September 2009
23 posts
WatchThe Walrus: The Age of Breathing Underwater
“The generous attitude towards failure that big cities afford is invaluable—it’s...”
– David Byrne’s Perfect City via Caterina via zachklein
“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”
– Akira Kurosawa (via reluctantbuddha)
The Spy Who Loved Hamas. And Hezbollah. And Iran.... →
Biomimicry in National Geographic Magazine →
What has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, and eyes like a moth? The future of engineering.
Written by Tom Mueller , published April 2008
If one feels one could live without writing, then... →
dailymeh:
Maybe you’ve already read Rainer Maria Rilke’s letters to a young poet, written in the beginning of the 1900s. Some of them, I think, are dense and full of ideas that hang too loosely together to be useful. But they also contain wisdom. Maybe it isn’t strange that I find it hard to understand what he’s trying to tell the young poet, given his own views about advice:
[U]ltimately, and...
Walrus Magazine » Psychotherapy for Down and Outs... →
WatchArctic IV (via the National Film Board of Canada) : if you enjoy documentaries from an era of ambitious scientific exploration …
“Being a writer in a world that features Wallace would be like playing basketball...”
– Infinite Summer / John Moe: I Did Not Read Infinite Jest This Summer
“Nuclear reactors don’t make much sense to build unless someone else is...”
– Why alternative energy sources such as biofuels, solar, and nuclear are not the magic ticket — Michael Grunwald in Foreign Policy
Linguistic analysis reveals David Bowie’s ideal... →
Nick Troop, a doctor and psychology expert from the University of Hertfordshire (the British equivalent to the University of Miami) examined the songs of David Bowie and came up with what he calls the “ideal Bowie song.” This doctor believes this song would lead to chart success and “improved health for the singer.”
Wal-mart greenigma →
IS MEGA RETAILER BOTH THE GREENEST AND LEAST GREEN COMPANY?
McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care :... →
