Oh my God, it's full of stars. Discover has compiled a gallery of some truly trippy science images.
Scientists know you don't need psychedelic drugs to make mind-blowing psychedelic images: Fractals, particle collisions, computer simulations, and sunspots will do the job just fine.Fractals form a major section of psychedelic art, and the king of fractals was Benoit Mandelbrot, who just died in October 2010. In his famous Mandelbrot set, each small part is the same as the whole, and the image boundary becomes continually more detailed as you zoom in.
Does anybody have a grilled cheese? I could really use a grilled cheese.
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Although, personally, I like to own classics so I can write in them.
Wikipedia ILS and see whats available.
Dorian Gray? Come on - that's like the dullest thing Wilde wrote.
We've lost the literature of entire civilizations before. This is just the gradual process. How many people are going to check out Samuel Pepys' diary? How many plays by 17th-century playwrights other than Shakespeare are performed nowadays? How many of us have read Chaucer lately? You know, for fun.
Funny how in the "Information Age", libraries have become less and less relevant to our daily lives.