When you are studying any matter, or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only what are the facts and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted either by what you wish to believe, or by what you think would have beneficent social effects if it were believed.
Bertrand Russell
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Emotionally Vague is a research project about the body and emotion, asking “How do people feel anger, joy, love, fear, and sadness?”
In the process, 250 individuals were asked to draw how each emotion felt in to them. These are the combined results.
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Stop all the clocks
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
(W. H. Auden)
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As seen in Hi-Fructose vol.23
“paintingpainting #21” - Steven Balleux
In Chad, Diseases are Spreading as Food Supplies Dwindle
Food and water shortages in Chad are exacerbating malnutrition and contributing to the spread of deadly diseases like measles and meningitis.Photo: MSF staff examine a young malnutrition patient in Chad’s Yao district.(Chad 2012 © Andrea Bussotti/MSF)
