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overidealism: Ghost in the Machine by *linnsetane
explore-blog: Beautiful patent drawing for R. J. Spalding’s Flying Machine, 1889. Complement with the illustrated history of human flight and 100 diagrams that changed the world.
“My whole life is a coping strategy.”
While seeing my physical therapist the other night, he asked if I liked my eating habits (an odd way to ask the question, but it got me thinking) and I babbled for a few minutes about the little things I’ve picked up on eating, hunger, diets, and the like. I told him about how I …
Social behavior boils down to the “Morris Theorem”: “Change is caused by lazy, greedy, frightened people looking for easier, more profitable, and safer ways to do things.” These people are much the same everywhere. Their societies develop along similar paths. Geography explains different outcomes. “Maps, not chaps,” as Morris likes to say. “The agency of …
I recently said to a director, ‘Audiences are like furtive strangers standing outside school gates with bags of sweets. You follow them at your peril.’ They lead you down the wrong path, and then they say, ‘We don’t believe you’ at the end of it when they’ve laughed and laughed and encouraged you to be …
I see time as sailors see wind, or photographers see light, as something to use, manage, and shape, not as something to be a victim of, or to see go by. Martin Vasky QOTD: Martin Vasky on Time « Survive and Thrive in Grad School Source: eebatou.wordpress.com
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