Stone Age Writing: “Similar symbols found across the globe raise questions about how writing originated.”
“It’s not about the hair, it’s not about the shoes, it’s about the music. The best way to experience the music is and has always been to listen to it, to watch the performance. We sometimes forget that as fans, we get sidetracked by the other crap.
I wanted to expose people to the depth of sound hiding in the cities they live in. After talking to friends, I realized that many of the bands I consider great and even popular are completely unheard of to most people. I’m not bitter towards mainstream music, but the Canadian music scene has so much to offer — minus the shoes and the hair.”
Straight from the mouth of the man himself. Check out Jeff’s project at Minus the Music to be enlightened, to be exposed, to hear the many flavors of indie music flowing out of Canada’s great cities. No decorative distractions, just the music.
The word depression is used as a “catch-all” term to describe a “spectrum of symptoms.” I am wary of the medical standard which of late seems to prefer to medicate first and diagnose later, especially in children. Jonah Lehrer helps us to see that depression should not be dismissed so quickly:
“If depression didn’t exist — if we didn’t react to stress and trauma with endless ruminations — then we would be less likely to solve our predicaments. Wisdom isn’t cheap, and we pay for it with pain.”
A hefty price. However, it’s not always that simple, either:
“To say that depression has a purpose or that sadness makes us smarter says nothing about its awfulness. A fever, after all, might have benefits, but we still take pills to make it go away. This is the paradox of evolution: even if our pain is useful, the urge to escape from the pain remains the most powerful instinct of all.”
Read more about Depression’s Upside on the New York Times website.
Reading, writing, seeing, giving: Thinking for a Living.
A certain web designer at The Phuse put on his science hat and came up with an altered Taxonomy for his gazillion fonts. It is ambitious. I helped him to fine tune the article, to fix a few grammar issues, but the man knows his typefaces. The article is beautifully rendered, which alone makes it worth viewing, but there’s also a little giveaway contest included, so head over to check it out and win yourself a prize.
Archaeological Dig Reshaping Human History. “All our theories were wrong.” “First the temple, then the city.”
