January 2012
2 posts
glad to see it worked
flowers in her hair: off to a great start →
caylamoremen:
taking the new year day by day (as there really is no other way to live…) but where I had been in a rush to see the end result of any effort, I want to enjoy the journey and I am now just along for the ride and to soak in the lessons through experience. I’m no longer a fan of New Year’s…
June 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
2 posts
Mysterium Cosmographicum
This is one of the first major works of Kepler; compiled in Mysterium Cosmographicum or Mystery of the Cosmos where he lays out an entire philosophy of the structure of universe in this lengthy book volume. His philosophy favored the Copernican system (which earlier introduced the idea that the planets revolved in a complex system of epicycles, but revolved around the sun) and he advocated a...
January 2011
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December 2010
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Digit Ratio
The digit ratio is the ratio of the lengths of different digits or fingers typically measured from the bottom crease where the finger joins the hand to the tip of the finger. It has been suggested by some scientists that the ratio of two digits in particular, the 2nd (index finger) and 4th (ring finger), is affected by exposure to androgens.
In 1983 Dr Glenn Wilson of King’s College,...
September 2010
6 posts
Dance Floor Dale →
A difficult video to describe so I will let it do the talking.
Charles Darwin's Ecological Experiment On...
A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin’s best-kept secret. Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice. Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical “cloud forest”. What happened in the interim is the amazing story of how the architect of evolution, Kew Gardens and the Royal Navy conspired to build a fully...
Anonymous asked: optima dies, prima fugit
July 2010
3 posts
Kurt Vonnegut's Eight Rules For Writing A Short...
In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story:
Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal...
June 2010
4 posts
Sea Gypsies Saw Signs In The Waves.
It’s their intimacy with the sea that saved the Moken. They’re born on the sea, live on the sea, die on the sea. They know its moods and motions better than any marine biologist. They’re nomads, constantly moving from island to island, living more than six months a year on their boats.
At low tide, they collect sea cucumbers, and catch eels. At high tide, they dive for shellfish....
May 2010
7 posts
Neither Male Nor Female: The Secret Life of...
Sydney was a cataloguer. For years she worked in a Toronto government library, studying books so she could classify them, fitting them into just the right spot on the shelves. She wished her own life was as neat.
Sydney was 23 years old, an Alabama girl preparing to marry, when she got a call from her doctor telling her she had a cancerous condition that required immediate surgery. Cancer...
Interview with Calvin Harris.
After several uncoordinated attempts over the past few years to have a sit-down with Mr. Calvin Harris, I finally finessed a couple minutes with him when he most recently passed through san diego with burns to play at the rapidly becoming world-renown DJ club, voyeur. sure, he may twist knobs for Kylie and compose for Dizzee, but he’s refreshingly down to earth. Armed with a new haircut and...
April 2010
19 posts
The Uses of Not:
Thirty spokes meet in the hub,but the empty space between themis the essence of the wheel.Pots are formed from clay,but the empty space between itis the essence of the pot.Walls with windows and doors form the house,but the empty space within itis the essence of the house. -Lao Tse
Make Something New Everyday. →
A brilliantly creative man made something new everyday for a year.
Pick One. →
It’s simple pick one.
Watch
Electrocuting an Elephant.
Thomas Edison stages his highly publicized electrocution of an elephant in order to demonstrate the dangers of alternating current, which, if it posed any immediate danger at all, was to Edison’s own direct current.
Edison had established direct current as the standard for electricity distribution and was living large off the patent royalties, royalties he...
“Gay? I wish! If I were gay there’d be no problem! No, what I have is a...”
– Troy Mcclure on his love life.
The Vanity Theory to Real Life Fulfillment First...
Many people limit the experiences that they have in their lives by being unable to over come fears and being too precautions while taking minor risks that appear to have greater risk association.
The Vanity Theory can work at two levels one level being that an individual looks at the situation they are faced with and tells themself that they are undeserving of any major consequence that could...
Excerpt from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Whatever lighting the photographer used was harsh and made bad shadows on the cement-block wall behind them. Just a painted wall in somebody’s basement. The monkey looked tired and patchy with mange. The guy was in lousy shape, pale with rolls around his middle, but there he was, relaxed and bent over with his hands braced against his knees and his poochy gut hanging down, his face looking...
March 2010
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February 2010
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