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Thursday, September 17, 2026
Reading
From AI Gemini:
During the mid-to-late 18th century, excessive reading—specifically the consumption of cheap prose fiction—was widely viewed across Europe as a dangerous addiction and a public health threat. Cultural commentators, physicians, and moralists framed the phenomenon as a literal disease, referring to it variously as "reading addiction" (Lesesucht), "reading fever" (Lesefieber), or "reading mania" (Lesewut).
The panic emerged due to the rapid rise of the commercial printing industry, circulating libraries, and increasing literacy rates among groups who previously had limited access to books, particularly women, young adults, and the working class.
Critics argued that compulsive reading destabilized the nervous system. Social commentators framed it similarly to physical substance abuse, describing readers who consumed books voraciously as being "intoxicated" or unable to control their appetite for sensation.
During the mid-to-late 18th century, excessive reading—specifically the consumption of cheap prose fiction—was widely viewed across Europe as a dangerous addiction and a public health threat. Cultural commentators, physicians, and moralists framed the phenomenon as a literal disease, referring to it variously as "reading addiction" (Lesesucht), "reading fever" (Lesefieber), or "reading mania" (Lesewut).
The panic emerged due to the rapid rise of the commercial printing industry, circulating libraries, and increasing literacy rates among groups who previously had limited access to books, particularly women, young adults, and the working class.
Critics argued that compulsive reading destabilized the nervous system. Social commentators framed it similarly to physical substance abuse, describing readers who consumed books voraciously as being "intoxicated" or unable to control their appetite for sensation.
Neruda
It is Born by Pablo Neruda
Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed through weather and the sea,
and the moon swam back,
its rays all silvered,
and time and again the darkness would be broken
by the crash of a wave,
and every day on the balcony of the sea
wings open, fire is born,
and everything is blue again like morning...
Here I came to the very edge
where nothing at all needs saying,
everything is absorbed through weather and the sea,
and the moon swam back,
its rays all silvered,
and time and again the darkness would be broken
by the crash of a wave,
and every day on the balcony of the sea
wings open, fire is born,
and everything is blue again like morning...
Air
From AI Gemini:
What Air Is Actually Made Of
Dry air near Earth's surface is composed almost entirely of two main diatomic (two-atom) molecules, alongside a few single atoms and trace compounds:
Nitrogen ~ 78%: Two nitrogen atoms bound tightly together. This makes up the vast majority of any given sample of air.
Oxygen ~ 21%: Two oxygen atoms bound together. This is the reactive component we breathe.
Argon ~ 0.93%: A noble gas that exists as single, unbonded atoms rather than bound molecules.
Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, & Traces ~ 0.07%: Multi-atom molecules present in small or variable amounts depending on humidity and location.
What Air Is Actually Made Of
Dry air near Earth's surface is composed almost entirely of two main diatomic (two-atom) molecules, alongside a few single atoms and trace compounds:
Nitrogen ~ 78%: Two nitrogen atoms bound tightly together. This makes up the vast majority of any given sample of air.
Oxygen ~ 21%: Two oxygen atoms bound together. This is the reactive component we breathe.
Argon ~ 0.93%: A noble gas that exists as single, unbonded atoms rather than bound molecules.
Carbon Dioxide, Water Vapor, & Traces ~ 0.07%: Multi-atom molecules present in small or variable amounts depending on humidity and location.
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Cancel
"Cancel culture, also called call-out culture, is a cultural phenomenon in which people criticize an individual thought to have acted or spoken in an unacceptable manner, and call for the target to be ostracized, boycotted, shunned or fired. This shunning may extend to social or professional circles— whether on social media or in person— with most high-profile incidents involving those with influence in media or politics."
Jung
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
all quotes by Carl Jung
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."
all quotes by Carl Jung
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Survive
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus
"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." - Robert Jordan
"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." - Robert Jordan
Campbell
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
all quotes by Joseph Campbell
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
all quotes by Joseph Campbell
Monday, September 14, 2026
Lincoln
'My Childhood Home I See Again' by Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865
My childhood home I see again,
And sadden with the view;
And still, as memory crowds my brain,
There's pleasure in it too.
O Memory! thou midway world
'Twixt earth and paradise,
Where things decayed and loved ones lost
In dreamy shadows rise,
And, freed from all that's earthly vile,
Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,
Like scenes in some enchanted isle
All bathed in liquid light.
As dusky mountains please the eye
When twilight chases day;
As bugle-notes that, passing by,
In distance die away;
As leaving some grand waterfall,
We, lingering, list its roar—
So memory will hallow all
We've known, but know no more.
Near twenty years have passed away
Since here I bid farewell
To woods and fields, and scenes of play,
And playmates loved so well.
Where many were, but few remain
Of old familiar things;
But seeing them, to mind again
The lost and absent brings.
The friends I left that parting day,
How changed, as time has sped!
Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,
And half of all are dead.
I hear the loved survivors tell
How nought from death could save,
Till every sound appears a knell,
And every spot a grave.
I range the fields with pensive tread,
And pace the hollow rooms,
And feel (companion of the dead)
I'm living in the tombs.
Roosevelt
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." Franklin D. Roosevelt
Be A Skeptic
“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.” - Orville Wright 1908
“Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.” - Lee De Forest radio pioneer 1957
“It’s scarcely possible that the twentieth-century will witness improvements in transportation that will be as great as those in the nineteenth-century.” George H. Daniels NY Central Railroad 1900
“Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.” - Lee De Forest radio pioneer 1957
“It’s scarcely possible that the twentieth-century will witness improvements in transportation that will be as great as those in the nineteenth-century.” George H. Daniels NY Central Railroad 1900
Friday, September 11, 2026
911
'History of the Airplane' by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
And the Wright brothers said they thought they had invented
something that could make peace on earth when their wonderful
flying machine took off at Kitty Hawk into the kingdom of birds
but the parliament of birds was freaked out by this man-made bird
and fled to heaven
And then the famous Spirit of Saint Louis took off eastward and
flew across the Big Pond with Lindy at the controls in his leather
helmet and goggles hoping to sight the doves of peace but he did not
even though he circled Versailles
And then the famous Flying Clipper took off in the opposite
direction and flew across the terrific Pacific but the pacific doves
were frighted by this strange amphibious bird and hid in the orient sky
And then the famous Flying Fortress took off bristling with guns
and testosterone to make the world safe for peace and capitalism
but the birds of peace were nowhere to be found before or after Hiroshima
And so then clever men built bigger and faster flying machines and
these great man-made birds with jet plumage flew higher than any
real birds and seemed about to fly into the sun and melt their wings
and like Icarus crash to earth
And the Wright brothers were long forgotten in the high-flying
bombers that now began to visit their blessings on various Third
Worlds all the while claiming they were searching for doves of
peace
And they kept flying and flying until they flew right into the 21st
century and then one fine day a Third World struck back and
stormed the great planes and flew them straight into the beating
heart of Skyscraper America where there were no aviaries and no
parliaments of doves and in a blinding flash America became a part
of the scorched earth of the world
And a wind of ashes blows across the land
And for one long moment in eternity
There is chaos and despair
And buried loves and voices
Cries and whispers
Fill the air
Everywhere
And the Wright brothers said they thought they had invented
something that could make peace on earth when their wonderful
flying machine took off at Kitty Hawk into the kingdom of birds
but the parliament of birds was freaked out by this man-made bird
and fled to heaven
And then the famous Spirit of Saint Louis took off eastward and
flew across the Big Pond with Lindy at the controls in his leather
helmet and goggles hoping to sight the doves of peace but he did not
even though he circled Versailles
And then the famous Flying Clipper took off in the opposite
direction and flew across the terrific Pacific but the pacific doves
were frighted by this strange amphibious bird and hid in the orient sky
And then the famous Flying Fortress took off bristling with guns
and testosterone to make the world safe for peace and capitalism
but the birds of peace were nowhere to be found before or after Hiroshima
And so then clever men built bigger and faster flying machines and
these great man-made birds with jet plumage flew higher than any
real birds and seemed about to fly into the sun and melt their wings
and like Icarus crash to earth
And the Wright brothers were long forgotten in the high-flying
bombers that now began to visit their blessings on various Third
Worlds all the while claiming they were searching for doves of
peace
And they kept flying and flying until they flew right into the 21st
century and then one fine day a Third World struck back and
stormed the great planes and flew them straight into the beating
heart of Skyscraper America where there were no aviaries and no
parliaments of doves and in a blinding flash America became a part
of the scorched earth of the world
And a wind of ashes blows across the land
And for one long moment in eternity
There is chaos and despair
And buried loves and voices
Cries and whispers
Fill the air
Everywhere
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