Assistant professor at UFRRJ. Speech-language pathologist in Rio de Janeiro. Computational chemist specializing in inorganic and photochemistry. Blues player. Personal account; opinions are my own.
When you close your eyes and stop searching outward, the world does not vanish. Rather, it shifts register. Sounds recede, shapes dissolve into a dust of phosphenes, and the mind, relieved of the task of decoding the environment, turns toward a different landscape. (1)
Every so often the world stops working by the old rules. Not because the rules have changed, but because someone dared to look at the gaps everyone else had learned to ignore.
Today, silence is a luxury I can't afford. I have a tangle in my head like a ball of yarn after the cat's played with it. And I don't want to untangle it, I just want to sit and stare at it, without anyone saying a word to me.
JUST IN: Judge Sullivan has ordered me to respond, on or before July 13th, to Todd Blanche's "I'm not turning anything over" move from last week in my lawsuit over the Epstein Files.
Then, Blanche has until July 20th to reply to what I file.
Central Bulges of Spiral Galaxies (Hubble and Ground-Based Views) Image date: 6 October 1999, 15:00
This image shows how the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is feeding material into its central region, igniting massive star birth and probably causing its bulge of stars to grow. The material also ...