Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Great article on the nature of time

"Isaac Newton had a peculiar notion of time. He saw it as a sort of cosmic grandfather clock, one that hovered over the rest of nature in blithe autonomy. And he believed that time advanced at a smooth and constant rate from past to future. “Absolute, true, mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external,” Newton declared at the beginning of his Principia. To those caught up in the temporal flux of daily life, this seems like arrant nonsense. Time does not strike us as transcendent and mathematical; rather, it is something intimate and subjective. Nor does it proceed at a stately and unvarying pace. We know that time has different tempos."

Read more at Lapham's Quarterly.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Have the Feds found the second leaker?

"Anyone who has been following Edward Snowden’s heroic whistleblowing, and the reporting of Glenn Greenwald on the classified documents that prove egregious violations of the United States Constitution by the NSA, will also be aware of speculation that a “second leaker” had emerged earlier this year. It appears this person may have been identified by the FBI."

More at Zerohedge.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Caribbean PRI tries again

The Caribbean Permaculture Institute is trying an Indie-gogo campaign after its kickstarter campaign failed to reach its funding goal.

The upside to trying indie-gogo is that all pledges count instead of having to reach the goal to receive funding. It's not all or nothing this time.

I just dropped by and threw in my pledge, won't you do the same?

Tuesday, October 14, 2014