An Accounting of Joy vs. Cost while Vacationing (via Joshua Blankenship)
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
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2009-11-21
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to do list (not mine) (via chrisglass)
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My violin playing history (via juhansonin)
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2009-11-20
yay yay test is over and we passed! headache is killing me though.
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2009-11-19
Life Chart - Beta (via benfogarty)
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2009-11-18
Umberto Eco: The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists — the shopping list, the will, the menu — that are also cultural achievements in their own right.
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Anyone else think it’s crazy that you can be hot at 75 degrees and cold at 68? If my body is 98, why is that?
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2009-11-17
SPIEGEL: Are you saying that teachers should instruct students on the difference between good and bad? If so, how should they do that? Eco: Education should return to the way it was in the workshops of the Renaissance. There, the masters may not necessarily have been able to explain to their students why a painting was good in theoretical terms, but they did so in more practical ways. Look, this is what your finger can look like, and this is what it has to look like. Look, this is a good mixing of colors. The same approach should be used in school when dealing with the Internet. The teacher should say: “Choose any old subject, whether it be German history or the life of ants. Search 25 different Web pages and, by comparing them, try to figure out which one has good information.” If 10 pages describe the same thing, it can be a sign that the information printed there is correct. But it can also be a sign that some sites merely copied the others’ mistakes.
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Cowen will go to the multiplex and watch parts of three or four movies, rather than just sit through one. Why wait for a highly predictable ending when a fabulous scene might be unfolding in the movie playing next door? Cowen also offers advice for how to defeat the boredom that, despite our best intentions to be culturally literate, overtakes many of us minutes after we enter an art museum. How do we deal with this “scarcity of attention”? Pretend to be an art thief, he suggests—in every gallery, pick one picture that we’d like to run off with. Sounds juvenile, admits Cowen, but it “forces us to keep thinking critically” rather than daydream about the snack bar.
— ‘Discover Your Inner Economist’ by Tyler Cowen— New York Magazine Book Review
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2009-11-16
Visualizing empires decline on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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2009-11-12
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litl_lifestyle_04 (via litl)
