February 2012
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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its...”
– Jules Verne (via oceansoftheworld)
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Haruki Murakami: After Dark →
Like, say, an octopus. A giant octopus living way down deep at the bottom of the ocean. It has this tremendously powerful life force, a bunch of long, undulating legs, and it’s heading somewhere, moving through the darkness of the ocean. I’m sitting here listening to these trials, and all I can see in my head is this creature. It takes on all kinds of different shapes—sometimes it’s “the...
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Astronomy professor: Please explain the big bang theory.
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Me: Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait... the Earth began to cool, the autotrophs began to drool, Neanderthals developed tools, we built a wall, we built the pyramids!! Math, science, history, unraveling the mysteries, that all started with the big bang! HEY!
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