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• Quotation – April 15, 2013

  

  We are all a little weird and Life’s a little weird, And when we find someone whose Weirdness is compatible with ours, We join up with them and fall in Mutual... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – March 22, 2013

  

  From a “Dear Abby” post in The Province (Vancouver, BC) February 11, 1990Dear Abby: No problems here today–just happiness and bursting with pride! In 1985, a... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – March 16, 2013

  

  It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Mark Twain About these ads var wpcom_adclk_hovering =... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – March 14, 2013

  

  Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought? Joan Didion I write because I’m afraid to say some things out loud. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – February 24, 2013

  

  A man performs but one duty — the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. Mark Twain About these ads var... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – February 20, 2013

  

  Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a... Read more

  Posted on 20 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Google’s Interactive Starmap Will Eat Your Day Whole

  

  DATE: FEB 12, 2013 | AUTHOR: DAVID WHARTON | CATEGORY: SCI-FI IN REAL LIFE via GiantFreakinRobot.com Want to wave goodbye to any chance of productivity for the... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Via LifeScience.com Ancient Temple Discovered in Peru by ...

  

  via LifeScience.com Ancient Temple Discovered in Peru by LiveScience Staff Date: 14 February 2013 Time: 02:58 PM ET Archaeologists in Peru have uncovered what... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 CREATIVITY, CULTURE, HISTORY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – February 16, 2013

  

  In the garden I tend to drop my thoughts here and there. To the flowers I whisper the secrets I keep and the hopes I breathe. I know they are there to... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – February 14, 2013

  

  A science is an discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation. Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Monster Black Holes Grow Surprisingly Fast

  

  CREDIT: NASA/Dana Berry, SkyWorks Digital   This image depicts three hot blobs of matter orbiting a black hole. If placed in our Solar System, this black... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – February 13, 2013

  

  There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Salty Antarctic Pond May Hold Clues to Water on Mars

  

  by Megan Gannon via LiveScience.com A camera installed above Don Juan Pond in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys took 16,000 images in two months, documenting... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Copper Sulfide Could Enable Faster Memory Chips and More Efficient Batteries

  

  February 11, 2013 via SciTechDaily Science Artistic rendering of copper sulfide above the critical temperature at which it becomes “superionic.” Click on image... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Synthetic Biology Circuits Perform Logic Functions and Remember the Results

  

  February 11, 2013 by Staff via SciTechDaily Engineers at MIT have developed genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not only perform logic functions, but also... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• 4.5 Billion ‘Alien Earths’ May Populate Milky Way

  

  by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer Date: 07 February 2013 Time: 01:53 PM ET This artist’s conception shows a hypothetical habitable planet with two moons... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – February 6, 2013

  

  You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – February 3, 2013

  

  When a distinguished but elderly scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. Where he states that something is impossible, he is... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – February 1, 2013

  

  There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE

• Quotation – January 14, 2013

  

  In private correspondence the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler once confessed that even if he didn’t write anything, he made sure he sat down at his desk... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 CREATIVITY, SCIENCE