May 2012
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Reading and research
Successful scientists have often been people with wide interests. Their originality may have derived from their diverse knowledge … Originality often consists in linking up ideas whose connection was not previously suspected. […] Therefore reading ought not to be confined to the problem under investigation nor even to one’s own field of science, nor, indeed, to science alone.
May 28th
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“Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you...”
– Bertrand Russell
May 2nd
April 2012
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“It is the ability to spot the potential in the product of connecting things that...”
Apr 29th
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“A quality of great art is its ability to guide attention from one of its parts...”
Apr 29th
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“Is freedom the opposite of anything? Or if freedom has an opposite, then is it...”
Apr 29th
Scinerds: The Bizarre Object We Believed Was... →
scinerds: Mathematicians have now visualized abstract mathematical objects called flat tori — items resembling donuts with corrugated, fractal surfaces. These were thought to be impossible to envision in ordinary 3-D space… until now. To imagine a flat torus, imagine a video game with a wraparound…
Apr 27th
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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain (via mythrils)
Apr 23rd
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Apr 6th
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“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more...”
– Feynman
Apr 4th
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March 2012
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Mar 30th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 21st
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Australian Atheist Bus Ad Says God Better Have ‘a... →
Mar 16th
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Mar 15th
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Mar 8th
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Humans, Version 3.0 →
THE NEXT GIANT LEAP IN HUMAN EVOLUTION MAY NOT COME FROM NEW FIELDS LIKE GENETIC ENGINEERING OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BUT RATHER FROM APPRECIATING OUR ANCIENT BRAINS.
Mar 6th
“The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from...”
– Albert Einstein (via expose-the-light)
Mar 4th
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Mar 2nd
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February 2012
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Feb 12th
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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...
Feb 9th
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Feb 8th
WatchWatch
fontanillaxo: 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.
Feb 7th
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January 2012
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Jan 27th
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