Ben Pieratt, Blog
Norman Lindsay (1879-1969), ‘A Star Explodes’, “The Tatler”, Vol. 124, #1608, 1932
“If God actually chooses you he ruins you for normal life, marks you so obviously that other people…
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Construal level theory (CLT) is a theory in social psychology that describes the relation between…
multistable perception as visual negative capability…
Multistable perception (or bistable perception) is a perceptual phenomenon in which an observer…
M&S Dinosaur Table Lamp – Pink
Heretics
I suppose the lesson is that you can’t get enough of what you don’t need.
In Japan fishermen used to go fishing and they would catch a bunch of fish and put them in a tank to…
… 1. For a computer to generate specifc statements consisting of more than 332 bits of information…
“Sometimes, a thing happens, splits your life. There’s a before and after. I got like five of them…
“No problem is so big or so complicated that it can’t be run away from!”
“Can you turn a dog off?”
Ron Cobb (US, LA, Sep 21, 1937 - 2020, Sydney, AU)
Sixty is the base number of the Sumerian number system, fully evolved in Mesopotamia (modern-day…
“A drawing by a synesthete which illustrates time unit-space synesthesia/ideasthesia. The months in…
"Ideasthesia (alternative spelling ideaesthesia) is a neuropsychological phenomenon in which..."
up, flat, down, flat,
"This is similar to my interpretation. It felt like Fargo and the Coens have done the..."
“Generally each page takes around 40 hours, strangely enough. And a lot of that is just me getting…
suggested framework for talking to god, via chatwithgod.ai
a man once said “You’ll know the Angels when they come because they’ll have the faces of your…
“you become a writer because no one is listening.”
Vedic Sanskrit is non-trivially different from Classical Sanskrit. In fact, there are ~11 known…
“Over time, we’ll find the vocabulary as a society to be able to articulate why that is valuable,”…
Coat of arms of Portugal (lesser version)
“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered,” the Scottish mountaineer…
“She’s beautiful, but beauty’s a fleeting pleasure. Like trying to grasp a river, or fuck a sunset.”…
“Something beautiful fills the mind yet invites the search for something beyond itself, something…
“It’s not something I construct intellectually. The brain lid opens. Ideas rise to the surface from…