February 2012
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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...
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You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral →
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You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
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thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no...
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“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time....”
– Dream of an Insomniac (via believour)