“Hey, you know what would be hilarious? When the space shuttle lands, everyone should be dressed as apes!” -The entire Internet, July 2011 Over the past week, I’ve seen the shuttle/apes joke no fewer than five times — three via Twitter, twice on Reddit. And that’s just what I’ve seen. It’s not like I’m...
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“That we are the only part of the cosmos possessing what we are pleased to call mind is so earth-centred a supposition, that it recalls the other earth-centred view once so devoutly held, that our little globe was the point about which the whole company of heaven was good enough to turn. Indeed, there...
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The Florian Haarschnitt Center for Advanced Thought presents Futurismology: What Will Life Be Like In Fifty Years? We assembled some of the most progressive thinkers of our time at a retreat in the Swiss Alps. Sequestered far from interruption, our “tank of thinkers” spent two weeks debating the likely course of events over the...
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(SPOILER WARNING: If you do not wish to know whether there are any spoilers in this post, do not read the next sentence.)
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Since oar first met wave, we have looked to the night sky for guidance. Without the stars, navigation upon the open seas would never have been possible, and the horizon would have remained a distant dream. No wonder those ancient seafarers imbued the constellations with such rich histories. They were trusted friends and advisors....
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There are certain things we learn as kids that are supposed to be ironclad. They are our bedrock, the handful of concrete things we can understand in a world controlled by grown-ups. Red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple E-G-B-D-F (lines), F-A-C-E (spaces) Fifty states, thirteen colonies Seven continents Cats chase mice, dogs chase cats Cooties are fatal And many...
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