March 2010
133 posts
“The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert (via francine,themagiclantern)
“We’ll address soon some of the major puzzles of modern physics like the origin...”
– CERN Press Release
I hope to see more headlines about this and less about the latest cheated on celebrity.
(via ario)
The interest on twitter in CERN and in HCR voting on C-Span has given me hope, it proves that enthusiasm about science and politics can be infectious. Plus they managed to...
Musical Solar System - based on real orbital... →
themagiclantern:
The solar system visualized as a musical instrument, chiming away the years.
Play with this, fellow tumblr’ers. Lovely sounds.
“… your taste in music is “where you live” - it embodies in an unimaginably...”
– Le Ton beau de Marot, Douglas Hofstadter (via bizzreads:themagiclantern)
“You can’t ever get into the mindset of someone whose taste is sufficiently...”
– Le Ton beau de Marot, Douglas Hofstadter (via bizzreads:themagiclantern)
“Women are good at sound and the reason is that they have the ability to...”
– Delia Derbyshire (via fuckyeahdeliaderbyshire)
“I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time...”
– Paul Newman (via fypaulnewman:velveteenrabbit)
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible...”
– Albert Camus (via asphalteden)
“If you are not spending all of your waking life in discontent, worry, anxiety,...”
– Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth). (via eyemilk:cosmicforest:themagiclantern)
: Jorge Luis Borges being interviewed by Stephen... →
Jorge Luis Borges being interviewed by Stephen Cape, 1980:
SC: Do you think of words as having effects that are inherent in the word or in the images they carry?
Borges: Well yes, for example, if you attempt a sonnet, then, at least in Spanish, you have to use certain words. There’s only a few…
“3D Printing technology has recently leapt into a new realm — we’ve seen printers...”
– Scientists Use 3D Printer to Create First “Printed” Human Vein | Inhabitat (via womanonfire)
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"...people who spend more of their day having deep... →
lineara:
“By engaging in meaningful conversations, we manage to impose meaning on an otherwise pretty chaotic world,” Dr. Mehl said.
“I pretended to work like others from morning to evening, but I was absent,...”
– Czeslaw Milosz (via xineann:themagiclantern)
“To deny the lewdness of Schiele’s art is to do him no favors, for that is...”
– Simon Schama, The New Yorker via theatlantic
on Egon Schiele
(via egonschiele)
“Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most...”
– Frederic Chopin, letter to Delphine Potocka (via symphonyno2inem) 