February 2012
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On the need to re-examine Time as a conceptual...
It’s not only the uncertainty of the future, but also our constant referential projection of our past experiences that cause anxiety and prevent us from being a part of living in the now. Somewhere along the way, we have failed to understand time as a conceptual tool to approximate reality and have materialised it in language as a commodity that can be possessed, spent, lost, gained and...
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Watchfontanillaxo:
One of my favorite movie scenes of all time. 2 adult lives in 5 minutes without any words. Masterful story telling by those Pixar geniuses.
Excuse me while I cry all over my computer.
January 2012
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
– Voltaire (via philphys)
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Oatmeal's awesome anti- SOPA GIF for the love of... →
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“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein
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Dudeisms
Instructions for Life by The Dalai Lama
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three R’s: - Respect for self, - Respect for others and - Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break...
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“Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.” - The Dalai Lama”
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A SINGLE STATEMENT TO PASS ON TO OTHERS.... →
“In his famous Lectures on Physics, Richard Feynman presented this interesting speculation:
“If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to...
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“One of my intellectual heroes, the Nobel Prize– winning chemist Frederick Soddy,...”
– HERMAN DALY APPLIES A BIOPHYSICAL LENS TO THE ECONOMY AND FINDS THAT BIGGER ISN’T NECESSARILY BETTER.
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December 2011
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“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls...”
– ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954 (via quotablescientists)
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Crowd-sourced Anti-SOPA rap. Word
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““What’s especially striking, the researchers said, is that people...”
– http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111214162103.htm
“Try asking an “intelligent design” advocate to stipulate upfront what would...”
– The Texas-size debate over teaching evolution by C. Hitchens.
Christopher Hitchens dies at 62.
(via scipsy)
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5 year olds make some espresso...and latte it up →
I’d be very concerned with the steaming nozzle, but hey, the kids did an awesome job. Not sure if they’d be drinking coffee, but then I had my first sip of wine at that age….so. : )
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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill...”
– Oscar Wilde (via hellostarsailor)
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