• Quotation

    We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;—World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems.
    — Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy 1874 (via shelbot)
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    November 20, 2009

  • How heavy is the Internet?

    proofmathisbeautiful:

    heathergeeksout:

    roomthily:

    • 22,837,511,120 kg for 570,937,778 computers (assuming 40kg per computer including monitor)
    • 1,754,809,310kg for 175,480,931 servers
    • 87,000,000kg+ for cables (the tat-14 cable linking the u.s. to europe)
    • 6,075,000kg for 42 million iphones
    • 6,800,000kg for 50 million blackberries

    and 287,524 viruses for 85 billion+ web pages.

    via CNET UK

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  • Quotation

    Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.
    — Ayn Rand (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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    Depression as deadly as smoking, study finds (Science Daily)

    psychotherapy:

    A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King’s College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.

    Utilising a unique link between a survey of over 60,000 people and a comprehensive mortality database, the researchers found that over the four years following the survey, the mortality risk was increased to a similar extent in people who were depressed as in people who were smokers.

    Dr Robert Stewart, who led the research team at the IoP, explains the possible reasons that may underlie these surprising findings: ‘Unlike smoking, we don’t know how causal the association with depression is but it does suggest that more attention should be paid to this link because the association persisted after adjusting for many other factors.’

    The study also shows that patients with depression face an overall increased risk of mortality, while a combination of depression and anxiety in patients lowers mortality compared with depression alone. Dr Stewart explains: ‘One of the main messages from this research is that ‘a little anxiety may be good for you’.

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  • panic attack in the car tonight with the kids. not fun.

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    Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are.
    When you realize there is nothing lacking,
    the whole world belongs to you.
    — Lao Tzu (via ryanragsdale)
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