Skill is insulation that wraps neural circuits in reponses to certain signals.
The Great Mathematician Paul Erdős on Possessions and Coffee
Between scientific conferences, universities, and the homes of colleagues all over the world.
Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic
Hark, now hear the sailors cry.
The only difference between the Surrealists and me is that I am a Surrealist – Salvador Dalí
The Temptation of St. Anthony (detail), 1946 Oil on Canvas, 89.5 x 119.5 cm (35 1/4 x 47 in.) Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Henry Miller on the mystery of attention
Even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious.
What Charles Bukowski didn’t say
Charles Bukowski didn’t say you should find what you love and let it kill you.
Daniel J. Levitin on Organization: Chapter 1
Categorize to save yourself.
If you inherently long
Become it first.
All of Life is Practice
All of life is practice.
August 29 News Download: Pacific Light Undersea Cable
A data pitstop on the way to China.
Don Draper’s Brand
Change the conversation and you control the brand.
Fear and Circumstance in Las Vegas
Place yourself in circumstances of want, and ask yourself, “is this what I fear?
Wages in Cuba and a quote from my former Professor of Latin American Politics
Ending the dual-currency system is expected to lead to the eventual removal of subsidies and bankruptcy.
The Gallery Inn
San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Frame control on why gun control is political in the U.S.A
You were on your own.
I’ve decided on Tolstoy’s Decision Making Matrix
You’re never at the beginning of some event.
Nuclear incidents in the 1950s
Nothing is known of attempts to recover the nuclear weapon and presumably it is still in the ocean.
Soviet Spy Klaus Fuchs
…not until 1949 that decrypted cables from the United States Army Signal Intelligence Service (SIS)’s “Venona” project revealed Fuchs was a Soviet spy.
озёрск / Ozersk
Those in paradise were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.
Expanding our limits by learning a language
It’s called modelling.
The future is the past projected
We think we can see space.
The Action Movie Fairy Tale
But these movies built a generation of men who are now in their 30s and 40s.
The Modus Operandi of Abusive Relationships
“I make a sketch of the person” said Mr. K., “and make sure that one comes to resemble the other.”
Vulnerability in Russian is уязвимость*
So preoccupied your body starts accumulating bruises, scratches, sprains.
Learning Russian by listening to music
I came to bring this song / From the crystal tears.
Optimism is a political act.
Perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better.
A Child’s Curiosity
Babies are not blobs, but true scientists.
The secret fear that keeps you up at night is…
An uprising of octopi.
Once you strip away the platitudes, a life of passion and purpose will always cost, as T.S. Eliot reminds us, ‘Not less than everything.’”
Women and Qualifications
Beyond criticism.
Alan watts on the length of life
A long life spent in a miserable way.
Sail away from the safe harbor
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
On the up and down
Life is a condition.
Barely learned
Forget about forgetting.
A reality-tunnel is kind of silly
Bigger, funnier, sexier than ever.
The same man who wrote “… I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”
Seek out some simple and true feeling.
Learning Russian for the love of Russia’s women
How come you don’t understand that this is
Hot, sunny, coolness in the shade
“A new background created without hope or joy, without feeling of permanence or without a conviction of its rightness. But inevitably beautiful.” June 1936, Anais Nin
Senior and junior Morales
Un padre con su hijo.
Lie back and think of pleasure
Start drinking. Daydream about your death.
Wise Living
Whatever and whoever.
Keeping Time
A link to Tversky and Kahneman.
Recommendations to impress your cat with: photos of Colette
Sharing is caring.
Consume a creator
I had consumed and then I created, or rather, I had chewed something up and spat it out.
A student’s email on gender
I thought about what you said regarding the men/being women thing.
3 Minutes with Michel de Montaigne
It’s within your capacity to ask yourself what you think and what you know.
A not-quite lunch date with USCIS
Biometrics and boredom.
A Quick and Dirty Snapshot of Marcel Proust
Writer, poseur, mama’s boy, and tips on how to woo him.