Saturday, September 19, 2020

A fool sees himself as another...

The Bell Fort Worth Alliance Air Show was named best in the country.

Do rocks get your rocks off? Then you'll love this huge, early 19th century drawing of minerals.

Mark Bradford, Q2, 2020. source


Not too surprising, but a study has confirmed that people don't react uniformly to abstract paintings. Like is black about death or life?

Wabi, sabi, awari, and furiu. Learning about these Zen aesthetics was eye-opening.

  • sabi - The necessity and pleasure of solitude. 
  • wabi - An appreciation of the commonplace.

Hungry?


Someone mashed up Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with Teletubbies and while that's interesting I prefer several others. Just go to YouTube and search for Teletubbies mashup and enjoy.

The lucky 13 behaviors of high trust leaders. #7 Get better.

Working from home hurts young people?

The case for the 6-hour workday.

The history of vinyl records - the LP.

A subway map version of the periodic table of elements.

Music in various stages of contemplation.

And then there's Predator, The Musical.

Bad news: lock picking by sound.

All the Night Stalkers' aircraft in poster form.

Background radiation is now limiting the performance of quantum computers.

Science has computed how long before the universe suffers "heat death" and every star is burned out. Before you click through, guess how many year. 10 to the power what?

Too hard? Try to guess the temperature of the last ice age.

This year's fall foliage map.

More pandemic resources:

More funny True Facts from Ze Frank: The Hummingbird Warrior.

Ever wondered how your butt got to look that way? Time for some butt evolution.

...but a wise man sees others as himself. ~Dogen

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