March 2011
“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”
Cormac McCarthy - All the Pretty Horses
Villa-Lobos chose to present three such colorful works of his own, all sprawling...
– Aaron Copland, writing about the Festival in Caracas (1954) - Aaron Copland: a reader: selected writings 1923-1972, p. 121-122.
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Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you...
– - Richard Feynman
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Humilhou.
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Mos Def - “Close Edge” (Chappelle’s Car, 2003)
More excellent freestyle-from-the-passenger-seat by Mos Def.
What assurance do I have that your parenting isn’t screwing me up?
– Calvin
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Where is psychiatry headed? What the discipline badly needs is close attention...
– Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy - WSJ.com
Somos como os outros nos vêem, concordo. Eu, porém, resisto a aceitar tamanha...
– Enrique Vila-Matas, “Paris não tem fim”
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NASA Scientist finds extraterrestrial life on... →
thegermansmakegoodstuff:
Here’s the actual paper from the Journal of Cosmology as well.
Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol 13, JournalofCosmology.com March, 2011 Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites Richard B. Hoover, Ph.D. NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Synopsis Dr. Hoover has discovered evidence of microfossils similar to Cyanobacteria, in freshly fractured slices of...