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jtotheizzoe: carlsagan: this is still one of my favorite things Will never not reblog and rewatch my own video about my favorite poem. We actually included this epic reading at the end of this IOTBS episode about whether there’s life on other planets, so I’ll just go ahead and leave that right here: (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
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tumblr_mxpqttUjDu1qcyd72 cyborges: absolvd: Fatima Al Qadiri | War Games “Al Qadiri was nine when Iraq invaded Kuwait during the 1990 Gulf War. A year later she was playing the Gulf war-inspired Desert Strike video game. ‘It was the most terrifying sci-fi experience of my childhood,’ she recalls. Her new album, also called Desert Strike is…
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dinosaurparty: (via B.J. Novak Talks About His Museum Prank Days on ‘Late Show’ | Splitsider) OMG B.J. Novak is your new favorite institutional critique artist! (Source: http://dinosaurparty.tumblr.com/)
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lareviewofbooks: As the Super Bowl and Olympics near, Bigotry Flares Friday, February 7th, the Sochi Olympics kick off under the watch of human rights advocates upset with the Putin administration’s homophobic policies. Five days prior the Seattle Seahawks face off against the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII under the watch of 111 million…
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. Friedrich Nietzsche (via art-and-fury)
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If a reader would like to read one of your books, but is unfamiliar with your oeuvre, which of your 50 books would you recommend they begin with, and why? Let us ask what kind of a reader we are talking about. If it is a young man, they should start with Oryx and Crake.…
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stavingdarkness: “when she was 7, a boy pushed her on the playground she fell headfirst into the dirt and came up with a mouthful of gravel and lines of blood chasing each other down her legs when she told her teacher what happened, she laughed and said ‘boys will be boys honey don’t let it…
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towerofsleep: Learning to Live With MoMA | Blog | Frieze Publishing Rather than wishing beyond hope that MoMA will change, then, now is time to learn how to live with MoMA – the way we live with a broken healthcare system, say, or climate change. We can all imagine better ways to manage healthcare or…
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rotwelt: Etchings for Jorge Luis Borges Library of Babel Erik Desmazières
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But as futurist Sarah DaVanzo tells me, Her is anything but sci-fi. It’s our future and it’s coming sooner than we think. How Infinite Information Will Warp And Change Human Relationships (via futuristgerd)