Cultural Exercises

"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?"

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:00 +1000

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the...

holly-marie-image: Happy Goth Day ! Here is a painting by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:09:32 +1000

Happy Goth Day !

Here is a painting by John Henri Fuseli

Based around the idea of sleep paralysis and the folklore of this phenomena being to do with a demonic presence. Just for you, enjoy your day of “Gothness”.

Sleep well!

The painting is called “Nightmare” and always freaked me out when I was younger.

Still does, now I think about it. Very successfully disconcerting art.

I would prefer to explore a Jungian understanding of Gothness, demonic archetypes, vulnerability as a feminine archetype perhaps.

Art is fuel for thought.

Everyone should make one of these and post it! After the...

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:55:32 +1000

Everyone should make one of these and post it!

After the appalling story I responded to yesterday, it is time for something a little more hopeful.

I believe humans can be wonderful.

While I cannot believe in a god the way religions do, I still hope and believe there is a sort of divine spirit weaving through the universe, inspiring the best and most creative and noble impulses within matter.

Kindness and goodness and creativity. That is a spirituality I can live with.

We are not "tolerant" if we tolerate evil. We are complicit in it!

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:22:00 +1000

http://redflagnews.com/headlines/the-eight-year-old-girl-who-didnt-make-it-past-her-wedding-night-war...

Surreal Photos of Women Floating in Zero Gravity by Nikolay Tikhomirov

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:54:00 +1000

Surreal Photos of Women Floating in Zero Gravity by Nikolay Tikhomirov: Why do these images appeal...

bobbycaputo: The Only Known Photograph of Einstein Deriving his...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:03:56 +1000

bobbycaputo:

The Only Known Photograph of Einstein Deriving his Famous E=mc² Equation

At a public lecture in Pittsburgh in 1934, four hundred lucky students were privy to a lecture by Albert Einstein, in which the great man mathematically derived his famous mass-energy equivalence equation: E=mc². What you see above is a photo from that lecture, and what is thought to be the only surviving photo that shows Einstein working on that derivation.

The photo was pulled from a halftone newspaper clipping by David Topper and Dwight Vincent of the University of Winnipeg, who discovered it in 2007. Sadly, everything is a bit fuzzy so you can’t really make out the famed equation itself. And even though the original article had a crisp picture of Einstein posing next to one of his blackboards, he’s next to the wrong one.

Here’s a closer look at the man and the math. If you look closely, you’ll see the mass-energy equivalence in the lower left hand corner of the blackboard on the right:

Fortunately, Topper and Vincent managed to take the blurry photo and reproduce both blackboards in their original paper. Here’s the math behind the magic, the derivation of mass-energy equivalence as presented by Albert Einstein.

In case you’re wondering why the famous equation says Δ

What I’d really love is a time machine to take a picture of my hero, Isaac Newton, inventing calculus, or physics, or optics, or reflecting telescopes.

In fact, even him playing around with alchemy would be pretty cool!

H. P. Lovecraft and the Northern Gothic Tongue

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:56:48 +1000

H. P. Lovecraft and the Northern Gothic Tongue: If you love words and how their connotations have...

other-wordly: pronunciation | \zEn-‘zUkt\submitted by |...

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:41:11 +1000

other-wordly:

pronunciation | \zEn-‘zUkt\
submitted by | sehnsucht [thewitchnebula] and Life Ruining via the BBC [liferuiningviabbc]
submit words | here
with thanks to | c.s. lewis

For my etymologicon enthusiast

No Day But Today: 19 Things To Stop Doing In Your 20s

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:03:24 +1000

No Day But Today: 19 Things To Stop Doing In Your 20s: flipfloptiptop: 1. Stop placing all the...

"Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:33:39 +1000

““Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in...

Poor Richard's News: AWFUL: German homeschooling family loses political asylum case in Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Thu, 16 May 2013 08:55:45 +1000

Poor Richard's News: AWFUL: German homeschooling family loses political asylum case in Sixth Circuit...

stellar-indulgence: Mt. Fitz Roy, Patagonia, Argentina To be...

Sun, 12 May 2013 13:16:11 +1000

stellar-indulgence:

Mt. Fitz Roy, Patagonia, Argentina

To be human is to be in awe of natural wonders!

So true! I am humanist - not ideologist

Sun, 12 May 2013 13:07:23 +1000

So true! I am humanist - not ideologist

Photo

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:18:09 +1000

milktree: life goals For my own pandy

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:46:21 +1000

milktree:

life goals

For my own pandy

whakahekeheke: The Best Case for the Existence of God

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:35:36 +1000

whakahekeheke: The Best Case for the Existence of God: whakahekeheke: Probably the most well-known...

compligaytions: SCIENCE Beautiful, magical science! Like...

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 20:23:16 +1100

compligaytions:

SCIENCE

Beautiful, magical science! Like something Hermione conjures in Harry Potter

Photo

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:32:09 +1100

So true!

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:51:53 +1100

So true!

mentalalchemy: Yes. Amazing

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:52:30 +1100

mentalalchemy:

Yes.

Amazing