October 2011
25 posts
“Our brains that evolved solely to enable small bands of social primates to make...”
– Jerry Coyne
Here’s my inspirational quote for the day.
(via sciencecenter)
Five Lessons About How To Treat People →
mnishiya:
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sillynaa:
1. First Important Lesson - “Know The Cleaning Lady” During my second month of college, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times....
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conversations.
“You are so silly”
“Well, life is silly.”
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“Action may not always bring happiness; But there is no happiness without action.”
“We are all connected to each other, biologically. To the Earth, chemically. To...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via cwnl)
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley (via atheism-)
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Brain imaging reveals why we remain optimistic in... →
sciencenote:
For some people, the glass is always half full. Even when a football fan’s team has lost ten matches in a row, he might still be convinced his team can reverse its run of bad luck. So why, in the face of clear evidence to suggest to the contrary, do some people remain so optimistic about the future?
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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to...”
– Steve Jobs [Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
RIP
(via scienceisbeauty)
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“Just love the people you love, make their lives better, and they’ll do the...”
– Jae
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“The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who...”
– Randy Pausch
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“Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I’ve...”
– Randy Pausch
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