> “You don’t need to know a thing about quantum entanglement, wherein one atom can affect another even though they are separated by tremendous distance, to have some sense that our lives are always larger than the physical limitations within which they occur. We exist apart from our existences,…
via Oxford Academic [http://oupacademic.tumblr.com/post/88621717265/whatisabook-wentworth-dillon]. I rediscovered this while reviewing liked posts over at Tumblr. Seems to validate the Rule of Fifty and is certainly a good thought to hold the day after I drafted a reading list for next year.…
The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20141221/] pointed the way to this thought of Henry David Thoreau about winter. > In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are half concealed, but from…
> Waking up early is the closest you can get to a secret hideout. — Mark Larson (@mlarson) December 21, 2014 [https://twitter.com/mlarson/status/546647928119754752]…
New Scientist [https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/545019083255988224] reports a remarkable use of mind control. I've seen [http://mikeschultz.tumblr.com/post/23180116791/the-pbs-news-hour-reports-on-technology-that-lets] and read about [http://mikeschultz.tumblr.com/post/30668423162/atavist-in-the-electric-mind-jessica-benko] something like this before. Remarkable as it is, I had to chuckle when I…
> To the person who just stole 70 lbs of Christmas packages off my porch — Jesus loves you, but it’s gonna take me a bit to come around. — Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) December 17, 2014 [https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/545294133087453184] This awakens memory of a story from my college…
> True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. > What are People For via Brain Pickings [http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/brainpickings/rss/~3/oRPAWzTPVag/] Two or three…
Jim Clark provides an aniation of the only known recording of Whitman's voice.…