December 2010
45 posts
THINK TWICE
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DON’T THINK, JUST DO
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? →
science:
Nathan Keyfitz, a Harvard professor of sociology and demographics, made an estimate that, updated in 1999, suggests 96 billion. Of course, most of human history lacks accurate census data, so any answer will consist of educated guesswork. The Population Reference Bureau guesstimated 106 billion in 2002, which would mean 6 percent of all the humans that ever lived, were alive in 2002....
smeadows:
I Am Given Oregon Painting Society
“The changing trends have even some people in their 20s feeling old and slightly out of touch, or at least caught in the middle.
Adam Horowitz, 23, who works as a technology consultant for a major accounting firm in New York, spends all day on e-mail at his office. When he leaves it behind, he picks up his phone and communicates with friends almost entirely via texts.
Yet he sometimes...
AGV = American Gullah Version
16 Jedus gone to Nazrut, weh e libe from de time e been a leetle chile til e git big. Wen de Jew Woshup Day come, y gone ta de meetin house like e always do. An e stan op fa read God Book ta de people. 17 Dey gem de book wa Isaiah done write. Isaiah been a prophut wa taak fa God Book ta de people. So den, Jedus open de book ta da place weh Isaiah write, say, 18 ”De Lawd Sperit da libe een me...
3:57 am and i am in need of a pizza party
japanese curry // persimmon pie // sweater weather // that furnace smell
last night
had a bad cough and then ended up having to give an off-the-cuff presentation, while inexplicably rocking this kind of iranian-american princess/sade look (i.e., black velvet dress embellished with tons of gold thread). i probably should’ve known about the presentation, but i didn’t, so i think people just thought i was weirdly overdressed for it. truth be told, it didn’t even...
“NASA’s geobiologist Pamela Conrad thinks that the discovery...”
– NASA finds new life
“We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in...”
– Alvar Aalto, speech, London, 1957
