this is fantastic
#bookstrc’mon #sci-fi lovers, who do you want to talk to? #bookstr #kinostr #filmstr #artstr #fiction #asknostr
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no, big love for wind chimes (nice ones)
#bookstr for curious kids and parents who find soaring wonder in math
https://archive.org/details/TheManWhoCounted-English-MalbaTahan
[humble] pie takes time 🫂
who’s the children’s book author of Pie Takes Time? …I can’t find his npub 😔
I’d love to learn more about the error of our ways with math… any recs you could share for diving into that rabbit hole?
not to mention our understanding of physics, which cannot account for 96% of the matter in the universe, is fundamentally wrong.
Dr. Louise Banks from Story of Your Life, by Ted Chiang, adapted for film as Arrival.
To talk to her about learning Heptapod B, about the change of perspective from sequential to simultaneous understanding, and to gain perspective on loss, on grief, on being human, that a shift like that could bring.
it’s time for a rock opera 
Real estate doesn't just lose value due to aging.
I once knew a family that experienced the same thing. When they bought their house, they had a great view of a whole, empty, green valley in front of them. A year later, a block of houses was built right in front of them, and since then, they feel like they're living in a ghetto. 😄
https://video.nostr.build/0030808907b23402aad13ebc33216af3dc93945e11be804c4b36bc875c79a96d.mp4
this story must have played out countless times every year since new york city was founded, in fact it’s precisely what manhattan is. whoever made this video lives in a building that did this to the buildings all around it 👀
Instead of remaining silent, I’ll concur with your note by linking a wonderfully light-hearted yet earnest novella that captures this very western struggle. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.247218
honorable. as the old wisdom goes, one must first save oneself before one can save others.
paradoxically, to save oneself the old wisdom also says it can often help to have a community working on a shared project. podcasts aren’t community by themselves, though they are probably useful for community discovery. one of the things nostr provides: here there is a virtual community of podcasts
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throw a kid in the mix and sleep goes to straight to jail. hopefully i can break it out soon.
usually like 7 am in a stress sweat—maybe it’s a hangover from architecture school. then back to sleep if possible.