brainpicker

mindhacker. ignore@me . surgeon, physician, researcher, skeptic, curator. May We All Reach The Light

[signüll @signulll]

aussie: i’m gonna take a year off.

french: i’m gonna take august off.

italian: i’m gonna take the summer off.

british: i’ve got 6 weeks of holiday to use.

german: my vacation has been scheduled since february.

american: i’m gonna try to do a full week if i can.

[serènity @cultureartislam]

Kyrgyzstan.

[Itiha @itiha29]

Hygiene in Colonial India: How India Taught the British to Bathe

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Photographer Peter Maier captured this jaw-dropping timelapse of a cloudburst over Lake Millstatt in Carinthia, Austria.

[ParametricArchitecture @parametricarch]

These stones have been silent for millions of years. Now, they can be played. 🎶🪨

In San Sperate, Sardinia, the Giardino Sonoro (Sound Garden) is an open-air museum created by the late Italian sculptor Pinuccio Sciola, where monumental stone sculptures can be heard as much as they can be seen.

Known as “Sound Stones,” the carved basalt and limestone sculptures produce deep, resonant tones when touched or gently rubbed. Carefully cut grooves alter how the stone vibrates, turning solid geological material into an interactive acoustic experience.

Captured by Elisabetta Tulsi, the garden brings together sculpture, material experimentation, landscape, and sound, revealing an unexpected musical quality hidden within stone.

Would you expect a piece of stone to sound like this? 🎵

#ParametricArchitecture #PinuccioSciola #GiardinoSonoro #SoundGarden #Sardinia

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

On A Hierarchical Perspective: You will rarely be told directly that your position has weakened. However, others will become slower to reply, more comfortable cancelling, less careful with promises, and increasingly willing to test small boundaries. Status erosion usually happens through tiny violations before it becomes blatant disrespect.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

The wrong thing done teaches you more than the right thing considered. You cannot think your way to the right thing. The information is on the other side of the doing.

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Willpower is what you spend when you've badly designed your environment.

[brainpicker @brainpicker1099]

@SahilBloom It is called mahadasha

[Psychodoctor @Psychodoctor06]

Life is easier when someone else provides the structure.

School.
College.
Work.
Deadlines.

You simply follow.

When the external structure disappears,
freedom feels confusing.

Because discipline is easy to borrow.
Self-discipline has to be built.

The hardest part of being free is learning to structure yourself.

#mindset

[brainpicker @brainpicker1099]

@Aryavarta_story You mean Rama ?

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

Be suspicious of every plan that requires you to become a different person first. Good plans work with the person you actually are, on a thursday, tired.

[Stories of Aryavarta @Aryavarta_story]

The Mauryan capital as seen by Megasthenes

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

"To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself."
~Ben Okri

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

The final form of leverage is arranging your life so you don't need any: desires low, obligations few, people close. It's the most leveraged position on the board.

[Jota @jota_snchez]

A principios de la década de 2000, un físico ruso creó un método para atraer la vida IDEAL llamado "Transurfing".

Se dividía en 7 principios simples pero peligrosos:

↓↓

1. REDUCIR LA IMPORTANCIA

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Many birds, one beautifully unified movement.

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

sculptural work from Shen Lieyi's “Rain” series

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A tiger in deep thought, surrounded by butterflies