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The most beautiful inventor in the world

The most beautiful inventor in the world Hedy Lamarr filed a ground-breaking patent that is a precursor to wifi and cell phone technology.

Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’

Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’

Kirkegaard: The First New Atheist

Kirkegaard: The First New Atheist “Kierkegaard thought that true Christianity’s relentless assault on reason, good sense, and any normal definition of self-seeking was the closest thing to a proof of its being true. The surrender must be its own reward.”

New like on tumblr: oaklandathletics

Liked on Tumblr: oaklandathletics

The AL West hats spell ASSHAT

The AL West hats spell ASSHAT on Twitter by @BlakeMurphyODC

How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley

How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley by Paul Ford

Blog: Baseball Prospectus: The Stats Go Marching In: Catcher Framing Before PITCHf/x by Max Marchi

The Stats Go Marching In: Catcher Framing Before PITCHf/x by Max Marchi by (author unknown) Baseball Prospectus

YouTube: Davos 2013 – An Insight, An Idea with Clayton Christensen

Davos 2013 – An Insight, An Idea with Clayton Christensen WorldEconomicForum

What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable?

What If Social Networks Just Aren’t Profitable? “What if we designed a social network to be small, self-supporting, and independent from the outset? How would it look, work, and feel?”

Blog: The Portable Griddle: afootballreport: Indecisive? Pick the middle “The goalkeeper…

afootballreport: Indecisive? Pick the middle “The goalkeeper… by (author unknown) The Portable Griddle

Blog: david-frum: Peter Worthington’s Self Obituary

Peter Worthington’s Self Obituary by Justin Green david-frum

Blog: What If?: High Throw

High Throw by (author unknown) What If?

State, Clan, and Liberty

State, Clan, and Liberty “…antiliberal social and legal organizations that tend to grow in the absence of state authority or when the state is weak. These groups include petty criminal gangs, the Mafia, and international crime syndicates, which look a great deal like clans and in many respects act like them.”

Julian Baggini — I still love Kierkegaard

Julian Baggini — I still love Kierkegaard “The materialistic world offers innumerable opportunities for instant gratification without enduring satisfaction and so life becomes a series of diversions. No wonder there is still so much vague spiritual yearning in the West: people long for the ethical but cannot see beyond the aesthetic.”

Particularism

Particularism “I’m looking for a philosophy which brings us back to earth. That philosophy is particularism, a fancy word for a simple idea: that in our ethical lives, rules are useless. Instead we should pay attention to real people in real situations.”

Blog: Science: Our Very Normal Solar System Isn’t Normal Anymore

Our Very Normal Solar System Isn’t Normal Anymore by (author unknown) Science

HIGH-INTENSITY CIRCUIT TRAINING USING BODY WEIGHT

HIGH-INTENSITY CIRCUIT TRAINING USING BODY WEIGHT

YouTube: Osada Warmów w Nadleśnictwie Zaporowo

Osada Warmów w Nadleśnictwie Zaporowo EBiker24

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Søren Kierkegaard on aesthetic, ethical, religious lives

Søren Kierkegaard on aesthetic, ethical, religious lives "For the knight of faith, having sacrificed all, being willing to sacrifice all, means that life has been taken away and then returned, just as Isaac was for Abraham. As the saying goes, after that ‘it’s all gravy.’ Everything in life is a gift."