> “Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in…
> This slide should be the fourth law of thermodynamics pic.twitter.com/f27oJVkNqV [http://t.co/f27oJVkNqV] /@theagilepirate [https://twitter.com/theagilepirate] via @wilbanks [https://twitter.com/wilbanks] — Paul Kedrosky (@pkedrosky) May 30, 2014 [https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/statuses/472172060244865024]…
An amazing appreciation from Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren's How to Read a Book via Brain Pickings [http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/12/14/how-to-read-a-book-marginalia/?utm_content=buffer0d678&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer] > When you buy…
Spent most of the morning touring The National Museum of the American Indian's conservation facility in Suitland, Maryland. There's a huge number of beautiful objects there—clothes, baskets, beadwork, wooden boxes, wall hangings, cradles, canoes, and huge totem poles—and even ceremonial rooms and outdoor areas.…
Wow! Now being tested for approval at 12 locations. Video at the link. > Therapy Pioneered In Chicago Could Be Breakthrough For Stroke Patients, http://t.co/PfLZRwA3gj — Natl Stroke Assoc (@natlstrokeassoc) June 4, 2014 [https://twitter.com/natlstrokeassoc/statuses/474264352195743744]…
> “When I stop [walking], I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.” —Rousseau — Out of Eden (@outofedenwalk) June 3, 2014 [https://twitter.com/outofedenwalk/statuses/473912516439863296] Paul Salopek should know—he's on a "walking tour" of man's migration from Africa…
Knishes aren't in my baking repertory even though I enjoy eating them and am happy to say that I've visited Yonah Schimmel's Knishery [http://www.knishery.com] in New York City. Laura Silver, author of Knish: In Search of The Jewish Soul Food, was…
An article about literary sites in Ireland [http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/in-ireland-climbing-the-summits-of-the-national-literature/2014/05/29/c93baf96-dd29-11e3-b745-87d39690c5c0_story.html] prompted me to share this image from a postcard that's lived on my desk for more than 20 years.…