RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • Let us remember that for a lot of people a multivolume encyclopaedia is an impossible dream, not, or not only, because of the cost of the volumes, but because of the cost of the wall where the volumes are shelved. Personally, having started my scholarly activity as a medievalist I would like to have at…

  • Western banks ‘reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade’ | World news | The Observer

    Western banks ‘reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade’ | World news | The Observer towerofsleep: rematerializationchamber: The vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich “consuming” countries – principally across Europe and in the US – rather than war-torn “producing” nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed.…

  • Dr. Manhattan hears a Who (quoted)

    humanegames: Dr. Manhattan hears a Who. Made with Paper

  • Dr. Manhattan hears a Who

    Dr. Manhattan hears a Who. Made with Paper

  • Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives. Most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the result of creativity. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of the celebrated Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, on “the 10 antithetical traits often present in creative people that are integrated with each other in a dialectical tension.”…

  • Today is one of those days where, and when, I feel that I know nothing.

  • towerofsleep: Image: Kasimir Malevich, Red Square, 1915 JUNE MIX: RED SQUARE (click to DL) 1. Bullion – the age of self (Robert Wyatt)2. Here We Go Magic – make up your mind3. King Tuff – bad thing4. Neneh Cherry & The Thing – dream baby dream (Four Tet remix)5. Major Lazer ft. Collie Buddz &…

  • Thus The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects was born, thanks to a unintentional error most McLuhan biographers sweep under the carpet. But, the legend goes, once McLuhan saw the typo, he exclaimed, “Leave it alone! It’s great and right on target!” The title of the book was suddenly open to four possible…

  • weightofobjects: “I was awarded this pin in April when I was named my high school class’s valedictorian. I was especially honored by it because I am only the second African American valedictorian at my school, I’m the first in my family to be acknowledged this way, and, because of it, I know that the person…

  • [M]y mission is to have every precocious 13-year-old in the world have access to every bit of information they could ever want. Salman Kahn quoted in an article by Marco R. della Cava in USA Today. Sal Khan’s ‘Academy’ sparks a tech revolution in education (via protoslacker)