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via youtube.com A wise, sor­row­ful song. from Dan McCarthy’s Stream

Be con­fi­dent in see­ing what is in front of you. From Sci­en­tific Amer­i­can, a rebut­tal to the phe­nom­e­non of pos­i­tive psy­chol­ogy, summed up in the equa­tion: H = S + C + V (Hap­pi­ness = your Set range + the Cir­cum­stances of your life + the fac­tors under your Vol­un­tary con­trol) “Human intel­lec­tual progress, such as […]

The art in per­co­la­tion is know­ing when to stop. You pre­pare the ingre­di­ents: cof­fee grounds and water. You assem­ble the per­co­la­tor. You turn on the flame. And you wait. The iron embraces the intense heat of the flame and dif­fuses it. The mol­e­cules in the water swell until, in a vio­lent moment, they crash against each other. […]