November 2011
3 posts
“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to...”
– Paul Tillich (via 07121843)
October 2011
8 posts
“Ein Mathematiker ist eine Maschine, die Kaffee in Sätze verwandelt”
– Alfréd Rényi
“We also capitalize the words Nature and Universe out of respect for our cosmic...”
– Exploring Black Holes; Taylor and Wheeler
Bilingualism Will Supercharge Your Baby’s Brain →
“Curiosity, like coffee, is an acquired need. Just a titillation at the...”
– Nicholas S. Thompson
The word “organic” is the greatest lie in the world
September 2011
1 post
“De omnibus dubitandum”
– Karl Marx
May 2011
2 posts
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The Kings We Crown →
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April 2011
5 posts
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New particle could point to novel physics →
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March 2011
6 posts
“Syrian Authorities detained 25 4th grade kids (10 days now) because they...”
– NYT The Lede
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12code... →
“I was on the 9th (top) floor of recently built, thin (30’ square) and very...”
– AndrewTokyoMarch 11th, 20114:30 amhttp://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/world/asia/12japan.html
Aftermath of Japan Earthquake →
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
2 posts
“A quiz: If a person who speaks three languages is trilingual, and one who speaks...”
– Primero Hay Que Aprender Español. Ranhou Zai Xue Zhongwen. - NYTimes.com
December 2010
8 posts
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Me in Us
In his attempt to create a model of society based on authenticity, one of the main factors that, the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has to consider is how to devise a system that can produce an effective community while taking care of the wants and needs of people as individuals.
Several attempts have been made throughout history to solve the old problem Taylor is trying to solve. As a...
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Maximizing Horizons
An essential part of Richard Rorty’s liberal utopia is the inclusion of the greatest amount of human beings possible into what he calls the “we”. This denomination corresponds to the group of people with which one identifies, as opposed to the “others” who are considered different, and many times, inferior to the “we”. Thus, extending the “we” to every human being is the first step toward global...
“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because...”
– Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (1958), part 3, chapter 16 (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Someday you will die somehow and something’s gonna steal your carbon.”
– Isaac Brock (Submitted by northernpoint)
November 2010
23 posts
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who...”
– George Santayana (via libraryland)
WikiLeaks embassy cables: download the key data... →
The WikiLeaks embassy cables release has produced a lot of stories but does it produce any useful data? We explain what it includes and how it breaks down - plus you can download the key data for every cable
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Cosmos may show echoes of events before Big Bang →
Interesting, but let’s wait for new data.
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A World of Words
The significance of the roll of languages in the constituency of human nature is practically unchallenged in the academic world. Nonetheless, as of its nature, language tends to be the ignored background behind all of our daily activities and it is, in itself, mostly unnoticed. However, this is not caused by the irrelevance of language, but by its fusion with our thought structures.
Since...
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The Ontology of Freedom
Freedom has probably been one of the most debated problems in the history of thought. And this is understandable: whether we consider ourselves free or not infinitely conditions how we think and act. Furthermore, on this matter not only depend our notions of responsibility and rights, but also our very concept of human dignity. As such an important idea, many men of thought have devoted their...
“A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which...”
– Charles R. Darwin
(via scienceisbeauty)
MIT Femtosecond Laser Camera Shoots Pics Around... →
