Fixated as we are on reason, humans tend to overlook other types of intelligence that animals possess in abundance.
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“You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power–he’s free again.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (born on this date in 1918)
Braving arctic temperatures and police violence, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been joining together from across the country to demonstrate in Kyiv’s Maidan Square. They are fighting to keep […]
The last foreign military invasion of the United States (which included the burning of the White House) took place two centuries ago. Half a century ago, a different kind of […]
In a way, China is already sponsoring the global X-mas fete. If the Chinese really wanted, they could make Christmas in their own image.
No one, not Charles Mingus, Art Blakey or Dizzy Gillespie is born a great bandleader. We are not deeply conscious of others. We need to train our minds to be that way.
The “visionary” and “philosopher” Zoltan Istvan says that, as an atheist, he must be a transhumanist. You probably think I’m going to start mocking transhumanism again. Once again, you’ve misjudged […]
The idea that Aaron Swartz fought for is that the public should have access to federal court documents as well as access to scholarly research that was being put behind paywalls.
Last Friday, Guelph resident Andrew McPherson’s cat, Tutu, appears to have achieved the impossible. Local residents claim their small town will never be the same again, and the future of […]
“Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.”- Nadine Gordimer (born on this date in 1923)
“It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to.” ― J.D. Salinger
“I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.”- Henri Matisse (born on this date in 1869)
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.” ― Rudyard Kipling (born on this date in 1865)
“I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits.”- Charles Goodyear (born on this date in 1800)
“Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.” ― Guy Debord (born on this date in 1931)
“I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.” – Johannes Kepler
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller (born on this date in 1891)
“The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.” – Matthew Arnold (born on this date in 1822)
“New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.” – Internet pioneer Robert Kahn (born on this date in 1938)
“Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.”- George Eliot
“People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” – Rebecca West (born on this date in 1892)
William McDonough’s most profound concept is “Harvest of Value,” the basic notion that everything is a resource for something else. Simply put, waste equals food – the waste of one system becomes food for another.
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” – Emily Dickinson (born on this date in 1830)
Researchers used thermal infrared sensors to pinpoint the record-setting pockets on a high ridge of the East Antarctic Plateau. The record low: minus 136 F (minus 93.2 C), set on August 10, 2010.
Oklahoma City, the “buckle of the Bible Belt,” may soon have a monument to Satan on its statehouse steps.
Warning: this video might drive you a little bit nuts. Even after you realize that it is messing with your head, the optical illusion in the video will continue to convince you to believe that two squares are identical. What a reminder of how easily we are fooled!
The chemical, oxytocin, that makes us want to cuddle, also makes us very suspicious of out-groups, people who are not in our relationship.
Some people say, “I went white water rafting in Canada and I felt alive” or “I went to Thailand and I felt alive.” Proust’s lesson is, “I lay in bed, and by looking at things properly, I felt properly alive.”
That painting is not complete until the viewer responds to it.
This illustration represents the possible extent of an ancient lake inside Gale Crater on Mars. Examination of mudstone confirmed the exist of the lake which formed billions of years ago.