The Atlantic: “Mysterious and possibly nefarious trading algorithms are operating every minute of every day in the nation’s stock exchanges. What they do doesn’t show up in Google Finance, let alone in the pages of the Wall Street Journal. No one really knows how they operate or why. … ‘They are moving the high-frequency services [...]
arXiv: “Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) uses a rapidly changing magnetic field that is powerful enough to induce currents in neurons in the brain. Focus the field in the visual cortex and the induced eddys cause the subject to ‘see’ lights that appear as discs and lines. Move the the field within the cortex and the [...]
ISR – Rorschach: “The International Society of the Rorschach and Projective Methods (ISR) was founded on September 13, 1952, in Bern (Switzerland) by the Assembly of Delegates to the Second International Congress of the Rorschach. The idea had been launched in 1949 during the First International Rorschach Meeting. “
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George Gordon, Lord Byron So, we’ll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. [...]
Lord Buckley, The Naz: ”Now look at all you cats and kitties out there whippin’ and wailin’ and jumpin’ up and down and suckin’ up all that juice and pattin’ each other on the back and hippin’ each other who the greatest cat in the world is: Mr. Malenkov, Mr. Talenkov, Mr. Eisenhower, Mr. Wozenweezer, [...]
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“We may here close our review of medieval cosmology. Dante died in the year 1321, almost exactly a thousand years after the Emperor Constantine had made the Christian faith the state religion of the Roman Empire. It had been a long and perfectly stationary period, at the end of which mankind occupied exactly the same [...]
Montaigne, Essay 13: Of Liars: “But, above all, old men who retain the memory of things past, and forget how often they have told them, are dangerous company; and I have known stories from the mouth of a man of very great quality, otherwise very pleasant in themselves, become very wearisome by being repeated a [...]