August 2011
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Congratulations to bisexual men, science now... →
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(LINK) 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough... →
lucifelle:
Aidan Dwyer took a hike through the trees last winter and took notice of patterns in the mangle of branches. His studies into how they branch in very specific ways lead him to a central guiding formula, the Fibonacci sequence. Take a number, add it to the number before it in a sequence like 1+1=2 then 2+1=3 then 3+2=5, 8, 13, 21 and so on a very specific pattern emerges. Turns out...
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“Long streamers of sunlight fawned at his feet. The trees waved, brandished. We...”
– Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, pg 68
Why must we be crazy to recognize the beauty that surrounds us? Why is it insane to stop and appreciate such a basic truth? —That beauty is everywhere. That beauty is.
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“Every generation worries that educational standards are decaying. One of the...”
– The demon-haunted world by Carl Sagan, pag. 9. (via scipsy)
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