The people support Hillary…
Things you hear…
So, the other day in the locker room at the gym this guy I know vaguely started going off about goddamn fucking communist Bernie Sanders, and goddamn fucking criminal Hillary Clinton, and goddamn fucking parasite bastard kids these days who want everything for free. Whattyagonnado, I said, studiously arranging my stuff in my locker.
Mostly I wear earbuds, and I don’t hear the lighthearted banter that goes on around the weight machines, but my wife doesn’t wear them, and she tells me that it’s a hot bed of Trump supporters. I just notice the enormous beefy guys with torn sweats and heavy work gloves, and another guy strutting around with a tee shirt with a picture of an AR-15 and something written in Arabic. I avoid all eye contact with them. Occasionally I exchange glances with some of the others in the over-60 crowd, though. We tend to keep a low profile.
And in the bathroom, I’m sitting there when some guy enters the stall next to me, sits down, and starts raving on and on in a really LOUD voice about the fucking establishment and how corrupt the system is and the injustice of it all. He’s really fond of the word “corrupt” and says it several times in a row. I think he’s a homeless person that sneaked in past the gym staff to use the toilet.
I sat there quietly until he was gone. Sometimes that’s what you have to do.
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Originally shared by John Trikeriotis
An artistic rendering of one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The temple was destroyed by the invading Goths in 262 AD.
Unfortunately, all that remains of the temple is a single column which was constructed of fragments discovered on the site.
Image – Socorro Public Library
“All right, We’ll call it a draw.”
“All right, We’ll call it a draw.”
The Value of Science
Originally shared by Corina Marinescu
The Value of Science
Richard Feynman included a poem in his address to the National Academy of Sciences:
I stand at the seashore, alone, and start to think.
There are the rushing waves
mountains of molecules
each stupidly minding its own business
trillions apart
yet forming white surf in unison
Ages on ages
before any eyes could see
year after year
thunderously pounding the shore as now.
For whom, for what?
On a dead planet
with no life to entertain.
Never at rest
tortured by energy
wasted prodigiously by the Sun
poured into space.
A mite makes the sea roar.
Deep in the sea
all molecules repeat
the patterns of one another
till complex new ones are formed.
They make others like themselves
and a new dance starts.
Growing in size and complexity
living things
masses of atoms
DNA, protein
dancing a pattern ever more intricate.
Out of the cradle
onto dry land
here it is standing:
atoms with consciousness;
matter with curiosity.
Stands at the sea,
wonders at wondering: I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the Universe
Source:
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~mwilliams/pdf/feynman.pdf
Photo source:
A striking representation…
Originally shared by Joel Carlson
“It’s not reality TV”
Originally shared by Daniel Keys Moran
Five Presidents, from two parties. Not one supporting Donald Trump for President. But what would they know about what the job takes?
“It is not correct to call [him isolationist], since Mr Trump has also proposed some foreign adventures, including…
Originally shared by Laura Brodbeck
“It is not correct to call [him isolationist], since Mr Trump has also proposed some foreign adventures, including the occupation of Iraq and seizure of its oilfields. Rather it is a Roman vision of foreign policy, in which the rest of the world’s role is to send tribute to the capital and be grateful for the garrisons.”