Quote for Today: Elizabeth Harrower
For five days the city had wilted under a hard sky, sweltering in a temperature that stayed fixed in the middle nineties. Even at night there was no relief from …
Quote for Today: Mary Karr
If you live in the dark a long time and the sun comes out, you do not cross into it whistling. There’s an initial uprush of relief at first, then-for …
Quote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after …
Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
If you couldn’t sense heat, you’d not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never …
Quote for Today: Bryant H. McGill
If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you. —Bryant H. McGill
Quote for Today: Muhammad Ali
Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe. ―Muhammad Ali
Quote for Today: Sylvia Plath
I felt myself shrink to a small black dot against all those red and white rugs and that pine paneling. I felt like a hole in the ground. —Sylvia Plath, The …
Into the Uncanny Valley: Hiroshi Ishiguro’s Geminoids and Telenoids
Why do we possess an instinctive fear of androids? Are we prepared for the questions and issues these robots inspire? You may or may not be familiar with the uncanny …