December 2011
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“Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has...”
Emptiness Isn't Empty →
lazyyogi:
Scientists produce something from nothing. In a wildly awesome experiment, they induce photons of light to suddenly appear from an vacuum of nothingness. Buddhists, eat your heart out.
I should resign to my fate as a quantum philosophy blog.
I finally (kinda) know what I want for a tattoo.
An Enso with an open space at the top where I’ll get a little infinity symbol in the gap between the beginning and end
And inside the circle of the Enso I am unsure if I want:
nothing.
A endless knot of the mind samsara picture i reblogged a few weeks ago
an om symbol.
I really want any of those and I think I might start with nothing and get something later in the center.
One of the...
Quantum computing device hints at powerful future... →
scinerds:
It uses the strange “quantum states” of matter to perform calculations in a way that, if scaled up, could vastly outperform conventional computers.
The 6mm-by-6mm chip holds nine quantum devices, among them four “quantum bits” that do the calculations.
The team said further scaling up to 10 qubits should be possible this year.
Rather than the ones and zeroes of digital...
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Read this lovely story I wrote.
I start my journey early today walking through the woods. I know I don’t have too much time left but it somehow feels like I’ve got just enough for what I need. I’ve walked at least a few hours and now it seems like I’ve put my body through enough strain for a lifetime.
So I take a break from walking in the direction I thought was a steep uphill incline but when I look...
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“The hoarder will suffer great loss.
Be content with what you have and you will...”
– Lao Tzu (via thelittlephilosopher)
Single?
boredpotato:
hellyeahitsrandom:
Nah!
More like,
in a relationship with freedom.
“The actual science of logic is conversant at present only with things either...”
– James Clerk Maxwell (1850), quoted in Plausible Reasoning (1994)
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“Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t...”
– Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism this is the type of shit mister flaherty was talking about
