How to keep your sanity everyday?

From Meditations by Marcus Aurelius:

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own — not of the same blood or birth, but of the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions.

Molecular foundations of happiness

A great short read about the molecular foundations of happiness.

http://web.expasy.org/spotlight/back_issues/172

Transhumanism, cryogenics, body by design

Mathematics, NSA, hedge funds and origin of life

Imagine a talk brilliantly covers topology, its applications in physics, finance and humble interest in origin of life.

Jim Simons: A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street
http://go.ted.com/bdvr

Love is pathological

The best love story I have ever watched. However, it proves that you should have an insane mind or pathological to love... deeply...

VASTLY SPACE

I regularly check Elon Musk's twitter even though I stop using it 2 years ago. I came across one of his tweets "If the moon were only 1 pixel". Amazing work showing how our space is VASTLY EMPTY by means of scaling the map of solar system. In this map, as the title says, moon is 1 pixel and Sun and other planets are scaled down by reference to moon. You see how empty the space is... I have already chosen my book before sleep ;)


Here some quotes make you ponder on nothingness...

"It’s easy to disregard nothingness because there’s no thought available to encapsulate it. There’s no metaphor that fits because, by definition, once the nothingness becomes tangible, it ceases to exist."

Here is the scaling map of solar system:

http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You

I have come across this amazingly cute "Björk talking about her TV" video. Wow. Such a cuteness and things that make you feel think about in this short video... I have watched again and again and still couldn't get enough of it. The way she describes the inside of television, the analogy she made like " a little city and this might be an elevator" shows the childish and at the same time creative side of her :)

Actually the things she said about TV is partially true. We are all hypnotized by watching TV. Either it is because the interesting program on screen (less likely) but mostly because we are really busy at that time to analyze what is going on there, or as Björk said, to bring all pieces together. So we literally swallow everything TV shows us.

Check this video from 1988...