Duterte DQ
Monday, February 12th, 2018[ by Charles Cameron — aghast ]
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Ah so..
Archive for the ‘Doublequotes’ Category
From the great Atlantic ocean to the wide Pacific shore – Sunday surprise
Monday, February 12th, 2018[ by Charles Cameron — with an itch to ride the rails ]
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For your evening entertainment..
Easst to West, that the Wabash Cannonball, North to South, the City of New Orleans, sung by Johnny Cash and Arlo Guthrie respectively.
Sunday surprise — the demonic and the sanctified, illuminated
Monday, February 12th, 2018[ by Charles Cameron — may you and I play always among the vertues and against the vices ]
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That we may discern the distance between the demonic and the sanctified, and play accordingly:
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I’m curious about the elongated chess board on which our demon slaughters the very mind of the prayerful monk.
Emily?
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Sources:
Emily Steiner, Twitter Elizabeth Biggs, Twitter
The monk prays (above, sanctified), the devil slays the monk (below, demonic)
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Ha!
It is four hundred years since Caxton published this book. We may be sure that so pains»taking a man did the best he could with the spelling. The alphabet he employed was inadequate to represent the sounds of the English language, and he had no other guide than the spelling of the scribes, who represented, as well as they could, the pronunciations in use in the several counties in which they lived. In the course of two hundred and fifty years, coming down to the days of Addison and Pope, a considerable degree of uniformity had been obtained, both in pronunciation, by means of travel, and in spelling, by the desire of printers to have a standard orthography for each word, in order to save themselves the trouble of thinking and comparing various orthographies.
That’s from The Game of the Chesse: a Moral Treatise on the Duties of Life … Reprinted which I ran across while searching (via the keywords “moral” and “chesse” for this quote:
Meantime, the king and queen, for recreation’s sake, began to play together. It looked not unlike chesse, only it had other laws, for it was the vertues and vices one against another, where it might be ingeniously discovered with what plots the vices lay in wait for the vertues, and how to re-encounter them again. This was so properly and artificially performed that it were to be wished that we had the like game too.
That’s from The Chymical Marriage of Johann Valentin Andreae, first published in 1616, translated into English by Ezechiel Foxcroft in 1690.
Pray, play most assiduously.
Of the ever-expanding reach of science, macroscopic version
Sunday, February 11th, 2018[ by Charles Cameron — I imagine there’s a microscopic version, too ]
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Here’s an illustration of our Sun’s family tree (sadly scaled down in upper image, below) —
— and here (pleasantly blown up in lower image, above) is an image of the first planets discovered outside our milky way
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From New Scientist on the sun’s family tree as imaged above::
The coloured circles on this chart represent 21 stars whose chemical compositions have been compared with that of our sun, and each other’s. This elemental DNA shows that three groups, marked in red, pink and yellow, deserve their own branches on the family tree. Taken together with their age and behaviour, these similarities can be used to infer the secrets of the stars’ origins.
Poster and more details at https://drive.google.com/file/d/12nrya5PqauRX_3TAfKrPuz7fQUHKom78/view.
For the first planets discovered beyond our milky way?
Image of the gravitational lens RX J1131-1231 galaxy with the lens galaxy at the center and four lensed background quasars. It is estimated that there are trillions of planets in the center elliptical galaxy in this image,
NBC, The First Planets Beyond The Milky Way May Have Been Discovered
See also:
- Scientific American, Did We Just Find Exoplanets in Another Galaxy?
- News on 6, OU Researchers Record Planets Outside Our Galaxy During Research
DoubleQuote!
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As I said in brackets at the very top of this post, I imagine there’s a microscopic version of this macro expanding scientific vision too — but do the arts and humanities have an expanding introscopic equivalent?
Hipbone’s Uncertainty Principle
Monday, February 5th, 2018[ by Charles Cameron — divergent and convergent, expansive and focused thinking ]
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Consider this:
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Breath expands, then contracts the lungs. That’s basic.
Let’s apply it to the paradox above. I’d go with Dirac in my expansive, divergent phase, and Feynman for eventual convergence and verification.
Poetry is closely analogous to science in this regard.
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xkcd’s uncertainty:
