June 2012
1 post
May 2012
11 posts
We should be in a race for prevention, not cures →
frugi-namaste:
There are two paths to managing the challenge of preventable chronic illnesses: treating the disease effectively, and preventing the onset of disease. Today, the balance in our research investments is skewed. For all of the research on drugs and surgery, there is very little attention to building the evidence base for effective disease-prevention programs. There should be....
“There is a fundamental reason why we look at the sky with wonder and longing —...”
– Jerry Waxman (via decimalsanddollars)
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein (via bodhisattvaquotes)
April 2012
25 posts
“Since the fading of the original Enlightenment during the late eighteenth and...”
– E. O. Wilson, “On the Origin of the Arts” (via millionsmillions)
“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow...”
– Paul Auster
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“I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.”
—Mary Oliver, from The Poet’s Notebook
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“I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.”
—Mary Oliver, from The Poet’s Notebook
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“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via bodhisattvaquotes)
There is Some Kiss We Want
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling. At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window. Rumi
“Stories allow us to impose order on the chaos.”
– Why Storytellers Lie (via theatlantic)
“496,000 miles : the distance your brain cells would cover if they were laid...”
– Imagine!!! (via rayax)
March 2012
23 posts
Watchtheatlanticvideo:
Fauna: BBC’s ‘Life’ Remixed With Pitchfork’s Greatest Hits
Tobi Totschlag’s mashups do what hipsters have done in the privacy of their own homes for years: put a nature show on mute and crank up Björk, Radiohead, Lykke Li, and other favorites. Totschlag takes special care to create a rapport between sound and image, however, and the results are mesmerizing. Kathleen Flood...
