Yes. My justification for depicting them as such is threefold:
- Wings are awesome
- There is evidence that they had wings in Fellowship of the Ring
- Wings are awesome
“Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”
Words of wisdom from legendary physicist James Clerk Maxwell, quoted by Columbia’s Stuart Firestein in his Secret Science Club talk about his impossibly brilliant book Ignorance: How It Fuels Science.
Harold Bloom famously dubbed it the “anxiety of influence”: the effect which the literary canon has on writers. Less today than it did in the past, according to a mathematical study which analysed thousands of works written over the last 500 years.
American mathematicians, led by the chair of Dartmouth College mathematics department Professor Daniel Rockmore, set out to investigate “large-scale” trends in literary style. Using digitised works in the Project Gutenberg library, they processed 7,733 works from 537 authors written after the year 1550, were looking for the frequency at which 307 “content-free” words – such as “of”, “at” and “by” – appeared. They called these words the “syntactic glue” of language: “words that carry little meaning on their own but form the bridge between words that convey meaning”, and thus “provide a useful stylistic fingerprint” for authorship.
"— Mathematicians explore the quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature and find the influence of the classics over contemporary authors is declining. (via explore-blog)
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The Mary Sue defines what it means to be a geek, a beautiful definition that falls (un)surprisingly close to what it means to find purpose and do what you love.
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— Ta-Nehisi Coates. (via liberalsarecool)
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— Ludwig Wittgenstein (via ratak-monodosico)
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I’m quite proud of the graphic I made for this year’s bike ride.
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“uçuşu hatırla, kuş ölümlüdür..” Furuğ Ferruhzad
Photo by Martin Gommel
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The Custom Shirts Series, Part V: Using Online Tailors
The traditional way to have a custom shirt made is to go through a local or traveling...
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Music begins at conception.
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Early color work:
Edward Steichen: Flatiron Building (1904)
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Roasted Red Pepper and Goat Cheese Alfredo
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