January 2012
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“may my heart always be open to little \
birds who are the secrets of living...”
– e.e. cummings
November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
1 post
Trust (1990)
Maria: Your job is making you boring and mean.
Matthew: My job is making me a respectable member of society.
August 2011
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May 2011
2 posts
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go...”
– Groucho Marx
April 2011
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September 2010
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August 2010
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July 2010
7 posts
Anton Chekhov: “The Three Sisters”
Masha: Oh, how the music plays! They are leaving us, one has quite left us, quite and for ever. We remain alone, to begin our life over again. We must live ... we must live. ...
Irina: There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work! Tomorrow, I'll go away alone, and I'll teach and give my whole life to those who, perhaps, need it. It's autumn now, soon it will be winter, the snow will cover everything, and I shall be working, working. ...
Olga: The bands are playing so gaily, so bravely, and one does so want to live! Oh, my God! Time will pass on, and we shall depart for ever, we shall be forgotten; they will forget our faces, voices, and even how many there were of us, but our sufferings will turn into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will reign on earth, and people will remember with kindly words, and bless those who are living now. Oh dear sisters, our life is not yet at an end. Let us live. The music is so gay, so joyful, and, it seems that in a little while we shall know why we are living, why we are suffering. ... If we could only know, if we could only know!
“Samuel Beckett. The Nobel Prize. What a humiliation for such a proud man. The...”
– Emil Cioran, 23 Oktober 1969 (Cahiers 1957-1972)
June 2010
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Watch1977 Interview with Eric Rohmer
May 2010
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Remembering Martin Gardner, with Douglas... →
“Martin Gardner’s column was what it was all about. It was so full of profundity, and humour, and paradox exploration of fantastic new ideas.” - Douglas Hofstadter, Scientific American Science Talk
April 2010
3 posts
March 2010
8 posts
“As the sun rises, you can tell that we here at CERN have failed yet again to end...”
– naturalnumber (via fuckyeahphysics) (via bildungsroman)
First 7 TeV collisions observed at CERN! →
fuckyeahphysics:
Scientists at CERN began this morning with the tedious task of attempting to collide proton beams in the Large Hadron Collider. They were successful almost right away, collecting massive amounts of data and leading the way into a new era of physics.
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“Well, like I said, the dog is perfectly comfortable with the idea of stuff...”
– Interview with the author of “Talking to your Dog about Physics”
Haha!
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WatchDaniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory
February 2010
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“The drink which has come to supply the place of beer has, in general, been tea. ...”
– William Cobbett: Cottage Economy (1850) (via Thinking Allowed)
ck/ck: 500 Characters →
Dear Tumblr,
500 characters is not a whole lot. This post came in at 560 characters and it’s a five line paragraph and change. That is not a lengthy piece of text in any universe. I know Tumblr was never meant as a longform blogging platform but seriously, there’s no reason for a post that short to be reblogged into a link by default as it (unwittingly?) was. And there’s no reason for every...
January 2010
7 posts
“VERSHININ: In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably...”
– Anton Chekhov: The Three Sisters
“You ask ‘What is life?’ That is the same as asking ‘What is a carrot?’ A carrot...”
– Anton Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper
“If the brain would be so simple that we could understand it, we would be so...”
– Emerson Pugh
December 2009
6 posts
