If you are given some statement about anything, and ask of the statement, ‘why?’ and they answer you with another statement, and you again ask of this, ‘why?’ and this cycle continues for a few turns until the answer they give cannot be explained further if asked ‘why?’, will this last answer be the same…
One of the effects of the hallucinogen psilocin in psilocybe mushrooms is that the brain doesn’t filter any of the sensory stimuli that it receives. This is in large part what tripping is: sensory overload. Maybe one of the reasons we get tired in the evening and need an 8 hour restful sleep each night…
On Thom Yorke’s new album there’s a track called Harrowdown Hill, named after the neighborhood where a government scientist and weapons inspector was found dead in the woods shortly after it was discovered that he was the source for a BBC report accusing Blair’s government of fabricating evidence to justify going to war in Iraq….
Do/are/is broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, beans, carrots, tomatoes and the like found in the wild? If not, how is it we have them today? Did they all have ancient ancestors which were domesticated over thousands of years of crop growth to become what we have now? I would like to see primitive lettuce. Probably thick leathery…
What I love most about my university campus is the bell toll. The fifteen minute melodies sound pleasant enough, but it’s the hourly chimes that make it great. So sinister. They’ve made some wood chip walking paths near the flag poles and greenery. But still I sometimes walk on the grass because it’s the most…
If I ever marry, it’ll be at 4AM. I want to be half asleep when I say ‘I do.’ At the same time, I like the idea of dating some girl seriously for years without ever asking her the big question. Eventually her parents will ask why I’m taking so long, given that we’ve been…
How do we make warm water? We combine hot and cold. This happens in the faucet. It happens also in the shower head. I zoom in on the scale and wonder if the water molecules themselves are actually changing in temperature or if the sensation of warm water is an illusion brought on by the…
In terms of the effect on the heart, how different from exercise is the intake of stimulants? Both increase heartrate/bloodflow/respiration, so why shouldn’t amphetamines be a suitable alternative to running like a dog? I look ahead to a time when people shoot up instead of jogging to the pool for lap swim. People not judged…
The heart fascinates me. Even when sleeping, it never stops to rest. I want to pull it aside and let it know I wouldn’t mind if it just relaxed for awhile. I feel like the more I think about it, the more likely it is to take my words to heart. Maybe at night I…
Sometimes I’ll perform an action, like advancing lead in a mechanical pencil, and I’ll wonder how many ants it would take to accumulate as much force as my thumb exerts on the pencil cap.