Author: Morzano
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An Entirely New Way of Measuring Time
Nudge electrons into a higher energy state (the Rydberg state) and you can amass significant information about time without ever having to start the clock.
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Oliver Burkeman on Joseph Goldstein on Generosity
What’s truly most likely to happen if you put it off, which is that you’ll never get around to sending that message.
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Guillaume Wolf on How to Create the Future
This philosophy, which he shares on a micro level (individuals) and macro level (brands/organizations), focuses on getting concrete, measurable results in order to create what he calls a “reality shift.”
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Kevin P. Hand on Oceans and Airport Security
Beneath that is a rocky seafloor, which may be teeming with hydrothermal vents and bizarre otherworldly organisms. So the next time you’re in airport security and frustrated…
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You can’t tell people anything
The things you say often don’t stick, and the few things that do stick are often distorted.
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Against the boundaries of any single destiny
More different lifestyles are represented to us daily, televisually than to any previous group of people, and actual jobs are more specialized.
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It’s odious to slap your fools
Even the dignitaries of the Church in the middle ages kept fools to make them laugh—or to laugh at them.
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The intensity of exuberance
In group celebrations we find exuberance differently. A love of festivities is universal, observed William James, and in many respects celebration is yet another form of human play.
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“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”
—Thomas Merton I highly recommend this article on The Improvement Illusion by Justin Murphy.
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Robert Hayden’s poem “American Journal”
much here is beautiful, dream like vistas reminding me of home
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We call it the zeitgeist
All of this is part of a shared space, it is what we call the zeitgeist, the spirit of the time, which is also what we express ourselves through.
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Here is a story of a woman running away from tigers
Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life, it might be the only strawberry we’ll ever eat.
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Read the best essays before next year
Here you’ll find online essays on counterculture, pleasure, beauty, pre-state societies, love, cults, and individualism.
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Culture is to society as style is to the individual
An answer to the sterile ends of pure utility and the cold-heartedness of a survival mindset.
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Eric Fromm on how love is primarily giving, not receiving
In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving. What is giving?
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Relearning how to think according to David Foster Wallace
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about “teaching you how to think” is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea:
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Do you remember when we talked about…?
Now Greif does not grieve as much as I about the warning sign he nailed onto the hedonist storeroom of memories that live rent-free in my mind. He insists this habit of happiness-by-experience results in “a life of permanent dissatisfaction and a compulsion to frenetic activity.”
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The past woven into the present
Our lives are made up of so many people who become parts of our lives and like lines from your favorite book, some parts of them remain long after they leave. And in the same exact way, it’s comforting to know there are so many lives you’re still a part of that you have no […]
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How to lose a nuclear weapon
Despite an extensive search, not a single trace of the crew nor the plane nor the cores has ever been found.
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Do you know about the nuclear exercise “Snowball” or Снежок?
In the days after, Soviet scientists’ reports detailed the impact of the nuclear blast on everything: vegetation, animals, shelters, vehicles, houses. And a small part on human lives.
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Sunday Showcase: Whistler’s “Nocturne: Blue and Gold…” is melodious and harmonious
Since when does aesthetic consideration take precedence over realistic observations? Well, since Whistler. He painted the commonplace with mood, color, and form.
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Oak Ridge’s radioactive mist
Swim naked in the local lake with Oak Ridge native Megan Fox, the mist caressing both of their faces would be radioactive.
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Yeltsin’s close nuclear call
It’s January 25, 1995 and you’re President Boris Yeltsin activating the “nuclear briefcase”.
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The tragic actor departs: a poem paired with oil paintings
And they are right, I think. We all hate home And having to be there.
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Carl Sagan on the dumbing down of America and how science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time.
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Billy Collins on the arbitrary distinction between revision and writing
And when I revise, I’m writing, aren’t I?
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Billy Collins on how no man is lonely while eating spaghetti
This time, I was at a corner table at Pasta Vivace! on that side street next to the old music store.
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Sip your coffee and open the door to “Beer Mode”
Beer mode is a state of unfocused play where you discover new ideas. In contrast, coffee mode is a state of focus where you work towards a specific outcome.
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The Great Silence, The Fermi Paradox
It’s an entirely new situation, emerging from the physical possibilities that will face any species that can overcome the natural interstellar quarantine of its solar system.
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Pulitzer Prize winners Will and Ariel Durant on the lessons of history
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
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Hotter than ever
Is it hot in here or is there another wildfire? Links to articles about wildfires, climate change, environmental alarmism, and cattle.
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Weeklinks – Edition 3
This week’s links on creativity, social media, distractions, tips on writing and drawing, art, Lady Lilith, and Max Ernst. PLUS! Unusual inspiration for unusual times.
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Weeklinks – Edition 2
This week’s links on the secret wanderings of 900 cats, saving like a pessimist, observing the toxic clouds from fire and rockets, and plants!
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Sunday Showcase: Expansion by Paige Bradley
The Sunday Showcase, not to be confused with “The Sunday Scaries”, literally zooms in on a piece of artwork and shares videos and/or quotes from the artist.
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Weeklinks – Edition 1
This week’s links on the causal relationship between Vitamin D + COVID-19, the vaccine-autism myth,+ PBA cards!
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Yordi As Seen By Yordi: #1 in an interview series
This is the first “interview” (it’s very short, only a few quotes from each conversation) with friends and family members who are Deaf. My 25 year-old brother, Yordi, is using photography as a way to escape from his three other roommates, not counting the kitten and the Dalmatian, all of which are Deaf, except for […]
