March 2010
54 posts
Women Invented Beer | telegraph.co.uk →
fuckyeahbeer:
According to author and historian Jane Peyton, women were the brewers in all ancient beer-drinking cultures. It was only during the industrial revolution that men became more involved in its production, and beer became more of a “man’s” drink.
via fightwithknives: Jezebel
This explains everything.
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Emptiness is Form →
I was researching the Buddhist ideology of emptiness (linked above) and found it remarkably relevant to { feeling like Jell-o }.
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The Problem with Convergence. →
Linked is a well-written review of the Dalai Lama’s book, The Universe in a Single Atom.
I still intend to read it, but I’m wary of these books. Not that the Lama has bad intentions, just that it’s really important to be aware that it’s incorrect to just lump together “oneness” and spiritual “energy” with the kind of energy that science...
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“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
When you open your eyes, it is God...”
– 1. Carl Sagan // 2. Bahramji
LHC First Physics Webcast →
ericheart:
Living History.
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Brooke Tomiello: A letter from Sol LeWitt to Eva... →
Dear Eva,
It will be almost a month since you wrote to me and you have possibly forgotten your state of mind (I doubt it though). You seem the same as always, and being you, hate every minute of it. Don’t! Learn to say “Fuck You” to the world once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop…
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Thanks for posting this, Brooke. It really is a letter to all of us.
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OlenaShmahalo.com // CV →
I’ve updated the Misinformation Terminal so that my contact info is actually correct, and finally included a very simple, up-to-date Curriculum Vitae in PDF.
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“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful?...”
– (Liberman, Picasso, Vogue, November 1, 1956)
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“What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to...”
– Parmelin, Picasso: The Artist and His Model, and other Recent Works, 1965, p. 43
“we’re getting awfully good at developing technologies that remove functions from...”
– Colin Blakemore: how the human brain got bigger by accident and not through evolution | Technology | The Observer (via wildcat2030)
…I hope to God that other things are being done; otherwise we’re in trouble.
Quantum Mechanics in relation to String Cheese. →
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“To be able to see, something has to be in the way.”
– { Paul Chan }
Brian Greene is a cat. →
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“Well it’s Spring again… so it’s time to fall in love with the...”
– Kentor
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“geniuses should be handed alot of money and be left alone to do their thing. For...”
– best idea I’ve ever seen in YouTube comments.
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Delicious Social Networking
Tumblr is great because sharing these things with you is sort of primal. Like pre-civilized village people living in the forest: I go out, I find some delicious berries, and I just have to come home and tell all of you about them because you’re my family and “sharing is caring” because it allows us all, then, to partake in something that will not only raise our level of happiness...
Thieves cut hole in roof and rappel down to steal... →
I read about this the other day. What’s most amusing about it is the fact that it IS amusing. Even the tone of the article and interviewees — it’s as if no one cares to “catch the thieves”, no one is angry, no one is proclaiming this as sin or even crime. It’s just FUNNY. It’s spectacle, and everybody seems glad that someone had the balls to do it.
For teh...
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“Today Western imperialism is the imperialism of relativism, of the “it all...”
– T9
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“What allows beings to love each other is also what makes them lovable, and ruins...”
– T9. What are we doing here? Everywhere it feels like the end, but it always felt like the end at some point in time, for some, didn’t it?
“My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to...”
– Hermann Weyl (via scienceisbeauty)
Quote Explainer: This method worked because Real Beauty is synonymous with Truth.
“No moment in technology history has ever been more exciting or dangerous than...”
– Edge: TIME TO START TAKING THE INTERNET SERIOUSLY By David Gelernter (via wildcat2030)
I’m always saying that we should take care of our internet. He’s young and naive… let’s not let him turn out like T.V. when he grows up.
Assholes, all of you.
My favorite people in the world are consistently also the most frustrating.
“I’m not sure I know altogether what’s happening in how I write. One has...”
– { Robert Hullot-Kentor } as interviewed by Paul Chan.
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“Leonardo was very pragmatic. Leonardo wanted to be free to be Leonardo…...”
– BBC’s “Leonardo Da Vinci” (2004)
