“People have access to more information than ever before, but they’ve completely forgotten how to contextualize any of it.” — Douglas Coupland
Spent a whole hour this morning drinking dark black coffee and reading the Wired science blogs. As far as these things go, it’s no yoga with yogurt, no papaya with hawaiian sunrise. But it was eye opening.
Among other things, I learned the universe is being sucked through the straw of massive black holes faster than previously thought (but not who was on the other side), earthquakes on Mars are called marsquakes, and mammatus clouds are to the sky what colonies of jellyfish are to the oceans.
Anyway, I highly recommend it as a way to start your day.
Other things I recommend:
EVERYTHING VACLAV HAVEL EVER SAID, BUT YOU CAN START HERE
To Douglas I say: settle down. We’re working on it. We’ve started at the beginning:
