March 2012
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February 2012
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LEGO buys $500 million worth of wind turbines →
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Our society values alert, problem-solving consciousness and it devalues all other states of consciousness. Any kind off consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today. Of course we accept drunkenness. We allow some people brief respite from the material grind. A society that subscribes to that model is a society that is...
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For everyone, sooner or later, the day comes when we bring our gaze down along the drainpipes and we can no longer detach it from the cobblestones.
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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The Mind-Boggling Story of the Galactic Wonder... →
“[The Pillars of Creation] were destroyed, blasted by a supernova that happened 6,000 years ago. With our telescopes, we can see the supernova advancing, unstoppable, destroying everything it touches. From that same vantage point, the shockwave has not reached the Pillars of Creation yet. For our senses, they are still there.”
Absolutely fascinating piece demonstrating how odd our...
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It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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And meanwhile we are adding thirteen million human beings to the population every month! Thirteen million more people to kill each other in competition over finite resources! And wipe out every other living thing along the way! It is a perfect fucking world as long as you don’t count every other species in it! We are a cancer on the planet! A cancer on the planet!
- Jonathan Franzen,...
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Just because a person isn’t making good use of her life, it doesn’t stop her life from passing. In fact, it makes her life pass all the quicker.
- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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And TV: TV was like radio, only ten times worse. The country that minutely followed every phony turn of American Idol while the world went up in flames seemed to Walter fully deserving of whatever nightmare future awaited it.
- Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
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