Maria Potoroczyn
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Maria Potoroczyn
When the U.S. Air Force developed rocket planes that could break the sound barrier, the pilots who flew them kept dying.
As planes reached speeds near Mach 2, pilots would lose control due to the thinner air in the upper atmosphere. As Tom Wolfe describes in his book The Right Stuff:
“A plane could skid into a flat spin… and then start tumbling, not... See more
As planes reached speeds near Mach 2, pilots would lose control due to the thinner air in the upper atmosphere. As Tom Wolfe describes in his book The Right Stuff:
“A plane could skid into a flat spin… and then start tumbling, not... See more
“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday — unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.”
- Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon
You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world.
Aaron Freeman • Why You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral - The Now
By some measures you are lucky these days to get 47 seconds of focused attention on a discrete task. “Middlemarch” is tough sledding on that timeline. So are most forms of human interaction out of which meaningful life, collective action and political engagement are made. We are witnessing the dark side of our new technological lives, whose
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I spent many years telling myself that if I try hard enough and am a talented person, than I should be able to thrive in the work culture that surrounded me—that fast-paced, extroverted, competitive, hard core, pedal to the metal, go-big-or-go-home culture. A failure to thrive there was clearly my own failure to hack it in the world, a failure of... See more
Nature has designed various rhythms and cycles. Your heartbeat consists of contraction and recovery. Animals hibernate and migrate according to the season. Sproutlings and plants rest during the winter before shooting out again in spring. Some plants, such as Proteas, have seeds with hard shells that require mortality—the heat from fire—to break... See more
Coffee is a stimulant. But what exactly does it “stimulate”? How can we use this boost or stimulation to improve our meditation practice? And what practice works best?
I’ll approach these questions from a neurophenomenological and computational perspective, rather than a biochemical one. The latter is a horse dead-beaten. And my intention with this... See more
I’ll approach these questions from a neurophenomenological and computational perspective, rather than a biochemical one. The latter is a horse dead-beaten. And my intention with this... See more