February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
9 posts
This is insane. →
Let there be light!
shitmystudentswrite:
The Enlightenment started when Einstein invented the light bulb. Until then people could not work long enough to figure things out because it got dark too early.
The opening sentence says it all.
shitmystudentswrite:
Throughout the history of humanity, there have been great changes in human history that greatly affect the role of all humans directly or indirectly.
November 2011
10 posts
John Kenney: "We are the One Percent" →
Average wealth of the top 1 percent was almost $14 million in 2009, according to a 2011 report from the Economic Policy Institute.
—Washingtonpost.com. “Shit is fucked up and bullshit.” —Sign seen at the Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan.
We, too, have mobilized.
We come from near and far, by any means necessary, some on private jets, others on extremely large private jets.
But...
October 2011
8 posts
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What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth? →
aminotes:
International Space Station “A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering…
10 'Useless' Degrees (Bullshit) →
elainakeppler:
mariakonstantinov:
zakzawaduk:
Okay, I need to rant a bit.
The understanding that a degree is only worth the job it gets you afterwards is extremely problematic. It creates an influx of students at universities, negatively influencing the teacher-student ratio. It also perpetuates the notion that being in university is merely a necessary step to something better and not an...
September 2011
7 posts
“The Woman Who Works in an Art Gallery
How many freakin’ art galleries are out...”
– From Mindy Kaling’s “Flick Chicks” in The New Yorker — an example of specimens of women in romantic comedies who do not exist in real life. Also, A Long Day at The Office with Mindy Kaling in the NYT.
(via jillsies)
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“Alva Noë: ‘Google Is Not Making You Stupid’
“Does it actually even seem to you...”
– Alva Noë, professor of philosophy at the University of Calfornia, Berkeley (B.Phil, University of Oxford, Ph.D., Harvard University), Google Is Not Making You Stupid, NPR, Sept 20, 2011 See also: ☞ Does Google Make Us Stupid? ☞ Steven Pinker on the mind as a system of ‘organs of computation’ (via...
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“Jeff Hammerbacher: ‘The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to...”
– Jeff Hammerbacher, founder and the Chief Scientist of Cloudera, one of Facebook’s first 100 employees, cited in Ashlee Vance, This Tech Bubble Is Different, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, April 14, 2011 (via amiquote)
Totally sucks.
4 tags
“Steven Pinker: ‘Today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our...”
– Andrew Anthony, journalist, author, Steven Pinker: the optimistic voice of science, The Observer, 18 Sept 2011 See also: ☞ Steven Pinker on the History and decline of Violence (via amiquote)
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“ “Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.” ”
– Richard Feynman, American physicist (1918-1988), in 1985, cited in G. Laurence Nickard, Phenomenal surfaces and noumenal depths: Philosophy and quantum theory, ProQuest, 2006, p. 5. (via amiquote)
August 2011
2 posts
Jack Layton's Final Letter To Canada →
heathermck:
basquavita:
“To young Canadians: All my life I have worked to make things better. Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me. I have met and talked with so many of you about your dreams, your frustrations, and your ideas for change. More and more, you are...
July 2011
8 posts
Fuck the world. →
“Fuck that.”~ God on The World
“Yeah, I’d hit it.”~ The Moon on The World
