Emily Dickinson: Faith – is the Pierless Bridge / Supporting what We see / Unto the Scene that We do not Seamus Heaney: If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Magic is believing in yourself; if you can do that, you can make anything happen. Claire Keegan: “It seemed both proper and at the same time deeply unfair that so much of life was left to chance.” from Small Things Like These ...
Satyendra Nath Bose and Enrico Fermi Everything is made of a set of just 17 fundamental particles, and those particles, though they may differ by mass or charge, come in just two basic types. Each is either a “boson” or a “fermion.” Fermions (matter particles) Quarks: up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom Leptons: electron, electron neutrino, muon, muon neutrino, tau, tau neutrino Bosons (force-carrying particles) Gauge bosons (vector bosons): Gluon, photon, Z boson, W boson Scalar bosons: Higgs Boson Terence Eden, We’ve got to stop sending files to each other The modern workforce shouldn’t be flinging copies to each other. A copy is outdated the moment it is downloaded. A copy has no protection against illicit reading. A copy can never be revoked. ...
Nils Gilman pinned one tweet: People say adversity reveals character, but I say if you really want to know a man, give hime power. Rosa Luxemburg: “In effect, every legal constitution is the product of a revolution.” Every legal constitution is the product of a revolution. In the history of classes, revolution is the act of political creation, while legislation is the political expression of the life of a society that has already come into being. Work for reform does not contain its own force independent from revolution. During every historic period, work for reforms is carried on only in the direction given to it by the impetus of the last revolution and continues as long as the impulsion from the last revolution continues to make itself felt. Or, to put it more concretely, in each historic period work for reforms is carried on only in the framework of the social form created by the last revolution. Here is the kernel of the problem. It is contrary to history to represent work for reforms as a long-drawn out revolution and revolution as a condensed series of reforms. A social transformation and a legislative reform do not differ according to their duration but according to their content. The secret of historic change through the utilisation of political power resides precisely in the transformation of simple quantitative modification into a new quality, or to speak more concretely, in the passage of an historic period from one given form of society to another. Listen to this from Aldous Huxley. In 1958 he predicted a form of dictatorship that would rely not on force, but propaganda - and addiction. Here are some great notes on physics. It is made by Prof David Tong at University of Cambridge. If you are intrested in theoretical physics. Enjoy it. ...
Start to read the condensed biography of Dostoevsky by Joseph Frank. This is to understand Dostoevsky’s works correctly with its political context of 19th century Russia. To read Dostoevsky, you have to understand the context. Two nice tweets from Steve Stewart-Williams. One is the brain. The other Physics is weird. Another thing is geometry in p5js in this github repo. Beautiful geometric shapes generated by code.