I find it strange to be living in a time when TV series and movies are based on video games. I’ve used computers from the moment they became affordable for the average joe or jane, but I never played video games. I felt I spent plenty enough time on computer. I didn’t want to base my down time around it…
Uggh… summer cold… first time I’ve been sick since before COVID became a thing… letting down my guard:(
Similarly, in the depths of despair the muse is likely to desert the creative artist, but the recovery period may be highly fruitful. ‘Among the writers in the Iowa Workshop study’, Andreasen reports, ‘essentially all of them reported that they were unable to work creatively during periods of depression or mania’. It is the later period, during remission, that brings the creativity…
McGilchrist, Iain . The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World (p. 449). Perspectiva Press. Kindle Edition.
Creativity of all sorts seems bound up with mental illness, or perhaps more gently put, a psyche out of balance…
… it is also a common observation – which means, naturally, that while quite probably right, it will prove a test of ingenuity for some kinds of psychologist to ‘prove’ it wrong – that there is a high rate of mental illness in comedians.
McGilchrist, Iain . The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World (p. 448). Perspectiva Press. Kindle Edition.
July 5, 2023 - by Heather Cox Richardson
Even more troubling was the tweet from Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) attributing to founder Patrick Henry a false quotation saying that “this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” Historian Seth Cotlar noted that the quotation actually came from the April 1956 issue of a virulently antisemitic white nationalist magazine, The Virginian.
From this morning’s walk…
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#photographs #originalphotography #visualnotes #quotidian
The more we are strong and daring the more we will diminish necessity in favor of expending freedom. “We are responsible,” we say, “for what we are. We create ourselves. We have done as we have chosen to do, and by so doing have become what we are. If we don’t like it, tomorrow is another day, and we may do differently.
Throughout our lives the proportion of necessity to freedom depends upon our tolerance of conflict: the greater our tolerance the more freedom we retain, the less our tolerance the more we jettison; for high among the uses of necessity is relief from tension.
In case anyone here is in the area…
Images of my photographic work installed in an exhibition. Show opens this weekend.
From this morning’s walk…
Not the decisive moment. Moments earlier the man had danced up to the utility pole and did a “Singing In The Rain” spin around it. I like that when I look at this image I see something nobody else sees.
From this morning’s walk…
I made this sequence of images because it’s my country’s birthday tomorrow. A sometimes great, sometimes not great nation built on an ideal that seems further out of reach than ever.
From this mornings walk…
Because, you know, the shadow is so gorgeous…
Fresh from the market. Got some garlic scapes too. Gonna make a pesto with the garlic scapes, roast the “blooming cauliflower,” and serve them together. I think that will be quite nice…
The left hemisphere simply ignores, dismisses, and ultimately denies the existence of, anything it can’t pin down and measure.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/bYJ7t8U
This prejudice against broadly true generalisations, on the basis that we can all think of examples that don’t conform, is one of the prevalent fallacies of our age. All knowledge is uncertain, but not therefore invalid.
— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist a.co/bkVyR6I
I am certainly not a fan of the way wedding website designer case made its way to SCOTUS. That said, I imagine myself a website designer being approached by a white supremacist group to design their website and wonder, do I really want the government to force me to take them on as a client?
From this morning’s walk…
I’m not sure why the app is saying uh-oh… was I an overachiever? Is that a bad thing? At any rate, my final tally of words written during the 1000 words of summer challenge. I think I have the beginnings of a novella. We’ll see.
The perpetual growth paradigm is our norm for the foreseeable future…
In 50 years, you’ll see semiconductor foundries, fiber-optics, pharmaceutical production, and it’ll be happening at the equivalent scale of Taiwan,” said Delian, when I asked him to give me his best guess on what space will look like in 50 years. “You’ll basically have industrial parks in orbit, a few people who work in those industrial parks, some permanently, some who treat it more like an oil rig — three weeks in space, three weeks on Earth — basically shuttling back and forth.
Because the profit margin is Huge…
Drug manufacturing is incredibly profitable. Potentially it’s the highest margin physical product literally ever, according to an article on Not Boring by Packy McCormick, from which I will draw extensively for the rest of this brief story. It’s so lucrative because, broadly, molecules that are cheap to produce can be sold for comparatively astronomical prices — some in the hundreds of billions of dollars per kilogram range — for the lifetime of the drug’s patent.
… so offensive, I don’t know where to begin.
My wife loves eggplant. Me, not so much. We both give this eggplant pasta dish a big thumbs up!
I am a liberal with questions about Affirmative Action. Apparently, I am not alone.
Notably, given perceived partisan and racial divisions on the issue, pluralities of black Americans (47 percent), Democrats (48 percent), political liberals (46 percent), and Biden voters (46 percent) also oppose the consideration of racial background in college admissions.
30 Signs You Are Living In An Information Crappocalyps
Truth wears rags while deception travels on a private jet.
This is a must read…
Gravitational Waves Should Change How You See the World - The Atlantic
Every gravitational wave in that background the NANOGrav team found is humming through the very constitution of the space you inhabit right now. Every proton and neutron in every atom from the tip of your toes to the top of your head is shifting, shuttling, and vibrating in a collective purr within which the entire history of the universe is implicated. And if you put your hand down on a chair or table or anything else nearby, that object, too, is dancing that slow waltz.
… how awesome is this!