A "graphics programming in C" book from the year 2000 wants you to punch Bill Gates
A "graphics programming in C" book from the year 2000 wants you to punch Bill Gates
Moses, 1945 by Frida Kahlo
1,61803398875 or the divine proportion of the golden ratio
Charon carries souls across the river Styx - by Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1835-1890)
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (pronounced /ˈkɛərən/; Greek Χάρων) was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the river that divided the world of the living the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the catabasis mytheme, heroes — such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.
Psychopomps are creatures, spirits, angels, or deities in many religions whose responsibility is to escort newly deceased souls from Earth to the afterlife. Their role is not to judge the deceased, but simply to guide them. Classical examples of a psychopomp are the ancient Egyptian god Anubis, the deity Yama in Hinduism, the Greek ferryman Charon and god Hermes, the Roman god Mercury, the Norse Valkyries, the Aztec Xolotl and the Slavic Morana.
The Problem With Beauty Equations - @sam_goree on the ‘aethetics gap’ & subjectivity in beauty.
Where was all the food, before we had supermarkets?
"The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard." - Joel Salatin
If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know
Scientists Have Successfully Recorded Data to DNA in a Few Short Minutes
The new study's researchers hypothesized they could make this process faster by utilizing a new method they call "Time-sensitive Untemplated Recording using Tdt for Local Environmental Signals", or TURTLES. This way, they would synthesize completely new DNA rather than copying a template of it. The method enabled the data to be recorded into the genetic code in a matter of minutes.
Pyramids in the distance from a Cairo street.
An Empty Vessel
Generative Worlds
Conversation I Have Had With Edgar Allan Poe