Absolutely gorgeous minimalist infographics of when fruits, vegetables, and herbs are in season, also available as prints.
Absolutely gorgeous minimalist infographics of when fruits, vegetables, and herbs are in season, also available as prints.
In a relationship, one mind revises the other; one heart changes its partner. This astounding legacy of our combined status as mammals and neural beings is limbic revision: the power to remodel the emotional parts of the people we love…
Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.
(i) Sheer egoism.
(ii) Aesthetic enthusiasm.
(iii) Historical impulse.
(iv) Political purpose.
– George Orwell, who would have been 109 today, defines and explains the four universal motives for creation. (via explore-blog)
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Such tricks suggest that we are often blind to the results of our own decisions. Once a choice is made, our minds tend to rewrite history in a way that flatters our volition, a fact magicians have exploited for centuries. “If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely,” said Teller, of the duo Penn and Teller, to Smithsonian magazine. “This is one of the darkest of all psychological secrets.
– Alex Stone, author of the newly released Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind, explains the science of illusion, further confirming our cognitive tendency to fool ourselves. (via explore-blog)
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Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Worry about…
Things not to worry about:
Don’t worry about popular opinion
Don’t worry about dolls
Don’t worry about the past
Don’t worry about the future
Don’t worry about growing up
Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don’t worry about triumph
Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don’t worry about mosquitoes
Don’t worry about flies
Don’t worry about insects in general
Don’t worry about parents
Don’t worry about boys
Don’t worry about disappointments
Don’t worry about pleasures
Don’t worry about satisfactions
Things to think about:
What am I really aiming at?
How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:
(a) Scholarship
(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them?
(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it?
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In a 1933 letter to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced this poignant and wise list of things to worry, not worry, and think about – the best father’s advice since John Steinbeck’s letter to his son on falling in love and this beautiful letter to 16-year-old Jackson Pollock by his dad.
From F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters.
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1. Space (“You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”)
2. Time (“It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”)
3. Time (“Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.)
4. Confidence (“Nothing will stop you being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.”)
5. Humor (“The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else.”)
– Monty Python’s John Cleese on the 5 factors to make your life more creative (via explore-blog)
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Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors: The Physical Underbelly of the Internet
Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter and people say it’s cool. It comes out on Sundays and offers the week’s best articles. Here’s an example. Like? Sign up., brainpickings.orgAn anatomical tour of the Internet by way of 60 Hudson Street, a nondescript epicenter of global data traffic.
We keep thinking and reading about the Internet as a cultural phenomenon, but what about its palpable…
RT @brainpicker: Bundled, Buried & Behind Closed Doors – fascinating short documentary about the physical underbelly of the Internet http://t.co/qcg2Pz45
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SUBMISSION: Bicycle Dismantled for Redesign
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