If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another’s mind.
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Legendary album designer Storm Thorgerson, whom we lost at the age of 69, on what it was like to work with Pink Floyd and create some of history’s most iconic vinyl covers. Find his era-defining work in For the Love of Vinyl: The Album Art of Hipgnosis.

1. Associative orientation: Imaginative, playful, have a wealth of ideas, ability to be committed, sliding transitions between fact and fiction.

2. Need for originality: Resists rules and conventions. Have a rebellious attitude because of a need to do things no one else does.

3. Motivation: Have a need to perform, goal oriented, innovative attitude, stamina to tackle difficult issues.

4. Ambition: Have a need to be influential, attract attention and recognition.

5. Flexibility: Have the ability to see different aspects of issues and come up with optimal solutions.

6. Low emotional stability: Have a tendency to experience negative emotions, greater fluctuations in moods and emotional state, failing self-confidence.

7. Low sociability: Have a tendency not to be very considerate, are obstinate and find faults and flaws in ideas and people.

Norwegian researchers find the 7 characteristics of highly creative people. Pair with John Cleese on 5 factors to make your life more creative and Ira Glass on the secret of success in creative work.

Particularly interesting and counter-intuitive is #6 – but then again, we do know that emotional excess is essential to creativity. 

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jtotheizzoe: Bubbles Popping at 18,000 fps? Yeah, it’s as awesome as you think. Check out this new vid from the Slo-Mo Guys to see some crazy fluid dynamics at work. The world’s a very cool place at time scales beyond our own perception. For some of the science behind why bubbles form, take a look at this post. The Slo-Mo Guys do a cool experiment to see whether a dropped object passes through the bubble thanks to gravity faster than the bubble pops. What do you think would happen?
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Bubbles Popping at 18,000 fps? Yeah, it’s as awesome as you think. Check out this new vid from the Slo-Mo Guys to see some crazy fluid dynamics at work. The world’s a very cool place at time scales beyond our own perception. For some of the science behind why bubbles form, take a look at this post.

The Slo-Mo Guys do a cool experiment to see whether a dropped object passes through the bubble thanks to gravity faster than the bubble pops. What do you think would happen?

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