February 2012
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I go away for 2 days and all of a sudden we have a new shiny Tumblr thing?
Typical.
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REQUIESCAT
camdentownstation:
By: Oscar Wilde
Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone, She is at rest. ...
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Today has been the day from hell, at least this time tomorrow I’ll be coming back to Brizzle for the week. Pizza and a perfect exam timetable are making it better though. Now if only all my essays could magically write themselves I’d be set..
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Psychologists search the philosophical mind for... →
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fantshmabulous:
“Notice that these sport-coated youngsters aren’t even calling out actual bullshit,” Hammersmith continues, “they’re just being dicks.” A second important difference between a bullshit detector and an FDS is that the former merely mediates the attempt to diagnose and alleviate confused thinking, while the latter usually contributes to the denigration of the confused...
“We can’t define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis...”
– Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964), Volume I, 8-2
(via abundanceofquotes)
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“Thus is a star thrown out into the void and into the icy breath of solitude…...”
– Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche (via approachingstarlight)
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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.