January 2012
12 posts
December 2011
31 posts
North Korea invites South Korea to funeral. →
“And at once I knew I was not magnificent”
– Justin Vernon
“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also...”
– Friedrich Hayek (via nathanielstuart)
This is so wrong but so right.
In today's neuroscience news, a bunch of... →
“I don’t want to deal with myself. I don’t want to exist. I just want to think.”
– Zizek, in this article (via insearchofwisdom)
Marriage Equality is now part of ALP platform....
“an historic moment” for Australia via GetUp!
ABC Classic 100 countdown →
Tune in now, it’s so humbly divine
no. 14 Górecki Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
“While most scientists would write off the event as a freak accident, two...”
– Maybe the single most amazing science story ever written. (via moorehn)
The future (probably due to lack of funding for the arts) lacks imagination, let me put this in perspective - you’ll sabotage the LHC but you won’t stop Lou Reed and Metallica from collaborating? Pfft.
(via thenoobyorker)
Aid: Can It Work? →
kohenari:
Since Professor William Easterly is now actively posting to a new Tumblr blog, I thought it would be fun to link to a book review by Nick Kristof of Easterly’s The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (and several other aid-related books that came out around the same time, back in 2006).
Maybe my favorite quote from...
November 2011
27 posts
“Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book....”
– Walt Whitman (via neobutterfly)
You beautiful man..
“Answers don’t come in bottles.”
– The bartender, PDA (via nathanielswhite)
Gotye performing State of the Art @ Opera House... →