*i'm studying math for the GREs and this is where this topic comes from ( Read more... )

it was fucking beautiful today. i went biking at 10 this morning and then again at 4, both times the weather was perfect enough to wear a short sleeved tshirt ( Read more... )

it's so fucking hot in this city and my apartment doesn't have AC. but that is okay because my girlfriend and I are housesitting for someone who does. i was complaining about the heat the other day and someone was like...see? that's why i would never live in florida ( Read more... )

okay so one of the (many) problems with modern physics is that either our theories and particles are all screwed up or we just haven't yet found the evidence to the particle which explains why things have mass. this hypothesized particle is called the Higgs Boson. Atoms are a cloud of electrons one hundred millionth of a centimeter wide and a ( Read more... )

From the edge's annual question: What's your dangerous idea? [www.edge.org ( Read more... )

my eternal burning question: “how does this look from the inside out? from the outside in ( Read more... )

each and everything has a very specific use and i feel it is one of my jobs is to explore and navigate that use. each use is exclusive thus leaving me lots of room. one does not sit on warm cookies for example, 'sitting' being a very popular function, but in particular for cookies, this action does not serve their function. i find it very ( Read more... )

My mind wandered. I thought of this: how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments- we hear a word that sticks out in our mind or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly-we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger ( Read more... )

albums that, for a period of time in my life, would not leave my cd player and will always have a place in my heart ( Read more... )

How, by depicting a succession of spokes, may we hope to convey the speed or essence of a wheel which is revolving so rapidly as to be spokeless?
-ee cummings