JS: A must see.
MrS: …. as simple as that “despite the fact that we are small, we’ve figured this out.”
JS: are you there?
MrS: just saw it.
JS: ….
MrS: I know. We must prepare a nice article about it.
Ronald Johnson’s copy of The Poetical Works of John Milton, 1892, which he used to create his Radi os.
(via theparisreview)
JS: wow.
MrS: we have to learn more about their research. I remembered the mirror trick to cure the phantom limbs you were telling me about.
JS: yes. V. Ramachandran work, he is considered the inventor of the mirror box, which he used initially to help alleviate phantom limb chronic pain, which in some cases, it even made this pain dissapear. Re-wired. Imagine the possibilities. Psychopaths, people with autism. Art becoming science. Life becoming art.
via http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com/post/28028006778/mirrorbox-empathy
(Source: vimeo.com)
JS: found in Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s website, made by Stan Mack, and was inspired by a tour Dr. Tyson gave Stan Mack showing the astrophysical highlights of Mahnattan. That’s an amazing way of introducing your home town to a newcomer, right?
MrS: sounds like a really cool idea. I love the “if you run up the stairs one second per floor, you’ll freeze the sunset for nearly two minutes” part. Putting that analytical machine to work, creates wonderful facts about everyday life.
JS: yeap.
JS: now that is my kind of game.
MrS: you were lonely in high school right?
JS: …..
via xkcd
JS: Patents from famous people. Easily cleaned tobacco pipe from Kurt Vonnegut. How about that?
MrS: ” He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament ” and so it goes right?
JS: yeap.
can a child’s dream become a man’s reality?
(Source: malybun, via philphys-deactivated20120616)
JS: Bertrand Russell in his personal notebook, or better diary, titled “Greek exercises”, was using the greek alphabet to hide his thoughts from his grandparents. “Greek exercises” was filled with his personal thoughts.
MrS: I don’t suppose his personal thoughts was on matters like girls and the neighbor’s new bike right?
JS: Haaa. Obviously not. (I think, that means). There is a very beautiful passage, try to keep in mind he was 16 the time he was writing this, that he looks deeply into the foundations of the religion he was brought up. He declares from the start that his only commitment is to reason, and even though he wanted to believe (imagine he confesses he wanted to declare himself a theist), his increasing non-beliefs costs him dear, having made a vow, to follow reason at all costs.
MrS: wait. That means Russell at some point believed in God? what happened to “Not enough evidence, dude”?
JS: Written as a child. As a 16 year old human being, when at his age we were trying to solve the riddle of toilet paper, he had a Platonic philosophy of religion.
MrS: whaaaaat?
JS: Oh come on. I’ll buy you a coffee. Meet you upstairs.
MrS: and all these started from a penguin doing quirky stuff onto another- not so alive - penguin. I think I’ll have to say no to that coffee. I’m afraid.
Secret, Censored 100-Year-Old Manuscript Reveals Penguins’ Deviant Sex Lives
.begin // a videx by john streckfous & mr. strange
together we can become the burden
