January 2012
105 posts
Of the Soul - Mac Miller
“To ask for a map is to say, ‘Tell me a story.’”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via mlleguillotine)
“The inconsistency of genius is a consistent theme of creativity: Even those...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via infoneer-pulse)
“All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in...”
– Nietzsche
“Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.”
– Bob Dylan (via girlwithoutwings)
Iggy Azalea My World
“‘All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’”
– ~Blaise Pascal
Newsweek: How Obama's Long Game Will Outsmart His... →
newsweek:
Presenting the first three paragraphs of Andrew Sullivan’s epic takedown of President Barack Obama’s critics, on newsstands & online today.
You hear it everywhere. Democrats are disappointed in the president. Independents have soured even more. Republicans have worked themselves up into an…
NYC...as seen through a Gameboy Color →
This is Your Brain on Shakespeare →
Shakespeare’s literary career, which spanned a quarter century roughly between the years 1587 and 1612, came at a time when the English language was at a powerful stage of development. The great fluidity of Early Modern English gave Shakespeare an enormous amount of room to innovate.
In all of his plays, sonnets and narrative poems, Shakespeare used 17,677 words. Of these, he invented...
