Link 4 Nov 21 notes Lapidarium notes: Symmetry: A ‘Key to Nature’s Secrets’ The five regular polyhedra....»

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Symmetry: A ‘Key to Nature’s Secrets’


The five regular polyhedra. Plato argued in Timaeus that these were the shapes of the bodies making up the elements: earth consists of little cubes, while fire, air, and water are made of polyhedra with four, eight, and twenty identical…

Link 4 Nov 243 notes YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: Victor Hugo's alphabet»

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Have you noticed how picturesque the letter Y is & how innumerable its meanings are? The tree is a Y, the junction of two roads forms a Y two converging rivers, a donkey’s head & that of an ox, the glass with its stem, the lily on its stalk & the beggar lifting his arms are a Y. This…

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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
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Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

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What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
— Sylvia Plath  (via nonchalant-beatnik)

(Source: wreck-loose)

Link 3 Jul 17 notes Lapidarium notes: ☞ Why we must remember to delete – and forget – in the digital age...»

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Why we must remember to delete – and forget – in the digital age

“Human knowledge is based on memory. But does the digital age force us to remember too much? Victor Mayer-Schönberger argues that we must delete and let go. (…) “Quite literally, Google knows more about us than we can…

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Everything comes from experience; yet not from actual experience, reiterated by each individual with each generation, but instead from experience accumulated by the entire ancestry of the species in the course of its evolution.
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Let’s look at the bright side: coming in second means that I won’t have to give a speech.

Photo 9 Jun 716 notes mattybing1025:

Today in 1963, this cool cat was born | June 9th, 1963
Happy 48th birthday Johnny Depp!!

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Today in 1963, this cool cat was born | June 9th, 1963

Happy 48th birthday Johnny Depp!!
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El Pescador by Joaquín Sorolla, 1904

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El Pescador by Joaquín Sorolla, 1904

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