New Material Lets Through 95% Of Visible Light (compared To 91% For Ordinary Glass), But Still Blocks

The trilemma of fast, good, and cheap: you may attain two of these properties, but probably not all three. If it is fast and good, it probably won't be cheap. If it is good and cheap, it probably won't be fast. If it is cheap and fast, it probably won't be good.

Bonus: The concept of "cheap" is context-dependent and may not necessarily pertain to a thing's monetary cost.

I was today years old when I learned that there were two cities named Thebes (one in Greece and one in Egypt)

Stop excluding me from your secret clubs.

Bruckner Expressway, South Bronx, 1958

NYC Municipal Archives

Like Freud, Lacan regards hysteria as one of the two main forms of neurosis, the other being obsessional neurosis. Whereas obsessional neurosis concerns the question of the subject's existence, hysteria concerns the question of the subject's sexual position. This question may be phrased "Am I a man or a woman?" or, more precisely, "What is a woman?" Lacan thus reaffirms the ancient view that there is an intimate connection between hysteria and femininity. Indeed, most hysterics are women, just as most obsessional neurotics are men. The structure of desire, as desire of the Other, is shown more clearly in hysteria than in any other clinical structure; the hysteric is precisely someone who appropriates another's desire by identifying with them.

I love the way leveling works in so many games, like "shooting an arrow through my arm used to kill me, but I picked up a bunch of random things and brought them to random people and the experience was so rewarding that now a rocket-propelled grenade to the face is only a minor inconvenience"

This post is a stand-in for a very real complaint that I'll eventually speak of at a later time.

guy who sees the gorilla the first time on the gorilla test

people don't change as much as you think they do. they mostly become what they already were.

The economics of the band-aid industry hinges almost entirely on the suffering of small children