I find it so bizarre sometimes when realize that many of my professors who assign me original research projects and such actually believe that there's something called "human knowledge" to which we're adding, but it seems always like its not possible to find out completely accurately what is and isn't known. For starters, we can only easily access ( Read more... )

Problems of organics ( Read more... )

Just skimmed some information about setting up the style of your lj. I would like to understand all the "special for programmers" stuff underlying the appearance of lj, and probably could if I spent a while staring at it and asking people questions and such, but the funny thing is, I don't actually care what my journal looks like at all! This is ( Read more... )

aaahhhh ( Read more... )

Back in Chicago and the mad intensity of it all is just so glorious and overwhelming after the quiet, the solitude, the simplicity of life in Russia. Tver feels in a way like a dream; yet also perfectly ordinary. It seems impossible that the simple everyday things, the women selling pirozhki from their stands, the corner with the garish modern ( Read more... )

What's fascinating to me is the people, the emotions, characters, culture, their faith, mischief, folly, cruelty...and this gallery captures the intensity of the Russian spirit in a way that this morning's cold buildings couldn't. Though the cathedrals held a quiet glory- and when the choir sang in the Archangel's Cathedral I almost for a moment ( Read more... )

Nothing in particular in mind ( Read more... )

Get to Washington Square Park and the vibe hits me -no- drifts through me, as I wander slowly, the rush washes out of my gait, and I'm only partly looking for Jonah. As much or more just taking in the man sunbaking on the steps of the fountain, the faint sound of folk music emanating from two clusters of guitars. Approaching a tree, a small girl ( Read more... )

Tzvia: my Hebrew middle name ( Read more... )