Shahrazad, by Palestinian artist Therese Sleiman. The song is about an intense love affair, and Sleiman recalls with nostalgia the rain that carries the fragrance of a woman's body. "When our hands meet, my lips on hers, what's left but the world but winter, winter, winter…”

Every scientist worth their salt realizes all they’re doing is proving early hermeticism/Taoism as the macrocosmic mirror of the microcosmic

Eigen's hypercycles are great for conceptualizing the function of self-organizing chemical structures, but leaves a void when it comes to the origin of those very structures. For this Hakens explication of circular causality is very illuminating.

In "Enriching Heredity", Marian C. Diamond talked about how "exposure of rats to high levels of negative ions increased the weight of the outer layers of the brain" and how "enriched rats living in a negative ion atmosphere had significantly less serotonin" than the placebo.

Keith Walkiewicz Didn't know that

just now in sanaa, yemen 📍it’s a power plant again, little do they know Saudi Arabia bombed all of our power plants in the 10 year war and now every house has solar panels. you wasted ur bombs America pics from my roof :)

Psychiatric disorders can be perceived as energy landscapes. OCD has deep valleys - neural activity gets stuck. Schizophrenia has shallow valleys - neural activity roams too freely.

Vico. Insane.

Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization Volume I: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785-1985

In 2018, biologists discovered a new organ: Interstitium, a vast network of fluid-filled spaces between tissues. This concept has been preached for thousands of years by Hippocrates as "stagnant humours", in Traditional Chinese medicine as the Triple Burner an by old naturopaths

Ray Peat 101: burning liberated fat into the blood is injurious; instead, a strategy of bolstering liver function to gradually excrete it can be employed. "...Enhanced mobilization and oxidation of fat is one of the fundamental responses to stress." pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6867023

This is my first time seriously returning to reading Derrida since I started having psychotic episodes and I have to say, he makes a whole lot more sense if you’ve gone insane once or twice (or more).

Two ivory figurines depicting foxes disguised as monks; one from Japan and one from Denmark, both carved from ivory.

نتنياهو شرح في كتابه "الحرب على الإرهاب" عام 96 أن إزالة الأنظمة التي تدعم المقاومة ضرورة لا بد منها، وذكر عدة أنظمة أُسقطت بالفعل لاحقا، أولها النظام العراقي وآخرها النظام السوري ومع بقاء النظام الإيراني وحيدا يدعم المقاومة، فإن محاولة إسقاطه في هذه الظروف هي أولوية نتنياهوية

Images of dead kids surfacing from the strikes on Tehran. They butchered Palestinian children. Now they butcher Iranian children. This is who they are — child murderers without borders.

very strange reading americans tweet how iranian women can’t go to school and need to be liberated. iran has 98.9% female literacy. 70% of STEM grads are women, highest in the world. oh, and without student debt. classic weaponizing feminism to justify bombs.

What infuriates me is this ritual we’ve developed: this desperate scramble to exhume the last thing they posted on Facebook, the video they took yesterday while feeding a stray cat, a clip of them playing with their kids every time someone is killed in Gaza. As if the loss

Sidebar: This is easily one of the most important books that any student of the humanities should own, read, and re-read regularly

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile So ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes