Posts Tagged ‘science’

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Quiet Babylon

by Secret Vespers on June 3, 2009 at 10:05 am
Posted In: News

Let’s talk about scale! My friend, Tim Maly, writes a blog called Quiet Babylon, and in this post he discusses scale: http://www.quietbabylon.com/2009/05/29/6-things-that-give-me-a-crushing-sense-of-scale/ These Secret Vespers installments are tagged with scale, though many others could be. That crushing sense is one of the hardest sensations for me to put to words. Like love, hope, and so [...]

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Like Turritopsis Nutricula

by Secret Vespers on December 7, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Posted In: Lovesick

I came to the aquarium as I always do, when it is quiet. The crowds come for feeding time. They are chasing the agitation, the water filled with bubbles, the frenzy of desire. I come for something else, to watch the creatures swim slow loops or float, hide in their pretend reefs and wait. That [...]

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Highest Bounce

by Secret Vespers on October 13, 2008 at 8:55 am
Posted In: Comic
that, or high points are new benchmarks

How do you feel about your first time in love? Is the first high always the highest?

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Geometry Waiting

by Secret Vespers on November 9, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Posted In: Comic
we should build more of these

What can last forever, waiting: geometry, the edge of the universe, making shapes out of shapes. Wave forms written over eternity. What do you think of the idea that some of the objects you see in the night sky ceased to exist long ago? Their light is still streaming out like a ghost.

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Circles and Lines

by Secret Vespers on March 26, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Posted In: Comic
Euler's identity might be the best ever.

Have you ever noticed how so much of everything people know, they know from circles and straight lines? Even 1 and 0. Arguably, the constants pi and e and even the root of -1 come from circles and lines.

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Elegance

by Secret Vespers on February 7, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Posted In: Comic
here's to Feynmann diagrams

You know that feeling, when you really “get” a work of art, or the stars in the sky or the clouds just overwhelm you, or a massive number floors you? I think there’s something honest about feeling tiny.

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