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.
resurgam:
Portugal. The Man- People Say Save me,...
May 2011
1 post
Even India's heat is a teacher
There are times when you realize the spinning fan cools not, just as the cycles of rebirth satisfy not the longing for eternal bliss. Sweat makes your clothes stick the way delusion makes karma stick and cling, soiled with the attachment for the ego.
April 2011
5 posts
Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude... →
Antoine Lutz * , †,
Lawrence L. Greischar *,
Nancy B. Rawlings *,
Matthieu Ricard ‡, and
Richard J. Davidson * , †
Mind & Life Institute →
A Buddhist's Brain →
A "Proof" for the Existence of God, Part 5:...
My point is simply this: Consciousness and complexity are intimately intertwined with interdependence. What consciousness appears to do is to maintain the structural scaffolding that evolution requires. Something must preserve the structure or evolution has to start from ground zero at each stage. And one of the ways consciousness creates this scaffolding is creating interdependence among...
November 2010
8 posts
Awesome Book of Thanks! →
And another awesome book by Dallas Clayton that I think is a great children’s book. We all need to learn to be grateful and this book is a cool way to reinforce it.
“I don’t care what the odds have to say about it;
I care what the gods...”
– me