Centripetal Notion// category

I can relate, especially this weekend.
Via Chris.

Monday 25 Jan, 2010 at 2:52 am
Comics + Humor + Internet + Life
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Hofstadter’s Law
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Parkinson’s Law
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Pretty sure this could turn into some kind of recursive loop if you’re not careful.

Sunday 24 Jan, 2010 at 10:46 pm
Life + Philosophy + Productivity
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Somehow I got sucked into watching this. Kevin Rose of Digg & Tim Ferriss of The Four Hour Work Week have started recording videos together, talking about everything from startups to nutrition, travel, technology, culture, etc.
They’ve started calling the series “Random” which is just about the same as not having a name at all. But [...]

Wednesday 20 Jan, 2010 at 8:26 pm
Culture + Food + Health + Internet + Life + Literature + Stories + Talk + Technology + Travel + Video + World
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“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. When I give myself, I become more. When I feel most destroyed, I am about to grow. When I desire nothing, a great deal comes to me.”

Wednesday 16 Sep, 2009 at 7:31 am
Life
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Via @thelastminute:
In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it’s too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of [...]

Wednesday 10 Jun, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Biology + Environment + Geology + Life + World
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VIDEO (via Phil Plait)

Sunday 14 Dec, 2008 at 2:14 am
Humor + Life + Technology
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Neuroscientist Jill Taylor describes her experience with a stroke.

Friday 21 Mar, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Biology + Life + Philosophy + Science + Universe
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Confirms my theory that skin color is a function of the earth’s axis and exposure to solar radiation. Duh.

Monday 28 Jan, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Environment + Information Design + Life + World
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“I for one am afraid that American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am concerned that to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic, to settle for unrealistic abstractions that ignore concrete situations.”

Thursday 24 Jan, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Culture + Health + Life + Literature + Philosophy + Psychology + World
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A reversed-polarity sunspot was detected today, marking solar minimum and the beginning of the 24th solar cycle (since humans first recorded the undulating pattern of solar intensity nearly 400 years ago).

Friday 4 Jan, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Astronomy + Life + Physics + Science + Universe
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