February 2012
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Feb 10th
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“It took roughly three months before BCG disproved my “burn-out proof” theory....”
– The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell - The Tech
Feb 8th
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Feb 7th
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Feb 7th
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Listenbill callahan: so long marianne (leonard cohen...
Feb 6th
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WatchWatch
THEESatisfaction: QueenS
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Feb 4th
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you... →
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“We who mourn continue the heat of our own lives”
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all...
Feb 1st
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“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see,...”
– Joan Didion (via invisiblestories)
Feb 1st
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WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT: Adam Curtis
The biggest company in the cruising world is the Carnival Corporation, based in Miami (the Costa Concordia is owned by one of their subsidiaries). Carnival has its roots in a small company set up in the 1960s which had a utopian vision that cruise liners could transform the world. One of its founders believed that the giant ships were machines that could help bring about a new era of world...
Feb 1st
January 2012
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Jan 30th
ListenEla Orleans: Somewhere rainy monday fuzzy...
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Jan 12th
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The Search for Posthumanism
thenewinquiry: Notes from the 2011 Singularity Summit by Mike Thomsen The idea that we can run out of time is peculiar. It’s a product of how we organize our memories. Human consciousness is a kind of romance with the idea that time is finite and consumable. This assumption of finitude means that time can also become digested and metabolized urge, energizing the desire to imagine what is...
Jan 12th
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Jan 5th
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Norwegian Butter Crisis of 2011
“The crisis has prompted a variety of responses from individuals and organisations in Norway and neighboring countries. A Norwegian newspaper has sought to attract new subscribers by offering them a half-kilo of butter, while students have auctioned butter online in a bid to raise funds for their graduation party. A number of individuals have been apprehended by the authorities for attempting to...
Jan 5th
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