If you fancy some science, ideas, and humanity in your weekend, I highly recommend the first episode of our new @cosmicshambles podcast mini-series: They've Made Us. Robin Ince and I talk to the excellent Steve Backshall (wildlife presenter extraordinaire) and Helen Glover (superstar Olympic rower) about the people who influenced their lives. More here: https://cosmicshambles.com/theyvemadeus
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.
Centuries ago, our society buried profound differences of conscience, ideas, and faith, and in their place erected facts, which did not seem to rise or fall on pesky political and philosophical questions. But the power of facts is now waning, not because we don’t have enough of them but because we have so many.
I know they are not very original and are sold by the thousands... But the originality comes from what I put into them, what be ones their core and colours! I am especially curious about the octopus and the snail! #resin#resinart#art#inspiration#ideas#decorations
Oh oh oh — I am going to do this asa I get home next month!! I wish I hadn’t thrown out the hiking boots a garage rat chewed up a coupla years back. Dammit! But I still have a pair we don’t use that I think I can requisition from my husband!
Going through Samsung Notes to ensure I transfer the correct weird bits and blurbs of ideas I've frantically typed throughout the last months/years for potential development into WordPress posts via the excellent Jetpack app for Android.
(I know I could write these blurbs directly in Jetpack, but the thing is, not all my notes would necessarily be turned into blog posts, as some are just random notes to myself).
Anyway, the reason for my semi-obsessive note taking is a creativity-related concept I've been grappling with for 30 years now.
Throughout the years, I've found that no matter HOW great and memorable your idea is, you will NOT remember it later. There are exactly two paths. You need to 1) write it down AS SOON AS YOU THINK OF IT, so you can remember it and enjoy it or scrap it later, or, 2) get used to a 'zen' kind of acceptance thing for ideas, to just let them go when you can't remember them later.
The price of remembering an idea is writing it down immediately, wherever you are. Somewhere you can find it.
Or maybe your thing is voice notes, if you remember to check them. I don't like voice stuff. I'm old. I write! 🤣
Ok, there are lights that tell a kid it's ok to get up (versus Go Back to Sleep, Kid). Has anybody tested something like that for dogs? Like, my dog starts giving me the begging death-stare half an hour before meals, an hour before walks, blah blah. Could I train her to leave me alone until the light goes on? #DogsOfMastodon#ideas#dogs#Fursday