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y-oghurt: b00tybumpin: awkwardsituationist: “world of...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:39:49 -0400

b00tybumpin:

awkwardsituationist:

“world of averages” - composite images culled from thousands of individual portraits resulting in symmetrical average faces.

This is amazing

wow. just wow.

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polishmaid: A newspaper photographer was trying to take a...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 17:12:33 -0500

polishmaid:

A newspaper photographer was trying to take a picture of the fog looking over Wuhan Yangtze River in Wuhan, at Hubei province in China.
In the background you will notice a body falling. It unbelievable how so many words a photo can say. People getting on with their lives, cars driving past and someone so low in their lives they feel they need to take their own and it going unnoticed it happening by the rest of the world

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Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:11:21 -0500

nevver: — John Berger

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:57:47 -0500

nevver:

— John Berger

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Sat, 09 Feb 2013 16:43:21 -0500

nevver: — Franz Kafka

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 04:16:34 -0500

nevver:

— Franz Kafka

"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:43:25 -0500

“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.”

- Albert Camus (via substantia-nigra)

"Marcelo Gleiser: Life is fundamentally asymmetric “Look into a mirror and you’ll simultaneously see..."

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:34:59 -0500

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Marcelo Gleiser: Life is fundamentally asymmetric

“Look into a mirror and you’ll simultaneously see the familiar and the alien: an image of you, but with left and right reversed. Left-right inequality has significance far beyond that of mirror images, touching on the heart of existence itself. From subatomic physics to life, nature prefers asymmetry to symmetry. (…) Life is fundamentally asymmetric. (…)

Somehow, during its infancy, the cosmos selected matter over antimatter. This imperfection is the single most important factor dictating our existence. (…) It is not symmetry and perfection that should be our guiding principle, as it has been for millennia. (…)

The science we create is just that, our creation. Wonderful as it is, it is always limited, it is always constrained by what we know of the world. […] The notion that there is a well-defined hypermathematical structure that determines all there is in the cosmos is a Platonic delusion with no relationship to physical reality. (…)

The critics of this idea miss the fact that a meaningless cosmos that produced humans (and possibly other intelligences) will never be meaningless to them (or to the other intelligences). To exist in a purposeless Universe is even more meaningful than to exist as the result of some kind of mysterious cosmic plan. Why? Because it elevates the emergence of life and mind to a rare event, as opposed to a ubiquitous and premeditated one. (…)

Unified theories, life principles, and self-aware universes are all expressions of our need to find a connection between who we are and the world we live in. I do not question the extreme importance of understanding the connection between man and the cosmos. But I do question that it has to derive from unifying principles. (…)

For a clever fish, water is “just right“ for it to swim in. Had it been too cold, it would freeze; too hot, it would boil. Surely the water temperature had to be just right for the fish to exist. “I’m very important. My existence cannot be an accident,” the proud fish would conclude. Well, he is not very important. He is just a clever fish. The ocean temperature is not being controlled with the purpose of making it possible for it to exist. Quite the opposite: the fish is fragile. A sudden or gradual temperature swing would kill it, as any trout fisherman knows. We so crave for meaningful connections that we see them even when they are not there. (…) The gravest mistake we can make is to think that the cosmos has plans for us, that we are somehow special from a cosmic perspective.””

- Marcelo Gleiser is the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College, ☞ ‘Elegance,’ ‘Symmetry,’ and ‘Unity’: Is Scientific Truth Always Beautiful?, Lapidarium notes (Image courtesy of Ben Lansky)

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Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:20:13 -0500

nevver: What we deserve

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:11:27 -0500

nevver:

What we deserve

"Prince Harry. When it comes to showing the people of Afghanistan we’re fighting for democracy, who..."

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:03:41 -0500

“Prince Harry. When it comes to showing the people of Afghanistan we’re fighting for democracy, who better to send than a Prince?”

- Frankie Boyle (via work-consume-die)

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Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:47:21 -0500

17min42sec: Steven Wilson - Drive Home

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:28:18 -0500

17min42sec:

Steven Wilson - Drive Home