27 5 / 2012
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27 5 / 2012
BYE, MOM. BYE, DAD. PLEASE STOP STRUGGLING. IT’S JUST A COUPLE YEARS IN A LABOR CAMP. I KNOW YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO RETIREMENT BUT YOU CO-SIGNED FOR COLLEGE, REMEMBER? IT WAS EITHER SELL YOU INTO INDENTURED SERVITUDE OR GET SOME CORPORATE CUBICLE JOB TO PAY BACK MY STUDENT LOANS.
NO OFFENSE, BUT I DIDN’T GO TO ART SCHOOL TO WORK IN AN OFFICE, OKAY? I NEED TO BE IN A NURTURING CREATIVE ENVIRONMENT.
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27 5 / 2012
Beach cabin in Haida Gwaii on the coast of British Columbia. Made of reclaimed driftwood milled locally. Submitted by Conrad Thiessen.
HERMIT-KAYLEE SAYS “YES.”
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27 5 / 2012
Difference Between Astronomy and Astrology
by Carl Edward Sagan — From Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
There are two ways to view the stars, as they really are.. or as we might wish them to be. These, are the Pleadeas a group of young stars leaving their stellar nurseries, gas, and dust, and this.. is the Crab Nebula, a stellar graveyard where gas and dust are being dispersed back into the interstellar medium. Inside it lies a pulsar. Both the Pleadeas and the Crab Nebula are in a constellation where Astrologers long ago named Taurus The Bull, They imagined it to influence our daily lives. Astronomers say, that the Planet Saturn is an immense globe of hydrogen and helium and circled by a ring of snowballs 50,000 Kilometers wide and that Jupiter’s great red spot was a giant storm raging for perhaps a 1,000,0000 years.
But Astrologers see the Planets, as affecting human character and fate. Jupiter represent a regal baring and a gentle disposition and Saturn the gravedigger fosters they say, stress, suspicion & evil. The Astronomers Mars was as real as the Earth, a world awaiting exploration. But the Astrologers saw Mars as a warrior a creator of quarrels, violence, and destruction. Astronomy and Astrology were not so distinct, for most of human history the one encompassed the other. But there came a time when Astronomy escaped from the confines of Astrology. The two traditions became to diverge in the life and mind of Johannes Kepler. It was he who demystified the heavens by discovering that a physical force laid behind the motions of the Planets.
He was the first astrophysicist and the last scientific astrologer. Intellectual foundations of astrology were swept away 300 years ago and yet it is still taken serious by yet many people. You ever notice how easy it is to find a magazine about astrology? Virtually every newspaper in America has a column on Astrology. Almost none, have even a weekly column on Astronomy. People wore Astrological pendants, checked their Horoscopes before leaving the house, even our languages preserve some astrological consciousness. For example take the word, “Disaster” it comes from the Greek for “Bad Star” Italians believed disease was caused by the influence of the stars its the origin of our word “Influenza”. The Zodiacal signs used by Astrologers even ornament this statue of Prometheus in New York City.
Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods…
MY MAN.
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27 5 / 2012
Hardcore, hard-wired: How the prevalence of porn is changing our everyday lives.
I’m quoted in the Independent today. “Has spent the past three years travelling to three continents, interviewing more than 150 young people to see how realistic our current views of sex and porn actually are” sounds so much more glamorous than “spends her days writing magazine articles from her couch”. Although both are technically correct.
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26 5 / 2012
Today I read a book
It was a book intended for someone much younger than me. Apparently it sort of shaped my generation as consumers of young adult fiction. Everyone around me was like “YOU HAVEN’T EVER READ THIS?”
Nope. Never. A travesty. Honestly. It’s the kind of book that would have really impacted me when I was 14. Somehow I missed it. Which is weird, because I read all the time. I guess re-reading Redwall a gazillion times sort of diminishes the amount of time you have to read other things.
But it was one of the best ways to spend 3 hours I can think of. Here’s to smart, socially-inept characters who come to understand the world around them and their place in it in 213 pages.
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