May 2012
10 posts
Happy 78th Bob Moog! →
So Google is so awesome they made a synth as their doodle and you can record up to 4 tracks to sequence. This what I made in like 20 seconds.
Watch(via Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on flow | Video on TED.com)
Watch(via Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work | Video on TED.com)
Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever... →
January 2012
4 posts
“The obstacle is the path.”
– Zen proverb (via lucifelle)
How Luther went viral →
Five centuries before Facebook and the Arab spring, social media helped bring about the Reformation
The wisdom of crowds →
The strange but extremely valuable science of how pedestrians behave
December 2011
1 post
Earthbag construction →
November 2011
2 posts
Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony →
Michael S. Gazzaniga, after a long career at the top of his field, is spelling out a cautionary tale about the uses of neuroscience in society.
October 2011
12 posts
Watchif you want to be a doctor, watch this. if you ever go to a doctor, watch this.
Watchwhy tvp is fun.
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which...”
– Aristotle (via gottfried)
side comment: The first quality mentioned in the Bhagvad Gita’s 16th Chapter is abhayam, or fearlessness. I’m glad Aristotle and Krishna agree.
Scale of the Universe →
whoa
“Being gifted doesn’t mean you’ve been given something.
It means, you have...”
– (via a-wanderlust)
“And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that...”
– Barack Obama
Blog on Consciousness →
remind me to read this later…
“History only includes the accounts of the bold and brave, who stood up to acts...”
– Rev. Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Synopsis of Patanjali's Yog Sutras →
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
Who Am I? by Demetri Martin →
July 2011
5 posts
Elephants hold funerals? →
A visualization of United States debt →
everythingalmost:
If this isn’t scary, I don’t know what is.
"Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?" by Thomas Hardy
“Ah, are you digging on my grave, My loved one? — planting rue?” — “No: yesterday he went to wed One of the brightest wealth has bred. ‘It cannot hurt her now,’ he said, ‘That I should not be true.’” “Then who is digging on my grave, My nearest dearest kin?” — “Ah, no: they sit and think,...
“Grow strong, my comrade…that you may stand unshaken when I fall; that I...”
– Will Durant (Story of Philosophy)
June 2011
15 posts
Up + Down by Wishes and Thieves
Lighthouse EP
“A hug can turn your day around. It’s like an emotional Heimlich. Someone puts...”
– (via eletheowl)
"Fingers in the Door" by David Holbrook
Careless for an instant I closed my child’s fingers in the jamb. She Held her breath, contorted the whole of her being, foetus-wise against the pain. And for a moment I wished myself dispersed in a hundred thousand pieces Among the dead bright stars. The child’s cry broke, She clung to me, and it crowded in to me how she and I were Light-years from any mutual help or comfort. For her I...
Business Models in Global Health: Village Health... →
This is part of a Series from the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Global Health Delivery Course taught by Dr. Anjali Sastry.
