February 2012
37 posts
“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.”
– Ken Robinson (via saddest-summer)
360 Interactive View of Night Sky →
“When prehistoric fossils were first discovered in rocks, 18th century scientists...”
– Colin Wilson, Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
“To us, the Web is a sort of shared external memory. We do not have to remember...”
– We, the Web Kids – an essay by Polish political writer and commentator Piotr Czerski lays out a manifesto for the generation nursed on the web. (via curiositycounts)
“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own...”
– Paulo Coelho (via explaterate)
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via saddest-summer)
If Modern Humans Are So Smart, Why Are Our Brains... →
“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then...”
– Albert Einstein (via sirmitchell)
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via libraryland)
Mammals Made By Viruses →
“Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.”
– Ricky Gervais (via sirmitchell)
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via possessives)
Scale of our Universe →
“Blinking is some way of tabulating—a kind of carriage return, click, or save to...”
– Fascinating interview with artist Josh Melnick, who used a scientific research camera to film portraits of NYC subway riders in ultra-slow-motion to an effect reminiscent of looking through a high-powered microscope, revealing a degree of temporal detail inaccessible to the naked eye. (via...
“Our two teachers, pain and fear”
– Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
“I think if somebody has to make an artistic work, he will finish it no matter...”
– Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi on artistic freedom, creative process, and why the majority is always wrong. (via curiositycounts)
“When you’re scientifically literate, the world looks different to you. It’s a...”
– If I Were President… - Neil deGrasse Tyson (via)
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different...”
– William James (via libraryland)
“Needing to know the answer is an addiction”
– Gary Shandling
“For many things, your attitudes came from actions which led to observations...”
– You Are Not So Smart
January 2012
30 posts
Why a classic psychology experiment isn’t what it... →
science:
Priming is a psychological phenomenon in which being exposed to a word or a stereotype can make us more likely to later act according to the prior stimulus, even if we have no conscious recollection of it. For example, people are more likely to complete a word stem like “TH” with “think” if they were previously exposed to that word. One widely cited study published in 1996 found that...
“You know, it’s always a dangerous thing explaining art or music. Because...”
– Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy
“There is no difference in principle between sharpening perception with an...”
– Alan Watts
“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this...”
– RAW
Drawing Expressions →
“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information...”
– RAW
