February 2012
240 posts
In a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll last month, 2% of...
mentalflossr:
Only 6% knew that it’s Willard.
A nurse has recorded the most common regrets of... →
kateoplis:
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
Read on.
Style: Ithaka →
washingtonpoststyle:
This poem, by C.P. Cavafy, was read at journalist Anthony Shadid’s memorial at the American University of Beirut Tuesday.
As you set out for Ithaka hope the voyage is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians and Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: …
“They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist...”
– E.J. Dionne Jr.
“[W]hen thinking about difficult, exciting, interesting activities, such as...”
– The neuroscience of the constant tug-of-war between rationality and intuition in a world that sees them as a binary divide. (via)
Faster-than-light neutrino results were due to a... →
proofmathisbeautiful:
cab1729:
un:
discoverynews:
theweekmagazine:
And not just any mistake. A LOOSE CABLE.
“There was a good reason the measurements and reality weren’t lining up: a loose fiber optic cable was causing one of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos’ flight to produce spurious results.”
oops
KNEW IT!
oh damn! there goes that neutrino-walks-into-a-bar...
