January 2011
40 posts
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something...”
– Frederick Keonig
“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
– Dalai Lama
Epicurus: Letter to Menoeceus →
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Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply the capacity for sensation, and death is the privation of all sentience; therefore a correct understanding that death is nothing to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not by adding to life a limitless time, but by taking away the yearning after immortality. For life has no terrors for him who has...
“He is able who thinks he is able.”
– Buddha
The Last Question, by Isaac Asimov →
“To lead people, walk behind them.”
– Lao Tzu
Scientists Discover Time Teleportation →
Stereoblindness (Wikipedia) →
Stereoblindness (also stereo blindness) is the inability to see in 3D using stereo vision, resulting in inability to perceive stereoscopic depth by combining and comparing images from the two eyes. (There are other ways to perceive depth to partially compensate, such as movement parallax and image cues such as shadows, focal depth and geometric overlap.)
Individuals with only one eye always...
Stereoblindness (Wikipedia) →
Stereoblindness (also stereo blindness) is the inability to see in 3D using stereo vision, resulting in inability to perceive stereoscopic depth by combining and comparing images from the two eyes. (There are other ways to perceive depth to partially compensate, such as movement parallax and image cues such as shadows, focal depth and geometric overlap.)
Individuals with only one eye always...
Twins who share a mind →
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They are the rarest of the rarest of the rare. Tatiana and Krista are not just conjoined, but they are craniopagus, sharing a skull and also a bridge between each girl’s thalamus, a part of the brain that processes and relays sensory information to other parts of the brain. Or perhaps in this case, to both brains. There is evidence that they can see through each other’s eyes and perhaps...
Twins who share a mind →
[…]
They are the rarest of the rarest of the rare. Tatiana and Krista are not just conjoined, but they are craniopagus, sharing a skull and also a bridge between each girl’s thalamus, a part of the brain that processes and relays sensory information to other parts of the brain. Or perhaps in this case, to both brains. There is evidence that they can see through each other’s eyes and perhaps...
The Egg (short story) →
The Egg (short story) →
Tone Matrix: a web-based 16-step synthesizer →
Tone Matrix: a web-based 16-step synthesizer →
List of average animal sleep times per day →
List of average animal sleep times per day →
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
– Lao Tzu
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
– Lao Tzu
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough...”
– Leonard Bernstein
“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough...”
– Leonard Bernstein
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
– William James
“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”
– William James