February 2012
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“The brain is a 1.5 kilogram mass of jelly, the consistency of tofu, you can hold...”
– Adventures In Behavioral Neurology—or—what Neurology Can Tell Us About Human Nature (via azspot)
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somehow I find this very comforting.
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Atheist Girl In Rhode Island Faces Stream Of Death... →
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The Wow! Signal: SETI’s Most Tantalizing Recording →
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Hey Tumblr, there are deeds to be done and...
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beezelbubbles:
So Budget Travel has a poll up for the 15 places kids should see before 15, and the creation museum is spamming the poll. So can we tumblr bomb this thing? Not that it’s a huge thing, but still. I can’t believe the creation museum has over 3k votes at this point while actual museums have 300 votes or fewer.
For The Love of Sanity, Tumblrs, you secular elitists need...
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“Attention, society: every woman that gets birth control is one more woman with...”
– found by a friend on Reddit, author unknown
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think4yourself: You Want a Physicist to Speak at... →
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thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want...
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Faded + Blurred: Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello:... →
via fadedandblurred:
Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello: Dynamic Duo
I don’t remember how I happened upon the work of Sofia Sanchez & Mauro Mongiello. Regardless, the work of this once-married-now-best-of-friends, Argentinian duo has absolutely blown me away. Whether they are shooting studio portraits or environmental campaigns, they create photographs that are at once both quirky and...
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January 2012
14 posts
Reading notes
We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own. Harold Bloom
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“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far...”
– Thomas Wolfe, God’s Lonely Man (via nickmiller)
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True to their bottom line, to the very end...
Dear Chase Bank, Last night, at approx. 5:45pm, I sat down with a banker to close some accounts. By 6:05pm, your excellent and kind employee had consolidated all of the funds in those accounts, issued a final withdrawal, and confirmed that while 3 of 4 accounts were immediately closed, the 4th would close today, with no further action needed on my part. At 9pm last night, I received an alert from...
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Echoes of the past...
Echoes of the past by ApKPhotography
Some places have a special kind of nostalgia, often unexpected and off the beaten-path…
via 39frames
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“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit...”
– Frank Zappa (via artoftheunbeliever)
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Yup. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is power. And so on.
I know I run the risk of actually sounding optimistic, but I firmly believe that the internet has shifted this balance and is allowing us to explore the possibility of a world in which...
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After over a week mostly off-grid and unplugged from the world, I got home last night to an enormous pile of mail and magazines.
At this point, I just want to say, the Lindsay Lohan Playboy pictorial is HUGELY disappointing. A direct rip-off of a classic set of images, not worth the million bucks and reshoot effort they spent on it. Probably the dismal end to a dynasty too.
Now that I’ve...
December 2011
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Faded & Blurred: Music: Photography's Double... →
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Earlier this week, PDN ran a story about a wedding photographer who found himself on the receiving end of a lawsuit for using Coldplay’s “Fix You” in a wedding video that went viral on YouTube. The photographer settled for an undisclosed amount, but the bigger picture…
Agreed - on all counts. I work in media licensing. I am also a content creator, through photography...
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The accidental universe: Science's crisis of... →
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Great article summarizing the idea of multiverses. From the piece:
“On one thing most physicists agree: If the amount of dark energy in our universe were only a little bit different than what it actually is, then life could never have emerged. A little more and the universe would accelerate so rapidly that the matter in the young cosmos could never pull itself together to form...
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Shell spills 13,000 gallons while drilling near... →
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cultureofresistance:
Shell International spilled 13,000 gallons of oil and drilling fluids into the Gulf on Sunday while drilling an exploratory well near the site of last year’s Deepwater Horizon accident, according to a federal report on the spill.
The area where the well was being drilled is about 20 miles from the site of the BP oil spill. Shell is...
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“The world is so full of possibilities that dogmatism is simply indecent.”
– Albert Einstein
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