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“There’s one scene where #Coleridge goes to Humphry Davis’s lectures on #chemistry. He said he was doing this ‘to enlarge my stock of #metaphors’.” fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

The Best Biographies of 18th-C...

The Best Biographies of 18th-Century Figures

Five of the best biographies of 18th-century figures, as recommended by Andrea Wulf—author of The Traveller and The Invention of Nature

Five Books

Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋May 16

#Metaphors have a way of holding the most #truth in the least space. -- Orson Scott Card

Front Page [Unofficial]May 15

Linguist clearly demonstrates how ‘thinking is walking’ in English and it’s just so cool

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1/

N-gated Hacker News May 14

🎨🔬 "Biochemical Beauty" or How to Dress Up Hunger Hormones with Fancy Words. Apparently, GLP-1s are the Picasso of peptides, painting your hunger away—because hey, who needs science when we have metaphors? 🤔💡 Pro tip: If your stomach's growling, just remind it it's not the "target market." 😏🍽️
https://acesounderglass.com/2025/10/13/the-biochemical-beauty-of-retatrutide-how-glp-1s-actually-work/ #BiochemicalBeauty #GLP1s #HungerHormones #Metaphors #ScienceHumor #PeptideArt #HackerNews #ngated

The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Work

On some level, calories in calories out has to be true. But these variables are not independent. Bodies respond to exercise by getting hungry and to calorie deficit by getting tired. Even absent th…

Aceso Under Glass

#BruceSterling May 14

youtu.be/96jN2OCOfLs?... #Karpathy #metaphors #ghosts #animals

Philosophics May 12

Many, especially Tech Bros™, like to imagine immortality for themselves.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/05/12/never-forever-not-ever/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

As for me, I'm not interested. I wrote about why not.

#philosophy #longevity #health #mentalhealth #forever #finitude #affluence #blog #podcast #myths #universe #physics #metaphysics #vampires #connexion #immortality #metaphors #lakoff #death #writing #perception #life #Tithonus

Tatjana Scheffler May 11

Today at #LREC2026, Sebastian Reimann will present „A Novel Dataset and Three Ways to Approach Automatic Metaphor Detection in German Religious Online Forums“ in the Workshop on Learning Non-Literal Expressions with Small Data (NLE 2026), 11:40 in Room Formentera #nlproc #metaphors @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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