Engineering Marvel

These guys at apple really "engineer" the best stuff.

America the Overfull - Paul Theroux

Nowhere was solitude more available than on a long drive, especially at night; and it seems to me that my generation was defined by the open road, and the accompanying hope that a promise lay at the end of it. The almost trance-like experience of driving down the soft tunnel of a dark highway at night was something I relished. At most, there would be the distant red lights of a car far ahead, and always the murmur of the glowing radio, the hiss of the tires and, at a certain speed on narrower roads, the fizzing past of telephone poles with their rhythmic whiplash.

Late at night, in most places I knew, there was almost no traffic and driving, a meditative activity, could cast a spell. Behind the wheel, gliding along, I was keenly aware of being an American in America, on a road that was also metaphorical, making my way through life, unhindered, developing ideas, making decisions, liberated by the flight through this darkness and silence. With less light pollution, the night sky was different, too — starrier, more daunting, more beautiful.

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Thanks  [Andy Sullivan ]

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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
  - Mark Twain

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I though this quote was very funny



Quote Details: Gustave Flaubert: The whole dream of... - The Quotations Page

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)



Gustave Flaubert (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) [gystav flobɛʁ] was a French novelist who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel Madame Bovary and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, best exemplified by his endless search for le mot juste ("the precise word").

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Anachrnoism ??

World's tallest man saves China dolphins - Yahoo! News : The long arms of the world's tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs, state media and an aquarium official said Thursday.



(Hahaha modern science )

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Total Control

What if we evolve to have a bigger brain and this brain is then capable of self-awareness ?

By self-awareness I mean being intimate with the workings of our body like we are with workings of machines. And not just knowing it like we know the functioning of organs but are not aware of them. We know how the heart works but in our daily lives we cannot monitor or control the heart in any way. The awareness I am talking about should enable us to control our emotions, feelings of pain and other behaviors which we exhibit now but are not completely aware of.

Right now we claim to have self awareness and this is a step over most of the species on this planet. However most of the time we dont know why we behave or react the way we do. I feel happy and motivated when I get back from the gym with nothing else but a few new chemicals being released as a result of my physical exertion. What if my brain could order the release of these chemicals just because I chose to ? That way we could chose not to feel too hungry, we could choose to burn all the fat we have. We could chose to sharpen any skills that we choose to, choose to form certain memories or erase uncomfortable memories.