Theidlerhour - Bricolage Brain

This is a model of how many Earth’s can fit inside the sun. 

Perfect Blue | Satoshi Kon | 1997

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

Andrew Boyd, Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe   (via operationdeitas)

I love mankind…but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via wordsnquotes)

A man came across a beach covered in starfish that had washed ashore.  Further along he saw a boy throwing the starfish back into the ocean.  “What are you doing?” he asked the boy.  The boy responded “The tide is going out and if the starfish don’t get back into ocean they will die.”

“But there are thousands of starfish on this beach!” the man said.  “You can’t possibly save them all.  Even if you worked all day, it wouldn’t make a difference.”

The boy picked up another starfish and threw it into the ocean.  “It made a difference to that one.”

That starfish was Albert Einstein.

A very useful demonstration of the importance of sentence length.

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