“One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.” KnowsWorldWantGivingDifferentHomeRealityForgetStreetsPerspectiveGiving UpNormalAlternativesJust OneNever Giving Up Author:Alain de Botton
“Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and interglacial times, to the even more dramatic changes that characterize a switch from glacial to interglacial. So why worry about global warming, which is just one more scale of climate change? The problem is that global warming is essentially off the scale of normal in two ways: the rate at which this climate change is taking place, and how different the "new" climate is compared to what came before.” WayTwoDifferentFactsProblemNaturalWorryNormalClimateRateClimate ChangeScalesDramaticJust OneGlobal WarmingTwo WaysEmbeddedDramatic Change Book:Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming Source: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming
“I really love young Tom Hanks. He's just one of my favorites. He's a great, quirky every-man. I also love Zach Braff. I really love actors that are quirky and interesting, that sort of try to portray 'normal' people.” PeopleMenTryingYoungActorsInterestingLove YouNormalEvery ManJust OneTomsQuirky Author:Jake Epstein
“My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.” IdeasDealsEffortCommunicationNormalHistoricalSubstanceJust OnePhenomenonLecturesInvolvementPsychedelicImpartPsychedelic Experience Author:Terence McKenna