If working hard is not for you, at least you can look busy...

Via @michaelshermer, I found this series of anti-motivation posters which actually speak the truth very well. Some examples:

What I do in my spare time

I create art, and have to explain it a lot:

My work explores the relationship between Bauhausian sensibilities and multimedia experiences. With influences as diverse as Caravaggio and Joni Mitchell, new combinations are synthesised from both explicit and implicit layers.

Ever since I was a teenager I have been fascinated by the ephemeral nature of relationships. What starts out as hope soon becomes manipulated into a manifesto of lust, leaving only a sense of what could have been and the dawn of a new beginning. As wavering replicas become distorted through frantic and repetitive practice, the viewer is left with a new agenda of the corners of our condition.

If you missed the joke, please check the link out. But it still loses for the Post-Modernism Generator, that could replace good part of the Brazilian intellectual elite.

[HT Ed Yong]

Enhorabuena!

Image Source: here (HT Daniel)

Happy pigs and sad philosophers

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question

John Stuart Mill's "Utilitarianism", 1863

Oh, Dientamoeba is not happy...

... she is so fragile.

I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist this one. The original picture is from here.

BTW, I know it's a "she" because that's its gender in portuguese (nothing more profound than that :)

Communication breakdown

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. (when browsing their website comics, hover over the red button that appears on the left-bottom part of the comic. There's always a nice surprise ;)

Soon it will take a Ph.D. to rap

Here is the latest addition to the list of academic contributions to rap. In a sense.

A few other ones after the break: