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'Cactus' - Pixies
Sitting here wishing on a cement floor Just wishing that I had just something you wore I put it on when I go lonely Will you take off your dress and send it to me? I miss your kissin’ and I miss your head And a letter in your writing doesn’t mean you’re not dead Run outside in the desert heat Make your dress all wet and send it to me I miss your soup and I miss your bread And a...
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Excerpt from 'Invisible Man' by Ralph Ellison
Once I saw a prizefighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift and amazingly scientific. His body was one violent flow of rapid rhythmic action. He hit the yokel a hundred times while the yokel held up his arm in stunned surprise. But suddenly the yokel, rolling about in the gale of boxing gloves, struck one blow and knocked science, speed and footwork as cold as a well-digger’s posterior....
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Lovesong by Ted Hughes
He loved her and she loved him His kisses sucked out her whole past and future or tried to He had no other appetite She bit him she gnawed him she sucked She wanted him complete inside her Safe and Sure forever and ever Their little cries fluttered into the curtains Her eyes wanted nothing to get away Her looks nailed down his hands his wrists his elbows He gripped her hard so that life Should...
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Extra Life on MySpace →
One of my most exciting discoveries of late.
Unique 3 - Take This Love ( Milanese Remix ) →
‘ckin MINT
"In the Matrix": A Talk With Martin Rees →
All these multiverse ideas lead to a remarkable synthesis between cosmology and physics…But they also lead to the extraordinary consequence that we may not be the deepest reality, we may be a simulation. The possibility that we are creations of some supreme, or super-being, blurs the boundary between physics and idealist philosophy,...
THE SONG OF SONGS - Armand Leroi →
In this EdgeVideo, evolutionary biologist Armand Leroi reports on his art/science conversation and collaboration with musician Brian Eno which began when the two sat next to each other an an Edge dinner in London. The dinner discussion began with evolution and music, proceeded to the evolution of music, and led to the following question: has anybody attempted to reconstruct the history of human...
Ike and Tina cover 'Come Together' by The Beatles →
(It’s better than the original, girl rocks hard.)
Awesome remix of Bjork's 'Hunter' by µ-ziq →
“A physicist is an atom’s way of knowing about atoms”
– George Wald
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“But not only medicine, engineering, and painting are arts; living itself is an...”
– Erich Fromm