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Benjamin Zander on TED
Among the most inspiringly beautiful things I've watched this year; on life, (classical) music, the universality of music, of simple lessons in life. Featuring a tear-wrenching piece of Chopin too. HAHA. -
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This be my yuletide letter. I didn't even know I have to write one, and just realised it upon seeing lixia84 and sandrine post theirs. Anyway.
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On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
I don't usually do fanfiction rec, but I have to. This is simply among the best general fiction I've read in a long time. If you have read The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and you have watched Star Trek (any reincarnation; be it TOS, TNG, the new rebootverse movie, etc), I am sure you're able to appreciate this.
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Will see to it when I turn around you'd be screaming my name
ELINOR OSTROM FOR NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 2009
(Yeah by that I mean Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson.)
FIRST FEMALE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER IN ECONOMICS, BITCHES.
Well I'm sure this is a controversial-less post, ain't it so. *grins* Unless you want to dispute this as yet another Oscar-esque award. I'm so proud to finally see a woman winning ( Read more... ) -
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In the battle between yourself and the world, second the world.
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Earth below us, drifting, falling, floating weightless - calling home.
MY UNIVERSITY, IT IS AWESOME.
Frontiers of Science (website here) is an initiative of the University of Sydney library. It brings you back to the year 1961, when, to quote, "a brand new kind of comic was launched in the pages of the Sydney Morning Herald. More science fact than science fiction, presented in dramatic black and white imagery, ( Read more... ) -
問征夫以前路，恨晨光之熹微。
既自以心為形役，奚惆悵而獨悲。
悟已往之不諫，知來者之可追。
- tao yuanming; accompaniment to 歸去來辭
