Thursday, 6 December 2012

Minoean


"No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same."

Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Youngblood Brass Band - Brooklyn

What is the airspeed velocity of a raindrop?


A very interesting article on fossil raindrops.

Man-ichean


"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."

Milan Kundera, novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1929)

A Study on Grief

  Once I met a quite serious scientist In the underground going east On my way to a tryst in Bayleaf They looked at me with googly eyes And ...