February 2012
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“what i need is traveling
minds talktouch kisses spittouch
you swimming...”
– Sonia Sanchez
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The Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy
“After this, therefore because of this”
The phrase describes the error of assuming that because one thing follows another, that the thing was caused by the other thing
We’re deceived by post hoc ergo propter hoc because we fail to notice that there’s another cause at work
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The Sphinx of Delft
Relatively little is known about Vermeer’s life. The only sources of information are some registers, a few official documents and comments by other artists; it was for this reason that Thoré Bürger named him “The Sphinx of Delft”
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Magic in the Nearly Forgotten Mailbox →
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“Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter”
– Tom Robbins
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loquacious
Talkative; given to continual talking; chattering.
<the loquacious host of a radio talk show>
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Maslow's list of Metaneeds:
Wholeness (unity)
Perfection (balance and harmony)
Completion (ending)
Justice (fairness)
Richness (complexity)
Simplicity ( essence)
Liveliness (spontaneity)
Beauty (rightness of form)
Goodness (benevolence)
Uniqueness (individuality)
Playfulness (ease)
Truth (reality)
Autonomy (self-sufficiency)
Meaningfulness (values)
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“Make the most of yourself, because that’s all there is of you”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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BRUCE MAU DESIGNS →
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venial
adj. Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable
<Lesser sins, called venial sins, are less deadly and are more easily eradicated.>
1940 - The Submarines
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“True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you...”
– Albert Camus
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A Heart-Shaped History →
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Watch
One of the best party bands around, Red Baarat plays rollicking funk music steeped in Northern India’s wedding celebrations, with a dash of D.C. go-go beats and hip-hop. The dance-friendly group performs a loud, high-energy set at the NPR Music offices.
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Breaking the Chains of Modernity →
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In Our Dreams We Only See Faces That We already...
Our mind is not inventing faces – in our dreams we see real faces of real people that we have seen during our life but may not know or remember. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces throughout our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.
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“People are unconscious and you have to use your art as a shock machine to wake...”
– Ninja from Die Antwood
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“If all insects on Earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on
Earth would...”
– Biologist Jonas Salk
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espouse
To take to one’s self, or make one’s own; embrace; adopt; become a participator or partizan in: as, to espouse the quarrel of another
<to espouse a cause.>
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The New Student Activism →
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Artificial Intelligence
Problem that computers have is that humans can mentally shift gears from one topic to another with incredible flexibility. Machine intelligence is blind outside of it’s underlying set of rules. Artificial intelligence: computer programs capable of doing things that require intelligence when done by people. Many tasks can be reduced to a set of rules applied to a collection of information.
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intrapersonal intelligence
one’s ability to understand oneself
they can persevere without being discouraged and differentiate between situations in which they will be successful and and those which may simply frustrate
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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peregrination
n. A traveling from one country or place to another; a roaming or wandering about in general; travel; pilgrimage.
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“The presumption that mind was exclusively a human property exemplified the very...”
– David Abram
The Fairy Tale | Adbusters Culturejammer... →
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January 2012
66 posts
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Schadenfreude & Mudita
Schadenfreude is the German word for pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others.
Mudita in Buddhism is joy. It is especially sympathetic or vicarious joy, the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people’s well-being rather than begrudging it
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Scientists Manipulate and Erase Memories →
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What are the Noetic Sciences? →
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