June 2013
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When massive stars die, they seed the Universe with stardust. Full of elements like hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, silicon, and iron. The raw materials to build new stars, solar systems, planets and of course, us.
Everything we see around us once blasted out from the core of a star.
You may wonder…
“That man says we lack belief, that we fritter away our strength by arguing and quarrelling. Well I am full of belief. It is the arguments and the quarrels I believe in. That is what makes a society. I also believe in a law that sets out the ground-rules for those arguments, with no-one - absolutely no-one - beyond its reach. Law is the process whereby a strong man voluntarily imposes restrictions on himself, bound by a weapon that he puts into the hand of his weaker brother. It is what we call civilization. The man who has just left does not conceive the law as an instrument to protect his brother, but as a tool to destroy his enemy. He will want you to live without the law and therefore he will want you to live without ideas. Your very thoughts will make you a criminal.”
—Hans Litten
“Data is something we create, but it’s also something we imagine.”
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Kate Crawford on “Why Big Data is Not Truth”
Via NYT
(via modernandmaterialthings)
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