It's all one thing

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"Neil Postman, interviewed on the McNeil/Lehrer Hour in 1995"

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“Neil Postman, interviewed on the McNeil/Lehrer Hour in 1995”

- What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.

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Queen Elizabeth II

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Queen Elizabeth II

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gifmovie: Pablo Picasso: Portrait of Suzanne Bloch. And her...

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Pablo Picasso: Portrait of Suzanne Bloch. And her cat. (1904)

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artpedia: Roy Lichtenstein - Red Apple, 1983. Woodcut on...

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Roy Lichtenstein - Red Apple, 1983. Woodcut on handmade Iwano Kizuki Hosho paper

"The space that we’re looking through is 9-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount..."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:39:33 -0400

““The space that we’re looking through is 9-dimensional. If you build a mathematical model, the amount of searching that we’ve done in 50 years is equivalent to scooping one 8-ounce glass out of the Earth’s ocean, looking and seeing if you caught a fish. No, no fish in that glass? Well, I don’t think you’re going to conclude that there are no fish in the ocean. You just haven’t searched very well yet. That’s where we are.””

- Jill Tarter: A Scientist Searching For Alien Life

(via nprfreshair)

The Last Question, Isaac Asimov

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The Last Question, Isaac Asimov:

“Eventually it will all come to an end. However it may be husbanded, however stretched out, the energy once expended is gone and cannot be restored. Entropy must increase to the maximum.”

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"What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking..."

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“What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.”

- Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters (via artificialpace)

"The reasons are in our culture and subtle stereotypes that still exist. … Even though we’re trying..."

Mon, 23 Jul 2012 21:58:13 -0400

““The reasons are in our culture and subtle stereotypes that still exist. … Even though we’re trying to get rid of them, they’re still there. It’s easy to picture. You ask a kid to draw a scientist, they’ll draw a geeky-looking guy that looks like Einstein, with a lab coat and a pocket protector, with no friends, who does work at 2 in the morning in a lab with no windows and no doors. No 12-year-old girl aspires to that.””

- Sally Ride

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