February 2012
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8 Ways to Fail at Everything →
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New Festival for Bristol →
This sounds like fun. Part curated by the folk behind Glasto’s Wow! stage and at a reasonable price, looks nice and twee. It’s the day after my birthday as well so I’m definitely tempted.
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde (via nickokick)
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Classic FM and scent of cappuccino – it's a dog's... →
If your last or only experience of Battersea was in the 80s, as mine was, you’ll be thinking of dank corridors, yowling dogs, kennel cough so loud and prevalent it sounded like they were being mustard gassed, just a tragic scene of dog sorrow.
Now, each dog has an individual kennel, they have toys, naturally, they get fed, but there is also a scenter, giving off camomile or cappuccino or...
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Depression Is Linked to Hyperconnectivity of Brain... →
In people with depression, brain regions appear to be overly connected to one another, says the study, which is being published by UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. In turn, this excessive connectivity reduces the flexibility the brain needs to function properly.
“Depression is a whole brain disease,” says Dr. Andrew Leuchter, the Semel Institute neuroscientist...
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Cheating Death: Philosophers Ponder the Afterlife →
artem15s:
WHEN YOU STEP OUT OF THE TELEPORTER — IS IT REALLY YOU?
and other such questions.
(h/t Boston Review)
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Want Something to do? →
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The Nature of Tea
theepictrail:
If you consider the vast history that tea has then we could be here for a while. Go look it up when you get home. Instead, why don’t we imagine all the wonderful things tea does for you?
For example, giving you the gift of flight. What, has this never happened to you before?
Oh.
Maybe you just don’t drink enough tea in one sitting. Imagine, though, all...
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“From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally...”
– Sebastian Faulks, The Girl At The Lion D’or (via enchants)
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“Once the theory of meaning is sharply separated from the theory of reference, it...”
– W. V. Quine, “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” (via philosophersdog)
Forever finding things I should have included in essays.
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And so begins a 3 month hardcore studying/revision assault on my head and a couple of university libraries. Who needs other people when you’ve got books and dead philosophers to keep you company?
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be...”
– Nikos Kazantzakis (via human-voices)
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An Interview with Richard Dawkins →
This actually doesn’t seem as aggressive as some of the other things he’s said. Puts him in a slightly better light than most would consider him to be.
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'Anti-gay' book puts Gove at centre of faith... →
The TUC complains that the current situation sends mixed signals to the playground, because schools are legally obliged to condemn discrimination on sexual-orientation grounds but free to use religious materials that equality campaigners claim is homophobic.
Brendan Barber, the TUC’s general secretary, wrote to Gove in December expressing alarm that a booklet containing “homophobic...
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“How can we talk about Pegasus? To what does the word ‘Pegasus’ refer? If our...”
– W. V. Quine (via cosmosandcats)
This is the bane of my life at the moment.
“Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there’s humor in struggling in...”
– David Lynch (via cosmicpebble)
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fuckyeahelbow:
Elbow and the Halle Orchestra -...
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“It’s common knowledge that life isn’t worth living, anyhow. And, on a wide view,...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger (via kevindunne)
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