February 2012
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Rare Martian meteorite lands at Natural History... →
“The piece of the Tissint meteorite, about the size of a paperback book, is the largest and newest known and could help determine whether there is life on the planet. The meteorite fell as a shower of stones in the desert of southern Morocco last July.”
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“Time isn’t an orderly stream. Time isn’t a placid lake recording each of our...”
– How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (via crossettlibrary)
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The Pope will die within a year: Vatican... →
“The sensational prediction was allegedly made by Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop of Palermo in Sicily, on a recent visit to China. He seemed so sure of the fact that the people he spoke with, including Italian businessmen and Chinese representatives of the Catholic Church, were convinced that he was talking about an assassination attempt. They were so alarmed by his remarks that they...
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Ancient seagrass: 'Oldest living thing on earth'... →
“Australian scientists sequenced the DNA of samples of the giant seagrass, Posidonia oceanic, from 40 underwater meadows in an area spanning more than 2,000 miles, from Spain to Cyprus.
The analysis, published in the journal PLos ONE, found the seagrass was between 12,000 and 200,000 years old and was most likely to be at least 100,000 years old. This is far older than the current known...
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“V is a kind of pale, transparent pink: I think it’s called, technically, quartz...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, author of Lolita, on being a synaesthete.
Steve Silberman profiles synaesthesia in Inside the Mind of a Synaesthete. Read it. You won’t be sorry.
(via jtotheizzoe)
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Lake Vostok: Russia scientists reach underground... →
“There are hopes it will allow a glimpse into microbial life forms that existed before the Ice Age, or precious evidence of what conditions must be like on the ice-crust moons of Jupiter and Saturn, or under Mars’ polar ice caps - and whether life could survive there.”
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“There is nothing better than imagining other worlds … to forget the painful one...”
– Umberto Eco, Baudolino (via underpaidgenius)
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“Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both...”
– Arthur C. Clarke (via mchl)
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“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via black-wolves)
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“The second draft is where the fun is. In a first draft, you get to explode. The...”
– Neil Gaiman (via writingquotes)
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Top five regrets of the dying →
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“What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Elder Statesman (via proustitute)
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“I’m finished as a human being,’ she said. ‘All you’re looking at is the...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via moldavia)
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“People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (via devilduck)
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“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Agatha Christie (via honeypi)
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Strange Phenomena of the Mind →
maryamahmed:
Déjà Vu - the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. The experience is usually accompanied by a strong sense of familiarity and a sense of eeriness, strangeness, or weirdness. The “previous” experience is usually attributed to a dream, but sometimes there is...