Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority. We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent. As Oscar Wilde truly said, ‘Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.
RAW quote: disobedience was man’s original virtue – Boing Boing
Au moins six mois d’incarcération dans un camp de travail à quiconque (…) n’a pas pleuré assez [pendant le deuil].
Des Nord-coréens punis après la mort de Kim Jong-il | Atlantico
la performance est le nom nouveau du pouvoir absolu. La marche technologique balaye les faibles, comme les guerres d’autrefois : elle réinvente le sacrifice humain, de façon douce.” Pierre Legendre
Blog M@rs-lab – Performance sociale : la performance, autrement
“Parker thinks the appendix serves as a nature reserve for beneficial bacteria in our guts. When we get a severe gut infection such as cholera (which happened often during much of our history and happens often in many regions even today), the beneficial bacteria in our gut are depleted. The appendix allows them to be restored. In essence, Parker sees the appendix as a sanctuary for our tiny mutualist friends, a place where there is always room at the inn4.”
Une nouvelle hypothèse sur le rôle de l’appendice (via @raphaellelaubie)
We have built a virtual slow-motion camera where we can see photons, or light particles, moving through space. (via Camera shooting at a trillion frames/sec can see photons move)
If everyone loved a deal and backed up the truck on their personal investment, it was more than likely to not succeed. In fact, those deals often failed in quick fashion. The inverse was surprisingly true as well. More often than not, for those investments where the zero out scenario took place, they often became successes – sometimes the biggest successes.