January 2012
10 posts
“Many in the humanities have embraced these views with astonishing fervor. New...”
– Book Review: Who’s in Charge? | Incomplete Nature - WSJ.com
Charting The Average Nap
fakescience:
Curiouser and curiouser!: 95 →
thisisntlisa:
if up’s the word;and a world grows greener minute by second and most by more- if death is the loser and life is the winner (and beggars are rich but misers are poor) -let’s touch the sky: with a to and a fro (and a here there where)and away we go in even the laziest creature among us a wisdom no…
“Farmer Hoggett knew that little ideas that tickled and nagged and refused to go...”
– Babe - 1995 (via falloutof)
Structure of Suchness, Thich Nhat Hanh
Do not scold the little birds, We need their songs. Do not hate your own body, It is the altar for humanity’s spirit.
Your eyes contain the trichililocosm, and your ears have sovereignty over the birds, the springs, the rising tide, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, the cries of the baby, and the song that lulls her to sleep. Your hands are flowers of love that needs not be picked by anyone, and...
December 2011
5 posts
1 tag
2 tags
November 2011
26 posts
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– ― Arundhati Roy (via justbesplendid)
“—time is a tree(this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and i am for you
just...”
– e. e. cummings - “[as freedom is a breakfastfood]” in Complete Poems (via acorda)
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– ― Anaïs Nin (via justbesplendid)
Think about it. "Inducing Disbelief in Free Will... →
psydoctor8:
From the Neuroethics and Law blog:
Abstract
The feeling of being in control of one’s own actions is a strong subjective experience. However, discoveries in psychology and neuroscience challenge the validity of this experience and suggest that free will is just an illusion. This raises a question: What would happen if people started to disbelieve in free will? Previous research has...
“The finding potentially suggests that exercise may lead to improvement in the...”
– Exercise helps Fibromyalgia patients - USATODAY.com
Today I learned only 30% of patients respond to...
lorris:
When I first read it, I thought it was pretty depressing. I don’t feel well most days, and the thought that there may not be a treatment that will help me is kind of a debbie downer.
Then I realized - It doesn’t matter what the numbers say. God is in control. And that’s that. There’s no but’s or if’s or maybe’s. Just God.
“Have you forgotten that we invented time? That clocks did not exist in any real...”
– Hurry up, get more done, and die. Plus, 7 essential cross-disciplinary books to understand time. (via curiositycounts)
“There is no such thing as a person whose real self you like every particle of....”
– The Technium: Found Quotes, 8
“It may or may not be a testament to the potency of Mindy’s kush that the...”
– D.C.’s Muffin Man: Inside a Pot Delivery Service - Washington City Paper
October 2011
58 posts
Not the usual Allie Brosh. →
“I’ve always wanted to not give a fuck. While crying helplessly into my...”
– Hyperbole and a Half: Adventures in Depression
Eyes Are the Windows to the Soul; Skin Is a Window... →
android dreams →
Studying depression: Researchers demonstrate rare... →