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life

my family is going through a difficult time right now.  and the people who are probably having the...

A Must See: The Maltese Falcon.

sleepysheep: I watched The Maltese Falcon yesterday.  That movie is amazing.  Humphrey Bogart is...

best wishes for better health soon!~

feeling kind of miserable physically and really craving a cigarette.  sigh.  so i’m writing...

PBS Poll on Palin: qualified or not?

Sorry if you’ve seen this already.  The link below takes you to a PBS poll asking whether or...

the ankle’s healing nicely, i think.  well, the loose feeling’s gone.  thank you to the...

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put away the summer clothes the other day. now i look into my closet and feel much calmer.  i guess...

Naturally Obsessed: The Making of a...

The Great Children's Read at Columbia...

“Every so often an idea comes along that transforms...

Details: The Playboys of Tech

reform: (via noosphere) In NYC on Saturday? LDEO is actually in Palisades, NY.  More info...

Buddhist Ethics and Moral Modularity

The Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy Welcomes OWEN FLANAGAN (with responses from WAYNE...

i am of five minds and two dimensions today as i wait for my laundry to dry eat oatmeal for...

“we are of all things complete known and...”

home, one day…

i’m not sure what just happened, but i’m further down the path so it must’ve been a good thing. i...

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if

one loves someone, one sets them free as a sort of buddhist in informal training, i have been...

why we are here & why we are going to...

the universe wants to know itself;  this consciousness, this life its penultimate creation.

“it’s tough walking the walk after talking the talk but it’s...”

home

i wish i could say that the show was great and the art fantastic but i can’t because i...

last chance (at least in the u.s.) to...

the museum of modern arthur will be closing its doors.  free closing reception + performance...

ESO - ESO 31/08 - The Hibernating Stellar...

“there are, perhaps places in the mind where one should not...”

A Crab Fishing Boat.

sleepysheep: I have some friends who tell me that college sucks.  As a naive high school senior who...

penance

the length and breadth of bittersweet history seems adequate for the question at hand, imminently...

summertime's over

i can tell because suddenly i don’t feel like procrastinating anymore. it’s time for...

sleepysheep: This post isn’t turning into much, I’m realizing now.  Maybe you could tell me the...

Astronomers Discover Most Dark...

apparently, the physical issues i am experiencing is a physical manifestation of my inner life,...

“what’s the use of fabrication we all know truth is the...”

“what would it take, she wonders, to get the first ships...”

“it’s as if i were standing on a narrow finger of rock...”

dreams are worth

holding onto what else have we when it comes down to the all or nothing life’s an experiment...

notes from the field :: three hundred...

i’m home again, all this has a reason, all of this has a rhyme and it will come to me when i...

First 3D Processor Runs at 1.4 Ghz on New...

i must resist the urge to complain these voices do me no good it’s just one foot in front of...

we look to each other and often times beyond to see light, to see failure, to see redemption, to see...

in that moment when the singer sings, in the extraspecial now, it’s as if consciousness were...

one shadow but two equal the light equal all and any shades equal all sun and rain in any day in any...

“you and i are two people who enjoy mondays gurdieff he would...”

am cooking artichokes and waiting to heal

via www.quantonics.com

the puzzles stretched themselves out long after anyone’s midnight grew cold or stiff or stale,...

Revising and Re-sizing History: New Work...

i remember that house.  the small tight spaces and the narrow stair, the hiding places, i felt her...

art is communication through different forms of light, we manipulate (as in work with the hands to...

and this dreaming seed said, ‘to be asleep inside the warm earth cocooned inside my...

where am i? under the rocks under the earth what am i? a seed

rain, rain, rain

here in nyc.  i miss the pacific northwest.   i miss alaska. i need a day on beluga point, napping...

it was

hamlet i watched.  k. branagh, c’est incroyable, le langue et l’essence de la vie, i...

& the room is getting cleaned today

then a conversation with isaac newton, then stephen hawking and my hawking / einstein book, wait...

okay

the living room is calling.  netflix sent me ratatouille and the lives of others, ratatouille for...

children

i love kids.  they’re really why i do what i do.  they tell you what’s real and...

i could see myself running for office once this science thing’s done. in another fifteen to...

the Royal Society!  have been reading stephenson’s baroque cycle.  wow.   i love historical...

Colour Sudoku Puzzle Demonstrates New Vision...

Rugby & Kenilworth MP Gets in Astronomer’s...

omg.  those articles are from 6 or 7 years ago!  lol!  how did i find this page….

“I don’t rely on the doctor anymore. These...

Britain's Unloved Robots Seek Better...

Researchers think Electrons can "Supernova...

Black Hole Research Shows English Premier...

theoretical & experimental updates, i.e....

i’ve been putting off seeing prof. p., i don’t know why.  i suppose because it’s...

the key is not looking forward and not looking back focusing the now as narrow or as wide as one...

interesting

dreams last night. i dreamed of m. and his city.  it’s funny how people have cities.  well...

university of weirdness 101

or what i learned from being alive: love comes first. one can see how it is now.  a tiny word for so...

the choices we make are beyond us at times.  but valid choices nonetheless.  these strange angels...

following the light along lines along embers requires of us things we never dreamed but we do not...

such particular hells and such particular highwaters languages time we spend lifetimes...

“between the known and the unknown world stand unmixed...”

— simply stop and wonder

— stop and wonder what it will mean to have an oversexualized , oversaturated ,...

you see, these are the tales of the going and the return, of light past darkness, darkness past...

“truth is love love is truth love is always the truth”

“and into winter which is a silence except for the creak of...”

“time beckons like the leaves of that skeletal...”
— 

cartier-bresson

these things we spun into light and set sailing off the last end of the twentieth century.  we tried...

“the story began as it always begins, in a kernel of what we...”

yes. calm, an earthly peace a theorem-bound space — no place but makes the wide open spaces...

“my life will be the beginning of new things”

“sometimes one can’t avoid the light that is to...”

i sure the fuck hope so. david: via rockuboff and...

rumors

dutch pull spy on rumors of imminent bombing of iran by u.s. is george bush trying to start world...

school starts tomorrow

this is it. the last push before… whatever it is to be shall be… shall coalesce out of...

“I don’t want to have to do this living. I just walk...”
— Me and You and Everyone We...

24 years and

a few weeks ago, i left germany for the last time, before the wall fell. albert, we know...

Health Blog : Obama Says Single-Payer Health...

olympics!~

i think i’ve watched more t.v. in the last couple of weeks than i have in the last ten...

Obama Preserves Status Quo

dashing the hopes of millions… Disappointment.

real change = Obama / Clinton

It’s the right thing to do. She’s the most qualified candidate for the job. Half of us...

The Prospects - Kathleen Sebelius Has One...

“Yet the enchainment of past and future Woven in the weakness...”
— T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton, Four...

Molecule of the Day : Dewy Propionate (Funny...

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research

Viterbi Algorithm Takes a Quantum Leap The Viterbi...

Caltech Neurobiologists Discover Individuals...

Water is 'designer fluid' that helps proteins...

Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal...

Quantum Chaos Unveiled?

Breakthrough in Quantum Mechanics Researchers at UC Santa...

notes from the field #2010

Some things are too good to be true & some things are too good not to be true, sitting here,...

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A scientific first: A supernova explosion is...

A Foamy Drink and the Future of Food

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No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

more sharing, more caring

the pursuit of science is much like the pursuit of art. a translation of what the heart mind and...

The Neural Buddhists - New York Times

“the universe is full of more than light can show us dust,...”

Where mathematics comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings...

BBC NEWS | Technology | Nasa set to join petaflop elite

Math research team maps E8 - MIT News Office old news but...

Seed: Paola Antonelli + Benoit Mandelbrot The curator and...

Seed: Cribsheet #15: Quantum Computing

Computer game’s high score could earn the Nobel Prize...

The new shape of music Three music professors —...

Japan set to open up defense use of space |...

and china, ah the mysterious east. i once wrote a story in my head which was probably set in a...

*begin rant*

finals-schminals, i’m no 4.0 chaser, was there in my youth, good enough for me. because of my...

“an emptiness here now like a room just vacated here, now on...”

Apple - Science - Pro Session: Images of the Extraordinary...

finals

it’s that time of year again.  two on monday (genetics and math) and the train keeps on...

by path77 (via david)

Very Special Relativity: An Illustrated Guide: Sander Bais...

“By a grace of sense, a white light still and moving…”
— T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton

fate

fate governs things like meetings and chance. despite being a scientist-in-training i cling to the...

mythologies

it was the ocean which gave the trees to the land, sent them coursing through her mineral and...

Sermo - Doctors Unite

sharing is caring

work is picking up, can’t say, everything is top secret these days. esp. the technology. ...

“the wind came hard off the sea as we crossed the bay...”

some(most)times we speakwith oureyesclosed o   v  e        r the    s     o     u     ...

What is Hello Health?

jayparkinsonmd: Hello Health is a friendly, branded consumer experience with your accessible...

“ask yourself what is texture, what is time how does it...”

metrics

i spend a bit of time now and again assessing whether or not what i know is really what i know. it...

the truth about liberals and...

i thought to make a small and nothing comment like, ‘one could not exist without the...

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