I don't believe that we are born with talents, but more so with the desire to do something.
All of these inventions came out by accident. And here is another one; Vulcanized Rubber isn`t mentioned in the video which was invented by accident by Charles Goodyear when he mix sulfur and rubber. Than accidently spilled it in a oven. It heated, then made vulcanized rubber.
Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism. He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. By the end of his life Huxley was considered, in some academic circles, a leader of modern thought and an intellectual of the highest rank, and highly regarded as one of the most prominent explorers of visual communication and sight-related theories as well!
Read his very interesting Quotes!
- There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
- The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer…. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
- There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
- A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.
- What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
- Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.
- Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
- What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes—ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
- Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
- The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
- A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.
- Science has “explained” nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
- An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.
- Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.
- Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army’s beautiful. But that’s not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.
- The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object and see, as through a window, the entire cosmos. Make the smell of roast duck in an old kitchen diaphanous and you will have a glimpse of everything, from the spiral nebulae to Mozart’s music and the stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi. The artistic problem is to produce diaphanousness in spots, selecting the spots so as to reveal only the most humanly significant of distant vistas behind the near familiar object.
- A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.
- Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
- A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
- At this very moment,… the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world. People are being crushed, slashed, disembowelled, mangled; their dead bodies rot and their eyes decay with the rest. Screams of pain and fear go pulsing through the air at the rate of eleven hundred feet per second. After travelling for three seconds they are perfectly inaudible. These are distressing facts; but do we enjoy life any the less because of them? Most certainly we do not.
- I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement…. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
- Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.
- It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder that affects about 1-2% of the population. People with OCD experience both obsessions and compulsions.
Obsessions are unwanted and disturbing thoughts, images, or impulses that suddenly pop into the mind and cause a great deal of anxiety or distress.
Compulsions are deliberate behaviours (e.g. washing, checking, ordering) or mental acts (e.g. praying, counting, repeating phrases) that are carried out to reduce the anxiety caused by the obsessions. Visit http://www.afocd.org/ for Hope and Solutions! Awareness Foundation For OCD.
Dr. A.J Allen explains in simple terms how OCD works in the brain.
Most people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) fall into one of the following categories:
“Washers” are afraid of contamination. They usually have cleaning or hand-washing compulsions.
“Checkers” repeatedly check things (oven turned off, door locked, etc.) that they associate with harm or danger.
“Doubters and sinners” are afraid that if everything isn’t perfect or done just right something terrible will happen or they will be punished.
“Counters and arrangers” are obsessed with order and symmetry. They may have superstitions about certain numbers, colors, or arrangements.
“Hoarders” fear that something bad will happen if they throw anything away. They compulsively hoard things that they don’t need or use.
Famous People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
1: “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ― Apple Inc.
2: “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel
3: “So many books, so little time.” ― Frank Zappa
4: “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ― Albert Einstein
5: “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
6: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” ― Albert Einstein
7: “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde
8: “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” ― Oscar Wilde
9: “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde
10: “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” ― Oscar Wilde
11: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde
12: “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.” ― Dr. Seuss
13: “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” ― Dr. Seuss
14: “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” ― Dr. Seuss
15: “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” ― Dr. Seuss
16: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
17: “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” ― Mark Twain
18: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain
19: “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ― Mark Twain
20: “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” ― Mark Twain
21: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain
22: “All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
23: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” ― William Shakespeare
24: “If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” ― Malcolm X
25: “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” ― J.K. Rowling
26: “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” ― John Lennon
27: “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ― Marilyn Monroe
28: “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
29: “Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
30: “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
31: “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou
32: “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
33: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
34: “It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.” ― Abraham Lincoln
35: “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” ― Robert Frost
36: “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” ― C.S. Lewis
37:“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ― Albert Camus
38: “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
39: “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.” ― William W. Purkey
40: “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ― Thomas A. Edison
Nanotechnology or “Nanotech” is the study of manipulating matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures 100 nanometers or smaller, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.
Dr. Ralph Merkle explains the Basics of Nanotechnology
There is much debate on the future implications of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology may be able to create many new materials and devices with a vast range of applications, such as in medicine, electronics, biomaterials and energy production.
How can architects build a new world of sustainable beauty? By learning from nature. If we could learn to make or do things the way nature does we could affect to 10, 100 or maybe even 1000 savings in resources and energy use!
Michael Pawlyn established Exploration in 2007 to focus exclusively on environmentally sustainable projects that take their inspiration from nature. In 2008 Exploration was short-listed for the Young Architect of the Year Award and the internationally renowned Buckminster Fuller Challenge.
Michael Pawlyn describes three habits of nature that could transform architecture and society:
- Radical resource efficiency,
- Closed loops,
- Drawing energy from the sun.
On Charlie Sheen’s new cooking show Winning Recipes, Charlie shows you how to cook proffesionaly.
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