25 OCT 2017 by ideonexus
A Sick Burn
Yet your prison without coherent design continues to imprison you. How can this be, if it has no strong places? The rational prisoner exploits the weak places, creates order from chaos: instead, collectives like the FSF vindicate their jailers by building cells almost compatible with the existing ones, albeit with more features. The journalist with three undergraduate degrees from MIT, the researcher at Microsoft, and the senior scientist at Apple might volunteer a few words about the regulat...Folksonomies: insults
Folksonomies: insults
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notes12 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
A Wish for Children to Understand the Physical Sciences
If one might wish for impossibilities, I might then wish that my children might be well versed in physical science, but in due subordination to the fulness and freshness of their knowledge on moral subjects. ... Rather than have it the principal thing in my son's mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament. 1 notes
notesThomas Arnold speaking about his own children, and his wish for them to understand and appreciate the grandeur of the cosmos.
10 JAN 2011 by TGAW
Sarajevo and the Importance of Trees
Do whatever you can to stop the killing, to bring about peace, and then bring us trees.Folksonomies: trees
Folksonomies: trees
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notesIn 1992, the city of Sarajevo had 26,111 trees. Three years of war later, only 6,117 remained. Kemal Kurspahic, the editor in chief of a Sarajevo newspaper, articulated the importance of trees in the city. His first wish was for peace. The second thing on his list-- trees.
