where do the lost memories go?

“UNTITLEDI went to a word auction once. That’s the auction that sells off words, where the auctioneer speaks in fast objects.“
Rachel Knecht
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/10/fungible_goods.php

The Free And Independent Republic Of Washington Square
January 1917
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
“United Studios of Eldert”
June 2007

Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept BodyMotion
http://virtual.cvut.cz/kifb/wordnet/_body_motion.html
Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept Expressing
http://virtual.cvut.cz/kifb/wordnet/_expressing.html
WordNet is a semantic lexicon for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets.
The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology or SUMO is an upper ontology […]

http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2007/pr-22-07.html
Using the ESO 3.6-m telescope, a team of Swiss, French and Portuguese scientists discovered a super-Earth about 5 times the mass of the Earth that orbits a red dwarf, already known to harbour a Neptune-mass planet. The astronomers have also strong evidence for the presence of a third planet with a mass about 8 Earth […]

 
"the tissues of brain and heart suffer irreversible damage from lack of oxygen. This process was understood to begin after just four or five minutes. If the patient doesn’t receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation within that time, and if his heart can’t be restarted soon thereafter, he is unlikely to recover.
That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually […]

Mars-probe failure ‘human error’
The US space agency, Nasa, has said that human error was to blame for the failure of the $154m (£77.5m) Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6554525.stm
Human mistake stops Stock Exchange
“an employee of the Central Depository had switched off one of the servers of the Stock Exchange”
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n108780
Big Bang at the atomic lab after […]

BIOMEDICAL RESULTS FROM SKYLAB http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/books/skylab/ch04.htm
"…One feels this strange fullness in the head and this sensation of having a cold, and one sees the puffy look on the faces of his fellow crewmen and hears their nasal voices. He feels his body assume the strange posture that one has in weightlessness, with the shoulders hunched up, […]

http://www.shazmalik.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=9 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/boxing/6263079.stm

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/nauman/ http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$artistdetail?NAUMANB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nauman http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue2/soundwaves.htm http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n4_v82/ai_15105915/pg_1

I had a few old magazines. I was Ebay’ing some of them and someone from Sweden asked a scan from one of the magazines. It’s Harper’s Bazaar magazine and the page has an artwork on it by Dan Graham. It’s an interesting piece, I found a few sources on the web about it:
 
Following the “Homes for America” […]

motto of the round table.

“…Darwin had been invited to be a naturalist aboard H.M.S. Beagle on its two year survey of South America. The ship was to set sail on 25 September. He immediately accepted the offer, but his father and sisters were totally against the idea. They saw it as a continuation of Darwin’s long line of idle […]

“And the effect works both ways. Just as physical exercise can boost the brain, mental exercise can boost the body. In 2001, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio asked volunteers to spend just 15 minutes a day thinking about exercising their biceps. After 12 weeks, their arms were 13 percent stronger.”
 
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=1978

“And the effect works both ways. Just as physical exercise can boost the brain, mental exercise can boost the body. In 2001, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio asked volunteers to spend just 15 minutes a day thinking about exercising their biceps. After 12 weeks, their arms were 13 percent stronger.”
wtf?
 
http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=1978

there is a cool quiz on evolution here:
http://anthro.palomar.edu/hominid/quizzes/ho1quiz1.htm
 
Also I’ve been listening to this audiobook “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson repeatedly for weeks now.
Most of the information here is so digestible yet still I tend to forget what I listen most of the time, which is mostly because the audiobook is 15 audio […]

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/Treasures/Dodo/dodo.html?dinos
 
These birds were extinct less than a century after humans discovered them in Mauritius.

“real history only begins when technology has solved the problem of scarcity
what follows from that is history proper.
the unfolding of the free and unfettered human consciosness.”

“Alright, be sincere, that’ll win it?”
“That’s it., sincerity and honesty will do it, it’ll trick ‘em every time.”
“Well, sincere and honesty, I’ve never tried that. I’ve tried everything else but maybe I’ll try sincere and honesty.”

the earliest record of truly bipedal gait. And romantism.
 

 
 
 
I recognized this piece as soon as I saw it. I cannot confirm the relationship from the description on the burning man site. But I still say it’s a beautiful art piece inspired from an archeological find. Although my hope is that Laetoli footprints are made by […]

Rapist is free to enjoy £7m lottery win By Jane Mulkerrins(Filed: 01/04/2005)
A convicted rapist who won £7 million on a Lotto draw while serving his sentence was released from jail last night as the Home Office admitted it could do nothing to prevent him from collecting his windfall.
Iorworth Hoare, who was jailed for life in […]

“I am the Sultan of Love:a glass of wine will do for a crown on my head,and the brigade of my sighsmight well serve as the dragon’sfire-breathing troops…”

sultan suleyman the magnificent (1494–1566)