shinyparticle @shinyparticle

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. --Viktor Frankl Joined October 2008

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shinyparticle @shinyparticle

a year ago

Out for a morning walk, loving this launch of discussions of data science and women that do it. Her background and philosophy feel so familiar and so inspiring. podcastaddict.com/women-in-data-…

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I have spam-liked @CoachGowron's posts this morning because I haven't been on this platform recently and they bowled me right the heck over. Now I feel like I want to at least check in with the Coach every day. ❤️🌟🤜🤛

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shinyparticle @shinyparticle

4 years ago

This guy, yes! There is only so much time, only so much headspace. #notsaltyaboutdrywallscrews youtu.be/FIDJ2XMTb_s

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Maria Popova @themarginalian

4 years ago

“Forgiving… is the only reaction which does not merely re-act but acts anew and unexpectedly, unconditioned by the act which provoked it and therefore freeing from its consequences both the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.” So much nuance in this Arendt gem:

Maria Popova @themarginalian

4 years ago

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shinyparticle @shinyparticle

4 years ago

Oh, the excitement of having these two people talking together ❤ youtu.be/VBVg5l1Cn6U

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Maria Popova @themarginalian

4 years ago

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come… We live everything as it comes, without warning.” Milan Kundera on the elemental confusion of our wants brainpickings.org/2015/10/16/mil…

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shinyparticle @shinyparticle

4 years ago

Likely very late to the game, just discovered blob opera 🤙 Loving the visuals of each part's relationship to their range. youtu.be/u46AgJg_TAc

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Lin-Manuel Miranda @Lin_Manuel

4 years ago

Um. First time in front of an audience in a year and a half. It was a whole thing. Songs were sung. Feelings were felt. Can't wait for you to see. -LMM #InTheHeightsMovie

The Tonight Show @FallonTonight

4 years ago

Um. First time in front of an audience in a year and a half. It was a whole thing. Songs were sung. Feelings were felt. Can't wait for you to see. -LMM #InTheHeightsMovie

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Maria Popova @themarginalian

5 years ago

I have written a children's book. It is a true story — a love story, a science story, a story about the poetry of existence, about time and chance, genetics and gender, evolution and infinity, about diversity as nature’s wellspring of resilience and beauty brainpickings.org/2021/01/02/the…

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Tweet Peasant Sterlace @sterlace

4 years ago

I've started referring to the toaster oven as "the infrared". Example: "Would you rather I heated this in the microwave or in the infrared"? Hoping it will catch on.

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Maria Popova @themarginalian

5 years ago

Seeking an Aurora – a tender and transcendent illustrated celebration of Earth's most otherworldly spectacle of color brainpickings.org/2021/03/28/see…

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neiltyson

5 years ago

Got two minutes? “Because of Science” [Brief Commentary: Adapted from the Wall Street Journal - 430 words] haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/commenta…

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Neil Gaiman @neilhimself

5 years ago

I love that he's doing this as the Doctor, and not as David. Which leaves me wondering which one likes the Housemartins.

Séan 👾 @SeanEdits

5 years ago

I love that he's doing this as the Doctor, and not as David. Which leaves me wondering which one likes the Housemartins.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch

5 years ago

NEW: I saved this one up for the US morning, because it’s a big "good Covid news" moment for our friends across the Atlantic A "vaccine effect" is now clear in US data, with hospitalisations falling faster among the old (mostly vaccinated) than the young ft.com/content/78bb2c…

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Maria Popova @themarginalian

5 years ago

Dostoyevsky was born on this day in 1821. Shortly after his death sentence was repealed at the last minute in his late twenties, he wrote his brother this elated and extraordinary letter on the meaning of life: brainpickings.org/2019/12/05/dos…

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Maria Popova @themarginalian

5 years ago

Marie Curie—the first woman to win the Nobel, and to this day the only person with two Nobels in two different sciences—was born on this day in 1867. When she (yes, even she) was besieged by haters, Einstein sent her this magnificent letter of advice: brainpickings.org/2016/04/19/ein…

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Maria Popova @themarginalian

5 years ago

“All you have is what you are, and what you give.” Ursula K. Le Guin, born on this day in 1929, on suffering and getting to the other side of pain brainpickings.org/2018/11/29/urs…

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NWS Twin Cities @NWSTwinCities

5 years ago

Here's today's forecast snowfall for locations around the area. Blue boxed area is most likely range for each location (solid dark blue square is the specific forecast number). For the mathematically inclined, this graphic shows the forecast 10/25/75/90th percentiles and mode.