February 2012
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today i met quantum poetics
This post on the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet blog on quantum poetics has me all riled up (in the best way), and rattling off about it to Carl wasn’t enough, so here I am.
I’ve had a keen sense lately that the different “minds” — scientific, analytic, energetic, poetic, spiritual — are on paths toward each other. And not in the usual “holistic...
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vintage emily: fun with the wayback machine
Inspired by my friend Ashima’s recent finds on the Wayback Machine, I searched for one of the first websites I built. It was 1996 or 1997. I was 12 and obsessed with online zines and AOL message boards. I had created my own zine, which focused on advice for and by kids. It was called Problems & Solutions (so creative), and it was the very vanilla precursor to my edgier zine in high...
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Just backed > MATTER — Kickstarter →
I just backed this project on Kickstarter… love the new ideas/efforts popping up to address the need for more in-depth, critical thinking in online publishing. (Just hope the team behind Matter is more diverse than what the video suggests…)
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“Physicists are changing how we think of empty space, i.e. a vacuum, to explain...”
– How the Universe Came from Nothing | IdeaFeed | Big Think
Carl and I were just pondering this last night. I was trying to make sense of how there can be galaxies that give the appearance (to our human eyes) of being contained and having edges, yet that confinedness might also suggest that there is...
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confession tuesday: i know the secret to inbox...
I confess that I really do know the secret (for me). And it’s decidedly simple:
1. Sign up for the most well-designed to do list ever: Teux Deux. Get the iPhone app while you’re at it.
2. Marvel at the beauty of dragging and dropping your to do list items and prioritizing your life with a swipe of your precious little fingertip.
3. Discover that you keep most emails in your inbox...
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confession tuesday: travel and birthdays and...
Hello Tuesday. It’s been awhile since I’ve stopped by to confess all my deepest, darkest secrets. So let’s get to it —
On travel
Paris and Rome were something special. I saw a nun flash mob in front of Notre Dame. I’m still riding the happy wave from that. I confess that I have a deep admiration for nuns. There was a time I was discerning whether that was the path...