Comments on: More Than Skin Deep

By: What is Attractive?

What is Attractive? — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:11:35 +0000

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By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 08 May 2007 22:28:19 +0000

Dale and Erin,
It’s easy to get lost in, huh?

Dale,
Thanks for reading! (and commenting).

By: Erin

Erin — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:59:18 +0000

Dale, that’s an excellent point. Imagine if we could increase our lens and view the entire solar system. Would we even recognize it? Would we miss the beauty we can see from our current vantage point? Would the new view give us a better perspective? We seem to be very stuck viewing the beauty of things we understand or things that look how we always perceive them to look. This leads me to wonder what other beauties we are missing everyday because we don’t know where to look, don’t know how or fail to look all together.

By: Dale

Dale — Mon, 07 May 2007 03:21:55 +0000

Very interesting article, I’m intrigued with some of the electron microcopic images. The incredible definition, just leads one to think about how complex our world is and how little we know about our surrondings. I often wonder if our world (earth) when condidering it is part of a much larger universe is similiar to one diatom shown by the electron microcope. If were on the diatom looking out could we comprehend what we would see?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:29:34 +0000

You find really cool articles!

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:34:26 +0000

PS: I’m still learning some things too. It’s fun

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:27:13 +0000

Here’s something similar: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11775

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:35:51 +0000

What a fitting quote, thanks Mark.

PS. If you happen to check back we are trying to get the RSS Comment feed figured out, we’re learning as we go…

By: Beauty and love | The Winding Path

Beauty and love | The Winding Path — Thu, 03 May 2007 05:06:51 +0000

[…] We perceive beauty in many ways, and in many things. The most common is seeing the beauty in another person whom we love. We might also consider a particular piece of music beautiful, or the smell of a flower garden in full bloom, or the feel of silk against our skin, or the complex and interesting flavours of an unusual dish. As mentioned in my previous post on the topic, our perception affect what we consider beautiful, and it’s every one of our senses that contribute to our perception. And as Jenny just pointed out, even when our naked senses aren’t enough we can enhance them to perceive an even deeper level of beauty than we previously thought existed. […]

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 May 2007 04:10:30 +0000

This reminds me of a quote from Richard Feynman:

A poet once said “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imaginations adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth’s rocks, and in its composition we see the secret of the universe’s age, and the evolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are there in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that Nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!