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CRACK!

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:27:00 GMT

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Ideal Life

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:51:36 GMT

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Mothers in Science

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:18:13 GMT

clipped by: Sheroug
clipper's remarks: Download the PDF file, where each page has a timeline showing the career path and also important events in the contributor's life, 64 in all.

It was enjoyable to go though and as someone who wishes to embark upon both, it gave solace.

Clip Source: bioltfws1.york.ac.uk

Professor H M Ottoline Leyser

Contact Details
Department of Biology (Area 11)
University of York
PO Box 373
York
YO10 5YW
Tel: +44 (0)1904 328680
E-mail: hmol1@york.ac.uk
Office: B/L212
Web Page: Mothers In Science pdf

Life of Pi, Yann Martel

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:13:03 GMT

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Clip Source: mybookquoteshaven.wordpress.com

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love. Sometimes my heart was sinking so fast with anger, desolation and weariness, I was afraid it would sink to the very bottom of the Pacific and I would not be able to lift it back up

Alexander the Tweet!

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:49:16 GMT

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Clip Source: historicaltweets.com

drive my head thoughts over the universe

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:48:57 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alionline.net

Drive my dead thoughts over the universe,
Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth;

And, by the incantation of this verse,

Scatter, as from an unextinguish'd hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!

--Percy Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

Duino Elegies

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:00:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Read it all at the source

Clip Source: web.ics.purdue.edu

Why, if it's possible to spend this span
of existence as laurel, a little darker than all
other greens, with little waves on every
leaf-edge (like the smile of a breeze), why, then,
must we be human and, shunning destiny,
long for it?...

Oh, not because happiness,

that over-hasty profit of loss impending, exists.
Not from curiosity, or to practise the heart,
that would also be in the laurel...
but because to be here is much, and the transient Here
seems to need and concern us strangely. Us, the most transient.
Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more.
And we also once, Never again. But this having been
once, although only once, to have been of the earth,
seems irrevocable.

And so we drive ourselves and want to achieve it,
want to hold it in our simple hands,
in the surfeited gaze and in the speechless heart.
want to become it. give it to whom? Rather
keep all forever...but to the other realm,
alas, what can be taken?

Love after love, by Derek Walcott

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:11:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.eliteskills.com

The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror

and each will smile at the other's welcome,

and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart

to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.

Sit. Feast on your life.

oh you rationalists!

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:22:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alionline.net

"Oh you rationalists," I replied, smiling. "Passion! Drunkenness! Madness! You moral creatures, so calm and so righteous! You abhor the drunken man and detest the eccentric; you pass by, like the Levite, and thank God, like the Pharisee, that you are not one of them. I have been drunk more than once, my passions have always bordered on madness, and I'm not ashamed to confess it. I've learned in my own way that all extraordinary men who have done great and improbable things have ever been decried by the world as drunk or insane. And in ordinary life too, is it not intolerable that no one can undertake anything noble or generous without having everybody shout, 'That fellow is drunk, he is mad'? Shame on you, ye sages!"

-Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

I Write Dead People

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:09:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

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This gets a 10 for creepy and a 10 for clever.

The creepy part

This is a 240 pencil set made from the carbon of a cremated human. Each pencil is foil stamped with the name of the deceased.

The clever part

Only one pencil can be removed at a time. You sharpen the pencil by putting it back in the box. The shavings then occupy the space of the used pencils. Over time the pencil box fills with sharpenings — turning the box into a new urn (it’s filled with the shavings which are made from the cremation).

Unusual and Creative Staircase Designs

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:34:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The book case ones are so freaking beautiful and saves up so much storage.

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Creative “floating” stairs designed by Florence architect Guido Ciompi for The Gray Hotel in Milan, Italy. [link]

Creative stairs made from skateboard decks. [link]

Creative inside-out hanging box stairs. [link]

With a press of a button–and some hydraulic pistons–this staircase folds up and disappears into the wall. [link]

What a great way to utilize a generally overlooked space! Step and store in style, using each step as storage for a different item. [link]

Glass cantilever staircase with full height independent glass panel balustrade and wall mounted handrail. [link]

Creative stairs at the Longchamp Store in New York City. [link]

Creative stairs in a private residence in Stockholm designed by Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom. [link]

No matter how much space you’ve got you probably need smart storing solutions. [link]

Creative stairs that are designed to be easy to access by wheelchairs and prams. [link]

Suspended Staircase Bridge

Curvy Modern Marble Stairs

New Ways to Smuggle Data

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:17:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.therawfeed.com

Ever need to hide or smuggle gigabytes of data? No? Well, this is pretty cool anyway. A company that specializes in hollow spy coins -- actual currency machine-hollowed to create a secret compartment inside -- points out that MICRO SD CARDS FIT INSIDE THEIR SPY COINS, including nickels, pennies and quarters. Just don't spend it. (props to Coolest Gadgets)

Playing with the Moon and Sun

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:28:09 GMT

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Best & Worst Bike Ideas

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:40:01 GMT

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life is no brief candle

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:08:47 GMT

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Clip Source: rickshawdiaries.wordpress.com

“This is the true joy in life, to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, to be thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap. To be a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am a member of a community and as a member it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can before I die. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

- George Bernard Shaw