Joseph Brodsky on How to Develop Your Taste in Reading 28 February 2014 0 "You stand to lose nothing; what you may gain are new associative chains." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please…
The 10 Stages of the Creative Process 28 February 2014 0 Listen to your hunches, sponge up ideas, let them marinate, and know when you’re done. Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and…
David Foster Wallace on Leadership, Illustrated and Read by Debbie Millman 28 February 2014 0 "A leader’s real “authority” is a power you voluntarily give him, and you grant him this authority not with resentment or resignation but happily." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and…
Legendary Lands: Umberto Eco on the Greatest Maps of Imaginary Places and Why They Appeal to Us 28 February 2014 0 "Often the object of a desire, when desire is transformed into hope, becomes more real than reality itself." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you…
Hubble Monitors Supernova in Nearby Galaxy M82 27 February 2014 0 Get larger image formats This is a Hubble Space Telescope composite image of a supernova explosion designated SN 2014J in the galaxy M82, at a distance of approximately 11.5 million light-years from Earth. Astronomers using a ground-based telescope discovered the…
Brilliant teen publishes paper on saving the climate with ammonia-fueled cars 22 February 2014 0 Someone give this kid a hefty college scholarship. ift.tt/eA8V8J via Grist ift.tt/1bPaT0X
Interview: Gary Taxali: The multi-media artist discusses balancing commercial and personal work and the perils of a blank white page 22 February 2014 0 Art and commerce are traditionally thought of as opposing forces. Of course, this is especially true for artists who’s work lands on both advertisements and gallery walls. Finding inspiration from commercial work while maintaining a sense of integrity in the…
Mall officials ‘regret’ guards’ encounter with Andy Lopez activists 22 February 2014 0 Santa Rosa Plaza officials say security guards erred in ordering a group to remove protest shirts. ift.tt/eA8V8J via Local News from The Press Democrat ift.tt/1nWndfI
Happy 111th Birthday, Anaïs Nin: The Famous Diarist on Love and Life, Illustrated 21 February 2014 0 "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage." Brain Pickings takes 450+ hours a month to curate and edit across the different platforms, and remains banner-free. If it brings you any joy and inspiration, please consider a modest donation…
5 Signs America’s Super-Rich Are Going Off the Deep End 21 February 2014 0 Inequality seems to have made the wealthy very upset…for themselves. Is it us, or have America’s ultrawealthy been sounding increasingly unhinged lately? Despite the fact that the wealth of the 1 percent jumped 31 percent from 2009 to 2012 while…
Snowden’s Lesson: The Govt. Carries Out the Constitutional Crimes, While the Public Is Legally Powerless 21 February 2014 0 "Totalitarian states always invert the moral order. It is the wicked who rule. It is the just who are damned." On Thursday the former National Security Agency official and whistle-blower William E. Binney and I will debate Stewart A. Baker, a former general…
Fascinatingly hypnotic, blinking list of events indicates how often each one happens 19 February 2014 0 XKCD recently published a list of occurrences which blink to represent how often they each happen. The events range from the highly important and straightforward — how often a baby is born — to the less important and absurd — how…
Einstein’s conversion from a belief in a static to an expanding universe 19 February 2014 0 Albert Einstein accepted the modern cosmological view that the universe is expanding long after many of his contemporaries. Until 1931, physicist Albert Einstein believed that the universe was static. An urban legend attributes this change of perspective to when American…
Hubble Watches Stars’ Clockwork Motion in Nearby Galaxy 19 February 2014 0 Get larger image formats Using the sharp-eyed NASA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time precisely measured the rotation rate of a galaxy based on the clock-like movement of its stars. ift.tt/1bJ2gVy via ift.tt/1bJ2gVA