Activity timeline
January 29, 2010
Just so you know, "reading" a page means doing all the experiments, building all the circuits, and getting them all to work. That's why 2 pages takes like a day :)
January 27, 2010
January 22, 2010
January 21, 2010
A nice chapter regarding aesthetics: So much for science, and how helpful it can be in these times of environmental calamities. Chernobyl is still hotter than a Hiroshima baby carriage. Our underarm deoderants have eaten holes in the ozone layer. And just get a load of this: My big brother Bernie, who can’t draw for sour apples, and who at his most objectionable used to say he didn’t like paintings because they didn’t do anything, just hung there year after year, has this summer become an artist! I shit you not! This Ph.D. physical chemist from MIT is now the poor man’s Jackson Pollock! He squoozles glurp of various colors and consistencies between two flat sheets of impermiable materials, such as windowpanes or bathroom tiles. The pulls them apart, et voila! This has nothing to do with his cancer. He didn’t know he had ...
January 13, 2010
Matthew added In Defense of Food to his library.
Matthew added MAKE: Electronics to his library.
January 11, 2010
Matthew added Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America to his library.
Matthew added Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea to his library.
Matthew added A Field Guide to Stars and Planets to his library.
August 17, 2009
Just a beautiful book. Sagan's writing remains powerful, clear, wonder-full, and inspiring. This book captures both the successes & failures, the gifts and dangers of our species. Reading it is wonderful, but it will make you sad because you will never get to read it for the first time again.
"The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star."
