Goodbye 2011
you were a good year because you gave me the other most glorious being in all of creation, my daughter!
Mensagens
Mark Twain, November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Now this is Food Pron :-Þ or The Art of Andrea Bricco and Dianna Perrin
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter Andrea photography Dianna Food styling
Stanislaw Lem's The Astronauts 60th anniversary
From The Guardian : A spiky-haired, bespectacled animation of the Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem marches across Google's doodle this morning , as the search engine marks the 60th anniversary of the publication of his first book, The Astronauts . Lem remains best known for his cult novel Solaris , the story of an incomprehensible intelligence encountered on an alien planet. It has been adapted for cinema twice, by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney, 30 years later , and was first published in 1961, during the author's most fertile period, when he also produced his most famous works including Hospital of the Transfiguration, The Invincible and Tales of Pirx the Pilot. But the doodle, which sees the Lem figure encounter a giant robot, is commemorating publication of his lesser-known first book Astronauci (The Astronauts), which was released in 1951, 60 years ago. The story of ...
Marie Curie and other historic female scientists you should know
Emilie du Chatelet (1706 – 1749) Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, the daughter of the French court’s chief of protocol, married the marquis du Chatelet in 1725. She lived the life of a courtier and bore three children. But at age 27, she began studying mathematics seriously and then branched into physics. This interest intensified as she began an affair with the philosopher Voltaire, who also had a love of science. Their scientific collaborations—they outfitted a laboratory at du Chatelet’s home, Chateau de Cirey, and, in a bit of a competition, each entered an essay into a contest on the nature of fire (neither won)—outlasted their romance. Du Chatelet’s most lasting contribution to science was her French translation of Isaac Newton’s Principia , which is still in use today. At age 43, she fell in love with a young military officer and became pregnant; she died following complications during the birth of their child. Caroline Herschel (1750 – 1848) Herschel...
Update on the Art of Yanko Tsvetkov - the Mapping Stereotypes Project
A little more than a year ago I posted here about this master cartographer, or rather, social analyst: The Geography of Prejudice indeed! Here's an update from Yanko's website. Click and go! And I want a t-shirt :-Þ Now, Yanko did not do this one, nor do I know who created it, but here it goes, Europe according to the Portuguese: Let's honor here those I find priceless :) Madonnaland for Malawi?
Why Read Moby Dick?
E ven though I hadn’t read a word of it, I grew up hating Moby-Dick. My father was an English professor at the University of Pittsburgh with a specialty in American maritime literature, and that big, battle-scarred book came to represent everything I resented about his job: all the hours he spent in his attic study, relentlessly reading and writing, more often than not with Moby-Dick spread out before him. Sometimes he even dared talk about the novel, inevitably in an excited, reverential tone that only exasperated me all the more. It wasn’t until my senior year in high school, when my English teacher made it clear that I had no choice in the matter, that I finally read Moby-Dick . I soon found myself in the worst position an adolescent male can ever know: having to admit that maybe, just maybe, his father had been right all along. The voice of Ishmael, the novel’s narrator, caught me completely by surprise. I had expected to be bored to ...