Needing above all.silence and warmth, we produce.brutal cold and noise. — W. H. Auden.

RT @brainpicker: "The individual atoms…cycled through wind and water and soil…through generations of living creatures and minds, will repea….

"I can indeed think in such realms and find successes in the small things. It is more than likely that no one will notice what I have done let alone consider the reason behind the added work. I still will feel success whether they do or not.".

RT @brainpicker: We all have an "antilibrary." You know, the stack of yet-unread books we might never read. Here is Umberto Eco's wonderful….

RT @brainpicker: Alan Watts, born on this day in 1915, on learning not to think in terms of gain and loss

RT @xkcdComic: Sunshield

RT @brainpicker: “The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the s….

"maybe it’s not that you’ve been cheated out of an unlimited supply of time; maybe it’s almost incomprehensibly miraculous to have been granted any time at all".

"The more you try to manage your time with the goal of achieving a feeling of total control… the more stressful, empty, and frustrating life gets.".

"Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster… The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control…".

RT @xkcdComic: December 25th Launch

RT @moxie: It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger….

RT @brainpicker: Carl Sagan returned his borrowed stardust to the universe 25 years ago today, leaving us his timeless cosmic perspective –….

RT @Kurt_Vonnegut: Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

RT @RyanHoliday: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal.

RT @JohnDCook: “Today, this moment, was a statistical improbability a year ago. Yet here we are. Life is a long unbroken chain of the impro….

RT @TheMarkTwain: When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

RT @MarksLarks: Naturally coloured eggs showing the variations produced by different chicken breeds.

RT @fermatslibrary: Here's the pattern created by tangent lines to the sine function.

RT @brainpicker: “If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every….