statement: parents' influence on children is only 10%, the rest is their karma
Request: Said by Doc during a video lecture (not verbatim).
Arts & Humanities
Albert-László Barabási
Priority request: a network scientist, fascinated with a wide range of topics, from unveiling the structure of the brain to treating diseases using network medicine, from the emergence of success in art to how science really works.
marriage of art and science
Based on the calibration result, it is esthetically pleasing, applied technology that improves the material quality of human life. However, this marriage is neither art nor science when plotted on the map of consciousness.
Arjuna
Request: He was a key figure in the Hindu epic Mahabharata and Krishna spoke the Bhagavad Gita to him and he was able to see Krishna's true form.
monster
"a nonhuman creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people" -- dictionary.com
Plato’s tripartite theory of the soul
Plato divided the soul into three parts: the logistikon (reason), the thymoeides (spirit, which houses anger, as well as other emotions), and the epithymetikon (appetite or desire, which houses the desire for physical pleasures) -- wikipedia
benevolent dictatorship
Request: Doc said that Singapore, the highest calibrating country at that time, is a product of benevolent dictatorship. Generically, is it a viable form of government?
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Priority request. "The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation" -- wikipedia
Inanna, Sumerian goddess
Priority request. "the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with beauty, sex, divine law, and political power" -- wikipedia
brutalist architecture (style)
Priority request: A significant feature in former communist countries, some buildings are considered "exciting" works of arts. Seems like people with no heart would want to build and live in such things. "I am sure a computer is very happy there" as Doc would say.
The School of Life (website)
Priority request. “We derive our ideas from psychology, psychotherapy, philosophy, art and culture. As our name – The School of Life – suggests, we are here to teach people how life can be lived and what can make it truly worthwhile, effective and fulfilling.“
Maya Angelo
respected as a spokesperson for Black people and women, and her works have been considered a defense of Black culture. Her works are widely used in schools and universities worldwide -- wikipedia
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
it is not clear which of two events should be considered the cause and which should be considered the effect... to express the difficulty of sequencing actions where each seems to depend on others being done first -- wikipedia
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs
a critique of 1950s urban planning policy, which it holds responsible for the decline of many city neighborhoods in the United States. -- wikipedia. Request: This is one of the most well-known texts about cities and how they work
architecture
the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art -- wikipedia