Category: quotes

One of most dangerous human’s faults is to think that everything that happens to us is Special… (Krauss)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

Stages of sleep

Every 60-100 minutes we go through a cycle of four stages of sleep

Stage 1 is a drowsy, relaxed state between being awake and sleeping – breathing slows, muscles relax, heart rate drops

Stage 2 is slightly deeper sleep – you may feel awake and this means that, on many nights, you may be asleep and not know it

Stage 3 and Stage 4, or Deep Sleep – it is very hard to wake up from Deep Sleep because this is when there is the lowest amount of activity in your body

After Deep Sleep, we go back to Stage 2 for a few minutes, and then enter Dream Sleep – also called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep – which, as its name suggests, is when you dream

In a full sleep cycle, a person goes through all the stages of sleep from one to four, then back down through stages three and two, before entering dream sleep Source: Gregg Jacobs

(grantland.com) As I hope I’ve made clear by this point in our Oscar journey, I love awards. I cover them, I handicap them, I tweet them, I do useless math about them, I would happily volunteer to accept them if the actual winners could not attend, and I watch them. On Sunday I got really excited about the complicated, layered irony of Bon Iver winning Best New Artist at the Grammys even though I’m about 80% sure that I don’t know who he is. So when I propose the elimination of an award, please understand that it’s with a heavy heart. That said, when it comes to the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, my strong feeling is, to quote Padma Lakshmi: Please pack your knives and go.

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http://www.ishausa.org/ishakriya/

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/stand-up-while-you-read-this/

http://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink?blend=1&ob=0

http://healthyeatingandwellbeing.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-losing-weight/

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ksh7c/10_Things_You_Need_to_Know_About_Losing_Weight/

Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Edwin Land, inventor of instant photography

http://www.visualeffectssociety.com/visual-effects-industry-bill-of-rights

The Situation Today The global visual effects industry is in transition. Because visual effects now play a central role in today’s feature films, television programming, animation, video games, commercials and virtually all forms of entertainment, they have become critically important to the entertainment industry.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdvWrI_oQjY

http://krauss.faculty.asu.edu/

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597314928257169.html

My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.

— J.B.S. Haldane
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14LpxQWDlAg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghhgUmGBjX8

Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand life’s mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly miraculous.

Our guest is a multiple award-winning pioneer in the field of quantum computation and argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe. They have unlimited scope and power to cause change, and the quest to improve them is the basic regulating principle not only of science but of all successful human endeavour.

This stream of ever improving explanations has infinite reach. We are subject only to the laws of physics, and they impose no upper boundary to what we can eventually understand, control, and achieve.

He applies that worldview to a wide range of issues and unsolved problems, from creativity and free will to the origin and future of the human species.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Fo_k7RC8g

Any description of the universe is a description of the instrument you used to analyze the universe. Instruments including our brain.

http://www.samharris.org/