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May 7, 2013
A filmmaker who prefers ideas to images will never advance above the second rank because he is fighting the nature of his art.8 1/2 Movie Review & Film Summary (1963) | Roger Ebert (via merlin)
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May 4, 2013
Moore's Law and the Origin of Life
A paper by Alexei Sharov, in the MIT Tech Review:
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now geneticists have extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by this measure, life is older than the Earth itself.
Where is everybody, yeah?
Apr 9, 2013
A great, fun explanation of what a differential gear is and why cars need them.
Mar 14, 2013
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St. Peter’s Square in 2005 and 2013. What a difference 8 years makes.
One of these has a face.
Mar 13, 2013
Tupperwolf: Wealth, risk, and stuff
Please, if you are rich, stop explaining the idea of freedom from stuff as if it’s a trick that even you have somehow mastered.
The only way to own very little and be safe is to be rich.
Jan 18, 2013
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
Nov 16, 2012
If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month.Grist
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Oct 25, 2012
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
Picasso checking Brigitte Bardot’s face with a light meter during the Cannes Film Festival, 1956. Photograph by Jerome Brierre/RDA/Getty.
Oct 17, 2012
When we approach objects as social relativists, they bear interest only as products or regulators of human behavior and society.Bogost, Ian. Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
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