06 June 2020

Muqarnas

https://adammclane.com/2020/02/these-divided-states-of-america/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/04/09/Get-To-Know-Ancient-Stoics/

https://spectrejournal.com/the-only-way-out-of-the-crisis-is-to-fight-for-open-borders

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/the-myth-of-sisyphus/3-an-absurd-reasoning-philosophical-suicide

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337892595_A_Classical_Geometric_Relationship_That_Reveals_The_Golden_Link_in_Nature

Learning From the Virus

https://www.galeriemagazine.com/julie-mehretu/

The Cramps 'she said'

http://greenloc.ca/greenloc-hoarding/construction-hoarding-toronto/

"Distant water will not quench a nearby fire." - ?
"She is already thinking and behaving in ways that will eventually gain broad political and cultural acceptance, but that are currently deemed unacceptable." - Via
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work." - Mary Oliver
"To have a great idea, have a lot of them." - N.Tesla
"The need to criticize belies a longing for recognition, appreciation, and validation. None of which, however, can be obtained through criticism." - The Universe

28 May 2020

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2018/10/columbus-map-discovery-secrets-new-world/

(Book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poetics_of_Space (by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard)

(Podcast) https://theconversation.com/how-dangerous-are-conspiracy-theories-listen-to-part-five-of-our-expert-guide-136070

https://gizmodo.com/samsung-redesigned-its-tv-boxes-to-be-easily-converted-1842918344

(Documentary) "The Hero's Journey" (Joseph Campbell)  YouTube

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191125-turkeys-ancient-tradition-of-paying-it-forward

https://thewalrus.ca/americas-next-civil-war/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot

https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2020/04/13/boston-university-is-first-to-announce-it-may-postpone-its-fall-term-until-january-2021

http://www.gazaincontext.com/film.html

"It is time to forsake our age and its adolescent furies.” - Camus, The Rebel
"What we take for the reality outside of ourselves can be understood as a story we're telling ourselves about who we are and how the world works." - Charles Eisenstein
"I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.” -  Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Stretch yourself, scoff at the odds, get the ball rolling so that the magic can then come alive and sweep you off your feet with its infinite grace and glory." - TU
“When the storm starts talking, no ocean can sleep!” - Mehmet Murat

19 May 2020

(Film) The Hero's Journey: A Biographical Portrait

https://qz.com/1835237/amsterdam-adopted-a-new-economic-model-for-life-after-covid-19/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pg7n7y/it-was-like-a-cult-leaving-the-world-of-online-conspiracy-theories

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinknudson/2017/06/26/there-are-only-15-pentagonal-tilings-probably

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/10/heres-how-body-gains-immunity-coronavirus

Algorithmic Accountabilit:y https://boingboing.net/2019/12/04/fundamental-critique.html

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200406-why-smart-people-believe-coronavirus-myths?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook

https://www.iwm.at/closedbutacitve/corona-focus/albena-azmanova-our-neoliberal-war-on-the-pandemic/

Ontario’s Triage COVID-19 Protocol

https://areomagazine.com/2020/04/01/a-time-for-heroes/

"There are moments in our lives, moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual - become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom." - Robert Henri (The Art Spirit p.45)
"Look and you will find it; what is unsought will go undetected." - Sophocles
"You have to go there. You have to choose your stage. You have to do your dance. Putting yourself in place, to any degree that you can, even if it scares you, even when it's 'hard',  even if it's just your big toe." - TU
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn
"We live on an island of knowledge surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” - John A. Wheeler (quoted in John Horgan’s “The New Challenges,” Scientific American, 1992)


09 May 2020

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/ai-weiwei-expanding-on-covid-19-18-march-2020

https://datagraver.com/case/tracking-the-worldwide-covid-19-pandemic

Video (Pandemic Exponential Growth)

https://thequarantimes.wordpress.com/2020/03/19/herd-immunity-is-epidemiological-neoliberalism/

(Populism) http://nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the-pandemic-coming?utm_source=pocket-newtab

https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/news/odds-favor-2020-olympics-canceled-italy-us-china-france-spain-

https://mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-history/drugs-need-be-properly-tested-being-put-use

Dana carver teenage bullshit https://youtu.be/tN-LJ7w5pwQ. Last few seconds

Health care system could be total collapse

(SMorris)  https://imgflip.com/meme/162372564/Domino-Effect

“Everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure.” - Alexis de Tocqueville (wrote of Americans in 1830)
"If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease;” - Jianzhi Sengcan
"In moments of existential crisis, time has a tendency to collapse, whole chains of events that may usually require years and decades too unfold, suddenly happen overnight.” - Farid Moslehi
“Sometimes when you look back at the trail you've tread, it's actually hard to believe you were as scared or confused or uncertain as you were, yet still you rocked it. You're on fire." - The Universe
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.” - Georgia O’Keeffe

25 April 2020

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/google-maps-canada-coronavirus-data

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/tips-make-your-zoom-gatherings-more-private/?

https://theconversation.com/stop-calling-coronavirus-pandemic-a-war

(NBA leadership) Leafs https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-toronto-maple-leafs-kyle-dubas-speaks-1.5516708

Dylan 24 hour Dolly Timelapse

https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/resolving-disputes-within-adversarial-systems

https://www.wired.com/story/worried-5g-health-effects-dont-be

https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/actress-activist-shirley-douglas-daughter-of-medicare-s-tommy-douglas-dies

AntiVaxxers   https://apple.news/AuCxD-U_FQfSKjg3fduu44Q

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/08/refuse_to_be_terrori.html

“Invariably, when big dreams come true, and I mean 'BIG', there is a total metamorphosis of one's life. Thoughts change, words change, decisions are made differently. Gratitude is tossed about like rice at a wedding. ... But would you have guessed that these changes invariably come about before, not after, the big dream's manifestation? " -  The Universe
"It was an uncertain spring." - Virginia Woolf
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell, 1984
"There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness." - Jalaluddin Rumi, 13th century Sufi Poet
“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you choose. But get drunk.” - Charles Baudelaire,  Friday recommendations from 19th Century poets

14 April 2020


https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-very-special-triangles/

https://www.bachelorandmaster.com/creationofknowledge/myth-of-sisyphus.html#.XnoH3oUnl_I

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/13/815502262/flattening-a-pandemics-curve-why-staying-home-now-can-save-lives

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/why-was-it-so-hard-to-raise-the-alarm-on-coronavirus.html

“It only takes a one-day difference in action to see a 40 percent reduction in cases — that’s enormous. It really conveys the urgency of the situation.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/science/coronavirus-math-mitigation-distancing.html

https://www.complex.com/style/2013/10/famous-street-artists/escif

https://bigthink.com/21st-century-spirituality/creativity-and-distraction

https://www.wjtv.com/news/nike-closing-all-us-stores-for-two-weeks-due-to-coronavirus/

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-03-10/corey-feldman-documentary-sexual-abuse

“Happiness is a direction, not a place." - Sydney J. Harris
 "You can teach a kid to canoe, but you can't teach them how to spend time in a canoe." - John Latimer, former Canadian Camping Associaton President
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“The trick is remembering that at all times far more is happening on your behalf than your physical senses will ever reveal. Like right now." -The Universe
"Man with a strong enough why can get through anyhow!" - Freidrich Nietzsche

03 April 2020

https://creativefuture.org/eff-rebuttal-dmca/

https://medium.com/@joschabach/flattening-the-curve-is-a-deadly-delusion

https://triz-journal.com/differentiating-among-the-five-levels-of-solutions/

(Video) Square Tube rounded corner

(Recycled chopsticks) https://chopvalue.com/products/wall-decor

https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/what-if-nestle-and-coke-had-clean-their-own-plastic-pollution

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-edition-1.5495328/london-artists-don-makeup-to-thwart-facial-recognition-technology

Cancer paintings; https://www.verdict.co.uk/science-art-ayse-akarca/

https://www.cnet.com/news/best-smart-home-devices-not-made-by-amazon-or-google/

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-03-10/corey-feldman-documentary-sexual-abuse

"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head.” ― G.K. Chesterton
“As tough as we are, is as loving as we are” - Andrew Cuomo
“If you just start dancing the music will be added." - TU
"What sparks human greatness? I believe it arises the moment we stop believing we are powerless and start trusting that while we may only be a single individual, we have within us the power to change the world." - Buckminster Fuller
“Spot on Ron.” - Dr. S. Lowden (20 March 2020)