June 2012
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else,...”
– Shauna Niequist (via danseurs)
“When you are actually going to have your last meal, you’ll either be too sick to...”
– Flavorwire » The Wisdom of Nora Ephron: 20 Invaluable Pieces of Advice (via dendroica)
“If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there’s slightly too...”
– Epicurious.com’s Q&A with Nora Ephron (via epicurious)
“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”
– Nora Ephron, Remarks to Wellesley College Class of 1996 (via reentangled)
“What failure of imagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other...”
– Rest in peace, Nora Ephron.
You always knew exactly what to say.
(via noparenthesis)
The Wife of Wrath: What I Won’t MissDry skinBad... →
wifeofwrath:
What I Won’t Miss
Dry skin Bad dinners like the one we went to last night E-mail Technology in general My closet Washing my hair Bras Funerals Illness everywhere Polls that show that 32 percent of the American people believe in creationism Polls Fox TV The collapse of the dollar Bar mitzvahs …
Where Wireless Speeds of 2.56 Terabytes Per Second... →
futurejournalismproject:
Researchers have harnessed streams of light to transfer massive amounts of data. In a recent test, they hit 2.56 terabytes per second. Simplify the language and that’s about the equivalent of transferring over 67,000 songs per second.
Before getting too giddy, this was an experiment over one meter. Still though, add this to a very interesting, data heavy future.
Via...
“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, who has his very own Explore tag.
Hear him at his most eloquent.
(via explore-blog)
“I would teach how science works as much as what science knows. I would assert...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via fuckyeahsexyatheists)
“If you’re going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not...”
– Louis L’Amour (via amandaonwriting)
“In stories, when someone behaves uncharacteristically, we take it as a...”
– Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, “The Story” (via rainbeauxcrash)
“Such tricks suggest that we are often blind to the results of our own decisions....”
– 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)
“In a relationship, one mind revises the other; one heart changes its partner....”
– How Love Rewires the Brain (via explore-blog)
“If you know yourself, then you’ll not be harmed by what is said about you.”
– Arab Proverb (via delascielo)
“I will no longer be made to feel ashamed of existing. I will have my voice:...”
– Gloria Anzaldúa (via queerhappy)
The Role of Architecture in Humanity's Story →
youmightfindyourself:
Q: What is the fundamental purpose of architecture?
[Martha Thorne] That’s a very simple yet complicated question. Architecture exists to create the physical environment in which people live. Obviously that’s a very simple answer, but if we deep digger we see the complexities. What is the built environment? what constitutes quality of life? how do architects determine...
“There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life...”
– —Milan Kundera (via danchaon)
