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Ideas are like viruses: They are often highly infections and give you a temporary fever that clouds the mind and leads to rash decisions that feel great now but are mostly bad later. Great ideas are very rare and tend to be even better once the initial fever has passed.
Ideas are like wine. They take years to mature and taste horrible in the meantime - but the wait is worth it.
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THE ANCIENT ILLUMINATED SEERS OF BAVARIA invite YOU to join The World's Oldest And Most Successful Conspiracy - THE RAG, Vol. 4, No. 23 (April 1970) Reprinted in Robert Anton Wilson's THE ILLUMINATI PAPERS (1980)
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There is no war that will end all wars
Instead cultivate loving kindness towards all sentient begins
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The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal
For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular picture. Their story shows how technology transforms even the most abstract mathematical landscapes.
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Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station
Section of rock colonised by cryptoendolithic microorganisms and the Cryomyces fungi in quartz crystals under an electron microscope.
European scientists have gathered tiny fungi that take shelter in Antarctic rocks and sent them to the International Space Station. After 18 months on board in conditions similar to those on Mars, more than 60% of their cells remained intact, with stable DNA. The results provide new information for the search for life on the red planet. Lichens from the Sierra de Gredos (Spain) and the Alps (Austria) also travelled into space for the same experiment.
