January 2012
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“‘Oh, yes; I am anxious,’ returned the Scarecrow. ‘It is such an uncomfortable...”
– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum (via cubone)
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“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet...”
– T.H. Huxley, 1887
December 2011
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Brooklyn Mutt: 11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support…
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Five Lessons Learned from Living in Paris →
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“The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, We are...”
– Carl Sagan (via cwn)
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November 2011
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Why Have Hackers Hit Russia's Most Popular...
With around 5 million Russian accounts read by some 30 million people per month, LiveJournal has emerged as the country’s last truly free and public space for political debate, a chaotic kind of intellectual clearinghouse and the source of not only gossip, conspiracy theories and pro-government propaganda, but also countless revelations of corruption and official incompetence. In terms...
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Likes
Going through my ‘Likes’ pages on Tumblr tells me more things about what I’ve gone through and what I’ve felt, more than my own Tumblr ever could, more than my own consciousness ever could.
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“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be...”
– Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma)
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October 2011
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“Have you forgotten that we invented time? That clocks did not exist in any real...”
– Hurry up, get more done, and die. Plus, 7 essential cross-disciplinary books to understand time. (via curiositycounts)
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Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it
Anyone who says he has no idea what these folks are protesting is not being truthful. Whether we agree with them or not, we all know what they are upset about, and we all know that there are investment bankers working on Wall Street getting richer while things for most of the rest of us are getting tougher. What upsets banking’s defenders and politicians alike is the refusal of this...
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September 2011
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“Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important...”
– The importance of stupidity in scientific research (via)
This seems relevant to grad school especially.
A Message To Women From A Man: You Are Not “Crazy”
Read this.
Obviously emotional manipulation can go both ways, though this article tends to focus on ‘gaslighting’ used against women by men in society.
via: The Daily What.
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“Are you paralyzed with fear? That’s a good sign. Fear is good. Like self-doubt,...”
– Steven Pressfield in one of 5 timeless insights on transcending fear in the creative process (via curiositycounts)
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August 2011
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Watchcuriositycounts:
The parkour urban meme, in an illustrated stop-motion wall flipbook – just brilliant.
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“‘All the same,’ said the Scarecrow, ‘I shall ask for brains instead of a heart;...”
– The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (via cubone)
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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How...
Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans “Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?” Among 18- to 34-years-olds, 76 percent of them said no. Yet despite their lack...
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Happy Guys Finish Last, Says New Study On Sexual...
The study found that women were least attracted to smiling, happy men, preferring those who looked proud and powerful or moody and ashamed. In contrast, male participants were most sexually attracted to women who looked happy, and least attracted to women who appeared proud and confident.
…Wut.
But it is important to note that this is just based on initial sexual attractiveness,...
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