilled...”
– Wade Davis (The Wayfinders pg. 31)
“From humble origins in Africa, after a journey that lasted 2,500 generations,...”
– Wade Davis (The Wayfinders pg. 10)
List of Circle Topics
This list of circle topics includes things related to the geometric shape, either abstractly, as in idealizations studied by geometers, or concretely in physical space. It does not include metaphors like “inner circle” or “circular reasoning” in which the word does not refer literally to the geometric shape.
“it was a fear in which reverence prevailed”
– Jung
Acoustic Experiments
In the US experiments have been made on the sound effects inside a sphere large enough to contain a person. The sound transmitted by the walls makes the whole body resonate: skull, thorax, abdominal cavity and bones all vibrate at once. To the man, it seems that the sound derives from his body.
— Bruno Munari
“famous for not wanting to be famous”
– J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author of ‘The Catcher in the Rye,’ Dies at 91 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
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Confessions of a Book Pirate →
In truth, I think it is clear that morally, the act of pirating a product is, in fact, the moral equivalent of stealing… although that nagging question of what the person who has been stolen from is missing still lingers.
“right angles are caused by the sun, triangles by time.”
The meaning of colour in Hubble Images
Taking color pictures with the Hubble Space Telescope is much more complex than taking color pictures with a traditional camera. For one thing, Hubble doesn’t use color film — in fact, it doesn’t use film at all. Rather, its cameras record light from the universe with special electronic detectors. These detectors produce images of the cosmos not in color, but in shades of black and...
“Emotions typically involve the judgement that harm or benefit is at hand.”
– The ancient Stoics (Sorabji)
“Nothing lies like the moment of truth”
Crayola Color Corner →
Since 1903, when Binney & Smith introduced the first Crayola crayons, people have been fascinated with the history of our color names. Read on for a list of our 120 core crayon colors and the years when they were first introduced, along with discontinued colors and names that have changed over the years.
“weight loss, financial planning, errant children, gift suggestions, children who...”
– Dr. Phil (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“youth, knowledge, wealth, or power.”
– Deal with the Devil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In spite of the high cost of living, it’s still popular.”
– Kathy Norris
“Deaths of philosophers”
– Deaths of philosophers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“Nearly all animals emit the same stench when they die, and have done so for more...”
– AT&T - 50 Things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year
“The human body emits a glow that is 1,000 times less than what our eyes can...”
– AT&T - 50 Things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year
“The calmest place on Earth is on top of an icy plateau in Antarctica known as...”
– AT&T - 50 Things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year
“List of phobias”
– List of phobias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Then, there is a fear of being seen and a shamefacedness, which one sees in...”
– Scopophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Sometimes the people who invent things and the people who find out what things...”
– Anne Herbert
“Then times it times a million.”
– ABJECTIVE
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“Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it’s...”
– Conan The New York Times
“We’re wired for attachment in a world of impermanence…How we negotiate that...”
– Robert Neimeyer, a psychologist at the University of Memphis who studies how people draw meaning from loss and grief (via psychotherapy)
“It’s estimated that millions of trees are accidentally planted by...”
“The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on...”
Hibernation, Insulation and Caffeination →
So perhaps I am a victim of seasonal affected disorder, with its slowness and melancholy. It is considered a pathological condition, but I wonder. I’m now inclined to think it’s not a disease, but a vestigial remnant of an adaptive hibernation response.