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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #270 on: November 28, 2011, 04:57:58 pm »
And here's a fascinating experiment proving the usefulness of human perspective ratio and switch:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-markman-phd/psychology-response-obstacles_b_1079567.html

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #271 on: November 28, 2011, 10:56:47 pm »
Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson

This 90-minute interview is the best interview I have watched in at least a couple of years. It is absolutely worth your time. It isn't necessarily educational, but it's very stirring. I think I would have to say that, among prominent living figures, Neil deGrasse Tyson comes closer to my own view of the world than anybody else of whom I am aware.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #272 on: November 29, 2011, 02:35:34 am »
I'm looking forward to that video. I've been giving serious thought to writing in Dr. Tyson for president in the coming (and in all likelihood, all following) presidential election.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #273 on: November 29, 2011, 12:33:22 pm »
While translating of poetry is common, Aesthetic Rewrites of those translations are not, since it takes an incredibly capable poet to not only understand both languages but also effectively transfer emotions, beauty and art, the truer meaning of it. When I tried my hand at rewriting Javed Akhtar's Urdu poems I was worried it may not be a 100% literal in definition and verse, but it did indeed carry a 100% aesthetic feel.

Here's a couple of useful links:

http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/7087.html

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=jXQ5lS7PawMC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=aesthetic+rewriting+in+the+translation+of+poetry&source=bl&ots=AtK2nYzBwK&sig=NXurfpT_StQ53m82qQBIF0Fbja4&hl=en&ei=hezUTvqRBcfrrQfPtpCtDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=aesthetic%20rewriting%20in%20the%20translation%20of%20poetry&f=false

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #274 on: November 29, 2011, 02:38:50 pm »
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/25/142780599/why-we-give-not-why-you-think

No comments. Just listen / read, and judge for yourselves.
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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #276 on: November 30, 2011, 12:16:11 am »
I watched the interview of Dr. Tyson. What an amazing individual! The world needs more people like him, and in positions of power. I cannot praise the man enough; seek out interviews with him, talks he's given, and listen for yourself.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #277 on: November 30, 2011, 02:06:34 am »
Neil deGrasse Tyson is awesome. I, too, wish we had an army of people like him. The world could be a better place!

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #278 on: November 30, 2011, 02:19:18 am »
Neil deGrasse Tyson is awesome. I, too, wish we had an army of people like him. The world could be a better place!
If the world was a better place, why would you need an army? XD

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #279 on: November 30, 2011, 03:30:19 am »
Gargantuan mountains buried beneath the ice in Antarctica.  This is fascinating.  That's some H.P. Lovecraft shit right there!

/insert Mountains of Madness fangirl squee

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #280 on: November 30, 2011, 02:46:02 pm »
Gargantuan mountains buried beneath the ice in Antarctica.  This is fascinating.  That's some H.P. Lovecraft shit right there!

/insert Mountains of Madness fangirl squee
Weeeeeee neeed Indiana Jones!


Hah, this research quite coincides with the experiments I conducted upon myself and a few friends few years ago, by analyzing and keeping notes of a person's emotional state and hence the probability of certain actions and moods. My experiments were based, out of sheer curiosity, on the effects of vegetarianism and certain meets on a person's mind. This one is more elaborate:
http://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/does-having-sweet-tooth-make-you-sweeter-person

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #281 on: November 30, 2011, 08:01:53 pm »
A Message to Women from a Man: You Are Not "Crazy".

I'm not good at summing up articles, but it's an interesting read, especially for those of you who are feminists (so about 90% of the board).

Edit::  Yay post number

1789!

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« Reply #282 on: November 30, 2011, 08:17:51 pm »
Did you make that yourself or are there actually other people who have superimposed the faces of the leaders of the French Revolution on the bodies of Disney's Princesses?!

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« Reply #283 on: November 30, 2011, 08:19:29 pm »
Did you make that yourself or are there actually other people who have superimposed the faces of the leaders of the French Revolution on the bodies of Disney's Princesses?!

Other people, good sir, other people.

That alone gives me faith in humanity.

Edit::  Random pictures for the next few posts or so.  No regrets.

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Re: The interesting and informative links and resources thread.
« Reply #284 on: December 02, 2011, 02:25:37 pm »
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