March 2012
16 posts
“Religion is also the only area of our discourse in which people are...”
– Sam Harris
The TSA is Useless →
February 2012
44 posts
1000% Guaranteed Success →
“You don’t get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you...”
– Sam Harris
“Truth needs no intermediary”
“I want to do a song, this is a song about heritage, people, and the amalgamation...”
– Reggie Watts @ PopTech 2011
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the...”
– Jim Morrison (via explaterate)
“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)
Watchlaughingsquid:
Motion Feel, A Frenetic Animation of Wildly Transforming Objects
“Needing to know the answer is an addiction”
– Gary Shandling