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✖ Via

Geek on Film: A Serious Man, Coen Brothers, 2009 [IMDb]


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The knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion
✖ Via The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1872, § 7 (tr. by Ian Johnston, 2009)

Compare with a similar observation by Paul Valery.



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✖ Via Wikipedia Knowledge Dump: The Official Appreciation Page for the Best of the Wikipedia Rejects. ‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.’.

About the Wikipedia Knowledge Dump:

“From the bold to the beautiful, from the wicked to the wise, every day the Wikipedia team relegates possibly “inappropriate” submissions to the garbage dump of time. Here, we make selected “potential” rejects immortal and preserve them for posterity. (All of these entries have been nominated for deletion at the time of posting.)”

The site is edited by Cliff Pickover. According to himself, he’s “a prolific author and futurist, having published more than 40 books, translated into over a dozen languages. Exploring topics ranging from computers and creativity to art, mathematics, parallel universes, Einstein, time travel, alien life, religion, dimethyltryptamine elves, and the nature of human genius” (Official website). He’s the author of such books as Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves (2005) and Jews in Hyperspace.

Here’s what you may find while browsing this knowledge dumpster:

Discovered via Doctorak, GO!


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✖ Via Musei Wormiani Historia, by Ole Worm, 1655: the frontispiece from the Museum Wormianum depicting Wormius’ cabinet of curiosities (Wikipedia)

Learn more about cabinet of curiousities. Think of them as antique tumblelogs.


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✖ Via “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?” by Immanuel Kant (1784) Shown here : the first page of the 1799 version.

“”Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (German: “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?”) is the title of a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinische Monatsschrift (Berlin Monthly), edited by Friedrich Gedike and Johann Erich Biester, Kant replied to the question posed a year earlier by the Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner, who was also an official in the Prussian government. Zöllner’s question was addressed to a broad intellectual public, in reply to Biester’s essay entitled: “Proposal, not to engage the clergy any longer when marriages are conducted” (April 1783) and a number of leading intellectuals replied with essays, of which Kant’s is the most famous and has had the most impact. Kant’s opening paragraph of the essay is a much-cited definition of a lack of Enlightenment as people’s inability to think for themselves due not to their lack of intellect, but lack of courage.” (Wikipedia)

Complete English translation of Kant’s essay here.


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✖ Via Documenting The American South: “Knowledge Wins : Public Library Books Are Free” (Dan Smith, between 1914 and 1918)

Published by the American Library Association. Subject : Soldier moving from trenches to city over a bridge of books.

About the DocSouth project : “Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes thirteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs. The University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors Documenting the American South, and the texts and materials come primarily from its southern holdings. The UNC University Library is committed to the long-term availability of these collections and their online records. An editorial board guides development of this digital library.” (read more)

More propaganda posters related to World War I at the DocSouth project.


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✖ Via FlowingData: “Lisa Simpson on Happiness vs. Intelligence”

“As intelligence goes up, happiness goes down. See, I made a graph. I make lots of graphs.” (Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons, episode 257, January 7, 2001).


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✖ Via Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress By The People For The People. Posters From The WPA : “For greater knowledge on more subjects use your library often!”. [1940]. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction Number: LC-USZC2-5223.”

Summary: “Poster promoting library use, showing a man in a pose based on Rodin’s “Thinker.”

Great serigraphy posters by the WPA. More available HERE.

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✖ Via Slide Rule Museum: “150 Extra Engineers” IBM ad (1952).

This image and many more related to slide rule history at the impressive Slide Rule Museum, Historical Photos’ section.


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✖ Via Knowledge Navigator (Wikipedia).

Description: “Knowledge Navigator 1987 mock-up. The device opened like a book, with the “spine” lifting the face to an easy reading angle, and acting as a carrying handle when closed. The dark circle at the top is a video camera similar to a modern webcam, the slot in the upper right holds a memory card, and the grills on either side of the screen are speakers. In one featurette, the screen is also shown acting as a scanner.”


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