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Emily Dickinson would tend to disagree: ؜ Crumbling is not an instant's Act A fundamental pause Dilapidation's processes Are organized Decays — ؜ 'Tis first a Cobweb on the Soul A …

> I don't think I could survive an amputation on modern cannabis alone, however. It's not an all-or-nothing proposition. My dad was a cancer patient with severe chronic pain. Canna…

Good point.

You can stably suspend graphite pencil lead on permanent magnetic fields. E.G.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeIizmhzPQc

This notion reduces the totality of human interaction to language. Do you think proto-huminoids who hadn't developed complex language felt lonely because they lacked an ability to …

Mad Magazine did this in 1963... "If kids designed their own Xmas toys": https://imgur.com/gallery/45RGR

Thank you for mentioning J. Nathan Kutz! Reading through this article, I saw similarities to Dynamic Mode Decomposition (I am not literate enough on the topic to elaborate). His Co…

Yeast has been genetically modified to produce psilocybin ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109671761... ). Researches have yielded the equivalent of about 60g d…

Counterexample: It is impossible to understand a new language without memorization. Memorization is critical, but it is not sufficient.

Which polls? Please be specific. Are the polling methods and results beyond the influence of Russian State? Further, even if they are correct, to what extent is their response base…

I'm running Chrome on Win10 and my records survived the migration, so your mileage may vary.

Tarkovsky was an Orthodox Christian, but his ideas about the irreducibility of experience parallel Zen: "Everybody asks me what things mean in my films. This is terrible! An artist…

If you are a fan, I strongly recommend Weird Studies' 2-part episode on Stalker. Phil and JF generalize the concept of "the zone" and discuss other examples of zones in art.

Got anything to trade for them?

Same. It goes without saying perhaps, but one consideration is what type of social contact you want. I work in a technical role and I miss my colleagues immensely. I feel best when…

breitbart.com is an approved news source on HN!?

You use your hand to clamp down one nostril. Lookup Nadi Shodhana.

Norbert Wiener discussed this in Cybernetics : "Another example of a purely mechanical feedback system — the one originally treated by Clerk Maxwell — is that of the governor of a …

There is a difference between awareness and judgement. What Tarkovsky is asking you to do is shut down your judgement to gain awareness. In the words of Alan Watts "You must go out…

I discovered Tarkovsky only last year. I didn't "get" him until the death of my father. Roiling in ineffable grief, I struggled to find meaning, to sum up the arc of my father's li…

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There is an exceptional explanation of this in the Adam Curtis documentary "The Century of Self." In the 20th century, advertizers pivoted from marketing on the basis of need to th…