as i listened to this talk, i was hurled back to a time when i was not only hopeful, but genuinely excited to see what the future would bring -- what we would find out, what we'd achieve.
while heroes struggle to unlock the mysteries that can not only save our species, but also produce wonders we have yet to even conceive, idiots are counting their virtual coins, bickering over their supernatural god-creatures and inventing new and improved methods to generate suffering and death.
there must be a way to help people wake up from their stupor and realize how marvelous existence can be.
like it? click it! embiggen i saw this guy and took a shot -- the lady saw me and smiled. she said that it's his favorite spot for a snooze. i asked his name and she said iraklis [hercules in greece]. since she didn't seem to mind, i moved in closer and shot this.
v.s. ramachandran talks about the peculiarities of belief in split-brain patients -- including the situation where one half lobe believes in god and the other half doesn't -- at beyond belief all the way back in 2006. in 2 parts.
... and the bus and the tourists are gone and you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket so you have to stay on but the drum-beat strains of the night remain in the rhythm of the new-born day you know sometime you're bound to leave her but for now you're going to stay... - al stewart
strummin' outside monastiraki station in athens, greece [geotagged on flickr]. ...trying to overcoming my fear of shooting street...
if i ever again express the idea of not getting a good night's sleep in order to drive all the way out to saronida (the location's geotagged on flickr) to photograph the moonset, just shoot me. i've been incapacitated with a migraine all day -- just starting to recover.
now that i'm up, here are two interesting bits of info:
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item 1:
it spreads, it mutates, it refuses to die.
for the seventh year in a row, the mars hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. passed from one reader to another, the message states that on august 27th mars will approach earth and swell to the size of a full moon. 'NO ONE ALIVE TODAY WILL EVER SEE THIS AGAIN,' the email declares--always in caps.