dans la lune

2012-05-07 0 notes

Proposed route. Leaving before the end of the week.

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If all goes according to plan, this will be my last night in this room. I will miss my little cabin in the city.

People keep asking me: “Why?” I’ve had long long hair forever, and I loved it. I did this on a whim, but the act was loaded. A rejection of traditional femininity? A liberation from vanity? To mark a reinvention or at least reconsideration of identity? Mostly though I was sick of that mop and I’m now taking the quickest showers of my life.

Now I have a secret drawer full of hair begging to be used for something weird and fun.

2012-04-26 5 notes

Most people think of mathematics as this horrible thing that is done to you in school. But some of us have come to the point where we realize that mathematics is an extra sensory perception organ. We have our usual five senses, and then we have this one more sense, that allows us to look out at the universe and see realms that are not accessible by any other means.

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Podcast: TVO Big Ideas, S. James Gates, Jr. “Does reality have a genetic basis?”

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You’re much more beautiful to look at than a sea of leptons and quarks. So why are you so pretty? Your parts are held in nice patterns.

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Podcast: TVO Big Ideas, S. James Gates, Jr. “Does reality have a genetic basis?”

2012-04-24 0 notes

West illustrates the problem by translating the modern human lifestyle – and we live surrounded by our own inventions – into watts. “A human being at rest runs on 90 watts,” he told me. “That’s how much power you need just to lie down. And if you’re a hunter-gatherer and you live in the Amazon, you’ll need about 250 watts. That’s how much energy it takes to run about and find food. So how much energy does our lifestyle [in America] require? Well, when you add up all our calories and then you add up the energy needed to run the computer and the air-conditioner, you get an incredibly large number, somewhere around 11,000 watts. Now you can ask yourself: What kind of animal requires 11,000 watts to live? And what you find is that we have created a lifestyle where we need more watts than a blue whale. We require more energy than the biggest animal that has ever existed. That is why our lifestyle is unsustainable. We can’t have seven billion blue whales on this planet. It’s not even clear that we can afford to have 300 million blue whales.

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2012-04-05 0 notes

Mike took this short film on his iPhone of our road trip around the Bruce Peninsula over spring break. It’s mostly me eating vegetables and watching David Attenborough, but also there are lovely nature things and sounds of wind and running water and raindrops.