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A sneak peek at The Hive, the sequel to Charles Burns’ X’ed Out, coming from Pantheon in October!

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"I love him whose soul squanders itself, who wants no thanks and returns none: for he always gives away and does not want to preserve himself."

- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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René Magritte. The Portrait. 1935.

"The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random"

- Unnecessary Knowledge (via ageofreason)

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cavetocanvas:

Yves Tanguy, My Life, White and Black, 1944

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darksilenceinsuburbia:

Philip Gladstone. The Museum Paintings. The Secret. Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 16”.
Private collection
http://www.philipgladstone.com/

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quantumaniac:

There is No Such Thing as Absolute Time
According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, there is no such thing as absolute time. What this means is that there is no universal ‘clock’ ticking the time - every frame of reference has its own perception of time. Thus, there’s no such thing as an absolute present - or future, or past.
All time on Earth is relatively the same for all reference frames because all humans are not moving very fast - and nowhere near light speed. However, if we were moving at drastically different speeds, we would find that time ticks more slowly for the person moving more quickly - we would age at different rates! Similarly, if one of us was closer than the other to a major gravity well like the Earth, we would age slower than someone who wasn’t.
GPS satellites, of course, are both moving quickly and at significant distances from Earth. So their internal clocks show a different time to the receivers on the ground. A lot of computing power has to go into making your sat-nav work around the theory of special relativity.

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Boards of Canada | Everything You Do Is a Balloon

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dearscience:

Intermission by Giancarlo Rado

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Yanni Floros, Knot Listening

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Kayo Dot - Lethe

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