A sentence is a device for taking a thought for a walk - Art by Martin Shovel
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All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. - Ming-Dao Deng
A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon
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A property of wiki where authors citing non-existent pages discover that they do exist. It is often alleged that a CamelCase LinkPattern makes this magically happen, whereas FreeLinks do not allow it, but this claim is HotlyDisputed.
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Handbook of African Medicinal Plants: Pharmacognostical Profile of Selected Medicinal Plants
With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centuries in traditional African medicine for the prevention and treatment of diseases, Africa remains a minor player in the global natural products market largely due to lack of practical information. This updated and expanded second edition of the Handbook of African Medicinal Plants provides a comprehensive review of more than 2,000 species of plants employed in indigenous African medicine, with full-color photographs and references from over 1,100 publications.
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Knowledge how to practically cultivate and connect with nature is of great importance.
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"Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them." - Abraham Flexner
Art from the paper "Surfing the Möbius Band: An Example of the Union of Art and Mathematics"
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The sign-order fractal
(image source, source) #KM #Art #Creativity #Generative #Narrative #Philosophy
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A 'reduction' comic strip by Gilles Ciment, based on 'The Adventures of Tintin'
In the example below, Gilles Ciment, a co-founder of the Oubapo, presents a constraint called “reduction.” The challenge is to distill one of the standard 62-page stories of The Adventures of Tintin to as few as six images. Obviously, to some degree, the appreciation of such reductions relies on the readers knowledge of the source text, in this case Les cigares du pharaon.
In his “reduction,” Ciment seeks to valorize the “ligne claire” or “clean line,” one of the most distinctive formal characteristics of Hergé’s early albums. In deciding on his method, Ciment specified that he had to respect the order of the images in the narrative and limit his choices to key moments of the story, in order to simultaneously say something new and interesting about the story, the characters, and the author.
