May 2013
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“…some strange man decides it’s a good time to ask me if I have a...”
– See a Woman Reading? Leave Her Alone. by Jessica Critcher
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April 2013
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“Beyond treating individual letters as physical objects, the human brain may also...”
– Scientific American explores the reading brain in the digital age. Also see the death of the book through the ages, the publishing world on future of print and writers on the future of books. (via explore-blog)
March 2013
4 posts
popartinferno:
My roommate and her boyfriend are in the shower together
I know because they are in the bathroom next to my room and the walls in this house are paper thin
Welcome to my life.
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Virginia Woolf's views in 1926 on the inadequacies...
“So we lurch and lumber through the most famous novels of the world. So we spell them out in words of one syllable, written, too, in the scrawl of an illiterate schoolboy. A kiss is love. A broken cup is jealousy. A grin is happiness. Death is a hearse. None of these things has the least connexion with the novel…”
It’s worth noting that Woolf’s criticism is limited...
February 2013
10 posts
Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms →
Another Ken Robinson talk on education. Paradigm shift required: move away from standardisation!
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“If a man says something in a forest and no woman hears him, is he still wrong?”
– One of Ken Robinson’s hilarious jokes told during his Ted Talk on the effects of traditional education on creativity. Check it out.
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Maybe it's about time I revisited this... →
ltlymproject:
Learning to love you more: Project List
#1 Make a list of things you disliked at first but later learned to love
#2 Make a neighbourhood field recording
#3 Make a poster of shadows
#4 Draw a constellation from someone’s freckles
#5 Make a flier of your day
#6 Photograph a scar and write about it
#7 Write your life story in less…
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The expectations of immigrant parents weigh...
emilybooks:
by Arianna Stern
When I was still in college, I checked groceries alongside an immigrant mom whose kid (I faintly remember him being a babe) was studying philosophy.
“What can he do with that degree?” she asked me, more out of befuddlement than dismay. I told her that maybe he could teach, but I wasn’t sure how valuable his degree would ever be. My coworker held three jobs and had...
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“Altogether too much emphasis, I think, is being placed on what we ought to do,...”
– William J. Reilly’s 1949 book “How to Avoid Work”
“Evolution is not an alternative to intelligent design; it is intelligent design,...”
– Adam Gopnik (via explore-blog)
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January 2013
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Fuck Yeah Miranda July: Miranda July interviews... →
fuckyeahmirandajuly:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/lena-dunham-february-2013#_
By: Miranda July
I want to take a moment to point out the manner in which Lena asked me the vagina question: She asked it seriously, her two adorably big front teeth momentarily hidden by the earnest line of her lips. I…
READ IT JUST READ.
December 2012
2 posts
“Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in...”
– Montaigne on death and the art of living – half a millennium later, still an indispensable read. (via explore-blog)
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November 2012
18 posts
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kaalashnikov:
do you ever sit there and wonder what life must be like for people without anxiety
like they just
DO THINGS
without worrying about them first
wow
Shout out to my kid brother, Andrew. GET SHIT DONE.
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Keep your friend's clothes and your enemies'...
grimelords:
steal from everyone
Why is this so funny? Probably because clotheshorse is hilarious in its own right.
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“Let’s say your boyfriend beats you up. And you’re desperate-feeling and you...”
– Miranda July, 90 Days, 90 Reasons
REASON 90: Obama expanded the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act to include leave for domestic violence and sexual assault.
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
I wish I knew about Miranda July’s 90 Days, 90 Reasons project earlier. At least as post-election reading...
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“[A] dog’s life is spent, as a man’s life should be, doing pointless things that...”
– Mark Gopnik on what we can learn from dog living.
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“Dogs have little imagination about us and our inner lives but limitless...”
– Adam Gopnik “Dog Story” in The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs. Read the Brainpickings article here.
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“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that, over the last half decade, very few new...”
– Mikes Spies on the tyranny of choice that digital music brings.
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“We seem to have created an environment in which wonderful music, newly...”
– Spotify and its Discontents by Mike Spies (New Yorker)
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26 Signs You Should’ve Been Born In A Different...
“15. A conversation with an elderly person describing their various experiences is more enjoyable than gossiping about an acquaintance’s disastrous relationship.”
Read more.
Oh no…
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October 2012
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mindf4ng:
could you imagine being on tumblr with all your followers physically present just like a group of 300 people standing around staring at you and every time you say anything a handful of them just repeat it to each other for a few minutes
the internet is a strange place
