May 2012
3 posts
“You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:...”
– — Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl
This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their...
April 2012
14 posts
2 tags
“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thatkindofwoman)
5 tags
March 2012
1 post
February 2012
7 posts
“In Arabic, the word “bayt” translates literally as house, but its connotations...”
– An excerpt from Anthony Shadid’s House of Stone, his forthcoming memoir excerpted on the New York Times. Beautiful, beautiful writing. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one...”
– Claude Monet (via twotonmantaray)
“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral”
(source: npr)
So funny. It’d be good to have priests with physics background. I just wonder if any would want to be a priest.
January 2012
13 posts
“Elephants have been known to die of broken hearts if a mate dies. They refuse to...”
– Unknown (via cosive) This is really tragic if it is true. There will be no elephants left sooner than we think.
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” ― Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Francis Fukuyama on the Financial Crisis
There is also this problem that both you and Jeff Sachs have written on, that if you’re constantly critical of government, and say you don’t like government, the government you get is going to be of lower quality because it gets deprived of talent and resources. This, in turn, confirms your view of government as incompetent and it becomes a vicious circle.
It’s what’s an economist would call a...
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. It is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead
And then a long wave of warmth crossed the small town. A flooding sea of hot air; it seemed as if someone had left a bakery door open. The heat pulsed among the cottages and bushes and children. The icicles dropped, shattering, to melt. The doors flew open. The windows flew up. The children worked off their wool clothes. The housewives shed their bear disguises. The snow dissolved and showed last...
“Do you ever wonder if—well, if there are people living on the third planet?’ ‘The third planet is incapable of supporting life,’ stated the husband patiently. ‘Our scientists have said there’s far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.” ― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles
“Here’s what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird,” said May Kasahara. “Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What...
“with short hair you begin to crave pearl necklaces, long earrings, and a variety of sunglasses. and you brush your teeth more often. short hair removes obvious femininity and replaces it with style. when it starts growing out a little and losing its style, you have to wear sunglasses until you can get it to the hairdresser. that’s why you need a variety. short hair makes you aware of...
“Create (something dangerous). Mediocrity isn’t a quest to be pursued — but...”
– Mastering The Art of Living Meaningfully Well - Umair Haque
December 2011
12 posts
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via twotonmantaray)
“Political scientists have long recognized that Americans are much more...”
– Below the Surface, Surprising Trust in Government (via ryking)
“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.” - Dante
Can’t decide if he was right on this.
“People smoke, Dichter explained, because it is both a sign of virility and a...”
– In America in the 1930s a Viennese psychologist named Ernest Dichter implored advertisers to explore consumers’ unconscious desires. His insights revolutionised marketing and brought sex to advertising. (via theeconomist)
“We’re becoming the men we wanted to marry”
– Gloria Steinem (via sinnumero)
It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen - 99% by Behance
November 2011
0 posts
