today i rigged up this rly accurate scale (balancing delicately on a cylindrical cat toy) to measure out 1 pound of dal.

today i rigged up this rly accurate scale (balancing delicately on a cylindrical cat toy) to measure out 1 pound of dal.

@3 days ago with 1 note

"All is truth. All is beauty. All is wisdom. All is love.

And the Everlasting is available to those who make still the presence of the Great Being within, so that this sleeping giant may again emerge from the cacophony of distrust that marks the function of the rational, conscious mind, and walk freely amongst the flowers and fields of the Infinite."

via oceanofmind, <3 obligatory great being reblog
@3 weeks ago with 15 notes
spoiler alert

spoiler alert

@1 month ago with 45 notes
Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white was shrieking for the green, and the little triangle created a force field. People see very sexy things — dirty minds! — but to me sex is sex, and triangles are triangles. - carmen herrera
Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white was shrieking for the green, and the little triangle created a force field. People see very sexy things — dirty minds! — but to me sex is sex, and triangles are triangles.

- carmen herrera

@2 months ago with 1 note
a chaos magic ritual involving videoconferencing

a chaos magic ritual involving videoconferencing

@2 months ago with 1 note

"Disinformation about poppies has been spread far and wide. Some of it is subtle, like when the New York Times talks about people growing “heroin poppies.” Some misinformation is so bald-faced as to stun the listener into silence, as when a DEA agent tells a reporter that the process of getting opium from opium poppies is so complex and dangerous that “I don’t even think a person with a Ph.D. could do it."

How the DEA Scrubbed Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Poppy Garden from Public Memory
@1 week ago

be receptive

There are degrees of receptivity. Very little of it in a science lesson, for example. Science starts with observation; but the observation is always selective. You have to look at the world through a lattice of projected concepts. Then you take the moksha-medicine, and suddenly there are hardly any concepts. You don’t select and immediately classify what you experience; you just take it in. It’s like that poem of Wordsworth’s, ‘Bring with you a heart that watches and receives.’

- from Island, by Aldous Huxley

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@2 months ago with 156 notes

"I wanted to _do_ something, not be something. I don’t know if it was any clearer for a long time than that."

Nancy Meyers - Can Anybody Make a Movie for Women?
@2 months ago
The Beauty of Roots is a remarkable look into patterns that emerge from mathematics. The page has several amazing high-resolution plots of the roots of polynomials whose coefficients are all 1 or -1. I wish I understood more about this sort of stuff, because some of these images are profoundly interesting. Above - the hole that appears around i (the √ of -1).

The Beauty of Roots is a remarkable look into patterns that emerge from mathematics. The page has several amazing high-resolution plots of the roots of polynomials whose coefficients are all 1 or -1. I wish I understood more about this sort of stuff, because some of these images are profoundly interesting.

Above - the hole that appears around i (the √ of -1).

@3 months ago with 1 note