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heyitsnoah: National Geographic’s International Photography...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:07:06 -0500

National Geographic’s International Photography Contest 2009 - The Big Picture - Boston.com

startmeup: Today is the birthday of someone very special whom I...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:53:30 -0500

Today is the birthday of someone very special whom I love very much.

Someone who celebrates life every day.

Today, I celebrate your life!

I have so many warm thoughts for you I wish to share on this day…I hope this next year brings you joy, new knowledge, new challenges, inspiration, excitement, new skills, and if possible, even more love and rigor then you bring to the world. I think this will be a wonderful year.

Happy Birthday

Cirkus Cirkor This weekend I attended Cirkus Cirkor, the...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:58:51 -0500

Cirkus Cirkor

This weekend I attended Cirkus Cirkor, the Swedish physical spectacle about life (a truly stunning performance work). Sadly, the cirkus has moved on from New York’s BAM. Try to catch it next year if you can!

The Origins of English Words by Joseph T. Shipley (a short...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:33:55 -0500

The Origins of English Words by Joseph T. Shipley

(a short excerpt from section, Frequent Word Forms and Transformations).

In the 16th and 17th centuries, in the fervor of the English Renaissance, writers took pride in the invention of words from Greek and Latin sources. They proudly put forth their own creations, and disdainfully put down those of their fellows.

Thus Puttenham in 1589 boasted of having formed scientific, idiom, methodical, savage, audacious, numerosity, implete, politien; the last three have not survived. In 1592 Thomas Nashe heaped scorn upon Gabriel Harvey for having coined jovial, rascality, notoriety, extensively. In his play The Poetaster Ben Jonson makes John Marston spew out the words retrograde, damp, strenuous, spurious, defunct, clumsy, prorump, obstupefact, ventositious; the last three died aborning, although obstupefact sounds worth a resurrection.

Shakespeare, as might be expected, was the greatest wordfacturologist of them all. Well known is his one-time honorificabilitudinitatibus, with its long alternation on consonants and vowels. Less well know is the fact that of the 17,677 words Shakespeare used in his works, well over 1700 are recorded there for the first time, one new word in every ten. Here is a tiny sampling: aerial, assassination, auspicious, barefaced, castigate, clangor, critic, critical, compunctious, countless, what the dickens, eventful, laughable, leapfrog, misplaced, monumental, seamy, lapse, hurry, perusal, sportive, impartial.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, these are the 100...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:49:00 -0500

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, these are the 100 commonest English words. Interestingly, the first word with more than one syllable is about (45), and the first noun to appear is time (55).

You will find lots to learn on this webpage, you should take a read.

"Language is the garden of man’s mind; its fertility, and its beauty, rise from its roots. Il..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:35:00 -0500

“Language is the garden of man’s mind; its fertility, and its beauty, rise from its...

In this beautiful eight minute film, Making Andrew, by Dutch...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:35:26 -0500

In this beautiful eight minute film, Making Andrew, by Dutch film maker Margot Donkervoort, you can see the process from start to finish of Guy Reid making a sculpture.

Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:15:00 -0500

Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel.

In this photograph you see part of Abalos Undae dune field.

(via Martian landscapes - The Big Picture)

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship,..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:02:28 -0500

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a...

waysiveavoidedstudyingforfinals: If you’ve never seen this...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:05:29 -0500

waysiveavoidedstudyingforfinals:

If you’ve never seen this video, in which Mr. Rogers defends the use of public money for PBS, you really owe it to yourself to watch this.

A very beautiful video. I have watched it three times now.

What's your philosophy type?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:50:40 -0500

What's your philosophy type?: Apparently I’m most similar to Zeno of Citium.

Union street community graden

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:18:09 -0500

Union street community graden

Writing back and forth with friend and physicist, PK, he said to...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:04:00 -0500

Writing back and forth with friend and physicist, PK, he said to me, “Learning is the time rate change of understanding.”

This is how you can visualize that definition as an equation.

My questions are:

How do I define/ quantify Understanding?
How do I define/ quantify Time?

If you have any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, conclusions, insight, or inspiration please send it to me in email form!

Photo

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:34:32 -0500

Good bye, ivy. See you in Spring.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:44:00 -0500

Good bye, ivy. See you in Spring.

Hey Barack Obama, we voted for you so the war would end, not get worse.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:15:00 -0500

Hey Barack Obama, we voted for you so the war would end, not get worse.

A few days ago I was flying through Atlanta, Georgia on my way...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:49:00 -0500

A few days ago I was flying through Atlanta, Georgia on my way back to Brooklyn. On the descent we flew by downtown Atlanta. Looking out my window I noticed that the shape of the city skyline resembled the shape of a mountain range.

For me, this was enough information to see a connection between city building and mountain building. I’m currently studying geology, architecture, and urban planning to learn more.

* The image is Atlanta, Georgia over Mt. McKinley (in Alaska).

REV. BILLY TALEN ANNOUNCES $100 MILLION LOTTERY WIN

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:41:39 -0500

REV. BILLY TALEN ANNOUNCES $100 MILLION LOTTERY WIN: startmeup: “I am now a legitimate candidate!”...

Good word

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:39:44 -0500

Crepuscular Pronunciation: cre·pus·cu·lar \kri-ˈpəs-kyə-lər\ A term used to describe some animals...

By way of Kirlian photogrphy, my friend Jav, took these...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:19:39 -0500

By way of Kirlian photogrphy, my friend Jav, took these beautiful photographs. Kirlian photography is a technique that allows the photographer to capture the energy field of an object (it is sensitive to the light coming from the object itself, as opposed to the light that is bouncing off the surface).

One of the images is arugula, one is a macadamia, and the other is a piece of watermelon. Can you tell which is which?