Being Good To Each Other Is So Important, Guys.

Being good to each other is so important, guys.

We were talking about The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which was something which resembled an iPad, long before it appeared. And I said when something like that happens, it’s going to be the death of the book. Douglas said, No it won’t be. Books are sharks. And I must have looked baffled at that because he looked very pleased with himself. And he carried on with his metaphor. He said, Books are sharks … because sharks have been around for a very, very long time. There were sharks before there were dinosaurs. And the reason sharks are still in the oceans is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark is. He said, Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They’re solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You can find your place in them in microseconds. They’re really good at being books, he said, and books, no matter what else happens, will always survive. And of course he’s right.

Neil Gaiman, giving the Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture 2015 (via hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy)

A series of more recent studies challenge the view that larger or more activist government necessarily threatens entrepreneurship. In fact, that may get the relationship precisely backwards. Entrepreneurs are actually more likely than other Americans to receive public benefits, after accounting for income, as Harvard Business School’s Gareth Olds has documented. And in many cases, expanding benefit programs helps spur new business creation. Take food stamps. Conservatives have long argued that they breed dependence on government. In a 2014 paper, Olds examined the link between entrepreneurship and food stamps, and found that the expansion of the program in some states in the early 2000s increased the chance that newly eligible households would own an incorporated business by 16 percent.

(via evanwilhelms)

what? you mean if you have some kind of safety net people are more likely to take risks? and if they have some kind of support while doing something hard they’re more likely to succeed? madness!

This very quickly and concisely says a whole lot about perception and perfomance of gender given ambiguous physical features. Wow. Neat!

I got a few messages asking how, when I’m in cosplay, I can go from being a cute girl to a hot guy. I said it was in a posture. I thought I would illustrate this.

The dogged determination and patience of one person to do what is Right and Necessary may not always win the day or even be noticed, but it will tip the balance just a little in the direction of good.

“[T]he innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the...

Spooky Chandelier Shadows

A beautiful light sculpture/chandelier, Forms in Nature, that transforms its surrounding space into a spooky forest of shadows. Artwork designed by Hilden & Diaz.