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Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask why the sun is yellow, or what a dream is, or how deep you can dig a hole, or when is the world’s birthday, or why we have toes. Too many teachers and parents answer with irritation or ridicule, or quickly move on to something else. Why adults should pretend to omniscience before a five-year-old, I can’t for the life of me understand. What’s wrong with admitting that you don’t know? Children soon recognize that somehow this kind of question annoys many adults. A few more experiences like this, and another child has been lost to science.


There are many better responses. If we have an idea of the answer, we could try to explain. If we don’t, we could go to the encyclopedia or the library. Or we might say to the child: “I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.”

—Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as the Candle in The Dark (via ironfleet)

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My friend takes fancy pictures and I always “like” them. This is me “reblogging” them.

My friend takes fancy pictures and I always “like” them. This is me “reblogging” them.

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New Year's Resolution

—Untitled

tommygunangel:

whatsyournextmove:

This was the last thing my band, New Year’s Resolution, ever wrote.  It is an untitled acoustic track with a Slavoj Zizek insert.  The clip is from the film Zizek! (directed by Astra Taylor), and it is Zizek talking about the notion of love.  You can read the full excerpt below.  The music was written by Tim Aldridge.  

What would be, how should I call it, my spontaneous attitude towards the universe? - It is a very dark one.  The first one is…the first thesis would have been a kind of total vanity. There is nothing, basically.  I mean it quite literally, like ultimately…ultimately there are just some fragments…some vanishing things.  If you look at the universe as one big void.

- But then how do things emerge?  

Here, I feel some kind of spontaneous affinity with quantum physics where, you know, the idea there is that the universe is a void, but a kind of positively charged void.  And then, particular things appear when the balance of the void is disturbed.  
And I like this idea - spontaneously- very much, the fact that it is not just nothing,  things are out there.  It means, that something went terribly wrong.  That what we call creation is a kind of cosmic imbalance, cosmic catastrophe…That things exist by mistake.  And, I am even ready to go to the end and to claim that the only way to counteract this is to assume the mistake and go to the end.  And we have a name for this, it is called “love”.  Isn’t love precisely a cosmic imbalance. - I was always disgusted with this notion of, “I love the world”, “universal love”.  I don’t like the world, I don’t know how…I’m basically somewhere in between, “I hate the world.”, or “I am indifferent towards it.” But the whole of reality is just it, it’s stupid…it’s out there, I don’t care about it. Love for me is an extremely violent act. Love is not - “I love you all!” Love means, I pick out something…and I…you know, it is again this structure of imbalance.  Even if this “something” is just a small detail, a fragile individual person, I say, “I love you more than anything else.”  In this quite formal sense, love is evil.  

I remember this. I think it would be cooler with samples of 10+ years worth of David Flowers apologizing during sets, but you take what you can get.

Do another reunion so I can wear big earplugs and grope everybody again.

I hope we do it again. This is one of my favorite bands. I was in it, but I played bass and didn’t write anything. I’m still a fucking fan.

(via atasteforbitters)