(Source: itwonlast, via tomorrowstea)
Portrait of Darren Miller
Kodak Tri-X 400. 2012.
“Everyone likes their coffee in different ways…”
“One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.”
—Oscar Wilde
Jason Silva - “To Understand is to Perceive Patterns”.
good:
Upcycling’s Upshot: How Urban Mushroom Farmers Turned Scavenging into a Business
Two Cal grads turned an idea that sprouted up in a business ethics class into a sustainable, waste-free business. Their two main ingredients: mushrooms and coffee grounds.
“Urban Mushroom Farmers” would be an awesome name for a rock band.
“Aren’t Oscarbatory films like The Artist, Hugo, and Midnight in Paris the high brow equivalent of the Transformers, easing the viewer into the same warm nostalgia bath, just with the particulars adjusted to reflect a different audience’s adolescent fixations? Might they even be even more meretricious because they rely on the borrowed auras from the canonical works/figures they reference (Méliès rather than Mégatron) to activate feelings of barely-earned recognition, which somehow invokes in the audience the false spirit of learning, or at very least, the smug satisfaction of the pub trivia warrior?”
(Source: tmgtweets)
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Scientists have been playing God for centuries and to many of them ‘playing God’ seems like an odd turn of phrase but it is fairly accurate. Where human ignorance leaves a gap of knowledge and leaves us wanting an explanation, we have tended to fill it with the supernatural. At one point, the sun and moon were chariots tugged through the sky by gods, while the Earth was held in place by one - scientists who have modelled gravity and built rocket engines are therefore just as guilty of ‘playing God’ as any biologist.
We have been able for many years to manipulate materials to a massively impressive degree. We can take black sludge and rocks from the ground, and almost with magic (well, actually, chemistry) transform them into televisions, desks, chairs, houses and cars. We can protect and adapt ourselves to any environment the Earth can throw at us, surviving in conditions that would have killed even the hardiest of our ‘natural’ ancestors. Saying that scientists must create ‘life’ in order to play God is surely limiting God to being quite an impotent character indeed.
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