May 2012
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Fire-chasing beetles sense infrared radiation from... →
heracliteanfire:
‘Schmitz and Bousack calculated that the beetles’ pits must be able to sense a minimum of 0.13 milliwatts per square metre of changing heat flux. That makes them about as sensitive as the radio telescopes used in astronomy, and certainly more sensitive than any infrared detector currently on the market.’
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April 2012
“For if I am confounded by you, then you are already of me, and I am nowhere...”
– Judith Butler, from Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (via chubbiebellie)
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“[Rousseau] was intrigued by the work of the German physicist Joachim Becher, who...”
– From Marek Bienczyk’s Transparency (via invisiblestories)
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (via strangephenomena)
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“It is so much more difficult to live with one’s body than with one’s...”
– D. H. Lawrence
March 2012
“I drink from a small spring,
my thirst exceeds the ocean.”
– Adam Zagajewski, from “The Room I Work In” (trans. Clare Cavanagh)
