Olivier de Sagazan |
Les voló la cabeza la escena del performero.
Barro. Dedos. Paja. Polvo. Agua. Rojo. Negro.
Vieron la terrible belleza de la naturaleza;
Vieron lo bello & lo feo de la condición humana.
Olivier de Sagazan |
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Por Erin Schell. Vía. |
Philosophy is simply the pursuit of wisdom. And though it’s a rather abstract term, the concept of “wisdom” isn’t mysterious. Being wise means attempting to live and die well, leading as good a life as possible within the troubled conditions of existence. The goal of wisdom is fulfilment. So a philosopher or “person devoted to wisdom” is someone who strives for systematic expertise at working out how one may best find individual and collective fulfillment.El filósofo británico presentó en su post un nuevo canal de Youtube en el espíritu de 8-bit Philosophy (un canal reseñado en este blog que comparte la misma ambición del trabajo de de Botton y sus colegas). Cuelgo la primera entrada de The School of Life:
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Wanderer above the Sea Fog (Caspar David Friedrich) |
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Vía Breakfast of Champions |
Ladies & Gentlemen of A.D. 2088:
It has been suggested that you might welcome words of wisdom from the past, and that several of us in the twentieth century should send you some. Do you know this advice from Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: ‘This above all: to thine own self be true’? Or what about these instructions from St. John the Divine: ‘Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His judgment has come’? The best advice from my own era for you or for just about anybody anytime, I guess, is a prayer first used by alcoholics who hoped to never take a drink again: ‘God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.’Para continuar leyendo en The Hypertextual Lounge, haga click aquí.
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Firestorm of Starbirth in Galaxy Centaurus A |
We’ve seen two of the most important forces that make it possible for us to consider words such as ‘reality’, ‘matter’, ‘universe’, etc. These forces are magnetism and gravity. Gravity is responsible for the elliptical orbits of planets; their shapes–’round’–are a result of this. Magnetism, which we’ve discussed with hands on activities using ferromagnetic fluids, is responsible for much of matter’s integrity. Both forces account for interactions between all kinds of hierarchies of matter: from atom to atom interactions; to the relationships that exist between galaxies. The following post is a gallery of pictures taken from the web. Most images are very recent, not older than a few weeks in many cases. There’s a unifying theme between all of them: Cosmology, the study of the Cosmos. Think about this word, ‘cosmos’, while we go over these images. Think about the forces that allow for the cosmos to happen; and keep in mind that we, human beings, are part of the cosmos. [Para continuar leyendo en The Hypertextual Lounge, haga click aquí].
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From Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665). Vía. |
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'Solstice' fue escrita por Sjón (poeta y novelista islandés). |
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Vía Wikipedia. |
"Earth's prebiotic oceans—different from their modern counterparts—would have formed a "hot dilute soup" in which organic compounds could have formed. J.D.Bernal, a pioneer in x-ray crystallography, called this idea biopoiesis or biopoesis, the process of living matter evolving from self-replicating but non living molecules,"--Continúe leyendo el post aquí.
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"Oil painting of Roger Penrose 5-fold tile configuration" (Urs Schmid, 1995) |
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"600,000 children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have missed one or more years of education due to militancy." |
"She is a schoolteacher named Jiya. She is a warm, bubbly, intelligent young woman who's concerned about education, and concerned about the city and the people of Halwapur [the fictional city where the show is set]. ... And then of course, to fight the bad guys, and to hide her identity the way superheroes do, she puts on the burqa. And it's a really cool, sleek burqa, and she can leap off buildings and glide from, almost like a flying squirrel ... and she only fights with pens and books, because I wanted a nonviolent message. Her message is, 'Justice, Peace and Education for All.' "--Vía NPR.
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Mapa de Internet (vía). |
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Light After Death (Mihoko Ogaki) |
If you zoom from the biggest object, The Observable Universe (8.8 x 10E26 ... or 880,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000m across), all the way down to the hydrogen atom's proton nucleus (1.7 x 10E-15 ... or 0.0000000000000017m across), you will have zoomed in over 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x! Unbelievable isn't it? Our universe really is immensely massive and surprisingly small.Se recomienda que se vea en full screen.
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Sagan abogó por el conocimiento íntegro: ciencias y humanidades |
"Fue bien interesante. Ella (Susan Hockfield*, presidenta de MIT) decía que hay que empezar desde temprano a lograr más ingenieros, más científicos, más matemáticos y menos gente de otras áreas por que ahí está la economía del conocimiento".
"She believes that MIT's strengths in engineering and science uniquely position the Institute to pioneer newly evolving, interdisciplinary areas and to translate them into practice. Together with MIT's traditions of excellence in architecture and planning, management, and the humanities, arts and social sciences, these strengths will allow the Institute to continue to develop powerful solutions to our era's greatest challenges."** The Milgram Experiment.