December 2011
3 posts
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“To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be...”
Dec 28th
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“It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a...”
Dec 28th
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Grelling's Paradox
If a homological adjective is one that is true of itself, e.g. “polysyllabic”, and a heterological adjective is one which is not true of itself, e.g., “bisyllabic”, then what about “heterological?” Is it heterological or not?
Dec 28th
October 2011
17 posts
Oh my goodness robots can build themselves →
Oct 22nd
4 tags
Oct 22nd
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Make your body into a touch screen →
This is the coolest thing ever. SCIENCE.
Oct 19th
3 tags
“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
Oct 14th
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“The object of liberal training is not learning, but discipline and the...”
– Woodrow Wilson
Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Skin Gun That Sprays New Skin on Burn Victims →
Um, what? Science = WIN. 
Oct 8th
17 notes
3 tags
Floating Pool to Clean NYC's Water →
I’m a sucker for well-designed, creative solutions to environmental issues.
Oct 7th
3 tags
How bank notes could be designed →
These are awesome. Beautiful, sensitive to the visually impaired and very very clever.
Oct 7th
2 tags
Oct 7th
4 notes
6 tags
Oct 7th
57 notes
4 tags
Everything is going to be alright →
Turn on the light
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
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You are beautiful →
How lovely to be reminded.
Oct 7th
6 tags
Oct 7th
24 notes
4 tags
A lovely story about size, beauty and being human →
Read it. Let it make your day. 
Oct 7th
September 2011
25 posts
3 tags
Sep 27th
10 notes
1 tag
Sep 19th
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Australia Gets Drunk, Wakes Up in North Atlantic →
Sep 19th
3 tags
Sep 19th
3 tags
Sep 19th
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Sep 16th
3 tags
Sep 16th
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Sep 16th
4 tags
Sep 15th
3 tags
Sep 15th
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How to Post Photos on the Internet →
Wonderfully snarky description of photos on the web
Sep 15th
6 tags
Sep 15th
49 notes
4 tags
Sep 15th
3 tags
Sep 15th
3 tags
Sep 15th
4 tags
Sep 15th
2 tags
Sep 15th
6 notes
4 tags
Sep 15th
2 tags
Sep 15th
3 notes
2 tags
Sep 15th
4 tags
Sep 15th
3 tags
Sep 4th
439 notes
2 tags
10 Things Everyone Should Know About Time →
Great simple overview of what we know about that ephemeral strange thing we experience as time.
Sep 4th
5 tags
Sep 4th
3 tags
Sep 4th
August 2011
85 posts
4 tags
Aug 22nd
5 notes
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The Egg →
A wonderful short story
Aug 22nd
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Aug 22nd
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Aug 22nd
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“‎”Knowledge” is simply that which we understand, that which manages...”
– Anonymous All too true. A fairly well-understood epistemology.
Aug 22nd