August 2009
24 posts
1 tag
“Not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant...”
– Darwin There is no question that humans, as currently constituted, will be dramatically different when the next few centuries come to past.  This is no result of natural selection, rather it will be the product of choices made today by the people of today.  That’s what our brains are for. ...
Aug 31st
1 tag
“The humanities, done right, are the crucible within which our evolving notions...”
– Mark Slouka | Dehumanized: When math and science rule the school | Harper’s Magazine
Aug 31st
1 tag
“The most important part of having a healthy relationship is making sure that...”
Aug 31st
1 tag
Consequences →
An article ran in the BBC today that discusses a voyage scientists took to the Texas-sized vortex of plastic trash in the the North Pacific Gyre.  It is an astonishing feat of collective human neglect that created the conditions for such an incontrovertible reminder that even our smallest actions - disposing of a water bottle for instance - can have far reaching ramifications.  From the article: ...
Aug 28th
1 tag
Aug 28th
1 tag
Aug 28th
30 notes
2 tags
“A man falls in love through his eyes, A woman through her ears.”
– Woodrow Wyatt
Aug 26th
2 tags
Aug 25th
2 tags
ListenThe Sound of Saturn Saturn is a source of intense...
Aug 25th
4 notes
2 tags
Aug 24th
1 tag
Aug 23rd
1 tag
Aug 21st
1 tag
A call to the innocent
When Oppenheimer headed the first atomic explosion in Los Alamos, New Mexico in the 1940s he started a chain reaction that would finally culminate in the last decade of possible innocence - the 1990s.  Today the plethora of immensely available, diverse viewpoints are literally at the fingertips of anybody with unfiltered internet access. The destructive power - and inversely the positive...
Aug 21st
Aug 21st
2 tags
The Midwest
The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia ed. by Cayton, Sisson and Zacher claims that Sam Shepard, author of Chicago (1966) and the Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Child (1978), often “employs quintessentially midwestern tropes of growth, decay and rebirth through cyclical nature.” The question I have is not if Sam Shepard actually engages these themes but whether or not the...
Aug 18th
1 tag
Aug 16th
1 tag
Aug 14th
1 tag
Aug 13th
1 tag
Investment
You Get Out What You Put In Friends Film Art Culture Health Life The Future “Children are now experiencing less social interaction and have fewer social connections during key stages of their physiological, emotional and social development. An increasing proportion of men and women are living alone during their ‘mating years’ having far fewer social contacts. And as the greying of...
Aug 11th
1 tag
Space
Space cannot separate, it can only contain.
Aug 11th
1 tag
Aug 8th
1 tag
Aug 6th
1 tag
Aug 5th
“If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Aug 4th