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An overly brief and incomplete history of yoga | Alison Hinks...

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:34:24 -0500

An overly brief and incomplete history of yoga | Alison Hinks Yoga

mypantsareonfire: passive/aggressivness at it’s best. Insert a...

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:19:14 -0500

passive/aggressivness at it’s best.

Insert a coin. Your selected piece of china will fall to the bottom of the vending machine. It will shatter. This project by artist Yarisa and Kublitz. If you feel better when you do it, because the designers contends that this machine will make you feel better.

thingsorganizedneatly: Pictures of the day: 31 December 2010 -...

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:16:02 -0500

thingsorganizedneatly:

Pictures of the day: 31 December 2010 - Telegraph

Artist Harwinder Singh Gill displays a special new year message he carved into the tips of coloured pencils in Amritsar, India

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"8. Beliefs are nothing to be proud of. Believing something is not an accomplishment. I grew up..."

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:14:49 -0500

“8. Beliefs are nothing to be proud of. Believing something is not an accomplishment. I grew up thinking that beliefs are something to be proud of, but they’re really nothing but opinions one refuses to reconsider. Beliefs are easy. The stronger your beliefs are, the less open you are to growth and wisdom, because “strength of belief” is only the intensity with which you resist questioning yourself. As soon as you are proud of a belief, as soon as you think it adds something to who you are, then you’ve made it a part of your ego. Listen to any “die-hard” conservative or liberal talk about their deepest beliefs and you are listening to somebody who will never hear what you say on any matter that matters to them — unless you believe the same. It is gratifying to speak forcefully, it is gratifying to be agreed with, and this high is what the die-hards are chasing. Wherever there is a belief, there is a closed door. Take on the beliefs that stand up to your most honest, humble scrutiny, and never be afraid to lose them.”

- David Cain, “9 Mind-Bending Epiphanies That Turned My World Upside-Down”, Raptitude.com

Between Bears (by Eran Hilleli)

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:16:53 -0400

Between Bears (by Eran Hilleli)

Which Naturals Are Backed By Serious Science? - No More Dirty Looks - GOOD

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:10:47 -0400

Which Naturals Are Backed By Serious Science? - No More Dirty Looks - GOOD

Double positives

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:21:40 -0500

meaghano:

superfluidity:

The eminent linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin of Oxford once gave a lecture in which he asserted that there are many languages in which a double negative makes a positive, but none in which a double positive makes a negative — to which the Columbia philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, sitting in the audience, sarcastically replied, “Yeah right.”

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rocky (via lifeinterstitial)

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:17:13 -0500

rocky (via lifeinterstitial)

Hands Off Clitoridectomy: What Our Revulsion Reveals about Ourselves, by Yael Tamir

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:14:25 -0500

Hands Off Clitoridectomy: What Our Revulsion Reveals about Ourselves, by Yael Tamir:

One of the best discussions of the controversy surrounding female genital mutilation I have ever read.

Bruce Mau Design's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:18:34 -0500

Bruce Mau Design's Incomplete Manifesto for Growth:

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1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you’ll never have real growth.

3. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

Fascinating interactive graphic. A Peek Into Netflix Queues -...

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:01:34 -0500

Fascinating interactive graphic.

A Peek Into Netflix Queues - NYTimes

In Class, Marines Learn Cultural Cost Of Conflict : NPR

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:12:30 -0500

In Class, Marines Learn Cultural Cost Of Conflict : NPR:

Breaking The Anthropologists’ Code?

Holmes-Eber’s mission puts her in a conflict of her own with some fellow anthropologists, who see collaborating with the military as a traitorous act. The issue makes her squirm. “It’s awkward,” she finally laughs.

Anthropologists used to work closely with the military during conflicts in the 20th century, she explains. But during the Vietnam era, some of that support had controversial results.

“Anthropology was used as intelligence, used to destroy certain villages and harm populations,” Holmes-Eber says. Horrified that their knowledge had hurt a culture, anthropologists set a do-no-harm standard. For many, that means not working with the military.

"Once a friend of mine—a woman, of course—said to me that since pain was only possible if you looked..."

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:50:22 -0500

“Once a friend of mine—a woman, of course—said to me that since pain was only possible if you looked backward to the past or forward to the future she had eliminated the whole problem by living every moment by itself; every moment, she said, was filled with absolute silence. I have tried this, I will try anything, but I don’t understand how it works.”

- Alice Munro, “Tell Me Yes or No” (via heartbeatcity)

"Does happiness strain credibility? Is there something in the human spirit that distrusts its own..."

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:18:16 -0500

““Does happiness strain credibility? Is there something in the human spirit that distrusts its own appetites, its own yearning for healing and contentment? Can we not believe that two adults, in love, might resolve to make their own miracle?””

- In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O’Brien (via beenthinking)

64 photos by 64 photographers - BOOOOOOOM!

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:30:00 -0500

64 photos by 64 photographers - BOOOOOOOM!

Supposing time and money are limitless,

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:28:59 -0500

what’s your research project?

"Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to..."

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:27:30 -0500

“Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.”

- Rebecca West

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14 Rare Color Photos From the FSA-OWI | PDN Photo of the Day

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:26:00 -0500

14 Rare Color Photos From the FSA-OWI | PDN Photo of the Day

V1 GALLERY artist

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:49:00 -0500

V1 GALLERY artist

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Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:44:00 -0500

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