February 2011
January 2011
Men are climbing to the moon but they don't seem... →
On February 5th of 1961, a recently divorced, mentally exhausted Marilyn Monroe was taken by her psychiatrist, Dr. Marianne Kris, and committed to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York. A harrowing stay in a padded cell followed; cut short after four days thanks only to an intervention by her first husband, Joe DiMaggio. On March 1st, Monroe - resting at the New York Hospital - wrote...
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“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed...”
– Charles Brower
Thomas Edison's 1911 Predictions for 2011 →
I’m especially interested in his prediction about books of the year 2011. Edison claimed that books would be printed on leaves of nickel, “so light to hold that the reader can enjoy a small library in a single volume.”
He goes on to explain that, “a book two inches thick will contain forty thousand pages, the equivalent of a hundred volumes; six inches in aggregate...
30,000 Used Chopsticks Transformed Into a Fallen... →
Jurassic Park Theme Played 1,000% Slower →
surprisingly, powerfully poignant
“I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via darkestwaves)
“I’m sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via darkestwaves)
“As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit...”
– Voltaire (via paxmachina)
“As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit...”
– Voltaire (via paxmachina)
