Lawl (Taken with instagram)
Not dead, just warm. Caught sunning and didn’t put up much of a fight. Ahhh, warm hand! (Taken with Instagram at Fairfield Osborne Preserve)
To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
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Lord Byron, on the paradox of being original and combining previous influences. A crisis of any creator, artistic or scientific.
Maria Popova assembles a masterful collection of advice to reconcile this paradox: The Art of Scientific Investigation (1957), Part I: The Role of Openness and Serendipity in Creativity and Discovery
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IHC After Dark: “Women, Keep Your Virtue”
A helpful film on how a woman of marrying age should go about finding the proper husband.
The kiss of death.This astonishing sculpture forms part of Barcelona’s Poblenou Cemetery. The Kiss of Death (El Petó de la Mort in Catalan and El beso de la muerte in Spanish) dates back to 1930. A winged skeleton bestows a kiss on the lips of a handsome young man: is it ecstasy on his face or resignation? Little wonder the sculpture elicits strong and varying responses from whoever gazes upon it.
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If you had in this chair some of the people who developed quantum mechanics back in the 1920s or 1930s, and you said to them, ‘What is this stuff gonna DO for us?’ they’d say ‘Probably not much, we’re trying to understand molecules and atoms, very far from everyday life.’
But the fact that you have a cell phone, the fact that you have a personal computer, the fact that there’s wondrous medical technology that’s saving lives around the world today all relies on the integrated circuit, which comes from quantum mechanics.
Quantum mechanics are responsible for something like 35% of the Gross National Product. Which is just to say fundamental research at a given moment in time can have big implications when you allow it to mature.
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Cosmologist Brian Greene, in an interview with The Daily Beast.
Investing in basic science must be disconnected from traditional returns, and instead viewed as an investment in the intellectual capital of tomorrow. It’s hard to put a price tag on inspiration, and Goldman Sachs has yet to write an algorithm to predict the science of the future.
Check out his Newsweek cover story “Welcome to the Multiverse” including the rest of the interview.
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Uhm. Yikes. This seems like a story with the words “bad idea” written all over it.
“I want to know if my hair is just like yours,” he told Mr. Obama, so quietly that the president asked him to speak again.
Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, “Why don’t you touch it and see for yourself?” He brought his head level with Jacob, who hesitated.
“Touch it, dude!” Mr. Obama said. As Jacob patted the presidential crown, Mr. Souza snapped.
“So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked.
“Yes, it does feel the same,” Jacob said.
