“To have great pain is to have certainty,” Elaine Scarry wrote in her classic 1985 treatise “The Body in Pain. “To hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”
I want to write so that the reader has no doubt of the pain of the other
This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.
At the Georgia O’Keefe museum in Santa Fe, this is the painting you see immediately after reading the placard explaining that she vehemently disagreed with anyone who said her works were about sexuality:
“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.”
— William S. Burroughs
This is the kind of shit Godspeed You! Black Emperor would use as an album cover with a title like "And the Holy Flame Blinded us for 333000 Years Pt. II"
Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced.
This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.