A Quora thread on Etz haDaat tov V’ra, the fall of man from Genesis the first book of the Jewish and Christian Bibles.
Some responses worth reading:
“The question exhibits three further imprecisions about the fruit of this tree.”
— A close look at the question at hand.
“Genesis is just one of many attempts on the part of early man’s collective unconscious to narrativise a growing awareness that our species.”
— English gentleman Stephen Fry’s response.
“God did not want us to live forever in fear and shame, He needed to heal the self-inflicted wounds from the knowledge of good and evil before eternal life would be a gift.”
— Brother Francis Thérèse of Salvador da Bahia Mission
Related: On the Marionette Theater. In search of grace in adulthood, the burden of self-aware.
Translated items from Leonardo da Vinci’s to-do list from the 1490s.
A collection of Starlings is called a Murmuration. via
I’m all for sorting out the rules that govern the entertainment’s supply chain, but let’s keep some perspective here: when we ‘‘solve’’ copyright problems at the expense of the Internet, we solve them at the expense of 21st-century society as a whole. — Cory Doctorow
20 Hz visualizes “a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Data courtesy of CARISMA, operated by the University of Alberta, funded by the Canadian Space Agency.”
The Kinetic Wave Sculpture of Reuben Margolin.
Oh, the beauty of trigonometry! This reminds me of the trig I was playing with in my early Processing sketches.