Hoy hace 32 años que el mundo de la música asistía, estremecido, a un anuncio devastador.
Y al día siguiente nos abandonaba una leyenda.
Hoy, por fin, le rindo homenaje a la mejor voz de la historia del rock.
Hoy, en #LaHistorietaMusical, la despedida de Freddie Mercury.
The Japanese multiplication method makes everybody feel "I wish they taught math like this in school."
It's not just a cute visual tool: it illuminates how and why long multiplication works.
Here is the full story.
You can see something 10,000 times on your phone, but never understand it until you see it in person for the first time.
That’s the lesson from the park bench scene in Good Will Hunting.
Matt Damon is the arrogant, book-smart intellectual who’s seen little but read everything. Robin Williams is the wise professor who rolls his eyes at Damon’s hubris. The stuff of life can only be fully absorbed through direct experience, he says.
This is one reason why school falls short. It conflates regurgitation for understanding.
Shakespeare’s plays have been reduced to bite-sized cramming on SparkNotes and exam questions the following day. Or, take entrepreneurship, where certain kinds of wisdom can only be gained in the trenches of a sales call or when you have to fire the executive you swore was going to save your company.
Travel, too.
Something about the Golden Gate Bridge can only be understood when you feel the Pacific Ocean wind and shiver under a blanket of fog. Something about the life of Moses can only be understood when you stand atop Mount Nebo (where he died) and look down at the Promised Land of Israel. Something about Italian food can only be understood when you slurp “siero” in a Parmesan cheese factory and meet the 4th-generation shop owner.
Pixels on a screen aren’t enough.
Get out and Do the Thing because certain kinds of knowledge can only be gained through tactile, first-hand experience.
Aaron Swartz would have been 36 today.
Aaron committed suicide after being sentenced to 35 years in prison by US authorities for transferring and sharing scientific articles from JSTOR.
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@DrBrianMay did you know @TicketmasterUK have been cancelling tickets for real fans for the @taylorhawkins tribute concert for no valid reason? Is there anything you can do to help us. They’re the charity section tickets too.
@TicketmasterUK I run a large FF fan page and we are getting reports that you are cancelling tickets to the tribute shows for "irregularities" where there are none. This is devastating to those people most of whom only have one or two tickets. Please fix. @foofighters@FooFightersUK