Ed Rocks - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Ed Rocks (fiction) by sam512 Sun Mar 13 2005 at 1:07:10 "You reckon space is the final frontier?" "Erm... define 'frontier'," replies Ed. It is a typical Ed response. Spin out the question a bit further, buy time to think of a proper answer. "Well, there's nowhere else to explore, right?" "Sheesh. Don't put it like that. That's like saying, 'Right! After hundreds of years of diligent exploration, we microscopic bacteria have ...

Laird Hunt Takes This World Sentence by Sentence

A friend explains that the world is divided into paragraph and sentence writers. A paragraph writer is like a brick mason, working with consistent materials and focused on maintaining a clean line as a wall unfolds. Building a stone wall, a sentence writer in contrast begins with a pile of rocks—clots of material formed by processes beyond human measure. In This Wide Terraqueous World, Laird Hunt is a sentence writer in whose hand the sentences turn like prisms, reframing these essays’ collec...

Laird Hunt Takes This World Sentence by Sentence

A friend explains that the world is divided into paragraph and sentence writers. A paragraph writer is like a brick mason, working with consistent materials and focused on maintaining a clean line as a wall unfolds. Building a stone wall, a sentence writer in contrast begins with a pile of rocks—clots of material formed by processes beyond human measure. In This Wide Terraqueous World, Laird Hunt is a sentence writer in whose hand the sentences turn like prisms, reframing these essays’ collec...

'This World Is Not My Own' Review: Self-Taught Artist's Story Breaks ... - Global Village space

Nellie Mae Rowe: The Self-Taught Artist Who Designed Her Own Life Nellie Mae Rowe was born on July 4, 1900, according to her own claim. Although there are no definitive records to prove this, the symbolism of Independence Day and the dawn of the century was significant for Black Americans born into poverty in the Jim Crow South, just like Rowe. After years of farm work and many more years as a domestic servant, the twice-widowed Georgian decided to "design my life the way that I want it...

Rift Valley

Rift Valley SimpCSourceURL: https://refind.com/links/141565788?via=refind RefindWe are restless even in death. Entombed in stone, our most distant ancestors still travel along Earth’s subterranean passageways. One of them, a man in his 20s, began his journey around 230,000 years ago after collapsing into marshland on the lush edge of a river delta feeding a vast lake in East Africa’s Rift Valley. He became the earth in which he lay as nutrients leached from his body and his bone minerali...

Boulder

http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781913505387?aff=RainTaxiEva BalthasarTranslated by Julia SanchesAnd Other Stories ($17.95)by Abby Walthausen New arguments are always popping up these days for the dubious title of the "first globalization"—phenomena as disparate as the spice trade, the crusades, the whaling industry. Catalan novelist Eva Balthasar (or perhaps the wry galley cook who narrates her newly translated novel) might get a kick out of extending the rebrand to boulders, which were, aft...

TED K - A War Brewing Inside a Man

There are plenty of arguments about what Ted Kaczynski’s philosophy, put forth through a manifesto forcibly published in The Washington Post, is really saying. It’s been in vogue to reconsider some of his points as reasonable and in common with the disillusioned younger generations of America. Tony Stone’s movie Ted K doesn’t really dig into the ideas within Kaczynski’s manifesto as talking points but rather, simply recapitulates them out as voiceovers juxtaposed with various imagery that may...

Semiotics of the kitchen

Semiotics of the kitchenAuthor: Ziad ShihabMap 3114 BC 3 and 114 Mayan stone sculptureAuthor: Ziad ShihabMap

Uncovering the Myths of the Diamond Industry

It’s become burrowed in our psyche: the necessity of a diamond ring when it comes to marriage proposals. Not to mention the most prized gift a significant other could desire no matter the situation. When did this idea begin? And in an industry where synthetic, man-made diamonds are on the rise, what is the future for value of the product? All these questions (and many more) are answered in Jason Kohn’s new documentary Nothing Lasts Forever. A perfect double-feature with Uncut Gems, the entert...

The Brilliantly Blue Lapis Lazuli: Precious Gem Prized by Elites

In the recent past, a gem that is thought to be more precious than even gold, the elusive lapis lazuli , has received a bad reputation for being a source of illegal mining by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The brilliant, beautiful blue stone, mined from a small area of the Kokcha River valley in the remote Afghani province of Badakhshan for nearly 10,000 years, has repeatedly featured in history’s grandest civilizations – from the Indus Valley to Egypt. The Etymology and Science of Lapis ...

Summary of some interesting entries from the online dictionary of Symbols from University of Michigan

Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...

Glass ionomer cement

Glass ionomer cement (thing) See all of Glass ionomer cement, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by lignocaine (15.2 y) Rep: 15 ( +17 / -2 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Mon Mar 26 2001 at 7:59:01 A tooth-coloured material used in the restoration of teeth. GICs were first developed in the early 1970s by Wilson and Kent. It is the product of an acid-base reaction between basic fluoroaluminosilicate glass powder and polycarboxylic acid in the presence of water. fluoroaluminosili...

Digital Rocks - Issue 42 of N+1

Digital RocksHow Hollywood killed celluloid David Maljkovic, Temporary Projections (version 2). 2012, inkjet print on archival paper with collage element. 39 × 59". Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers.Hollywood is to the cinema what the United States is to the world. Its power is outsize. India, China, Nigeria, Russia—among many other countries—each release more movies annually than the five-member studio syndicate based in Los Angeles. But no other film sector carries more influence, ge...

Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum "Secretly Scanned"

 Search  GreekReporter.comAncient GreeceParthenon Marbles in the British Museum "Secretly Scanned" Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum "Secretly Scanned" By Tasos Kokkinidis March 25, 2022  Facebook  Twitter  WhatsApp  Linkedin  Email  British archaeologists have secretly scanned the Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum says a report in the Daily Mail. Credit: cc-by-sa-2.0.jpg/Wikipedia The Parthenon Marbles at th...

NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

(The 2022 SXSW Film Festival runs March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Nothing Lasts Forever. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) What, exactly, is a diamond, other than the dated "a girl’s best friend" and/or "forever"? In its simplest definition, it’s a mineral "composed of carbon" and formed at very high pressures and temperatures many miles below the Earth’s surface. They are also the hardest naturally occurring substance ...

glass marble meditation (place) by raincomplex - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 glass marble meditation (place) See all of glass marble meditation, no other writeups in this node. (place) by raincomplex Mon Nov 16 2020 at 1:34:26 imagine you are floating freely in space, bodiless. now imagine a sphere around you, a large opaque bubble. this is your mind and body. it's a metaphor. the upper part of the inside surface is covered with sense impressions of your human body and the world: what you can hear and see...

THE STONE MAKES THE SPARK - Litro Magazine

THE STONE MAKES THE SPARK You have no items in your cart. Want to get some nice things? Go shopping Photo by Eric Han In the beginning was the silence, although not the true silence, the first silence, but the murmur of a million minute voices – the wind in long grass, the breath of the beehives, the catch-cries of the cats, the snores of so many marsupials – filling the air with ...

True Mode - a poem

From TLS 10 Dec 2021 print edition: page 9:

Prophetic Mazzaroth of Adam

Act of Smelling- The - Camphor and Petrichor

p. 49Source: And on p. 34 , the essay on Petrichor, or "blood-stone"

Asgard in Orkney - Petroglyphs, Ancient Races And A US Connection

Within the rolling green hills of Scotland lie thousands of ancient stones covered with mysterious glyphs. And, somehow, a near identical stone can be found hidden in the great Appalachians of North Carolina in the United States, near a mountain summit. How can it be that the same symbols appear in both Prehistoric Scotland and North Carolina ? These symbols whisper a cryptic message to us from a forgotten time. Scholars and amateurs alike can only stare in wonder, scratching their hea...

Look who's back: 3-meter-tall monolith reappears in Diyarbakır | Daily Sabah - Daily Sabah

A three-meter-tall (9.8-foot-tall) mysterious metal monolith reappeared in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakır province, just a few months after it was discovered in Turkey’s Şanlıurfa province for the first time and was later revealed to be part of the unveiling of the country's National Space Program. The metal slab has words carved on it in the Göktürk alphabet, the Old Turkic script, with the words "Look at the sky if you want to see the Moon." The monolith, which was placed near...

The Second Life of John Frankenheimer's Seconds

Rock Hudson — rock as stoneStone HuddaughterStone Son (penis?)What IF…?What if…? is more than a new Marvel series. It’s the question that underpins so much great science fiction. What if the hierarchies of biological evolution were upended? What if artificial intelligences rebelled? What if humans colonized new worlds or mastered time travel? And what if—in the case of John Frankenheimer’s 1966 brilliant body-horror science-fiction paranoiac thriller Seconds—any of us could have a second shot...

L 98-59 b: A Rocky World with Half the Mass of Venus

ESPRESSO comes through. The spectrograph, mounted on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, has produced data allowing astronomers to calculate the mass of the lightest exoplanet ever measured using radial velocity techniques. The star is L 98-59, an M-dwarf about a third of the mass of the Sun some 35 light years away in the southern constellation Volans. It was already known to host three planets in tight orbits of 2.25 days, 3.7 days and 7.5 days. The innermost world, L ...

The Old Man of the Mountain

Saladin was the target of several assassination attempts in the 1170s when he was trying to subdue Syria. The assassins (hashashins) belonging to the sect run by the fearsome Iraqi leader Rashid al-Din Sinan, popularly known as the Old Man of the Mountain, came close to killing Saladin on at least two occasions. In the last three decades of the twelfth century, Sinan’s sect was an unpredictable and formidable player in the politics of the Levant—their assassins often proved as effective as a ...