Suehiro Maruo

"We understand ourselves thanks only to our speed past words." --Paul Valery

MIT Treasure Hunt tradition inspires Wizard of Oz Hunt

R.Z. is a thirty-five year old man... A single man, he lives alone and does not work. His main activity is photographing the landscape that he sees from his window. He regularly shows these photographs to his therapist and comments on them: "Here there is a car." "There, the car did not move during the night." "This is the same car on another day, there are dead leaves on the roof." He says, "Time goes by, things do not change. I find time with photographs."

Rebuilding Reality: A Phenomenology of Aspects of Chronic Schizophrenia

José Clemente Orozco

"One thing must be understood: I have said nothing extraordinary or even surprising. What is extraordinary begins at the moment I stop. But I am no longer able to speak of it." --Maurice Blanchot

"Her father stabbed her 12 times in the chest, and made sure that she was beyond recovery before he called the police and the ambulance to come and get her."

"..the United Nations conservatively estimates that 5,000 women a year are killed in this way, and the majority of those women are killed in Jordan and in the West Bank and Gaza Strip areas... and that's a very conservative estimate on the United Nations' part, because the majority of these crimes are later classified as suicides and accidental deaths"

Honor Killings in Jordan

""Operation Keelhaul!" To this day, it is an unavenged post-war crime of immeasurable cruelty committed by the Allies"

"If you find an atheist in your neighborhood,
TELL A PARENT OR PASTOR RIGHT AWAY!

You may be moved to try and witness to these poor lost souls yourself, however
AVOID TALKING TO THEM!
Atheists are often very grumpy and bitter and will lash out at children or they may even try to trick you into neglecting God's Word.

Very advanced witnessing techniques are needed for these grouches. Let the adults handle them."

SETI signal verification attempts at Arecibo
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Shaking Things Up: Progressive and Radical Librarians

Jake and Dinos Chapman, Great Deeds Against the Dead

Damien Hirst, Mother and Child Divided

on the acceptance of meteorites into scientific thinking : "If anyone were so credulous as to suggest that stones had fallen from the sky, he was reasoned with thus: In the first place, there are no stones in the sky; Therefore no stones can fall from the sky." "Even when meteorites were taken on board as being a genuine scientific phenomena, it was decreed that only objects of "True Meteoric Material" were meteorites, and that other material that fell had not come from space, but could be explained in the same fashion as meteorites had once been" --Charles Fort (first quote)

"...an excellent example of a good approximation of anti-entropic behaviour was given in the Xmas Royal Society Lectures this year. I big drum of colourless colloid had a vertical line of dye in it. It got stirred to smear the dye around and then *unstirred* to restore a fair semblance of a vertical blue line. My eyes nearly popped warching it!"

Jane Alexander