Bruno, De Umbris, 12th Concept (M)

Deformed animals take beautiful forms in the heavens. Metals which lack luster shine when in their own planets. For neither man, nor animals, nor metals, exist here as they there exist. For whatever happens here, occurs there with greater vigor. The virtues, which separate and multiply in matter, there combine and unify. Clearly, as the Platonists say: ideas are not the only part of living life and developing reason; illumination, lifebringing and unification, conforming to superior agencies; these are the reasons by which one develops intelligence and memory of the forms.

-Giordano Bruno

De Umbris Idearum

Twelfth Concept M

Bruno, De Umbris, 23rd Intention (Z)

For shadows, there is no time save this time, no space save this space, no motion save this motion. It is abstracted from all truth, yet is not without it. But, it’s also not impossible to think (if this is an ideal shadow) that the opposite, or something else is also true, since it is all one. With shadows, there is no opposite, neither darkness nor light. So man took refuge in the Tree of Knowledge, and knew shadow and light, truth and falsehood, good and evil, when God called out to him: “Adam, where are you?”

-Giordano Bruno

De Umbris Idearum

Twenty-Third Intention: Z

 

Fresh Guacamole - PES

Oscar nominated short film. Tasty.

Links for Later 2-22-13

1. Boiling Spacetime: how time works in the graphic novel
2. "The body is everywhere"
3. Do you own your cell phone? DMCA says, not so much
4. The brain is not computable
5. Shortage of PhD jobs

Meteorite Strikes Russia

Lots of amazing footage is coming out today following a meteorite impact in the Urals region of Russia. Big validation for the Russian car cam trend.

Links for Later 2-14-13

1. Oscar Pistorius charged with murdering Reeva Steenkamp.
2. Tesla reveals trip log for NYT review, revealing anomalies.
3. Notes from Webstock. Great material here.
4. Mouse models of inflammation called into question.

Quote of the Day

The best way to complain is to make things.

-James Murphy

Links for Later 2-9-13

1. Justin Peters has a long profile of Aaron Swartz in Slate
2. Dan Blank and Seth Godin talk about Seth's Kickstarter, multi-book publishing
3. Early color film footage from 1922

Memento Mori

Take a look at this photograph of a group of naval cadets on the front porch of the superintendant's residence. It's a fine day, sometime around 1900, probably in the spring. Meaningful glances are passing among several of the young people on the porch, suggesting a lot of stories in their future.

But from our standpoint, all of the stories are done. All of the people in this photo went about their lives, fell in love, fought, grew old, died. A lot of art is like that, but very little of it states this fact so clearly.

Paul Laffoley on Alchemy

(via boingboing)

The Future University

There's a heated debate going on over the future of higher education. Will the Next Big Thing be MOOCs/online classes? Over on The Awl, Clay Shirky responded today to Maria Bustillos's earlier article, which was critical of the MOOC model, and which followed Aaron Bady's earlier Inside Higher Ed post on the disruption of higher education's ecosystem by the online hordes.

Judah Pollack Defends the Liberal Arts

Or, the importance of narrative in our thoughts.

Rail Riding Surfer Hatchets 300 Pound Jesus, Saves Woman

Rock on, Kai, rock on. Best interview ever.

Marcin Ryczek - Swans

Marcin Ryczek found the crucial moment in this scene of a man feeding swans on a snowy day.

(via Colossal)

Links for Later 2-3-13

1. How to debate Paul Krugman (like an idiot)
2. How to write your PhD Thesis in three months
3. Ex-votos
4. Bill Gates' annual letter
5. The history of the Liberal Arts
6. Visualizing neural activity in the brain of a zebrafish in real time
7. The Lost Labyrinth of Versailles

The Return of Nic Jones

Folk legend Nic Jones made rare concert appearances in 2011 and 2012, playing in the videos above with his son Joseph. Good to see him up on stage after a long absence.