Jody MacPherson

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Mon, 06 May 2013 14:08:58 -0600

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"You cannot know everything about the creature that you love, and you also can’t control that..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 12:06:27 -0600

“You cannot know everything about the creature that you love, and you also can’t control that relationship. And maybe that’s okay — because we can’t control relationships. In fact, if we did control them to the degree that we want, it would probably provide us with nothing. Relationships are probably our greatest learning experiences.”

- Love and Art – wisdom from creative duo Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton. (via explore-blog)

"Love is the white light of emotion. It includes many feelings which, out of laziness and confusion,..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 13:42:00 -0600

“Love is the white light of emotion. It includes many feelings which, out of laziness and confusion, we crowd into one simple word.”

- Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love

Sign on a building on 7th Ave #yyc

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:09:52 -0600

Sign on a building on 7th Ave #yyc

Texting is “miraculous”: 6 ways we are redefining communication | TED Blog

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:40:11 -0600

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Texting is not a blight on language, says John McWhorter in today’s talk. Instead, he looks at it as a major communication innovation.

Jody_COC’s insight:

Rethink everything: Today, it’s texting..

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My Workout For Sunday April 21

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:56:52 -0600

I earned 400 points for my workout on Fitocracy!

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evanfleischer: Dialogue! (The above photo was taken in Davis...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:57:06 -0600

evanfleischer:

Dialogue! (The above photo was taken in Davis Square in Somerville.)

via.

Perspective.

Resource dries up: Awash in water woes - San Angelo Standard Times

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:46:08 -0600

Resource dries up: Awash in water woes
San Angelo Standard Times
“Drought is a fact of life in Texas, especially in West Texas,” said David Maidment, professor at the Center for Research in Water Resources at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Thirsty States Take Water Battle To Supreme Court : NPR

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 14:42:03 -0600

Texas and Oklahoma are fighting over access to the Red River. Fast-growing Texas is eager to fuel its expansion in a time of drought, while the poorer state of Oklahoma is water-rich.

Jody MacPherson’s insight:

Canada also has similar issues relating to interprovincial water sharing:

…State and local policymakers and water authorities throughout the country are closely watching the outcome of the case, says Stephen Draper, a water expert who helped write guidelines for interstate water sharing for the American Society of Civil Engineers. Here’s why: The Red River Compact contains a lot of the same boilerplate language used in other state-to-state water sharing agreements.

“It all revolves around the question of whether water is a commodity in and of itself,” Draper says.

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"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:49:48 -0600

“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

That’s what she said #art (at EPCOR CENTRE)

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:22:05 -0600

That’s what she said #art (at EPCOR CENTRE)

Just one of the beautiful pieces of #art on display at City...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:43:51 -0600

Just one of the beautiful pieces of #art on display at City Hall. www.raincoast.org #yyc (at Calgary municipal building)

The space between #apologiestoDaveMatthews #yyc (at City Hall...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:51:45 -0600

The space between #apologiestoDaveMatthews #yyc (at City Hall (C-Train))

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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:23:49 -0600

"1. All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. (Stephen Schneider) 2. Do not condemn..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 17:07:50 -0600

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1. All beliefs in whatever realm are theories at some level. (Stephen Schneider)

2. Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. (Dandemis)

3. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. (Francis Bacon)

4. Never fall in love with your hypothesis. (Peter Medawar)
5. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories instead of theories to suit facts. (Arthur Conan Doyle)

6. A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong. (Francis Crick)

7. The thing that doesn’t fit is the thing that is most interesting. (Richard Feynman)

8. To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. (Charles Darwin)

9. It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. (Mark Twain)

10. Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. (Thomas Jefferson)

11. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

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- Prospero’s Precepts – 11 rules for critical thinking from history’s great minds. (via explore-blog)

"The only truth is music."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:33:00 -0600

““The only truth is music.””

- Jack Kerouac

Canada Turns Its Back on International Drought Treaty - Environment News Service

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:38:27 -0600

Environment News Service Canada Turns Its Back on International Drought Treaty Environment News Service OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, April 2, 2013 (ENS) – The Government of Canada is quietly withdrawing from the UN Convention to Combat Desertification,…
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Edmonton-born actress's online role in fart-filled anti-smoking ad goes viral - Calgary Herald

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:05:53 -0600

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Calgary Herald Edmonton-born actress’s online role in fart-filled anti-smoking ad goes viral Calgary Herald EDMONTON - In the end, it was Edmonton-born actress Kathleen Black’s adorability quotient that earned her the starring role in a now-viral…

Jody_COC’s insight:

Um…brilliant ad.

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"Mad Girl’s Love Song I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:39:13 -0600

“

Mad Girl’s Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

”

-
Sylvia Plath

"“The little bit you and me might change the world,” Malloy smiled, “it wouldnt show up..."

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:34:05 -0600

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“The little bit you and me might change the world,” Malloy smiled, “it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We’d never see it.”

“But it’d be there.”

”

- James Jones, From Here to Eternity